It has long been out of fashion and did not apply for interesting holiday table cold snacks such as boiled eggs with mayonnaise, homemade pickles, ordinary sausage, cheese and the like. Agree, it's pretty boring, especially because in the 21st century. If your imagination fails to work if you do not know what surprise guests, any source - whether it's cookbook or online edition - will prompt a variety of recipes. We, in turn, will share with you the experience. Using these tips listed below and prepared a snack, you pass for the most original and welcoming hostess.
Sweet onions
Snacks Archery are very different: pickled, fried, sweet. We suggest to try the latter option. This side dish is perfect for meat or fish. It can be prepared for any occasion: for the New Year's holiday or birthday, a romantic evening with your loved ones, or just for a friendly dinner. Because these products have received two small bowls that you can put on the edges of the table. Keep in mind that cooking this dish takes about 25 minutes.
Ingredients:
Two large white bulbs
one and a half tablespoons (table) sugar
two pinches of salt
75 milliliters of refined oil
dark vinegar (balsamic) - five small spoons
Cooking method:
Recipes appetizers of onion often involve the use of a conventional bulb vegetable. But we recommend to buy white variety - it's more juicy and tender. So, clean the two onions and cut them into thin rings, which are separated from each other with your fingers. Then place them in a saucepan with the already poured oil and fry for six minutes. Regularly turn the product with a spatula so that it is not burnt. When the vegetables become slightly golden, pour the balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with salt and all refined sugar. Cook stirring constantly for about fifteen minutes, until the mixture thickens and darkens.
Cold onion snacks will decorate any holiday table. Give them a home barbecue or a juicy steak, steam or fried fish. And if you just decided to get together with friends and have a beer, then this dish is the best variety to the usual "unhealthy" snacks, which often consist of potato chips and nuts.
An unusual appetizer of beet
By selecting the recipes that are going to use in order to prepare snacks, be sure to consider not only the number of guests invited by you, but also their age, sex and, of course, eating habits. Even religion plays an important role, as representatives of some religions do not eat meat. Therefore, if the company will consist of the opponents of this product, of course, it is not necessary to bring to the table. Women love a simple and easy meal: vegetable salads, cold cheese snacks, canapes and the like. The male population of the planet always preferred a hearty savory food, so to whet their appetite, small sandwiches with caviar can not do. So choose carefully recipes and menu plan in advance of the festive table.
We propose to make pickled beets, but keep in mind that it is necessary to prepare beforehand - for one day.
Ingredients:
500 grams of sweet beets
Two Crimean onion
For the marinade:
30 grams of fresh ginger
a little allspice
Carnation - seven of them
salt - two small spoons
7 grams peppercorns
two laurel leaf
350 milliliters of boiling, but hot water
150 ml of normal vinegar
100 grams of flavored honey
Cooking method:
Remember that all recipes are different, that one and the same dish can be prepared in different ways. Besides, you should not blindly follow the advice given - rely on his experience and culinary intuition. So, to try to trim spices pickled beets at its discretion, because it is from them will depend on the taste of the future of food. We used two types of peppers (sweet and pepper), cloves, ginger, and bay leaves. You can add your ingredients.
Thus, pre-washed beets put into a saucepan and fill with plain water. Put on a very quiet heat and simmer until cooked - it should be soft. Next to a good clean vegetables, pour over his ice-cold water and remove the peel with a knife. Cut the beets and onions, not thick semicircles.
To make the marinade, boil water and throw it all of the above spices, do not forget the honey and ginger. As for the latter product, simply cut it into thin slices. After fifteen minutes, remove the bowl from the heat and add the vinegar marinade, then let it cool. After that, put in a separate bowl in layers beets and onions, and pour all the ready-flavored liquid. Will not remove the pan - the mixture should stand for about an hour in the heat, and then it will need to put in the refrigerator.
Snacks beet produced very colorful and decorate the table. They are combined with dishes of potatoes, meat and vegetables, so look for appropriate recipes and surprise the guests with their culinary skills.
Eggs with herring and red caviar
Before the holiday feast a few days left, and you still have not figured out what snacks will be served the guests? We reviewed all the recipes that are so carefully collected for years, and still did not find? Do not despair, we'll help you! Remember that put on the table, your mother. Surely one of the dishes were stuffed eggs. They are usually filled with pate or simply doused with mayonnaise. We offer on the basis of traditional dishes to make snacks in a modern way - this time the filling is from salt herring and red caviar.
Ingredients:
six eggs
250 grams of salted herring
70 grams gourmet mayonnaise
10 grams of fresh dill
30 grams of red caviar
Cooking method:
Recipes appetizers such eggs are good that their cooking does not take too much time, so many housewives prefer to them. In addition, it would seem normal meal because of the filling of red caviar and herring instantly becomes an original creation that will disappear from the festive table in minutes.
Put in a small saucepan six eggs, fill them with water and cook for no longer than ten minutes, leading the countdown to the moment when the liquid began to boil. Then cool them under cold water, peel, put on the table and cut into two parts.
Now separate the whites from the yolks and rub with the latest stripes on a grater, then mix with the mayonnaise until smooth. In order not to suffer from the cleaning of fish, be sure to use a herring fillet that will need to mince. When you are finished with this procedure, go to the next - Join The beaten fish and egg yolks, add a little mayonnaise and stir a few times. The resulting mass fill proteins - they should take the form of whole egg. Now finely chop the dill, drizzle each piece with mayonnaise and sprinkle with herbs and top with salmon eggs.
Recipes snacks full of variety, but this one and the easiest to prepare and at the same time the original. We hope your holiday table guests will remember for a long time!
Cold meatballs with eggplant
In preparation for the holiday and receive guests, consider the fact that the recipes that you plan to put on the table should follow the format of the event. For example, if it is a small buffet, you should make meat, cheese, and other nutritious snacks that are easy to eat "on the go". Try to cook a cold pseudo-meatballs with eggplant. They are not only delicious, but also quite cost-effective, as you will need much less meat than for real burgers.
Ingredients:
one large eggplant
half loaf
egg - one piece
350 grams of pork (use only the flesh without fat)
300 ml of olive oil
teaspoon salt
black pepper (ground)
One large onion
Cooking method:
Put on the kitchen table a piece of pork and cut its medium-sized cubes, so did with onions. Now both ingredients mince and transfer to a separate bowl, do not forget to add salt and pepper. If you have a blender, it is better to use it for cooking meat. Now whisk whisk egg and enter it into the onion and the meat mass and mix until uniform.
Cut the eggplant in the ring thickness of not more than one centimeter. If you want the product was perfectly smooth edges, use a special round shape and attach it to the chopped vegetable pieces. Cut eggplant fourteen rings.
If you do not have a particular ingredient recipes can be "customized" by their situation. For example, for the preparation of the meals you need a loaf, but it is possible to replace the conventional white bread. Cut it thick chunks, and then using the above-mentioned forms, cut circles, which should match the size of the workpiece from the eggplant. As for the latter, they should be put to the pan drizzled with olive oil, and fry a little salt, with the two sides.
Now put on the table bread and spread it with minced meat, fried eggplant, cover the top, slightly crushing their hands. Now the rest of the meat mass is distributed throughout the product (do not touch the bottom), thus forming a round patties. Fry them over medium heat in a large amount of oil is constantly turning over, lest they be scorched.
If you have the lettuce leaves, place them on a large plate, and spread on top of burgers and serve the dish on the table. In this form, it will look much more spectacular!
Battered Onion
Another appetizer, which is perfect for a small family holiday - onion rings, fried in batter. The dish can be served in any way: hot or cold. Try it!
Ingredients:
two pieces of a large white onion
four large tablespoons plain flour
40 grams breadcrumbs
corn flour - two tablespoons
two spoons (cutlery) sesame seeds
a glass of water (it should be warm)
salt - to taste
two pinches of pepper
sunflower oil - 400 ml
Cooking method:
Pre-peeled onions cut into thick rings and share them with your hands on the parts. Into a bowl mix the two types of flour, here we add black pepper and table salt. The resulting mixture is slowly pour in warm water and knead the dough, similar to what you are doing for the fritters. Set aside the batter aside for proofing ten minutes.
Now, in a separate bowl, combine sesame and biscuits. The onion rings in batter dunks, and then dipped in batter so that it is covered on all sides. You can put the product in a hot skillet with vegetable oil, which should be plenty. Fry until the onions are light golden brown gain. Then turn it out onto a plate, cover with paper towel which, in order to get rid of excess fat.
Recipes that you plan to use for cooking festive meals, does not necessarily have to be complicated. After all, you have to spend a lot of time on other foods, so it is best to pick up the original, but quick snacks that will not leave anyone indifferent. Good luck!
