For the holiday, some make the usual herring under a fur coat and sandwiches with sprats, others make avocado with shrimp, but no one has canceled cold appetizers for the holiday table. That’s why we offer you a selection of interesting appetizers: there are photos with recipes, new variations on the theme of classic salads, and easy recipes for beginners.
Tartlets stuffed with shrimps
Tartlets are very convenient for organizing a holiday table, because... The snacks take little time to prepare and are easy to eat. And the taste of shrimp will leave a pleasant feeling.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese (9%) – 500g
- Cream (30% fat) - 3 tsp.
- Parmesan cheese – 50 g
- Butter – 2 tsp.
- Shrimps
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves
- Dill
- Salt
- Ready tartlets
Preparation:
Beat the cottage cheese and cream well with a blender. Add butter, garlic, salt and beat again. Add finely grated Parmesan and chopped dill to the resulting curd mass. Mix everything. Clean the boiled shrimp.
Stuff the tartlets with the resulting soufflé and decorate with shrimp on top.
How to prepare simple and delicious snacks for a wedding?
Before the registry office and after visiting it, it is necessary to take care of refreshments for guests. To prevent guests from being hungry and thinking only about how to get to the cafe as quickly as possible, prepare wedding snacks for the ride and walk. Choose a container for storing food according to the season: in winter, plastic containers are enough, and in summer, a cooler bag will come to the rescue.
As a rule, guests eat actively in the first half hour, the rest of the time is spent more on alcohol, and the food is perceived as a snack. The administrator of the restaurant hall will help you calculate the portion of dishes for one person.
The approximate weight of one cold snack (including salad) per guest is 300-400 g, hot - 150 g
Snacks for a wedding outing in the summer should be light, fresh and, if possible, without mayonnaise. During the summer, a variety of vegetables and fruits are available, various combinations of which give culinary creations a special unique taste. Focus on such rolls and salads, because in the summer it is difficult for the body to digest meat and fatty foods.
Photos of banquet dishes and snacks
Tips for creating a light summer menu
- Pay attention to soft drinks, as guests will definitely want to cool down during the hot season. Lemon water with natural fruits perfectly quenches your thirst.
- Serve cold appetizers on lettuce leaves. Good food options include cheese, nuts, mixed vegetables and seafood.
- A great idea for a hot appetizer would be tender chicken fillet, fish or mushrooms.
Chicken legs in dough
Basically, chicken legs are cooked in puff pastry. Now I will offer you a not so common recipe - legs cooked in yeast dough. It's also very tasty.
Ingredients:
- Chicken legs – 5 pcs.
- flour - 4 cups
- dry yeast - 2.5 teaspoons
- water - 350 gr
- sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons
- vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons
- champignons – 300 gr
- onions - 2 pcs
- salt - 2 teaspoons.
Cooking method:
1. Make the dough and for this we need to dissolve yeast, sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt in warm water.
Pour in 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil and add the sifted flour. Knead the dough and leave in a warm place for one hour.
2. Boil the chicken legs for 15-20 minutes, add salt and add all the spices, then fry until golden brown.
3. Clean the champignons and onions, cut them into small pieces and fry in oil over medium heat until tender.
4. Meanwhile, the dough is ready, knead it a little and divide it into 5 even parts, and from each part we make a flat cake, in the center of which we place one leg and some fried mushrooms and onions.
5. We gather the dough around the leg, connect it, leave only the seed open, in the same place you can tie it with a stem of dill or parsley.
6. Grease the dough with oil and place in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
7. The dough has acquired a pleasant golden color, which means you can remove it from the oven. The legs are ready.
Beef rolls
Beef rolls can serve as both a cold appetizer and a separate hot dish. You can add any products to the meat, and the prepared sauce will give the rolls an unusual taste.
Ingredients:
- Beef – 400 g
- Red sweet pepper – 1 pc.
- Green sweet pepper - 1 pc.
- Ginger root
- Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
- Olive oil
- Sesame seeds
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
For the sauce:
- Honey – 1 tbsp.
- Rice vinegar – 2 tbsp.
- Soy sauce – 5 tbsp.
- Sweet chili sauce – 2 tbsp.
- Grated ginger root – 1⁄2 tsp.
- Garlic – 1 clove
- Sesame oil – 1⁄2 tsp.
Preparation:
Cut the beef into thin slices and pound a little.
If you first keep the meat in the freezer for about 15 minutes, then cutting it will not be difficult.
Finely grate the peeled ginger root. Mix a couple of tablespoons of olive oil with lemon juice, pepper and salt to taste. Lubricate the meat with the resulting marinade and let it sit for 10 minutes.
Remove the seeds from the pepper, rinse with water and cut into strips. Heat a frying pan, add oil and fry the peppers for a couple of minutes until lightly browned.
For the sauce, heat honey and soy sauce, add chili and rice vinegar, then add ginger and finely chopped garlic. Leave for 15 minutes and strain, then pour in sesame oil.
Fry the beef slices in a frying pan for 1.5 minutes on each side. Place several strips of pepper on each piece, wrap it in a roll and pierce it with a skewer. Ready rolls are served warm with sauce.
Canapes "Boats"
Dishes with herring are a classic Russian appetizer, and the canapé option will surprise any guest. It is better to use lightly salted fish for this recipe.
If you come across over-salted herring, you can pre-soak it in milk.
Ingredients:
- Herring fillet
- Rye bread
- Butter
- Sawing eggs
- Dill
Preparation:
Cut the bread into small squares. Cut the boiled eggs in half, cut the herring into small pieces.
Spread the bread squares with butter and place the egg on top. Place the herring on skewers, imitating a sail, and attach it to the bread and egg. Garnish with a sprig of dill.
Homemade marinated mackerel
Probably, no festive feast can do without a fish appetizer. I have prepared a recipe for making marinated mackerel at home especially for you. The recipe is simple in principle, but the result is excellent!
Ingredients:
- Mackerel – 2 pcs.
- water - 0.5 liters
- onion - 1 pc.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
- allspice peas - 5 pcs
- cloves - 5 pcs.
- honey - 1 teaspoon
- apple cider vinegar 6% - 2 tbsp. spoons
- bay leaf - 2 pcs
- mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
- salt - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Cooking method:
We prepare all the necessary products and get started.
Pour water into a saucepan and put it on fire. In the meantime, the water is boiling, in the meantime you can chop the vegetables. Wash the carrots, peel and cut into circles, and the onion into half rings.
At the moment when the water is almost boiling, you need to add salt, oil, and all the spices, except vinegar and honey.
Next, place the chopped carrots in a pan of boiling water and cook for another five minutes.
Now we need to gut the mackerel, cut off the head and tail, remove the fins, bones and black film.
After five minutes of cooking the marinade, turn off the heat and let it cool slightly. Add honey and vinegar to it and mix thoroughly until the honey is completely dissolved.
Next, cut the mackerel into small pieces, about 3-4 centimeters each, put it in the prepared container, top it with boiled carrots and onions from the pan.
But then we fill it with the marinade itself and place it in the refrigerator for a day.
And in exactly one day you will be able to taste this wonderful delicate taste of mackerel marinated at home.
