Keeps sharing with you delicious holiday recipes. Baked pork with barberry. Today we will start with snacks, original holiday snacks decorate the table and emphasize the taste of an aperitif. Step by step recipe with photo prunes stuffed with cheese and nuts. Cheese balls with almonds. Ham bells with cheese salad.
Prunes stuffed with cheese and nuts
I cooked stuffed prunes for the first time, I love the smoked taste of prunes and I thought that in combination with cheese and nuts for champagne - a snack is what you need!
Let me tell you it is very tasty! The guests crushed a new appetizer from the festive table right away, and my husband really liked it, my sister suggested the recipe, thanks to her! Prunes with hard cheese and a delicate taste of cashew nuts for champagne - just a delight!!!
Required Ingredients:
Prunes
hard cheese
Garlic - 1-2 tooth.
Mayonnaise
Cashew nuts (you can use any)
Recipe
I don’t write the number of ingredients, I did everything “by eye”. I chose cashew nuts, for my taste they fit most harmoniously, the delicate taste of cashews does not clog the aroma and taste of other ingredients. According to the recipe, you can take any nuts: walnuts, almonds, peanuts - the taste of the snack will be original. Prunes need to choose high-quality pitted. You can take any hard cheese, but Parmesan is ideal.
The prunes were thoroughly washed in warm water and left so that the moisture would go away and the dried fruits would dry out.
I filled the prunes with cheese mass halfway, put in a nut and cheese again.
The original prunes appetizer is ready! Bon Appetit!
Cheese balls with almonds
Another interesting holiday cheese appetizer for those who don't really like prunes.
Required Ingredients:
Hard cheese
Almonds (roasted)
Garlic - 1-2 tooth.
Mayonnaise
dill greens
Skewers for serving
Recipe
Grate hard cheese on a fine grater, add garlic crushed through a press and a little mayonnaise. Roll up a ball, place roasted almonds in the middle, lightly grease with mayonnaise on top and roll in finely chopped parsley. Place the cheese balls in the refrigerator to firm up.
Ham bells stuffed with cheese
Required Ingredients:
Ham
Processed cheese
Egg
Carrot
Garlic
Mayonnaise
Salt, ground black pepper
Recipe
Hard boil an egg. Boil carrots. Grate cheese, carrots, egg and garlic on a fine grater, season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.
Cut the ham into thin slices. Roll a bell out of a slice of ham and secure with a toothpick. Fill with cheese filling. You can put a spoonful of filling on a slice of ham and simply roll it up, put it on a plate with the seam down.
Prunes are dried fruit from dark varieties of plums. The product retains the vitamins contained in ripe fruit, dishes from it are tasty, fragrant and healthy. Is it possible to cook a spicy snack from a sweet dried fruit? How to stuff prunes? What products can be combined with it? Photos and recipes for making stuffed prunes are given in the article.
Ingredients
Prunes 500 grams Sour cream 30% fat 250 grams Walnuts 300 grams milk chocolate 1 tile Sugar 0 stack
- Servings: 6
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Prunes stuffed with walnuts in sour cream sauce
This dish is a frequenter of the New Year and Christmas, it is moderately sweet, has a pleasant creamy taste. To prepare a dessert, you will need dried pitted dried fruit.
Ingredients:
- Prunes - 500 gr.;
- fat sour cream (rustic) - 250 gr.;
- walnuts (without shell) - 300 gr.;
- milk chocolate - 1 bar;
- sugar - ½ cup.
Wash dried fruits, pour warm water and leave to soak for 15–20 minutes, fry the nuts. Then drain the water from the dried plum and dry it on a towel. While the prunes are drying, prepare the creamy sauce by beating sour cream and sugar with a mixer.
Melt the chocolate in a water bath without letting it boil. Then stuff prunes with nuts. Spread the dish in layers in a deep bowl - first prunes, then a layer of sauce, and so on until the end.
Top with slightly cooled chocolate, sprinkle with chopped nuts and put in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
Spicy appetizer of prunes stuffed with garlic and cheese
The sweetness of dried fruit in the dish is set off by the sharpness of garlic and the creamy taste of cheese. To prepare a snack you will need:
- prunes - 600 gr.;
- cheese ("Tilsiter" or "Dutch") - 400 gr.;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- low-fat sour cream - 300 gr.;
- nuts (any) - 100 gr.;
- dill, parsley and fresh onion - 1 bunch each.
Rinse dried fruits, then place in hot water for 5-10 minutes, drain the liquid. Roast the nuts, then finely chop and pour into a bowl.
Grate cheese and garlic, combine with nuts and two tablespoons of sour cream, mix. You can add salt and pepper to the filling to taste.
Stuff prunes tightly, put on a flat plate. Separately, prepare the sauce of sour cream and fresh herbs. To do this, chop dill, parsley, onion and mix with sour cream, transfer the sauce to bowls.
In this recipe, hard cheese can be replaced with mozzarella or cottage cheese, while the taste will become even more tender. If you are allergic to nuts, you can remove them from the recipe.
To figure out how to stuff prunes, the video posted at the end of the article will help. To fill one prunes, use a small spoon or lay the filling inside with your finger. It is important not to damage the thin skin, otherwise the dish will lose its presentable appearance.
Prunes are a versatile dried fruit; they are used to prepare meat and vegetable dishes, desserts and snacks. Stuffing each prunes is a long process, but easy to perform. Even a novice cook can handle the preparation of dried fruit with filling.
Prunes and walnuts are found in many dishes, salads, snacks. From this duet you can cook a lot of delicious things and not only desserts. Recipes for prunes stuffed with walnuts. Shall we try?
Prunes stuffed with walnuts - general principles of preparation
For stuffing choose large pitted prunes. Usually, dried fruits are soaked for a while so that they soften and increase in size. Then the main product must be squeezed out, dried, filled with stuffing.
Methods for stuffing prunes:
- The hole through which the bone was taken out is stretched with a finger, stuffed inside with stuffing.
- From the side of the hole, small cuts are made with a sharp knife, prunes are stuffed with toppings, dried fruits look like small “barrels”.
- Prunes are cut into two parts, but not to the very end. Put stuffing inside. Prunes look like open mussel shells.
Sometimes a piece of nut is simply thrust into prunes, poured with sauces or cream on top. The method of stuffing depends on the chosen recipe, the desired amount of filling, the size of the prunes.
Kernels of nuts for filling are used whole or chopped, crushed into crumbs. Often they are mixed with other products: cheese, eggs, garlic, cottage cheese, herbs. Improve the taste of spices. Meat products, mushrooms, chicken can be added to the filling, but in small quantities. Creams based on sour cream and whipped cream are used in desserts, sugar, vanilla are added to sauces, other fruits can be used.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts and garlic
Recipe for a savory appetizer of prunes stuffed with walnuts and garlic. The spiciness can be adjusted to your taste by adding more garlic, pepper.
Ingredients
- 200 g prunes;
- 150 g nuts;
- 3 spoons of mayonnaise;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 2-3, sprigs of dill;
- salt,
- pepper.
Cooking
- Pour water over prunes, but not for long. We take the liquid at room temperature or cold. Otherwise, dried fruits will become sour.
- As soon as the prunes become soft, you can drain the water, spread the fruit on a napkin, let it dry.
- Grind the nuts into small crumbs, chop the garlic and herbs.
- We combine everything, season with mayonnaise (you can take sour cream), salt and pepper to your liking.
- We fill the prunes with cooked minced meat, lay them out on a plate, decorate with herbs. You can serve the appetizer immediately, but it is better to let it brew a little in the refrigerator, one hour is enough.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts in sour cream (dessert)
A delicious and healthy dessert recipe that you must try! Sour cream can be used with any fat content, but it is better not to take too liquid a product.
Ingredients
- 150 g prunes;
- 70 g nuts;
- 200 ml sour cream;
- 80 g of sugar;
- 1 pinch of vanilla.
Cooking
- Soak prunes for 20 minutes. If it is too hard, then leave it in the water for an hour.
- We take out, we squeeze.
- We insert a piece of walnut into each little thing. Chop the rest into crumbs, set aside.
- Beat sour cream with sugar, add vanillin for flavor, but this is not necessary.
- Pour the prunes with sour cream, stir gently, leave for an hour in the refrigerator.
- Divide the dessert into serving bowls. Pour sour cream from the bottom.
- Sprinkle the rest of the nuts on top and serve!
Prunes stuffed with walnuts and garlic with cheese
Recipe for prunes stuffed with walnuts, garlic and any cheese. You can take a solid or melted product, in this case we adjust the amount of mayonnaise.
Ingredients
- 150 g prunes;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 50 g nuts;
- 150 g of cheese;
- 2 spoons of mayonnaise;
- some greenery.
Cooking
- Prunes are placed in water.
- Grate the cheese finely into a bowl. You can also mince the garlic right away.
- We dry the walnuts in a pan and chop them too. Can be chopped with a knife or crushed. Combine with cheese.
- Add mayonnaise, stir. You can salt, pepper, add other seasonings.
- If desired, put chopped greens in the filling or leave for decoration.
- We take prunes out of the water. Slightly cut a hole so that more filling can fit.
- We fill dried fruits with cheese mass.
- It remains only to beautifully lay out the "shells" on a dish, decorate with herbs and you can send the filling to the table!
Prunes stuffed with walnuts and sour cream
Another way to make a dessert with sour cream and stuffed prunes. The dish is distinguished by technology and taste.
Ingredients
- 500 g sour cream;
- 300 g prunes;
- 3 spoons of sugar;
- vanilla.
Cooking
- In a colander you need to lay a thin cotton cloth, put sour cream on it and leave for 4 hours. During this time, the whey will drain, the mass will turn out thick.
- Add sugar, vanilla to the expressed sour cream, stir.
- Prunes are soaked.
- We put the nuts on a plate, dry them in the microwave or fry in a pan. Cool down.
- We take one prunes in our hands, stretch the inner cavity with a finger, fill it with sour cream.
- We stick a piece of walnut. It is possible and more, we look at the size of the prunes and the amount of cream.
- Transfer to a plate. In a similar way, we stuff the whole prunes.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts and garlic with cottage cheese
Variant of curd filling for prunes stuffing. Choose a quality product with a fat content of at least 9%, in which case the dish will turn out tender, creamy. The amount of sour cream is adjusted depending on the moisture content of the curd.
Ingredients
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 1.5 tablespoons of nuts;
- 2-3 sprigs of parsley;
- sour cream.
Cooking
- We chop nuts, they can be fried beforehand. We chop the greens.
- Prunes pour water for soaking.
- Beat cottage cheese with sour cream until smooth, add garlic. You can put everything in a blender and grind at the same time.
- Add greens with nuts, salt and taste. For spiciness, you can add pepper or mustard.
- We take out the softened prunes, make small cuts, fill with the cooked curd mass.
- We spread on a dish with greens, serve to the table.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts with marshmallows and bananas
Another recipe for an amazing dessert, which is desirable to let it brew for at least one hour. Marshmallow is used the simplest vanilla, there should not be any additives in it. For this dessert, you can even use small prunes.
Ingredients
- 150 g prunes;
- 4 marshmallows;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 1 banana;
- 1 spoon of sugar;
- 50 g nuts.
Cooking
- Pour the prunes with warm water, leave for half an hour. We take out, we squeeze. You can blot with paper towels.
- Insert a piece of walnut into each prunes.
- Mix sour cream with sugar, pour over prunes, leave for an hour.
- Cut the marshmallow into cubes. So that the knife does not stick, the blade is periodically moistened with cold water.
- Cut the banana into slices, mix with marshmallows, put on the bottom of small bowls or salad bowls.
- Put prunes on top. Distribute among all servings.
- Pour the rest of the sour cream and sugar on top.
- For decoration, you can use chopped nuts or banana slices. Coconut flakes go well with this dessert.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts and garlic with chicken
For minced meat, you will need a small piece of chicken breast. You can take an already boiled product or part of a baked bird.
Ingredients
- prunes;
- 100 g of chicken;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 50 g nuts;
- 30-50 g of mayonnaise;
- spices;
- some dill.
Cooking
- Cut the boiled chicken into cubes, lay in a blender.
- Add nuts and garlic, spread half of the sour cream.
- Beat the mass until smooth, evaluate the consistency, if necessary, add more sour cream.
- Put chopped greens, stir.
- We make cuts in the soaked prunes.
- We fill the dried fruits with the cooked pate, transfer to a plate, decorate to your taste.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts (in wine)
The recipe for an amazing dessert for adults. The dish is prepared in the oven in pots, can be consumed cold and warm. The wine used is red, it will also be delicious with a pink drink.
Ingredients
- 500 g prunes;
- 2 spoons of sugar;
- 200 ml of wine;
- 50 g of oil;
- 150 g nuts.
Cooking
- For this dish, prunes are poured with warm water, kept for half an hour.
- We fill the prepared fruit with nuts. If more than one fits, then feel free to put it in.
- Mix wine with sugar.
- We put the stuffed prunes in a pot.
- Pour in sweetened wine. More sugar can be added if desired.
- We throw butter on top, it is not necessary to melt it first.
- Close the pot with a lid, put in the oven. Cook for 40 minutes at 170 degrees.
- Before serving, cool the dessert to a warm state or completely cool. Can be served with cream, ice cream balls.
Prunes stuffed with walnuts - tips and tricks
- The filling will be tastier and more aromatic if the nuts are fried. It is not necessary to use a frying pan. You can easily and quickly do this in the microwave. Only the nucleoli need to be monitored, they can burn out at any time.
- If prunes are caught with bones, then they must be steamed before being removed. It will be easier to remove the bone, the hole will turn out neater.
- If you need to quickly chop nuts, you can pour the kernels onto a cutting board, roll with a rolling pin with pressure.
