Snacks and cold dishes. A variety of cold appetizers recipes from our chefs

Beautiful cold appetizers with your own hands

Beautiful design of cold appetizers is a guarantee of the uniqueness of your festive table and festive mood. Using regular products you can make real works of art! Remember what wonderful crafts you did as a child, and now you have the opportunity, at least for a short time, but to return to childhood and give free rein to your imagination. Only now all your crafts will be not only beautiful, but also very tasty.

I offer the most popular, beautiful and very tasty cold appetizers for the festive table with a description and photos that you can do with your own hands.

Original and beautiful salad in balls

beautiful salad from balls

Ingredients:

• Boiled rice - 1 cup;
• Any canned fish - 1 can;
• boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
• Mayonnaise - 3 table. spoons;
• A bunch of fresh dill;
• Fresh carrots - 1 piece

Preparing the balls:

1) Mix in a bowl boiled rice, fish (mashed with a fork), finely chopped proteins (on a fine grater), season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

2) Grate fresh carrots on a fine grater.

3) Grate the yolks on a fine grater.

4) Rinse dill greens, dry thoroughly, cut as small as possible.

5) Roll the ingredients in a bowl into balls.

6) Roll part of the balls in greens, part in grated carrots, part in chopped yolks.

7) Put colorful balls on beautiful dish, covered with lettuce leaves.

Curd balls with vegetable salad

Salad with cottage cheese balls

Ingredients:
For balls:

• 500 g of cottage cheese;
• 1 small carrot;
• 1/2 bunch of dill;
• a handful of chopped walnuts;
• 1 st. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 yolk;
• 1 tsp cumin;
• a pinch of salt.

For vegetable salad:

• Fresh cucumber - 2 pieces;
• Radishes - 100 grams;
• green onion bunch,
• A bunch of parsley;
• Lettuce leaves.

Cooking:

1) In a bowl, mash the curd with a fork.

2) Add finely grated carrots walnuts, chopped dill, vegetable oil, salt. Mix well.

3) With wet hands form croquettes in the form of balls from the resulting mixture, refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4) Put lettuce leaves on a dish, put slices of cucumber and radish on top of lettuce leaves, sprinkle with chopped green onions and parsley.

5) On prepared vegetable salad lay out cottage cheese croquettes, sprinkle with grated yolk and caraway seeds.

Potato balls for garnish

Potato balls as a garnish

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 800 grams;
• Butter - 50 grams;
• Chicken egg - 1 piece (for mashed potatoes);
• Red and black ground pepper, salt to taste
• Wheat flour - 40 grams;
• Vegetable oil for deep frying

Preparing potato balls:
1) Wash the potatoes, peel, boil until half cooked and drain the water.

2) Without allowing to cool, quickly crush the potatoes.

3) Add pre-melted hot butter, a raw egg, salt and pepper to taste, rub well again and mix in mashed potatoes.

4) Form from warm mashed potatoes balls with a diameter of about 5 cm. Roll them in flour or breadcrumbs.
5) Heat the vegetable oil to a boil in a large frying pan with high sides or in a saucepan and fry in it. potato balls until golden.
Serve hot as a side dish, garnished with fresh herbs.

Cheese balls with olives and almonds

Balls with olives and almonds

Ingredients:

• Cheese - any;
• Garlic - to taste;
• Mayonnaise - to taste;
• Olives - by the number of balls
• Almond nuts - by the number of balls;
• fresh dill greens

Preparation of cheese balls:
1) Grate cheese (any) on a fine grater and add very finely chopped garlic (pass through a press).
2) Then add a little mayonnaise to the mixture until a plastic mass is obtained, knead well and mix.
3) Place an almond in the center of each olive.

4) Make a cake out of the cheese mass, put an olive stuffed with almonds, roll into balls.

5) Wash the dill, dry it very well and chop finely. The drier the dill and the finer it is cut, the more convenient it is to bread the balls.

6) Roll the balls in finely chopped greens and put on a beautiful dish.

Cheese balls with tomatoes

Ingredients:

• Cheese - 200 g;
• Cherry tomatoes - 150 g;
• Garlic 2 cloves (pressed through a press);
• Ground pepper - to taste;
• Soft cheese - 2 tbsp. l;
• Butter or soft cheese - 1 tbsp;
• Fresh bunch of dill and parsley;
• Sesame seeds.

Preparation of cheese balls:
1) Chop the cheese, mash with a fork, add cheese or softened butter, garlic, black pepper.

2) stir until homogeneous mass.

3) Prepare tomatoes. Wash and dry.

4) Whole tomatoes must be placed inside the mass, for this, make a cake on the palm of your hand, put the tomato, roll it up and shape it into a ball.

5) Roll the balls in finely chopped parsley or dill. It is better to take dill (it will turn out more beautiful), and then in sesame.

6) Put in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes. The snack is ready.

Beetroot balls with herring

Beetroot balls with herring

Ingredients:

• Boiled beets - 3 pieces;
• Hard cheese (finely grated) - 200 grams;
• Eggs - 3 pieces;
• Herring (fillet) - 150 grams;
• Mayonnaise - to taste;
• Dill and parsley greens - for decoration

Preparing the balls:

1) Grate the beets.

2) Cut the herring fillet into large cubes.

3) Boil eggs hard boiled and peel, grate.

4) Add eggs to beets, add half grated cheese and 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise.

5) Form cakes from beets, put a piece of herring in the middle of each, roll into a ball.

6) Decorate with greens and a drop of mayonnaise.

Salami and cream cheese rolls

Salami roll with cream cheese

Ingredients:

• Butter (softened) - 5 kg;
• Salami (cut into thin slices) - 300 gr;
• Bulgarian green pepper(cut into thin strips) - 1 piece;

Preparing salami rolls:

1) Spread cling film on the table, lay out the cheese, cover with another layer of film and roll out with a rolling pin into a centimeter-thick layer.

2) Carefully remove the film and spread the salami over the entire surface of the cheese, then cover again with film and carefully turn over.

3) Remove the film from the other side and spread the green bell pepper on the cheese.

4) Now roll it all up into a tight roll, leaving no air voids.

5) cut very sharp knife by constantly wiping the blade.

Serve by laying the rolls on a round cracker.

Rolls with red fish in lavash

Thin Armenian lavash

Ingredients:

• Lavash (Armenian thin);
• Fillet of red fish;
• fresh greens

Preparation of rolls from pita bread:

1) Lay out cling film or foil on a flat surface.

2) Put pita bread on a film or foil.

Red fish rolls in lavash

3) Spread pita bread evenly with butter or cheese.

4) Cut the red fish fillet into thin plastics and spread in an even layer on the butter or cheese.

5) Finely chop the fresh greens and sprinkle it on top of the fish.

6) Now with the help food film or foil tightly twist the stuffed pita bread into a roll, fix it.

7) If necessary, trim (cut) the edges of the pita bread and place the roll in the refrigerator for about an hour.

8) After the time has elapsed, remove the roll from the refrigerator and cut with a thin sharp knife into rolls 2 cm thick.

9) When serving, put the rolls on a dish, decorate with herbs.

Ham rolls with stuffing

Ham rolls

Ingredients:

• Ham
• Toothpicks (for fixing rolls);
• Fresh cucumber or fresh cabbage;
• Canned corn;
• Chicken egg;
• fresh carrots;
• Mayonnaise - to taste;
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Tie the ham rolls with green onions

The amount of ingredients depends on the number of rolls cooked.

The complexity of the recipe is that the ham and cucumber will need to be cut thinly.

Instead of toothpicks, you can use feathers to fix the rolls. fresh onion or pigtail cheese.

Preparing rolls:

Let's start with the preparation of the filling.

1) Boil eggs, cool, peel, chop finely or grate on a fine grater.

Tie the ham rolls with pigtail cheese

2) Peel carrots, grate coarse grater.

3) Open a jar of corn, drain the liquid. It is better to put the contents of the jar in a colander - so all the liquid will drain.

4) Mix eggs, carrots and corn in a bowl and season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Do not add a lot of mayonnaise, the filling should not be liquid.

5) If you decide to put a cucumber in the rolls, then cut it into thin circles. If fresh cabbage - then chop it thinly into strips.

6) Cut the ham into thin slices.

7) Spread thinly sliced ​​cucumbers or cabbage evenly on thinly sliced ​​ham plastics.

8) Then we lay out the filling and roll the ham with the filling into a roll.

9) Fix with a toothpick. We remove for half an hour in the refrigerator.

10) Then we beautifully lay out the rolls on a dish, decorate with herbs and serve.

Ham rolls with sausage cheese and carrots

Ham rolls

The filling for ham rolls can be fresh carrot and smoked sausage cheese.

Preparation of ham rolls:

1) Grate fresh carrots on a coarse grater.

2) sausage cheese also grate on a coarse grater.

3) Mix carrots and cheese, season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste and if desired, mix.

4) Put the filling on the ham plastics and form rolls with toothpicks.

5) Refrigerate and serve.

Stuffed red fish rolls

fish rolls

Ingredients:

• Red fish fillet (slightly salted);
• Cream cheese (any soft);
• fresh greens

Preparation of red fish rolls:

1) Cut the fish into plastics;

2) Evenly distribute soft cream cheese by fish;

3) Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs;

4) Form rolls, fix in any of the ways.

5) Refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.

6) Serve chilled, garnish with herbs.

Mini boat sandwiches made of red fish

canape boats

Ingredients:

• Black bread;
• Fillet of red slightly salted fish;
• Butter or creamy soft cheese;
• Onion;
• Green pea;
• lettuce leaves

Preparing sandwiches:

1) Cut the crust off the black bread.

2) Cut the bread into equal squares or rectangles.

3) Spread softened butter or soft cheese on the bread pieces.

4) Cut the fish fillet into cubes in the size of bread blanks, put the fish on bread slices with cheese.

5) Peel the onion, sort it into layers. Cut strips - these are future sails.

6) Put our “sails” on toothpicks and fix the resulting “masts” on sandwiches.

7) Decorate with peas on top of the “mast”.

8) Festive dish garnish with lettuce leaves and lay out the resulting boats.

Sandwiches (mini) with herring

Canape with herring

Ingredients:

• White bread;
• Butter or soft cream cheese;
• Salted herring (fillet);
• Onion (red);
• pickled cucumber

Making mini sandwiches:

1) Cut white bread into identical cubes or sticks, dry in the oven so that the slices of bread are slightly browned.

2) Spread butter or cheese on bread.

3) Cut the herring fillet into pieces (according to the size of a sandwich).

4) Put a piece of herring on top of butter or cheese.

5) Separate the onion into layers and cut into strips (“sails”).

6) Put the “sails” on the toothpicks, form the “masts”.

7) Place the "masts" on the sandwiches.

8) Top the “mast” with pickled cucumber slices.

Sandwiches with red fish and caviar

Sandwiches with red fish and caviar

Ingredients:

• White bread;
• Butter (softened);
• Fillet of red fish;
• Caviar red or black;
• dill greens

Preparing sandwiches:

1) Cut the crust off the bread.

2) Cut the bread into equal pieces.

3) Spread the pieces with a thin layer of softened butter.

4) Cut the fillet of red fish into thin plastics in the size of a sandwich.

5) Place a second slice of bread on top, brushed with a thin layer of butter.

6) Finely chop the greens and sprinkle over the oil.

7) Lay out the caviar last. Caviar can be red or black. You can combine and make multi-colored sandwiches.

8) Place the sandwiches in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

9) Put the finished chilled sandwiches on a dish covered with lettuce. Serve to the table.

Sandwiches with red caviar “Berries”

Sandwiches with butter and red caviar

Ingredients:

• Canape or White bread;
• Butter or soft cream cheese;
• Red caviar;
• parsley

Preparing sandwiches:

1) Cut white bread into slices. If these are canapes, then they are ready to eat. If desired, bread or canapes can be dried in the oven (to brown).

2) Spread an even layer of butter or cream cheese on the bread.

3) Lay out the red caviar in the form of a berry.

4) Put the parsley leaves next to the caviar - you get berries with leaves.

5) Chill the sandwiches in the refrigerator.

6) Serve chilled on a beautiful platter.

Sandwich with boiled sausage and tomato "Ladybug"

Sandwiches “Ladybug”

Ingredients:

• Canape or white bread;
• Creamy soft cheese;
• boiled sausage or ham;
• Cherry tomatoes;
• Olives (black)
• Parsley or dill greens
• Mayonnaise;
• lettuce leaves

Preparing sandwiches:

1) Dry the bread or canapes in the oven.

2) Spread the bread with a layer of cheese or mayonnaise.

3) Cut the sausage into thin plastics and place on the cheese.

4) Put parsley or dill leaves on the sausage.

5) Lay the tomato on the leaves. Cherry tomatoes need to be washed, cut in half, cut a narrow corner from one edge, and cut off a small piece from the other.

6) Cut olives into quarters. Attach one quarter next to the tomato.

7) From the stalks of greenery, make antennae and attach to the olive.

8) A few pieces of olives cut into pieces small pieces and decorate the tomato with these pieces - make black spots.

9) Put two dots of mayonnaise on olives - these are eyes.

10) Arrange on a platter lined with lettuce.

That's all! Our ladybugs ready! Serve to the table.

Sandwiches with chips

Cold appetizer with chips

Ingredients:

• Hard cheese - 10 grams;
• Tomatoes - 300 grams;
• Garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• Greens - to taste;
• Mayonnaise - to taste;
• Wide potato chips (like Pringles) Pringles));
• Black olives or olives - for garnish

Preparing sandwiches:

1) Three cheese on a fine grater.

2) Cut the tomatoes into small cubes or sticks.

3) We clean the garlic and pass it through a press.

4) Finely chop the greens with a knife.

5) Mix cheese with garlic, add tomatoes and herbs, mix.

6) Now you need to add mayonnaise to the salad to taste and, if there is not enough salt, salt. Don't forget - the chips are already salty!

7) We spread our salad on chips, decorate with olives, olives on top.

8) Serve immediately, otherwise the chips will soften.

Cold appetizer of eggplant “Peacock's tail”

Cold eggplant appetizer

Ingredients:

• Eggplant - 2 pieces;
• Processed cheese - 2 pieces;
• Eggs - 2 pieces;
• Garlic - 3-4 cloves;
• Mayonnaise - to taste;
• Fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
• Bulgarian red pepper - 1 piece;
• Pitted black olives - for decoration;
• Salt, pepper - to taste;
• Vegetable oil - for frying

Preparing the Eggplant Snack:

1) Wash the eggplant, cut into 1 cm circles, fry on both sides in vegetable oil until golden brown. Do not salt!

2) After frying, lay the eggplant on a paper towel to absorb excess oil.

3) Cool the eggplant.

4) Hard-boiled eggs, peel, grate on a fine grater.

5) Grate the processed cheeses on a fine grater (pre-hold the cheeses in the freezer for 30 minutes - it's easier to grate them).

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7) In a bowl, mix cheese, garlic, eggs and season with mayonnaise. Get a salad.

8) Remove the olives from the jar and cut in half.

9) Cucumber cut into thin slices.

10) Wash sweet bell pepper, remove seeds, cut into quarters. Then cut the pepper quarters into thin strips.

11) Spread the lettuce evenly over the fried and cooled eggplant slices.

12) On one side of the eggplant, put a circle of cucumber, and on top of the cucumber - half an olive, lightly smeared with lettuce from the bottom (so the olive will hold on stronger).

13) On the other hand, lay a strip of pepper along the very edge of the eggplant.

14) Arrange the eggplant peacock tail on a platter and serve.

Cold appetizer of bell pepper and cheese

Appetizer from bell pepper and cheese

Ingredients:

• Hard cheese - 250 grams;
• Butter - 150 grams;
• Walnut - 10 pieces;
• Sweet Bulgarian pepper (different colors) - 4 pieces;
• Garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• Parsley and dill greens

Preparing a Pepper Snack:

1) Wash the peppers, cut off from the side of the stalk, it will turn out like a cap. Do not throw away the lid - it will still come in handy. Remove seeds from peppers.

2) Grated frozen butter.

3) Rub the cheese on a fine grater.

4) Peel the garlic, pass through a press.

5) Chop the walnuts.

6) Finely chop the greens with a knife.

7) Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

8) Stuff the peppers tightly with the resulting mass, close with the pepper cap set aside for a while and put in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

9) Before serving, remove the peppers from the refrigerator, remove the lid and cut with a sharp knife into circles 1.5-2 cm thick.

10) Beautifully put on a dish, decorate with herbs on top and serve.

Stuffed tomatoes with rice and salmon for a snack

Stuffed tomatoes for a snack

Ingredients:

• Medium-sized tomatoes - 5 pieces;
• Rice is better scalded (such rice turns out to be more crumbly) - 2 table. spoon
• Salmon (slightly salted) - 50 grams;
• Fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
• Greens - to taste;
• Vegetable oil (olive) - 2 table. spoons;
• Lemon juice - to taste;
• Salt, pepper - to taste

1) Wash the tomatoes, cut off the top with a knife (about 1 cm), remove the tomato pulp with a spoon. Turn the tomatoes upside down on a paper towel to drain excess juice.

2) Boil rice until tender.

3) fish fillet cut small cubes.

4) Cut the cucumber into small cubes too. If the skin of the cucumber is too thick, peel the cucumber.

5) Finely chop the greens with a knife.

6) Mix rice, fish, cucumber and herbs. Add salt, pepper to taste, lemon juice and vegetable oil. Mix everything well.

7) Stuff the tomatoes tightly with the mixture.

8) Garnish with fish pieces and herbs.

Appetizer Stuffed Tomatoes with Garlic Cheese

stuffed tomatoes

Ingredients:

• Small fresh tomatoes - 12 pieces;
• Hard cheese - 150 grams;
• Mayonnaise - 3 table. spoons;
• Garlic - 3-4 cloves;
• Greens - to taste;
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Hard cheese can be mixed with soft or processed cheese - it will turn out even tastier!

Preparing tomato appetizers:

1) Wash the tomatoes thoroughly, wipe with a napkin, cut off the cap from the side of the stalk, carefully remove the pulp with a teaspoon, turn it over onto a napkin. Put the remaining parts of the tomato in bowls - do not throw away. Separate lids and separate pulp.

2) Three cheese on a fine grater.

3) Peel the garlic, pass through a press.

4) In a bowl, mix cheese, garlic, tomato pulp. Season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

5) Stuff the tomatoes tightly with the mixture. Do this gently with a teaspoon.

6) Sprinkle finely chopped herbs on top.

7) cover stuffed tomatoes the remaining lids. Or lay out in a circle with green peas, it looks very impressive!

How to originally serve caviar to the table

Beautiful shells with caviar

Ingredients:

• Shell pasta;
• Red caviar;
• Black caviar

1) Boil large shells, rinse.

2) Put black and red caviar in ready-made shells.

3) Serve with greens or salad.

How nice to serve a lemon? Rosette of lemon

Lemon roses

You will need:

• Lemon with thick skin
• Toothpick or small baking dish;
• Fresh parsley

Making the Lemon Rose:

1) Cut the lemon with the peel into thin slices.

2) Lay the slices on top of each other. It will turn out a kind of train from lemon slices.

3) Now carefully twist the slices together into a roll, grabbing each of the slices. It will take a little bit of ingenuity!

4) Once collected, pin the bottom with a toothpick or place the rose in a mold.

5) Garnish the roses with parsley leaves.

Serve to the table. Guests will be delighted!

Enjoy your meal!

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On the festive table, cold appetizers must be present: they add variety and look spectacular on any table - both everyday and festive. These dishes are a great addition to any meal. Having prepared in advance several various cold snacks for the festive table, you can put them in a cool place without fear that they will lose their taste and nutritional qualities. This section contains easy-to-prepare and original recipes cold appetizers that will be appropriate at home, at a picnic or buffet. Cold appetizers of fish and meat, crab sticks and shrimp, eggplant and tomatoes - for every day and for the festive table. All recipes are checked, each dish was prepared and photographed according to them.

Tartlets with pesto and shrimps

Pour the sifted flour, salt into the blender bowl, and put the cubes of very chilled butter. Run the blender for a few seconds to get a crumb-like mixture. It is not necessary to grind strongly so that a layered structure is obtained in the final product. Add to flour mixture...

Dry-cured chicken breast

Mix the spices with salt (2 tablespoons) and sugar (1 tablespoon), crush the juniper berries so that they give off their aroma and taste, and rub the chicken breast with this mixture. Put in a plastic container, close the lid and refrigerate for a day ...

Ajapsandali

Take an eggplant Bell pepper and tomato, (1 each) and fry directly on the gas burner until soft, over low heat. Then leave for 10 minutes in a bowl under the lid, so that the skin comes off easily. Peel off the skin. Next, chop all the ingredients with a sharp knife ...

Salted cucumbers

Cut cucumbers into pieces. Place in a jar. Add dill and garlic. Mix salt, allspice and black peppercorns. Add some hot water and stir. Add cold water and fill the cucumbers with the resulting mixture. Close the lid. Place in refrigerator. Salted cucumbers ready. Enjoy your meal!

"Asparagus" in Korean

Put the asparagus in a suitable container and pour over cold water. After a few hours, the soy sticks will swell, become soft and brighten. Rinse soaked soybeans well and squeeze. Cut the squeezed soybeans into approximately equal pieces a few centimeters long and put them in a resealable ...

Capelin marinated with spices

Crostini with cod and tomato sauce

Defrost the fish in the refrigerator ahead of time. Check that there is no left in the fillet small bones. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread the fillet pieces on it (cut the fish so that one piece of fish falls on each slice of bread). Lubricate lightly...

Zucchini-eggplant caviar

Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Cut the onion into quarter rings. Cut the bell pepper into small cubes. Transfer the vegetables to the skillet a small amount olive oil. Fry until the onion is transparent. Cut the zucchini into small pieces. Do the same with eggplant. Peel...

For any occasion, be it a birthday celebration or a wedding, cold appetizers will always be a real decoration of the festive table. That's why you should definitely check out our TOP 10.

Cold appetizers for the holiday table

We have already told you how to cook, now let's master the preparation of lavash yummy, especially since preparing such a dish is quite simple. By the way, we immediately draw your attention to the fact that you are free to experiment with the composition of the filling, because then you can serve several different treats. We bring to your attention the option with processed cheese. 100 g of this product should be grated on a coarse grater, you can simply knead it with a fork. A pair of hard-boiled eggs, peel and grate. Add 100 g of Korean-style carrots to these components and mix everything. Wash and chop a small bunch of dill, add 50 g of mayonnaise and mix everything well.

Spread a sheet thin lavash and apply a thin layer of the resulting filling on it, roll it up and put it in the refrigerator for impregnation. Before serving, the roll should be cut into pieces, the length of which will be approximately 1.5 cm. Or you can pay attention to the recipe.

Cold festive appetizer "Raffaello"

The topic of cheese is played up in our next TOP-10 representative. Delicious spicy cheese balls sure to leave a lasting impression on your guests. To prepare them, grind 4 boiled and peeled eggs on a fine grater, add 200 g of cheese, also grated. 100 g of mayonnaise sauce and 3-4 garlic cloves, passed through a press, should be added to the components. Mix it all well.

From the resulting mass, roll up balls that will resemble the well-known Raffaello sweets in size. They should be rolled in shavings, which will be obtained by grinding 200 g of crab sticks. Serve cheese "Raffaello" on appetizing lettuce leaves.

Cold Appetizers - Peacock Tail Recipe

We have already shared with you the recipe with photos, check out such a great treat as " peacock tail". To prepare it, boil a couple of hard-boiled eggs. Cut the same amount of eggplant into slices, 1 cm thick, and then fry on all sides in vegetable oil. After frying, do not forget to immediately put the rounds on a napkin so that excess oil is absorbed.

Grate 2 processed cheeses, mix them with chopped eggs and 3-4 garlic cloves passed through a garlic press. Pepper and salt to taste, season with mayonnaise after mixing.

Cut a fresh medium-sized cucumber into circles, chop a quarter of red bell pepper, cut black olives in half - the number of halves should be equal to the number of eggplant rounds.

Lubricate each eggplant with a salad mass, put a cucumber on one end, and an olive on top, put a slice of red pepper on the opposite end. Arrange the "feathers" on an oval peacock-tail dish.

Preparing cold snacks

Cold appetizers with a photo - rolls with salmon and beets

And here is another variation on the theme of rolls, this time - fish. However, it will also contain such a wonderful vegetable as beets, which will give the snack not only a wonderful appearance but also beneficial to the body.

Finely chop the package processed cheese(about 100 g) and mix the product with a large spoonful of mayonnaise. Cut 120 g of cheese into small pieces. Peel the boiled beetroot and cut it into thin slices on a special grater.

Place a small spoonful on one half of each beetroot slice. cheese salad and a bar of cheese, wrap it in a roll, and “tie” a slice of salmon on top (you will need about 100 g of lightly salted salmon in the form of slices).

Cut red onion into thin rings, sprinkle it wine vinegar and put between the rolls, previously beautifully laid on a dish. Also use parsley as a garnish.

Cold meals and snacks chicken pate with prunes

In our list of the “most-most” pate could not help but appear, we are used to the fact that liver is used for its preparation, but now we offer you to prepare a variation based on chicken breasts for the celebration.

Fry the onion and a couple of carrots, at the end of frying, add a couple of chopped garlic cloves. Soak a handful of prunes. Grind Enough a large number of greens (as you like).

Pass 4 boiled chicken breasts, prunes and fried vegetables through a meat grinder. Then add greens to this mass and mix everything thoroughly.

To give the pate its usual tenderness, you need to make a dressing from 100 g of sour cream and a couple of large spoons of mayonnaise sauce. Then mix the pâté and dressing well. That's all, the appetizer is ready - now it can be formed in the form of a slide or laid out in a mold. Or you can cut the apple into slices and put the pate on them - it will turn out unusually tasty!

Cold dish and appetizers - mushrooms in wine sauce

Pour a glass of water and dry white wine into a saucepan, add a small spoon without a slide of salt, 2 pcs of peppercorns, Bay leaf ik, 5 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.

Cut slices of 500 g of champignons, pour them into a boiling marinade, cover with a lid and cook wine mushrooms» within 10 minutes. Then turn off the heat and cool the mushrooms along with the marinade. Remove excess liquid by pouring the mushrooms into a colander.

Put mushrooms on a dish, spread lemon slices, parsley.

Our TOP 10 recipe for herring canapes is completed - these are very beautiful and insanely delicious sandwiches that are actually quite simple to prepare.

Fillet one fish. Finely chopped 50 g marinated champignons, 100 g processed cheese set to heat up room temperature. Chop up a large spoonful of dill, remembering to leave a few sprigs for garnish.

Lay the herring fillets on cling film with their backs down with a jack, lightly beat them (the fish should turn out to be approximately the same thickness), grease with cheese mass, sprinkle with mushrooms and dill.

Using cling film, roll the fillet into a roll. Do this carefully so that the halves do not separate, remember that herring is a fatty fish and will glide perfectly over the film. Form a round sausage by wrapping the roll in several layers of cling film. Put in the freezer for a couple of hours.

While the fish is freezing, you need to do croutons. You can use both black and white bread - according to your taste. Cut the bread into squares, 1 cm thick (this will help save a lot of product). Cut out circles using a thin-walled glass. However, you can simply cut off the crust and leave square-shaped slices.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, put the bread slices on the grate, after 5 minutes turn off the oven and leave the bread inside for another couple of minutes. It is very important not to overdry the croutons, they should only have a thin crispy crust.

Cut the frozen roll with a sharp knife, the pieces should be about 1 cm thick. Apply a little curd mass on the bread, and put pieces of herring roll on top.

For garnish, use the tomato slices and dill sprigs you saved earlier. Or you can use a slice of baked beets or chopped leek rings - it will look just delicious! After 10 minutes, canapes can be served on the table.

Be sure to prepare and.

Ingredients: milk, eggs, flour, sugar, vegetable oil, crab sticks, mayonnaise, salt

For pancakes:

1 l. milk,
6 eggs
2 cups of flour,
1 st. a spoonful of sugar
1 tbsp vegetable oil.

For filling:

252 grams of crab sticks,
2-3 tablespoons of mayonnaise,
salt to taste

13.01.2019

Jellied pig's head

Ingredients: pig head, garlic, bay leaf, onion, salt, black pepper

If you want to make your family happy delicious aspic, but without spending a lot on the ingredients, we advise you to cook this dish from the pig's head. This is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first glance.
Ingredients:
- pork head - 4 kg;
- garlic - 4-5 cloves;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs;
- onion - 1 pc;
- salt - 2-3 tablespoons;
- black pepper - 5-7 peas.

03.01.2019

Beef basturma

Ingredients: beef, salt, sugar, fenugreek, garlic, paprika, pepper

You probably love basturma - delicious, fragrant ... We suggest that you do not buy it in the store, but make it yourself, at home, using our detailed recipe.

Ingredients:
- 1 kg of beef;
- 55 grams of salt;
- 15 grams of sugar;
- 3 tsp ground fenugreek;
- 1.5 tsp garlic powder;
- 2 tsp ground sweet paprika;
- 0.5 tsp burning ground pepper Chile.

30.11.2018

Salted silver carp pieces

Ingredients: silver carp, water, vinegar, onion, laurel, pepper, sugar, salt, oil

I love salty fish. My husband is a fisherman, so I often salt the fish myself. Most of all I like salty pieces silver carp. Today I will teach you how to cook this delicious snack.

Ingredients:

- 1 silver carp,
- 1 glass of water,
- 2 tablespoons vinegar,
- 1 onion,
- 5 bay leaves,
- 7 pcs. black peppercorns,
- 1 tbsp Sahara,
- 1 tsp salt,
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil.

10.11.2018

Mushroom caviar from mushrooms with carrots

Ingredients: mushrooms, carrots, onions, garlic, oil, laurel, pepper, salt

From mushrooms I harvest every year mushroom caviar. The preparation is not only delicious, but it is magnificent. The most important thing is that preparing it for the winter is as easy as shelling pears.

Ingredients:

- 350 grams of mushrooms,
- 50 grams of carrots,
- 50 grams of onion,
- 2 cloves of garlic,
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil,
- 2 bay leaves,
- 3 peas of allspice,
- salt
- black pepper.

26.07.2018

Korean Quick Eggplant

Ingredients: eggplant, onion, bell pepper, carrot, garlic, parsley, Korean carrot seasoning, vinegar, vegetable oil, salt, sugar

Such a salad appetizer is worth preparing for every housewife. Because it's very tasty. Juicy vegetables and spicy seasonings The perfect accompaniment to any meat or fish dish. Surprise your loved ones!

Required Ingredients:

- 2 kg of eggplant;
- 3 onions;
- 0.5 kg of bell pepper;
- 3 carrots;
- 1 head of garlic;
- a small bunch of parsley;
- some favorite spices;
- packaging of seasoning for Korean carrots;
- 150 ml of vinegar;
- 1 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- 1 tbsp. l. salt;
- 4 tbsp. l. Sahara.

11.07.2018

Odessa eggplant caviar

Ingredients: eggplant, pepper, tomato, onion, salt, vegetable oil

If you need a prescription eggplant caviar then you are absolutely right! It is about her that we will tell you - in detail and step by step. We will cook caviar from baked vegetables, in Odessa style.

Ingredients:
- 2 pieces of eggplant of medium size;
- 1-2 pieces of large sweet pepper;
- 3-4 ripe tomatoes;
- 1 medium head of onion;
- salt to taste;
- 3-4 tablespoons vegetable oil.

17.06.2018

Mackerel in onion peel

Ingredients: mackerel, onion, water, salt

I invite you to cook delicious fishplate- mackerel in onion peel. The recipe is very simple and fast.

Ingredients:

- 1 mackerel,
- from 5 bulbs of onion peel,
- 1 liter of water,
- 5 tablespoons salt.

31.05.2018

Cauliflower in batter

Ingredients: cauliflower, egg, flour, breading, salt, pepper

Cauliflower can be deliciously fried in batter. Now I will tell you how to do this. Serve at the table cauliflower with sauce and fresh vegetables.

Ingredients:

- 1 cauliflower,
- 1 egg,
- 1 tbsp flour,
- 3 tablespoons spicy breading,
- salt,
- black pepper.

30.05.2018

Draniki with ham and cheese

Ingredients: potatoes, egg, ham, cheese, dill, salt, pepper, butter, flour

Prepare potato pancakes with ham and cheese and I assure you they will be spread out within 5 minutes maximum. The dish is tasty and satisfying.

Ingredients:

- 2 potatoes,
- 1 egg,
- 70 grams of ham,
- 60 grams of hard cheese,
- 5 grams of dill,
- salt,
- black pepper,
- vegetable oil,
- 1 tbsp flour.

02.05.2018

Herring cake on waffle cakes

Ingredients: herring, waffle cake, mushroom, onion, cheese, mayonnaise, carrot

As an appetizer, you can cook a very tasty waffle cake with mackerel. Cooking it will not be difficult even for a young inexperienced hostess.

Ingredients:

- 1 herring,
- a pack of waffle cakes,
- 300 grams of champignons,
- 2 onions,
- 200 grams of cheese,
- 200 grams of mayonnaise,
- 1 carrot.

17.04.2018

Turkey sausage at home

Ingredients: turkey meat, cream, starch, bacon, paprika, pepper, cloves, coriander, salt

Today we will prepare a very tasty homemade sausage from turkey. I have detailed the recipe for you.

Ingredients:

- half a kilo of turkey,
- 2 tablespoons cream,
- one and a half tablespoons starch,
- 100 grams of bacon,
- 1-2 tsp smoked paprika,
- 2-3 peas of allspice,
- 1-2 cloves,
- 5 grams of red pepper,
- 1 tsp black pepper,
- half tsp coriander,
- 1 tsp salt.

05.04.2018

Dried meat at home

Ingredients: pork, pexol, cardamom, juniper, pepper, barberry, garlic, fenugreek, thyme

Today we will dry pork. The recipe is simple. Great snack on festive table.

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of pork,
- 12.5 grams of pexol,
- 5 pieces of cardamom,
- 1 tsp juniper,
- 1 tsp allspice,
- 1 tsp barberry,
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper,
- 4 cloves of garlic,
- 2 tablespoons fenugreek,
- 1 tbsp thyme.

02.04.2018

Pea Hummus

Ingredients: sesame, garlic, oil, lemon, peas, water, turmeric, coriander, pepper, salt

Today we will cook very tasty unusual dish- hummus from peas. Preparing this dish is easy and fast enough.

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of peas,
- half a glass of sesame seeds,
- 3 tablespoons olive oil,
- 2-3 cloves of garlic,
- 1 lemon,
- a glass of cold water
- turmeric,
- coriander,
- on the tip of a chili pepper knife,
- salt.

31.03.2018

How to pickle cod roe

Ingredients: caviar, salt, sugar, lemon juice, oil

I have prepared for you a simple recipe, according to which you can deliciously pickle cod caviar. I make such caviar for sandwiches on the festive table or for a cup of tea.

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of cod caviar,
- 1 tsp salt,
- half tsp Sahara,
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- one and a half tablespoons vegetable oil.

29.03.2018

Duck breasts in orange sauce

Ingredients: duck fillet, orange, oil, thyme, rosemary, zest, garlic, salt, pepper

Today we will cook one very tasty gourmet dish from duck fillet. The combination of duck and orange is excellent.

Ingredients:

- 2 duck fillets,
- 2 oranges,
- 70 grams of butter,
- 1 tbsp dried thyme,
- 1 tsp rosemary,
- 1 tbsp orange peel,
- 2 cloves of garlic,
- salt,
- pepper.

Not a single table, even everyday or festive, is complete without cold appetizers and dishes. They are not only its decoration, but also necessary for better digestion of food, stimulating appetite, as they include fresh and pickled vegetables, sauces and seasonings. So, what to cook cold appetizers for the festive table with photos and recipes - next.

It is interesting! Snacks can be pre-prepared and canned - this is sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, as well as smoked meat and fish. But also made from different ingredients eg sandwiches.

• meat;
• vegetable;
• from seafood;
• fish;
• mushroom.
• When mixing different ingredients, it is desirable to know which products work best with each other.

To meat snacks refer:

• boiled meat;
• sausage;
• ham;
• brisket;
• loin;
• pate;
• jelly;
• aspic.

For fish snacks fish and seafood of various processing is taken:

• smoked,
• salty,
• dried,
• aspic,
• boiled,
• fried,
• canned.

AT vegetable snacks you can add: rice, beans, boiled eggs.

Seafood are purchased ready-made or boiled and crushed. Mushrooms are used pickled, salted or fried with onions.

Usually, cold snacks on the festive table (you will find photos and recipes below) are decorated, as a rule, the same products that are part of the snack are used, and greens are added to them. Vegetables should be beautifully chopped, you can use a curly knife. Flowers, leaves, stars, roses are formed from them.

Interesting! It can be cut in the form of geometric figures: in the form of circles, sticks and straws. Beautiful decorations are: green pea, olives, eggs, both chicken and quail, cut into slices, flowers.

Snacks on the festive table for a birthday

On your birthday, you really want to cook new dishes and surprise your guests with a variety of snacks on the table, but at the same time do not spend a lot of time so that they are not too expensive, they look spectacular. There are many requests, but are there dishes that meet all of them? Of course have!

Stuffed eggs with cod liver

This appetizer is always in great demand, easy to prepare, especially if you prepare all the products in advance. The basis of the dish is eggs and canned cod liver, it can be replaced with sprat pate, which is much cheaper. How ?

Ingredients:

• chicken eggs- 8 pcs.;
• canned cod liver - 1 can;
• onions - 1 pc.;
• olives - 1 can;
• butter - 1 tbsp. l;
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l;
• dill or parsley - 1 bunch.

Cooking:

1. Boiled chicken eggs must be cut across. Then you need to remove the yolks from them;
2. Fry the onion for sunflower oil;
3. Open canned cod liver. Grind with a fork, add the yolks and butter to them;
4. Grind until smooth. Add fried onions, finely chopped greens to the resulting mass;
5. With this mass, it is necessary to fill the halves of the eggs;
6. Top with mayonnaise, garnish with olives, cut into rings, and garnish with parsley sprigs.

Meatloaf with mushrooms

The original version of the snack on the festive table for a birthday (the recipe with the photo is presented below) will be a cold dish - meatloaf with mushrooms. Great Ways.

Ingredients:

• pork tenderloin - 500g;
• beef - 500g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• hard cheese - 100g;
• champignons - 200g;
• butter - 1 tbsp. l;
• onions - 1 pc.;
• ground pepper - 1 pinch;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l;
• greens - 1 bunch.

Cooking:

1. It is necessary to make minced meat from meat by mixing pork with beef. Drive a raw egg into it, salt and add a pinch of pepper;
2. Then start preparing the filling. Boil the champignons for about 5 minutes, and fry in a pan in butter and sunflower oil, adding onion and garlic. Pass the cheese through a grater, mix the filling;
3. Spread foil on a baking sheet, brushing it with vegetable oil. Spread the minced meat on it, but so that you get a pancake 1 cm thick;
4. Spread the filling on it and wrap it with a roll, helping with foil. Then it must be wrapped in it and put in the oven for 60 minutes;
5. After an hour, open the foil so that the roll is browned, send it back to the oven for another 15 minutes;
6. Chilled roll cut into slices about 1 cm thick.

Original appetizers for the festive table

Many housewives want to surprise their guests with unusual and original dishes. We bring to your attention recipes with photos original snacks on the festive table, which will definitely surprise your guests.

Crab meat fir-trees

This appetizer, easy to prepare, looks original. Although it is more suitable for New Year's table, but can please guests on any other holiday.

Ingredients:

• crab meat - 1 pack;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• processed cheese - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• mayonnaise - 3 - 4 tbsp. l;
• cracker cookies - 100 gr.;
• dill - 1 bunch;
• lettuce leaves;
• pomegranate - 1 pc.

Cooking:

Crab meat, cheese, eggs are passed through a fine grater. To them is added 1 clove of garlic, passed through a garlic press. Everything is well mixed;

A flat plate is taken, lettuce leaves are laid out on it. From the resulting mass, it is necessary to roll small balls. For each Christmas tree you will need 3 balls. First, a cracker is placed on lettuce leaves. Then flatten one ball, put it on top, make the second one a little smaller in diameter, and form a cone from the third, put everything on top of each other in the form of a pyramid, you get the shape of a Christmas tree;

Such Christmas trees should be according to the number of guests. From above, each Christmas tree is densely sprinkled with dill so that it becomes green, as if with needles and is decorated with pomegranate seeds.

Snack in tartlets

Ingredients:

• ready-made tartlets - 10 pcs.;
• chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
• canned shrimp - 1 can;
• avocado - 1 pc.;
• butter - 20 g;
• lemon - 1 pc.;
• parsley - 1 bunch;
• mayonnaise 3 tbsp. l;
• chili pepper - 1 pc.

Cooking:

1. Hard-boiled chicken eggs are cut across in the form of flowers, using a notched knife;
2. The yolks are transferred to a separate plate, finely chop the shrimp, add mayonnaise, mix well and fill the proteins with this mass. Top can be sprinkled with herbs;
3. Then an avocado is taken, cut into cubes, the remaining yolks, parsley are added to it, juice, butter, chili are squeezed out of the lemon. The whole mass is placed in a blender and beat;
4. Tartlets are filled with the resulting mass, and a stuffed egg is placed on top.

Light snacks on the holiday table

Sometimes even light snacks that do not require much time to prepare are a wonderful table decoration.

Canape with curd cheese

This canape is prepared very quickly, you do not need a lot of products.

Ingredients:

• pieces rye bread- by the number of guests;
• cottage cheese;
• dill greens;
• salt - 1 pinch;
• medium-sized fresh cucumber - 1 pc.

Cooking:

First you need to chop the dill and mix it with curd cheese, add a little salt, you should get a homogeneous mass;

It is better to pass cucumbers through a special slicer, as they should be in the form of thin ovals;

Start making sandwiches. We put curd cheese with herbs on the bread. Then the cucumber is pierced with a skewer in the form of a sail and strung on the middle of the canape. Makes cute little boats. Sandwiches must be laid out on a flat plate and garnished with herbs.

Champignons stuffed with chicken breast

Another option light snack on the festive table (recipe and photo are offered below) - champignons with chicken breast especially for mushroom lovers.

Ingredients:

• chicken breast - 500 g;
• champignons - 300 g;
• onions - 1 pc.;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
• mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l;
• greens - 1 bunch;
• hard cheese - 50 g.

Cooking:

1. Chicken and onions are cut into small cubes, mushroom legs are added to them, a little salt to taste. All ingredients are stewed in vegetable oil until cooked, cooled;
2. Sour cream is added to them, everything is mixed. Then, a chilled mass is laid out on each cap of the mushroom, and baked in the oven for 15 minutes, then removed and sprinkled with hard cheese rubbed through a grater;
3. Then put everything back in the oven until the cheese is melted for another 3-5 minutes. Mushrooms are cooled and served on the table, decorated with greens.

Sandwich with canned fish

It is easy to prepare, it is tasty, stimulates the appetite.

Ingredients:

• pieces of white or rye bread, loaf;
• canned fish in oil (saury, sardine);
• pickles;
• garlic;
• mayonnaise;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking:

1. First, slices of bread or loaf are fried in vegetable oil;
2. Then 1 clove of garlic is taken, which is passed through a garlic press and mixed with mayonnaise;
3. Then the pickled cucumber is cut with a sharp or corrugated oval-shaped knife. Now everything is ready, you can form a sandwich;
4. A fried slice of bread is smeared with cooked garlic mayonnaise sauce. A cucumber is placed on one side of the bread, and pieces of canned fish are placed next to it;
5. On top of the fish, you can pour greens or carefully put a small sprig of dill or parsley.
6. The holiday sandwich is ready.

Snacks on the festive table in a hurry

Very often there is such a situation that the guests have already arrived and it is necessary to quickly set the table. In this case, it is important to know several options for snacks on the festive table on hastily(recipes with photos can be found below).

Delicious lavash roll

Ingredients:

• pita bread - 1 pc.;
• salmon - 200 g;
• fresh cucumbers - 1 pc.;
• processed cheese "Hochland" - 1 tray.

Cooking:

1. Ready pita bread is smeared with melted cheese, laying salmon in one row, thin slices of cucumber on top;
2. Everything is rolled up in the form of a roll and cut across, into small portions. Lay out on a flat plate.

Lavash roll with ham

Ingredients:

• pita bread - 1 pc.;
• Korean carrots - 1 pack;
• ham - 100 gr.

Cooking:

1. Lavash must be smeared with mayonnaise, put a thin layer on top Korean carrot, and spread thinly sliced ​​ham on it;
2. Roll everything up and cut across.

Cheese and nut balls

These balls cook quickly, are very tasty and nutritious. original hot snack - .

Ingredients:

• hard cheese - 200 g;
• walnuts - 50 g;
• butter - 100g;
• olives - 50 g;
• lettuce leaves;
• dill.

Cooking:

1. First you need to grate the cheese on the smallest grater;
2. Chop the nuts or pass them through a grater, add slightly warmed butter, finely chopped olives, mix everything with a spoon;
3. Roll small balls from the resulting mass;
4. Arrange lettuce leaves on a plate, each ball must be rolled in chopped dill, and put on lettuce leaves.

Buns with caviar

Ingredients:

• sliced ​​loaf;
• butter - 100 g;
• salmon caviar - 1 can.

Cooking:

1. Each slice of a loaf must be cut in half and greased with butter;
2. Gently place salmon caviar on top;
3. All sandwiches are laid out on a flat plate.

Beetroot balls with nuts and sesame seeds

Ingredients:

• boiled beets - 2 pcs.;
• walnuts - 4 tbsp. l;
• sesame - 4 tbsp. l;
• prunes - 5 - 6 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l;
• greens - 1 bunch.

Cooking:

1. Beets must be chopped on a fine grater, add finely chopped walnuts, mayonnaise, a little salt and pepper;
2. Soak prunes in boiling water, then cut them finely with a knife and add to the rest of the products;
3. Mix everything and make small balls;
4. Sesame must be fried in a pan. You need to roll these balls in it. Arrange on a dish and sprinkle with herbs.

Prunes with cheese

Ingredients:

• prunes - 20 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 200 g;
• bacon - 50 g;
• lettuce leaves;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

1. Large pitted prunes need to be steamed to make it softer;
2. Arrange lettuce leaves on a dish. Grate hard cheese and garlic and season with mayonnaise;
3. This filling must be filled with each plum. Cut the bacon into thin strips, about 1 cm wide;
4. Wrap them around each prunes and secure with a skewer. Everything is beautifully laid on lettuce leaves.

So, you yourself see how huge the variety of cold appetizers is on the festive table (photos and recipes are offered in the article). Preparing such snacks is not difficult, but they perfectly complement and decorate the table. Here, each hostess can show her own imagination, it is only necessary to know and take into account which products are combined with each other. Dessert is delicious and easy.

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