Cold snacks are ideal for buffets. They can be prepared in advance and do not worry about additional heating, as often happens with hot dishes. It is quite possible to cover the buffet table by any hostess. The main thing is the idea and appropriate design, and the most usual products will look bright and festive at your feast.
Light and quick snacks for a buffet table - canapé on skewers
Canape - tiny sandwiches, fastened with toothpicks. The most difficult thing about them is, perhaps, a beautiful slicing. And then you can start everything - baking tins, a children's designer or even a plastic syringe - with it, if you cut the butt, you can get perfectly even circles of bread, cheese or sausage.
Canape with mozzarella and cherry
Ingredients:
- cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs .;
- cheese "Mozzarella" - 10 balls;
- basil - 20 leaves;
- black olives (without pits) - 5 pcs .;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. spoons;
- herbs Provencal (dry) - 0,5 tsp.
- salt, pepper black ground - to taste.
Preparation
String on a skewer half an olive, a leaf of a basil, a cherry tomato and again a basil. We put the skewer in a small ball of mozzarella so that the olive is tightly attached to the cheese. Spread the canapé on the dish. From olive oil, olive oil, salt and pepper, make a dressing and lightly sprinkle our snack.
Another simple version of canapé - from quail eggs and half a cherry as a cap make mushrooms, fixing everything with toothpicks. And the points from mayonnaise will turn them into fly agarics. From mashed potatoes you can easily form a hedgehog, into which we stick our mushrooms. By the way, instead of toothpicks you can use fresh rosemary twigs.
Canape with cracker and pâté
Ingredients:
- crackers salted - 20 pcs .;
- pate liver; 150 g;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
- olives - 10 pieces;
- dill - 0,5 tufts.
Preparation
Crackers are smeared with a thin layer of pate and glued in pairs. Cooked eggs three on a grater or mash with a fork, and mixed with pate. One cucumber cut into thin circles, cut the second cuticle, rub it on an average grater and add it to the pate. Sprinkle with chopped dill and mix into a homogeneous mass. We spread it with neat slides on the cucumber slices and "pinned" to double crackers with toothpicks, topped with olives.
Mini-snacks for a buffet table in tartlets
Tartlets are small baskets of dough, which can be filled with anything: with all kinds of salads, pates, caviar, sliced or fruit, simply irreplaceable for receptions. As a rule, tartlets are made from unleavened dough, but puffers are also found. Already ready, tartlets are sold in the store. But if you have a little free time, spoil your guests with cheese baskets of your own making.
Cheese Tartlets
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 1 item;
- cheese hard - 100 g;
- margarine - 100 g;
- egg yolk - 1 pc.
For filling:
- grapes (pitted) - 1 bunch;
- salad of rucola - 25 g;
- Parmesan cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 40 g.
Preparation
Using a blender, we combine a homogeneous mass of grated cheese, margarine and yolk. Gradually introduce flour and mix a smooth, elastic dough. We wrap it in a film and hide it for half an hour in the refrigerator. Then roll the dough into a thin layer, cut out the circles with a cup or a glass and line the molds with them. Superfluous pruning. The bottom of the tartlet is pierced in several places with a fork. Bake cheese tartlets for just 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
We will fill them in the following way. First, large-sliced leaves of arugula, then a drop of mayonnaise, a few grapes cut in half, and top - grated Parmesan.
Tartlets with avocado
Ingredients:
- tartlets - 8 pieces;
- Avocado - 0.5 pcs .;
- lime - 0,5 pieces;
- cheese "Ricotta" - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- red caviar - 100 g;
- caviar black - 1 tsp.
Preparation
Avocados for this snack should be sufficiently ripe to easily extract the flesh. Turn it into puree, sprinkle with lime juice and add ricotta. Blender all the whisk in a homogeneous air mass and fill the tartlets. We decorate the top with red and black caviar.
Interesting snacks for a buffet table are also obtained from pita bread. It's all sorts of rolls and rolls.