Cold and hot snacks are light dishes that are served before a meal to enhance appetite or for an aperitif. These are sandwiches, tartlets, various mini rolls, pates… A lot depends on their presentation: an original and appetising snack prepares guests for what the feast will be like. Homemade snacks and buffet snacks are usually fresh, cooked or pickled vegetables, mushrooms, meat, fish, sausages, canned meat and fish, eggs or cheese. Festive snacks are especially popular, especially festive snacks for the New Year.
The role of these treats should not be underestimated – served to the table on time, they complement the main dishes; at the same time, despite the simplicity of execution, they can surprise with taste qualities and a bright presentation. Among the variety of possible options, you can find dishes that also relate to snacks, but for the preparation of which you will need free time and knowledge of certain tricks.
Suitable snack recipes are chosen based on compatibility with the main menu and availability of opportunities – this applies to both time and a set of products. You can prepare an appetizing treat from a minimal set of ingredients – there are economy options that will look advantageous at any festive table. At the same time, do not forget about savory delicacies, such as salted red fish, and about exquisite and original dishes, such as dried salmon meat or shrimp in bacon.
Of course, in an office environment, a snack can adequately replace the main course. This is what happens most often. Then the preparation of a delicious snack can be made more refined or vice versa — simpler. You can choose several feeding options: cold and warm. For example, tacos (corn tortillas) with fish and grapefruit sauce, grilled vegetables at home, pickled eggs, mussels in white wine sauce, celery caviar and parmesan lollipops. Hot and cold snacks are perfect for a house party, banquet or picnic in nature. Many dishes are prepared in 15 minutes.
Additionally, you can use tartlets, putting salads or any other filling in them. If you are expecting guests, then snacks are prepared without fail and served with drinks. Then the cook will have to think over the combination of all the snacks served and their number on the table, take care of how to prepare a snack at home. Whatever the reason, we offer you the best snacks, recipe ideas that will help you out even in the most seemingly unpredictable situations.
Our potatoes are the most delicious! Do you want to know why? Watch as we cook it over the fire. For her, we took delicious brisket, fragrant mushrooms, selected potatoes, onions and garlic. Do you already smell this fragrance? Easy, fast and delicious!
Such a dietary snail or roll of cottage cheese dough with corn and wheat flour. In the filling, I took seasonal vegetables and forest mushrooms: aspen and boletus. You can take any mushrooms, including mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. Of course, it is delicious and less calorific than regular pies.
I want to present to Your court one wonderful dish that is perfect for Breakfast, a snack at home and in nature, as well as for a festive table. And, despite the relatively large number of step-by-step photos, it is quite easy to prepare!
Today we have a picnic in the woods after going for mushrooms. The forest this year surprises with a variety of all sorts of mushrooms that appeared at the same time – aspen, boletus, umbrellas, redheads, buttermilk. For a snack, I made tortillas with pockets and stuffed them with fresh vegetables and baked Turkey. Cooking tortillas will not take much time, and delicious Turkey filling with fresh vegetables and spicy sauce will make a snack in nature nutritious and unusual. The ingredients for the tortilla are measured in one glass (I have 150 ml). the main thing here is the proportions. The original recipe used only wheat flour, but I don’t really like plain wheat bread, so I took half wheat flour and half whole wheat rye.
A very simple salad of the usual set of vegetables – potatoes, carrots and onions, but with the addition of herbs, spicy coriander, arugula and coriander seeds!
Why “On a picnic”? First, it is quickly prepared, and secondly, the ingredients are selected so that the salad can be taken with you and it “does not drain”, and third, the salad is very bright and elegant and light enough. I invite you to try it.
Try to make a cabbage salad with cucumber, egg and green peas – you will not regret it, it is made very quickly! Products are all affordable and inexpensive. This salad will not be ashamed to put on the holiday table.
