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.
A very delicate salad with a pleasant sourness, which is given to it by kiwi. Recipe from the Internet. The idea of the design belongs to the author of the recipe.
This salad is ideal to prepare in the season of fragrant ground vegetables. The combination of meat, fresh and baked vegetables makes the salad quite satisfying: it can easily become a light country dinner. I advise you to try it!
This light, delicious, summer salad is prepared in the blink of an eye! It is perfect for any meal, as well as as a side dish to any meat, fish and shish kebab.
This is a very light and quick salad. Sometimes I do it in the morning, in a hurry. To the surprise of many, including me (before) – it is possible and even very pleasant to eat raw pumpkin. The main thing is the right combination. In my opinion, pumpkin goes very well with apple, it gives the salad a fresh and sweet-sour taste. This salad can be used for breakfast or as a dessert with various dressings – or without dressings at all (as I often do). Pumpkin and apple can be sliced (as I describe) or grated.
Bright, delicious, healthy salad with an unusual taste. The composition of the ingredients for the salad is quite large, but this amount makes a large portion of the salad, which will feed the whole company.
I’ve been cooking this salad for many, many years. Very simple, but, thanks to the green radish, interesting, spicy. Salad is perfectly combined with meat, you can serve it as a side dish or as a completely independent dish. It is convenient to take this salad with you to nature – it is very tasty with shish kebab or sausages. And one more advantage-this salad is prepared from simple products. Fast, simple and delicious!
I propose to prepare a delicious and light salad of cabbage cucumbers with the addition of pollock caviar. An unusual, but in my opinion delicious combination. the original recipe suggested making a salad of young cabbage, but now it is not available, so I made it from Beijing.
