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.
Why “Sweet”? Because salt instead of sugar) and this turns a salad from the most common ingredients into an unusual and very tasty one) even those who first, “twirling their noses” and tasting, absorb with great pleasure)
Once in France… although, why “once”? Being constantly at sea in France, I order this dish whenever possible. Just imagine a cozy outdoor cafe on the waterfront of La Grande Motte resort, a holiday around, the sound of the wind and the voices of happy vacationers, the smells of fish and seafood mixed with the salty smell of the sea and the freshness of the wind. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go there this year, but why not invite the South of France to my home?
An extraordinary salad! Bright, original, fresh, juicy, light, but satisfying, very interesting. If you like seafood, then it will certainly be to your taste. Come in, enjoy your meal.
An easy-to-prepare salad. They say that even those who are indifferent to mussels or feel pity for them have an unreasonable dislike. Try to cook mussels and discover a new taste.
Are you having a picnic? Or corporate by nature? And you don’t know what to cook, and there’s no time, and you don’t want to bother. I offer a win-win snack that everyone will like. Surely, you have tried these mussels while vacationing in the Crimea. The cooking time will take no more than 10 minutes. 10 minutes – and you are the lucky owner of the most delicious mussels in the world. Just don’t forget to bring Kikkoman soy sauce with you.
Kimchi in Korea is considered the main dish, without which no feast can do. I suggest you try kimchi daikon (lobi) – a Japanese radish. Unlike kimchi from Peking cabbage, it can not be eaten immediately after cooking, because the radish will be very bitter. The secret of making delicious daikon kimchi lies in a special way of its fermentation.
In order for the first vegetables, greens to appear, and our body will take fresh vitamins with pleasure, help him by preparing such a salad snack. Don’t be afraid to add young currant leaves and primroses to it, it’s delicious.
We love spicy dishes. And so I cook cabbage often. And that’s why this salad is absolutely necessary for the New Year! Vitamins, juiciness, bright taste. In addition, according to a budget recipe, you can prepare a salad 2-3 days before the holiday – it will simply taste better!