At the wedding festive table there are always a lot of hot dishes and cold appetizers. Soups, second, fries, salads, pickles and other other dishes that attract the eye and arouse appetite.
It is important that the wedding snacks are varied and each guest finds a treat to his taste.
Wedding Appetizers - General Principles
Wedding snacks can be expensive: cooked from red fish, red and black caviar, ham, hard cheese, olives, different nuts, fruits, meat, etc. There is also a budget option for wedding snacks: from pickles, eggs, processed cheeses, pickled mushrooms, vegetables, crab sticks, etc.
Whatever products are chosen for wedding snacks, they can be prepared both deliciously and beautifully, correctly combining the ingredients.
Usually, salads, sandwiches, tartlets, canapes, and slices are prepared as appetizers. Do not ignore the greens - its presence on the table will give the feast an elegant and refreshing look.
1. Wedding snacks: red caviar sandwiches
Ingredients:
• red caviar - 2 small jars;
• butter - 80 g;
• 1 baguette.
And to make the sandwiches look beautiful and appetizing on the festive table, take another half a bunch of fresh parsley, dill and one lemon.
Cooking method:
1. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients: wash the lemon and parsley thoroughly, dry on napkins.
2. Cut the baguette into thin circles no more than two centimeters thick. When choosing a baguette for sandwiches, give preference to a flour product with a crispy crust, such a baguette is easier to cut and looks beautiful.
3. Cut the lemon into the thinnest circles, after each circle cut in half, tear the parsley with your hands into arbitrary pieces, and leave the dill in whole branches.
4. Grease each slice of chopped baguette with softened butter.
5. Top with a small amount of red caviar, evenly distributing it over the entire surface of a piece of baguette.
6. Garnish the sandwiches with lemon and parsley.
7. Put the sandwiches on a flat portioned dish, next beautifully lay the branches of dill and slices of lemon.
2. Wedding appetizer of crab sticks
Ingredients:
• 3 packs of crab sticks;
• Dutch cheese - 80 g;
• egg - 3 pcs.;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• a small bunch of fresh dill;
• any mayonnaise - 80 g.
And for a beautiful wedding snack, take two more Batavia salad leaves.
Cooking method:
1. If you have frozen crab sticks, remove them from the freezer before cooking to defrost them.
2. Wash the eggs, put them in a small saucepan, cover with water and cook over medium heat after boiling for five minutes. Cool the boiled eggs in cold water, peel and remove the yolk from the protein. Grind the squirrels on a fine grater and put in a small cup. Grind the yolks too and put them in a separate cup.
3. Rinse dill with cold water, shake, removing moisture, chop with a knife.
4. Grind the Dutch cheese (you can take any cheese, for example, Russian or Gauda, so that it is hard) and put in a cup with crushed proteins. In the same cup, squeeze the peeled garlic through the garlic, mix everything well.
5. Also in a cup with protein, cheese and garlic, put a little mayonnaise, stir well again until smooth.
6. Unroll crab sticks, grease them with a thin layer of protein and cheese toppings. Roll up.
7. On both sides dip in the remaining mayonnaise, sprinkle with chopped yolks.
8. Cover a flat portioned dish with lettuce leaves and place crab sticks on them.
3. Wedding snacks: stuffed eggs with walnuts and cheese
Ingredients:
• 4 chicken eggs;
• 70 grams of Dutch or Russian cheese;
• 50 grams of any mayonnaise;
• 2 handfuls of peeled walnuts;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• 10 grams of salt and black pepper.
And for a beautiful serving, take three leaves of Batavia salad greens. And to decorate the finished stuffed eggs, take a small bunch of fresh parsley and one pomegranate.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the parsley and salad well, dry on paper napkins.
2. Peel the garlic.
3. Cut the pomegranate into two halves, take out the grains, put them on a separate plate.
4. Wash the eggs and boil in salted water for five minutes. Cool in cold water, free from shell. Cut in half, remove the yolk. Put the yolks in a deep cup and crush with a fork.
5. Grate the cheese on a grater with small teeth and pour it to the yolks.
6. Sort walnuts so that there is no debris, chop in a blender and pour into a mass of yolks and cheese.
7. Add the garlic chopped in the garlic, add salt, black pepper, stir well.
8. Put the mayonnaise, mix again.
9. Lettuce salad leaves into small pieces with your hands, put one piece inside each half of the egg.
10. Start the cooked egg with the filling.
11. Put the stuffed eggs on a flat dish, garnish with pomegranate seeds and parsley sprigs on top.
4. Wedding snacks: home-made slightly salted salmon
Ingredients:
• 1 medium salmon;
• sea salt, sugar - 20 grams each;
• black pepper powder - 10 grams;
• leaves of parsley.
And to decorate the finished snack, take the leaves of green salad, half a bunch of parsley. And, of course, not one fish dish or appetizer is served on the table without a few slices of lemon.
Cooking method:
1. First, prepare the salmon: if you use a whole carcass, then cut off the head, fins, cut the abdomen and take out all the insides. Separate the skin, cut the ridge. But, if you need to make an appetizer very quickly, then you can buy already cut salmon. Rinse the salmon fillet well with cold water, put on a metal wire rack so that the glass has excess water, cut into two identical pieces.
2. Prepare a mixture for salting the fish: pour sea salt, sugar in a small cup, mix. Rub the salmon slices well. Rub the fish only with sea salt and sugar, without using other seasonings, as they will beat off the delicate taste of the fish, and the snack will turn out not so aromatic.
3. Put the pieces of fish in a deep cup, sprinkle with black pepper, put the lavrushka and a few slices of lemon.
4. Top the fish with a lid, put something heavy on the lid so that it presses the fish, put the cup in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
5. At the end of this time, remove the fish tank from the refrigerator, drain the liquid that has escaped and refrigerate again at the same time.
6. Cut the salted salmon into slices, lay beautifully on a flat dish, pre-coated with lettuce, garnish with parsley leaves and lemon slices.
5. Wedding snacks: fruit canapes
Ingredients:
• 1 medium banana;
• 1 kiwi;
• 1 small sprig of any grape;
• canned pineapples - 125 grams.
And for stringing fruits, take wooden toothpicks. The exact number of toothpicks is not indicated in the recipe, it all depends on the number of prepared canapes.
Cooking method:
1. Wash all fruits well with cold water.
2. Peel a banana and kiwi (if you want to make a lot of canapes, you can take more fruits), cut the bananas into circles, kiwi in small cubes.
3. Remove the pineapples from the jar, cut into small pieces.
4. On the toothpicks, first plant bananas, then cubes of kiwi, pineapple and the last grape berry. But you can change the sequence as you like.
5. Put the finished fruit canapes on a flat small tray.
6. Wedding snacks: fried cheese balls
Ingredients:
• a little less than half a kilogram of Dutch cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 handfuls of peeled walnuts;
• flour - half a glass;
• vegetable oil - 1 cup;
• 5 g of salt;
• salad greens - 3 leaves;
• half a lemon to serve.
Cooking method:
1. Divide raw eggs into yolks and squirrels. Set the yolks aside, and whisk the whites with a mixer at low power (you can beat with a whisk) until a stable foam.
2. Grate the cheese on a grater with small teeth, pour into whipped whites.
3. From the cheese-protein mass, form small balls by rolling a piece of walnut in the middle (you can take any nuts, for example, hazelnuts, peanuts and others).
4. Roll each ball in flour.
5. Pour vegetable oil into a deep metal container, warm thoroughly and lay out the formed balls, fry until golden brown.
6. Lay the lettuce leaves on a flat small tray and lay the fried cheese balls in a slide, garnish with lemon slices. Next to the tray in a small gravy boat, place tomato ketchup.
7. Wedding snacks: chicken roll with prunes and dried apricots
Ingredients:
• Two breasts;
• 160 grams of prunes;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• a piece of cheese;
• salt, pepper, oil, mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse prunes, fill with water for 40 minutes.
2. Cut the breast into fillets, cut each piece of fillet not completely across. Cover with cling film, gently beat off.
3. Season each chop with salt and pepper, grease with mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese.
4. Squeeze the prunes, cut into small cubes, spread over the cheese.
5. Chop the garlic, sprinkle them with prunes.
6. Roll the fillet tight roll, bind with culinary thread.
7. Put the rolls in a greased form, grease the fillet with oil.
8. Bake at moderate temperature for half an hour.
9. Cool finished rolls, cut, decorate with fresh herbs.
Wedding Appetizers - Tips and Tricks
You can beat any wedding snack in a festive way, responsibly approaching the decoration of the dish.
Use citruses, berries, herbs, nuts, grated chocolate - it all depends on the composition of the snack.
