Small skewer sandwiches using various products are called canapes. This appetizer is perfect for the festive table and always gives a special charm to the festive event.
There are many recipes thanks to which you can make a small sandwich on your own. We will tell you exactly how to cook such a snack in this article.
The most popular sandwich served with a family feast is herring canapes. This appetizer is ideal for an event where it is planned to drink strong alcoholic drinks.
Let's look at a few simple and proven ways of making canapes with herring and brown bread.
The easiest and most affordable way
To make a small sandwich, we need:
- butter - about 75 g;
- black bread - 1 loaf;
- slightly salted herring - 1 small carcass (boneless);
- any fresh greens - for decoration.
Cooking process
To make a sandwich, brown bread should be cut into slices with a thickness of not more than one centimeter, and then lightly dry it in the oven. Further, the product must be completely cooled. After that, each piece must be greased with fresh butter, and on top lay the herring fillet, previously cut into slices.
At the end, the canapes should be decorated with greens (green onions, dill or parsley).
Lemon Recipe
Canapes with herring and brown bread can be made using the following products:
- Borodino bread - 1 loaf;
- slightly salted herring - 1 processed carcass;
- fresh fragrant dill - several branches;
- fresh butter - about 80 g;
- lemon - 1 small fruit.
Salt, ground pepper, take a couple of pinches.
How to cook?
To make canapes on skewers on a festive table, you should peel the herring, then cut it into small portioned pieces and leave it in the refrigerator for some time. Next, you need to rinse fresh dill, chop it finely, and then mix with soft butter. Also, a few drops of lemon juice, black pepper and salt should be added to the resulting mixture to taste.
After the base for the canapes is ready, you need to cut the Borodino bread into small squares, put on a baking sheet or dry frying pan and dry on both sides for 10 minutes.
As for a small lemon, it should be cut into thin semicircles and pulled into wooden skewers, piercing them with fruit pieces from both ends.
Once all the ingredients are ready, you can start assembling sandwiches. To do this, croutons of black bread should be spread with butter, and put a piece of herring on top. Next, the resulting sandwich must be planted on a skewer, into which half a circle of fresh lemon had previously been put together.
Making a delicious snack with potatoes
Pickled herring is ideally suited to potatoes, so we decided to use just such fish to prepare the starter in question.
So, to make sandwiches for a festive feast, we need:
- Borodino bread - 1 loaf;
- boiled potatoes - several tubers
- pickled herring - 1 processed carcass;
- fresh green onions - a few arrows;
- high fat mayonnaise - about 100 g;
- salt, ground pepper - optional.
Making sandwiches
To prepare canapes with herring and brown bread, the Borodino loaf should be cut into small and not very thick slices, after which they should be briefly dried in the oven, completely cooled and greased with a small amount of fat mayonnaise. It is also necessary to boil potato tubers separately (in uniform). Once the vegetables are soft, they are cooled, peeled and cut in the same slices as brown bread.
Having laid the potatoes on slices of loaf, smeared with mayonnaise, they are covered with pieces of pickled herring without bones. Next, a small strip of fresh green onions is placed on the fish. The resulting sandwich is put on a skewer and served to the table after preliminary cooling in the refrigerator.
Cooking sandwiches with herring and boiled beets
If possible, canapes on skewers on the festive table should be made bright and beautiful. Only in this case your snack will delight absolutely all invited guests.
So, to make unusual sandwiches for a family feast, you will need the following ingredients:
- Borodino bread - 1 loaf;
- boiled beets - several small tubers;
- salted herring - 1 processed carcass;
- high fat mayonnaise - about 100 g;
- fresh garlic - a few cloves;
- green dill - a few twigs.
Cooking process
As in previous recipes, brown bread for the festive canapes should be cut into thin slices, and then slightly dried in the oven. If you wish, then flour products can be slightly fried in a pan (on both sides) with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil.
You should also boil fresh beets separately. Having cooled the vegetable, it needs to be peeled, and then chopped on a fine grater. It is also necessary to grate the cloves of garlic.
By combining both components together, finely chopped dill and high fat mayonnaise are added to them. As soon as the aromatic mass is ready, it is distributed on the surface of all croutons. Next, slices of salted herring are placed on top of the beets. At the end, finished sandwiches are decorated with a sprig of dill and pierced with a skewer.
Making canapes with salted fish, fresh cucumber and apple
Canapes with herring and brown bread (recipes are presented in the article) may contain completely different ingredients. Very often, for the preparation of such unusual sandwiches, housewives use the following products:
- Borodino bread - 1 loaf;
- salted herring - 1 processed carcass;
- fresh apple, green, sweet and sour - 1 large fruit;
- fresh cucumber - 1 large vegetable;
- green dill - several branches;
- soft processed cheese - about 100 g;
- sweet onions - 1 head.
Cooking method
To prepare such an appetizer, brown bread should be cut into small slices and dried in the oven. Without waiting for cooling, all slices of the loaf must be greased with cream cheese. Next, on top of the base, you need to place a green sour-sweet apple, which should be cut into thin slices in advance.
Slightly pepper the ingredients, they are covered with a small piece of fresh cucumber and salted herring fillet. Ready sandwiches are decorated with a sprig of dill and a thin ring of onion, after which they are planted on wooden skewers.