The table for the holidays is always replete with various culinary masterpieces. Despite the fact that the main dishes and desserts are more remembered by everyone, you need to start small - with festive sandwiches. They are served on the first table, while the hostesses finish laying out on salad bowls and decorating the main dishes. A festive meal begins with sandwiches, so it is important that guests like them and not spoil their wonderful mood. There are a lot of recipes for this simple dish; each housewife will surely have her own special secrets. We offer you some recommendations on how to make beautiful, tasty and satisfying holiday sandwiches.
Small classification
Conventionally, such an appetizer can be divided into three categories:
- Beautiful - they attract people's attention with their appearance and presentation.
- Tasty - may not be so presentable, but their taste makes you from year to year to cook them and serve.
- Using delicacies. Such sandwiches are not cooked every day. One of their appearance suggests that today is a holiday.
According to the method of preparation, sandwiches can be:
The first table is often served precisely cold. Make them much faster, which is sometimes very important for housewives. Hot sandwiches are already an independent dish, which can be served simultaneously with other masterpieces of your culinary art.
The atmosphere in the shower and on the table
Holiday sandwiches must be different from ordinary ones. For their preparation, it is not necessary to buy expensive black or red caviar. Using simple ingredients, you can focus on the design of this appetizer. Yes, such actions always require more time. But the process itself already creates the mood of the holiday in the soul.
There are many different recipes. Among them, you can easily find a suitable option.
Canapes, Tartinki and others
Guests are always in demand for small sandwiches called canapes. In order to make them, a variety of ingredients are injected onto beautiful skewers. It can be meat, fish, seafood, vegetables, fruits, olives and more. It is better to make the base and top as dense as possible, so that the entire structure holds confidently and does not fall apart. To give the canapes more beauty, it can be slightly corrected with the tip of a knife.
Tartinki are delicious hot snacks based on toasted toasted bread. Fried eggs, boiled eggs, cheese or ham can be placed on top. Such a sandwich is perfect for beer or for a moving party, when guests spend little time at the table. Such treats can be prepared in advance, and before serving, quickly heated in the microwave.
Also, a small basket of dough, which is filled with various ingredients - salad, fish or minced meat, eggs, can serve as a tartinka.
A sandwich is a type of sandwich based on an oval or round bun. You can fill it with a variety of products. In fact, a sandwich is a breakfast option.
Sandwiches made up of original products or featuring a unique presentation, say a lot about the hosts of the celebration, their sense of hospitality, imagination, creative touch.
Meat fantasies
Simple sandwiches for the festive table consist of a variety of components. For example, it is enough to take ordinary toaster bread, olives, cucumbers and ham. Cucumbers are cut into thin rings and strung on a skewer. Next come the olive and thinly sliced ​​meat.
It goes well with fresh vegetables, so you can easily experiment. It does not have to be holiday sandwiches with sausage and cheese. Turn on the fantasy!
Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on a piece of bread. Place a slice of ham, a slice of avocado and bell pepper on top. A light and mouth-watering snack will come out.
Pate is also great for creating small holiday sandwiches. Take a fresh liver paste and spread it on a small slice of bread. On top you can put a half of cherry and some greens.
Take a small slice of tomato and wrap it in a thin plate of ham. Secure the sandwich with an elegant skewer, add the olive. Additionally, you can put a leaf of green basil or aromatic mint on the appetizer.
The choice of bread also plays a significant role in creating a sandwich. A bun with sesame seeds or seeds is a very interesting and exotic solution. If you can’t find enough small buns, then simply cut large bread into smaller pieces. As a basis, take lettuce, parsley and a slice of ham. Place a half of cherry on top and fix everything with a simple toothpick.
Beautiful sandwiches are made with brown bread and ham. First, apply a light layer of mayonnaise or other pasta to the bread, place ham and pickled beet salad on top. Additionally, you can add a slice of orange. Such a festive sandwich will certainly find its fans.
Another simple sandwich with ingredients: toaster bread, green salad, ham, ketchup and mayonnaise, and as a decoration - basil and onion ring.
We carefully place the ham, rucola and basil leaves on bread. You can dream up with ham by making a nice little rose out of it.
Seafood
Avocado paste is spread with a thin layer of bread. To make it, you just need to beat in a blender slices of avocado with salted butter. Boiled shrimp is placed on the paste. Such a sandwich can be called both delicious and delicious, because shrimps are not found every day on the table.
Original and such a combination: sprats with sweet pepper. Make a few toasts with a thin layer of mayonnaise or butter. On top, place some small fish and bell pepper, cut into rings.
A great option for a delicious sandwich is red fish with capers. It’s best to place all this on a brown bread base. Buns should not be used, because all the charm can be lost.
Beautiful sandwiches can be made with the addition of red fish and cheese paste. Do not confuse it with butter or regular mayonnaise! It is necessary to smear just the paste made from carefully grated feta cheese and feta cheese. On red fish, you can arrange the rings of thinly sliced ​​cucumber and sweet purple onions. This option is perfect for an exciting picnic.
Original holiday sandwiches can be obtained with a combination of pickles and red fish. On a baguette slices, put a ring of cucumber, on top fish and parsley. You can fix the resulting snack with a toothpick or skewer.
Lightly toast slices of bread and apply two types of pasta on them: from avocado or egg. The method of their preparation is extremely simple. A boiled egg is beaten with mayonnaise. How to cook pasta from avocado, we described above. Of course, the preparation is not the easiest sandwiches, but very tasty! On such an appetizing basis, carefully lay out trout or red fish, which is in the house.
An excellent sandwich for the holiday table will be with herring. This is a delicious and very original appetizer. It will turn out especially delicious if you use herring prepared according to home recipes. You just need to spread the lettuce leaves, chopped boiled egg and herring on brown bread. Lubricate the bread preferably with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
The sandwich with sprats and cucumber is very tasty and just cooked. Take the loaf and cut it into small, even slices. Place them on a baking sheet and place in a preheated oven. Make sure that the bread is only browned on each side. Once the bread has cooled, carefully rub each side with garlic, and spread on top with mayonnaise. Cucumber and tomato sliced ​​in circles are laid out along the entire perimeter, and several pieces of sprat are placed on top. For beauty, you can always add greens. Here is such a wonderful sandwich with sprats and cucumber.
Red and black
Excellent sandwiches with black caviar. This is a very delicious delicacy that guests will certainly enjoy. Dip the salmon in lemon juice. Be sure to freshly cut the loaf into thin slices and slightly dry to make a small crust. Apply a thin layer of butter to the bread. Place fish on the loaf, and black caviar on top of it.
Holiday sandwiches with red caviar are made very simple. Often, its presence on the table already indicates a holiday. But everything can be approached with imagination. Cut slices of heart-shaped bread. Spread them with butter on the top and sides. After the side dip in carefully chopped dill. Place caviar in the oil, in addition you can decorate the sandwich with parsley or lemon.
Another great recipe for a black caviar sandwich. It must be served on a cracker - and that’s it! Brilliant and simple. The main thing is not to take a cracker with any specific taste, so as not to spoil the effect of caviar.
Vegetables are delicious too
Light holiday sandwiches can be made with pickled red pepper and feta cheese. This cheese is similar to our pressed salted cottage cheese. The sweetness of pepper will be in perfect harmony with it. You can put slices of bell pepper in the oven or on the grill and bake them. With such pepper, the sandwich will be even more delicious. Feta salinity can be controlled by placing cheese for a day in plain water.
A sandwich with tomatoes looks great. Take a large loaf of bread and grease it with a thin layer of butter. Spread cut tomatoes on top, red or yellow. Then cut the chunk into small pieces, giving them a variety of shapes. From above you can sprinkle a snack with various herbs. Such a sandwich is perfect for an ethnical buffet or during out-of-town picnics.
Holiday sandwiches are excellent on the basis of simple products. For example, a piece of feta or feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and a leaf of basil are placed on toaster bread. Top the appetizer with sauce to add flavor. You can choose it at your own discretion to fully reveal your culinary talent.
Sun-dried tomatoes and salted cottage cheese are a delicious combination of ingredients that will undoubtedly be your favorite choice for a long time.
Another recipe: on a slice of bread you need to put salted cottage cheese, which is previously thoroughly whipped in a blender. Top placed sun-dried tomato and pickled zucchini. Unforgettable taste!
There is also such an option for holiday sandwiches: toasts and salad. What kind of salad? Anyone who is in the house, but it is best on a mayonnaise basis, since the bread is dry. For example, you can take boiled rice, avocado, and spread a slice of boiled egg on top.
Hot holiday sandwiches are an equally interesting approach to snacks. Take a few slices of bread, spread them with butter and place in a preheated pan. Place the pesto on the bread as well as the cheese sliced ​​into thin slices. Take the same slice of bread and butter and place it on top of the cheese so that the butter side is inward. As soon as the resulting structure is fried, turn it over and hold it a little more on fire.
Lenten Holiday Sandwiches
This is a separate category of snacks, since during fasting you need to carefully monitor the ingredients used:
- Based on avocado. This product is a vegetable analogue of butter. Using a fork, carefully chop the peeled avocado, add lemon juice and spices to taste. The resulting mass must be applied to a slice of slightly toasted bread. Various vegetables can be used as decoration: spinach, tomatoes, greens.
- With eggplant. 2 medium eggplants are baked in the oven, after they are peeled and thoroughly chopped. To the resulting mass, you need to add a head of garlic, as well as chopped walnut kernels. For taste, add a pinch of salt, sugar and vinegar. Apply the finished base to dried bread. From above, you can neatly arrange the rings of sweet pepper.
How did the sandwich appear
Each dish has its own history of origin, and the sandwich was no exception. According to historical facts, the first person who came up with the idea of ​​folding bread with different ingredients and eating it was the great astronomer Nikolai Copernicus, who discovered, among other things, the heliocentric system.
The scientist spent several years in the town of Padua, where he studied at a prestigious educational institution and with great enthusiasm plunged into the abyss of medical sciences. He was not able to complete his education there, but he managed to get a very large base for further independent practical activities.
On business matters, Nikolai was appointed commandant to the cathedral on the territory of Olsztyn Castle. After some time, the castle was under siege. Its inhabitants had a hard time. Besides the fear that they might be captured, an epidemic will spread among people. The astronomer tried to help the sick, but the medicines available at that time did not give the expected effect. The scientist decided to conduct a unique experiment. He divided people into groups, each of which received a different diet. Very quickly it turned out that mainly those people who ate bread were sick. This product was one of the most common, it was not possible to remove it from the diet.
Copernicus decided to spread butter on bread to diversify the diet. Since then, people started making themselves sandwiches with butter.
Both tasty and fun.
Nowadays, a sandwich is a small slice of bread that goes well with fish fillet, cheeses, ham or sausages. Preparing such an appetizer is easy and simple, and if you connect imagination, you can get very original dishes.
A sandwich is an excellent food, which is easy to prepare and the availability of ingredients. Let the holiday table burst with various main dishes and desserts, but the banquet begins with these small snacks. The way they will be decorated, served to the table, what their taste will be, helps to create an excellent atmosphere for the whole evening.
If guests come unexpectedly, sandwiches are a way out of a predicament. It doesn’t matter if there are no delicacies in the refrigerator. Make an appetizer of foods that are at hand. Bread and butter is always very tasty, placed in the microwave for a minute. If there is cheese, this will further improve the taste of such sandwiches in haste. Just remember that you need them right away. After standing, they are stale.
You can diversify such festive express sandwiches with pickles in the winter (for example, sliced ​​cucumber) and fresh vegetables in the summer.