Small sandwiches are a great snack for any company. You can cook it from anything: fruits, vegetables, berries, seafood, meat, cheese or sausages. In addition, you can creatively approach the preparation of canapes and tartines and make them a real decoration of the festive table. From our article you will learn how to prepare original small sandwiches for a party and surprise friends and acquaintances with new tastes.
Canapes
This is a small sandwich, the name of which can be translated as "tiny". Usually this snack is served at receptions and youth parties, where people are going to talk and dance a lot. Mini sandwiches are often put on skewers or toothpicks so that they can be taken without getting your hands dirty and put in the mouth as a whole. They are served on a large and flat dish or serving rack.
How to cook canapes
Small skewer sandwiches are prepared mainly on white bread. Less often you can see this snack on rye or whole grain. Some people prefer to make multi-story canapes with small crackers. We recommend that you try your hand at culinary art and start by making a simple, classic little sandwich. For this you need:
Thinly slice wheat bread and slightly dry the resulting slices in a toaster, oven or microwave. The main thing - do not overdo it. The base for the sandwich should retain its shape after slicing and not be too dry.
Put a filling on each slice and press it to the base. It can be cheese, ham or meat. Using a wide and sharp knife, cut bread slices with diamonds, squares or rectangles.
If you wish, put on each slice an olive, a slice of lemon, cucumber or tomato. Pierce the entire structure with a skewer and put it on a beautiful dish.
If you are preparing small sandwiches for the first time, then do not strive to create a multi-layer structure. Most likely, this canapes will fall apart in your hands or it will be uncomfortable to eat. When you have enough experience, try to implement the recipes described below.
Amanita snack
This bright and attractive-looking dish is especially popular with children. It can be done for a birthday or any family celebration. To do this, we will need cooked and peeled quail eggs, greens and cherry tomatoes. To make white dots, we need to take some mayonnaise or cream cheese. For hats, cut the tomatoes in half and remove the pulp with a spoon. We string the ingredients on skewers, forming mushrooms, and apply points with a toothpick. We spread lettuce, parsley or dill on a dish and “plant” our fly agaric on an impromptu meadow. Enjoy your meal!
Small sandwiches with chips
This light meal can be prepared for gatherings with friends. It goes well with wine and cocktails, which you will treat your guests. Mini sandwiches are prepared quickly and easily:
Mix cream cheese, which should be at room temperature, with dill, green onions, capers and lemon juice. The amount of ingredients you must determine for yourself, guided by personal preferences.
Put the finished mixture in the refrigerator for two or three hours.
Take large potato chips and use a spoon to put the cheese mass on them.
Dice lightly salted or smoked salmon and put slices on the filling.
Mini kebabs
These cute snacks will decorate any party and will please your guests. A distinctive feature of this type of canapes is that it is cooked without bread. You will need to cut several types of cheese into cubes and string it on long skewers, alternating with grapes or olives.
Tartinki
These popular small buffet sandwiches are made from bread and toppings of the same kind. The basis for this snack can also be made from cracker, bagel or pressed whole grain bread. Usually, one side of the tartka is spread with a thin layer of butter, and what is in the refrigerator is placed on top. It can be cheese, sausage, boiled meat, fish, egg or canned food. If you plan to spend the evening in an informal setting, then make a few fillings and put them in different dishes. Next, place figuratively sliced bread rolls and butter. During the conversation, your guests will prepare their own treats, focusing on their own taste.
Tartlets
Small snack sandwiches in the form of baskets are prepared very quickly and are always popular among guests. Piquant fillings of fish, vegetables, meat and cheese will not let the party participants get hungry and help not to linger for a long time at the festive table. You can buy the basis for this appetizer in a store or cookery, or you can cook it yourself. To do this, you need shortbread or puff pastry, but you can also make them from dough mixed in sour cream, kefir, cottage cheese or cheese. But today we will consider the classic recipe:
For a shortcrust pastry, mix one cup of flour, 100 grams of melted butter, a little water, one yolk, and salt.
Put the finished dough in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
Roll out a layer three millimeters thick and cut it into squares.
Put the slices of dough in silicone molds and press along the edges. Excess can be removed, but you can leave the tartlets bizarre form.
We send the blanks to the refrigerator for another half hour, and then pierce them with a fork in several places.
Bake the base in a preheated oven for about 20 minutes.
Tartlets fillings
Many housewives do not puzzle over the preparation of complex fillings, but simply put in baskets salads with mayonnaise sauce, which are prepared for the holiday. But we will tell you how to make truly original fillers that will surprise and delight your guests.
Finely chop the fillet of light-salted salmon or trout (100 grams), chop the dill (to taste), grate the cheese (100 grams) and the butter frozen in the refrigerator (a small piece). Mix all the ingredients with a blender or mince them. Put the finished paste in baskets with a spoon or with the help of a pastry bag with a curly nozzle.
100 grams of bacon, 150 grams of cheese and one tomato cut into small cubes and put in a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the chicken egg with mayonnaise and ground hot pepper. Combine all products and mix thoroughly. Arrange the fillings in tartlets and bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes.
We take out the cod liver from the jar, drain the excess oil and knead with a fork. Finely chop four eggs and a few pickled cucumbers. We mix the components, put them in forms and decorate with greens.
Finely chop the onions and mushrooms (champignons or forest mushrooms), cut the boiled chicken breast into small pieces and fry all the foods in turn. Pour cream into a clean pan and bring them to a boil. For taste, you can add seasoning for julienne and ground dried mushrooms. After a few minutes, pour the sauce into the filling and put the baskets to bake until tender.
We hope that you will enjoy cooking small sandwiches, the recipes of which you learned from our article. Make them for holidays, corporate parties, pajama parties and New Year's Eve. Create your own recipes, share them with your friends, and your meetings with them will be even more fun than before.