Sandwiches on skewers are an elegant appetizer that can decorate any holiday table. To make such canapes is very easy, using a variety of ingredients and thus making unique dishes. The most popular ingredients for snacks include salmon, cheese, shrimp, olives. When preparing such dishes, the scope for imagination is really wide.
How to cook canapes on skewers?
There are a lot of options for preparing such a buffet or festive dish. It can be sandwiches on skewers with cheese, meat, shrimp, with fruits and other fillings that just come to mind. Often, olives or olives are used for canapes. Such an ingredient not only improves the appearance of sandwiches, but also gives them an exquisite taste.
As a basis, you can use crackers, slices of bread or puff pastry. All ingredients must be cut into pieces of the same shape and strung on a skewer (as an alternative, you can use simple toothpicks).
When you cook sandwiches on skewers, recipes with photos (simple or complex) are not as important as the fact that you need to use only those ingredients that you like. Also, do not forget about the design, because such canapes are used to decorate the table.
Sandwiches with red fish
You can prepare such an appetizer from the following ingredients:
- red fish - 300 gr.,
- black bread,
- cream cheese - 100 gr.,
- lemon - 1 pc.,
- dill - 1 bunch,
- sour cream (2 tbsp. l.),
- black pepper.
Stages of preparation:
- The first step is to cut the lemon in half. Juice should be squeezed out of one half, and zest will come in handy from the second.
- Rinse greens thoroughly and dry with a paper towel. Divide dill into two parts. One part should be divided into branches, and the second - finely chopped.
- In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese and sour cream with finely chopped dill and lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Squeeze out circles of bread slices onto which cheese mass is placed in a glass.
- From fish sliced ββin slices (it should resemble a ribbon), make a decoration in the form of a flower, which must be laid on cheese.
- We fix the finished dish with a skewer and decorate with lemon zest and dill.
Sandwiches with salmon, olives and cucumber
The appetizer is characterized by the perfect combination of ingredients, so that canapes can have an exquisite taste. You will need these ingredients:
- rye bread - 3 medium slices,
- cucumber - 1 pc. (you need to use fresh vegetables)
- olives - 6 pcs.,
- salmon - 50 gr. (can be replaced with any red fish)
- soft cottage cheese - 30 gr.,
- greens.
Stages of preparation:
- Such simple sandwiches on skewers are made from rye bread, from which curly pieces need to be cut. To do this, you can use the iron forms commonly used for cookies.
- Wash and cut the cucumber into circles.
- Chop red fish. Pieces of fish in size should be slightly smaller than bread.
- Mash cottage cheese with a fork and spread on bread. Top with red fish, a slice of cucumber, and then repeat these layers.
- Next, you need to pierce the olive with a skewer, and then fix the entire sandwich.
Canapes with avocado and salmon
To prepare snacks, you need the following ingredients:
- salmon - 200 gr.,
- avocado - 1 pc.,
- lemon zest
- White bread,
- sour cream,
- vegetable oil,
- chives,
- ground pepper.
Stages of preparation:
- Dice bread and fry until golden brown.
- Cut salmon into not very long slices.
- Halve the avocado and take out the stone. The pulp should be removed and gently knead with a fork. Add lemon zest and sour cream in an avocado bowl, pepper the mixture to taste. Add 2/3 of the total amount of finely chopped onion and avocado seed. Cover the bowl with foil.
- On a cooled bread, put a teaspoon of the mixture and a slice of salmon. Next, chop the canapes on a skewer and garnish with onions.
Ham and Olive Sandwiches
We present the ingredients for sandwiches on skewers on the festive table, the photo indicates that they will become an original dish and will attract the attention of guests:
- puff pastry - 150 gr.
- smoked and boiled ham - 200 gr.
- olives (you need to choose pitted) - 15 pcs.
- protein of 1 egg,
- parsley.
Stages of preparation:
- You need to sprinkle flour on the table and roll the dough very thinly. Next, cut it into squares of 2 cm on each side. Put the squares on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and grease with whipped protein. Send to the preheated oven (180 degrees will suffice) and bake for 15 minutes. Leave the puffs to cool.
- Rinse the parsley and take it into small leaves.
- Cut the ham into slices and then cut in half.
- Now you can proceed to the formation of canapes. First you need to string olive, parsley, ham on a skewer, and then stick it in a puff.
Canapes with mozzarella and red fish
Sandwiches on skewers, the recipes of which involve the use of red fish, are a real find for those who want to make both a beautiful and delicious dish for a festive table. This recipe is perfect for both home and office receptions, because it is easy to repeat, and the taste of ready-made canapes will certainly please guests.
For an appetizer, you need the following ingredients:
- White bread,
- trout,
- mozzarella balls
- butter,
- dill.
Preparation includes the following steps:
- Bread needs to be cut into squares, and then slightly dry it in a pan. No need to use vegetable oil for these purposes. Lightly warm bread generously grease with butter and sprinkle with dill.
- Cut the fish into strips or buy already chopped. Twist the strips in small rolls and lay on prepared bread.
- Mozzarella for sandwiches should choose a small one. But if you get big balls, then you just need to cut them in half. Lay the cheese on top of all the ingredients.
- Pierce the canapes with a skewer and place on a large plate.
Shrimp and ham canapes
The refined combination of seafood with meat will allow you to get a beautiful and unique dish for the festive table, which will certainly become its decoration. For cooking, you need the following ingredients:
- shrimp - 200 gr. (8 pieces of large size),
- ham - 250 gr.,
- bread - 4 square slices (for this dish it is better to choose brown bread),
- olives - 8 pieces (choose those that are pitted)
- quail eggs - 8 pieces.
Stages of preparation:
- Initially, you need to prepare the eggs, boiling them, cooling and cutting in half.
- Cut bread slices into 4 pieces.
- Cut the ham into thin plates (such as will match the size of the bread).
- Now that all the products have been prepared, you can begin to form the canapes. To do this, lay on a slice of bread ham and half a quail egg. And then with a skewer, on which the shrimp and olive were previously strung, we pierce the base.
Canapes with grapes and cheese
Perhaps these are the most popular sandwiches for the festive table on skewers, photos of which can be seen in photo reports from literally every celebration. Their advantages are obvious - a preparation method that even a child can master, an elegant appearance and an exquisite combination of cheese and fruit.
For cooking you will need:
- Camembert cheese (brie can be used) - 100 gr.,
- Maasdam cheese - 100 gr.,
- feta cheese (or feta) - 100 gr.,
- Edam cheese - 100 gr.,
- seedless grapes - 2 clusters (on the 1st blue and white).
Cooking is very simple and includes the following steps:
- Grapes need to be washed and sorted into berries.
- Cheese selected varieties must be cut into cubes.
- Pierce the grapes with a skewer, and then the cheese. You can alternate in any convenient sequence.
Pineapple Appetizer
The recipes of sandwiches on skewers on the festive table are varied, but very often they use cheese and olives. They give a rich taste to the appetizer, which at the same time also looks very elegant.
To prepare you will need:
- hard cheese - 250 gr.,
- olives - 1 can (you need to choose those that are pitted),
- canned pineapples - 1 can.
The further process is extremely simple and suggests that cheese and pineapples (if they are in circles) should be cut into 1 cm cubes. First, pineapple, then olive, and then cheese.
Feta and bell pepper appetizer
An original and beautiful canapΓ© that will become a table decoration. Such skewer sandwiches on the festive table require the following ingredients:
- feta cheese (can be replaced with feta) - 200 gr.,
- ripe tomatoes - 200 gr.,
- cucumbers (only fresh ones are suitable, you should not replace pickled ones) - 200 gr.,
- sweet bell pepper - 150 gr.,
- olives - 1 can,
- olive oil,
- ground black pepper.
You can make such small sandwiches on skewers by following these steps:
- Dice the cheese into large cubes.
- Rinse the cucumber, tomato and pepper thoroughly. As for tomatoes, it is worth choosing solid and fleshy fruits, which will combine very well with other products. Cut tomatoes into small pieces. Cucumbers cut into wide rings, which then need to be cut into four parts. Bell peppers thoroughly cleaned from seeds, and then cut into large squares.
- Paste the ingredients in a sequence like olives, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and cheese on a skewer.
The canapes need to be laid out on a plate, pepper and sprinkle lightly with olive oil.
Sandwiches on fruit skewers as the main decoration of the table
Salted canapes - this is just one of the types of appetizers on skewers that are full of variety. Fruit sandwiches are used at events of various levels. The reason for this lies in the fact that this appetizer format is very convenient and beautiful. An exquisite combination of tastes can please any taster.
The fruit serving form on skewers is very convenient, and holiday recipes (with photos) of skewer sandwiches are easy to find on the Internet. It is noteworthy that the components of such canapes can be not only fruit components. Often the ingredients are coated with chocolate, complemented by nuts, cheese, marmalade and marshmallows.
Cooking fruit canapes does not take much time. Starting to prepare snacks is just before serving, because the fruits very quickly lose juice. An important point is to use only fresh ingredients, you do not need to choose frozen fruits.
There are 5 obvious reasons why fruit skewer sandwiches became popular:
- This is an incredibly tasty, juicy and fragrant snack.
- The simplest canapes can be prepared really quickly, thanks to which a skilled housewife can decorate the holiday table in just half an hour.
- Skewered fruit sandwiches, the recipes of which are so varied, can be prepared in such a way that even the most capricious gourmet will be delighted with such a dish.
- Universality. Such canapes will ideally complement both a corporate buffet reception and a family feast.
- Cooking such an appetizer is an opportunity to express your creativity using various combinations of fruits, chocolate and nuts.
How to chop fruit nicely?
One of the most important conditions in the preparation of fruit canapes is beautifully chopped ingredients, because the appearance of the snack depends on this.
The easiest way is to simply take a knife and chop peeled, washed fruits into slices or cubes. You need to do this carefully, try to fit the chopped pieces as much as possible under one size, because different-sized slices will significantly affect the appearance of the canapes.
A special slicing spoon (perfect for melon or watermelon) will be a real find if you decide to cook fruit sandwiches on skewers using these ingredients. Multi-colored spheres of perfectly even size always look impressive on skewers as part of a canapΓ©.
Standard cookie cutters are also useful, with which you can create figures of any complexity from fruits. For those who are seriously passionate about cooking such snacks, it is recommended to purchase special devices for cutting. The most advanced among them can be considered a syringe for canapes, with which you can cut fruits and put them in sandwiches.
Fruit canapes with kiwi, pineapple and strawberries
As ingredients are suitable:
- melon,
- Strawberry,
- kiwi,
- pineapple (both fresh and canned).
The presented fruits are perfectly combined with each other, their bright color allows the dish to look good on a plate. Cooking is as simple as possible and does not require any special skills. All you need to do is wash and dice the kiwi, melon and pineapple, and cut the strawberries in half. You can string on a skewer in any order, but it is recommended to start with a melon, and then pineapple, again a melon, complete the process of kiwi and strawberries. Such skewer sandwich recipes can be changed to your liking.
This is one of the few examples that can be varied to your taste, using your favorite fruits and additions to them.
Sandwiches on skewers, photos of which adorn the expanses of the Internet, are perfect for a festive table, and their preparation does not take much time.