It is very soon that the warm time of the year comes, when I want to spend my leisure time in nature with friends and relatives. Agree, it is rare when such gatherings do without cooking the kebab beloved by many. Few will refuse appetizing and tasty meat cooked over an open fire. It doesn’t matter if it is pork or chicken. This dish is very satisfying. But I just don’t really want to eat it. This begs the question: "What appetizers are best for barbecue?"
Of course, these should be light and low-calorie dishes that blend perfectly with meat. Below we offer you simple recipes for barbecue snacks with photos.
From pickles
If you want to surprise everyone with a new and very unusual dish, then this recipe is perfect for you. Try cooking pickles in batter. Nobody has tried this before. The dish has an original taste and is a very mouth-watering barbecue appetizer. To do this, we need such products:
- Pickled cucumbers, five pieces.
- Seventy grams of wheat flour.
- One chicken egg.
- 90-100 ml of kefir.
- Cooking oil, about one glass.
- A bit of baking soda.
- Salt and spices.
How to cook this dish
Appearance of the appetizer looks very interesting and unusual. Immediately impossible to determine what kind of dish. So, in order to cook it correctly, first of all it is worth making a batter. To do this, pour kefir into a deep plate and pour about one teaspoon of baking soda into it. Let’s completely “pay it off”. Then add one beaten egg, spices and seasonings, mix everything. Continuing to interfere, we begin to gradually pour in wheat flour. In the end, you should get a dough that resembles sour cream in density.
Then put the pan on the fire and pour in it a sufficient amount of oil to warm up. At this time, we chop the pickles in circles. Dip them in batter and immediately fry in boiling oil on both sides. Fried cucumbers should initially be put on a paper napkin so that they have excess oil from the glass. Then you can put the finished appetizer to the barbecue on a flat dish and serve.
Ham rolls
A photo of a ham kebab snack is presented above. These small rolls look original and unusual. The dish is preparing very quickly. It can also serve as a simple and tasty barbecue appetizer. To prepare them, you do not need a lot of products and time, it is enough to prepare the following ingredients:
- Ham, it does not matter whether it will be pork or chicken - 300-350 grams.
- Cream cheese - approximately 250-300 grams.
- Two chicken eggs.
- Ground walnuts - one hundred grams.
- A little green onion.
- Mayonnaise.
If desired, and to taste, you can add dill and a couple of cloves of garlic. If you do not like processed cheese, then you can replace it with hard cheese.
Cooking technology
So, in order to cook such an appetizer, you need to boil the eggs, peel them, cut into a small cube. Three cheese on a grater. Then in a bowl we mix the eggs, cheese, nuts and garlic passed through the press. We season everything with mayonnaise and mix well.
Now we turn to the formation of rolls. To do this, cut the ham into thin slices. On its edge we put one teaspoon of the previously prepared filling. Evenly distribute it along the entire length of the edge and begin to roll a slice of ham into a roll. In order to prevent the roll from spinning, we tie it with a green bow arrow.
Pickled onion
Is it possible to imagine something more suitable for meat cooked on charcoal than a pickled onion? It is part of almost all marinades. But in order for it to become your favorite snack for barbecue in nature, it is important to learn how to cook it correctly. To do this, we need the most minimal set of products. Namely:
- Onions - from eight to ten medium-sized heads.
- Sugar, salt.
- Nine percent table vinegar.
- Flavourless sunflower oil.
Also, if desired, you can add fresh or dried greens of dill. A photo of a delicious barbecue appetizer in the form of onions is presented below.
Secrets and subtleties of cooking
This recipe differs from all in its ease of preparation and accessibility. All we need to do to get the most delicious pickled onion is to peel it and cut it into rings or half rings. Perhaps this is the main difficulty. We'll have to cry, preparing a snack.
Put chopped onions in a deep bowl and pour with vinegar. Add vegetable oil and sugar. We mix everything well, squeezing the onions slightly so that it gives juice. Leave for one hour in the refrigerator, covered with cling film or a lid. That's all, our appetizer is completely ready.
Chips Appetizer
Many recipes for barbecue appetizers are easy to prepare and original in design. One of these dishes is a snack served on chips. It is based on chips and cheese, but you can add various ingredients to diversify the taste and look of the dish. So, for cooking snacks, we need such products:
- Hard cheese of any kind - two hundred grams.
- Chips, it is better to take those that are sold in jars.
- One small tomato.
- Three cloves of garlic.
- Dill greens.
- Mayonnaise.
We cook correctly and make out beautifully
It will take you no more than fifteen minutes to prepare the snack. To do this, we need to rinse and dry the dill greens well. Peel and pass the garlic through a press.
We rub hard cheese on a grater, preferably on a shallow one. Cut the tomato into small cubes. We mix all products in a deep plate, season with mayonnaise and mix well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Spread the resulting mixture on chips and sprinkle with herbs.
For a change of taste, you can add crab sticks or canned corn. Cheese should be put on chips before serving. Otherwise, they can simply get wet.
Baked pepper
Simple barbecue snacks are very often one of the most delicious and healthy. This dish belongs to the category of just such. In order to cook it, you must purchase the following products:
- About one kilogram of bell pepper.
- Three to four tablespoons of tomato paste.
- Two onion heads.
- Three medium carrots.
- Salt and spices.
- A small amount of clean water.
You can also take any greens to decorate the finished dish.
Recipe
Rinse the bell pepper with cold water and put the whole on a baking sheet, which is covered with parchment paper. We put it in the oven for thirty-five or forty minutes. The temperature should not be too high. 165-170 degrees is enough.
Peel onions and chop finely. Carrots also need to be washed and peeled. After three on a coarse grater. Then fry the onions and carrots in vegetable oil. When the onion begins to become transparent, add water and tomato paste. Cover and simmer for a few more minutes.
Next, remove the skin from the cooled pepper and cut it into slices. Put in a deep bowl, pour over the finished tomato sauce and sprinkle with chopped herbs. You can also leave some peppers fresh. They will also need to be cut into small slices and mixed with baked pepper. The combination of two flavors of the vegetable is very original. This barbecue appetizer is not only tasty, but also very useful for both adults and children.
Similarly, you can cook other vegetables. For example, zucchini or eggplant. In this case, the vegetables are not sent to pre-bake in the oven. To begin with, you need to cut them into circles or boats and fry them in a pan with vegetable oil.
Vegetable snacks are considered the most optimal for such a high-calorie dish, such as meat cooked “with a smoke”.
Appetizer from the accordion loaf
It is difficult to imagine going out without a big and noisy company. For such many sorties, special recipes for barbecue snacks are provided. One of them is a loaf filled with cheese and herbs, a dish called "Accordion". It is considered to be very satisfying, tasty and fragrant; it is convenient to take it with you to nature. To prepare it, we need such a grocery set:
- one loaf, you can even take stale;
- hard cheese of any kind - 250 grams;
- butter - a package weighing two hundred grams;
- a bunch of parsley and dill;
- large head of garlic.
How to cook a dish
This appetizer is very soft, hearty and aromatic. Cooking it is quite simple, and it’s better to eat it warm. To do this, make cross cuts on the loaf as if we were going to cut a piece of ourselves. But you can’t cut bread to the end.
We grate hard cheese on a coarse grater. We clear the cloves of garlic from the husk and pass through a press or grind with a knife.
Butter must be softened at room temperature. It should be soft, but not melted. Mix it with garlic and chopped dill and parsley. All mix well.
Then put the loaf on a baking sheet covered with baking foil. Put the prepared oil in the cuts and distribute it evenly. Also, sprinkle with plenty of cheese. We wrap the loaf in foil and put in the oven preheated to two hundred degrees. After fifteen minutes, carefully unfold the foil and leave it in the oven, slightly lowering the baking temperature. As soon as the loaf begins to become browned, you can turn off the oven.
Country salad
One of the most popular and light barbecue snacks are vegetable salads. This appetizer can be prepared in minutes. It does not matter where you will be at this moment - at home or in nature. You can make a salad from almost all vegetables ripened in the country. In our case, we need:
- Two fresh large tomatoes.
- Three fresh cucumbers.
- Leaf salad.
- Radish.
- Chives, dill and parsley.
- Two or three bell peppers.
- Onion head.
- Lemon juice.
- Vegetable oil.
- Salt and pepper.
All vegetables are washed well with water, dried and cut into large pieces. We cut onions in half rings, and finely chop the greens. But lettuce should not be cut with a knife. Upon contact with the metal, a bitter aftertaste may appear, which will negatively affect the taste of the vegetable snack. Therefore, lettuce leaves are torn by hands.
We combine all the prepared vegetables in one deep plate, add a little salt and pepper. Sprinkle with lemon juice and mix well. If desired, you can add a little odorless olive or sunflower oil.
Instead of lettuce, you can take a small head of Beijing cabbage. This snack is very easy. It is perfect for a fatty and satisfying dish.
In a similar way, the well-known Caucasian shashlik appetizer is being prepared. For her, you need such a vegetable set:
- Two bell peppers.
- Fresh cucumbers - five or six pieces.
- Five cloves of garlic.
- Tomatoes
- Various greens in large quantities.
We wash tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers with water and cut into slices. The key role in this appetizer is played with mayonnaise sauce.
For its preparation, the herbs of cilantro, parsley, dill and basil are very finely chopped. It is added to mayonnaise along with garlic passed through a press or grated on a fine grater. Everything is mixed very well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Then chopped vegetables are laid out in a circle on a large flat dish, and a bowl with sauce is placed in the center. It is great for vegetables and kebabs of any kind of meat.
We familiarized ourselves with some recipes for barbecue snacks with a photo and a detailed description.