Bright and elegant fruit canapes will be appropriate for any feast. Their presence will delight the children at any holiday celebration. With their help, a romantic dinner can be made more refined. In addition, they can effortlessly impress your colleagues with their spectacular looks. Such canapes are varied, interesting, and allow you to experiment with shape and color. In our article we want to talk about how to cook canapes with various fruits and original serving.
A bit of canapé history
It is not known for certain where and when these "sandwiches" sandwiches were actually born. Linguists say that the word canapes came from Ancient Greece, where it sounded like konors and was used to refer to small insects like a mosquito.
After some time, the word was adopted by the Egyptians and Romans, modified it a little, and it began to sound like a conoreum. Soon, this word traveler appeared in European languages and firmly settled in French. In addition, the word "canapes" in France means "a small sofa with a curved back." Either the skillful chef seemed like small sandwiches with this item, or it was more convenient to eat them sitting on this sofa, but this name of the culinary product was firmly fixed to this dish.
Fruit slicing
It seems that it could be simpler - just take a knife and cut the fruit into the desired shape. As they say, it will be cheap and cheerful, but completely ineffective in the sense of time spent. In addition, pieces of different sizes will only spoil the appearance of fruit canapes. It is best to use special tools for cutting.
It’s good if you have a special slicing spoon in the kitchen for melons and watermelons. With its help, it is possible to make colorful spheres perfect in shape and original fruit canapes on skewers. For the same purpose, you can use different forms for cookies and turn pieces of fruit into figures of different complexity.
In the event that you often cook canapes, it is advisable to purchase special devices designed for slicing fruits and berries. In principle, they can be replaced by ordinary egg cutting. Special syringes for canapes are also available. With their help, we cut the pieces of fruit of the desired shape, press on the piston and the assembled canapes are on the plate, it remains to stick only a beautiful skewer.
In addition to fruits, you can prepare beautiful blanks from biscuit, marmalade or marshmallows. Note that canapes from fruits and berries are perishable products, they quickly darken and lose their shape. Therefore, they must be prepared immediately before serving.
Fruit canapes on skewers
A fruit dessert may consist of various ingredients. It all depends on who it is intended for. If you are going to treat your old friends and colleagues, choose cheese and ham for canapes in addition to garden fruits. It should be noted that simply sliced fruits on the festive table most often remain almost untouched. And canapes with an original appearance and correctly selected components almost never remain on the plate.
With grapes and cheese
The combination of these two products is already a classic recipe. Their palatability perfectly complement each other. In order to prepare a dessert we will need:
- cheese - 100 g;
- blue or green grapes (seedless) - 100 g.
How to cook
Remove grapes from the bunch, remove all dry twigs, sort out. We need only whole and hard berries. We rinse them under running water, then rinse with boiled water. Cut the cheese into small, even cubes. First we put grapes on a skewer, and then cheese.
The following cheeses are best combined with grapes: gouda, Dutch, maasdam, parmesan, edam. Although with cheese like brie dessert will be unusually delicious. If desired, you can make a mix of different varieties of cheese, shading their taste with strawberries, small slices of mango, halves of walnut, almond or fresh leaves of tarragon.
With melon and parma ham
Prepare canapes from fruits, in this case with melon. Add goat cheese and Parma ham to it. If you want to make a dessert with an even brighter flavor, you can add the following components: basil leaves, arugula or slices of kiwi. Take:
- 500 g of melon;
- half a lemon;
- 200 g of goat cheese;
- 15 ml of olive oil;
- 100 g of ham;
- pepper and salt.
Cooking technology
Cut the melon in half, remove all seeds. We form the pulp with a special spoon in the form of small spheres or simply cut into cubes. In a separate container, mix olive oil, salt, lemon juice, pepper. Pour melon slices with cooked marinade and leave for 15 minutes. We cut goat cheese arbitrarily. On a wooden skewer we string the ingredients in the order that you like. We clean in the refrigerator. Canapes served chilled with white or red semi-dry wine.
Curly canapes
We recommend making unusually beautiful fruit canapes. To do this, we need a wide variety of cookie cutters. As ingredients, melons, apples, pineapples, watermelons, pears are suitable. We cut stars, flowers, hearts and other shapes from them. Fruits can be combined with berries, alternately stringing them on skewers.
With watermelon and fruit
We offer a fruit canapes recipe in which all the fruits are simple and affordable. It is best to prepare a dessert in the autumn season, because it is at this time that the watermelons are the most juicy and sweet. We will need:
- 200 grams of watermelon;
- 100 grams of red and green grapes (pitted);
- mandarin, banana and one kiwi.
Prepare the fruit: cut the flesh of the watermelon into small cubes and remove all the seeds. We cut bananas and kiwi into rings, after which we divide the kiwi rings in half. Peel mandarins, divide into slices and cut into 2-3 parts. If there are bones, they must be removed.
On a skewer we alternately string a grape of one color, then a piece of mandarin, after a berry of a grape of a different color, then kiwi, banana and watermelon. We put on a serving dish and immediately serve.
Fruit and chocolate
Let's make canapes from fruits and decorate them with chocolate. This dessert is prepared very quickly and simply. We advise you to connect children to this fascinating activity, for sure they will be delighted. We will prepare the following components:
- peaches;
- kiwi;
- bananas
- grapes;
- Strawberry;
- Garnet;
- chocolate.
We put a grape berry, a slice of banana, peach, kiwi on a skewer, string a half of strawberries on top. We cut several strawberries into slices, but not cut to the end by a few millimeters. On a beautiful dish with melted chocolate, apply a net. We put some fruit canapes. Strawberries, which were cut into slices, lay out a fan. Put a few mint leaves on a dish and sprinkle some pomegranate seeds.
Pineapple Canapes
We offer a very interesting serving of fruit pineapple canapes. Without a doubt, such a dessert will be a spectacular decoration on the table. To work, we need:
- a pineapple;
- grapes of different colors;
- oranges
- kiwi;
- Strawberry;
- tangerines;
- cheese.
All products, except strawberries and grapes, are cut into arbitrary shapes and strung on small beautiful skewers. We take the whole pineapple, thoroughly wash it, we do not remove the top. For greater stability, slightly cut the bottom of the fruit, put on a serving dish and stick the skewers with fruits into the pineapple.
Baby canapes
In this section, we will review the recipes for the most suitable canapes for children. When making dessert, it is very important to pay attention not only to taste, but also to the serving rules. It is recommended to create bright extraordinary compositions. Such an unusual dessert will be an adornment of any children's holiday and children will surely like it.
Chocolate Fruits and Marshmallows
This dessert is sure to please the sweet tooth. If the combination of chocolate and marshmallows seems too sweet or even cloying to you, you can exclude one of the components from the ingredients. You will need:
- several berries of strawberries;
- multi-colored marshmallows;
- banana;
- 50 g of dark chocolate.
Cooking Tips
Peel and cut the banana, rinse the strawberries, remove the tails. We cut large marshmallows into pieces equal to the size of strawberries, leave small marshmallow as it is. Chocolate must be melted in a water bath. Alternately string the pieces of fruit and marshmallows on wooden sticks and pour them with chocolate. We leave the canapes aside for a while, so that the chocolate freezes.
Fruit boat
Be sure to prepare for children this interesting version of canapes from canned fruits (pineapples). Such a dessert can be served on the festive table or cook it for home gatherings with children.
Required:
- 200 g canned pineapple;
- 1 mango
- 1 banana
- 15 ml of lemon juice;
- 3 tbsp. l honey;
- mint leaves.
Cooking technology
We remove the bone from the mango. This is done as follows: the fetus is cut around the bone into two halves, after which they need to be twisted in opposite directions. Thanks to this, the pulp is easily separated from the bone. Both halves are peeled and cut into slices. They, in turn, are carefully cut into cubes.
Cut the banana into circles, divide the pineapple ring in half. We spray all prepared fruits with lemon juice and send for one hour to the freezer. On a plate we put a slice of mango, on top of it a slice of banana, then we put a pineapple and pierce it with a skewer. Pour fruit canapes with honey and additionally decorate with a mint leaf.
Assorted fruit
Prepare canapes with a huge number of ingredients of various tastes. A very colorful flavor combination is worth the effort. The following components will be required:
- blueberries, blackberries ー 100 g each;
- strawberries ー 200 g;
- grapes ー 200 g;
- pineapple ー 1 pc.;
- watermelon ー 300 g
We wash all fruits with running water and dry. Remove the peel from the pineapple and watermelon, and make the same smooth small cubes from the pulp. Strawberry berries are divided in half. On wooden skewers we string fruit in turn in the following sequence: blueberries, grapes, blackberries, watermelon, pineapple, strawberries and blueberries again.
Pineapple, watermelon and cherry canapes
Unusually fragrant canapes with a refreshing taste, which perfectly combines juicy watermelon, hard sweet pineapple and fragrant cherry. We take:
- 200 g of cherries;
- watermelon;
- a pineapple.
The pulp of pineapple and watermelon is cut into equal cubes. We remove the core from the pineapple and seeds from the watermelon. We put on a skewer a cube of watermelon, on top of a cube of pineapple, again a watermelon. On top we fix the cherry with the bone.
"Funny caterpillars"
Cooked canapes from grapes of this kind are very popular with kids, especially kids. The main ingredient is grape green. It is possible to collect a caterpillar on a long wooden skewer exclusively from grapes or make its head out of a small piece of strawberry. Eyes can be made from droplets of sweet glaze or yogurt and chocolate chips.
Canapes "Santa Claus"
For the New Year's table, you can prepare original children's canapes in the form of a cute headdress for this famous New Year character. In order to cook them, you will need the following products:
- white grapes;
- marshmallows;
- bananas
- Strawberry.
We will prepare small skewers or toothpicks. We collect canapes in the following order: a grape berry, a circle of banana, half a strawberry, and last but not least a small marshmallow. You can decorate any appetizer or dessert with ready-made canapes.