Potatoes are the basis for many hearty and simple dishes. From it you can also prepare many snacks that can surprise guests. They can be based on a variety of products. Also, such snacks will be a wonderful decoration not only for the festive table, but also for the familiar family dinner.
Potato Strawberry
We offer you to cook a very interesting dish. Appetizer "strawberries" made from potatoes and herring is a variation of the famous salad. This dish looks very attractive and funny. For cooking, you need to take the following ingredients:
- 50 grams of herring;
- small boiled beets;
- potato tuber;
- parsley for decoration.
It is better to boil the potatoes in their skins, and then carefully peel them. The same goes for beets. Herring fillets are cut into small cubes - about one centimeter each. Potatoes tinder on a fine grater. Beets are also ground with a grater.
Beets and potatoes are combined, mixed with each other. Take the mass with a tablespoon, put a couple of herring cubes in the middle. Form strawberries, lay them on a plate. From parsley leaves make ponytails of berries.
Appetizer "strawberries" from potatoes will become more like berries, if you also sprinkle each sesame. Enjoy your meal!
Lavash appetizer
For this option, snacks will need more ingredients. But she turns out to be satisfying. Some even use this dish as a great option for dinner. To prepare a snack of potatoes you need to take:
- one hundred grams of hard cheese;
- four pita breads;
- 200 ml of milk;
- six tubers of boiled potatoes;
- 25 grams of butter;
- onion head;
- one egg;
- one yolk;
- small carrots;
- salt and cooking oil for frying.
You can also take some favorite spices, but you should not go too far with them.
The process of making snacks
Onions and carrots are peeled, finely chopped or rubbed on a coarse grater. Vegetable oil is heated in a pan. Fry vegetables on it until soft. Cool slightly.
Peel the potatoes, crush them with a fork, add fried vegetables. Put grated cheese, butter, egg, milk. Salt up. Stir the mass.
On a board lay a sheet of pita bread, distribute part of the filling, cover with another sheet. And so on until the ingredients run out. Roll up potato snacks in a tight roll, wrap with cling film. Clean for thirty minutes in the refrigerator. After cut the roll into circles. Lay them on a greased baking sheet, grease the sides of the pita with yolk. Bake a snack of potatoes in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for twenty minutes. After slightly cool and serve. The appetizer is moderately crispy, with a juicy and tender filling.
Simple cold appetizer
This option snacks like its simplicity. For her you need to take:
- raw potatoes - three to four tubers;
- one processed cheese;
- 30 grams of hard cheese;
- clove of garlic;
- some mayonnaise;
- one pickle;
- some vegetable oil for frying.
First, peel the potatoes, cut it into circles with a thickness of half a centimeter. Each is fried on both sides in preheated vegetable oil until cooked. After completely cool.
Cheese is rubbed on a fine grater. Add finely chopped processed cheese and grated garlic, knead, add mayonnaise. Cucumber is cut into thin circles.
A piece of cucumber is placed on the potatoes, and the cheese mass is placed on top. If necessary, sprinkle with fresh herbs. Such a cold potato snack is good without pickles. And the amount of garlic can be adjusted to your taste.
Cottage cheese appetizer
Often cheese is replaced with cottage cheese. This version of the snack is less calorie, because the potatoes are boiled for him, not fried, and mayonnaise is not used. For such a delicious snack option, you need to take the following ingredients:
- a kilogram of potatoes;
- 200 grams of cottage cheese;
- a couple of tablespoons of sour cream;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- salt and pepper to taste;
- half a bunch of fresh herbs.
The potatoes are peeled, boiled until tender in salted water. The greens are washed, shaken and finely chopped. Cottage cheese and sour cream are mixed together. Add greens. Garlic is peeled and passed through a press, put into the curd mass. Stir.
Potatoes are cut into halves, stack the filling of cottage cheese. When serving appetizers from potatoes to the festive table, additionally sprinkle with herbs.
Tartlet salad
Often salads are served as appetizers. This option is no exception. For a delicious snack of potatoes and herring you need to take:
- one herring;
- one hundred grams of beans;
- three hundred grams of potato;
- two boiled eggs;
- onion head;
- one small carrot;
- one hundred grams of mayonnaise;
- six peeled walnuts;
- salt and pepper to taste;
- some vinegar.
You will also need to take tartlets, it is better to choose wider options so that the salad ingredients do not fall out.
How to cook a snack with beans?
Beans are soaked in advance, overnight, and then boiled. For faster cooking use canned washed beans. Beets and potatoes are also boiled, peeled and cut into small cubes.
Herring is cut, cut into petals. Peel the onion, cut into thin half rings, sprinkle with vinegar and leave for ten minutes.
In a bowl combine crumbs of nuts, vegetables, herring. Add greens to taste. Season with mayonnaise. If necessary, add. Stir the salad and arrange on portioned plates.
Fish and Potato Pate
This variant of potato snacks is traditionally served on bread rolls or in tartlets. Also, the cucumber circles can become the basis. For a delicious paste, you need to take:
- one can of canned food in tomato;
- four potato tubers;
- hot red pepper pod;
- one cucumber;
- two boiled eggs;
- onion head;
- 50 grams of mayonnaise;
- spices to taste.
Boil the potatoes, peel, and then wipe them hot through a sieve. Onions finely chopped, put to the potatoes. The eggs are rubbed on a fine grater, the fish is removed from the sauce and cut into cubes. They put fish, potato sauce, eggs to the potato. Finely chop the cucumber. Add to the same. Season with spices and finely chopped hot pepper, lay on the base for a snack.
"Bast shoes" with eggplant
This version of the snack got its name for a reason. She really has the look of this vintage look of shoes. For this recipe you need to take:
- 12 potato tubers;
- two onion heads;
- 500 grams of fresh mushrooms;
- four eggplant;
- five cloves of garlic;
- 50 grams of vinegar 9 percent;
- salt and pepper;
- cooking oil for frying.
Here you have to work a little. Appetizing "bast shoes" from potatoes requires skill. Peel potatoes, cut out the shape of bast shoes. This is conveniently done with a thin-blade knife and a spoon. In order to maximize the similarity, the remaining part of the “bast shoe” is incised to make a relief. After sending the tubers into the oven for forty minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. After they take the potatoes out of the oven, let it cool.
Two types of filling are made. For the first, you need to take the eggplant, peel them, cut into thin circles. Add salt, add pepper to taste and leave overnight. After squeezing from moisture. In a pan, heat the vegetable oil, fry the eggplant slices on both sides, then transfer to a bowl, add finely chopped garlic and vinegar. Shake the slices, leave for a couple of hours. The result is a well-pickled eggplant.
The mushrooms are finely chopped. Fry with finely chopped onions until tender. Season to taste.
Each "bast" begin. Decorate with herbs to taste. Serve such an appetizer in a still hot or warm form.
Potato balls
Appetizing “boats” and crispy balls are obtained from this amount of ingredients. For such a flavorful snack option you need to take:
- three potatoes;
- half a teaspoon of dried oregano and black pepper;
- as much sweet paprika;
- a quarter bunch of fresh dill;
- one egg;
- 50 grams of hard cheese;
- breadcrumbs;
- cooking oil.
Boil the potatoes. We make mashed potatoes, without milk, butter, so that it is firm enough, does not stick to hands and easily forms into a ball. Add seasonings, herbs, grated cheese, mix well, form a ball, roll in an egg, then in breadcrumbs and fry on all sides in a sufficient amount of oil.
Delicious snacks can be prepared from the simplest ingredients. Combining baked potatoes and mushrooms, boiled tubers and beets, seasoning everything with sauce, you can make a hearty and tasty dish. Some snacks can be served on slices of bread, fresh vegetables or tartlets. And some have a very original look. So, you can make a snack in the form of bast shoes stuffed with or fresh strawberries.