For the holiday, I want to decorate the table as beautifully and originally as possible. All proven recipes and tricks are used, to give even an ordinary dish an elegant look. Various types of herbs, spices, sauces, beautiful plates and bowls help to cope with this task.
Undoubtedly, the main attention in cooking is given to the main dishes. Hot is given a special place on the table. An incredible amount of ingredients, time and effort is spent on its preparation. The same applies to all kinds of salads. Products can be prepared in the evening, meat must be marinated for several hours and so on.
And often only a small fraction of attention is devoted to the preparation of snacks. But they can give any table a festive and unusual look. And most importantly, cooking them is very simple and fast. In addition, to create them, you can use the remaining ingredients from the main dishes. For example, to prepare a snack of Tulip tomatoes, you need only a few products. But the end result will surprise everyone.
Original Tulip Tomato Appetizer
The ingredients you will need:
- Chives - half a bunch.
- Small oblong red tomatoes - 21 pieces.
- Ricotta cheese - 150 grams.
- Garlic - 2 cloves.
- Mayonnaise - 150 milliliters.
- Crab sticks - 200 grams.
Recipe
Tulip tomato appetizer is quite simple to prepare. Remove the packaging of crab sticks from the refrigerator in advance and allow them to defrost completely. Then cut them into cubes. The next component is ricotta cheese, which must be rubbed through a grater with small holes. Peel and push the garlic cloves through the garlic. Chopped crab sticks, grated ricotta cheese and crushed garlic to combine in one bowl. Add mayonnaise to them and stir well.
Try the cooked mass and optionally add a little salt to your taste. Now that the filling is ready, you need to prepare the tomatoes. You need to choose small oval red cream tomatoes. Wash them under the tap and allow to dry. Then make a cross-shaped incision on each tomato. Then carefully and slowly with a teaspoon, remove the middle.
Fill all peeled tomatoes with a little savory filling. Now lay out a few washed arrows of green onions on a flat plate, and spread the stuffed red tomatoes between the feathers. It looks like a bouquet of tulips. Such an original snack will decorate any table. Additionally, chopped fresh cucumber can be placed on a plate.
Stuffed tomato and egg appetizer
Essential Ingredients:
- Cream cheese - 3 pieces.
- Small tomatoes - 19 pieces.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Chives - 3-4 pieces.
- Crab sticks - 6 pieces.
- Ground pepper - a couple of pinches.
- Olive mayonnaise - 4 tablespoons.
- Salt - 1/3 teaspoon.
- Lettuce - 5 pieces (optional).
Cooking process
If you wanted to make an appetizer for the festive table beautiful and unusual, you can do it according to the Tulip recipe from tomatoes. Such presentation of this dish will pleasantly surprise your guests. In addition to the fact that the appetizer on the table looks very nice, it is also delicious. For its preparation, products require a little preliminary preparation. Place chicken eggs in a small pan, pour in cold water and put on a stove for boiling. Pour half a teaspoon of salt so that the eggs do not crack during cooking.
Next come the crab sticks, which you need to get out of the freezer, remove the packaging and grate it immediately with crumbs on the smallest side of the grater. Finely chop the remaining pieces of chopsticks. After the eggs are boiled for eight to nine minutes, drain the boiling water and fill the pan with ice water. Peel the cooled eggs and grate on a fine grater. Cream cheese should also be wiped through a grater, and to facilitate the process, they must be placed for twenty minutes in the freezer.
In one roomy dish combine grated chicken eggs and processed cheese. Put mayonnaise on them, but whether to add salt and ground black pepper depends on your taste. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients and form balls from the resulting mass, no larger than a quail egg. Then roll each ball well in grated crab sticks. A delicious filling for a snack of Tulip tomatoes is prepared.
Stuffed tomato
Next, you need to wash and dry the selected tomatoes well. On all tomatoes with a sharp knife, make cross cuts and very carefully remove the flesh from them. Then put in each filling in the form of a ball. For stuffing, it is advisable to use cream tomatoes, rather than round ones. Next, spread the stuffed tomatoes on a plate and use green onions and lettuce (or cucumber plates) to give the appetizer the look of a bouquet. Then serve the dish on the festive table.
Two simple recipes will help you prepare delicious tomatoes stuffed with cheese and eggs, garlic and crab sticks. The appetizer is very original and interesting. Although in fact these are ordinary stuffed tomatoes, the way they are decorated and served is fundamentally changing the matter.
You can change the filling at your discretion. The main thing is to ensure that it remains white or yellowish. This allows you to create a contrast between the filling and the tomatoes. So they prepare beautiful and tasty “tulips”.