On weekdays, we often eat sandwiches in a narrow family circle. And for the celebration it is customary to serve small stylish canapes. The French invented this kind of appetizer, and since they were considered the main trendsetters, tiny sandwiches became an integral part of social events, receptions and parties. Canapes were originally served on skewers. That is, the bread base was minimal, and all other ingredients were placed vertically. To prevent the structure from breaking up, it was fixed with a “skewer”. Later, canapé recipes became more varied. Instead of bread, crackers, tartlets, flounces, pancakes, croutons, croutons began to be used. In their experiments, culinary experts went so far as to abandon the dough base. There were such canapé snacks, where olives or grapes, a sausage slice and a slice of hard cheese were strung on a skewer. But these experiments only enriched the culinary books of restaurateurs. In this article, we suggest that you prepare elegant and delicious canapes on the festive table. Recipes for such snacks are given below.
Canons of Holiday Sandwiches
Despite the fact that canapes are extremely simple dishes, often not requiring any heat treatment, they also have their own cooking rules. And you must adhere to these canons if you do not want instead of stylish sandwiches you get a dull mess. The first thing to remember is that the canapes will stand on the dish for some time and wait for the guests. Tartlets are often used as salad baskets. But then all the components of such a dish must be carefully crushed so that the sandwich has a neat appearance. It is important that slices of bread (or tartlets) are not softened. Therefore, between the dough base and wet components you need to put a greasy base of butter, paste, cream or hard cheese. Even the simplest canapes on the festive table should be small enough so that you can send them in their mouths. To prevent the filling from falling from a tiny piece of bread, it is fixed with a skewer. Pancake canapes make puff. Do not forget that such sandwiches should amuse not only the sky, but also please the eye. This rule is especially important when we prepare canapes for children.
With seafood
Nothing attracts the attention of guests to a snack like delicacies. And even if you just spread small pieces of bread with butter, and place prosciutto, jamon, foie gras, crab meat or black caviar on top, it will cause general delight. But canapé recipes will help you not only create a snack, but also effectively serve it. Sandwiches with seafood look very nice, especially with shrimp. Of course, we clean the crustaceans. Shrimps are in harmony with hard cheese, red fish, fruits (grapes, pineapple, mangoes), caviar, cucumbers, mushrooms, eggs and even meat.
Here is one of the many seafood canapes recipes:
Step number 1. Cut the brown bread into small squares. Stack ham slices.
Step number 2. Cook quail eggs. We cut them into halves. We lay on the ham.
Step number 3. We take a shrimp, between its back and tail we place a green olive (best stuffed with lemon).
Step number 4. We fix the entire structure with a skewer. Shrimps on baked slices of French baguette, laid on a mixture of pureed green peas mixed with mint and grated cheese, are also good.
With red or black caviar
This delicacy must be laid on a horizontal surface. Remember that caviar can wet bread. Therefore, you should definitely use some kind of layer. It does not have to be oil. Caviar perfectly shades the taste of red fish, boiled eggs, cream cheese. To serve a delicacy, tartlets or flounces are most often used. Caviar will not fall out of such baskets, and its negligible amount will look like a slide. When laying a delicacy in a basket of shortcrust pastry, do not forget about greens. It can be a piece of salad leaf, serving as a substrate for a sandwich. But you can refresh the canapes with cheese and caviar with a small sprig of dill or parsley leaves.
Here is the recipe for the original sandwich without a dough base. Cut a fresh cucumber into thick semicircles. Cook quail eggs. We use cheese like Philadelphia. Mix it with finely chopped herbs. We collect canapes. We pierce the half of the egg with a skewer upward and the semicircle of cucumber so that the vegetable stands firmly on the plate. Now decorate the canapes. We collect cream cheese in a culinary bag. Squeeze on the egg with beautiful waves. Put red caviar on top. Garnish with a parsley leaf. Sometimes such canapes are placed on slices of brown bread, with a layer of cream cheese. They put red fish on it. And the top layer is black caviar.
With red fish
Salmon, salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon, pink trout - all these delicacies, lightly salted or slightly smoked, are tasty in themselves. But if you combine them with dried bread and soft cream cheese, it will be just a jumble. Beautiful canapes with fish from the salmon family are easy to make. After all, thin slices are plastic, do not thin the bread, wonderfully combine with other components of the sandwich. Here is the Rosette Canapes recipe. In a white French baguette, cut the crusts, divide the loaf into thin slices and fry them in a dry pan to a blush on both sides. Generously spread slices of bread with cream cheese. From curly lettuce cut off the upper parts of the leaves. We collect them in a "bouquet", push the bottom deeper into the cheese. Cut red fish into thin slices. Each roll up roll. We stand vertically next to the green curls.
With herring
It is not necessary to have expensive red fish to cook spectacular canapes. Herring, and sardines, and sprats will do. Of course, such fish cannot be cut into thin slices. But this is not required. We use small fish whole. And cut the herring fillet into pieces. Consider the simplest recipe for festive canapes with fish. Let's boil the beets, peel them and finely rub them. Add the garlic clove passed through the press, chopped dill. Knead the mass with a little mayonnaise. Spread slices of Borodino bread. Place a piece of herring fillet on top. Sprinkle sandwiches with chopped green onions or garnish with a slice of pickled cucumber.
Ham canapes
Thin strips of Spanish jamon or Italian prosciutto are an ideal component for cold appetizers. But ordinary ham (if you buy a sliced ​​product) can become the basis for creating holiday canapes. Such pieces are plastic, they can be bent with a flagellum or strung on a skewer in the form of a “sail”. Various figures can be cut out of them. In addition, they do not thin the bread. Here is one of the many ham canapé recipes . This appetizer can be served hot. First, in the oven, dry the white bread, cut into cubes with a facet of 4 centimeters. While it cools, rub hard cheese. Canned pineapple filter. We cut the rings into slices. Grind ham in the same way as bread. We begin to fold the canapes. One side of a bread cube is greased with oil. Spread a slice of ham, and on top - a slice of pineapple. It happens that the structure does not fall apart, it is fixed with wooden skewers. We put on a baking sheet covered with foil. Sprinkle with cheese. We put in a hot oven for several minutes.
With smoked sausage
This is a great ingredient for holiday sandwiches. True, it is not as plastic as ham, but it fits literally with all products. Canapes with dried sausage can be combined with pickled and fresh cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, olives, hard cheese and cottage cheese. Smoked-boiled product must be supplemented with butter, vegetables and mayonnaise will also be appropriate. A solid sausage cut into a cube rather than a slice can itself serve as the basis of a sandwich. And if you decide to use the dough, then replace the bread with salt crackers or biscuits. Find a place to place a cucumber or tomato semicircle next to a piece of sausage. Do not forget to decorate the canapes with greens. Hunting sausages, sliced ​​in thin circles, will create the illusion of miniature salami. We decorate such canapes with drops of mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup.
With boiled sausage
Do you think that this product is suitable only for a casual sandwich? You are mistaken! Canapes with boiled sausage will also decorate the festive table. After all, this product is plastic, various figures can be cut from it. A circle of cooked sausage can become a “wrapper” for a roll of cottage cheese, seasoned with garlic and ketchup. The product can be folded four times, like a pancake, and pinned with a skewer to a piece of cucumber and olive. And finally, a cube of boiled sausages can serve as a component of “kebab”, appetizers on skewers, along with the same bread, quail egg and a ball of mozzarella.
Holiday Cheese Sandwiches
A huge number of types of this food product allows us to experiment with the creation of canapes ad infinitum. Hard cheese, diced, can itself serve as the basis for sandwiches. Soft creamy grades serve as a smear of bread, instead of butter. Cottage cheese with various flavors will look wonderful in tartlets or like filling of volovanov. Noble roquefort, dorblu, brie will turn a simple slice of bread into an exquisite delicacy. But the most ideal variety, as if created for canapes with cheese, is mozzarella. On sale are both large heads (for salads), and miniature, the size of a quail egg. These latter are used to create sandwiches. Mozzarella has a delicate but fairly dense structure. Therefore, her balls are often used for canapes on skewers. This cheese blends wonderfully with vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, sausages, seafood and even fruits.
With olives
Green and black olives look very elegant and create a wonderful color scheme in the dishes. They are combined with all products, and canapes with olives are the most common type of holiday snacks. When choosing olives for sandwiches, you should remember that they can let the juice and wet the bread. Therefore, place olives on the top of the canapes. In addition, these balls are very restless and all strive to slide down from the top of the sandwich, thereby violating the harmony of the design. But their dense structure allows you to string them on a skewer. Here is one of the olives canapé recipes . Lubricate slices of rye bread with soft cheese or cottage cheese (such as mascarpone). Next, place the pieces of cucumber, red fish. Repeat the alternation of layers. Place the black olive on top. We fix everything with a skewer.
With cherry tomatoes
Vegetables wonderfully refresh meat, fish, cheese or egg components of canapes. But, being chopped, they let the juice go. This is especially true for tomatoes. Probably, specifically for the creation of sandwiches, breeders and bred a variety of tomatoes the size of a cherry. It is called cherry. Canapes with tiny tomatoes look stylish and festive. They can also be pierced with skewers - this meaty variety practically does not let juice in. Here is the recipe for the original canapé. On a skewer we string a leaf of oregano, cherry, a leaf of basil, black olive, a ball of mozzarella. In other versions, cheese and tomato, fastened with a wooden stick, "put on" a leaf of basil.
For a children's holiday
What snacks to serve the little birthday boy? Of course, tiny sandwiches! The generation of hot dogs, burgers and shawarma will first pay attention to them. But it should be remembered that canapes for children should not contain mushrooms, foods that cause allergic reactions, and a lot of spices. It is worth paying great attention to the design of snacks. So, bread can be cut in the form of “boats”, and a slice of cheese or ham will serve as a sail for the ship. You can wrap cottage cheese in a slice of cooked sausage, design this roll with mayonnaise as a “mouse”. Children love kebabs. But you need to consider the age of young guests. It is important that they have the intelligence not to send into their mouths and skewers along with products strung on it. Here is one recipe for baby canapes. We fill the tartlet with soft cheese. We place the boiled quail egg there with the sharp tip up. We put a half of cherry on it. To give even greater resemblance to the fly agaric, we decorate the red surface of the tomato with mayonnaise dots.
Fruit canapes
It is also appropriate to arrange a cheese plate and dessert table in the form of sandwiches. Such snacks are most often served on skewers. If you have only two or three types of cheese, cut them into cubes and pierce with a toothpick, alternating them with berries of green and black grapes. Berries, if used for fruit canapes, are only those that do not allow juice. Although you can make delicious tartlets for a dessert table. At the bottom of the basket of shortcrust pastry we place a component that will prevent the juice from leaking out. It can be butter cream or marmalade. We lay berries on this component with a slide. Sprinkle with icing sugar.