Sometimes there is an urgent need for snacks. For example, friends gather for poker, or you need to discuss something and there will not be time for a normal lunch or dinner, and guests often come unexpectedly, and then cold snacks in a hurry will be more than ever helpful. It’s easy to do, and a minimum of products is required.
Before you put them on the table, you can somehow arrange cold snacks in an original way. Quick hors d'oeuvres are usually made from products that are in the refrigerator. For example, if you have cheese and crab sticks, you can make a cheese salad. To prepare the salad, we take 100 grams of cheese (hard, processed), one egg, a pack of crab sticks - 100 grams, garlic - 1 clove and mayonnaise.
Cheese salad is prepared like this - first we grate, preferably large, cheese and an egg, and then add crushed garlic to them, mix and pour the mayonnaise. Ready salad can be put in a beautiful plate or salad bowl or spread on bread. You can dwell on this, but we are preparing a salad with crab sticks. We take the crab stick and unfold it, spread it with cheese salad and again carefully fold it. Now cut it into equal parts, put it on a plate and sprinkle parsley on top. At the festive table cold snacks in a hurry will also look quite appropriate.
The easiest option is to make sandwiches. The main condition is that they must be eaten in two bites, that is, to be small, so it is better to make them from a loaf, although any other bread will do. Many prefer a baguette - sandwiches turn out small, what you need. The bread must be cut into thin slices and lightly fried in a pan, and then it can be grated with garlic and spread with mayonnaise. Cream cheese and butter are perfect. You can put a slice of cucumber and tomato, you can sprat or a piece of herring, as well as cheese and apple with sourness, or ham and red caviar - the choice is quite wide. It is better to make two or three types of sandwiches, so that guests have a choice.
Quick hors d'oeuvres can be made from cherry tomatoes - they need to be stuffed. In tomatoes, cut off the top and cut out the core. And then we fill them with one of the filling options. The first option is to mix the pulp of a tomato with basil and thick sour cream and stuff the tomato with this mixture. A very unusual combination of such tomatoes with boiled shrimp. As a shrimp sauce, you can use cheeses such as Philadelphia or Almette. Another option is finely chopped ham with pieces of cucumber in the same sauce. Imagine!
And what space for imagination gives pita bread! From it you can make cold snacks quickly and simply, for example, amazing rolls. You can spread lavash with cream cheese, spread thinly sliced ham, sausage, lightly salted salmon, red game on top of it ... You need to densely sprinkle the filling on top with finely chopped greens and roll lavash roll. Such a roll is placed in the freezer for several minutes, and then cut into pieces 5-7 centimeters wide, pierced through with toothpicks and served on a large flat dish.
By the way, you can also roll a salad in rolls. You can take ham instead of pita bread, put a spoon of any salad on the edge and roll it up. You can pierce it with a toothpick, or you can dress it with green onions. Both require skill, and for the first time you may not succeed. Such a roll is laid out on a piece of baguette and so served to the table.
From such common products as crab sticks, cheese, sausage, olives, you can prepare original cold snacks on skewers. You need to string cheese, sausage, sticks into cubes or slices on a stick or an ordinary toothpick, chopping them with olives. In general, there are many variations, the main thing is to experiment more.