There are times when the best way to receive guests is to organize a buffet. This word literally means "snack on a fork." The buffet reception requires compliance with certain rules, which, in turn, determine the menu for such a reception.
Let's try to create a special menu in which cold snacks will prevail .
Buffet Recipes
First of all, you should consider the following:
- Any meal on the buffet table should be such that it can be easily and conveniently taken from a common dish, put in your plate and eat without any difficulties. This means that the size of a portion of a piece, tartlet or the base for canapes, it is better to make small, as they say, "one bite."
- Guests should only offer salads, hot and cold snacks, the recipes of which involve the complete removal of pits or skins from the products.
- All dishes should be beautifully decorated.
Based on these rules, you need to choose cold snacks.
Canapé Recipes
The general principle of canapes is a bread base, on which a layer of oil, mayonnaise or soft cheese is applied. Bread, as a rule, is used without crust. The shape of the canapes can be any: round, rectangular, triangular and even curly, cut using special cookie cutters. The thickness of the bread base should be no more than 5 mm. There is no way to do without a good sharp knife.
A layer of butter is needed so that other canapé ingredients do not slip off the bread.
And then everything will be determined by your imagination. Alternate layers of ham, meat, bacon, cheese, red fish, vegetables and greens. Usually, canapes are pierced with special skewers and decorated with olive or a slice of pineapple.
Original buffet snacks
Raffaello appetizer
- Boil 300 g of liver.
- Boil one carrot.
- Chop the onion and fry in bacon (100 g sliced bacon).
- Pass all these products through a meat grinder - you get liver pate.
- Add the non-solid butter and mix well.
- Form balls of the same size from this mass.
- Cheese (100 g) grate and roll balls in cheese chips.
Appetizer with avocado and red fish
- Peel the avocado (2 pcs.), Chop finely and beat in a blender.
- Salt and pepper the mass, add a little lemon juice.
- Cut two thick tomatoes into circles.
- Put avocado paste on each circle, and even out in the form of a neat slide.
- Cut salmon (100 g) into slices, roll up and roll nicely over the avocado paste.
Tomato treats are classic stand-up cold appetizers.
Stuffed Tomato Appetizer Recipes
Tomatoes stuffed with some filling are very bright and tasty options for appetizers for the festive table.
To do this, use dense small tomatoes, from which the top is cut off and the inner flesh is chosen, so that edible "cups" are obtained, which will be filled with a hill with any forcemeat.
You can come up with a filler option yourself, depending on your preference. Or you can prepare cold dishes and snacks, the recipes of which are given below.
Stuffed Shrimp Tomato Filler
- Boil 200 g of king prawns (ordinary shrimps are also suitable), peel and chop coarsely.
- Cut celery root into thin strips.
- Tear the leaves from one sprig of mint into small pieces.
- Mix everything and season with 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, salt, add freshly ground pepper and mix well.
- Before filling the tomato with minced meat, put on the bottom of the olive without pits.
French Stuffed Tomatoes
- Mash one can of tuna and hamsa with a fork.
- Finely chopped two boiled eggs.
- Combine together, add parsley, lemon juice (tablespoon), salt, pepper and pour in the yogurt (half a glass).
- Mix the mass well, cool and fill the tomatoes with it.