Cold snacks - recipes for a buffet table

There are times when the best way to receive guests is to organize a cocktail party. This word literally means "snack on the fork." Cocktail requires compliance with certain rules, which, in turn, determine the menu for such reception.

Let's try to create a special menu, in which cold snacks will prevail .

Recipes for dishes

First of all, you should think about the following:

• Any dish on a buffet table should be such that it can be easily and conveniently taken from a common dish, put in its plate and eat without much difficulty. This means that the size of the portioned piece, tartlet or base for canapé, it is better to make small, as they say, "one bite".
• Guests should offer only salads, hot and cold snacks, the recipes of which imply the complete removal of products from bones or skins.
• All dishes should be beautifully decorated.

Based on these rules, you need to choose cold snacks.

Recipes for canapes

The general principle of canapé is the base of bread, on which a layer of oil, mayonnaise or soft cheese is applied. Bread, as a rule, is used without peeling. The form of canapes can be any: round, rectangular, triangular and even figured, cut with the help of special biscuit molds. The thickness of the bread foundation should not be more than 5 mm. Without a good sharp knife here can not do.

An oil layer is needed so that the other ingredients of the canapé 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 the canapé is pierced with special skewers and decorated with olive or a piece of pineapple.

Original appetizers for a buffet table

Raffaello snack

• Boil 300 g of liver.
• Boil one carrot.
• Cut the onion and fry on the fat (100 grams of lard, cut into pieces).
• All these products are passed through a meat grinder - you will get liver pate.
• Add the non-solid butter and stir well.
• Form from this mass balls of the same size.
• 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.
• Add salt and pepper, add a little lemon juice.
• Cut two thick tomatoes with mugs.
• For each circle, put a paste of avocado, smooth in the form of a neat slide.
• Salmon (100 g) cut into slices, roll a roll and beautifully spread over the pasta from the avocado.

Treats on a tomato are classical buffet snacks.

Recipes of snacks in the form of stuffed tomatoes

Tomatoes stuffed with some filler are very bright and tasty snack options for the festive table.

For this, dense small tomatoes are used, from which the apex is cut off and the inner flesh is selected to make edible "cups" that will be filled with a slurry with any minced meat.

Option filler, you can think of yourself, depending on your preferences. Or you can prepare cold dishes and snacks, the recipes of which are given below.

Filler for stuffed tomatoes with shrimps

• Boil 200 g of royal shrimps (the usual ones will do the same), peel and cut large.
• Celery root cut into thin strips.
• Leaflets from one sprig of mint tear into small pieces.
• All mix and season with 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, season with salt, add freshly ground pepper and mix well.
• Before filling the tomato with minced meat, put on the bottom of the olive without a stone.

Tomatoes stuffed in French

• One can of canned tuna and hamsa can be kneaded with a fork.
• Two boiled eggs finely chopped.
• Combine together, add parsley, lemon juice (a tablespoon), salt, pepper and pour the curdled milk (half a glass).
• The mass is well mixed, cooled and filled with tomatoes.