Elegant presentation, general harmony - appetizers for a buffet table have long become not just food, but cookery. The buffet table can be filled with tartlets, canapes, cold and hot dishes. The main thing to consider when filling it is the appearance of the dishes and their combination, the small convenient size of snacks, the use of long-term storage products. After spending a little time and choosing the right products, you can then enjoy the holiday and positive feedback from guests about the excellent menu.
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Cold appetizers for buffet
As a rule, cold snacks take the most place on the buffet table. They are lightweight, versatile, necessarily divided into portioned pieces (the table assumes the absence of cutlery). It is good when cold snacks are combined with the offered drinks.
Original slices and rolls for a festive buffet
Cold snacks for a buffet table are not complete without original cuts (vegetable, meat, cheese) and rolls, which are prepared from basic products, but look simply luxurious. It is good to serve the cheese in the form of a cheese plateau, where on one dish lay beautifully plates of hard cheese and soft cubes, decorating it with berries, honey or nuts.
For the preparation of rolls, pita bread, cheeses, fish, zucchini, meat, including crab, are used. As a snack to the festive table served roll of cheese product, chicken meat and mushrooms.
It is prepared as follows:
- Boiled poultry meat and one egg.
- Mushrooms are cut and fried in oil.
- Finished products are crushed, mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise sauce.
- Cheese is crushed on a coarse grater, and then sent to the oven for 3 minutes for melting.
- A cling film is spread on the table, a molten product is placed on it. When it cools down a little, filling is distributed over its entire surface and a roll is formed.
- After a couple of hours in the refrigerator, the roll can be taken out, cut in portions and served.
You can replace cheese with pita bread, omelette. They can be used as a basis, wrapping a vegetable or meat filling.
Be sure to have fruits and berries on the table. More often they are not processed in any way, but they are originally cut and laid out on a flat dish. Alternatively, serve them on skewers, stringing red and blue berries, slices of kiwi, banana, pineapple, orange.
Simple sandwiches and canapes
Sandwiches are the fastest part of the holiday table. They are small, comfortable, satisfying, served on a bread basis.
They are prepared from:
- white toast bread (club sandwiches, sandwiches with fish and caviar);
- black - for herring, bacon, pickles;
- crackers - salty and sweet. Cheese, olives, herbs, berries are served with them.
Fish sandwiches called “delicate rose” look spectacular on the table. They are prepared on the basis of fish, lettuce leaves, cream cheese, white bread. The bread base is beautifully cut into squares or triangles, after which it is sent to the pan and fried until golden. The fish is cut into thin plates, lettuce leaves are washed. A piece of cheese is applied to the bread slices, followed by a rolled up fish layer (rosette) and a twisted leaf of salad, filled with a little cheese.
To prepare canapes, you should stock up with mushrooms, olives, meat, sausage, cheese. You will also need bread and fish. All products are beautifully cut and laid out on top of each other.
Skewers and tartlets appetizers
You can quickly and simply cook an appetizer of bread, hard cheese, processed cheese, herbs, mayonnaise sauce. The number of components will depend on the final product yield. First, bread is sliced - it is sliced in the form of squares and then dried in the oven. Cut greens, mix with sauce and cream cheese, beat. A hard cheese product is cut into the same bars as bread. Pieces of bread are strung on skewers, smeared with pasta and covered with cheese. So repeat until the end of the skewer.
For women and those who follow the figure, canapes with cheese and berries are suitable. They are prepared on the basis of hard cheese, blue cheese, parmesan and seedless grapes. The cheese product is cut into beautiful cubes and alternated on a skewer with juicy berries. A light snack is prepared quickly, looks beautiful and does not harm the figure.
It is good to serve tartlets on the buffet table, which may contain salad, pate, julienne, red fish, etc. Tartlets prepared on the basis of red fish, caviar and cottage cheese will look spectacular. With the help of the confectionery nozzle, the tartlets are filled with cheese, a rose from the fish, caviar is laid out on the side. Top of the appetizer is decorated with parsley leaves, which will add brightness to the dish and aroma.
Stuffed Buffet Snacks
Stuffed foods are ideal for cold snacks. They are tasty, harmonious, light, but very satisfying.
As a basis for stuffing, they most often use:
- fresh tomatoes;
- testicles;
- Bulgarian pepper of different colors.
To prepare a simple snack called "fly agaric", you should stock up on small tomatoes, ham, boiled eggs, cheese, large cucumber, mayonnaise sauce.
Separate crushed eggs, cheese and ham are mixed, seasoned with mayonnaise. Cucumber is cut into thin rings. On a dish covered with lettuce leaves, cucumber rings are laid out, on top a ball of mixed products and a tomato hat. Mayonnaise dots on top on tomatoes will help give the appetizer a complete resemblance to fly agaric.
You can stuff the halves of boiled eggs with grated yolks with paste, caviar, fish, meat and vegetable slices. Mayonnaise, yogurt, sour cream are used as a sauce.
Miniature cakes on the festive table
The buffet table is often decorated with:
- miniature pies;
- tiny pieces of pies;
- eclairs with various fillings.
It is good to cook small pancakes in a pan, grease them with sauce, fill with sweet or salty filling, then roll them in the form of bags and tie the top with greens. It will turn out beautiful and tasty bags.
Muffins look no less impressive - small muffins that are baked in the oven and then filled with white or chocolate cream. You can sprinkle them with colored candied fruits, decorate with berries, sweet colored sweets. Such pastries can perfectly complement the sweet table.
Hot buffet snacks
Hot dishes on the festive table should be required.
Most often in this case they serve:
- barbecue on wooden skewers of poultry or pork meat;
- small skewers (mussels, shrimps are used for cooking);
- julienne served in tartlets;
- meat and other meat rolls;
- young potatoes garnished with herbs and spices.
It is good to melt cheese in a special technique, in which sausages, meat or fruit can be dipped. You can come up with a number of other dishes, the main thing is that they fit into the general table, were small in size and could be used without cutlery.
Buffet Mini Baking
Beautiful mini snacks on the buffet table are very popular. It is good in this case to cook the so-called pita cake.
To prepare it, you should stock up:
- thin pita bread - a couple of pieces;
- fresh champignons - 600 g;
- onions - 350 g;
- sour cream - 120 ml;
- hard cheese - 110 g;
- sunflower oil;
- salt, spices.
Mushrooms with onions are fried in oil, salted, seasoned with spices and then passed through a meat grinder. Layers of pita bread (paired amount), smeared with mushroom filling, are laid out on foil folded in several layers. The top and side of the workpiece are smeared with sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese. Everything goes to the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese. Before serving, the cake is cut into tiny pieces.
It is good to buy ready-made tartlets, fill them with a filling of mushrooms, meat, vegetables, crush cheese on top and bake for several minutes in the oven. Often they bake small potatoes stuffed with seafood, cucumber and cheese.
Buffet meat snacks
As a meat appetizer for a buffet, shish kebabs are ideal.
You can cook them from:
- pork or chicken pulp;
- Luke;
- spices for barbecue;
- soy sauce (mayonnaise, ketchup, etc.).
The pulp is washed and cut into small pieces. A small onion is cut into rings. Everything is put in a bowl, seasoned with spices, sauce (to taste) and marinated for 4-10 hours. After the prepared products are strung on a skewer and baked on a fire (in the oven).
You can marinate the chicken in orange juice and salt. Wrap each strip of smoked bacon, bake in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees for 30 minutes. Served rolls on fresh lettuce leaves.
Champagne snacks for buffet
Original champagne snacks should emphasize the delicate taste of the drink, reveal it and complement it. Semisweet champagne is suitable for not very sweet pastries, fruits. It is good to cook a pie with a sweet filling, a fruit salad, and bake apples with honey in the oven.
For dry wines, sandwiches with seafood, fried fish, sushi, a cheese snack are ideal. Mild pizza, chicken dishes, cold julienne will be appropriate.
Quickly cook quail rolls and red fish rolls. For this, the testicles are boiled, and the fish is cut into small slices. A peeled egg is wrapped in each slice, laid out on a dish and decorated with greens.
For lovers of fruit and berries, an appetizer of bananas and strawberries is suitable. The fruit is cut into small pieces and strung on a skewer, alternating with a juicy berry.
Small sandwiches made from baguette, shrimp, cucumber and cream cheese are suitable for champagne. All products are cut, stacked on top of each other and decorated with greens at the end.
Fashionable snacks on the festive table.
Beautifully served snacks will not leave anyone indifferent.
According to fashion trends, most often the festive table is decorated with dishes:
- Transparent glasses are used for serving. They are filled with thick sauces, creamy soups, savory foods.
- The original presentation of simple products is used. So on the table you can find small panicles of hard cheese and straws. In demand is an appetizer called Oriental Chopsticks. For cooking, salted salmon is used, which is cut into strips and wound onto straws. Often, green onions are added to the composition.
- Club sandwiches - unusual sandwiches from famous products. For cooking, toast bread, meat, cucumbers, cheese, etc.
The rolls, sushi made from rice, seafood, caviar look bright and colorful on the table. They are juicy, fragrant, nutritious, loved by many. Beautifully laid out on large dishes, decorated with different sauces, they will make you attract attention and become the crown dish of the festive table.
