What is the difference between a festive and everyday table? In abundance of snacks! You can not even cook hot dishes or confine yourself to a barbecue, ordered sushi, baked chicken, but without salads and snacks New Year's Eve cannot be met.
It’s okay if you don’t have time to cook.
Here are the quickest recipes. The table can be set in an hour or less, it all depends on the skill of the hostess and the availability of assistants.
Stuffed Eggs with Fried Shrimp
A hearty and simple appetizer with a chic look. Well, if the eggs are cooked in advance, then cooking will take no more than fifteen minutes. Shrimp will be fried in butter.
Ingredients
- 10 eggs;
- 120 g of cream cheese;
- 20 g shrimp;
- 30 g of oil;
- 10 g of garlic;
- mayonnaise;
- 15 g of dill.
Cooking method
- Pour shrimp with boiling water. We are leaving. Cut the eggs along, take out the yolks in a bowl. We transfer the squirrels to a flat plate. Knead the yolks with a fork.
- Grate the cheese, send to the yolks, add 5 g of garlic, salt to taste. Season with mayonnaise until a thick mass is obtained, the amount of sauce is adjusted independently. Triturate until smooth.
- Fill the egg halves with the filling. You can simply spread it with a teaspoon or squeeze out of a bag.
- We clean the shrimp. We heat the oil, we throw the clams. Add garlic and fry for a minute over high heat.
- We put on each half of the egg one fried shrimp and a sprig of dill.
You can not use greens for decoration, but chop and add to the total mass. It is also optional to fry the shrimp. Often cooked this appetizer with boiled seafood.
5 minutes salad with pineapple and carrots
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Light, fragrant and very easy to prepare salad is perfect for meeting the year of the earthen pig. Here, all that she loves is also suitable color. Canned pineapples are used, you do not need to cook carrots.
Ingredients
- 5-7 rings of pineapple;
- 3 carrots;
- 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 120 g of cheese;
- salt;
- greens, nuts to taste.
Cooking method
- Peel the carrots, grate coarsely. Grate hard cheese in the same way.
- Remove the pineapple rings from the syrup, cut, add to the carrot. You can use pineapple slices.
- Squeeze garlic, dress with lettuce and mayonnaise. Add greens if desired, sprinkle the salad with nuts.
You do not need to add more sauce, even if the salad seems dry, after a few minutes the carrots will give juice.
Holiday cucumber rolls
To prepare this snack you will need a large and even cucumber. It will need to be cut into slices using a vegetable knife. The filling is the simplest and win-win - fish with cream cheese.
Ingredients
- 120 g Philadelphia cheese;
- 1 cucumber;
- 120-150 g of red fish;
- greens, lettuce.
Cooking method
- Finely chop the fish, you can just cubes or straws. Mix with cream cheese. To try, usually spices are not needed.
- Wash and dry the cucumber. With a vegetable knife, cut it into thin strips. The extreme ribbons, which are narrow and consist of one skin, are removed.
- On each strip of cucumber on one side, lay out the fish filling, twist to the opposite end.
- We put greens on a plate or just a lettuce leaf, send rolls. You can garnish with caviar, supplement with slices of bell pepper.
Illiquid strips of a cucumber do not need to be thrown away, they are great for twisting roses, decorating salads.
Tartlets "Confetti" (hearty and fast)
Another version of the appetizer of minimal complexity with amazing taste and bright views. All you need for the festive table. In the original recipe, such tartlets are prepared with sausage. But the pig does not like semi-finished products, so we replace it with smoked chicken, a breast or a leg will do.
Ingredients
- 100 g of Korean carrots;
- 15 tartlets;
- 5 sheets of salad;
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise;
- 100 g tomato;
- 2 tablespoons of corn (can be peas);
- 100 g smoked chicken.
Cooking method
- Squeeze Korean carrots. Put on a board and crumble a little. Transfer to a bowl.
- Cut smoked chicken into thin and small strips. You can replace boiled breast, other meat, but not pork. It can not be consumed on this festive night.
- Cut the tomato, remove the seeds, finely chop the flesh. Combine with other ingredients, add mayonnaise and corn. Salt to taste.
- Fill the tartlets with filling. Fold the lettuce leaves, put the baskets on them. You can immediately serve.
Ready tartlets are the greatest invention in which you can put absolutely any salad. Covering the festive table with them is easier, while the appetizers look chic.
Sandwich "Russian" with herring
You can simply put a plate of herring fillet on the table. This is the fastest way to serve, but it does not differ in appetite and chic appearance. Another thing is the original sandwiches. Despite the primitiveness of the ingredients, they look gorgeous, will be a great snack for strong drinks.
Ingredients
- 1 red onion;
- 100 ml apple cider vinegar;
- 200 g herring fillet;
- black bread;
- greenery;
- 0.5 lemons;
- butter.
Cooking method
- It is advisable to use red onion for such an appetizer. If there is none, then take the yellow head. Cut into half rings, disassemble by hand, sprinkle with salt and pour block vinegar. Leave to marinate while preparing sandwiches.
- Cut the brown bread into 5 cm squares. Lubricate with butter. It is advisable to soften it in advance, then the process will go quickly and easily.
- We cut the lemon into thin circles, and then into four parts. We put such a slice of citrus on each sandwich, cover the free part with slightly salted herring.
- Take the onion out of the marinade. We lay out the pieces on top of the herring, complement the sandwiches with greens and serve.
Sometimes such sandwiches are prepared with a slice of cucumber, salted mushroom, egg, and butter can also be mixed in half with soft cheese. There are a lot of options, it all depends on the availability of products in the house and pre-holiday imagination.
