Canapes are small sandwiches made from various ingredients that can decorate any festive table and buffet table. Cooking canapes does not require special skills, you just need to choose the best combination of products.
Original canapé snacks
Canapes are tiny sandwiches put on a skewer, which are sent into the mouth whole without biting off. The idea of the dish, which came from France, now occupies a significant place at buffets and festive tables.
Traditionally, canapés are based on dried bread or toast. A variety of food combinations are laid out on top: fish, meat, cheese, vegetables.
To prepare elementary canapes, you only need to cut the finished products into cubes. Popular flavor combinations for canapes:
- "Borodinsky" bread, slightly salted herring and an apple sprinkled with lemon juice;
- black bread, lightly salted salmon, pickled cucumber and olive;
- bread, salami sausage, cucumber and tomato;
- white bread, two types of hard cheese, olive, cherry tomato;
- crouton, fresh cucumber, shrimp and olive;
- white bread, smoked chicken breast, pickled mushroom and olive;
- toast, boiled chicken fillet and pineapple;
- white bread, cheese and red caviar.
The bread base can be greased with butter, melted cheese, pate, cottage cheese with herbs, mayonnaise. Dill, basil, parsley, green onions are used for decoration. A thin slice of hard cheese worn on the ends of a sail-shaped skewer will give the canapé an original look.
In modern Russian cuisine, canapes can be prepared without a bread base. To do this, take a longer skewer, stringing cheese cubes, an olive wrapped in bacon, lettuce on it.
For more complex recipes, canapes use fried cheese, pieces of duck fillet baked in bacon, shrimp in batter. Puff pastry, toasted grated potato pads can be used as a base.
Desserts in the form of canapes
For the preparation of canapes, you can also use dessert products: fruits, jams, biscuits. For dessert canapes, you can combine a variety of fruits: apples, bananas, kiwi, oranges, grapes, pineapple, strawberries, blackberries, etc. Using the canapé technique, you can create an interesting dish for children's parties. Using an apple and carrot base and toothpicks, it is easy to make a Christmas tree for the New Year, and a funny hedgehog can be made from pears and grapes. In the same way, original mice, birds, palms and much more are obtained.
There are countless canapé recipes. The most important thing is that you yourself can easily compose them from what is at hand. The main motto of canapes is fast, tasty, beautiful!