Fruit is an amazingly tasty and incredibly healthy product. Learn to prepare snacks - fruits on skewers. Recipes, where the most successful combination of products in terms of taste and appearance.
The value of fruits is expressed in their beneficial effects on the human body. Fruits are presented to us by nature itself, they include vitamins, organic acids, carbohydrates. Thanks to this, the body's resistance to third parties increases. Therefore, fruits should be in the diet of every person, and especially in baby food. And they are also used for setting a festive table for buffets. A special experience is achieved by serving fruit on skewers. If you come up with a good design, they will become a real decoration of a festive feast. Both a child and an adult will like such delicacies.
A little about the benefits of fruits
The special composition of some fruits not only gives them a unique taste, but also endows them with almost medicinal characteristics. Here are some famous facts:
- Peaches, which attract with a sweet aroma, contain potassium and magnesium, which improve the work of the heart muscle;
- in bananas, in addition to magnesium and calcium, there are elements such as iron, which normalizes hemoglobin and phosphorus - a substance necessary for the bone system;
- due to the saturation with vitamins and microelements, apricots strengthen the immune system, support the thyroid gland in a normal state, improve brain function;
- bioactive substances that pineapple contains stimulate the digestive process, prevent atherosclerosis, accelerate metabolism;
- the diaphoretic properties of strawberries are useful for colds, diuretics - will help eliminate the swelling of the eyelids;
- apples are good for the whole body, including the kidneys, nervous system, blood vessels.
For those with a sweet tooth, it is healthier to eat some fruit instead of flour sweets. But still, you need to use them in limited quantities, especially some of them. For example, the calorie content of bananas is 91 kcal, and avocados are 204. This is also worth considering for those who follow the figure. But there is a category of fruits that promote weight loss. These include pear, grapefruit, apple, apricot.
How to cut food for serving
Fruits are strung on skewers made of wood or plastic. Ordinary wooden toothpicks are often used instead. Some of the fruits are used for canapes without slicing, so they look more spectacular.
These include:
- ripe pitted cherries;
- strawberries with a bright color;
- grape berries of different colors and shapes;
- raspberries with a delicious aroma.
If they are large enough, the fruits are cut in half or formed into pieces of different sizes and shapes.
Here are some tips on how to prepare the fruit for serving:
- for soft fruits such as melon, kiwi, you can buy a special round spoon - noisette;
- it is quite easy to create flowers, stars, a month, animal figures using baking tins;
- for bananas, strawberries, kiwi, an egg cutter is suitable, with which it is easy to form thin plates;
- if you do not want to buy a special syringe for forming canapes, use a regular 10 ml syringe, cutting off the tip from it.
You can string on skewers as pieces of the same size and shape, as well as different parameters. Please note that some fruits, such as apples, quickly lose color after cutting. To prevent this from happening, sprinkle them with lemon juice. If canned foods are used, they should be given time to drain the juice.
Cheese is added to the fruit, which gives a unique taste. Some of the fruits are successfully combined with ham, turkey.
Simple canapes - grapes plus cheese
Even from two ingredients, you can make a beautiful dish for a buffet table. For cooking, the same amount of ingredients is taken, for example, 150 g each. It is advisable to find grapes without seeds. Otherwise, you will have to get rid of them with a toothpick, and this is difficult.
Before use, the grapes must not only be separated from the branches and washed, but also sorted out. Use only a beautiful product without defects. The cheese is cut into cubes similar in size to the grapes so that it does not get out of the way. Now we collect the canapes - a cube of cheese from the bottom, a berry on top and everything is pierced with a skewer. If it seems that this is not enough, repeat again cheese and grapes of a different color.
Simple 4-Ingredient Canapé
Fruits such as apples, pears, bananas go well. Such canapes can be prepared not only for a holiday, but also on any day for children. First, cut the peeled pears and apples into pieces of the same shape, for example, flat squares 0.5 cm thick. Bananas are most conveniently cut into slices of the same thickness.
Since apples are denser and less juicy than pears, we put them on the bottom. Then slices of pears, bananas and, at the end, a grape berry. Now you can stick in the skewer and the dish is ready to serve.
Summer freshness
By the end of summer, treat yourself and your children to an original, juicy and colorful fruit dessert. What you need for this:
- fresh aromatic melon;
- juicy ripe watermelon;
- ripe cherries;
- mint leaves.
Gently separate the watermelon pulp from the seeds so that large enough pieces remain. Of them, you need to cut into even cubes or rectangles 1 cm high. We do the same manipulations with the melon, but here it is easier to remove the seeds. For canapes, first string the cherry, from which it is desirable to remove the pit. Next are two pieces of watermelon, between which we place a melon. Top the canapes with a green mint leaf. Such a light dessert refreshes well and is suitable for both a children's party and a youth party.
Refreshing balls
The next type of canapé will be no less refreshing and tasty. For him we also take watermelon, melon and add kiwi to them. To make the dessert original, we use a noisette, which is also used for carving. First, you need to practice a little in order to use it to form perfect spherical pieces.
When starting to prepare a refreshing canapé, remove the pits from the melon and watermelon, and peel the kiwi. Then, with the help of a noisette, we form rounds from the fruit. We string it so that two pieces of watermelon are at the edges of the structure, and put mint leaves on top. By the way, for this dessert you can use not only skewers, but also ice cream sticks. The fruit is soft enough to pass through easily.
Sweet and juicy dessert
Children prefer something tastier than cheese and grapes. For a healthy dessert, you can prepare fruit on skewers, sprinkled with ganache.
What is required for this:
- strawberries - 100 g;
- banana - 1 pc.;
- marshmallow - 100 g;
- chocolate - 60 g;
- cream - 50 ml.
Cut the washed strawberries in half, leave small berries whole. Banana mode in circles with a thickness of 1-1, 5 cm. It is advisable to choose the marshmellow the same size as the strawberry. If it is larger, you need to cut it into pieces of a suitable shape.
We form canapes, alternately stringing strawberries, bananas, marshmallows. When everything is strung, prepare the ganache. To do this, melt the chocolate with the addition of cream in a water bath. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, pour it over the fruit and serve.
Delicious rainbow
Let's repeat the colors of a natural phenomenon that will not leave anyone indifferent. Remember - "every hunter wants to know …"? Now we take in order:
- for red - fragrant strawberries with whole berries;
- for orange - slices of a sweet, tasty orange;
- for yellow - banana rounds 1 cm thick;
- for green - slices of juicy kiwi similar in shape to orange;
- for blue - whole blueberries;
- for blue and purple - grapes of similar shades.
In this order, the fruit should be skewered to form a "rainbow" and placed on a serving dish. Instead of a banana, pineapple is quite suitable, and instead of strawberries, raspberries. Look at the photo - does it really resemble the colors of the rainbow ?! Children will love this dessert.
Persimmon in canapes
Persimmons are delicious and tender and can also be used for canapés. To do this, take a persimmon 100 grams, the same amount of turkey meat and 15 pieces of blueberries and the same amount of mint leaves. You will also need the juice of one orange and a little oil for frying the meat.
First, prepare the turkey by marinating it in orange juice for 7-12 hours. After the time has elapsed, the meat must be cut into very thin plates and fried on both sides. Wash persimmon and cut into slices 1 cm thick. Now we form a canapé, stringing first a piece of fruit wrapped in a turkey, then a mint leaf and finally a blueberry berry. Gourmets will definitely like it.
Canape - mango with cheese
Tropical fruits are considered exotic, so they appear on the table mainly for the holidays. Mango canapes are a great option for special occasions. We use Dor Blue cheese for it, but if you don't like it, take any solid dairy product. Cut it into cubes 1 cm thick. Peel the mango from the peel, remove the seed and also form cubes, but with a thickness of 1.5 cm. Separate the grapes from the twigs and remove the seeds, if any.
At the bottom of the canapes there will be cheese, then there is a slice of mango and a grape completes the composition. Berries of purple shades look beautiful. For one fruit, you need 200 g of grapes and 150 g of cheese.
Mango, pineapple, banana
If you want a completely fruity canapé without cheese, check out the following recipe. For him you need:
- mango - 1 fruit;
- banana - 1 pc.;
- grapes - 100 g;
- honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
- pineapple - 1 pc. or 1 can of canned.
We peel the mango, remove the bone, and form stars from the pulp using cookie cutters. Cut the banana into slices of the same thickness as the mango. Cut the pineapples in the shape of triangles, trying to adhere to the thickness specified for all fruits. At the bottom of the canapé there will be a banana, followed by pineapple and mango, and at the top, two halves of grape berries. After fixing the structure with a skewer, pour honey on top and decorate it with mint leaves.
Exotic
For such a combination of fruits on skewers, you will need an exotic pitahaya fruit. It has a specific tarry-sweetish taste. In addition to it, there is a no less exotic, but more famous fruit - mango.
For the canapes, wash, peel, and cut the pitahaya and mango into cubes. From the latter, you still need to remove the bone. First, string the mango on the skewer, and then the pitahaya and set the canapes on the serving dish. If desired, add a slice of sweet, juicy orange on top.
Fragrant abundance
To prepare this snack, we use 5 ingredients at once:
- whole berries of fragrant raspberries;
- slices of juicy tangerine;
- slices of refreshing kiwi;
- whole blueberries;
- slices of fresh or canned pineapple.
The products are strung on a skewer in random order, but the main thing is that there are three blueberries on top. Serve on its own or with vanilla yogurt sauce.
Serving fruit on skewers
Of course, you just need to put the canapes on plates and serve cooked. But if you show your imagination, you will get an interesting dessert.
What can be done:
- put the skewers in high containers, forming a bouquet and place them on the table;
- make a stand out of a watermelon and fix ready-made canapes in it;
- prepare canapes of different colors and form a pattern from them;
- put pineapple or orange in the center of the dish, into which stick skewers.
Note that if the canapé will stand upright on a plate, it needs a good base. Therefore, sufficiently dense fruits should be located below. Green mint and basil leaves are suitable as a decoration for dessert. If the dish is already ready, and the guests have not yet arrived, you need to put it in the refrigerator. This will keep its appearance longer.
Ready-made canapes can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or garnished with sweet sauce. For example, ganache, honey, chocolate cream.
