Light buffet tables with various canapes, tartlets and sliced cheese, sausages, and fruits have long become popular among young people. It is convenient to make such treats for guests at parties, children's parties, special events and even birthday parties. Everything is prepared quickly, from generally available products, without cooking, stewing, baking. The main thing is to cut beautifully, decorate, show imagination when assembling. A great idea for any occasion are delicious sausage, cheese and vegetable canapes. Both children and adults are unlikely to refuse such a snack.
When arranging a children's birthday or a youth party, it is easier to prepare not hot dishes and salads, but small snacks - tartlets, sandwiches, canapes on wooden or plastic skewers of different shapes and colors. Complementing the treat with juices poured into tall glasses with cocktail tubes, you can get a light table that does not distract from the celebration and games.
The most popular products used to collect delicious sandwiches on skewers or ordinary toothpicks are considered by guests of all ages to have different varieties of sausages, ham, cheese, olives, cherry tomatoes, fresh cucumbers. There are many cooking recipes, you can choose any one to your liking. And if you do not just lay a piece of salami on white bread, alternating with an olive or half an egg, but make a boat or a penguin, everyone gathered at the table will be delighted with the idea.
Below in the photos you can see examples of how, with the help of imagination and little tricks, you can make interesting canapes from only 3-5 products in 10-15 minutes at home.
Classic canapes of 3 products
A simple recipe is good because for making sandwiches on skewers, the hostess will need only three of any products to choose from:
- bread;
- fresh cucumber;
- boiled or smoked sausage;
- Cherry tomatoes;
- olives / olives (who likes what).
By combining any 3 ingredients to taste, cut into small wedges, circles or cubes, you can build a whole mountain of different canapes of any shape and color.
Here are some classic combinations that allow you to make light, not very high-calorie, unusually tasty sandwiches for one "bite" in 5 minutes:
- a circle of fresh cucumber, a circle of sausage folded in half, half a cherry;
- sausage cube, cheese cube, olive;
- a thick circle of cucumber, a slice of cervelat, an olive;
- a quarter piece of bread, a cube of sausage, cherry tomato;
- Borodino bread, sausage, cucumber;
- a slice of baguette, ham, olive.
You can alternate any products, choosing varieties and names as desired. So, bread is allowed to take wheat, rye, Borodino, cereal, loaf or baguette. From sausages on canapes, there is boiled, smoked sausage, cervelat, salami, ham. Fresh cucumber is easy to replace with pickled or salted gherkin.
With gherkins and Borodino bread
A simple recipe with gherkins and thinly sliced ham will appeal to adults rather than children. This appetizer tastes slightly spicy, especially if you choose black olives for decoration. You can take both sausage and hard cheese.
You will need:
- rye or Borodino bread;
- cheese;
- ham or boiled sausage;
- gherkins;
- olives;
- parsley;
- skewers.
How to make
- Cut the bread and cheese into 3 by 3 cm squares.
- Buy the ham already cut into slices or cut neatly.
- Remove the olives and gherkins from the jar, wait until the glass is liquid.
- Connect all the components, as shown in the photo below, with pricks on plastic skewers. It is not forbidden to add half a cherry instead of olives or replace them with green olives.
With cervelat and mushrooms
For those who love pickled mushrooms and smoked sausages, delicious canapes with mushrooms and white bread are suitable for cooking. They can be decorated with herbs, mayonnaise if desired, supplemented with olives, tomatoes.
You will need:
- loaf or wheat bread;
- cervelat or smoked hunting sausages;
- soft cream cheese;
- pickled champignons from a can;
- ordinary toothpicks.
How to make
- Place rectangles of cheese, sausage circles on the loaf slices.
- On top, put half of the champignon, cut lengthwise, or a whole hat.
- Stick in the center of the skewer.
With shrimps and salami
Canapes with shrimps and pieces of salami are a special chic, such a delicacy will be eaten primarily by curious guests. Unusual appetizer - in the addition of herbs and lemon peel.
You will need:
- boiled shrimp, better king, they are larger;
- salami;
- some hard cheese;
- greens;
- a quarter of a lemon.
How to make
- Put a piece of salami inside the shrimp boiled in salted water.
- Secure with skewers.
- Mix grated cheese and lemon zest with chopped herbs in a bowl.
- Dip the workpieces in the mixture, put them on a plate.
Boats with sausage sails
Fans of unusual sandwiches will love the step-by-step recipe for original boats with salami or cervelat sails. This appetizer looks very unusual, but it is simple and quick to prepare it.
You will need:
- French baguette;
- hard cheese;
- cervelat;
- olives or olives to choose from;
- skewers or toothpicks.
How to make
- All products must be cut into slices.
- Then you need to put cheese on the baguette (you can skip the bread if guests are counting calories or do not eat flour).
- Put the cervelat mugs on a skewer, as shown in the photo below, making a sail for the boat, place an olive / olive inside.
- Arrange on a plate.
Boats with cheese
A step-by-step and simple recipe with cucumbers, sausage and cheese will also allow you to build not simple sandwiches, but beautiful boats with yellowish sails. Complement the figures with a triangle of boiled carrots or sweet bell pepper in the form of a flag.
You will need:
- Rye bread;
- fresh cucumber;
- hard cheese;
- boiled sausage;
- boiled carrots;
- toothpicks.
How to make
- Cut food into as many portions as children or adults expect at a festive feast.
- Put pieces of sausage and cucumber on the pieces of bread, stick toothpicks.
- String on 2 slices of cheese in the manner of a large sail and a small sail.
- Put a flag of carrots or bell peppers on top of the stick.
Recommendations for the decor of sandwiches
To make even simple two-three-ingredient canapés successful and tasty, all you have to do is buy fresh products and start cooking with imagination. Here are some tips for housewives.
- Bacon, boiled pork, ham or salami should be cut into very thin, almost transparent slices, and then folded in half, four times or twisted with a tube, petal, to get a beautiful pattern. The same goes for slices of fresh cucumber, lettuce leaves.
- It is easy to add taste and aroma to an appetizer with fresh herbs - dill, parsley, olives, olives, peas, pieces of bell pepper.
- Bread can be taken fresh or toasted in a toaster, in a dry frying pan. It is easy to cut a rhombus, square, circle, even a flower or a crescent moon from a piece with a knife or mold.
- As a filling between bread, sausage, cheese, you can use creamy, garlic, mayonnaise cream with egg yolks, pate.
- It is not forbidden to include shrimps, boiled chicken or quail eggs, bacon, cheese mixed with garlic and mayonnaise, green peas, sausages, smoked meats in the canapes.
- For piquancy, black bread can be grated with garlic.
The main thing when decorating is not being afraid to be creative, using only fresh food and herbs, clean skewers and beautiful flat plates.
