Fourchette has its own characteristics. Knowing them, you can cover a beautiful and delicious meals effortlessly. The main rule: food should be delicious, beautiful and decorated so that it was convenient to take and less convenient it is. Main dishes for the buffet table, the recipes that we offer in this article is all kinds of snacks. But if, for example, salads for normal table we serve in bulk salad bowl, then at the reception for this purpose, tarts, profiteroles. This dough, which can be filled with a variety of content: salads, pates, meat, mushrooms, in a word everything that is capable of your imagination.

Perfectly suited for this purpose thin pancakes, which also can be filled with any stuffing. Another option - vegetables. They can be stuffed (for example, peppers, tomatoes), or used as a basis. There are many ideas, so go to the point: giving recipes for refreshments.

Canapes on skewers

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of cheese
• 200 grams of large grapes
• 200 grams of cherry tomatoes
• 2 sour-sweet apple
• 2 pears
• lemon juice

Cooking method:

Vegetables and fruit wash. Apples and pears are peeled, cut into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice to avoid darkening. Cheese and cut into cubes. Threaded on skewers: apple, cheese, pear; cherry tomatoes, cheese and grapes.

Note:

You can use different types of cheese and grapes, thereby a variety of flavors canapes. It is preferable to choose cherry tomatoes sweet varieties.

Shrimp grilled with teriyaki sauce

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of prawns
• 200 grams of cherry tomatoes
• 150 ml teriyaki sauce
• 3-4 cloves of garlic
• 30 grams of crushed fresh ginger
• chili pepper (or pepper paste this)
• 50 grams of olive oil
• juice of one lemon

Preparation:

Prepared and peeled shrimp marinated in teriyaki sauce, which add lemon juice, hot chili pepper (or paste), crushed garlic and ginger and a little olive oil. They may be left in the refrigerator overnight.

Threaded on skewers shrimp and cherry tomatoes and fry on the grill for 4-5 minutes on both sides. If there is a grill, you can fry the skewers in a pan. Serve with teriyaki sauce.

Note:

Teriyaki sauce is sold in specialty stores that sell products used in eastern cuisine.

Skewers of chicken breast

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of chicken breast
• 50 grams of olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 50 grams of soy sauce
• 1-2 teaspoons of spicy chili sauce
• juice of one lemon

Cooking method:

Prepare a marinade of soy sauce, olive oil, minced garlic, honey, hot sauce and lemon juice. The meat cut into small cubes and put it in the marinade.

Strung on a few pieces on skewers and grill or fry in a pan. It can be fed in both cold and hot.

Crackers with turkey liver pate

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of salted crackers
• 300 grams of turkey liver
• 100 grams of smoked bacon
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 1 apple
• 50 grams of butter
• 50 milliliters of a good port or sherry
• salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley

Cooking method:

Fry the bacon, onions and carrots, add the liver, apple, butter, salt, pepper, nutmeg and stew all together until ready. At the end pour the wine. Cool and grind everything in a blender.

Each cracker shell out of a pastry bag paste, decorate with a sprig of parsley poured dill.

Tomatoes with mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes and basil

Ingredients:

• 5 medium-sized tomatoes
• 100 grams of dried tomatoes
• 200 grams of mozzarella
• bunch of green basil
• salt pepper

Cooking method:

Cut off tops of tomatoes and spoon and carefully selected pulp. The inner surface of tomatoes prisolit and sprinkle with pepper.

Mozzarella chop, add sliced ​​into thin strips dried tomatoes, chopped basil. All salt and pepper, add a little oil, which prepared dried tomatoes. Stuff the tomatoes. Garnish with basil leaves.

Note:

Instead of mozzarella can be used Adygei, an amateur or a good cheese curds.

Spicy Eggplant rolls

Ingredients:

• 2-3 medium-sized eggplant
• 50 grams of spicy chili sauce
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 3 garlic cloves
• salt, pepper, herbs to taste
• 30-50 grams of vegetable oil

Cooking method:

Eggplant cut along the thin plates, sprinkle with salt and leave for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the filling: Mix hot sauce, mayonnaise, chopped garlic, add salt, pepper and herbs to taste.

Rinse the eggplant with salt, dry and fry in vegetable oil. Chilled eggplant spread with strips of cooked dressing, roll to roll and fasten with a toothpick.

Note:

Eggplant absorb much oil. In order that they are not too fat, cut the eggplant should be immersed for 20-30 minutes in cold salted water. Thereafter fry normally.

Profiteroles with meat salad

Ingredients for profiteroles:

• 100 grams of butter
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup flour
• 3-4 eggs
• a pinch of salt

Cooking method:

In a saucepan pour water, put oil, pinch of salt and put on fire. When the water boils, and melted butter, gradually add flour, stirring constantly to avoid lumps formed. Boil the flour (to appear pleasant nutty smell).

Dough cool slightly (it should be warm but not hot), and one to enter the egg, interfering with them into the dough in a circular motion. Next add the egg after fully connect with the previous test.

Form small balls, put them on a baking sheet at a sufficient distance from each other and bake in the oven, preheated to 175 degrees. The oven first half an hour is not open to profiteroles not "dropped."

Ingredients for the salad:

• 300 grams of boiled beef
• 1 large onion
• 1 black radish
• 30-40 milliliters of olive oil
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
• salt, pepper, herbs to taste

How to prepare salad:

Boil the meat in one piece with vegetables and spices (to your taste). In order to keep it juicy, it should be to lay into the boiling water.

Finely chopped onion fried in olive oil until light mushroom smell. Radish grate.

The meat cut into small cubes, add the fried onions, grated radish, salt and pepper (pepper should be felt), season with herbs and mayonnaise.

We cut off the tops of profiteroles And since received a salad, cover caps, decorate with greenery.

Note:

Mayonnaise is optional, as a salad, and so enough calories. Black radish, daikon radish can be replaced, it has a more delicate flavor, so you can give more, salad only benefit from this.

Profiteroles with a salad of squid

Ingredients:

• ready-made profiteroles (recipe See above.)
• 3 small squid carcass
• 2 onions
• 4 boiled eggs
• 30 ml of olive oil
• 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
• salt, pepper, herbs
• lemon juice

Cooking method:

The prepared carcass squid dipped in boiling water (you can add a teaspoon of lemon juice) and cook for no more than 4 minutes. Otherwise squid become firm.

Finely chopped onion fried in olive oil. Chilled squid cut into small strips, add fried onions, chopped eggs, salt, pepper, season with herbs, mayonnaise, lemon juice.

We cut off the tops of profiteroles and starting to salads.

Note:

In this salad can add marinated mushrooms (button mushrooms, mushrooms, chanterelles).

All listed salads can also be filled tartlets - or baskets of puff pastry. They can cook yourself, and easier to buy ready-made. Important to make the right choice. It will have to try a few varieties and to determine the most appropriate option. Tartlets must be fresh, tender (in any case is not hard), not to have unpleasant tastes and odors. This is possible in cases where unscrupulous manufacturers use substandard or expired fats.

French quiches

Ingredients for the dough:

• 300 grams of flour
• 150 grams of butter
• 1 egg yolk +1 (can be used instead of eggs 2-3 tablespoons of cold water)
• a pinch of salt

Ingredients for the filling:

• 150 -200 grams of ham
• 2 onions
• 40 grams of butter
• 150 grams of cheese
• 2 eggs
• 150 ml of milk or cream
• salt, pepper, nutmeg

Cooking method:

Sift flour, mix with salt, add the diced chilled butter. All need to chop into fine crumbs (you can use the blender, food processor or a conventional knife). Then add the egg (or a spoonful of water), stir, add the egg yolk (or a spoonful of water). It is necessary to achieve a consistency to the resulting mass can be collected in the bowl. Wrap dough in foil and place in refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.

Ham cut into strips, onion - small cubes all together fry in butter.

Grate the cheese. Beat eggs, gradually adding milk (or cream), salt and pepper, add a pinch of nutmeg and whisk again.

The dough is spread on the surface of the baking tin, greased, to form ledges. Then lay a surface of the dough with baking paper, pour on top of a handful of beans or peas, and send in the oven for 15 minutes (180 degrees).

Take the form, remove the paper and put on podpechennuyu basis for ham pie with fried onions, sprinkle with grated cheese and pour the egg-milk mixture. Lubricate the edges with beaten egg and melted butter. Bake the cake at 180 degrees for about half an hour.

When a cut a la carte pieces.

Of course, the dishes for the buffet, which we bring to your attention, it is only a small part of the extensive list Fourchette. However, they may settle down on your holiday table, not necessarily cocktail party.

Bon appetit to you and your guests!