Vegetable snacks: options for the festive table

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

When preparations are underway for any holiday, housewives try to fill the table with meat dishes and snacks to the maximum. This is somewhat wrong approach. Of course, there are enough meat-eaters, many guests will only be happy with such an abundance of dishes prepared from the ingredient they revere. However, almost always among those invited there are those who do not eat meat. Or those who at least try to eat it as little as possible. As a result, they are unlikely to appreciate your feast. In addition, meat and products from it are quite an expensive pleasure today, so the celebration with this approach will certainly result in an impressive amount. What to do? How to please all the guests and at the same time not be the loser yourself? Original vegetable snacks will come to the rescue. On the festive table, subject to a creative approach to the cooking process, it will definitely not be a shame to put such dishes. Moreover, many vegetable snacks, the recipes of which are sometimes simply striking in their originality, are quite capable of overshadowing their meat "brothers". And become a real decoration of the festive table.

We will talk further about how to cook such dishes. We will offer you quite a lot of interesting recipes, and you can choose foryourself the best. Vegetable snacks prepared according to them will certainly surprise and delight your guests and relatives.

A small digression

Before proceeding with the description of each recipe, I would like to say a few words as parting words. As you understand, any snacks - vegetable or meat, do not matter, they are not needed in order to satiate the guests. They are designed to slightly dampen the appetite and decorate the table. And also, what a sin to conceal, to occupy an empty place as much as possible. Of course, pickles and sandwiches can do this, however, you see, it is much more pleasant when the table looks elegant. And the dishes standing on it delight guests. And not only in appearance, but also in exquisite taste. Based on this, you need to prepare. After all, whatever you say, a vegetable is a vegetable. Therefore, we must try to serve it as profitably as possible.

This is probably the time to close the theoretical part. Let's get down to practice. Introducing the best holiday vegetable snacks.

Cheap and cheerful, but how beautiful…

Slice the eggplant, season with a little s alt, then fry well on both sides. Important: spread from the pan not on a plate, but on a paper towel to get rid of excess fat. Mix two tablespoons of mayonnaise and a couple of cloves of finely chopped garlic. You can also add some dill if you like this spice. Brush the fried pieces with the sauce. Tomatoes, the size of which should be equal to the diameter of the blue ones, cut into circles, put them on each pieceeggplant, sprinkle generously with hard cheese on top. By the way, if you don’t have time to mess with eggplants, you can do without them. All previous manipulations must be repeated with pieces of tomatoes.

Making a peacock tail

Prepare two eggplants in the same way as described above. Cut into slices of two tomatoes and cucumber. We rub one hundred grams of cheese, mix it with mayonnaise and finely chopped garlic. We spread the eggplants on a dish, and we must try to give them the shape of a peacock's tail. Put a tomato on top of each piece of blue, coat with a mixture of cheese and mayonnaise, then put a cucumber, which we decorate with half an olive. Important: such an appetizer should stand in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving.

Tulips, not flowers…

Absolutely win-win. Such tulips are able to overshadow all the snacks on the table - whether vegetable or meat. A simply gorgeous dish in its appearance, which also has a decent taste.

Take nine elongated tomatoes. Ideally, the "lady fingers" variety is suitable. Cut them carefully, a little short of the end, a couple of centimeters, crosswise. Remove the pulp, cut a small hole at the base, simply put, get rid of the stalk. Take 200 grams of cheese, grate it, mix with finely chopped garlic and a few tablespoons of thick mayonnaise. Fill the heads of the "flowers", make stems from dense onion feathers (just insert them into the cutholes), beautifully, in the form of a bouquet, arrange on a white dish.

Rainbow Cheese Pepper Appetizer

Four hundred grams of cheese, a bunch of herbs and a small head of garlic chop in a blender. Add mayonnaise to mixture. It will need to be added little by little, so much so that the output is a fairly thick mass. Take some Bulgarian peppercorns in different colors. You can have two, and if you find it, then three shades are better. Cut off the tails of the peppercorns, remove the seeds and partitions, cut into fairly thick rings. Then fill each with the resulting mixture. If desired, you can decorate the top with circles of boiled eggs.

Boots

To prepare this dish you will need small young zucchini. We cut them in half, then cut off the bottom a little so that your “boats” stand more confidently on the plate. We take out all the pulp with a spoon. We cut the onion into small pieces, a couple of red Bulgarian peppercorns, fry, add the zucchini pulp after a while. S alt and pepper. We start. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top and send for ten minutes in the microwave.

By the way, instead of zucchini, you can take eggplant. As for the filling itself, the composition of the ingredients can be varied. In addition, such an appetizer is recommended to be served with garlic-mayonnaise sauce, which, as is already clear from the above recipes, goes well with vegetables.

Rolls

Zucchini is generally gratefulmaterial in the hands of a skilled housewife. You can make a lot of great snacks from them. Let's try to make original rolls now. From one hundred grams of processed cheese, a few cloves of garlic and mayonnaise, we make the mass that is already familiar to us. Cut zucchini and cucumbers of suitable size lengthwise into thin plates. Then fry them, put them on napkins, wait until the oil is absorbed. We spread it on a plate, we place a layer of cucumber on top. We spread the cheese mass on one edge, add a tomato slice to it on the side, turn it into a roll.

By the way, despite the fact that we used the temperature effect in the preparation of both boats and rolls, these are all cold vegetable snacks. They are served on the table only after cooling.

A few words about lavash

Preparing for the festive feast, do not forget about the rolls cooked on pita bread so beloved by our hostesses. You can fill them with various fillers, including vegetable ones. There can be many options, probably, each housewife has her own, special recipe. We, for example, will offer you our own - we will tell you how to cook a very simple, but unusually beautiful roll with Korean carrots.

Take a sheet of rectangular pita bread and spread it with mayonnaise. Place another layer on top. Sprinkle generously with any grated hard cheese. Put a layer of Korean carrots on top. Then sprinkle with finely chopped herbs. Close with another sheet. Repeat all the above procedures again. Roll tightly (in length, not width!) everything into a rolland send to the refrigerator. After a few hours, the sausage can be cut into pieces, beautifully laid out on a dish and served.

When vegetable snacks are being prepared, one should not lose sight of their variety, such as salads. Of course, no one can surprise anyone with a banal mixture of cucumbers and tomatoes, but there are many other, much more attractive recipes.

Beijing cabbage salad

Easy to prepare and in composition, such a salad will nevertheless please with its bright and cheerful appearance. Take a head of Beijing cabbage and cut it as thinly as possible. Put in a salad bowl, add a little s alt and crush a little. Then add canned corn and finely chopped onion. The juice from the jar of corn must be drained! Season everything with thick sweet mayonnaise and garnish with sliced boiled eggs.

Bright bean salad

Red beans (300 grams), soak overnight, then rinse and cook for half an hour. It may take longer, depending on the variety. The main thing is not to miss the moment when it starts to fall apart. In principle, you can take a canned jar. Then, after cooling, transfer the finished beans to a salad bowl, add finely chopped onion (necessarily red!), Three stalks of celery, a bunch of your favorite herbs and about five radishes to it. Lemon mayonnaise is perfect as a dressing.

Conclusion

Vegetable snacks - dishes that can be prepared without carefully following the recipe. That is, using your own imagination and based on existing culinary experience. Fortunately, the soil is fertile, and the ingredients themselves are perfectly combined with each other.

Vegetable snacks, the recipes with photos of which are presented in our article, are a drop in the ocean of available options. Start with them for now, and then slowly move on to creating your own unique dishes.