Canapes are a festive version of sandwiches. They can be made vegetable, meat, cheese and any other. Below are the best recipes of beautiful and delicious canapes for the festive table that will make your feast bright and memorable.

Cheese and vegetable canapes on the festive table

Ingredients:

  • ½ loaf;
  • 150 g feta cheese;
  • 3 tomatoes;
  • 1 bell pepper;
  • 1 cucumber;
  • garlic to taste;
  • a handful of light sesame;
  • classic mayonnaise;
  • greenery.

Cooking:

  1. Dry the bread slightly in a frying pan without oil. With a cookie cutter, cut out mugs from it.
  2. Grease each with a mixture of mayonnaise with mashed garlic and herbs. Top with a slice of tomato and fresh cucumber.
  3. Next, distribute the mixture of mashed cheese with a small amount of mayonnaise.
  4. Close the construction with a slice of sweet pepper, securing it with a skewer.
  5. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.

If such canapes are prepared for children, it is worth abandoning garlic, and it is better to replace mayonnaise with sour cream.

Shrimp Recipe

Ingredients:

  • ½ kilogram of shrimp;
  • 150 g of "Russian" cheese;
  • 8 pcs olives
  • 1 cucumber;
  • ½ tbsp any shrimp sauce;
  • Rye bread;
  • greenery;
  • favorite spices.

Cooking:

  1. Boil shrimps until cooked in salted boiling water. To clear ready-made seafood from all that is superfluous - cut off the head and tail, remove intestinal wreaths.
  2. Cut fresh rye bread into small squares or circles and dry them in the oven.
  3. Lubricate the crunchy base with the selected shrimp sauce and top with a circle of fresh cucumber.
  4. Spread whole shrimps over the basics, sprinkle them with spices and pour over the sauce.
  5. Cover the seafood with a cube of cheese, half the olives and fix with a toothpick.

Garnish the resulting canapes with chopped herbs.

When forming canapes, do not use too many ingredients. The appetizer should conveniently fit entirely in the mouth, so that the tastes of all the ingredients can be immediately appreciated in the general ensemble.

Skewered herring boats

Ingredients:

  • 150 g spicy salted herring;
  • 1 pickled cucumber;
  • 4 square slices of brown bread;
  • 2 tsp mild mustard;
  • 50 g butter;
  • 8 pitted olives;
  • 3 sprigs of green dill.

Cooking:

  1. Remove the crust from the bread. Cut the rest into smooth, neat squares.
  2. Coat the base with a very thin layer of mild mustard.
  3. Soften the butter and mix it with chopped dill. If desired, add the resulting aromatic composition. A more spicy shade can be given to it with the help of coriander rubbed in a mortar.
  4. Distribute the resulting mass into bread slices.
  5. Lay on top a piece of herring and half a black olive.
  6. Cut pickled cucumber as thin as possible and roll each slice in the form of a sail. Set it on half of the olive, securing it with a skewer or a toothpick.

Garnish the appetizer with pickled vegetables. Serve the canapes on skewers with herring chilled.

With avocado and red fish

Ingredients:

  • thin baguette;
  • 150 g of slightly salted salmon;
  • 1 PC. avocado;
  • 1 tsp lime juice;
  • 1 bunch of dill;
  • cream cheese;
  • fresh cucumber.

Cooking:

  1. Cut the baguette into medium slices and grease them densely with cream cheese. To taste, you can replace it with softened butter with spices.
  2. Peel the avocado, get rid of the seeds, finely chop and sprinkle with lime juice. Put the fruit slices on top of the cheese spread and cover them with a thin plate of cucumber.
  3. Cut salmon into strips, sprinkle with herbs and roll up.
  4. Set the resulting fish structure on the base and secure with a skewer.

Such canapé recipes can be modified to your liking. For example, change the type of fish, add other vegetables, replace greens.

Fruit canapes for children

Ingredients:

  • 3 sweet apples;
  • 4 things. kiwi;
  • 1 tbsp. cubes of canned pineapple;
  • 1 tbsp. fresh blueberries;
  • 150 g of light pitted grapes and strawberries.

So, now we are cooking canapes from fruits:

  1. Peel and dice apples.
  2. Prepare and chop the kiwi in the same way.
  3. Remove all berries from the tail, and remove the grapes from the branch.
  4. String fruit on long skewers in the following order: grapes - blueberries - kiwi - pineapple - apple.
  5. Complete the design with strawberries. The berry will cover the sharp tip.

Canapes are especially easy and quick to make from fruit. You can choose for them any other seasonal components.

Adding a piece of cheese to the fruit, you can perform wonderful canapes for adults, who will perfectly go under the wine.

Cooking with Cheese and Olives

Ingredients:

  • 150 g of fresh Borodino bread;
  • 80 g of soft cream cheese and 100 g of hard cheese;
  • ½ bunch of fresh herbs, lemon;
  • 12 pcs seedless olives;
  • 2 dessert spoons of classic mayonnaise.

Cooking:

  1. Rid bread from crusts. Cut it into small smooth and neat squares.
  2. Mix two types of cheese. Hard should be previously rubbed (50 g).
  3. Pour the chopped greens into the cheese mass and spread the resulting paste on the basis for the canape of Borodino bread.
  4. Cut the remaining cheese into thin rectangular slices. Set them on bread in the form of sails. Arrange a whole olive in the middle. Fasten the structure with a skewer.

Garnish the treat with chopped herbs and lemon slices.

With trout and quail eggs

Ingredients:

  • 8 quail eggs;
  • 80 - 100 g of slightly salted trout;
  • ½ tbsp curd cheese "Almette" (possible with any additives);
  • 4 slices of rye bread;
  • fresh dill.

Cooking:

  1. Dip the eggs in a large amount of boiling water for 6 to 7 minutes. Then cool and gently peel. Care must be taken to ensure that the integrity of the protein is not violated, otherwise the finished canapes will look messy.
  2. Mix curd cheese with chopped dill. If a dairy product is purchased already with herbs, then such an additional ingredient can be discarded.
  3. Trout cut into squares according to the number of bases. For each slice of bread put on a fish blank.
  4. Using a culinary syringe or a regular spoon, top with cheese and herbs.
  5. Place the quail egg vertically on the remaining components and secure the structure with skewers.

Put the canapes on a beautiful plate covered with lettuce.

Ladybugs with caviar

Ingredients:

  • ½ rolls of white bread;
  • butter;
  • Cherry tomatoes;
  • several seedless olives;
  • 70 g of red caviar;
  • fresh "curly" parsley.

Cooking:

  1. White bread to get rid of the crust and cut from it a thick round base for canapes.
  2. Grease each workpiece with softened butter.
  3. Spread red caviar on bread. The more even and thicker its layer is, the tastier the finished snack will be, so the amount of caviar used can be increased.
  4. Cherry cut in half. On each side, cut a small triangle on each side so that the workpiece imitates an insect body with wings.
  5. Arrange the cherry on the caviar. From the half of the olive, make the “head” of the ladybug. From the remaining part, cut out the spots of the insect.

Garnish with parsley canapes. If desired, at the snack you can put pieces of boiled chicken protein and sweet canned corn in the form of delicious daisies, as well as come up with other ways to decorate it.

Option with salami and cucumber sausage

Ingredients:

  • 250 g of quality salami sausage;
  • 150 - 200 g of "Dutch" or any other hard / semi-hard cheese;
  • 1 fresh cucumber;
  • pickled champignons (small);
  • parsley greens;
  • White bread.

Cooking:

  1. Cut white bread and smoked sausage into identical rectangular slices. Lay these ingredients on top of each other right away. To taste, you can pre-lightly dry the bread in the oven and cool.
  2. Cheese blocks to make smaller than bread and sausage. Lay on top of the entire structure.
  3. To make a sail from a thin slice of fresh cucumber and fix it on a canape with a toothpick. On the top of the "mast" plant a pickled mushroom.

Put the canapes on a plate with parsley.

With anchovies and tomatoes

Ingredients:

  • 60 g anchovies;
  • 100 g of white wheat bread;
  • sunflower oil;
  • 2 ripe peaches;
  • 2 tbsp. l wine vinegar;
  • green salad;
  • fresh dill;
  • 2 cherry tomatoes.

Cooking:

  1. Fry the bread slices until golden brown in sunflower oil.
  2. Peaches and peel.
  3. Pour the anchovies with a mixture of wine vinegar and water (in proportions 1 to 2). Leave the fish in this form in the cool for half an hour.
  4. Cut the cherry into halves. Dill into branches. Lettuce leaves tear by hand.
  5. Put mashed fruit on the fried bread and distribute the salad. Add the pickled anchovies and dill.

Garnish the canapes with halves of cherry and fasten with a skewer.

To make the canapes look more interesting, you should abandon the use of conventional toothpicks. It is better to take the original curly skewers. A very large selection of such accessories is presented in stores with goods for organizing holidays.

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