Hot snacks are an indispensable addition to the main dishes.

An integral part of almost any table is a snack. Its main function is to prepare us for the main meal, and thanks to its attractive and interesting form - the snack becomes an ornament of the dining table. It can be cold or hot. In this article I bring to your attention original and simple recipes for hot starters, the taste and appearance of which will surely appeal to the guests and will pleasantly surprise family members.

Hot appetizers are served depending on their type on large dishes, metal plates resembling a sink bowl with a handle, small serving kremankochkah, portioned pans with two handles, trays. As for the order, they are presented immediately after a cold snack. Ingredients that make up hot snacks should be finely or portionwise cut, so that when you eat, you do not need a knife.

Hot appetizers for a banquet or corporate.

Stuffed mushrooms

We take large champignons, rinse and clean them. We discuss with a napkin or a towel. Carefully at the very cap cut off the legs. We cut them into small pieces, cut the onions into cubes, brown the mushroom legs and onions in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. When the latter starts to acquire a golden hue, add a few cloves of mashed garlic.

Crackers of white bread grind in a meat grinder to get a crumb. Three hard cheese and chop finely parsley. Stir bread crumbs with cheese and parsley, add half onion-mushroom mass, pepper and add salt to taste. In the mushroom hats lay out the minced meat, top with the hill we put the remaining onion-mushroom mass. Sprinkle with oil and sprinkle a bit of finely grated cheese. Bake mushrooms at 190 degrees for 20 minutes. (Before the formation of a golden, crispy crust). Hot snack is ready.

Sausages in bacon

Small sausochki (2-2.5 cm in length) wrapped in a thin slice of bacon. So that it does not turn around, it should be fixed with toothpicks. Sausages can also be replaced with hunting sausages or make small sausages most of the pork, chicken or ground beef. Hot appetizers of such a plan can be baked in the oven or, if possible, on the grill.

Hot appetizers for the festive table.

Shish kebabs in puff pastry

Such shish kebabs can be made from different products. Therefore, I propose to prepare several options at once. With prawns and cheese, with trout or salmon and cheese, with champignons and cheese. You can experiment with your favorite products and combine meat and vegetable ingredients at your own will.

Shrimp defrost and clean, dry with a paper towel. Fish fillet cut into small cubes with sides of about 2 cm. Champignons are taken in small sizes and boil them whole in salt water. Then, if desired, they can be lightly fried in oil. Cheese is cut into cubes, about the same size as the already prepared ingredients. The dough is slightly rolled out and cut into strips of 1.5-2 cm.

We take long wooden skewers and, alternating, begin to string on them cheese and shrimp, fish and cheese, mushrooms and cheese. Thus, we get three types of snacks. After everything is strung, wrap each skewer with a ribbon of puff pastry so that each subsequent curl is slightly found on the previous one. Lubricate the dough with whipped egg yolk. We bake a snack 20 minutes in the oven at 180-200 degrees.

Puff pastry balls with fish minced meat

For preparation it is necessary: fish fillet (cod, hake, pink salmon, pike perch, etc.), onion, puff pastry, egg yolk.

Fish fillet together with onion grind in a meat grinder or blender, the resulting mass of salt and pepper. We make out of the received forcemeat balls in size in a walnut. The puff pastry is slightly rolled out, we cut with stripes about 1 cm wide. We wrap each ball, like a globule, with stripes from the dough so as to completely cover the fish balls. Dough on ball-globules coated with egg yolk and put the products on a baking sheet, which we send baked at 200 degrees in the oven. Approximate cooking time - half an hour.