Light, light, spicy bar, viscous dark - what to eat beer? Supermarkets offer traditional, but rather annoying options: chips, crackers, squid, dried fish. Do you want to surprise the guests and please yourself with a new taste? Make a beer snack by yourself.
Beer Snacks - General Cooking Principles
Beer snacks can be served cold or hot. The components are crushed, mixed in a certain way. As a result, served on the table cold beer snacks: sandwiches, canapes, salads, cuts. Products for such dishes: cheese, ham, herring, baguette, sauces, greens.
Hot snacks for beer are fried slices of potatoes, white or red fish, squids, shrimps, chicken wings. Such dishes are more satisfying and may well become an option for a festive family dinner.
Crispy Wings in Honey Sauce
A hearty beer snack came to us from German cuisine. Calorie wings are very tasty, if you do not ignore the first stage - pickling. Let the chicken wings soak in the marinade for two hours, and then bake in the preheated oven.
Ingredients:
five to six chicken wings;
a large tablespoon of honey;
tablespoon of soy sauce;
spices to taste;
a quarter of a teaspoon of red pepper;
tablespoon of vegetable oil;
garlic clove;
a teaspoon of mustard beans;
two tablespoons of ketchup.
Cooking Method:
Wash chicken wings and pat dry on a towel.
Spread with vegetable oil, honey, salt and spices.
Marinate one and a half to two hours.
Preheat oven to 220-230 ° C.
Bake the wings until tender.
Serve with sauce. To make it, mix the mustard seed, soy sauce, ketchup, chili in a skillet.
Warm the sauce over low heat, serve with meat.
Cheese balls for beer
Cheese lovers will like this beer snack very much. Cooked quickly, and eaten too. Delicious. Ingredients:
four hundred grams of melted cheese;
four eggs;
four tablespoons of water;
one hundred grams of ham;
oil for the pan;
one hundred grams of bread crumbs.
Cooking Method:
Melted cheese for twenty minutes, put in the freezer, then rub finely.
Cut the ham into small cubes.
Separate the whites and whip to a foam.
Pour water into the yolks, mix with a fork.
Combine ham, cheese and protein foam, mix well.
From the mass, form balls and send out in the freezer for about twenty minutes.
Frozen balls dipped in yolk, roll in breadcrumbs.
Heat the butter and fry the cheese snack to the beer until a beautiful appetizing crust appears.
Light salad with chips
Chips - a traditional beer snack. It can be made more nourishing and tasty if cooked and served as a salad. The dish looks beautiful, it turns out moderately salty and spicy, stimulates the appetite. It is very simple to prepare such a salad, and it is not a shame to offer guests.
Ingredients:
one hundred grams of large chips;
a pound of fresh ham;
a jar of brain-grade peas;
medium onion;
one hundred grams of mayonnaise.
Cooking Method:
Ham cut into thin strips.
Peel and chop the onion into very small cubes.
Mix ham and onions with peas.
Season everything with mayonnaise.
Spread the chips on a large flat dish.
Spoon gently put the salad on the potato plate.
Immediately serve beer snack, so that the chips are not soaked and remained crispy.
Fried shrimp for beer
A very simple recipe for a delicious beer snack. It looks very appetizing, it turns out delicious. A real treat for lovers of oriental cuisine.
Ingredients:
two kilos of shrimp;
lemon;
two cloves of garlic;
frying oil;
salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking Method:
Thaw shrimp in the refrigerator.
Squeeze juice out of lemon.
Fold the shrimp in a bowl, cover with juice, mix.
Leave the seafood for an hour in the marinade.
Grate the garlic. Heat the oil in a pan.
Fry the shrimp on both sides until an appetizing crust, sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Fold in porridge, season with garlic, mix and immediately serve to the table.
Kupaty beer sharp
Delicious sausages - the perfect snack for beer. German cuisine was created in order to delight lovers of beer and not give the body quickly hop. Smoked meat aroma, spicy savory taste - what else do you need to spend a pleasant evening in good company?
Ingredients:
a kilogram of kupat;
salt;
oil for the pan;
pepper;
fresh dill.
Cooking Method:
Kupaty put in a frying pan, pour in three spoons of water and simmer for about fifteen minutes.
Cut the dill.
When the water is evaporated, pour in some vegetable oil.
Fry sausages on both sides.
Sprinkle the finished kupat with pepper and dill.
Serve hot.
Herring Canapes
Fat herring is not only tasty, but also useful. It is very popular in Russian cuisine, because it allows you to cook a huge number of simple snack dishes of Russian cuisine. Herring snacks are cheap, but will be a real treat for anyone who loves fish. For a beer feast small canapes with herring - the most it.
Ingredients:
two large herring weak salted;
loaf of Borodino bread;
one hundred grams of butter;
a bunch of fresh dill;
lemon.
Cooking Method:
Remove the oil from the refrigerator, let it soften a little.
Cut herring: cut fins and head, remove the skin, separate the fillets from the bones.
Dill cut very finely and mix with butter.
Cut the Borodino at first into thin slices, then into squares (3-4 cm).
Cut lemon into slices, divide each into small segments.
Spread the bread with a thin layer of dill oil, put a piece of herring and a lemon slice on top.
Pierce with a skewer to fix the canapes.
Crispy Crab Sticks
Cheap crab sticks can be turned into a great snack. Tasty, simple, beautiful dish fits perfectly into the concept of a beer table. Ingredients:
three hundred grams of crab sticks;
a quarter cup of light beer;
egg;
four tablespoons of flour;
half a lemon;
salt and pepper to taste;
two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Cooking Method:
Squeeze juice out of lemon.
Crab sticks free from film, pickle in lemon juice, salt, pepper.
Beat the eggs together with the beer.
Pour flour, mix until smooth.
Heat the oil in a pan.
Dip the crab sticks in batter, fry on both sides.
Serve hot sauce.
The snack is good and cold too.
“Original” Potato Appetizer
The variation on french fries is tasty, nutritious and satisfying. And it is much more useful than potatoes from a foodkort, which is fried from frozen slices on the same oil for many hours. Many can feed the original snack, so feel free to cook a simple but tasty treat.
Ingredients:
six potatoes;
half a lemon or a little lime;
a piece of parmesan (20-30 grams);
two tablespoons of ketchup;
half a cup of mayonnaise;
two tablespoons of olive oil;
pepper and salt to taste;
two tablespoons of chopped greens.
Cooking Method:
Peel the potatoes.
Cover the baking sheet with foil, brush with olive oil.
Chop the garlic potatoes.
Arrange the potato slices, salt, sprinkle with pepper, drizzle with residual oil.
Send the potatoes to bake in the oven at 220 ° C.
With lemon, remove the zest, squeeze the juice.
Prepare the sauce: mix ketchup and mayonnaise, lemon zest and a spoonful of juice.
Season the sauce with salt and pepper if the taste is not spicy enough.
After 45 minutes from the moment of roasting, check the readiness of the potato slices.
Put the prepared potatoes in a bowl, sprinkle with chopped greens, mix.
Serve spicy potato snack with cream sauce, homemade ketchup, mayonnaise.
Crispy Squid Rings
This dish is often included in the menu of cafes and restaurants. It is tasty, simple, useful. prepare squid rings for beer. You will surely enjoy the snack, and you will spend a little time and effort on its preparation. Ingredients:
kilogram of fresh squids;
egg;
a glass of cornstarch;
garlic salt (one third of a teaspoon);
custom salt (teaspoon);
incomplete glass of vegetable oil.
Cooking Method:
Squid thaw, rinse with water, remove the skin, remove the transparent cartilage.
Use a sharp knife to cut the squid carcass into rings. Tentacles set aside - they are not needed.
Stir in the garlic salt and starch. You can take the usual salt and garlic powder.
Beat a raw egg with a spoonful of water.
Heat the oil so that the batter will seize at once.
Dip the rings carefully into the egg. It is convenient to do this with the help of two forks.
Roll in starch powder.
Fry the breaded rings in oil on both sides until a crust appears.
Serve with any sauce.
Beer Snacks - Tips and Tips
To make a beer snack to your taste, stick with traditional combinations. So really tastier.
Harmonious duet create light beers with fish, potatoes and cheese.
For dark beer, prepare a meat snack.
Squids and other seafood are good for unfiltered beer, as well as sweet or neutral snacks.
Serve meat and seafood dishes immediately, hot. After cooling, they will also be tasty, but there will no longer be a pleasant crisp crust.
Keep the rest of snacks in the refrigerator for no longer than a day.
