New Year's table without champagne, like a snowman without a carrot or a Christmas tree without a star. This drink is bought, opened, poured into glasses, but few people think about the right snack.
Most often limited to festive sandwiches or salads, which is a big mistake. Champagne has a refined taste. It is important to emphasize, not drown.
What has not been eaten yet?
Champagne is an aperitif. It is usually served before meals or at the very beginning. Sparkling wine is not consumed on a full stomach. Also, it does not bite with bitter chocolate, as many have become accustomed to do. But you can submit candy with fruit and berry fillings, caramel, fudge inside.
What else is combined champagne:
- Cheese. You can whole plate with different types. It is believed that rich cheeses are served to sweet champagne. Simple varieties are suitable for dry wine (Camembert, Brie).
- Fruits. To champagne, you can serve cutting of kiwi, pineapple, peach, soft pears, bananas. Strawberries are allowed. Hard fruits are not served.
- Meat. It is customary to serve it with pink champagne, but it also goes well with white sparkling wines.
- Seafood. Squids, shrimps, octopuses are suitable for all types of dry and sweet wines. They can be served separately or in canapés, tartlets with other ingredients.
- Nuts. Someone might be surprised at such a snack, but it's worth a try! We collect a nut plate of 5-6 species and it's done! Snacks are suitable for all types of brut to sweet champagne.
Here is just an example of what can be put on the table. But even better to cook with these products gourmet snacks. Let's surprise the guests!
Snack with cheese and tomato
Recipe nourishing and juicy champagne snacks. Cheese and tomato are a win-win combination, garlic is often added to them, but this cannot be done with this recipe. You can lay out such a snack in miniature tartlets or on chips.
Ingredients
- 100 g of cheese;
- 100 g of tomato;
- 4 sprigs of dill;
- 1 pinch of allspice;
- a bit of mayonnaise.
Method of preparation
- Cut the washed tomato into four pieces and remove all the seeds. Fleshy parts with a sharp knife cut into small cubes. Chop the dill, add.
- Rub finely cheese, add, add some mayonnaise and pepper, stir.
- Spread a teaspoon of snacks into a small tartlet or chips. Served to the champagne.
It is possible to add sliced olive or even a few pieces to such a mass, sometimes decorating the decomposed snack with thin ringlets.
Strawberries in chocolate
It's good that now you can buy strawberries at any time of the year. After all, from it you can cook a delicious snack for champagne. Choose a good chocolate that melts quickly. It is undesirable to use tiles with fillers.
Ingredients
- 0.4 kg of strawberries;
- 0.2 kg of chocolate.
Method of preparation
- It is most convenient to melt chocolate in a water bath. Put a bowl on a saucepan with hot water, throw broken tiles or special droplets into it. Heat, stir. No need to perederzhivat. Too hot chocolate will flow, it will make a thin layer. Slightly warm icing will be thick, it may not be enough.
- While the chocolate is melted, put the washed and dried strawberries on skewers.
- Checking the icing. If it is ready, then turn off the stove, but do not remove the bowl, keep it on the saucepan with water. We dip on one strawberry berry and take it out. Spread on parchment or stick in a bowl with sugar.
This is the base case. You can decorate the glaze with nuts, small sweets, special dragees. To do this, dip or sprinkle immediately, until the chocolate froze.
Canape with shrimp and orange
Seafood blends perfectly with citrus fruits, and together they will be a great snack for champagne. The recipe for simple miniature sandwiches with a gorgeous view. Serve them better on a green leaf of lettuce or on a white plate. Such substrates will emphasize the color of the snack.
Ingredients
- orange;
- 8 shrimp;
- 30 g oil;
- 2 slices of toast bread.
Method of preparation
- Heat the pan. Cut the bread into four squares, dry the pieces on a dry surface. They will hold the canapés.
- Put butter on the pan and melt it. Throw peeled shrimps, fry until ruddy color for 2 minutes. Tails desirable to leave.
- Peel an orange and each slice from the film.
- We put half an orange slice on a piece of bread. We pierce the shrimp at the tail with a toothpick or skewer, put on the second part of the orange slice and pass through the shrimp again.
- We stick the skewer in the bread with orange. They do not need additional decoration.
This appetizer can also be cooked with pineapple, kiwi slices, they are perfectly combined with champagne and seafood.
Cherry mozzarella
For snacks choose small balls of mozzarella cheese and miniature tomatoes. This miracle is being prepared in just five minutes; skewers will be needed.
Ingredients
- 10 mozzarella balls;
- 10 cherry tomatoes;
- 3 boxes of olive oil;
- 2 basil sprigs;
- 10 pieces of bread.
Method of preparation
- Chop the basil very finely, mix with natural olive oil. Pour mozzarella, roll the balls in the mixture.
- Cut ten small pieces of bread. Sometimes cups are used for the basics. At will we dry bread.
- String a tomato and a mozzarella ball in oil with basil on a skewer. We stick into the base of the bread and it's done!
Canapé can be supplemented with olive or olive. To decorate the snack use whole basil leaves.
Cheese canapes with olives and pineapple
Another variation of the snack, which is cooked for no more than ten minutes. Pineapple can be used fresh or canned, but we express the syrup well.
Ingredients
- olives;
- pineapple;
- hard or semi-hard cheese.
Method of preparation
- Cut the cheese into cubes, the size of one olives. Approximately the same slices cut pineapple. Olives removed from the brine.
- Thread the olive first, then the pineapple, and stick it all into a cube of cheese. Send canape to the plate.
Champagne snacks should not be much. They are not needed for saturation. It makes more sense to focus on diversity and sophisticated design.
