A buffet table is one of the types of a banquet, a semi-formal reception arranged in order to allow a fairly large number of people to meet and communicate in an informal setting. The word "buffet" in French means "on the fork", because the snack fork is the main "tool" that your guests will need.

Buffet snack on bread

Ingredients:

• grain loaves,
• fresh cucumbers,
• chicken eggs,
• mayonnaise,
• lightly salted pink salmon fillet,
• fresh dill.

Preparation:

1. Wash fresh cucumbers, dry, grate on a special grater for carrots in Korean or cut into very small strips, squeeze out the juice that they let out.
2. Boil the eggs, peel and chop finely and finely with a knife (you can even knead them with a fork) and mix with mayonnaise so that you get a not too thick and not too liquid pasty mass.
3. Spread each loaf quite a bit with mayonnaise, put a thin layer of cucumber mass, tamp it a little, spread the egg mass on top and now place the pink salmon fillet strips rolled into roses in the center of the sandwiches.
4. Garnish each sandwich with a sprig of fresh dill. Of course, you can substitute baguette slices or beautifully cut bread slices as you wish.

Hot sandwiches with pink salmon

Ingredients:

• white bread,
• butter,
• fillet of fresh pink salmon,
• hard cheese
• mayonnaise,
• green onion.

Preparation:

1. Wash the fish fillets, dry and cut into medium portion cubes.
2. Grate the hard cheese and mix it with mayonnaise until a smooth, medium-thick paste is obtained.
3. Cut the bread into pieces of any geometric shape (these can be circles, ovals, rhombuses, triangles or squares). Preheat the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
4. Grease one side of the bread slices with butter and place them on the baking sheet, spread side down. Bake for about five minutes, until a golden crust appears.
5. Remove the bread slices, cool slightly. Now grease the other side of each slice with butter and place this side down on the covered baking sheet. Place a piece of fish in the center of each slice, spread generously with the cheese mixture on top and send to the oven for 10-15 minutes.
6. After the desired time has elapsed, remove the sandwiches from the oven and place them on a festive large flat dish. Chop the green onion finely, sprinkle the sandwiches on top with them.
7. Arrange beautifully and thinly sliced ​​fresh vegetables (sweet peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers), lettuce leaves and sprigs of fresh herbs around them.

Snack with black caviar and salmon

These sandwiches can be striped or sprinkled with black caviar cat prints on slices of bread. It looks very unusual, but beautiful.

Ingredients:

• fresh loaf - 6 slices;
• mayonnaise or sour cream - 30 g;
• black caviar - 40 g;
• lightly salted salmon - 100 g;
• iceberg lettuce leaves.

Cooking method:

1. Lightly moisten salmon with freshly squeezed lemon juice.
2. Cut the loaf into thin slices and dry a little in the toaster - a faint crust should appear on the surface of the bread.
3. Place the fish on the loaf slices.
4. Drip mayonnaise or sour cream on the fish.
5. Lay out a random pattern from black caviar on the fish.
6. Put lettuce leaves on a large plate and place ready-made sandwiches on them.
7. Supplement the composition with small lemon wedges.

Tomato buffet appetizer

Ingredients:

• 300 g mixed minced meat
• 6 small tomatoes
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 small onion
• 2 tbsp. l. refined vegetable oil
• freshly ground black pepper

Cooking method:

1. Peel, chop and chop the onion and garlic in a meat grinder or blender. Put the minced meat in a wide bowl, add the onion and garlic, season with salt, pepper and mix well, and then beat off. Divide into 6 pieces and form round patties 4-5 cm in diameter.
2. Heat the oil in a skillet and fry the patties over medium heat for about 3-4 minutes on each side to brown. Transfer to a plate.
3. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
4. Wash the tomatoes and dry well. Cut each across. Put a cutlet on the lower part, cover with the upper part and fasten each tomato with a toothpick, sticking it into the center of the "hamburger".
5. Place the tomatoes in a greased non-stick baking sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
6. Gently transfer the finished hamburgers to a dish, remove the toothpicks, serve warm.

Cod liver sandwiches

Due to the presence of vitamins and minerals in the liver of cod, even in ancient times, healers used it as a drug that cures many diseases. Thus, cod liver sandwiches are not only a very tasty dish, but also incredibly healthy!
And for connoisseurs of fish and seafood dishes, such a meal will become a real celebration of the soul and stomach!

Ingredients:

• white bread - 5 pcs.
• cod liver oil - 1 can
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• onions - 1/4 pcs.
• fresh cucumbers - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2 teeth.
• fresh parsley - bunch.

Cooking method:

1. Remove the cod liver from the jar and wrap it thoroughly with a fork.
2. Dry the slices of white bread on a wire rack, in a toaster or in a dry skillet. Sandwich bread should be fairly brown, crispy on the outside and firm crumb on the inside.
3. Boil the eggs hard-boiled, cool them in cold water and peel them. By the way, I want to remind you that it is recommended to cook eggs for at least 10 minutes over moderate heat. In this case, the water needs to be salted. Using a knife, chop the protein together with the yolk and add the cod to the liver.
4. Peel the fresh cucumber and cut into small cubes. Alternatively, you can grate with medium-sized holes. Let's send it to the liver and eggs.
5. Remove the husk from the onion. For this dish, a quarter of a chopped onion will be enough for us. Combine the onion with the rest of the ingredients.
6. Generously rub slices of toasted bread on both sides with a clove of garlic. It will additionally add spice and characteristic aroma to sandwiches.
7. Mix all the components into a homogeneous mass and spread the prepared bread with it. Decorate the finished cod liver sandwiches with parsley and serve.

Buffet snack sandwiches

Ingredients:

• French baguette slices 20 pcs.
• Cod liver 2 ban.
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Hard cheese 200 gr.
• Mayonnaise 2 tablespoons
• Garlic 2 tooth
• Dill 1 bunch.
• Green onions to taste

Preparation:

1. Cut the baguette into slices and brown in a dry skillet or toaster until crisp. Any white bread or sliced ​​loaf can be used if desired. By the way, recipes for sandwiches can easily be invented by oneself and experiment with ingredients according to your own taste. Sandwiches are considered the "quickest" dish. They are indispensable for picnics and walks. Cod liver sandwiches are also a very healthy food. Cod liver contains vitamins A, D and E, proteins, unsaturated fatty acids and folic acid. Today, it can be easily purchased at almost any grocery store.
2. Cooking sandwiches with cod liver from the contents of 2-hundred-gram cans. The liver should be removed and suppressed with a fork. Boil eggs, cool, peel and finely chop or grate. Also grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
3. Combine the resulting components with mayonnaise and finely chopped dill. To prevent the consistency from getting too liquid, mayonnaise should be added gradually.
4. We make cod liver sandwiches that have a spicy flavor, so grate the fried bread slices with garlic on both sides. And evenly spread the sandwich mass on the prepared bread.
5. Sprinkle with dill and green onions before serving the sandwiches. So this unpretentious dish will also acquire beauty. With all the advantages of cod liver sandwiches, it is important to observe the measure, and then a quick and simple cold snack will bring aesthetic pleasure and benefit. Of course, adding greens to the cod liver is not for everybody, it is better to put a plate with greens on the table.

Buffet snacks profiteroles

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Wheat flour - 100 g
• Water - 100 ml
• Butter - 50 g
• Eggs - 2-3 pcs.
• Salt - a pinch

For filling:

• Cream cheese - 300 g
• Salmon bellies - 300 g
• Parsley - 1 sprig (for decoration)
• Smoked salmon - 50 g (for decoration)
• Red caviar - 1 tsp
• Sour cream 20% - 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Profiteroles are a simple, original, tasty and quick snack. The filling can be changed to your liking. It can be meat or mushrooms.
2. Dough recipe, proven over the years. Inside, these profiteroles are completely empty. The most important thing is to correctly guess the consistency of the dough. It should be thicker than the pancakes.
3. Eggs need to be driven in one at a time, and until the previous one is completely connected to the dough, the new one must not be driven in! We took 2 large eggs and a yolk from the third.
4. To prepare the dough, we need the products listed in the list.
5. Pour water into a ladle, add butter and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil.
6. Without removing from the stove, make a small fire, add all the flour at once and mix very quickly with a wooden or silicone spatula.
7. The mass becomes homogeneous and smooth.
8. The dough is ready when a film remains on the bottom. The dough must be cooled until slightly warm. Good - put it on the balcony.
9. Then we transfer the mass to a blender, add one egg and punch until it is completely connected to the dough. Then add the remaining eggs one by one. The consistency is thicker than that of a pancake. If the dough turns out to be liquid, it will be impossible to fix it, you cannot add flour.
10. Our dough is ready. We transfer it into a pastry bag with a round or star nozzle or into a syringe and place small products on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. You can do this with a spoon.
11. We send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees. We bake for 15 minutes. Do not open the oven - the dough may settle. During this time, the products should lightly brown and grow well. Then we lower the temperature to 160 degrees and leave it in the oven for another 15 minutes. We turn off the gas, open the door slightly and do not remove it for another 5 minutes.
12. Let's start preparing the filling. For her, we need the products listed in the list.
13. We send fish products to a blender and punch them. Add cheese, sour cream and beat until smooth. The filling is ready. Cut off the tops of the profiteroles. Fill them with filling through a syringe. Insert a piece of salmon.
14. Add a few eggs and a parsley leaf. The salmon profiteroles are ready.

Tartlets with herring tartare

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of lightly salted herring
• 1 small loaf of Borodino bread
• 20 yolks of very fresh quail eggs
• 1 can of pike caviar
• 2 crispy cucumbers
• 1 small green apple
• juice of half a lemon
• half bunch of chives
• olive oil
• salt, black pepper

Cooking method:

1. Cut off the crust of bread, cut 20 thin, 5 mm, pieces. Sprinkle with water and oil to soften the bread. Place each bite in a baking dish and press into the edges to form the bread into a basket. Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and dry until crisp, about 7 minutes. Then cool it down.
2. Cut the herring into neat 5 mm pieces with a very sharp knife. Season with pepper.
3. Cut the cucumbers into smaller cubes than the herring. Season with salt and pepper, stir and add to the herring.
4. Peel the apple, remove the core, cut the pulp into cubes the same as the cucumbers. Pour with lemon juice, stir, let stand for 3-4 minutes, shake off lemon juice and add to herring with cucumber. Finely chop the chives, stir in the tartar.
5. Remove the cooled Borodino bread baskets from the molds and place them on a beautiful dish or tray. Gently place in each herring tartare. Make a depression in the center of the tartare in each basket.
6. Carefully separate the yolks of the quail eggs from the whites. Place one yolk in each well. Next to the yolk - some pike caviar (so that the tartare is clearly visible). Serve immediately.

Shrimp canapes on skewers

Ingredients:

• Lemon - 0.5 Pieces
• Shrimp - 200 Grams
• Hard cheese - 120 Grams

Cooking method:

1. Prepare all the ingredients you need. Buy shrimp dry-frozen, so you will not overpay for ice and save yourself from spoiled product. Boil the shrimp in water with salt and 1 teaspoon of dill seeds.
2. Peel the shrimp, cut the lemon into small pieces, without removing the peel, it will give the canapes a special zest and appetizing color. Cut the cheese into small flat squares.
3. Pierce all three ingredients with skewers or toothpicks in this order: first one end of the shrimp, then the lemon, the other end of the shrimp, and finally the hard cheese. Thanks to the cheese, the canapes will stand steadily. Garnish the appetizer with finely chopped onion and serve to delighted guests with red and white wine.

Tartlets with caviar and butter

Recipe for a gorgeous appetizer from tartlets with caviar. The correct way to fill the basket, proportions, features. Both red and black caviar are suitable for a snack. The number of products is not indicated.

Ingredients:

• butter;
• caviar;
• tartlets;
• dill greens.

Preparation:

1. The butter should not be hard. It is very important to take it out of the refrigerator in advance to soften the product. Otherwise, the butter will lie crookedly; when trying to distribute it inside the basket, the tartlet can be easily damaged.
2. We collect half a teaspoon of oil for a standard tartlet. Smear it with an even layer along the bottom of the product.
3. Now a layer of caviar. It should be thicker. Put a full teaspoon in each tartlet. You can add 1.5 spoons. Spread gently over the surface.
4. Now the dill. We wash the greens with cold water, shake off the droplets, put them on a small branch on top of the caviar. You can also use parsley, but dill has a milder taste and goes better with caviar.
5. We transfer the tartlets to a plate, between them you can spread the remnants of greens. We cool and serve.

Soft cheese tartlets

For these tartlets, you can use cottage cheese or any other soft cheese. To make the filling fatty and ideally combine with the caviar, oil is also added to it.

Ingredients:

• 120 g of cheese;
• 30 g butter;
• 15-20 small tartlets;
• a little dill;
• 100 g of caviar.

Preparation:

1. Beat the cheese and softened butter until smooth. If the cheese is fat, you can cook it without oil, but it still tastes better with it.
2. Add 0.5 tsp to the cheese. chopped dill. We chop the greens very finely, grind everything together.
3. We spread the cheese filling into the tartlets so that it fills them by 2/3. Align the top with a teaspoon.
4. Now we make a layer of caviar, distribute it so that the gaps are as small as possible.
5. Put a small sprig of dill on top.
6. We shift the tartlets to the dish. If the cheese filling remains, then you can put it in a pastry syringe or in a bag, squeeze small flowers onto the caviar, write letters or depict any pattern.

Egg appetizer with pate

Ingredients:

• chicken liver 500 g
• onion 1 pc
• carrots 1 pc
• butter 50-100 g
• salt freshly ground pepper eggs (hard-boiled) lettuce (for serving)

Cooking method:

1. Wash the liver, dry it and cut into small pieces. Cut the onion into half rings. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
2. In a frying pan with heated vegetable oil, fry the onions and carrots until half cooked. Add the liver and fry over a slightly less than medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 5-7 minutes.
3. Then cover the pan with a lid, reduce heat and simmer until cooked for another 10 minutes, season with salt and pepper.
4. Pass the liver with onions and carrots through a meat grinder or grind in a blender, add a piece of butter and stir well until smooth (or pass through a meat grinder again).
5. Optionally, you can stuff the eggs with liver pate. Boil the eggs hard-boiled, peel and carefully cut each egg lengthwise into two halves.
6. Take out the yolks. Part of the set aside boiled yolks can be kneaded with a fork, added to the pate and mixed well. Set aside a few yolks for decoration.
7. Put washed and dried lettuce leaves on a plate, put halves of eggs on them.
8. Place the paste from the pastry bag into each half of the egg, sprinkle the yolks on top with grated yolks on a fine grater and decorate with herbs.

Buffet hot snack

Ingredients:

• Armenian lavash - 2 pieces;
• Hard cheese - 200 grams;
• Smoked sausages - 150 grams;
• Chicken eggs - 3 pieces;
• Garlic - 3 cloves;
• Pickled cucumber - 3 pieces;
• Green onion feathers - a bunch;
• Butter fat - 1 tbsp. l;
• Mayonnaise sauce.

Cooking method:

1. Cut smoked sausages, pickles, cheese and boiled eggs into thin cubes;
2. Chop the herbs and garlic with a knife. Introduce them into previously prepared products;
3. Season everything with mayonnaise sauce;
4. Spread Pita Sheets on the table. Brush it with garlic mayonnaise sauce;
5. Divide the filling into 2 parts and place each on a separate pita bread;
6. Roll them into tight tubes;
7. Grease each roll with butter;
8. Grate hard cheese on a coarse grater. Sprinkle them on straws;
9. Place the entire appetizer on a baking sheet and bake for 13 minutes.

Cold appetizer with salmon

Ingredients:

• Bread - 4 slices;
• Cucumber - 1 pc.;
• Hard cheese - 100g;
• Olives - 8 pcs.;
• Salmon - 50gr.;
• Greens - for decoration.

Cooking method:

1. You can take rye or white bread (optional). It needs to be cut into small portions in the shape of a triangle or square.
2. The bread will be the basis of the sandwich, so it should be chopped on a skewer at the very bottom. You can buy special skewers, or use toothpicks.
3. Then comes a layer of hard cheese, it must also be cut, like the bread (if you chose a square shape, then you need to adhere to it, if the bread is cut into triangles, then the cheese should be cut as well).
4. Cut the salmon into thin slices, string on a toothpick.
5. Then slice the cucumber thinly. You can use both fresh and pickled cucumbers (if fresh ones are not at hand), the taste of the finished dish will not suffer from this.
6. The top layer is olives. You can use whole olives, or cut each in half.
7. If desired, the dish can be decorated with fresh herbs.
8. The number of products can be increased, depending on how many people the feast is designed for.
9. The most delicious appetizer for the festive table is ready.

Canapes with quail eggs

Ingredients:

• Quail eggs - 5 pcs.;
• Cucumber - 1 pc.;
• Cream cheese - 100gr .;
• Red caviar - 20g.;

Cooking method:

1. First you need to boil quail eggs. To do this, wash them under running water, then place them in a saucepan, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
2. Then dip the eggs in cold water, then peel and cut in half.
3. The cucumber should be washed and sliced ​​as you like. In this case, the cucumber acts as the basis, so it should be strung very first.
4. The next layer is eggs.
5. Place the cream cheese on top of the eggs.
6. Place the red caviar on top of the cheese.
7. The amount of ingredients is calculated for 10 skewers. It can be changed depending on the number of guests.
8. The result is a healthy and delicious instant cold snack.

Greek salad on skewers

Ingredients:

• Feta cheese - 100 gr .;
• Cream tomatoes - 2 pieces;
• Cucumber;
• Red onion head;
• Bulgarian pepper;
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp spoon;
• A slice of garlic;
• Pitted olives;
• Salt;
• Pepper.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the pepper in half. Remove the seeds, rinse with water and cut the halves in half again to form boats.
2. Cut the tomatoes into neat slices. The "cream" variety is ideal for a snack. You can take cherry tomatoes. In this case, they will need several times more. The cherry is simply cut in half.
3. Place the tomatoes on top of the peppers. Cut the cheese into 3 by 3 centimeters cubes. Chop a piece of cheese and one olive on a toothpick.
4. Wash the cucumber. If it is not bitter, the skin may not be cut off. Cut it into thin slices lengthwise. Read more:
5. On a toothpick with cheese and olive, chop a cucumber so that it is on both sides. Stick a toothpick into the pepper and tomato.
6. Combine finely chopped onion, chopped garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper and oil. Pour this dressing over the boats and serve them to the table.