"Buffet" in French is a fork. At a buffet table, there is usually a minimum of chairs, basically everyone is standing, conducting conversations, holding a plate with a fork and small snacks in their hands. Those gathered serve themselves, the purpose of the buffet is communication, food is a secondary matter. If you are going to gather guests for a buffet in the office or at home, then we will tell you which snacks to cook for the buffet, see the recipes with photos, simple and tasty.

Buffet dishes are mini snacks prepared quickly, from high quality and simple products, but they do not differ in their taste from the complex dishes served in restaurants. In addition to crackers and canapes, the buffet also includes salads, small pies for one bite, mini burgers. Most snacks are eaten using forks or skewers. We will find out what snacks to cook for a buffet table at work, inexpensive, tasty and fast.

Sandwiches are irreplaceable on the buffet table. Here you can show your imagination and create using any products. Look at the recipe: it is perfect for a snack on bread, suitable for a buffet table.

Salmon mini rolls

Depending on the number of guests, the volume of products increases or decreases. To prepare such a snack you will need:

Salmon
Eggs
Rice
Hard cheese
Mayonnaise
Olives
Skewers

Rice and eggs are boiled, salmon is usually bought cut into thin slices, which are cut into two parts, if the pieces are large, or left as they are. Eggs and cheese are chopped on a grater, mixed with rice and mayonnaise. Having mixed everything, spread it on the fish (about one spoon), twist it into a roll, string an olive on a skewer and stick it into a salmon.

Vegetable sandwich

It is prepared without bread, eggplant lovers will love it.

Products:

Several eggplants
3-5 tomatoes, strong and not overripe
Cheese
Several cloves of garlic
Refined oil
Salt pepper
A little parsley

Cut the eggplants into round slices, sprinkle with salt and leave for a quarter of an hour. Then rinse, dry and fry on both sides. Spread on a paper towel to remove excess fat, salt and sprinkle with pepper. Cut the garlic into several pieces and fry, then remove from the pan, we only need its smell. Cut the tomatoes into thin rings and fry lightly in garlic oil. Cut the cheese with a large, sharp knife into plates the size of the eggplant.

Now you can lay out the sandwich - eggplant, cheese, eggplant, tomato, etc. Put the finished turrets on a baking sheet and place in the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese slightly. Pierce with a skewer, sprinkle with herbs. Snacks on the buffet table can be varied, recipes with photos will help you understand how easy and simple it is to decorate the simplest products.

Tartlets with red fish

The simplest version of buffet snacks. See which ones you can put in small baskets.

Products:

8 sand tartlets
100 g fish
2 potatoes
Mayonnaise 2 rounded spoons
One fresh cucumber
2 eggs
Pepper and salt

Hard-boiled eggs, but do not overcook, otherwise the yolk will be dark unpleasant color. Boil potatoes in their skins, peel and chop finely, chop fish and eggs in the same way. Cut the cucumber into thin slices. Mix everything except red fish and cucumbers, salt and sprinkle with black pepper. Spread the salad in tartlets with a teaspoon, on top two cucumber circles and fish slices in the form of a rose.

Cheese balls

An uncomplicated option for a buffet snack. Such balls are very easy to prepare, do not require a lot of products, they can be made spicy by breeding in paprika, herbs, with sesame seeds. Any cheese will do, you can fill them with sour cream, mayonnaise.

Any cheese - 300 g
Sweet paprika
Hot paprika
Garlic - 4-5 cloves
Mayonnaise - 7-9 tablespoons
Parsley
Dill
Fried sesame

Grind the cheese on the finest grater, crush the garlic in a mortar or garlic press, mix together and season with mayonnaise. Now the only thing left is to roll cheese balls and roll them in dill, parsley, paprika, sesame seeds, all separately. And so you get beautiful balls of different colors and aromas.

Sardine balls

Another kind of a wonderful snack for a buffet table for a holiday, which is easy and inexpensive to prepare yourself at home.

Products:

Can of sardines
One large potato
White onion
One sweet carrot
One egg
Soy sauce 1 tablespoon
Mayonnaise 2 tablespoons
Hard cheese gram 80
Spoon white and black sesame seeds
Salt

Boil potatoes with carrots, an egg in another container. Peel and grind everything: vegetables on a coarse one, an egg on a fine one. Drain the oil from the canned food and mash with a fork, grate the onion on the very shallow side of the grater, squeeze out excess juice. Mix all prepared foods, salt and season with soy sauce and mayonnaise. Roll fish balls, you should get about 20 pieces. Now roll half in black sesame, and the other half in white. Trust us, your guests will be pleasantly surprised.

Smoked sausage sandwiches

A quarter of black bread
Raw smoked sausage - 150 g
One small sweet onion
One or two cloves of garlic
Red or green pepper, half of the fruit
Salt and pepper to taste

Using a meat grinder, scroll through all products except bread. We spread the resulting minced meat on small pieces of bread, cut in any shape, on top you can decorate with a slice of lemon, a sprig of parsley, garnish with a pitted olive. These sandwiches will decorate your birthday party at work.

Stuffed tomatoes

Tomatoes are small, firm and unripe for this snack. You can stuff them with anything, here you can easily experiment and give free rein to fantasy. Nicely designed, they will become the center of the table. You can mix cottage cheese with herbs, add a little black pepper, and the minced meat is ready. Boiled and chopped eggs mixed with mayonnaise and herbs are also a great option for stuffing tomatoes. You can add boiled chicken, fish, or smoked sausage. Simply put, what is in the refrigerator, everything will be used. The lid is simply cut off from the tomatoes, the pulp is removed and can be stuffed. You can, after removing the lid, make cloves around the edges, and you will get a beautiful basket.

Stuffed eggs

Eggs are an indispensable product for a buffet table. They can not only be added as a filling, but stuffed with various products. It always looks beautiful and also very tasty.

1. Dividing the egg into two parts, taking out the yolk and mixing it with chopped smoked sausage, stuff, sprinkle with herbs, garnish with a lemon wedge. Everything is simple and tasty.
2. Mix the yolk and the olives passed through a meat grinder, season with mayonnaise.
3. Fried onions are combined with the yolk and cod liver.
4. Chopped crab sticks are mixed with yolk and avocado pulp.
5. Pickled onions (pour vinegar for a quarter of an hour), mix with herring and sweet and sour apple, add the yolk and stuff. The taste is amazing.

Meat balls croquettes

Buffet meals and snacks can be diversified with such croquettes, see recipes with photos. For this dish, any minced meat available at home is suitable.

Products:

500 g of any minced meat
Half a glass of rice
1 sweet onion
2 cloves of garlic
About one glass of bread crumbs
Frying oil, better refined
3 eggs
Salt pepper

Fry chopped onion and garlic, add minced meat, and stir constantly, simmer until it changes color. Put in a bowl, add rice, boiled until tender, egg, salt, pepper. If the minced meat is thin, then you can add a few tablespoons of crackers. Put two eggs in a deep plate and beat lightly with a fork, pour crackers into another. Sculpt meat slices, dip at the beginning into an egg, and then into crackers. Spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, cook for 40 minutes, at a temperature of 180 degrees. Serve on a platter lined with lettuce leaves.

Lemon snack

To prepare it, you will need a small amount of any cheese, a few lemons and sugar. The cheese is cut into small cubes, lemon into thin circles. Sprinkle lemon wedges with sugar, spread cheese on them and fold them in half, securing them with a toothpick. That's all. For those who drink cognac at a party, this will be the best snack.

Tartlets

Today, you can buy anything in the store, in particular, ready-made tartlets that can be stuffed with literally anything that comes to your mind. Buffet snacks on the festive table are not complete without tartlets, simple recipes with photos will help you decide on their appearance and filling options.

Products:

Crab meat - 150 g
Waffle tartlets - 10 pieces
Egg
Mayonnaise: a few tablespoons
Salt pepper
Processed cheese
Green onion
A little dill

Grind crab meat, cheese and boiled egg, add mayonnaise, salt and pepper to them. Stir everything thoroughly and sprinkle with chopped dill and green onions. Stir again, and spread on a spoon with a slide on the tartlets.

Sandwiches with red caviar

One white loaf
Gram 15 red caviar
Frozen shrimps - 200-250 g
A spoonful of sour cream and mustard
Natural yogurt, about a spoon
One lemon
Several sprigs of dill

Cut the loaf into thin slices, drizzle with oil and lightly fry in a grill pan. Boil the shrimp, put it in a colander so that the water leaves, and cool faster. Then they will need to be peeled and finely chopped the finished shrimp meat. Mix yogurt, sour cream, mustard, salt if desired and add lightly pepper. Pour the shrimps into the sauce, and after mixing, spread with a thick layer on the bread, garnish with red caviar and a slice of lemon.

We showed you how to plan a menu for a buffet table, brought recipes with a photo, take a look at which will complete the creation of a festive menu.