Elegant canapes with shrimps

Canapes are small sandwiches weighing not more than 60 grams, not more than one centimeter thick and 4 cm in diameter. They are prepared on any cookie or more often on bread. Serve the canapés as a snack for dinner, for tea, coffee or before dinner. Form they can have a triangular, round, square, diamond or any other.

It is better to use dense bread, a bit stale and not spongy. The natural base can be very diverse. This is fish, seafood, cheese, meat, and many other products. Very elegant, for example, look canapé with shrimp.

You can decorate canapes with olives, fresh parsley greens, lemon, chopped steep eggs, green onions, fresh apples, cranberries, marinated red pepper and other ingredients. In general, many products are suitable as an ornament, so you need to be guided by your own taste preferences. This kind of sandwiches before you serve on the table, should be put for a while in the refrigerator, so that the products to the bread stick tight enough.

Unlike traditional traditional sandwiches, canapés are prepared exclusively with especially tasty products. Often even with delicate. One of these are canapés with red caviar, which are not only beautiful and tasty, but also very useful.

These sandwiches are served on dishes on high or low legs. They are laid out in one layer, and canapes of one color are placed in groups or rows, only by their arrangement decorating the table. They are fed with a plug, blade or knife. For example, canapés with shrimps are pierced with skewers or forks, with which they are taken. If the sandwiches are very small, then they are eaten with a fork, and if a little more with hands. Usually no more than five different types of canapés are served, based on the number of no more than 10 sandwiches per person.

Some of the types of canapés are prepared quite simply, and some require, besides time and skill, also fantasies. So, canapé with prawns, following a single recipe, is not difficult to decorate. To do this, cut very small cubes of egg yolk (steep) and lay at the tail of the shrimp. For small slices (about one cm square), separate the ham and place each of the lobules in the center of the shrimp. Very finely chopped onion lightly sprinkle each shrimp. It turns out very interesting and original.

Considering the recipes with canapé prawns, the recipe of Chinese cuisine can not but attract attention. To prepare such snack sandwiches, you will need directly prawns, necessarily large (500 grams) and, of course, slices of bread (thin). You will need an egg (1 pc.), Pepper, starch (2 tbsp.) And a bunch of onions. And also egg yolk of one egg (hard-boiled), salt, ham and vegetable oil for deep-frying.

To begin with, peel the shrimp, leaving the tails untouched. Get rid of the black guts. Then mix a neatly raw egg with pepper, starch and salt. Here, dip the shrimps and mix thoroughly so that the mixture completely covers the shrimp.

After that, cut bread from the bread slices and cut them in two. On each of the halves put on the shrimp, pressing it lightly into the crumb of bread. Gently rub the remains of the starch mixture onto the shrimp. For 2-3 of these shrimp tartinki put in a deep frying pan with heated vegetable oil. Roast until the shrimp are ready, and the bread will not be covered with a golden crust. When all the oil drains from the sandwiches, your canapes with shrimp are ready for serving to the table.

Valuable in canapé is not only taste, but also their external appearance. Therefore, we must try to make them a real highlight in the variety of festive dishes.