Vegetable snacks: options for the festive table

When preparing for any holiday, the hostesses try to maximally set the table with dishes and appetizers of meat. This is a somewhat wrong approach. Of course, there are plenty of meat eaters, many guests will be only too pleased to have such an abundance of dishes prepared from the ingredient they so respected. However, almost always among those invited there are those who do not eat meat. Or those who at least try to eat it as rarely as possible. In the end, they are unlikely to appreciate your feast. In addition, meat and products from it - today quite expensive, so that the celebration with this approach will certainly result in an impressive amount. What to do? How to please all the guests and still not be left in the lump himself? The proceeds will come from original vegetable snacks. At the festive table, subject to a creative approach to the cooking process, such dishes will not be exactly ashamed to deliver. Moreover, many vegetable snacks, the recipes of which sometimes simply amaze with their originality, are quite capable of eclipsing their meat "brethren". And to become a real decoration of the festive table.

On how to prepare these dishes, we'll talk further. We will offer you many interesting recipes, and you will be able to choose the best ones for yourself. Vegetable snacks cooked on them, will certainly cause surprise and admiration of your guests and relatives.

A small digression

Before proceeding to describe each recipe, I would like to say a few words as parting words. As you understand, any snacks - vegetable or meat, not important, are not needed in order to satiate the guests. They are called to slightly muffle the appetite and decorate the table. And also, what is the sin to conceal, maximally occupy an empty place. Of course, salty cucumbers and sandwiches can do this, however, you will agree, it is much more pleasant when the table looks elegant. And the dishes standing on it please the guests. And not only appearance, but also exquisite taste. Based on this, and you need to cook. After all, whatever you say, vegetable - it is a vegetable. Therefore, we must try to give it as profitable as possible.

At this, perhaps, it's time to close the theoretical part. Let's move on to practice. We present you the best festive vegetable snacks.

Cheap and angry, but how beautiful ...

Cut slices of eggplant, sprinkle it a little, then thoroughly fry on both sides. Important: spread from the frying pan not in a plate, but on a paper towel to get rid of excess fat. Mix two tablespoons of mayonnaise and a pair of cloves of finely chopped garlic. You can add a little dill, if you like this spice. Sprinkle sauce with fried pieces. Tomatoes, the size of which should be equal to the diameter of blue, cut into circles, put them on each slice of eggplant, top generously sprinkle with hard cheese. By the way, if there is no time to mess with eggplants, you can do without them. All previous manipulations must be repeated with tomato slices.

We make the tail of a peacock!

Prepare two eggplants in the same way as described above. We cut into circles two tomatoes and cucumber. We rub grams of one hundred cheese, mix it with mayonnaise and finely chopped garlic. Eggplants are laid out on a dish, and we must try to give them the shape of a peacock's tail. On top of each piece of blue linen stacks a tomato, blended with a mixture of cheese and mayonnaise, then put the cucumber, which is decorated with half of olives. Important: this appetizer should stand at least an hour in the refrigerator before serving.

Tulips, but not flowers ...

Absolutely a win-win option. Such tulips can eclipse all the snacks on the table-vegetable or meat. Simply plush in appearance, a dish that also has a decent taste.

Take the nine long elongated tomatoes. Ideally, the brand "ladies fingers" will suit. Cut them neatly, a little before reaching the end, for a couple of centimeters, cross-wise. Flesh remove, at the base cut a small hole, simply put, get rid of the stalk. Take grams of 200 cheese, grate it on a grater, mix with finely chopped garlic and a few spoons of thick mayonnaise. Fill the heads of "flowers", from dense onion feathers make stems (just insert them into the cut holes), beautifully, in the form of a bouquet, arrange on a white dish.

Iris snack from cheese and pepper

Four hundred grams of cheese, a bunch of greens and a small head of garlic chop into a blender. Add mayonnaise to the mixture. It will be necessary to add it a little, so much, that on output there would be a rather dense mass. Take a few Bulgarian peppercorns in different colors. You can two, and if you find, it is better and three shades. Cut off the pepper-tail, get the seeds and septa, cut into fairly thick rings. Then each stuff with the mixture. If desired, you can decorate the top with circles of boiled eggs.

Boats

To prepare this dish you will need small young zucchini. We cut them in half, then cut the bottom a bit so that your "boats" are more confident on the plate. We take out the whole pulp with a spoon. Cut small onions, a couple of red Bulgarian pepper, fry, add after a while the pulp of zucchini. Solim-peppers. We start. Top with sprinkled with grated cheese and sent for ten minutes in the microwave.

By the way, instead of zucchini you can take eggplant. As for the filling itself, the composition of the ingredients can be varied. In addition, it is recommended to serve such a snack with garlic-mayonnaise sauce, which, as is clear from the above recipes, is perfectly combined with vegetables.

Rolls

Zucchini generally grateful material in the hands of a skillful hostess. From them you can cook a variety of excellent snacks. Let's try to make original rolls now. Out of a hundred grams of melted cheese, a few cloves of garlic and mayonnaise, we are already making use of the usual mass. Zucchini and suitable for the size of cucumbers cut into thin slices. Then fry them, spread on napkins, wait until the oil is absorbed. We lay out on a plate, we have a cucumber layer on top. On one edge we spread cheese mass, we add to it a tomato slice to the side, we turn off into a roll.

By the way, despite the fact that we used the temperature effect when cooking both boats and rolls, it's all cold vegetable snacks. On the table they are served only after cooling.

A few words about pita bread

Preparing for the festive feast, do not forget about the belts that our beloved cooks cooked in lavash. You can start them with various fillers, including vegetables. There can be many options, probably every landlady has her own, a special recipe. We, for example, will offer you our - tell you how to prepare a very simple, but extraordinarily beautiful roll with Korean carrots.

Take a sheet of rectangular lavash and sprinkle it with mayonnaise. Put another layer on top. Pour abundantly with any grated cheese. Top with a layer of Korean carrots. Then sprinkle with finely chopped herbs. Close everything else with one sheet. Repeat all the above procedures. Fold tight (along the length, not the width!) All into the roll and send to the refrigerator. After a few hours, the sausage can be cut into pieces, nicely laid out on a plate and served to the table.

When preparing vegetable snacks, do not lose sight of and such a variety of them as salads. Of course, a banal mixture of cucumbers and tomatoes will not surprise anyone, but there are many other, much more attractive recipes.

Peking cabbage salad

Simple in preparation and composition, such a salad nevertheless will please its bright and cheerful appearance. Take the cabbage of cabbage and chop it, and as thin as possible. Fold in a salad bowl, add a little salt and a little suppress. Then add canned corn and finely chopped onion. Juice from a can of corn must necessarily be drained! Fill everything with a thick sweet mayonnaise and decorate the chopped eggs with chopped slices.

Bright bean salad

Red beans (300 grams), soak overnight, and then rinse and cook for half an hour. It may take longer, it all depends on the variety. The main thing is not to miss the moment when it starts to fall apart. In principle, you can take a jar of canned. Then, after cooling, put the prepared beans into a salad bowl, add to it finely chopped: onion (necessarily red!), Three stalks of celery, a bunch of beloved greenery and five radishes. As a dressing perfectly suited lemon mayonnaise.

Conclusion

Vegetable snacks are dishes that can be prepared without carefully following the recipe. That is, using your own imagination and based on the existing culinary experience. Fortunately the soil is fertile, and the ingredients themselves are perfectly combined with each other.

Vegetable snacks, recipes with photos of which are presented in our article, is a drop in the ocean of available options. Begin while with them, and then slowly go on to create your own unique dishes.