Serve a canapé tray it is always an elegant way to kick off a dinner or an aperitif with friends.
By canapè we mean canapés, croutons and all of those small appetizers which can be served in a serving tray, to be consumed with your hands or with small forks and toothpicks.
Summer is the perfect season for aperitifs outdoors, so here are our suggestions to prepare summer canapés sensational.
Important trays
First, get yourself some very large trays because it is nice to fill them with canapes of all kinds.
More colors and varieties there are, the better!
Maybe choose serving dishes with a white background to highlight all the ingredients, or a light wood base.
You can also decorate the trays with some fig leaves or flowers to make them even more beautiful and rich.
Serve the canape standing up by offering it to your guests while they taste a glass of prosecco or a cocktail, or arrange it on the buffet table.
Pancarrè, bread or …
Here are all the options you have available to prepare canape bites.
To prepare the classics stuffed canapes with spreadable creams used as support the White bread.
For the crispy croutons opt for slices of baguette toasted or for gods cracker.
If you want to get your hands on the dough, make some shortcrust pastry boats or pastry salty to be stuffed with what you want.
If you want a slightly special base, make some mini pancakes.
For a light appetizer choose wholemeal or rye bread to combine with low-fat cheeses and vegetables.
For a delicious base, choose the white focaccia, Especially if there are children.
Finally, also play with the vegetables. Why not serve some cucumber slices as if they were croutons to be stuffed and gods cherry tomatoes cut in half fill yourself with mousse like little boats?
And how not to use watermelon and melon? Go ahead and find out how.
Practicality first of all
Make sure that all these little appetizers are easy to consume even with your hands.
Think about slices of bread or crackers to eat practically in one bite or make it so saucers, napkins and forks are close at hand.
The canapè is generally prepared with small canapés or bruschetta, perhaps with various types of bread, but you can also enrich it with mini portions of polenta, of cream puffs, of the roses of cold cuts, olives, fried and omelettes.
Everything must be practical to serve, handle and consume.
Butter and anchovy canapes
If you have never tried the combination butter and anchovies you really don't know what you are missing.
It's one of the best things in the world and everyone always likes it.
Just blend the anchovies in oil with the butter and then spread the cream on the toast.
To make the canapes more beautiful, use a pastry bag to create tufts of cream and decorate with caper flowers.
Canapes with fig pesto
That's right, pesto di figs!
It is prepared simply by adding one or two figs to the classic recipe of basil pesto and it goes very well in combination with salted ricotta.
You can use bread rolls, rye bread croutons or a hot focaccia.
Crostini with gorgonzola and figs
An extraordinary combination? Gorgonzola and figs.
If you don't like the intense taste of gorgonzola, replace it with growth which is a little more delicate, but equally creamy.
You can add an extra touch of sweetness by caramelizing the figs in a pan.
Complete the croutons with balsamic vinegar cream.
Canapé of cucumbers and salmon
A super light appetizer because it is prepared only with cucumbers and smoked salmon. There is no bread!
Cut the cucumber into fairly thick slices keeping the peel and then decorate each fattina with a salmon rose. You can enrich everything with one simple avocado mousse prepared by blending the pulp with lime, oil and salt.
Canapes of ham and melon
We will call them canapés even if there is no bread, as in the cucumber ones, but instead we use slices of melon cut into cubes. Above each slice place the raw ham and maybe a small mozzarella or cheese flakes and served as finger food.
It can also be done withwatermelon and the winter melon.
Whole wheat canapes with watermelon
Speaking of watermelon, here's an unusual but delicious idea.
Used as the basis of the dark rye bread and cut it into triangles.
Spread it with fresh cheese and then lay on each slice a wafer of watermelon, that is, a very thin slice, almost transparent. Complete with mint leaves and enjoy.
In the gallery you will find many other ideas for your summer canapés
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