If you are looking for an idea to immediately amaze guests, these themed appetizers perfectly target the goal: they are simple to prepare and truly original and scenographic to see
Who starts well is halfway through the work, an ancient saying goes. So what to bet on if you want yours New Year's Eve dinner or the Christmas lunch succeed perfectly if you don't give them appetizers that will open on menu? To take your guests by the throat, choose some appetizing and scenographic appetizers that the guests will not be able to resist (despite numerous courses await them). A nice idea could be to bring to the table one of the most famous symbols or theChristmas tree, which can be done in different ways, all simple and rather fast, which is no small thing when you have to prepare many dishes.
Christmas tree of puff pastry
L'Christmas sapling of puff pastry it is easy to make, beautiful to look at, and even the little ones will like it. Roll out a roll of pasta puff pastry and cut strips 2 cm wide. Cut the salami in strips, arrange it on the puff pastry and sprinkle with the parmesan. If you don't like salami, you can also use other cured meats, the result will be excellent all the same. Fold the strip over itself, giving it the shape of a tree, and insert a toothpick, previously wet under water. Arrange the saplings on the baking paper, brush the surface with the milk and bake in a preheated fan oven at 220 ° for about 15 minutes. Once baked, let them cool. Cut some cubes of parmesan, which you will use as a base for the trees, and stick the toothpick inside. At the top, place aolive to decorate.
Christmas snacks: savory saplings with olives and parmesan
The savory Christmas trees made from olives and parmesan are an original and nice idea to open the party menu. Not many ingredients are needed but the result will be mouth-watering. Add 150 g of flour white and 100 g of parmesan cheese grated. Add 100 g of butter cut into pieces. Take two eggs, separate the yolks from the whites. Pour the two yolks into the mixture and keep the egg whites aside. Chop 100 g of black olives pitted and combined with the other ingredients. Knead and give the mixture the shape of a ball. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for about 30 minutes. After half an hour, take the dough and roll it out, until it has reached a thickness of about half a cm. Cut the saplings with a special shaper. Arrange them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, brush with egg whites and bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° for about 20 minutes. Let them cool and then serve to your guests.
Savory canapes in the shape of a Christmas tree
Perfect for the Christmas holidays, the savory canapes in the shape of a Christmas tree they are a really appetizing appetizer and go well with both meat and fish lunches, depending on the filling you decide to use. Here we propose the version with the Ham. Pour 220 g of the into the robot flour, half sachet of yeast instant, 10 g of butter or oil and 5 g of salt. Start kneading, add 1 egg and continue to mix the ingredients. Take the dough and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Spread it out and make the saplings with one shaper. The molds must be in even numbers because then you will have to overlap them. Take a mold, fill with cubes of cooked ham and cheese of your choice and close with another mold. Seal the edges with a fork to prevent the filling from coming out and decorate with pink peppercorns. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° for about 15 minutes.
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