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Easter appetizers: 50 recipes to make at home – Italian Cuisine

Carrot blinis with scamorza cheese, ham and rocket

Mini farinate with spicy sausage and endive

Salted trout with celeriac and radicchio

Sesame millefeuille with char and asparagus

Chickpea croquettes with cashew pesto and chard

Milan salami cones with ricotta and broad beans

Wholemeal sandwiches with eggs and spinach

Snow peas, green beans, pumpkin flowers and diced chicken

Tuna mousse with onions and croutons with olives

Cream puffs with salad cream and scallops

Raw prawns and ricotta quenelle on pea cream

Easter appetizers are important to welcome guests at the traditional lunch. They are in fact the first dish we will serve on the table and will help to make it clear right away that it's a different day, there is an air of celebration.
And if the appetizer is already a festive dish in itself that tells the intention of an elaborate menu and the desire to stay longer at the table, with the arrival of Easter we must think about preparing the right one. A delicate but at the same time eccentric scope, on which it will be pleasant to linger a little. And since there are no rules in the big parties, you can also enjoy mixing different appetizers, perhaps choosing one for each category, so as to satisfy everyone.

Below is our selection of 50 Easter appetizers divided into categories and, in the gallery above, all the recipes.

Our selection of Easter egg and cheese based appetizers

Tartlets with leeks and goats, churros with Porto sauce, cheese soufflé, honey and walnuts, fried scamorza cheese and sage egg, chickpea kisses in courgette nests, chickpea croquettes with cashew pesto and chard, Easter cake with cheese, fillo pasta nests with quail eggs, wholemeal sandwiches with eggs and spinach, small fennel flans, smoked tea artichokes, Greek plum cake with feta and olives, aperitif with yolk pralines, egg and artichoke filled pralines, grana pudding with artichokes, asparagus cheesecake, grana tart with eggs and asparagus, Easter tortano, egg and artichoke nests, phyllo pasta baskets with quail eggs, bundles with surprise.

The appetizers of Easter based on meats and cold cuts

Savory rose cake with endive and ham, artichoke and bacon croquettes, carrot blinis with scamorza cheese, ham and rocket, mini farinate with spicy sausage and endive, rabbit with endive and vegetables, rabbit terrine, marinated guinea-fowl breast salad with honey, Milan salami cones with ricotta and broad beans, asparagus and ham savory pie, peas, green beans, pumpkin flowers and diced chicken, baskets with artichokes and bacon, cooked livers with crostini, culatello and Lambrusco gelatine, wrong arancino, ear with spring onions and ham, saltimbocca of lamb.

Fish-based Easter starters

Salted trout with celeriac and radicchio, sesame millefeuille with char and asparagus, small glasses with salmon roe, scampi with three eggs, cocoa bread with trout mousse, potato and cod croquettes, monk's beard with hazelnuts and bottarga, tuna and spring onion mousse with croutons with olives, provatura and anchovy croutons, cream puffs with salad and scallop cream, raw prawns and ricotta quenelle with cream of peas, cod in batter and panzanella, hake on lettuce cream and speck.

The 15 best appetizers for Easter – Italian Cuisine

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With friends or relatives, you will still pass the Easter, here are some tasty and quick ideas to open the Easter menu with a feast of flavors, bringing to the table appetizers that look at tradition but also with a touch of originality.
Eggs, of course, are the inevitable ingredients, but even spring makes itself felt with its gentle aromas and the freshness of asparagus.

You can conquer the palates and the sight by preparing one of the 5 recipes of the Stuffed eggs that offers you Salt & Pepper. The version we offer in the selection below is simple and sought after at the same time: le stuffed eggs au gratin they are sprinkled with breadcrumbs and emmentaler and, after being baked, covered with anchovy fillets arranged crosswise.
The classic but always propitious dish is the pasqualina cake, savory cake of the Ligurian Easter tradition. Thin sheets of pasta enclose a filling of chard, ricotta and whole quail eggs that become firm in cooking. Prepare them in large doses: if you advance, you can bring what remains to the Easter Monday picnic.

Unusual and fun, cook the bowls of tortillas with chive eggs, a cheerful and inviting way to serve eggs, immersed in a tasty robiola cream.
Cheese and salami are the tasty members of the freshly made Easter pizza, typical of central Italy.
Instead it is from Northern Italy the pinza goriziana, a very special preparation, a kind of very sweet focaccia: you can serve it as an Easter appetizer accompanied by cold cuts and hard-boiled eggs or as sweet brioche bread for a snack.

If you are looking for a simple and inviting dish to open the Easter lunch, try the crunchy flakes to serve with a salad of boiled asparagus and boiled quail eggs. You can also eat them by yourself, instead of the classic white bread or by crunching them between courses.
If you prefer to open the Easter lunch with appetizers from finger food, then the ideal choice is hard-boiled quail eggs, shelled and cut in half and enriched with various fillings: stracchino, raw ham and rocket, or creamy sauce with mayonnaise and tuna, or avocado cream with salmon eggs. You can combine them with mimosa sandwiches with cheese sauce (exquisite combination of mascarpone, gorgonzola and chives).

Browse the recipes we have selected for you here and choose the appetizer that best suits your desire for Easter and delicacies.

Delicious and fast appetizers for Valentine's Day – Italian Cuisine

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Valentine's day it's always around the corner, and even when we're prepared, there's never enough to decide what to prepare to amaze our sweetie. There are those who opt for one entertaining evening in a club, a meeting in some trendy restaurants, and those who prefer to give their partner one romantic dinner at home that is designed to be realized in the smallest detail with your own hands.

Where to start? Definitely a Valentine's menu can not in any way underestimate the importance of appetizers. Appetizers, canapés, croutons and tasty, tasty, delicious croutons and, why not also fast: Salt and pepper has selected for you 10 Valentine appetizers to be made at home with your hands and to be served on a table enriched by the colors and shapes of love.

If you are a lover of the fish you could prepare them millefeuille with prawns and crispy Russian salad, the delicious smoked salmon mousse or the traditional as everlasting oysters with herbs. But also as simple as refined mousse with red lumpfish roe. Those who prefer to rely on an excellent cured meat can focus on exquisite dishes sweet and sour canapes with cinta or ai smoked cannons with bacon. While if paired one of the two follows one diet Vegetarian you can think of serving the fanciful cialdine with parmesan cheese. Difficult to resist even to nibbles of roasted avocados or ai croutons with caramelized onions and cream of walnuts.

All that remains is to browse through the dishes of this selection and choose theValentine's appetizer perfect for you. Whatever, we assure you it will be a success and that the evening will give your couple unforgettable memories and flavors.

Our selection of Easter egg and cheese based appetizers

The appetizers of Easter based on meats and cold cuts

Fish-based Easter starters

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