A Christmas table without champagne, like a snowman without a carrot or a tree without a star. This drink is bought, opened, poured into glasses, but few people think about the right snack.
Most often they are limited to holiday sandwiches or salads, which is a big mistake. Champagne has a refined taste. It is important to emphasize it, not to drown it out.
What has not yet been eaten
Champagne is an aperitif. It is customary to serve before the meal or at the very beginning. Sparkling wine is not consumed on a full stomach. Also, it is not bitten with bitter chocolate, as many people are used to doing. But you can serve sweets with fruit and berry fillings, caramel, fondant inside.
What else is champagne combined with:
- Cheese. You can have a whole plate with different types. It is believed that rich cheeses are served with sweet champagne. Simple varieties (Camembert, Brie) are suitable for dry wine.
- Fruits. For champagne, you can serve sliced kiwi, pineapple, peaches, soft pears, bananas. Strawberry allowed. Hard fruits do not serve.
- Meat. It is customary to serve it with pink champagne, but it also goes well with white sparkling wines.
- Seafood. Squids, shrimps, octopuses are suitable for all types of dry and sweet wines. They can be served separately or in canapes, tartlets with other ingredients.
- Nuts. Such an appetizer may surprise someone, but it's worth a try! We collect a nut plate of 5-6 types and you're done! Appetizer is suitable for all types from brutus to sweet champagne.
Here is just an example of what can be put on the table. But it’s even better to cook gourmet snacks with these products. Let's surprise the guests!
Cheese and Tomato Appetizer
The recipe for a hearty and juicy champagne snack. Cheese and tomato are a win-win combination, garlic is often added to them, but this cannot be done in this recipe. You can upload such an appetizer in miniature tartlets or on chips.
Ingredients
- 100 g of cheese;
- 100 g of tomato;
- 4 branches of dill;
- 1 pinch of allspice;
- some mayonnaise.
Cooking method
- Cut the washed tomato into four parts and take out all the seeds. The meaty parts are cut into small cubes with a sharp knife. We chop dill, add.
- Finely grate cheese, add, add a little mayonnaise and pepper, stir.
- We lay out a teaspoon of appetizer in a small tartlet or on chips. Serve for champagne.
It is possible to add chopped olive or even a few pieces to such a mass, sometimes the spread appetizer is decorated with thin rings.
Chocolate covered strawberries
It’s good that now you can buy strawberries at any time of the year. After all, from it you can cook a delicious snack for champagne. Choose good chocolate that melts quickly. It is undesirable to use tiles with fillers.
Ingredients
- 0.4 kg of strawberries;
- 0.2 kg of chocolate.
Cooking method
- It is most convenient to melt chocolate in a water bath. We put a bowl on a saucepan with hot water, we throw broken tiles or special droplets into it. Heat, stir. Overexposure is not necessary. Too hot chocolate will drain, you get a thin layer. Slightly warm glaze will be thick, it may not be enough.
- While the chocolate is melting, washed and dried strawberries are put on skewers.
- Checking the glaze. If it is ready, then turn off the stove, but do not remove the bowl, keep it in a saucepan with water. Dip one strawberry and pull out. We lay out on parchment or stick in a bowl with sugar.
This is the basic option. You can decorate the icing with nuts, small sweets, special dragees. To do this, dip or sprinkle immediately, until the chocolate has frozen.
Shrimp and Orange Canapes
Seafood blends perfectly with citruses, and together they will be a great champagne snack. The recipe for simple miniature sandwiches with a chic look. Serve them better on a green leaf of lettuce or on a white plate. Such substrates accentuate the color of the snack.
Ingredients
- orange;
- 8 shrimp;
- 30 g of oil;
- 2 slices of toaster bread.
Cooking method
- Preheat the pan. Cut the bread into four squares, dry the slices on a dry surface. They will hold the canapes.
- We spread the oil in the pan, melt. Throw peeled shrimps, fry until rosy color for 2 minutes. Ponytails should be left.
- Peel the orange and each slice of the film.
- We put half an orange slice on a piece of bread. We pierce the shrimp with a toothpick or skewer at the tail, put on the second part of the orange slice and again pass through the shrimp.
- We stick a skewer in bread with an orange. Canapes do not need additional decoration.
Such an appetizer can also be prepared with slices of pineapple, kiwi, they go well with champagne and seafood.
Mozzarella with cherry
For appetizers, choose small balls of mozzarella cheese and miniature tomatoes. This miracle is being prepared in just five minutes, skewers will be needed.
Ingredients
- 10 balls of mozzarella;
- 10 cherry;
- 3 lodges of olive oil;
- 2 branches of basil;
- 10 slices of bread.
Cooking method
- Chop the basil very finely, mix with natural olive oil. Pour mozzarella, roll balls in the mixture.
- Slice ten small pieces of bread. Sometimes for the base use cucumber circles. Dry bread at will.
- String the skewer tomato and a ball of mozzarella in oil with basil. We stick in the base of bread and you're done!
Canapés can be supplemented with olive or olive. To decorate the snacks, we use whole basil leaves.
Cheese canapes with olives and pineapple
Another version of the snack, which is cooked no more than ten minutes. Pineapple can be used fresh or canned, but the syrup is well-expressed.
Ingredients
- olives;
- a pineapple;
- hard or semi-hard cheese.
Cooking method
- Dice the cheese, the size of one olive. Cut the pineapple into approximately the same slices. The olives are removed from the brine.
- Skewer olive first, then pineapple and stick it all into a cheese cube. Send the canapes to the plate.
Champagne snacks should not be much. They are not needed for saturation. It makes more sense to emphasize variety and sophisticated design.
