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Delicious appetizers for the festive table.
Pastas, pâtés and sauces are good for a cold buffet and for any table. The main ingredients of pâtés and pastes have long been liver, smoked fish, and soft cheeses. But you can also cook them from ham, fried or boiled meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables. In some regions of Italy, for example, they make very tasty pasta from olives and tomatoes with spices. For pâtés and pastes, the ingredients are finely chopped, grated, ground in a blender or mashed with a spoon and mixed. The idea is that the mass should be homogeneous and plastic (although it is also allowed to intersperse pieces of products for piquancy). Sauces can accompany pastas and pâtés (as well as any other dishes), softening them, complementing and harmonizing the taste and aroma. An Unusual Recipe dishes for the New Year's table.
Паштеты и пасты подают в горячем и холодном виде, соответственно и соусы к ним могут быть горячими (белый, красный соусы и их многочисленные производные) и холодными (майонез, горчичный и томатный соусы, хрен с уксусом и т.п.). Соусы чаще всего подаются на стол отдельно, в специальных соусниках, чтобы каждый мог сделать выбор и добавить в блюдо столько соуса, сколько ему нужно. Пасты, паштеты и соусы, благодаря их консистенции, очень удобно намазывать на хлеб, поэтому их часто сервируют с тостами из поджаренного хлеба и питы, лепешками-тортильями или крекерами.
Recipes for appetizers for the festive table.
Stuffed vegetables, stewed or baked in sauce, are perfect for hot and cold appetizers. Various large vegetables are stuffed: potatoes, bell peppers, eggplants, zucchini and zucchini, tomatoes, artichokes. To do this, they are taken whole or cut into pieces (they make "cups" from zucchini, "boats" from eggplants, etc.). Vegetable mixtures that can be pre-stewed, meat and rice are used as minced meat. The pulp taken out of the core is also used to cook stuffed vegetables: it is chopped and usually added either to minced meat or to the filling.
Not all stuffed vegetables are heat-treated. Fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, pre-marinated onions are stuffed with cold vegetable or meat salads. Sweet bell peppers are filled with cheese seasoned with spices and garlic, cooled for several hours and cut like rolls. If the cheese is too dry, you can add a little softened butter to the minced meat. A more exotic recipe for us is ripe avocados stuffed with shrimps, tuna, poultry, with the addition of pineapple or banana, balls of avocado pulp, seasoned with mayonnaise and lemon juice.