Diversify festive table  spicy and tender snacks hot and cold. We picked up fast food recipes on a large number of  people with different tastes and preferences. Snacks can be prepared from meat, poultry, vegetables, grains, seafood, etc. Instructions are supplemented with colorful photos - the standard of proper serving dishes.

  Herring on a fur coat

A simple and spectacular appetizer for a festive table is prepared in a matter of minutes, if pre-made blanks. You need to prepare:

  • boiled beets - 2-3 pcs .;
  • herring in preserves - 1 pack;
  • borodino bread;
  • mayonnaise;
  • salt, greens.

Cut the bread into small square slices and dry in the oven or fry in a pan. At this time, chop the beets on a grater, salt and season with mayonnaise. Put a bit of beetroot on toast, on top of which you will place herring. An example of the correct filing - in the photo.

  Salmon Canapes: Serving Options

This appetizer is considered a refined dish of a modern feast, and can be made in several different ways. For a basis, you can use special toasts, bread and crackers. As additional ingredients you may need:

  • caviar;
  • tomatoes;
  • cucumbers;
  • mayonnaise or butter;
  • philadelphia cheese;
  • quail eggs or chicken;
  • greenery.

Numerical feed options are presented in the photo, where a combination of ingredients and an interpretation of the presentation of the finished dish are also visible.


  Colored eggs stuffed with herring

An amazing snack with a colorful presentation will appeal to guests with an unbiased taste, as well as true gourmets. The recipe is simple, the list of products is appropriate:

  • boiled beets - 1 pc .;
  • fillet of slightly salted herring - 1 pc .;
  • boiled chicken eggs  - 5 pieces. or 10 even halves;
  • sour cream - 2 spoons;
  • fresh lemon juice - ½ pcs .;
  • red caviar - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • dill, salt, pepper - to taste;

Carefully clean the boiled eggs from the shell and cut into two equal parts. Remove the yolks and set them aside in a separate plate (they are included in the mincemeat content). Chop the beets into several pieces and fill with boiling water, where and lower the halves of protein for 1 hour. At this time, grind ¾ portions of the herring fillet in a blender or in a meat grinder, adding the yolks and sour cream. At the final stage, add lemon juice, spices and herbs. Send the mixture in the fridge, while delivering the eggs. Dry them on a paper towel, place on a serving dish and fill with minced meat. Before serving - decorate with caviar and slices of herring.


  Lavash Snacks

Combination of sour and delicate taste  basic ingredients for pita bread will be an excellent alternative to time-consuming complex dishes for the holiday table. We offer to fill the pita such components:

  • 3-4 cucumbers canned;
  • korean carrot - 150 g;
  • crab sticks - 250 g;
  • canned corn - 100 g;
  • onions - 1 pc .;
  • boiled eggs - 5 pcs .;
  • mayonnaise - 300 g

Spread a leaf of pita and smear it with mayonnaise. From above evenly distribute the crab sticks and eggs crushed on a large grater. Cover with a new sheet of pita bread, which is also smeared with mayonnaise. For this layer, combine the corn stuffing, korean carrot  and pickled cucumbers. Spread the mass and place the third sheet. Grease it with mayonnaise and finish the filling with a combination of eggs, crab sticks, canned cucumber  and onions. The fourth sheet is the final one. Repeat the procedure with the application of mayonnaise, and proceed with the roll twisting. Wrap it up cling film  and refrigerate for at least an hour to soak. Cut into neat pieces and place on a serving dish.


  Hot snack

Skewers on a skewer or grilled vegetables - equally like guests at the holiday table. We offer you to prepare an express snack of simple products. You will need:

  • bamboo skewers;
  • foil;
  • white bread croutons;
  • bacon;
  • bell pepper;
  • canned pineapple

String the product into a skewer in the sequence shown in the photo below. Chop grated cheese and sprinkle with skewers. Cover the baking sheet with foil so that you can cover the contents. Send the dish to the oven for 15-18 minutes, subject to a temperature range of 160-180 degrees.


  Spicy Cherry Tomato Snack

The taste and presentation of such a dish are equally good. Advantage of this savory snacks  at quick cooking and spectacular presentation. So prepare the following components:

  • cherry tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
  • processed cheese - 2 pcs .;
  • garlic - 1 head;
  • dried white bread or homemade crackers;
  • mayonnaise, greens.

Cut off the tops of the tomatoes, and gently clean out the middle. Grind melted cheese and garlic on a fine grater, combine into a single mass and season with mayonnaise. Add greens and stuff the resulting mass of tomatoes by placing a crouton on top. The dish is ready to serve!


  Vegetable cutting on the holiday table

As it turned out, even simple cutting can be very useful on a festive table, given the specification of snack dishes. To cut, you can take tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, Korean carrots, eggplants, if you pre-bake them or fry in a pan, onions, sauerkraut.


We hope that we have managed to present useful ideas of various snacks for decorating the festive table. Cook with soul and pleasure!

In the menu of hot appetizers you can include a lot of different dishes: from exquisite to fast food. Cheese, fish, meat hot snacks can whet the appetite of the guests before the start of the New Year's dinner. This year, try putting traditional European hot snacks in favor of Russians. Think of trays with pie, baked porridge or roast potatoes with cream and mushrooms.

If your company is mostly men, then do not forget about the delicious hot meat snacks. Hot ladies from pita and some light stuffing are perfect for ladies: cottage cheesebaked vegetables. Below you will find a collection step-by-step recipes  with photos that will help you decide on your New Year’s menu.

How to serve hot snacks?


Recipes for hot appetizers on a festive table are varied. Variations and filing options. Depending on the method of preparation and the dishes in which they are cooked, hot snacks are served on a plate, on a dish, in a baking pan, in a dish of heat-resistant glass. Typically, hot snacks that have been heat treated are served on plates on the right side of the visitor. Pre-laid on the table snack. Various types of hot sandwiches, fried zucchini, potato patties are served on a plate.

Omelets are served on a metal or porcelain plate. When serving omelets on a platter, tableware, linen napkins and heated dinner plates are placed on the visitor’s table in advance. A plate is served on the right side of the visitor, and an omelet on the left. Shift the omelet with a dish on a plate with the help of the device for the layout. It is opened in the form of a shoulder blade. Fried eggs, fried eggs, brains with butter, etc., are served in portioned pans. They bring them on a tray, putting them on a placeholder plate covered with a paper napkin. Served on the right side of the visitor, before which pre-laid snack devices. Handles pans should be directed to the right and left, so as not to create for the visitor inconvenience when eating.


A soufflé, a festive hot appetizer, is served immediately after cooking so that it does not settle. Prepare it in individual molds or in a bowl of heat-resistant glass for several portions. Soufflés cooked in individual molds are put on placeholder plates with a paper napkin. Served on the right side of the visitor with a teaspoon. A soufflé cooked in a pot of heat-resistant glass is served on the left side of the visitor "in round robin". Before the visitor in advance put a heated plate and snack appliances.

Clean plates and appliances, using a tray or rune reception. Plates are placed on the tray from the inside, and the instruments are placed in a separate plate. Pans put one on another in the second row. Cleaning plates and pans at the same time with a special technique is the same as when three plates are carried in the left hand, and empty pans are placed on the first plate, on the second appliances and leftover food, and on the third substitute plates.

Although New Year  still not knocking at our door, but we remember that his advance is getting closer and closer every day. You do not have time to turn around, and we all get into a merry whirlpool called "New Year's Effort." And these troubles whirl in our holiday vortex.

But, you see, these efforts are very pleasant. After all, we all love to go shopping, choose gifts for relatives and close people. Think about what outfit to choose for New Year's Evewhat to do hairstyle. Dream about where and with whom we will celebrate the holiday.

And of course, we will all think what to cook on the holiday table.

And when on the table we will have the most delicious and beautiful dishes, led by the salad Symbol of the Year, the Rooster will certainly pay attention to how we tried to prepare to meet him. And then the next year will be successful for us in all respects.

Enjoy your meal! And happy New Year!

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