4 Types of Simple Canapés
Description
Perfect for the table and with drinks. Sometimes you want to get creative and make something that looks unusual. So here are four recipes for unusual canapés made from everyday ingredients. You get beautiful-looking, hearty appetizers with cheese, ham, rice, shrimp, olives, and pâté. Finger-licking good! These appetizers can easily become a table centerpiece, yet they don't take much time. Simple, but full of flavor. Serve with greens and sauce.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. To make canapés with cheese and ham, take a large syringe and cut off its bottom with a knife. Use the syringe to extrude circles of hard cheese, white bread, more cheese, cucumber, ham, and cheese.
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Step 2
2. Thread an olive and all the rounds piped from the syringe onto a toothpick. To make the canapés, cut squares from black bread using a suitable glass.
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Step 3
3. Using the same glass, press out squares of pâté and place them on bread slices. Pierce the bread with pâté with a toothpick, and garnish with small tomatoes and herbs.
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Step 4
4. For the third canapé option, toast slices of white bread in a dry skillet and cut circles from them. Mix Philadelphia cream cheese with paprika and tomato paste.
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Step 5
5. Using a pastry bag, pipe the cheese onto bread slices in flower shapes. Garnish with olive slices. For the last type of canapé, mix the shrimp with cooked rice.
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6. Slice the cucumber into rounds, top with a firmly packed cylinder of rice and shrimp. Garnish the canapé with a shrimp and pierce with a toothpick.