Light light, spicy bar, viscous dark - how to have a beer? Supermarkets offer traditional, but boring, options: chips, crackers, squid, dried fish. Do you want to surprise guests and please yourself with a new taste? Make a beer snack yourself.
Beer snacks - general principles of preparation
Beer snacks can be served cold or hot. The components are ground, mixed in a certain way. As a result, cold beer snacks are served on the table: sandwiches, canapes, salads, slices. Products for such dishes: cheese, ham, herring, baguette, sauces, greens.
Hot beer snacks are fried slices of potato, white or red fish, squid, shrimp, chicken wings. Such dishes are more satisfying and may well become an option for a festive family dinner.
Crispy Wings in Honey Sauce
A hearty beer snack came to us from German cuisine. High-calorie wings are very tasty, if you do not ignore the first stage - pickling. Let the chicken wings soak in the marinade for two hours, and then bake in a preheated oven.
Ingredients:
five to six chicken wings;
a large tablespoon of honey;
a tablespoon of soy sauce;
spices to taste;
a quarter teaspoon of red pepper;
a tablespoon of vegetable oil;
clove of garlic;
a teaspoon of mustard seeds;
two tablespoons of ketchup.
Cooking method:
Wash and dry the chicken wings on a towel.
Spread with vegetable oil, honey, salt and spices.
Pickle one and a half to two hours.
Preheat the oven to 220-230 ° C.
Bake the wings until cooked.
Serve with the sauce. To prepare it, mix grain mustard, soy sauce, ketchup, chili in a saucepan.
Warm the sauce over low heat, serve with meat.
Beer Cheese Balls
Cheese lovers will love this beer appetizer. It cooks quickly, and is eaten too. Delicious.
Ingredients:
four hundred grams of cream cheese;
four eggs;
four tablespoons of water;
one hundred grams of ham;
pan oil;
one hundred grams of breadcrumbs.
Cooking method:
Put the cream cheese in the freezer for twenty minutes, then grate finely.
Slice the ham into small cubes.
Separate the whites and whip into the foam.
Pour water into the yolks, mix with a fork.
Combine ham, cheese and protein foam, mix well.
Form balls from the mass and send them out to the freezer for about twenty minutes.
Dip the frozen balls into the yolk, bread in breadcrumbs.
Heat oil and fry a cheese snack for beer until a beautiful appetizing crust appears.
Light salad with chips
Chips - a traditional beer snack. It can be made more satisfying and tasty if cooked and served in the form of a salad. The dish looks beautiful, it turns out moderately salty and spicy, stimulates the appetite. To prepare such a salad is very simple, and it is not a shame to offer guests.
Ingredients:
one hundred grams of large chips;
a pound of fresh ham;
can of pea cereal variety;
medium onion;
one hundred grams of mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
Cut the ham into thin strips.
Peel and chop the onion into very small cubes.
Mix the ham and onions with peas.
Season with mayonnaise.
Place the chips on a large, flat dish.
With a spoon, carefully place the salad on the potato plate.
Serve a beer snack immediately so that the chips are not soaked and remain crispy.
Beer Fried Shrimp
A very simple recipe for a delicious beer snack. It looks very appetizing, it turns out delicious. A real treat for lovers of oriental cuisine.
Ingredients:
two kilograms of shrimp;
lemon;
two cloves of garlic;
frying oil;
salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
Defrost shrimp in the refrigerator.
Squeeze the juice from the lemon.
Fold the shrimp in a bowl, fill with juice, mix.
Leave the seafood for an hour in the marinade.
Rub the garlic.
Heat oil in a pan.
Fry the shrimp on both sides to a delicious crust, sprinkled with salt and pepper.
Fold in the porridge, season with garlic, mix and serve immediately.
Hot kupaty for beer
Delicious sausages are an ideal beer snack. German cuisine was created in order to delight lovers of a foamy drink and not allow the body to quickly get drunk. The aroma of smoked meats, pungent spicy taste - what else is needed to spend a pleasant evening in good company?
Ingredients:
kilogram of kupat;
salt;
pan oil;
pepper;
fresh dill.
Cooking method:
Put the kupat in a pan, pour three tablespoons of water and simmer for about fifteen minutes.
Chop dill.
When the water evaporates, add a little vegetable oil.
Fry sausages on both sides.
Sprinkle the finished kupat with pepper and dill.
Serve hot.
Herring canapes
Fatty herring is not only tasty, but also healthy. It is very popular in Russian cuisine, because it allows you to cook a huge number of simple snack dishes of Russian cuisine. An appetizer of herring will be cheap, but it will be a real treat for everyone who loves fish. For a beer feast, small canapes with herring are just that.
Ingredients:
two large herring of weak salting;
a loaf of Borodino bread;
one hundred grams of butter;
a bunch of fresh dill;
lemon.
Cooking method:
Remove the oil from the refrigerator, let it soften a little.
Cut herring: cut the fins and head, remove the skin, separate the fillet from the bones.
Cut the dill very finely and mix with oil.
Cut Borodino first into thin slices, then into squares (3-4 cm).
Cut the lemon into circles, each divided into small segments.
Spread bread with a thin layer of dill oil, put a piece of herring and a lemon slice on top.
Pierce with a skewer to fix the canapes.
Crispy crab sticks
cheap crab sticks can be turned into a great snack. Tasty, simple, beautiful dish fits perfectly into the concept of a beer table.
Ingredients:
three hundred grams of crab sticks;
a quarter glass of light beer;
egg;
four tablespoons of flour;
half a lemon;
salt and pepper to taste;
two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
Squeeze the juice from the lemon.
Free crab sticks from the film, pickle in lemon juice, salt, pepper.
Beat the eggs with beer.
Pour in flour, mix until smooth.
Heat oil in a pan.
Dip crab sticks in batter, fry on both sides.
Serve with hot sauce.
The appetizer is good and cold too.
Potato snack "Original"
Variation on french fries is tasty, nutritious and satisfying. And much more useful than potatoes from a food court, which is fried from frozen slices in the same oil for many hours. You can feed many with an original snack, so feel free to cook a simple but tasty treat.
Ingredients:
six potatoes;
half a lemon or a little lime;
a piece of parmesan (grams 20-30);
two tablespoons of ketchup;
half a glass of mayonnaise;
two tablespoons of olive oil;
pepper and salt to taste;
two tablespoons of chopped greens.
Cooking method:
Peel the potatoes.
Cover the baking sheet with foil, grease with olive oil.
Chop the potatoes with garlic.
Arrange the potato wedges, salt, sprinkle with pepper, sprinkle with the remaining oil.
Send the potatoes to bake in the oven at 220 ° C.
Remove the zest from the lemon, squeeze the juice.
Make the sauce: mix ketchup and mayonnaise, lemon zest and a spoonful of juice.
Season the sauce with salt and pepper if the taste is not sharp enough.
After 45 minutes from baking, check that the potato slices are ready.
Put the finished potatoes in a bowl, sprinkle with chopped herbs, mix.
Serve spicy potato appetizer with creamy sauce, homemade ketchup, mayonnaise.
Crispy squid rings
Such a dish is often included in the menu of cafes and restaurants. It is delicious, simple, healthy. make squid rings for beer. You will definitely enjoy the appetizer, and you will spend a little time and effort on its preparation.
Ingredients:
a kilogram of fresh squid;
egg;
a glass of corn starch;
garlic salt (a third of a teaspoon);
ordinary salt (teaspoon);
incomplete glass of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
Defrost squids, rinse with water, remove the skin, remove the transparent cartilage.
With a sharp knife, cut the squid carcass into rings. Set aside tentacles - they are not needed.
Stir the garlic salt and starch. You can take ordinary salt and garlic powder.
Beat a raw egg with a spoon of water.
Heat the oil so that the batter will immediately set.
Gently dip the rings into the egg. It is convenient to do this with two forks.
Roll in starch powder.
Fry breaded rings in oil on both sides until a crust appears.
Serve with any sauce.
Beer snacks - tricks and tips
For a beer appetizer to your taste, stick to traditional combinations. So really tastier.
A harmonious duet is created by light beers with fish, potatoes and cheese.
Prepare a meat appetizer for dark beer.
Squids and other seafood are good for unfiltered beer, as well as sweet or neutral-tasting snacks.
Serve fried meat, seafood dishes immediately, hot. After cooling, they will also be tasty, but there will be no pleasant crisp.
Keep the remains of snacks in the refrigerator for no longer than a day.
