5 tips for making delicious salty appetizer biscuits
Long live the cheese to theaperitif !
Cheddar, Comté, Parmesan ... Open the appetite of your guests by making cookies at cheese. Make Shortbreads with Laughing Cow or Parmesan Tiles. Or let yourself be tempted by Gruyere matches. For this, spread out a puff pastry and cut rectangles with a knife. On the top, brush with melted butter and put some Gruyere. Cook for a few minutes in a preheated oven at 180 ° C, and wait for the rectangles to turn into pretty crisp. Then, vary the pleasures by replacing the Gruyère with cantal or blue.
Vary the forms
Take out your cookie cutters from the drawer foraperitif ! Make salty biscuits in the shape of a butterfly, angel or star. For children, think of the animals on the farm. The biggest on their side will appreciate the more original forms. Eat the mask of Darth Vader, that's tempting, right? No equipment at hand? Use a glass to make circles, and the tip of a knife to make triangles. And to declare your passion, nothing like a heart shaped cookie cutter. In addition, vary the shapes and make twists, breadsticks, palm trees ...
Give some taste!
Aromatic herbs bring colors and flavors to any recipeaperitifeven the simplest. Use and abuse mint, basil. Make pesto cookies or chive pucks. Also think of spices like curry, cumin, chilli. And take advantage of it to color your preparations. To you the palms with bacon and paprika!
And for the crunch?
In the kitchen, we love when it creaks, crunches and chips. Bring more crunch to your cookies aperitif, using flax seeds, poppy or squash. Add crushed pistachios on shortbread cheese, make black sesame sticks or sprinkle with crisp flax seeds. Ideal to accompany a verrine of cold tomato-basil soup.
These little things that make the difference
Add flavor to your preparations by incorporating dried tomatoes, marinated peppers or chorizo. If you like a little stronger recipes, add some wasabi. And stain your biscuits with green food coloring for an amazing result. Unless you use vitelotte potatoes for a purple result. Surprise your guests!
