4 Easy Recipes for Canapé Skewers

Prepare all the ingredients for the skewered canapé recipe. Cream cheese of the Philadelphia type is needed. Alternatively, you can substitute it with butter. Ensure that all the ingredients are delicious. If you have the cheapest black bread, which doesn't taste the best, or the same goes for the sausage, or the cherry tomatoes are underripe or too soft and watery, the canapés will turn out the same. So, choose the most delicious, best, and favorite ingredients.

Cut the cheese into rectangles, approximately 2*2 centimeters in size, and about 1 centimeter in height. Grate everything else on a fine grater.

Grate the hard-boiled egg on a fine grater, and press the garlic clove through a press. If the garlic is chopped with a knife, it may be chunky in the salad spread, which is not pleasant for everyone.

Place the grated cheese, egg, garlic, and mayonnaise in a bowl.

Mix well. If the salad spread seems dry to you, add a little more mayonnaise. Some of it can be replaced with yogurt or sour cream. Personally, I almost always do it this way. If in percentages, it's approximately 60\40 - mayonnaise\yogurt (sour cream). If you want a smoother texture, use an immersion blender. The result is a creamy, delicate mass.

Cut circles from the baguette and black bread using a mold. If you want to be economical, you can cut 5 rounds from a classic square baguette. The diameter of my mold is 4 centimeters. Cut the rectangular piece of black bread into 4 parts. Trim the crusts beforehand.

Dry the baguette on both sides in a pan without oil, over medium heat, until lightly golden. If you are making a lot of canapes, then dry them in the oven on a baking sheet.

Place the spicy salad in a bag with a nozzle and squeeze a small mound onto a bread base. If there is no bag, simply spread it.

Diagonally slice cherry tomatoes in half, skewer them on toothpicks, and insert them into the base of the canapé.

Garnish with a sprig of parsley. It serves not only as decoration but also complements the taste. Parsley is very appropriate here.

Place thin strips of bacon on a skillet, heat the fire, and fry on both sides.

Place on a paper towel, quickly divide the strips into halves and skewer them. As the bacon cools, it becomes crispy, delicate, and impossible to simply bend and skewer. It breaks apart in your hands. Of course, you can avoid frying it to this extent, but soft bacon is uninteresting. The whole effect is in the crunch. So as soon as it cools slightly to the point where you can handle it, get straight to work :)

Place the spicy salad on a base made of black bread, and cut the cherry tomatoes in half.

Thread half of a cherry tomato and a piece of bacon onto a skewer, and place it on the base.

Garnish with parsley leaves. You can choose to place them on the bottom or on top. By the way, if you have leftover spicy salad spread, here's another way to serve it.

Take cooled and dried slices of bread, spread a small amount of cottage cheese on them, and top with a piece of lettuce leaf. I usually use Iceberg lettuce. The leaves are crispy, juicy, and I always have them at home since I often use them in different salads.

Thread a small gherkin onto a skewer, followed by a folded piece of sausage.

Pierce a skewer with a gherkin and sausage into the base of the canapé. Optionally, you can add an olive, parsley, or sprinkle microgreens on top (such as sprouted alfalfa).

Thinly slice a fresh cucumber. I use a grater for this.

Artistically twist the sausage and thread it onto the skewer.

Next, fold the cucumber accordion-style and top it off with a square of cheese.

It will be easy to arrange this appetizer on a plate if necessary. The cheese will provide a solid, even, and stable base.

All four options of skewered canapés are ready. Since I often make them, I always have thinly sliced and tightly packed circles of sausage, hot or cold smoked pork fillet, bacon, prosciutto, or ham in the freezer. For example, sausage and fillet are packed in 10 pieces. Ham comes in three to four wide, thin slices (I buy pre-sliced). One slice is divided into approximately three canapés. Enjoy your meal!