What is your favourite quick and easy appetizer to serve guests?!
What is your favourite quick and easy appetizer to serve guests?
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Here are a few for you :
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Baked Crab Rangoon
Prep Time: 20 min
Total Time: 40 min
Makes: 12 servings, one wonton each
1 can (6 oz.) white crabmeat, drained, flaked
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, 1/3 Less Fat than Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
1/4 cup KRAFT Mayo Light Mayonnaise
12 won ton wrappers
PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Mix crabmeat, Neufchatel cheese, onions and mayo.
SPRAY 12 medium muffin cups with cooking spray. Gently place 1 won ton wrapper in each cup, allowing edges of wrappers to extend above sides of cups. Fill evenly with crabmeat mixture.
BAKE 18 to 20 min. or until edges are golden brown and filling is heated through. Serve warm. Garnish with chopped green onions, if desired.
KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS
Makeover Savings
We've taken a favorite appetizer and made it over. We substituted PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, 1/3 Less Fat than Cream Cheese and KRAFT Mayo Light Mayonnaise instead of regular cream cheese and mayonnaise. Since these tasty appetizers are baked, they require less hands on time so that you can spend more time with your guests. This baked version saves 80 calories and 6.5 g of fat per serving compared to traditional fried Crab Rangoon.
For Mini Crab Rangoons
Use 24 won ton wrappers. Gently place 1 won ton wrapper in each of 24 miniature muffin cups sprayed with cooking spray. Fill evenly with crabmeat mixture and bake as directed. Makes 12 servings, two appetizers each.
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Mini New Potato Bites
Prep Time: 20 min
Total Time: 1 hr 20 min
Makes: 15 servings, 2 topped potato halves each
1-1/2 lb. new potatoes (about 15 potatoes)
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
2 Tbsp. BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
2 Tbsp. KRAFT 100% Grated Parmesan Cheese
4 slices OSCAR MAYER Bacon, cooked, crumbled
2 Tbsp. snipped fresh chives
PLACE potatoes in large saucepan; add enough water to cover. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook 15 min. or until potatoes are tender.
MEANWHILE, mix cream cheese, sour cream and Parmesan cheese; cover. Refrigerate until ready to use.
DRAIN potatoes. Cool slightly. Cut potatoes in half; cut small piece from bottom of each potato half so potato lies flat. Place on serving platter. Top each potato half with 1 tsp. of the cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle with bacon and chives.
KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS
Make Ahead
These potatoes are delicious served hot or cold.
Substitute
Substitute PHILADLEPHIA Chive & Onion Cream Cheese Spread for the regular cream cheese for added flavor.
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STOVE TOP? Skillet Fritters
Prep Time: 5 min
Total Time: 17 min
Makes: 14 servings, 1 fritter each
1-1/2 cups STOVE TOP Cornbread Stuffing Mix in the Canister
1/2 cup flour
1 can (8 oz.) cream-style corn
1 can (4 oz.) chopped green chilies, undrained
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 Tbsp. oil
MIX all ingedients except oil until well blended. Let stand about 3 minutes.
HEAT oil in large nonstick skillet on medium heat 2 minutes.
DROP tablespoonfuls of batter into skillet. Cook 5 minutes on each side or until golden brown on both sides.
KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS
Jazz It Up
Serve with TACO BELL HOME ORIGINALS Salsa.
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pizza sticks
Little Smokies! With several kinds of dipping sauce.
cheese and crackers.....good and easy!
Frozen mini quiche! They only take a few minutes but it looks like you took forever!
Baby tomatoes or cherry tomatoes...stuffed with guacamole and topped with a little fried tortilla chip...I like to cut mine into little stars to add a little flair...wonderful finger food and great presentation
Olives and feta cheese w toothpicks stuck in them.
tortilla shells with cream cheese and sliced turkey, rolled and cut into pieces
Buffalo chicken dip served with celery and crackers.
I take pitted dates and stuff them with a little blue cheese and wrap them in prosciutto and put them ubder the broiler for about 2 minutes until the prosciutto starts to crisp up. My guests eat them all up immediately.
Bread bowl dips. Snag a round of sourdough and a baguette from the store, whip up a dip, cut the top of the round off, cube up the baguette, fill the bowl and arrange on a platter. Always a hit.
boiled or fried potatoes cut into bite size pieces wrapped in a slice of cooked bacon (toothpick through it to keep it together and easier and less messy to pick up)
Nachos with fresh tomatoes and feta cheese with good quality olive oil drizzled over and a glass of red wine.
AVOCADO DIP
2 large avocados, peeled and pitted
1/4 cup finely chopped, fresh coriander or 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon chilli or Tobasco sauce
1/4 teaspoon each salt and black pepper
1 cup plain low-fat joghurt
1/3 cup reduced kilojoule mayonnaise
2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1 clove garlic, crushed
4 medium sized ripe tomatoes, cored deseeded and coarsely chopped but not peeled
4 spring onions, including tops, coarsely chopped
1 cup coarsely chopped lettuce
500g tortilla chips, for dipping
Place the avocados, coriander, lemon juice, chilli sauce, salt and black pepper in a large bowl and mash well, set aside
Combine the yoghurt, mayonnaise, cumin, chilli powder and garlic in a small bowl.
Spread the avocado mixture over the bottom of a round or oval shallow dish or platter.
Smooth the yoghurt mixture on top, leaving a border of about 2,5cm of green all round.
Sprinkle with tomatoes, and then the spring onions.
Surround with a border of lettuce.
For the expensive cut I use shrimp Salad
For the after dinner mints, I use dried up Crest toothpaste
A quick and easy cheese ball is a pkg of cream cheese-8 oz, 12 oz of sharp cheddar cheese shredded, 1-2 TBSP worchestershire sauce, 1/2 of a onion, diced fine, and 2 small pjgs of Karl Buddig beef or dried beef in the jar-mixx all together with your hands and then roll in crushed walnuts. Only takes 15 minutes to make and you should refrig for at least 4 hours. freezes great and you can make on big one or a couple of small ones. Served at room temp is the best as the flavors marry together.
Yummm....
Also, popovers served with warm butter and some seasonal jams and jelly-awesome!
2 eggs-slightly beaten.
Add one cup flour
one cup milk
1/2 tsp salt.
beat until mixed-do not over mix.
Should make around 10 muffin size popovers.
Custard dishes are recommended but since I dont have any I just use a muffin tin.
Make sure they are well greased tins-greasing the top as well because these will get pretty large.
Bake @ 425 for 20 min,
insert toothpick into each one and then cook for another 20 min on 375.
So tasty and inexpensive.
Enjoy
Slim Jims
Store made hummus (like the grrek olive flavor, or artichoke)
Eggplant salad
Mixed olives from the deli counter
Assorted bread and crackers
Chunk of good-quality parmigiano reggiano
Stuffed mushrooms yum and very easy..
Depending on how many you are serving
One container of large mushroom with the centers big enough to stuff
One package of loose Italian sausage
One package of cream cheese
Preheat oven to 350
Wipe down all the mushroom with a damp towel never run them under water it makes them rubbery
Take out the steams cut into small piece
Cook sausage and drain half the grease off
then add the cream cheese and stems
When both are combined turn off heat and stuff each mushroom
Place in oven for 10-12 mins
Take out and let them sit for at least 3-5 min before serving.
Cheese, Crackers and Some Grapes or Olives. Simple and tasty
Well there are standard things you can put out that you don't even have to really make. . .Such as cheese and cracker trays, olive tray, vegetables and dip, or even little cocktail hot dogs with assorted dips. Personally for appetizers I actually make, my favorite easy recipe is coconut shrimp. Just start off with some nice big shrimp, dip them in flour, then egg, and then a mixture of coconut and plain bread crumbs. Toss them in oil to fry for a few minutes, and you're done. You can serve with an orange marmalade sauce. Another quick and easy idea is cocktail meatballs. I've made those a bunch of different ways. I know if you search www.foodnetwork.com there's a recipe of Emeril's which I've tried before and they were delicious. I didn't save it though, so I don't remember it, but you could find it easy enough and give those a try too!
Mini Croustades filled with Smoked Salmon & Caviar:
http://www.gourmet-food-revolution.com/e...
Enjoy!
Garden rolls.......Get some sour cream and Knorr vegetable soup mix (powder in a packet)....mix those with completely drained frozen spinach and chopped water chestnuts. Spread this mixture on soft tortilla shells and roll them up...refrigerate for an hour or less...take them out and slice them into rounds
TACO SALAD
1 8oz pckg cream cheese
1 12oz can hormel chili hot with beans
chopped tomatoes
chopped black olives
sliced jalepeno peppers
shredded cheddar/jack cheese
1 tablespoon sour cream
chopped green onions for garnishing
put cream cheese in microwave safe dish microwave on high for 1 minute. Add can of chili microwave on high for another minute.
mix together. Add 1 tablespoon (optional) of juice from jalapeno peppers (strictly for heat, so you can leave it out if you dont want too spicy) top with shredded cheese, tomatoes, black olives and dolop of sour cream in the center. Garnish with chopped green onions. Serve with taco chips.