Cocktail Party Canapes Recipe at MyDish

Cocktail Party Canapes

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Method

  • RECIPE 1: Goats Cheese Crostini

  • (These are More-ish, peeps wolf em down!):

  • Ingredients:
  • - 1 thin baguette (works much better if baguette is relatively thin)
  • - Butter (Half a slab!)
  • - Goats Cheese (2 thin rolls of it)
  • - Sun dried tomato pesto or basil pesto
  • - Red peppers or basil leaves

  • Method:
  • I usually use half the baguette for sun dried tomato crostinis & the other half for basil pesto crostini:

  • - Cut baguette into slices about 1 inch thick
  • - Cut Goats Cheese roll into thin slices
  • - Melt butter in micro wave
  • - Dip baguette slices in butter to coat both sides & place on a baking dish lined with tinfoil
  • - Spread half the butter coated baguette slices with Sun dried tomato pesto & spread the other half with basil pesto
  • - Place a slice of goats cheese on each one
  • - Place a basil leaf on each basil pesto crostini
  • - Place 2 lil slices of red pepper in the shape of lips on each sundried tomato crostini
  • - Bake in oven at 200 degrees for 10 – 15 mins (until goats cheese is golden colour & bread is crisped)
  • - Leave to cool a bit then serve to guests!



  • RECIPE 2: Jazzed up cheese n chutney cocktail Sausages:

  • Cocktail sausages are a simple canapé which everybody loves – but if you don't want to be boring you can jazz them up ever so slightly to taste even nicer:

  • Ingredients:
  • - Cheddar
  • - Mango Chutney
  • - Cocktail sausages

  • Method:
  • - Cook the cocktail sausages as normal
  • - 5 mins before sausages are ready, take them out of the oven. Slit each one down the middle & stuff with cheddar cheese & chutney
  • - Cook for a further 5 – 10 mins
  • - Serve!

  • RECIPE 3: Cherry tomato, marinated feta and basil skewers:

  • Ingredients:
  • - Feta cheese (enough to make 40 squares)
  • - Olive oil
  • - Oregano
  • - black pepper
  • - 40 cherry tomatoes
  • - Fresh Basil
  • - Cocktail Sticks

  • Method:
  • - Cut the feta into 40 even squares
  • - Grate the lemon to get the zest
  • - Mix 2 tablespoons of olive oil, the lemon zest, a bit of oregano & a bit of pepper together
  • - Pour over feta squares & leave to marinate for a few hours
  • - Once feta is marinated, make pretty lil skewers with cherry tomato, feta & a lil basil leaf so it looks like a lil sail of a boat on the top
  • - These are now ready to serve but you can make a pretty centre piece by covering a cabbage with tinfoil then sticking all of the skewers into the cabbage



  • RECIPE 4: Asparagus & Parma ham wraps:

  • Ingredients:
  • - Asparagus spears (2 for each wrap you want to make)
  • - Parma Ham (1 for each wrap you want to make)
  • - Philadelphia cheese
  • - Olive Oil
  • - Salt

  • Mehod:
  • - Put olive oil & salt in a bowl & mix asparagus spears in it
  • - Chargrill asparagus in a wok or, even better, a griddle pan for 3 or 4 mins
  • - Leave asparagus to cool
  • - Put a bit of Philadelphia cheese near the edge of each parma ham slice & place 2 asparagus spears ontop then roll so that you are wrapping the asparagus & Philadelphia in the parma ham




  • RECIPE 5: Mojito Cocktail

  • Ingredients:
  • - 1 part rum
  • - 3 parts soda
  • - A handful of mint leaves
  • - Half a lime
  • - 3 teaspoons of brown sugar

  • Method:
  • - Put mint leaves, sugar & lime in a glass & crush with a pestle (or something similar!)
  • - Add Rum
  • - Top off with soda
  • - Garnish with mint leaves or lime


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    Comments Add your comment

    • I made the canapes with both the sundried tomato and the basil pesto. They were fab, really quick and easy to make and went down very well with my guests.

      by Jules66 on Sun Oct 4 2009   reply to this comment

    • I had my first go at making canapes for our garden party and made the goats cheese crostini and the tomato, feta and basil dish. They went down a real treat and everyone thought they were very professional. Thanks for posting.

      by pepperpot on Sun Sep 20 2009   reply to this comment

    • WOW, this recipe has been viewed 3106. awesome :)

      by Von Food-Housen on Mon Jan 7 2008   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    •  
    • CANAPE 1
    • 2 rolls goats cheese
    •  sun dried tomatoe pesto
    •  red peppers
    •  basil leaves
    •  thin baguette
    •  
    • CANAPE 2
    •  Cheddar Cheese
    •  Cocktail sausages
    •  Mango Chutney
    •  
    • CANAPE 3
    • (enough to make 40 squares) Feta Cheese
    •  Olive Oil
    •  Oregano
    •  black pepper
    • 40 Cherry Tomatoes
    •  Fresh basil
    •  cocktail sticks
    •  
    • CANAPE 4 ASPARAGUS & PARMA HAM
    • 2 for each wrap Asparagus spears
    • 1 slice per wrap Parma Ham
    •  Philadelphia cheese
    •  Olive Oil
    •  Salt

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