Appetizers, also known as appetizers, starters, headpots or pre-meal snacks, are rich in variety, including various small cold appetizers and hot appetizers. The appetizer is the first course of western food. In western food, the main purpose of appetizers is to stimulate appetite and improve appetite. Therefore, the characteristics of western appetizers are very obvious. Generally speaking, they are required to be small in quantity, fresh in taste, beautiful in color and shape, mainly sour and salty. There are many kinds of appetizers in western food, including Canapes, Cocktails, Dips and so on. Appetizers in a broad sense also refer to Appetizer soups and Appetizersalads. First, open the appetizers. The main feature of opening the appetizers is that they are made of crispy bread, biscuits, crisp vegetables or eggs with a small amount or small pieces of cold meat, cold fish, egg slices, caviar or foie gras and other raw materials. The weight is very small, usually once or twice. Requirements: soft and tender on the top, crisp and fragrant on the bottom, with a slight garlic flavor. Ingredients: 4 tomatoes, 60 grams of cheese, garlic 1 head, olive oil 10 gram, French bread12 strips, and a proper amount of fresh herbs (such as tarragon and basil). Production: (1) cut tomatoes into crescent shapes. Cut the cheese into cubes. Chop garlic. Cut the bread into thick slices. (2) Spread both sides of the bread slice evenly with part of garlic. The bread is baked in the oven. (3) Put the baked bread on a plate, put fresh herbs, tomatoes and cheese on it in turn, and pour olive oil on it. Note: (1) Choose a soft variety of cheese, preferably Mozzarella. (2) When mixing raw materials, the action should be light, otherwise the raw materials will be fragile. Analysis of the two-flower-shaped dishes: this dish has made some shapes for the bread, which is the base of the batch, making this dish more beautiful and attractive. Requirements: rich colors, crisp bread, sour and delicious stuffing. Ingredients: 8 slices of toast, white cheese120g, cherry tomatoes 60g, canned olives 50g, quail eggs 6, butter100g, salad oil 30g, vinegar15g, mustard sauce and sugar a little each, and salt and pepper a proper amount. Production: (1) Cut cherry tomatoes in half and white cheese into small pieces. Cooked quail eggs and cut into crescent shapes. (2) Cut off the four sides of the toast and make it square. Brush with melted butter and put it in a flower-shaped (such as plum blossom) mold to make a flower-shaped bread lamp. (3) Put the bread cup in 190. (2) Bake crisp and brown in the oven. Take it out and let it cool. (4) Put olives, tomatoes, cheese and quail eggs in a bowl to make stuffing. Mix salad oil, vinegar, mustard sauce, a little sugar, salt and pepper to make a sauce. (5) Put the bread cup on the plate, add the stuffing, pour the sauce, and decorate with celery leaves. Note: (1) Master the temperature of toast. (2) Stuffing and sauce should be put in the bread before serving. Second, the chicken-tailed appetizer Chicken-tailed appetizer is translated from English Cocktail, which mainly refers to seafood or fruit as the main raw material, accompanied by sour or strong sauce. Because these dishes are often placed in beautiful cups, such as cocktail glasses, they are attractive in appearance and appetizing. Analysis of melon and chicken tail cup dishes: this dish chooses honeydew melon as the main raw material and is shaped, with good color, flavor and taste. Requirements: sweet taste and beautiful color. Raw materials: 700g of honeydew melon (orange flesh), 50g of honeydew melon (turquoise flesh) 1 50g, 50g of grape150g, 40ml of pot wine, 0/piece of fresh lemon/kloc-0, 0g of honey10g, and a little of salt and pepper. Production: (1) Clean honeydew melon and grape respectively. Lemon juice. (2) Put the wine in a bowl, add lemon juice, honey, salt and pepper and mix well to make a sweet juice. (3) Dig the orange-yellow honeydew melon into a ball with a ball digger, cut the green honeydew melon into strips, put it in a bowl with grapes and mix with sweet juice. (4) Put the above raw materials into a cocktail glass and decorate with knotted green melon skin. Note: the dishes will taste better after refrigeration. How to eat: Take a proper amount of agar, soak it in warm water at 30 _ 40 degrees, filter it out after 20 minutes, and mix it with coconut milk, sugar, peanuts, sesame seeds, hot sauce and other condiments. Use agar10g, add 500g of water, cook it until it is dissolved, then mix it with sugar, milk or juice, and put it in the refrigerator for cooling. Edible agar-dessert DIY Yangmei tofu Ingredients: agar, Yangmei juice, rock sugar Practice: 1. Soak agar in clear water. After 2 hours, boil half a pot of water, add agar and cook until it is completely dissolved. 2. Put the rock sugar into the bayberry juice and stew it with low fire until the rock sugar is dissolved in the bayberry juice. 3. Mix the rock sugar bayberry juice with agar, boil it with slow fire, and keep stirring evenly. 4. Pour the cooked juice into the container quickly, cool it and put it in the refrigerator for ice cooling. Efficacy: Myrica rubra contains a variety of organic acids, and the content of vitamin C is also very rich. It can not only directly participate in the metabolism and redox process of sugar in the body, enhance the permeability of capillaries, but also reduce blood fat and prevent cancer cells from forming in the body. The fruit acid contained in Myrica rubra can stimulate appetite, promote salivation, promote digestion and relieve summer heat. Agar cake: Take one or two pieces of agar and four kilograms of clear water, boil it over slow fire until it is completely dissolved, add one and a half kilograms of white sugar, and an appropriate amount of essence and food coloring, and then refrigerate it in the refrigerator. 4。 Cold salad: take an appropriate amount of agar, soak it in 10~20℃ warm water for 20 minutes, filter it out after softening, and mix it with white sugar, vinegar, onion, hot sauce, sesame oil, coconut milk, pineapple, cucumber, peanut, sesame and other condiments according to everyone's taste, which has the characteristics of softness and tenderness. Dosage: The addition degree of agar in various products can be as low as 0.005% and as high as 3%, which can be selected as required. ◆ Features of healthy milk fruit salad: sweet and sour appetizing materials: yogurt, kiwi fruit, mango, banana, plum and bayberry. Practice: 1, peeled mango, banana, plum and kiwi fruit, diced and put them in a cup in turn. 2, pour yogurt into the cup, and finally add a bayberry for ornament. Key points: if it is too sour, add a little condensed milk, or adjust the amount of yogurt according to your own taste; The collocation of fruit is determined by personal hobbies, but it is best not to use watermelon, because there is too much water, and it will "water out" if it is left for a long time, and the flavor of the mixed sauce will be diluted, resulting in insufficient flavor. Master, let me remind you-● Because salad dressing is easy to make raw materials "out of water", try to use fruits and vegetables that are not easy to deform and have relatively moderate moisture. After the materials are washed or blanched, they must be completely drained. ● Don't add seasoning sauce too early, because most vegetables will release water when they are salty and dilute the seasoning. Therefore, it is best to mix the sauce when you are ready to serve. ● Fresh herbs are not often the protagonist of the whole salad, but they have the effect of making the finishing point. From sharp stimulation to sweetness, all kinds of herbs have different tastes, and it is necessary to balance the weight and characteristics. ● Pay attention to the way the plate is loaded, and consider the taste and color of the material. Simply put, it is to catch the eye. A good salad should also give people a well-designed impression visually.