Lick Your Fingers: 7 Original Snacks With Cheese

Almost everyone loves cheese! It is good in appetizers, soups, hot dishes and even desserts. Today we will talk about snacks.

Almost everyone loves cheese! It is good in appetizers, soups, hot dishes and even desserts. Today we will talk about snacks. Cheese will be stuffed, fried and baked.

Save your ideas for cheese snacks on the festive table! Bonus - interesting facts about cheese.

1. Stuffed mozzarella

 

An excellent snack that you can cook in 20 minutes!

You will need:

Mozzarella - 200 g; Dried tomatoes - 5 pcs.; Arugula - 30 g; Lightly salted salmon - 50 g; Soy sauce - 1 tsp; Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.; Garlic - 1 clove.

Carefully make an indentation in the mozzarella ball, leaving the sides and bottom intact. Everything that is cut out, chop.

Finely chop the dried tomatoes, arugula and fish and mix everything, add the chopped cheese, a clove of garlic passed through a press, oil and soy sauce.

Fill the cheese with the prepared filling and serve immediately. Bon appetit!

2. Nodules "Strachatella"

 

This cute appetizer is prepared from many beloved mozzarella cheese.

For cooking you need:

Mozzarella mini - 250 g; Chilled cream - 250 ml; Salt - 1 tsp

Put the cheese in a saucepan and pour the whey in which it was stored. Put on low heat, add salt and heat to 80 degrees (dipping your finger into the serum, it should be tolerably hot). Boil for 1 more minute and remove from heat.

The cheese will become plastic. Take a ball of mozzarella, pull it into a thick thread and give the appetizer any shape, we have knots. Dip the finished product into chilled cream and serve after 2-3 minutes. Sun-dried tomatoes go very well with knots.

3. Cheese biscuits

 

Crispy cheese cookies - savory, but very tasty. Let's try!

For cooking you need:

Flour - 2 cups; Buttermilk - 0.5 cups; Egg - 1 pc.; Cheddar - 100 g; Butter - 50 g; Salt - 1/2 tsp; Baking powder - 1 tsp; Yolk - 1 pc.; Water - 1 tbsp. l.

Sift flour, salt and baking powder into a deep bowl.

In a separate bowl, mix the grated cheese, buttermilk, egg, and softened butter. Add flour mixture and knead into a soft dough.

On a work surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of 1 cm and cut out cookies of any shape.

Put the blanks on a baking sheet covered with parchment, grease with a mixture of yolk and water, and bake at 220 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Ready! By the way, such cookies can be safely sprinkled with a mixture of Italian herbs or smoked paprika for piquancy.

4. Spicy cheese cakes

 

Come on, who doesn't love cake? Only we will cook the cake not in its classic presentation, but cheese. Great snack!

We need:

Flour - 300 g; Salt - 2 pinches; Butter - 100 g; Water - 90-100 ml; Thyme - 1/2 tsp; Onion - 100 g; A mixture of 3 favorite cheeses - 300 g; Eggs - 2 pcs.; Cream - 150 ml; Coriander - 1 pinch; Black ground pepper - 1 pinch; Anise - 1 pinch.

Place flour, salt, thyme and chilled butter in a blender bowl. In pulse mode, beat until crumbs, then pour water in a thin stream and continue to beat the dough. As soon as the dough begins to gather in a lump, it means that there is enough water, the blender can be turned off. Gather the dough together, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

For the filling, grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add the fried onions, cream and eggs to it. Season with salt, pepper, coriander and anise.

Divide the chilled dough into 4-6 parts and distribute in molds for tartlets, forming high sides. Prick the base with a fork, lay out the filling and put in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 30-40 minutes.

Bon appetit!

5. Snack Cheesecakes

 

Lush, soft and tender cheese muffins will not leave you indifferent! In addition, they can be supplemented with any filling, for example, slightly salted fish, capers, sun-dried tomatoes.

For cooking you will need:

Processed cheese - 200 g; Egg - 2 pcs.; Flour - 4 tbsp. l.; Sour cream 15-20% - 4 tbsp. l.; Baking powder - 1 tsp

Grate the processed cheese on a coarse grater, add eggs, sour cream to it and mix. Then add the sifted flour and baking powder.

Grease cupcake molds with vegetable oil and fill 2/3 with batter. Send to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes. Ready!

6. Grilled Stuffed Cheese

 

Delicate stretchy cheese and fragrant mushroom filling ... Delicious!

Need:

Brie cheese - 200-300 g; Mushrooms - 150 g; Onion - 1/2 pc.; Butter - 20 g; Ground almonds - 50 g; Egg - 1 pc.; Parsley - a few branches; Breadcrumbs - 1/2 cup.

Saute the chopped mushrooms and onions in a pan, then add the chopped parsley and nuts.

Cut the cheese puck in half lengthwise, remove the middle (pulp). Put the filling without a slide in each half and connect the two halves of the cheese. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Dip cheese in beaten egg, breadcrumbs and fry until golden brown on both sides.

Melt the butter in a frying pan and dissolve the cheese pulp in it. Serve appetizer with sauce, bon appetit!

7. Bruschetta with jam and cheese

 

Delicious and unusual! This appetizer is perfect for a glass of good wine.

To prepare a snack you will need: 

Baguette - 1 pc.; Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.; Garlic - 1-2 cloves; Apricot jam - 240 g; Brie cheese - 240 g; Roasted almonds - 1/3 cup

Cut the baguette into slices 1 cm thick, rub each slice with garlic and fry in a preheated pan with olive oil until golden brown on both sides, about 5 minutes.

Brush the toasted baguette with jam, top with a thin slice of cheese and sprinkle with chopped almonds.

Enjoy!

Interesting Facts

Have you ever thought about the tradition of eating cheese with a glass of wine? This tradition appeared in order to save money, since earlier cheese was sold only in whole heads and it was almost impossible to eat it whole. So that it does not lose its taste and does not dry out, an inverted bottle of wine was placed in the center of the cheese head. And the wine helped keep the cheese fresh. This is how the tradition of drinking wine with snacks from cheese appeared, which has already lost its taste a little. Cheeses with a pronounced aroma are considered an aphrodisiac. And for the preparation of 1 kg of cheese, 10 liters of milk are required.