Best Christmas canapés

[gigglinggirl]

We always serve a few canapés with drinks before lunch on Christmas Day. I’d love to know your favourite canapés / recipes for festive bite-size morsels. Preferably home made not shop bought. TIA 🙏🏻

Smoked salmon blinis with dill sauce
Smoked duck croustades with diced cucumber & plum sauce

Brie and cranberry bites www.delish.com/uk/cooking/recipes/a29664090/cranberry-brie-bites-recipe/

Sounds delicious. Is there a particular recipe you use for the duck? Do you use ready made cases?

These sounds divine, and look super easy. Thank you! They’re on the menu…

So easy and taste incredible

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/occasions/christmas/christmas-biscuits-sweets-and-little-cakes/pistachio-sables?amp

Crostini - so easy with ready to bake sourdough baguettes. I top some with Boursin and red pepper (the cooked ones in a jar) and others with Philadelphia and smoked salmon / cheap caviar.

Delia has a recipe for pistachio and parmesan sables which are very moreish.

Little chunks of bruschetta always go down well.

Highly recommend chestnuts (buy a ready pack) wrapped in sausagemeat, then bake...comes out looking a bit like a Toffeefi if you feel me, is relatively non-fiddly, quick & yum!

Make coronation chicken (shredded cooked chicken, mayo, curry paste & mango chutney mixed) cut brown soda bread into bite-sized squares and top wiht a spoon of the chicken mix and half a red grape. (or you could fill small vol-au-vent cases instead, or use blinis or small crackers)

Spread a slice of parma ham with a thin layer of cream cheese. Add a few rocket leaves and drizzle with a small bit of balsamic oil then add a dill pickle to the end and roll up tight. Cut in half and sit the halves cut-side down on the plate. (don't know what these were originally called but I make them every year and they go down a treat!)

Using frozen petit pois, let them defrost but keep cold and then blitz in a blender (you want it a bit chunky not pea puree!) with some fresh mint, small bit of garlic, squeeze of lemon, some olive oil and lots of seasoning. Taste and adjust if needed. Then a blob of that onto a blini or small cracker and top with a small bit of smoked or hot smoked salmon.

Good old fashioned cocktail sausages cooked in honey & soy sauce always go down a treat too.

Sticky cocktail sausages
cherry tomato, mozzarella and a basil leaf on a stick
feta, beetroot and an olive on a stick

I've made some pastry cases today

I may do some prawn cocktail, guacomole, humours and grated carrot, Philadelphia & smoked salmon

I have had everyday for a week, Paul Hollywood sourdough with lurpak prosciutto, dolcelatte and half a fig drizzled with honey. My new 🆕 fave from the Waitrose Christmas recipe thing.

Smoked mackerel or smoked salmon pate on either crackers / cucumber / celery with a little dill sprig.

Puff pastry tartlets with red onion relish & goats cheese

I have an entire lunch of canapés before having the main meal mid-afternoon. We go for unfashionable retro favourites.

Devils on horseback.

Wheaten bread with butter and smoked salmon with a lemon wedge.

Blini with sour cream and Arenkha pretend caviar.

Mushroom vol-au-vents.

Paté on croutons made from bagels.

Endive leaves with beetroot and goats cheese.

Daisy I love devils on horses

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@gigglinggirl no probs, happy to help :-)

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