Original picnic snacks combined with bread and vegetables

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The holidays continue, the weather is improving, which means that there will be more and more outdoor activities. Therefore, we decided to offer you several more options for interesting dishes that you can take with you to nature. Today we have for dinner - recipes for interesting snacks from Andrey Azarov and his Talerka.tv!

We offer you five appetizers - lobio, soft cheese with herbs, forshmak, bacon with wild garlic and babaganush - which go well with both bread, flatbread or lavash, and with vegetables.

Babaganush

Babaganush (baba ganush, or baba ganuj) is a popular oriental dish, an appetizer consisting mainly of mashed ready-made eggplants mixed with spices (for example, sesame paste, olive oil, lemon juice). It goes well with cakes and pita bread!

Ingredients:

• 1 kg eggplant;
• 1/2 tbsp. tahini;
• juice of half a lemon;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 2-4 st. l. olive oil;
• a pinch of cumin;
• 1/2 dry hot pepper;
• 2 tsp salt;
• cilantro or parsley.

Tahina (tahina) is a sesame paste. You can cook it yourself.

Forshmak

Forshmak (German Vorschmack - appetizer) is a dish made of minced meat (or herring), baked with potatoes, sour cream, onions and peppers, which is referred to as appetizers. Serve with bread as a spread.

Ingredients:

• 2 large boiled potatoes;
• 1 spiced herring fillet;
• 1 onion;
• 1-2 tbsp. l. lard (here: from guinea fowl);
• salt, black pepper.

Soft cheese with herbs

This French version of the curd snack is great for lightly toasted bread. This toast is easily turned into a sandwich if you take any fresh dark bread as a base and add lettuce and a couple of slices of fresh cucumbers!

Ingredients:

• 300 g of homemade soft cottage cheese;
• 4 shallots;
• a clove of garlic;
• a bunch of parsley and chives;
• a sprig of mint;
• a couple of thyme sprigs;
• 1/4 tbsp. olive oil;
• salt, black pepper.

Lard with wild garlic

This appetizer option goes well with black bread. For a change, you can add a bunch of dill there!

Ingredients:

• 50 g lard;
• a bunch of young wild garlic;
• 1 tsp salt.

Lobio

Lobio (from Georgian ლობიო, [Lobi]) is a Georgian dish, as well as a common name for beans (both green, green beans, and beans). It goes well with pita bread, herbs and vegetables.