What snacks will the Metal Rat like?

New Year's dishes should appeal not only to guests, but also to the symbol of 2020 - the Metal Rat. Then luck will accompany you for the next 12 months. Consider the lightest and most effective cheese snacks.

"Mouse" snack

If you want to delight and surprise guests with your culinary talents, prepare a tomato and cheese appetizer. The patroness of the coming year will definitely be pleased with such a meal.

To prepare edible mice you will need:

• 200 g of cheese;
• 3-4 tomatoes;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
• feathers of green onions;
• pomegranate seeds;
• olives.

We wash and dry the tomatoes, cut off the caps from them and take out the pulp. Then you need to grate the cheese (preferably on a fine one - the appetizer will be softer), peel and chop the garlic. Mix cheese, garlic and mayonnaise, stuff tomatoes with this filling. We return to the cut lid. It is necessary to make ears from it, and the olives will become eyes. We turn pomegranate seeds into a spout, green onions into a mustache. Thus, we design each mouse, carefully put the mice on a dish and serve them on the festive table.

Cheese balls appetizer

Another interesting snack for the New Year. You don't need to spend a lot of time on this dish, and the guests will definitely like it.

Cheese balls can be made from a minimum of ingredients - cheese, eggs and mayonnaise, or you can make them more savory by adding spices and a variety of fillings.

First, we will make a base for the balls, you can prepare it in advance and put it in the freezer. The list of products is as follows:

• hard cheese (200 g);
• eggs (5 pieces);
• garlic (a couple of cloves);
• salt pepper;
• mayonnaise.

Boil eggs hard-boiled, clean and rub on a fine grater. The same should be done with garlic and cheese. All this must be mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise to get a dense and homogeneous mass, not dry and not liquid. Do not forget about salt and spices, we add them to taste.

Now let's move on to preparing a festive snack with crab sticks. We take 200 g of this product, pass it through a fine grater, add half of the sticks to the base, fill with a spoonful of mayonnaise. After good mixing, we form balls, for this it is convenient to use a teaspoon.

The base will not stick to your fingers if you wet your hands with water. Gloves are optional.

The remaining crab shavings are used as breading.

Red fish can be added instead of crab sticks. This recipe involves adding:

• 1 cucumber;
• 100 g of red fish;
• white and black sesame seeds.

The cucumber needs to be peeled, cut into small cubes and mixed with the cheese base. The fish should be cut into medium cubes, each of which should be placed inside a rolled cheese and cucumber ball. Roll the resulting product in sesame seeds. If you mix the two, the appetizer will look more original.

You can replace cucumber and sesame seeds with herbs. Chives should be finely chopped and added to the cheese base. We chop the fish finely and send it there. The mass may turn out to be rather dry, in which case half a spoonful of mayonnaise will save the situation. Any finely chopped greens are suitable for breading - dill, parsley, cilantro, dry seasonings. These balls look very beautiful and festive.

Cheese balls with carrots and nuts will add sophistication to the festive feast.

You will need:

• carrots (1 piece);
• walnuts (100 grams).

You do not need to boil carrots. Rub the raw vegetable on a fine grater, add to the base, mix. Peel 50 g of nuts, chop the remaining half and fry in a pan. Put a piece of nut in each carrot-cheese ball (a quarter is enough), roll the blanks in fried nuts.

The "highlight" of the table will be cheese balls with olives inside.

Ingredients:

• sun-dried tomatoes (100 g);
• pitted olives (50 g);
• paprika.

Tomatoes should be finely chopped and added to the cheese mass, mixed. Now we form balls, inside each we send one olive tree. Then we roll them in paprika, put them on a beautiful dish, decorate with a sprig of herbs if desired and bring a spicy and aromatic treat to the table.

Appetizer "Tomato in a sheepskin coat"

The appetizer "Tomato in a sheepskin coat" will be no less effective and tasty; it is made in a matter of minutes.

Compound:

• cherry tomatoes (10-12 pieces);
• cheese (50 g);
• eggs (2 pcs.);
• ham (8 pieces);
• garlic (1 clove);
• green onions (1 bunch);
• mayonnaise (2 tbsp. l.).

Hard-boiled eggs, peel, three on a fine grater. We pass the cheese through it, mix it with eggs, add mayonnaise and garlic. Cut the ham into thin slices, cut each in half. Tuck the edges in such a way that it turns out to be a half-flight, tie it with a feather of green onions and stuff it with filling. It is better to put the rolls on a flat plate in an upright position, put cherry on top, pressing slightly so that the tomatoes are kept in the filling. Before serving, you can decorate with herbs, lemon wedges, olives.

Calla lilies

Another original appetizer is Calla. Take 150 g of chicken breast, 50 g of Parmesan cheese, 15 slices of processed cheese, 5 egg yolks, white pepper, soy sauce and mayonnaise.

Boil the breast, do not add salt - instead of it, soy sauce. Then cool and grind, add yolks, mayonnaise, grated parmesan, pepper. We spread the resulting filling on cheese slices, they should be rolled up in an envelope. Carrots and cucumbers are suitable as decoration.

Plates of cheese for calla lilies can be any - creamy, with cucumber, dill, ham.

Snack "With red fish"

This is an equally tender appetizer. Required list:

• 100-150 g of lightly salted red fish;
• 100 grams of cream cheese;
• toast;
• fresh cucumbers.

We cut some of the fish into thin slices, put on the board. The remaining fish will go to the filling: it should be finely chopped and added to the cheese.

Cooking will be easier if the cheese is at room temperature.

Then put the filling in a neat layer on the fish, roll up the rolls. It is better to send them to the freezer to make the cheese harder - this makes it easier to cut into circles. Use a sharp knife when doing this. The rolls are now ready to serve. Place them on croutons, crispbreads, or cucumber slices.

Prepare these easy holiday snacks. And the Rat will show you favor, and the guests will praise your culinary talents all year round.