Instead of heavy and fatty meals, after which you just want to get a good night's sleep, we suggest trying these 20 recipes for children's birthday snacks! A quick, beautiful and healthy snack - and now the birthday boy and his friends can have fun with games and contests!
1. Zucchini appetizer with curd cheese
This is both easier and healthier than a snack for a festive table for children!
You will need: 1 zucchini, 1 cucumber, 150 g of curd cheese, herbs, spices.
Preparation: Cut the cucumber into small cubes, chop the herbs and mix them with the curd cheese. Cut the courgettes into thick slices and fry on a grill or non-stick skillet. Place the filling on top and garnish with nuts, grated cheese or cucumber strips as desired.
2. Multi-colored meat appetizer
This cute mosaic can be made from different types of meat.
You will need: 300 g pork, 200 g beef, 2 eggs, spices, 2 tbsp. green olives, half a red bell pepper.
Preparation: Grind 200 g of meat into minced meat, add spices, olive circles and pepper cubes. Cut the remaining pork into small pieces and add to the same. Stir the minced meat with eggs and refrigerate for 3 hours. Form a few tight loaves using a film and boil for an hour and a half over low heat. When cool, leave in the refrigerator overnight.
3. Vegetable snack with lemon sauce
The best snack is a healthy vegetable snack!
You will need: 2 zucchini, 1 head of cauliflower, 5 cherry tomatoes, hazelnuts, a bunch of basil, 1 lemon, 1 tsp. Dijon mustard, 5 tablespoons olive oil, spices.
Preparation: Divide the cauliflower into inflorescences, cut the zucchini into large chunks and boil them in a steam bath until soft. Cut the cherry into quarters and stir the vegetables. Chop the basil, add oil, mustard, spices, lemon juice and zest, and add vegetables.
4. Cones with a surprise
This appetizer is perfect if your child has a birthday in winter.
You will need: 1 cup red beans, 1 handful of almonds, 1 onion, 2 tbsp. olive oil, 100 g of chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, herbs, spices.
Preparation: Chop and fry the onions, boil the beans and beat them with a blender along with peeled almonds and spices. Separately, interrupt the boiled chicken and add chopped greens and tomatoes to it. Make a bean tortilla, place a ball of filling on top of it, pinch the edges, and cut with a bump knife.
5. Festive fish snack
A little red fish is good for everyone, including children.
You will need: 150 g red fish, 20 quail eggs, 1 large cucumber, 200 g cream cheese, 2 tsp. red caviar.
Preparation: Boil the eggs, cut the fish into thin slices and the cucumbers into slices. Wrap the eggs with a thin strip of fish, put some cream cheese on top of the cucumber and place the egg on top. Garnish the appetizer with caviar.
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6. Tomato and mozzarella snack
The classic appetizer is very bright and beautiful, so it will definitely appeal to children.
You will need: 6 cherry tomatoes, 250 g mozzarella, 16 basil leaves, olive oil.
Preparation: Cut the cherry in half and cut the mozzarella into small slices. Place basil leaves between the pieces of cheese, halves of tomatoes around the edges, and put on skewers. Top with a drizzle of herbal olive oil.
7. Cheese snack
The usual slicing can be prepared for a children's birthday in the form of such cute boats.
You will need: 100 g cheese, 100 g cream cheese, 1 tbsp. chopped sun-dried tomatoes, a handful of walnuts, greens, 0.5 tsp. lemon juice, 4 tablespoons olive oil.
Preparation: Mix cream cheese with tomatoes and spices. Mix chopped nuts, herbs, lemon juice and butter separately. Cut regular cheese into slices 10 cm long and 2 cm wide. Fold the slices in a drop, fill with cream cheese and put the nut mass on top.
eight.Chicken and pineapple appetizer
A combination that almost everyone, without exception, likes!
You will need: 300 g of baked or smoked chicken, 800 g of canned pineapples, 6 cucumbers, 2 lemons, 1 bunch of mint, olive oil, spices.
Preparation: Whisk the olive oil with chopped mint, 2 tablespoons. Add lemon juice and zest to this mixture, and marinate cucumber cubes in them. Cut pineapples into pieces and mix with spices, and chop the chicken. Put everything on skewers, put it in a beautiful dish and fill it with the rest of the oil.
9. Mushroom soufflé
Perfectly diversifies the dish with cheese and cold cuts!
You will need: 500 g mushrooms, 2 onions, 1 carrot, 6 eggs, 3 tbsp. corn flakes, spices.
Preparation: Chop onions, carrots and mushrooms, fry, season and beat with a blender. Add cornflakes and eggs to this mixture, whisk and place in a baking dish. Bake for half an hour at 180 degrees.
10. Vegetable bruschetta
Another interesting recipe for a healthy vegetable snack for a children's birthday!
You will need: 2 zucchini, 1 tomato, half an onion, 1.5 bell peppers, spices, olive oil, 1 tbsp. balsamic, 40 g feta, herbs.
Preparation: Slice the zucchini diagonally and marinate in 1 tbsp. butter with spices for 15 minutes, and then lightly fry on both sides. Chop tomatoes, peppers and onions, fields with balsamic, add spices and stir. Brush each zucchini circle with cheese, sprinkle with chopped herbs and lay out the vegetables.
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11. Corn waffles
Take baking tins or cut ready-made waffles into pieces and use as a base for canapes and sandwiches.
You will need: 1 cup corn flour, 1 cup rice flour, 3 tbsp. sugar, 3 tbsp. oil, 1 orange, a pinch of baking soda and salt, 2 glasses of water.
Preparation: Mix both types of flour, add sugar, salt, baking soda, oil and water to a consistency. Add the orange chopped with a blender, mix everything until smooth and bake in a waffle iron.
12. Sea shell
Choose smaller buns to add flavor to this kiddie snack.
You will need: 500 g shrimp, 5 buns, 1 egg, 5 quail eggs, 1.5 tbsp. red caviar, 3 tbsp. mayonnaise.
Preparation: Cut the hats from the buns, remove the crumb, chop and fry until golden brown. Boil the shrimp and grind them with a boiled chicken egg. Mix with croutons, caviar and mayonnaise. Fill the buns with this mass, put on top of the boiled quail egg-pearl and garnish with red caviar. Top with the tops of the buns.
13. Lace pancakes
Even if you don't always get beautiful pancakes, you can definitely cope with these!
You will need: 180 g flour, 150 ml milk, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons. butter, 100 g of crab sticks, 4 boiled eggs, 1.5 tbsp. sour cream, lettuce.
Preparation: Beat the egg with milk, add flour slowly and add butter at the end. Fry pancakes, randomly pouring the dough with lace patterns. Chop crab sticks and boiled eggs, mix with sour cream. On each pancake, put a leaf of lettuce, then the filling, and roll it up.
14. Cheese and apple snack
Take juicy sweet and sour apples for an even brighter game of flavors.
You will need: 2 apples, 100 ml mayonnaise, 2 tbsp. nuts, lettuce, 250 g cheese, 1 tsp. zest, mint, spices.
Preparation: Peel the apples and grate them with the cheese on a coarse grater. Add chopped mint and nuts to them, mix with light mayonnaise and spices to taste. Serve in fresh and crispy lettuce.
15. Cream cheese tangerines
Even an ordinary processed cheese salad can sparkle with new colors.
You will need: 2 processed cheese, 100 g of hard cheese, 3 eggs, 3 carrots, 2 tbsp. mayonnaise, spices.
Preparation: Grate boiled eggs, melted and hard cheese, mix with spices and mayonnaise. Boil carrots and sodium on a fine grater. Roll the lettuce balls with wet hands and roll tightly in the carrots. Put in a dish and make green leaves.
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sixteen.Cold chicken for appetizers
An excellent substitute for ham and sausage for children's snacks on the holiday table.
You will need: 2 chicken fillets, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tbsp. rice vinegar, 0.5 tsp. dry garlic, spices.
Preparation: Cut the fillet into 2 parts and beat lightly, marinate in sauce, vinegar and spices, leave in the refrigerator for an hour. Wrap the chicken in spices in foil, put it in the oven for half an hour at 200 degrees. Without unfolding, cool and put in the refrigerator overnight.
17. Cabbage rolls
Another quick and healthy recipe for crispy snacks.
You will need: 1 head of cabbage, 3 carrots, 3 tablespoons each soy sauce and vegetable oil, 1 tsp. salt and sugar, spices, 1 liter of water, 3 tbsp. wine vinegar, 1 bay leaf, 7 peppercorns, 2 tablespoons each. salt and sugar for the brine.
Preparation: Boil cabbage leaves in salted water for a couple of minutes. Grate the carrots on a Korean grater, add salt and sugar, mix. Heat the oil, add spices to it, stir and pour in the carrots. Add soy sauce there and leave for 20 minutes.
Divide the cabbage leaves into triangles, wrap some carrots in each and put them in a bowl. Boil water with bay leaves, pepper, salt and sugar for the brine, add vinegar and pour it over the rolls. Cool, put in the refrigerator overnight, and in the morning drain the brine and serve.
18. Liver pate cakes
Use a piping bag to lay out the pate beautifully on the base.
You will need: 6 slices of bread, 6 quail eggs, herbs, 300 g of chicken liver, 1 onion, half a carrot, 60 g of butter.
Preparation: Fry the liver with onions, boil the carrots and beat them with a blender with butter and spices until smooth. Cut out circles from the bread, fry on both sides and lay out the pate beautifully on top. Garnish with boiled quail eggs and herbs.
19. Mushroom hemp
An interesting alternative to the usual children's birthday sandwiches!
You will need: 250 g of mushrooms, a baguette, 1 onion, 1 bell pepper, 100 g of cheese.
Preparation: Chop onion, pepper and mushrooms with spices. Cut the baguette into 1/2-inch thick slices, partially remove the pulp and rub. Put the vegetable filling inside, sprinkle with grated cheese and put it in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
20. Turkey ham
Cream, apple juice and spices - and here is an amazing recipe for cold cuts for children.
You will need: 1 kg turkey fillet, 30 ml butter, 150 ml apple juice, 75 ml 35% cream, 70 g paprika, 2 tbsp. cilantro, black pepper, 5 star anise, coriander, sugar and salt.
Preparation: Make a marinade with apple juice and spices, bring to a boil and boil in half, then add the cream. Puncture the fillet with a fork, roll in the marinade and leave in the refrigerator overnight. Wipe the breast with napkins, brush with oil and dip in paprika and salt, refrigerate for another hour. Bake the turkey in foil for 20 minutes at 250 degrees.