Gourmet Appetizer
Easy to Prepare Gourmet Appetizer
Do you fancy gourmet appetizers? For some people, preparing gourmet appetizers is quite difficult and expensive but if you have tons of ideas, it will be easy for you to think and create perfectly delicious and affordable gourmet appetizers.
When it comes to gourmet, fresh and high quality ingredients are used. With the perfect blending of the ingredients, a pleasing and mouth watering gourmet appetizer will be the result. Gourmet appetizers are not difficult to create. One can make a gourmet appetizer in less than an hour even if you do not have excellent cooking skills.
If you are about to host a big party or just a simple family gathering, preparing gourmet appetizers might be one of your goals. Gourmet appetizers are truly one of the best easy appetizer recipes that you can serve to anyone. The fresh ingredients that are put together to create a single appetizer is incredibly luscious and will definitely grab the crowd's attention.
Gourmet appetizers can be prepared in advance and can be served at most gatherings. Aside from the sophisticated presentation of the gourmet appetizers, it also has the perfect taste that will please even those people with fussy palates.
Among the gourmet appetizers available, one of my favorite is this Tangy Roasted Red Pepper Hummus in Cucumber Rounds. This recipe requires fresh ingredients in order to make an appetizer that is so delicious and mouth watering people will be asking for more.
This is one of the best easy party appetizers that you can serve at any party and gatherings. There are many hummus flavors that you can use on this recipe, it depends on what flavor you like.
Among the flavors available are the Greek hummus with olives, roasted garlic hummus, sun dried tomato hummus, lemon garlic hummus, lemon cilantro hummus, jalapeno hummus and roasted eggplant hummus. For me, the best hummus flavor is the Roasted Red Pepper Hummus that is the flavor I used.
Are you ready to create a wonderful, delicious, light, and nutritious gourmet appetizer? This Tangy Roasted Red Pepper Hummus in Cucumber Rounds can be served to anyone at any kind of party. Give your guests a wonderful mealtime treat with this appetizer as a starter.
Tangy Roasted Red Bell Pepper Hummus in Cucumber Rounds Recipe
Gather all the ingredients needed:
- 2 cups of chickpeas (soaked overnight, boiled and cooled)
- 2 red bell peppers
- 1 red bell pepper (as garnish)
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1/3 cup tahini
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ teaspoon of cumin
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne pepper Balsamic vinegar
- 1 zucchini
- Basil leaves
- 1 or 2 cucumbers
What to do:
- Roast 2 red bell peppers. Let it cool and once they are cool, remove the skins and seeds.
- Drain the chickpeas. Place it in a blender. Put in minced garlic and lemon juice. Blend until a paste forms. If the paste is too thick, add a bit of lemon juice or water.
- Put the tahini and roasted bell peppers in the blender. Blend it again with the previous mixture (chickpeas, garlic, and lemon juice mixture).
- Add cumin, cayenne, and Balsamic vinegar. Stir well and make sure that it is well blended.
- Put some salt as you desire. Set aside.
- Wash the cucumber. Cut the stem and the end.
- Peel the cucumber using a vegetable peeler. Slice the cucumber lengthwise.
- On a serving platter, roll the cucumber to form cucumber rounds. Fill the rounds with hummus mixture.
- Garnish it with red bell pepper slices and zucchini slices.
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