Cheap Easy Appetizers
Cheap Easy Appetizers for Your Next Party
With a lot of celebrations and parties around this time of the year, cheap easy appetizers are in greater demand more than ever. If you find yourself hosting parties, soirees and events here and there, make sure that you know a lot of Easy Appetizer Recipes. Not only will it make your life easier as a host or hostess, but people will also be impressed with your skills in entertaining in your home or in formal gatherings. Easy party appetizers give that extra touch that turn plain gatherings into awesome and exciting parties.
What is an Appetizer?
An appetizer or a hors d'oeuvre, which is also called a first course, is a dish that is served to the dinner guests before the main course. Have you noticed that boring lull at gathering when you are all waiting for the other dinner guests to arrive and then you start feeling those all too familiar hunger pangs?
Appetizers are meant to remedy this awkward and excruciating part of a dinner party and hosts ought to never skip this part. As a host, you would never know how long your guests will have to wait and it is your job to see to it that everyone is comfortable and attended to. It always pays to be considerate enough to think of this eventuality and serving easy party appetizers can definitely speak volumes with how your guests will look upon you.
You do not want to come across as rude, but surely, you would want everyone to think that the affair that you have organized is planned well. Sometimes, a series of appetizers is the only thing that you would need to serve - this is most relevant in cocktail parties.
Usual foods served as appetizers are: cold cuts, caviar, Buffalo wings, canapés, cocktail wieners, cheese, crudités, deviled eggs, nachos, dumplings, and sausages.
However, why serve a common appetizer at your party? Mind you, there are a lot of cheap easy appetizers that do not need a lot of expert techniques. In addition, usually, these are the recipes that are very affordable and are not time-consuming to make.
One of the best dishes that make awesome appetizers is a chutney.
Easy Appetizer Recipe Idea: Chutneys
The chutney is a trademark of South Asian cuisines and it is known for being a glorious mixture of vegetables and spices. They come in varied forms, coarse or fine, wet or dry. Chutneys provide a lot of variety and making one is never boring because the thought of mixing and matching flavors is a delightful activity in itself.
Before electric blenders were invented, chutneys were made with the use of a mortar and pestle. These days, it is so much easier since we get to skip the part where we have to mash ingredients manually which adds to the reason why we classify it into an easy appetizer recipe.
There are numerous types of chutneys and you can actually make chutney from a various ingredients like: coriander, cilantro, mint, tamarind, dates, ginger, coconuts, onions, prunes, tomatoes, red chili, green chili, mangoes, lime, garlic, peanuts, and yogurt. In South African cuisine, they have a chutney variant which is made from apricots. In addition, in European and American cuisine, chutneys are fruit based which is cooked and reduced in sugar and vinegar.
The spices that are usually incorporated in chutneys are cumin, coriander, asafoetida, and fenugreek.
Chutney Recipe for the Day:
For today's special recipe, I am going to share to all of you guys, my awesome Avocado Mint Chutney.
I chose avocado and mint as basic ingredients due to their great taste and amazing health benefits. As a way to celebrate an awesome new year, we all ought to go on a health kick.
Avocado, one of my favorite fruits, which is considered by a lot of nutritionists to be the world’s healthiest fruit, is the perfect base for our chutney recipe today. Avocado is that awesome wonder fruit that helps prevent prostate cancer, breast cancer, oral cancer, stroke, and heart disease. It also promotes eye health, lowers cholesterol, and is a good source of Vitamin E and glutathione.
Mint also works well for this recipe because it not only adds great flavor to the chutney recipe, it is also full of health benefits that you, your family, and dinner guests will truly be benefiting from. Mint is also anti-cancer food which also has properties that is effective in soothing fatigue, helps in bowel movement and can ease stomach aches. It is an effective anti-fungal and it also serves as an effective treatment for asthma and other allergies.
Super Healthy and Yummy Avocado Mint Chutney
This recipe can serve 4 people. Feel free to increase the proportions according to how many people are joining you for dinner.
- 1 piece fresh ginger (peeled and chopped finely)
- 1 tbsp yellow onion (minced)
- Salt
- 1 clove of garlic (minced)
- 1 Thai or Serrano chili (chopped)
- Lime or Lemon juice
- 1 large ripe avocado (pitted and chopped)
- 2-3 tbsp cilantro leaves (finely chopped)
- ¼ tsp ground cumin
- 2 tsp plain yoghurt
- 2-3 tbsp mint leaves (finely chopped)
Directions:
- Put the following ingredients into the electric blender: garlic, ginger, chili, salt, and onion. Blend ingredients to produce a course texture. If a blender is not available, you can also choose to pound the ingredients and incorporate together with the use of a mortar and pestle.
- Pour the avocado slices and the lime juice or lemon juice into the blended mixture.
- Mash all the solid parts and mix well.
- Then, stir in the mint, yogurt, cilantro, and cumin.
- Let the chutney sit for 5 minutes then taste it. Adjust the flavor according to your preference.
Voila! Your Super Healthy and Yummy Avocado Mint Chutney is done and is ready to be served! Make sure to put it on a nice plate and to garnish, put a mint leaf or two on top.
Surely, everyone will be talking and raving about your awesome party especially if you serve this really good chutney on the next event that you will be hosting. After all, there is no need to stress over everything to come up with a wonderful party... Cheap easy appetizers are perfect whether it is served on a small gathering at home or if it is for a corporate event for a thousand people.
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