Savoury nibbles!

Juicy_Tube

A fave of mine!

Grate approx 250g of parmesan, mix with 2 rosemary sticks(remove leaves and finely chop).

Line baking sheet with paper and place teaspoons of mixture, allowing space for spreading, flatten a little with spoon. Bake for 8-10 mins at 180 til golden, allow to cool, then remove from baking paper. Always line baking sheet with paper so they don't stick!

Can keep for 2 days in airtight container in fridge.

Do you have any other easy-peasy snacks or nibbles?

JT x

Juicy_Tube

Use small bread sticks. Brush end with a little olive oil, wrap a couple of basil leaves around it, wrap with parma ham. Make loads, they go down extremely well!!

JT x

hilstep2000

Believe it or not, deep fried potato peelings! My kids luv em!

tiff

This is a tip from when I went to Slimming World.

Drain a can of chick peas and put them on a tray in the oven for a while. They taste just like nuts but without the calories

elona

I have a tip from Slimming World as well

Get some sheets of lasagne and put in boiling water till soft - then drain - cut into squares or triangles- put on baking tray pre squirted with fry lite spray- put salt or pepper or curry powder etc on top- then bake in oven till golden.

Taste like crisps and no sins on a green day . You feel as if you are being really wicked.

MonkeyGirl

Not sure if this has been posted before. But does anyone have any quick and easy recipes for this kinda thing? I have too many allergies so thought I would make my own stuff this year. Hear are a few recipes I have made which went down really well.

Cheese Straws

Metric Ingredients Imperial
100g plain wholemeal flour 4oz
pinch salt and pepper pinch
1 egg 1
50g butter 2oz
2tbsp water 2tbsp
50g grated cheese 2oz

1. Add salt and pepper to flour and blend in butter and grated cheese with a fork to reach breadcrumb consistency.
2. Separate egg and use yolk to bind dough with water as required.
3. Roll out pastry and cut into straws. Brush with egg white and bake for 15 minutes on a greased baking tray in an oven preheated to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mk4.

Onion Bhajis

Ingredients

100g / 4oz Chick-Pea Flour or Gram Flour * I used normal flour*
1/4 teasp Chilli Powder
1/2 teasp Turmeric
1/2 teasp Baking Powder
Salt
1/2 teasp Ground Cumin *didn't have any*
1 Large Onion, halved and thinly sliced
1 Green Chilli, deseeded and finely chopped *didnt have any*
25g / 1oz finely chopped Fresh Coriander
Cold water to mix
Vegetable oil for deep frying

Method
Sift the flour, chilli, turmeric, cumin, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Add the chopped coriander, onions and chillis and mix well.
Preheat the deep fat fryer to 180ºC / 350ºF.
Gradually add enough water to the flour mixture to form a thick batter mixing very well so the onions are well coated.
Very carefully drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the hot oil and fry until keep warm whilst you cook the remaining bhajis.
Drain well on kitchen paper and serve very hot.
Makes 10 -12

SAMOSAS

1 tbsp. oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
6 oz. minced lamb * I used beef*
1 potato, grated
2 oz. peas
1/4 tsp. turmeric
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Oil for deep frying

PASTRY:

8 oz. plain flour
1/2 tsp. salt
4 oz. butter
4 1/2 tbsp. milk

Heat oil in a frying pan. Saute garlic and lamb until browned. Stir in potato, peas, turmeric, and cook, stirring to prevent the mixture from sticking for about 5 minutes. Season and leave to cool.
Make pastry. Sift flour and salt into a bowl, rub in butter until mixture resembles bread crumbs. Mix in milk to make tacky dough. Flour hands, break off pieces of dough, size of a walnut. Roll out on well-floured board to make thin circle.

In center of each circle, place a good teaspoon of filling. Dampen edges, fold over to make triangular patty. Deep fry a few at a time until golden brown. Makes 25.

Hope these are of some help to people.

MonkeyGirl

chardonnay_2

i had thought about starting a thread similar to this. the shops are full of party food which i'm sure could be done for much less at home. it would be great if someone with the knowhow could tell us how to make this stuff. pre oldstyle i would have just bought it, now i look at it and think bet you could make that much cheaper (if someone told me how) lol!

sort of things i've seen them selling is mini sausage rolls, mini toad in the hole, mini pizzas, mini quiches, vol a vents, chicken kebabs, chicken pakora, chicken spring rolls etc

jcr16

i make my own sausage rolls and they are devine. i buy puff pasty ( i just can't make it) and roll it out. then skin about 8 sausages and roll them to make then thinner, then wrap the pastry around them , just enough so the pasty meets up, brush on a battered egg , and sprinkle grated cheese on , then i put them in oven gas mark 6 i think for about 20 min. but just check them. as my oven sometimes takes 10 mins but on other occasions takes 20.

sorry if i haven't written this very well. but i find describing how to do something very difficult. i wouldn't say making your own are cheaper but they certainly taste better.
i find u need a proper sausage to do this , like butcher own or somthing. i buy a pack or 6 from safeways and i think they £1.99 . but they are just gorgeous.

elona

I make my own pizza but even buying a shop pizza and using cutters to make loads of mini pizzas should be cheaper.

tootles_2

Get some smoked salmon bits, Take them out of the wrapping and squeeze a lemon over, put in the fridge for 30 minutes to 'cook' in the lemon juice. Cut the crust off slices of bread, spread with butter, put the bits of salmon on the bread and roll up overwrap in foil and put into the fridge until just before you want to serve them, unwrap and slice through to make wheels........salmon pinwheels.

Cook cocktail sausages in the oven, when they are cooked drizzle with honey and sprinkle with seseme seeds, then spear on cocktail sticks, if you cannot pake pizza get a couple of good quaility ones, square off when they are cooked and cut into pizza fingers, the kids will eat the bits........

Mash up tuna with a tablespoon of mayo and spread on slices of toast then cut into triangles and cut the triangles into halves, mini tuna toasts.....

squeaky

There loads of threads on pizzas including making them with scone bases instead of yeast and dough - so they're really simple.

A search on pizza comes up with quite a lot of threads but the main ones are these:-

Can I make pizza without yeast
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=93980

How do I make pizza?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=93687

HM pasta sauces and pizza dough
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=79095

Hm pizzas
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=98756

Pizza question
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=78335

Quickest pizza ever!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=57341