If you want to impress your guests with a colorful dish for a snack, then prepare for them “Quail Nests”!
Believe me, their surprise and delight in serving such a festive dish will be absolutely sincere.
In addition, prepare in advance for them leaves with a recorded recipe, although it is not so difficult to prepare, but the guests themselves will want to please and surprise their relatives with such a colorful snack. Just warn in advance those to whom this dish is intended that garlic is used in its preparation.
The most beautiful and delicious dishes are often very quickly prepared, however, like this. You will not need to boil anything, fry, etc., - the appetizer is prepared in exactly 10 minutes! Do not believe? And let's check it out together!
So, for 4 servings of the dish, purchase:
- 2 processed cheese;
- 1 pack of smoked pigtail cheese;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise;
- 10 quail eggs;
- 2-3 pinches of salt;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- greens for decoration.
To keep within 10 minutes, immediately place boiled quail eggs. Vary their number from servings, 2-3 eggs can be laid in one nest. For example, from 10 pieces you get two servings of 3 eggs and 2 to 2.
It is recommended to boil these small eggs for 5-6 minutes to a steep state, and then immediately immerse in a container with cold water. Eggs cooled in this way are easier to peel from the shell and their shape remains smooth.
While the eggs are boiled - rub grated cheese. Large or small - according to your desire. To make it easier to rub, before this procedure, place it for 5-10 minutes in the freezer - the cheese will harden slightly and rub better. if you decide to create a very festive version of such a snack, you can replace melted cheese with hard cheese, for example, “Russian” or “Okhtyrsky”.
Peel the garlic cloves and pass them through a press, adding, together with mayonnaise, into a container with grated, melted curds. Add salt and mix the whole mass thoroughly with a fork.
Open the vacuum package with smoked pigtail cheese and disassemble it into strips. Each strip further tear along, trying to make you get thin-thin cheese filaments. Then put several threads on top of one another and turn them into a ring - this will be a blank for the “nest”. You can vary the thickness of the blank to your liking.
Then put garlic-cheese mass in the middle of the “nest” with a spoon, and put a few boiled quail eggs on it.
Do not forget to decorate the snack when serving with fresh green leaflets and peeled shells for visual appeal. Enjoy your meal!
Have you already seen that a real snack can be prepared in 10 minutes with all the necessary ingredients? And now let's check how such a dish can be economical:
- 2 melted curds - 15 rubles;
- 1 pack of smoked pigtail cheese - 25 rubles;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise - 5 rubles .;
- 10 quail eggs - 20 rubles;
Total: 4 servings of the Quail Nests snack will cost 65 rubles, not counting the cost of salt, greens and garlic. This means that one serving will cost only 16.5 rubles, although in a restaurant you would be asked for at least 120-150 rubles for such an appetizing dish! So decide for yourself what is more profitable for your budget: to cook with us tasty and economically or to eat in restaurants, paying triple the price for the dishes presented!
