Sprats sandwiches are one of the most popular snacks for everyday and festive meals. They always go nourishing and appetizing, like almost everyone, and you can always make them in a hurry, adding smoked fish with affordable products. One of the most simple, but harmonious to taste options for this snack are sandwiches with sprats and pickles. Sour-salted vegetables favorably emphasize the smoked taste of sprat, giving the dish even more piquancy. Diluting this union with other ingredients, you can get toast with even more interesting flavor.
Cooking Features
Sandwiches with sprats and pickles can be prepared according to different recipes. Often these ingredients are complemented with cheese, eggs, some kind of sauce, fresh herbs. The technology of cooking snacks may have small differences that depend on a specific recipe, but there are no clear canons for which this dish is prepared. Each hostess makes a snack, based on their imagination and experience. However, the knowledge of some moments will save you from mistakes and will allow you to get the best result regardless of what recipe you decide to use.
- Sandwiches with sprats and pickled cucumbers have a spicy taste that blends in well with the taste of rye bread, but some variants of this snack are made using wheat bread.
- Sandwiches with sprats and pickles will taste better if the bread is pre-dried. To do this, you can use a toaster or oven. You can fry bread for toast in the pan, but sprats are fat on their own, so when frying bread it is better to refuse to use butter or add it in the minimum amount.
- If you want to make round-shaped toasts, squeeze circles out of square slices of bread using a salad dressing tin or a tin can of a suitable diameter.
- The quality of the main ingredient - sprat - will certainly affect the taste and appearance of the snack. If they are closed in a can of clear glass, evaluate their appearance. They should be about the same size, golden color. The metal tin can be shaken to understand how tightly the sprats are laid in it. A quality product has no pronounced smell of smoke, does not look too dark, does not crumble at the slightest touch. If the fish you find are fragile and broken, they can be kneaded with a fork and used by analogy with a paste.
- Pickled cucumbers have a more pronounced sweet-sour taste compared to salty ones. If you want to make the taste of snacks more savory, pickled vegetables in the recipe can always be replaced with pickled ones.
When serving sandwiches with sprats to the table will not prevent to take care of their design. Sometimes it is laid in the recipe itself, sometimes the cook needs to invent himself how to decorate a snack. Even just sprinkling sprats with chopped greens, you give the dish a more aesthetic look.
Sandwiches with sprats and pickled cucumbers on black bread
Composition:
- rye bread - 0, 4 kg;
- sprats - 160-180 g;
- mayonnaise - 80 ml;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- pickles - 0, 3 kg;
- fresh greens - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Bread cut into slices 1-1, 5 cm thick. Cut each slice diagonally to make triangular pieces of bread.
- Put parchment on the pan. Put slices of bread on it. Sprinkle them with vegetable oil or oil from a can of sprats.
- Place the baking tray for 7-8 minutes in the oven preheated to 140-160 degrees.
- Skip garlic through a press, mix with mayonnaise. Spread the sauce with dried bread.
- Cut the cucumbers into elliptical slices. Put a piece of cucumber on the corner of each slice of bread.
- Next put the sprats, placing them along the longest side of the bread triangle.
- Finely chop the greens and sprinkle sandwiches with it.
This is one of the simplest types of sprats and pickles sandwiches. Despite the modest composition, the snack turns out delicious and like many.
Sandwiches with sprats, eggs and pickles
Composition:
- long loaf - 0, 3 kg;
- sprats - 160 g;
- pickles of small size - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 3-4 pcs .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- mayonnaise - 60-80 ml;
- fresh greens - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the loaf into slices slightly more than 1 cm thick. Dry them in a toaster or in a dry frying pan.
- Mix the garlic passed through the press with mayonnaise, cover it with bread.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Try not to digest, as if boiled for too long, the egg yolks are covered with a bluish bloom and look less appetizing.
- Place the pan with the eggs under a stream of cold water to cool them faster. Take the shells off them. Cut into round slices. Place on a slice on each piece of bread in the center.
- Cut cucumbers into circles, put 2 cups on each piece of bread, on both sides of the egg.
- Spread sprats over sandwiches. Try to put on each piece of 2 sprats. It is more convenient to lay them out so that their tails are directed in opposite directions.
When serving, decorate the sandwiches with a sprig of parsley or dill.
Sandwiches with sprats, pickles and cheese
Composition:
- sprats - 160 g;
- long loaf - 0, 3 kg;
- cheese - 100 g;
- pickles - 0, 3 kg;
- mayonnaise - 50 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the loaf into slices and cover with mayonnaise.
- Cut cucumbers into thin circles, spread on bread.
- Place sprats on top.
- Chop grated cheese, sprinkle sandwiches with it.
- Place the sandwiches on a baking sheet and send to an oven heated to 180 degrees.
- Cook until cheese melts.
Sandwiches made according to this recipe are best served hot.
Sandwiches with sprats, melted cheese and pickled cucumbers
Composition:
- sprats - 160 g;
- long loaf - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- processed cheese - 150 g;
- pickles - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Dry slices of white bread in any way you like.
- Cook hard boiled eggs, grind grated.
- Rub the cheese.
- Mix the eggs with the cheese, adding to them 2-3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, spread the bread on this salad.
- Sprats mash with a fork. Spread on top.
- Cut the cucumbers in long bars or slices, put them on the sprat mass.
This recipe will help out if it turns out that the sprats in the jar are not of the highest quality.
Sandwiches with sprats and pickles can be prepared in a hurry if guests come unexpectedly. The snack has a pleasant savory taste, looks beautiful, well satisfies hunger.
