Sprat - a self-contained snack, but just because they are rarely served to the table, as they are quite fatty, and their taste needs to be balanced. Sandwiches are made with them more often, supplementing smoked fish with vegetables. Many prefer to cook for the festive table sandwiches with sprats and fresh cucumber, which almost always have a fresh and moderately savory taste. This appetizer is considered traditional, but never loses its relevance.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced hostess can make tasty and delicious sandwiches with sprats and fresh cucumbers. Knowing a few moments will allow you to get the best result.
- Sandwiches with sprats and fresh cucumber can be served on wheat and rye bread. Even if you make them one recipe, but serve on different types of bread, they will have a completely different taste.
- Bread for sandwiches is cut into slices 1-1, 5 cm thick, trying to make them the same. It is most convenient to use a bread knife for this. If not, you can take any sharp knife with a long blade. Soft loaves are easier to cut, do not crumble, if they are laid hump down. If you are not sure that you can slice the bread smoothly and beautifully, buy already sliced bread. Such bakery products are not much more expensive than usual.
- Do not save on sprats. In the tank with them, if you shake them, there should not be a strong gurgle. Sprats should be about the same size, golden brown. The strong smell of smoke may indicate a violation of the technology of cooking sprats and their low quality. When pinning a fork, the sprats should not fall apart - this is another criterion of their quality.
- Sandwiches will taste better if you dry or fry the bread for them. If you decide to fry the bread, do it in a dry frying pan with a good non-stick coating or lubricate its bottom with a minimum amount of butter: fatty sprats by themselves, and even a small amount of butter when frying bread may be redundant. Most often the bread for sprats sandwiches is browned in the oven or with the help of a toaster.
- Sandwiches can be beautifully shaped by squeezing out the bulk of the slices of bread using some kind of container. Well suited for this purpose forms for putting salads at their portion of the feed.
Even if you just put sprat and a slice of fresh cucumber on bread, you get a good sandwich, but still the snack will be more delicious if the main ingredients are added with tomatoes and other vegetables, eggs, cheese, greens. Technology cooking dishes may have small differences with the selected option. In order to avoid mistakes and not be disappointed with the result, it is necessary to adhere to the recommendations accompanying the selected recipe.
A simple recipe for sprats and cucumber sandwiches
Composition:
- long loaf - 0, 2-0, 25 kg;
- sprats - 160 g;
- mayonnaise - 80 ml;
- fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- parsley - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Baton cut into slices with a thickness of 1 cm or slightly more. Dry them in a toaster.
- Wash the cucumber, dry it with a napkin, cut off the tips.
- Cut the fruit into thin, oval-shaped pieces.
- Skip garlic through a press, mix with mayonnaise.
- Cover the toast with a thin layer of the sauce.
- Put 2-3 slices of cucumber on each piece of bread.
- Place the sprats on the cucumbers so that there are 2 fish on each sandwich and their tails are directed in different directions.
When serving, garnish with parsley sandwiches. It can be finely chopped and sprinkle bread on it. You can put on each sandwich on a small sprig of green, not chopping it.
Sandwiches with sprats, cucumbers and olives
Composition:
- long loaf - 0, 3 kg;
- sprats - 160-180 g;
- pitted olives - by the number of sandwiches (16–20 pieces);
- fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - 120-140 ml;
- lettuce leaves - how many will go.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the loaf into slices. Cut each slice in half across. It is necessary to cut a little obliquely, so that after it was easier to lay sprats on their bread in their entire length.
- Lay parchment on a baking sheet, put bread pieces on it.
- Open the jar of sprats, carefully place the fish on a plate. The remaining in the jar of oil pour pieces of bread.
- Heat the oven to 140-160 degrees, put a baking tray with bread for 6-8 minutes. If the oven is equipped with a convection function, it is worth using.
- Take the dried bread out of the oven and let it cool.
- Cover the bread with mayonnaise and put it on the dish.
- Wash the salad, shake off the water, dry. Put on each slice of bread on a piece of lettuce.
- Put sprats along the long side of each piece of loaf.
- Wash and dry the cucumber. Cut into thin oval plates.
- Remove the olives from the jar.
- String a cucumber slice and olive on a skewer so that the structure resembles a sail. Stick a toothpick into the first sandwich, about the center. In the same way, collect the remaining sandwiches.
- Transfer the sandwiches to a wide dish and serve.
Olives in this recipe can be fully or partially replaced by olives, cucumber slices - thin lemon slices.
Sandwiches with sprats, cucumber, tomato and cheese
Composition:
- long loaf - 0, 3 kg;
- cucumber - 0, 2 g;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- sprats - 160-180 g;
- mayonnaise - 60-80 ml;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- hard cheese - 50.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the loaf into slices 1, 5 cm thick. Fry it in a frying pan, dry or greased with a thin layer of vegetable oil.
- When the bread has cooled slightly, brush it with mayonnaise mixed with garlic passed through a press.
- Wash, dab vegetables with a kitchen towel. Cut them into thin circles. For cutting tomatoes it is better to use a special knife with teeth, which saws through the skin of vegetables, without squeezing the juice out of them.
- Put on a piece of bread in a cup of cucumber and tomato. If the bread slices have a small area, the vegetables should be placed on top of each other by a turret. If a piece of loaf is oblong, put the vegetables next to each other.
- Spread sprats on sandwiches, trying to distribute them equally.
- Finely grate the cheese, sprinkle the sandwiches on top.
Sandwiches with sprats in this recipe can be prepared without cheese, then they will need to be sprinkled with finely chopped greens. These sandwiches will be delicious on rye bread.
Sandwiches with sprats and fresh cucumber have a balanced taste, fresh and slightly spicy at the same time. They are nourishing and appetizing. They can be made for everyday and festive table.
