Appetizer Flashcards
What are appetizers?
Smallpieces or portions of highly seasoned food and is usually served before a meal to stimulate one’s appetite
What are the basic ingredients in preparing appetizer?
Fruits, vegetables, bread, pastry, crackers, and spread
Considers the freshness and usually serves as cocktail appetizers
Fruits
Can be served as garnish or accompanied by a dip
Vegetables
Base of the canapes
Bread, pastry, crackers
Used in preparing canapes to support their base
Spread
Usuallly cosists of shrimp, lobster, crab meat, shellfish, fruits as well as fruit and vegetable juices
Cocktail
Includes pickled herring, chopped chicken liver, and smoked salmon and stuffed eggs
Appetizer salads
Served as the food at cocktail parties involving alcoholic beverages and can be served hot or cold
Hors d’oeuvres
Served between the soup and the fish course.
Hot Hors d’oeuvres
Should stimulate appetite, therefore aerved at the first course in the menu
Cold Hors d’oeuvres
Consists of shrimps, smoked beef, poached egg, Spanish sardines, and lettuce.
Plate of Hors d’oeuvres
Consist of two kinds of cold meat, such as ham, smoked beef, peppered ham
Grissom platter
A well-presented platter either a limited choice of simple or more expensive foods. (“Small quantity, but big in quality”)
Hors d’oeuvres platter
A special portioned platters
Assorted Hors d’oeuvres
Lobster is always included and is arranged in a silver platter
Rich Hors d’oeuvres
Tiny open-faced sandwiches, of bitw size and usually, high flavored or tangy
Canapés
The three main parts of a Canapés
The base, spread, and garnish/toppings
Holds the spread and garnish
Base
Placed on top of the base so the garnish won’t fall off
Spread
What are the theee types of spread?
Flavored butter, flavored cream cheese, meat or fish salad spreads
Placed on top of the spread that gives color, design, and texture or flavor to the canapé
Garnish or toppings
Includes carrots and curl lettuce, cucumber sticks, turnips, horse radish, celery hart, black olives, green olives, peanut, chips and shrimps cropeck
Relishes
Known to be raw vegetables with dips
Crudités
A variety of food that is served hot and cold
Miscellaneous Hors d’oeuvres
It is an Italian appetizer
Antipasto
Slice of Italian bread that is toasted, brushed with garlic, and drizzled with olive oil
Bruschetta
A small food item that is usually eaten with wine or other drinks usually in bars.
Tapas
Salted roe, or ehgs, of the sturgeon
Caviar
How do you prevent cross-contamination?
Keep raw foods and ready-to-eat foods separate
A term which translates to “the products of a fancy pork butcher”
Charcuterie
An appetizer typically served on a wooden board or stone slab featuring a selection of preserved foods
Charcuterie board
A shop tht sells cured pork products such as salami or ham
Deli
