Preparing a delicious snack for beer with your own hands at home is not so difficult. Just a few dishes can turn an ordinary evening over a beer into a real feast. This article will consider simple and interesting snacks for beer for every taste.
Beer Snacks: Best Recipes
Below you expect recipes for meals and snacks to foam: and those that can be prepared in a hurry, and requiring a lot of time. You just need to choose a dish depending on taste preferences and free time.
Meat
One of the most popular beer dishes is, of course, boiled crayfish. But they still need to be able to properly cook. Fortunately, it is easy. For cooking it is necessary to take live crayfish, pepper peas, salt, dill and water.
First of all, boil water in a large saucepan, add dill, salt and put 1 teaspoon of pepper, then close the lid and cook on medium intensity fire.
After 3 minutes, add crayfish to the boiling water, close the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and ensure that the water does not boil off. Next, you need to wait until the water boils again, and boil the crayfish for another 25-30 minutes. To get the finished crayfish out of the pan with a skimmer and serve with the beer still hot.
Another tasty meat dish for beer is marinated sausages. For cooking will require:
- 1 kg of good quality sausages;
- garlic;
- vinegar (300-500 ml);
- pickled cucumber;
- hot pepper - 3 pcs .;
- 10 g of sugar, coriander and salt;
- 1 onion.
Cooking:
- Cucumber should be cut into thin plates, onions - feathers, and chop the garlic into small pieces. In parallel with this, it is necessary to boil water, add 6% vinegar and spices to it.
- Peel the sausages and make a cut on them. Insert a slice of cucumber into it, a slice of hot pepper, onion, garlic, season with mustard or horseradish to taste.
- Sausages put in a 3-liter jar in layers with onions (the first is a layer of onions, then sausages, and so on in a circle).
- Sausages pour the prepared marinade and leave in the bank for 1-2 days, after which you can serve with beer.
Hot
Universal hot dish under the foam is roasted chickpeas. This is a good substitute for store chips and crackers, and it also has a mass of useful properties.
Before cooking, chickpea is poured with water and infused for 10-12 hours, after which it is thoroughly dried.
It is roasted over medium heat, in a conventional pan with the addition of vegetable oil. It is necessary to stir the grain about 1 time per 5 minutes, and the whole frying process will take about 15-20 minutes.
When the grains are ready (you can check for taste), spices are added to them: a small spoonful of paprika, ground ginger, dried garlic, curry, hot pepper, salt (to taste).
Then chickpeas are roasted for another 5 minutes, after which they are served hot and crispy to the beer.
Another option for a hot beer snack is cheese balls. To make them, you need 200 g of cheese (Dutch or Russian), 4 proteins, vegetable oil, flour and salt. To begin with, grate the cheese finely. From yolks should be separated proteins. According to the recipe, only proteins will be needed, which are whipped with a pinch of salt until the mass starts to acquire light foam, after which grated cheese is added to it.
All this is mixed to obtain a viscous consistency, from which you later need to roll the balls into the palms and roll them in flour.
In a saucepan with vegetable oil, lower several balls and fry for 2-3 minutes, after which they can be served hot with beer!
Useful
There is nothing better than to combine good taste and goodness in food. Beer sticks are a good example of just such a dish. For their preparation will require instant oatmeal, herbs, turmeric, hard cheese, flour and light beer.
In the dry form, you must first mix the flour, turmeric, oatmeal, herbs and salt. Next, add softened butter and grated cheese. All this pour beer and mix until the dough. Put the mass on parchment paper and roll out a rectangle 3-4 mm thick.
Cut the dough lengthwise into sticks, transfer to a wire rack and hold in the oven for 15 minutes at 190 degrees. Ready sticks can be served with beer still hot!
Another useful beer snack is a ham and pea salad. The main ingredients will require: ham, peas, onions, chips and mayonnaise.
The first step is to cut the ham into a straw and chop the onion finely. With the peas you need to drain the marinade, if any.
It remains to make a mix of all the ingredients: put the meat and onions to the peas, season with mayonnaise, and add some chips before serving.
Russians
Pike is a fish that is often found in Russian fairy tales. Did you know that you can make a tasty snack for a beer out of it?
To cook a pike for beer, first you need to rinse and cut it, leaving only the carcass and cutting it into 2 parts. Next, cut evenly sliced fish fillets. Grind 1 head of onion with rings and prepare marinade: in 1 cup of warm water, dilute 5 g of sugar and salt, as well as half a teaspoon of vinegar. Then take a jar and put the pieces of fish on the bottom, then - onions and so on in a circle 3 times.
Each layer can be abundantly sprinkled with spices - black pepper and coriander. In the end, pour all the prepared marinade and place the jar in the fridge for 1 day. After this time, the jar must be pulled out and pour the contents of sunflower oil.
In this form, pickled pike is stored for several days and can be served as a separate snack for beer.
Borodino bread and herring sandwiches are another option for a snack soaked in Russian spirit. For the preparation you will need herring fillets, butter, Borodino bread, lemon and dill.
It is better to put the oil out of the refrigerator in advance so that it melts. Dill should be crumbled into small pieces and mixed with soft butter.
Bread cut into pieces, suitable for the size of herring loin slices. Lemon must be chopped into rings, each cut into 6 equal parts.
On bread, first spread butter, mixed with dill, then put herring fillet, on top - a slice of lemon and decorate it with a whole sprig of dill.
From chicken
From chicken wings you can make a delicious snack for a beer. Especially if you add the hot sauce to them and bake in the convection oven. For cooking you need to take chicken wings, tkemali sauce and ordinary soy sauce, ground chili pepper, garlic, salt and refined oil.
The first step is to crush the garlic and mix it with tkemali sauce and sunflower oil. Rinse the wings and put them in a glass dish, rubbed with pepper and salt.
After that, pour the meat with cooked marinade and mix it all up. Wings should be pressed with something heavy (for example, a plate) and left to marinate overnight or overnight. After this time the marinade is drained, put the wings on the convection oven and bake at 250 degrees. Cooking time - 20 minutes.
And you can make wings, just like in KFC. To do this, they need to cut in the joints and salt to taste. Next, add paprika, pepper and adjika. You can also use tabasco sauce. All this mix well and leave to marinate overnight.
In parallel with this, it is necessary to beat the eggs with a small addition of water. Another ingredient is breadcrumbs, for color, you need to put turmeric with ground oatmeal.
Wings dip in flour, eggs and flakes and fry until cooked.
From pork
Pig meat can also go well with beer. Especially tasty is the Chinese-style pork. For cooking you will need pork ribs, which should be washed and divided into 1 piece. In a separate bowl, mix: brandy (3 tbsp. L.), Starch, pepper and salt to taste, soy sauce (2 tbsp. L.).
In the ready marinade put ribs and refrigerate for 1 hour. Meanwhile, finely chop the garlic and onions, which should be fried in oil for 2 minutes. Add chicken ribs to garlic and onions and fry for 15 minutes. They need to stir evenly. Add broth and 1 tsp to meat. Sahara.
Simmer the pork for 20 minutes without a lid until all the liquid has evaporated. Slice 1 sweet pepper, put in the pan to the meat and fry for another 3 minutes. Dish for beer is ready!
Low calorie options
Beer lovers can reduce food damage by paying attention to the following low-calorie snacks:
- popcorn;
- hunting sausages;
- rice chips;
- shrimp;
- pita chips.
Useful tips
It will be useful to get acquainted with useful tips on the preparation and selection of snacks for beer:
- To dark beer is best meat snack.
- Light beer harmonizes well with potatoes, fish and cheese.
- Unfiltered drinks will go well with squid and snacks, not too salty and not too sweet.
- Fried fish and meat dishes are best served still hot, so you will feel the beauty of the crisp.
- Do not store beer snack in the refrigerator for more than 1-2 days.
Use traditional combinations of snacks for beer. Of the usual products, you can always create a delicious dish with a frothy drink that will replace the shop food and bring pleasure.
