Festive Bites

A vegetarian option, a fish option and a meat option. Enough to please all your guests this year!
Ingredients
dates with goat's cheese
- Approx. 80g fresh goat's cheese
- 15-20 pitted dates
- 6-7 slices prosciutto or Parma ham
- 2 turns of pepper mill
- 1 sprig thyme
endives with beetroot hummus
- 15-20 medium-sized endive leaves (5- 6 medium endives)
- 100 g feta cheese
- 1 small mango
- 3 cooked beetroot
- A few sprigs of dill
- 50 ml (1/4 cup) olive oil
- 125 ml (1/2 cup) chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 1 tsp. cider vinegar
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp curry
blinis with salmon and cucumber cream
- 16-20 small market-fresh blinis
- 100g fresh salmon
- ½ cucumber, very finely chopped
- Approx. 30g fresh goat's cheese or ricotta
- 1 small pot crème fraîche
- ½ cup yoghurt
- A few sprigs of chives, very finely chopped
- 4-5 fresh figs
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
dates with goat's cheese
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and cut a slit in the dates.
- Place some fresh goat's cheese inside the dates.
- Cut the prosciutto slices into 4 rectangles.
- Close the dates and surround each one with a rectangle of prosciutto.
- Season with pepper and sprinkle a few sprigs of thyme over the dates.
- Place in the oven until the prosciutto has browned.
endives with beetroot hummus
- Wash the endives, remove the leaves and place in a dish.
- In a blender, combine the chickpeas, olive oil, two beetroot, lemon juice, vinegar, paprika, curry powder, salt and pepper. Chill for 1 hour.
- Peel the mango and cut into strips, then dice. Cut the feta and remaining beetroot in the same way.
- Spoon the hummus onto the endive leaf, then add the diced feta, mango and beetroot and a few sprigs of dill.
Salmon blinis and cucumber cream
- In a bowl, mix the crème fraîche, yoghurt and cucumber and season to taste.
- Cut the salmon slices into small horizontal and vertical strips.
- Wash the figs and cut into six pieces.
- Place the cucumber cream on the blini, followed by the salmon.
- Sprinkle with a few snipped pieces of chives and add the finishing touch with a piece of fig.