Tomato And Cheese Canapes Food

TOMATO-CHEESE CANAPéS

Steps:

• Allow cream cheese spread to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, using 1-inch star canapé cutter, cut 20 stars from yellow pepper.
• Pipe or spoon about 2 teaspoons cream cheese spread onto each tomato slice. Top each with pepper star and several chive pieces.

CHEESE AND SUN-DRIED TOMATO CANAPéS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°. Place bread slices (cut bread into shapes using holiday cookie cutters if desired) in ungreased jelly roll pan, 15 1/2x10 1/2x1 inch. Bake about 5 minutes or until toasted.
• Spread each slice with tomato spread. Sprinkle with cheese, bacon and parsley. (If making ahead, cover and refrigerate up to 24 hours.) Bake about 5 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve warm.

TOMATO CANAPES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Place the diced tomatoes in a colander. Sprinkle with the onions, basil and House Seasoning, and toss to coat. Allow to drain, stirring occasionally. Fill each phyllo shell with 1 teaspoon of the tomato mixture. Stir together the mozzarella and mayonnaise. Frost the top of each shell with 1 teaspoon of the mayonnaise mixture. Sprinkle each shell with 1/4 teaspoon of bacon pieces. Bake the filled shells for 10 to 12 minutes. Serve hot. These may be prepared ahead of time and refrigerated until serving time.

CREAM CHEESE CANAPES

Steps:

• Cut each slice of bread diagonally in two. Spread butter thinly over each triangle, place, buttered side up, on a cookie sheet and lightly brown in the oven or broil very briefly.
• Mix together cream cheese, mayonnaise, Tabasco, green onion and cayenne into a paste. Pile about 1 tablespoon on each triangle of bread on the unbuttered side. Sprinkle with Parmesan, about 1 teaspoon on each. Top each canape with 1/4 of a sun-dried tomato. Freeze.
• Bake, frozen, at 375ºF for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

TOMATO & FETA PESTO BITES

Steps:

• Roll out the pastry on a surface lightly dusted with the Parmesan to about the thickness of a ten-pence piece. Stamp out 12 rounds using a 6cm plain cutter and line a shallow 12-hole bun tin. Chill for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to fan 180C/conventional 200C/gas 6.
• Prick each pastry base with a fork and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden. Remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack. Meanwhile, tear the leaves from the parsley stalks and put all but 12 of the small sprigs in a food processor with the pine nuts, then whizz until coarsely chopped. Then add the feta, garlic and oil and whizz to make a thick paste. Keep the reserved sprigs in a bowl of water in the fridge. The pastry bases will keep in a tin for up to 2 days and the pesto will keep in the fridge overnight.
• To serve, dollop a spoonful of the feta pesto onto the tarts and top each one with two cherry tomato halves. Garnish with the reserved parsley sprigs. Arrange on a platter and hand round with a bowl of black olives and sparkling mint & lemon juleps.

CHERRY TOMATO CANAPES WITH GOAT CHEESE AND CAVIAR

Steps:

• Cut the base off each of the cherry tomatoes and scoop out the seeds. Put them, cut side down and sit on kitchen paper to absorb any tomato juices from inside.
• In a bowl, mix together the goat's cheese, cream and chopped chives and season with salt and pepper. This can now be spooned or piped (piping looks more stylish and professional) into the hollowed-out tomatoes.
• Cut the chives for the garnish into 1cm lengths. Top each tomato with a little caviar and a couple of pieces of chive.

TOMATO AND CHEESE CANAPES

Steps:

• Top each cracker with basil, cheese and tomato, and voila! you have a canape!