The holiday season is here starting with Thanksgiving celebrations due in November. After a rather challenging year, people are rather looking forward to getting together and enjoy some good food with their loved ones. If you are hosting a Thanksgiving dinner or just a regular get together, you might be looking for some delicious appetizers to serve them.
Autumn, being the harvest season is filled with bountiful produce like pumpkins, butternut squash, cranberries, apples, spices like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla, and much more. Check out these festive appetizers that your guests will love:
Fig & Goat Cheese Bruschetta
Toast some baguette slices with a drizzle of olive oil. Mix some goat cheese with cream cheese, sea-salt, and thyme leaves. To make the balsamic glaze add the balsamic vinegar with brown sugar and set it to a gentle simmer. Spoon the goat cheese topping on the crostini. Add fresh figs and drizzle over the balsamic glaze and honey. Sprinkle some sea-salt and enjoy.
Pesto Potatoes & Mushy Peas
In a baking tray, add halved baby potatoes. Drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. To make the pesto blitz fresh basil leaves, Parmigiano Reggiano, extra-virgin olive oil, salt, fresh lemon juice. Drizzle the pesto in the potatoes and serve as a side dish with steamed brown rice. To make the mushy peas, blanch frozen peas. Add the peas, mint leaves, salt, pepper, in a food processor and blitz until smooth. To increase the brown rice benefits, soak the rice in water before cooking.
Check out the Daawat website for healthy brown rice recipes.
Honey Paprika Carrots
Blanch some baby carrots in boiling water. To make the glaze, add honey, rosemary, salt, smoked pepper, sumac in a jar and shake well. Sauté some garlic in olive oil and add the tender carrots. Pour over the glaze and coat the carrots. Serve with a side of hummus. You can serve this dish as a side to healthy brown rice recipes like a cranberry brown rice pilaf. You can use sprouted brown rice to increase brown rice benefits.
Pumpkin Nuggets
Mix some grated pumpkin, zucchini, salt, pepper, ground garlic, thyme, basil, flour, thyme leaves, parmesan cheese. Scoop the batter and shallow fry in olive oil until golden brown. Serve with a side of chili garlic aioli.
Apple Cupcakes with Vanilla
In a bowl, mix 400 g of almond flour, apple sauce, vanilla seed paste, castor sugar, egg, a pinch of salt, and unsalted butter. Pour in the cake batter in greased silicone cupcake moulds. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 mins. Pipe some vanilla buttercream frosting on top. Top with pecan nuts.
These are some delicious appetizer and nibbles that your family and friends are guaranteed to enjoy.
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