If you are organising a Thanksgiving dinner at your home or you are being invited over to a place, these Thanksgiving appetiser recipes are delicious options to contribute to the Thanksgiving menu. As a host, you can prepare these snacks in advance to relieve yourself from any kind of last-minute stress. And if you are being invited over for a Thanksgiving lunch at a friend's or relative's place, then you can cook any of these and carry it with you as a contribution to the party. Let's look at these appetiser recipes.
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* Chessy Bacon Stuffed Peppers
These mini pepper bites have the goodness of bacon, cheese, onions, tomatoes, and a lot of flavourful herbs. This is an easy 10-minute recipe that you can simply make at home and all your guests are going to enjoy it thoroughly. Here is the list of ingredients you need to make this recipe.
* 4-5 Bell peppers
* 200 gm Cheese
* 100 gms Bacon
* 2 Tomatoes
* 2 Onions
* Herbs
* 1 tbsp Salt and Pepper
To make this easy yet delicious recipe. All you have to do is cut your bell peppers in a vertical shape. Now create a cavity inside your bell peppers and put the stuffing of pre-season bacon and freshly cut tomatoes and onions. Now sprinkle it with lots of cheese and some herbs of your choice. Put it in the oven and roast it for 5 to 10 minutes as per your preference. Your cheesy bacon stuffed peppers will be ready in no time.
* Goat Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms
Goat cheese stuffed mushrooms are a great vegetarian snack option for your Thanksgiving party. It will please both vegetarians and non-vegetarians and can easily become a part of your party menu. This is a simple and delicious recipe. Here are the ingredients that you require to make this at home.
* 500 gms Mushrooms of your choice
* 100 gms Goat cheese
* Herbs
* 1 tbsp Salt and Pepper
* 100 gms Butter
* 2 Onions
* Olive Oil
To make this recipe, you have to take some mushrooms and wash them well. Now separate the mushroom stems from the caps. Finely chop the mushroom stems and keep them aside. Now take a small skillet and melt the butter on low heat. Add the mushroom stems and cook until the liquid evaporates out of them. Now add cheese and seasonings to your mixture. While your mushroom stems are being cooked, brush the caps of your mushroom with olive oil. Now put your mushroom stem mixture inside your mushroom cap and heat it in the oven until your cheese melts properly.
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* Caramelised Onion Dip With Bread
This caramel onion dip is made out of five main ingredients that are shallots, scallions, sweet onions, yellow onions, and red onions. This is a classic upgrade to your regular onion dips as it has layers of flavours. The yellow and red onions give it a salty and savoury flavour whereas shallots and sweet onions add sweetness.
Make sure that you take your time to cook all of the ingredients on slow heat so that their flavours get concentrated. First of all, you will need to grind all of these ingredients in a mixture and then heat them on low flame. You can serve this dip to your guests along with bread tossed in garlic butter.
* Cornbread Muffins
This is again a vegetarian option for people who want to include more vegetarian snakes in their Thanksgiving menu. This is a lightly sweet brown sugar muffin that has lots of corn in it. Here are the ingredients that you need to make this muffin.
* 3 cups All-purpose flour
* 3 teaspoons Baking powder
* 2 teaspoons Baking soda
* 2 teaspoons Brown Sugar
* 100 gms Butter
* 100 gms Corn
* Salt
* 1 ½ cup milk
To make this recipe, you have to prepare a batter just like your regular muffins. Take all the ingredients like all-purpose, flour, milk, baking powder, baking soda and brown sugar, along with lots of butter in a bowl. Mix all of this well with the blender. Now add your corn to the mixture. Put the muffin mixture inside the baking moulds and bake them in the oven at 180°C for 15 minutes.
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* Smoked Salmon Dip
This is another simple but extremely delicious deep recipe that has the flavours of flakiness and smokiness of salmon. To make this recipe, all you have to do is take some shallots and smooth salmon. Add this to the grinder and finely chop them. Now transfer the mixture into a bowl and add some mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon zest and lemon juice in the processor. Mix this well until it becomes thick and airy. Your dip is prepared and you can serve it to guests with chips or pita bread.
These are some of the top Thanksgiving appetiser recipes that you can try making at home. All of these are very simple and get prepared in under 25 minutes.