Small Bites & Appetizers

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Cheesy Green Curry Palmiers
Puff pastry is a reliable party staple. Just defrost, fill with a cheesy green curry blend, roll up, and bake off into savory palmiers.
Spicy Shrimp Endive Spears
Cooked frozen shrimp defrost quickly to become a spicy shrimp salad that you can easily dollop onto endive spears. A new party favorite.
Fresh Spring Rolls Recipe
Whether you call them summer rolls or fresh spring rolls, this popular Vietnamese snack is easy to make at home. Prep a few ingredients in advance, grab a friend to help form an assembly line, and you’ll have no trouble cranking them out for a party. You’ll soften rice paper wrappers in hot water, then stuff them with cooked shrimp and assorted mix-ins, including bright mango and seedless English hothouse cucumbers. But, once you’ve gotten the hang of rolling them, feel free to play around.
Trinity Korokke
Inspired by Japanese street food, these korokke include bell pepper and onion to add texture to the potatoes, and mozzarella to create a gooey cheese pull. They're a great appetizer, but also work for breakfast or brunch too.
Crispy Cauliflower With Honey and Hot Pepper Flakes
Crunchy cauliflower drizzled with a bit of honey and finished with hot pepper flakes is a welcome surprise of flavor—not unlike crispy hot honey chicken.
Red Wine–Poached Pears With Goat Cheese Sabayon, Pumpernickel, and Pine Nuts
This dish of wine-poached pears with crunchy toppings, spinach, and savory goat cheese sabayon is a great replacement for a traditional cheese course or as the first course of a meal. The poaching can be done in large or small batches. If you want to get ahead or simply need to move a lot of pears, the volume of pears called for can be doubled or tripled, just make sure that the pears are fully submerged in the cooking liquid.
Cheddar and Herb Gougères Recipe
Gougères are delightfully airy cheese puffs that are often served warm as an appetizer. The best part about gougères is that the dough freezes incredibly well, so you can have these at the ready to bake off for a tasty happy hour snack whenever you want. They pair especially well with a sparkling rosé or pét-nat.
Chicken Curry Puff Recipe
These chicken curry puffs have a pleasant balance of salt, spice, and sugar, making them perfect for an appetizer, afternoon snack, or even breakfast with a cup of tea. These puffs from The Woks of Life taste best made with homemade puff pastry, but you can also use store-bought.
Caldo de Camarón Recipe
Caldo de camarón is a classic cantina dish. Cantinas offer it two ways, broth on its own or with the vegetables and shrimp in it. It should have a kick of spice that will warm you up and is usually served in jarritos or mugs. It is a great appetizer to offer as a welcome beverage, especially if it is cold outside.
Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
This classic stuffed mushrooms recipe is perfect for hors d’oeuvres or side dishes for any cool-weather group affair. Need a Thanksgiving snack or New Year’s Eve appetizer? Open up a bottle of wine or pour some martinis and pass around a tray of these easy stuffed mushrooms. People will talk.
Creamy Hummus
Sure, you can make good hummus with canned beans, but the best hummus recipe starts with dried chickpeas. The resulting hummus is perfectly at home in falafel sandwiches and other lunchtime staples but occasion-worthy enough to present as an appetizer, drizzled in extra-virgin olive oil and perhaps sprinkled with cumin, paprika, toasted sesame seeds, sumac, za’atar, or your favorite spice. Go the extra mile and bake your own pita bread for a fully homemade spread.
Soft-Boiled Eggs With Pickled Chiles
These eggs are perfect served on a large cheese board draped with mortadella, and yes, plenty of wine. Keep these chiles on hand because they're very helpful for a last-minute cocktail party. They would be great in a martini or on pizza, sandwiches, greens, pastas—anywhere you want some briny heat. You can make these pickled chiles together in the very late summer when you are up to our ears in every kind of pepper.
Easy Guacamole
The best guacamole recipe is one that’s quick, simple, and never fails to please a crowd. And that’s exactly what this version is. Grab two ripe avocados and a few pantry staples and you’re ready to get started. Serve with tacos, nachos, fresh veggies, and other appetizers. Or make a dip platter with sour cream and salsa to serve with tortilla chips.
Roasted Nectarines With Labneh, Herbs, and Honey
Is it a salad? Is it a dessert? The truth is, we just don’t know. One thing we do know for sure is that it’s absolutely delicious. It’s a dish that people circle around apprehensively not knowing how to tackle, but once they do, it’s gone pretty quickly. Fruity, savory, crunchy, spicy and sweet—the kind of combination that simply cannot fail to please. It's perfect for parties, dinner parties, or just when you're feeling fancy.