Appetizer Recipes

More Than a First Course
Each Is A Famous Restaurant Recipe
And A Secret Appetizer Recipe

Appetizer recipes have become a very important part of our social life and food experiences.

If you love to cook, chances are you also like to entertain family and friends.

When you entertain it is very likely you are going to want to serve some sort of food and beverages but not every occasion requires a large meal.

Serve some appetizers - wonderful food to munch on as people socialize. Serve one of these appetizers and you'll serve a famous restaurant appetizer.

The way we have changed our life-styles and eating experiences has elevated these restaurant appetizer recipes to an essential role of the restaurant business. Try a restaurant recipe for home entertainment and you'll dazzle your friends.

As originally used, appetizers were to be light items and not constitute a complete meal in and of themselves.

While we still use appetizers as an indication of the meal to come and, quite frankly, as a means of entertaining guests while the main meal is prepared, in America we have assigned appetizers an additional role.

At certain times and occasions, appetizers are the entire meal. Eating several different appetizers for a meal is sometimes referred to as “grazing.”



   (Two of my favorite "grazers.")

These restaurant recipes for appetizers provide for a full range of tastes, costs and products and have been favorite restaurant recipes for the past two decades. Some of the restaurant recipes have really been secret restaurant recipes ...until now.

Famous Restaurant Appetizer Recipes

Hot Crab Artichoke Dip
This Crab Artichoke Dip Appetizer is the all-time best selling appetizer at my restaurant. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Recipes for 8 to 20.

Feta Cheese Appetizer - Broiled
Cheese, Garlic, And Pepper Lovers - Devour! Preparation time: 20 minutes. Serves 6.

Shrimp Appetizer Tray With Avocado And Tomato
Try this Shrimp Appetizer Tray with avocado and tomato when you have to put together a party tray in a hurry but also want a delicious, attractive offering. Preparation time: 25 minutes. Serves 4-6 people.

Guacamole Recipe
Guacamole is basically avocado mashed up with a few other ingredients added to it. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Makes about 1 1/2 cups.

Roasted Salsa
Chips, crackers and breads of various kinds are both easy and relatively inexpensive and if combined with truly delicious appetizer recipes for dips, spreads or salsas they become a popular means of providing appetizers for guests.

This appetizer recipe is not only wonderful with chips ...I also use it in soups and sauces! Preparation time: 30 minutes. Servings: 3-4 cups depending on the size of the tomatoes.

Vegetable Dip With Dill
Great with veggies, chips and some artisan breads. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Serves 12-15

Fried Mozzarella Cheese
This famous restaurant appetizer recipe for fried cheese has always been a popular restaurant recipe at my restaurant. You probably don't want to serve these as an appetizer if the entree you are serving also has cheese. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Serves 4.

Mexican Layered Bean Dip
You will be pleased to use with your chips and nachos. Preparation time: 15-20 minutes. Number it serves approximately 4-6.

Shrimp Dip or Shrimp Pate
This dip appetizer recipe is excellent with not only crackers but French bread or good artisan bread. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Approximate number it serves is 12.

Pesto, Marinated Mozzarella and Artisan Bread
You can use French bread or almost any Artisan bread you like. The marinated mozzarella cheese can be purchased from most good grocery stores. The pesto sauce is my restaurant sauce recipe on the website. Preparation time: 10 minutes if you have the Pesto sauce already made. To make 2 cups of pesto sauce will take about 25 minutes. Serves: 8-10.

Marinated Skewered Chicken Breast
This marinated skewered chicken recipe is an easy marinated chicken appetizer that everyone, including my restaurant guests really enjoy, especially when served with a delicious dipping sauce. Preparation time: 20 minutes. Serves 8.

Almond Chicken Salad Spread
You now have another spread to use with your crackers and breads! This is a real bonus for you because this recipe has several uses:

• as a sandwich
• as a salad
• as part of your appetizer collection!

Maple-Bourbon Glazed Chicken Wings
Uniquely delicious. Preparation time: 10 Minutes. Makes 72 pieces

Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
This restaurant appetizer is one of the really big sellers my restaurant serves. I only use Dungeness Crab. An expensive appetizer, but worth it for my guests. You will really enjoy this appetizer recipe. Having an excellent Hollandaise Sauce is of course critical to getting full measure from this restaurant recipe.

Crab Cakes - Move Over Maryland!
Crab Cake Recipe puts legendary Maryland crab cakes to the test. Simply put, a crab cake is a sauteed or fried patty of crabmeat. Preparation time: 15-20 minutes. Makes 16 cakes for appetizers. Makes 8 cakes for an entree.

The Ultimate Cheese Ball
The "cheesiest" appetizer recipe you'll ever make! Some call cheeseballs "unfashionable." Don't tell my guests! They love this one. Preparation time: 30 minutes (must chill in refrigerator for at least a couple of hours). Makes two cheeseballs; enough for 16 -20 servings.

Crazy Hot Sauce
Use this recipe with some cream cheese for a wonderfully delicious spread for crackers and chips. Preparation time: 10 minutes. Makes 1 quart.

If you're really into appetizers and need an easy to understand cookbook that deals only with appetizers you might like to have "Elegant Appetizers: A Collection of Recipes with International Flair." Just click on "appetizers."

If you want detailed information about cheese as an appetizer or as a dessert and pairing cheese with wine and beer, don't miss the pages on those topics.

Information about cheese

Information about wine

Information about beer

Thank you for finding the website. Thanks, too, for your interest in restaurant recipes ...they work! You can cook with confidence and style!

ENJOY your famous restaurant appetizer recipes and the company of those you share them with!

Donna
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