Sandwiches with sprats and cucumber - and appetizer, and lunch

Literally translates a sandwich as "bread and butter". Who first started to cook them? Now it is difficult to establish. Jews in ancient times spread matsu oil and honey or a mixture of ground nuts and fruits - a sandwich was sacrificed.

Danes have long been preparing sandwiches with smoked fish and fried onions. Swedes are also big fans of such food, so they think that sandwiches are invented by them. Remember the Englishman John Sandwich, who loved them very much. Whoever invented them, it is important that now this simple, at first glance, dish (for example, sandwiches with sprats and cucumber) is the most popular in the world.

Why is it so attractive? First, it does not take much time to manufacture. Secondly, you can use different products. Thirdly, they can cook even a child. Fourthly, it is always possible to prepare different sandwiches from the same set of products. Nowadays they are very popular. Many cafes of fast food, snack bars make their own menu from various kinds of sandwiches: sandwiches with sprats and cucumber, with boiled meat or ham, hot with cheese, vegetarian with salad and tomatoes and so on.

Eat sandwiches by hand, only puffed or difficult to eat with a fork sitting at the table.

Sandwiches with sprats and cucumber

As you know, sprats - the most favorite product, well combined in sandwiches. Sprat is a small fish, we have it in the Baltic Sea. It was smoked and preserved in oil from ancient times. Now sprats are already a way of preserving any small fish: sprat, tulips, shallow herring. It is first smoked, placed in cans and poured with oil. The rolled cans are kept in autoclaves at high temperature. Golden "sprats" - a nutritious and delicious product, and in sandwiches become just a delicacy.

Bread is better to take black Borodinsky, it is possible merchant. Such a sandwich will look more appetizing, if the breads are cut figuratively, for example, a diamond, a triangle.

Cucumber can be as fresh, or salty, and pickled. From a cucumber and this or that set of products depends.

Usually sprats are not cleaned, properly tinned fish have bones and a ridge soft. But if sandwiches are prepared for a buffet, then you can carefully remove the head, spine, entrails. Thus, the processed "goldfish" to spread on a piece of bread, in the middle of the back lay a thin slice of marinated cucumber and a twig of green.

If the cucumber is fresh, then spread a slice of bread with a thin layer of mayonnaise, then put a round slice of cucumber and a quarter of the hard-boiled egg, put sprats on top. Decorate with a sprig of parsley.

Salted cucumber is cut along into thin strips, the bread is gently impregnated with sprat butter, put: cucumber slices alternating with fish.

Sandwiches with sprats and cucumbers can be closed: for one piece of bread we put a "spread" sprat and a slice of cucumber, and another lubricate with mayonnaise, then add them to the inside, put it on a dish, cover it with a cutting board as a press and put it in the refrigerator 2-3 hours. Before serving, sandwiches are decorated with herbs.

Sandwiches with sprats and tomatoes: a slice of bread spread with mayonnaise. A tomato is better to take a large one then for a sandwich there will be enough one slice, if the tomato is smaller, then you need more slices. Sprats put on a slice of tomato. Decoration is spicy greens.

Sandwiches with sprats and eggs: this sandwich will taste better if cooked on a toast. Slice bread or toast with a thin layer of mayonnaise, put a few slices of sliced steeply boiled eggs or sprinkle with a finely chopped egg. Put sprats on top.