Appetizer tomatoes with cheese and garlic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a snack with tomatoes and cheese? We will prepare the first version of a tomato snack with dill and green onions. To do this, prepare the necessary ingredients.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the tomatoes, dry them and cut them into slices. Choose juicy tomatoes, but dense. Soft fruits do not keep their shape well, in the process of slicing and cooking they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the dish.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the bell pepper into very small cubes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the garlic and pass it through a press or grate it on a fine grater.

5. Step 5:

   

   Wash the dill and green onion feathers, dry and chop finely. Leave a little dill for decoration.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the curd cheese in a bowl and mash with a fork. If your cheese is very dense and you want to make it more tender, add 1-2 tablespoons of fatty sour cream to it and mix.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add herbs, garlic, suneli hops and a mixture of ground peppers to the curd cheese.

8. Step 8:

   

   Mix everything thoroughly with a fork until smooth.

9. Step 9:

   

   Transfer the resulting curd filling into a pastry bag with an asterisk attachment. Squeeze the curd filling onto each tomato ring using a pastry bag.

10. Step 10:

    

    To make the appetizer look beautiful, lay the tomatoes on the lettuce leaves. Sprinkle the chopped bell pepper and the remaining dill on top.

11. Step 11:

    

    Now let's move on to the second version of this snack. Basil can be used with large leaves or in the form of small branched bushes with small leaves. I have one kind of basil used for filling, and the other for decoration.

13. Step 12:

    

    Also wash, dry and cut tomatoes into slices.

14. Step 13:

    

    Wash and dry the basil. Peel the leaves from the twigs.

15. Step 14:

    

    Peel the garlic clove and cut it into several pieces.

16. Step 15:

    

    Put the prepared basil leaves, garlic and sea salt in the blender bowl.

17. Step 16:

    

    Whisk everything to the desired consistency. I did not beat for long so that the leaves would not be crushed into a homogeneous puree.

18. Step 17:

    

    Put the curd cheese in a bowl and mash with a fork. If desired, also dilute with sour cream.

19. Step 18:

    

    In a bowl, combine the cottage cheese and basil mass.

20. Step 19:

    

    Mix everything thoroughly. Unlike the first option, the curd cheese will turn pale green from the released juice when the greens are crushed in a blender.

21. Step 20:

    

    Similarly, transfer the curd filling into a pastry bag with an asterisk attachment. If desired, you can use an ordinary teaspoon to apply the filling to tomatoes in both cases.

22. Step 21:

    

    Put the circles of tomatoes on the dish. On top of the pastry bag, distribute the cottage cheese filling with basil.

23. Step 22:

    

    Decorate the snack with basil sprigs on top. You can serve both snacks separately or combine them on one dish. Bon appetit!