Making homemade beer snacks without a saved recipe on hand is a kind of brainstorming exercise for your own imagination and creativity. Essentially, you can make them from anything — from meat or fish, from mushrooms, vegetables, fruits, berries, and so on. However, there are quite specific dishes that are considered ideal beer snacks.
The five most commonly used ingredients in beer snack recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Eggs | 157 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 0.7 |
| Peppercorns | 255 | 11 | 3.3 | 38.3 |
| Onion | 41 | 1.4 | 0 | 10.4 |
| Paprika | 289 | 14.8 | 13 | 18.3 |
First and foremost, these are croutons, chips, and salted nuts. You can make them at home quickly and without any trouble (or you can not bother and buy them ready-made; but who looks for the easy way?)) Next come fish fried in batter or breading, any kind of meat, cheese, onion rings, and chicken tenders. Rolls in pita bread, shrimp, dried/smoked products, sandwiches, canapés, and tartlets with various fillings are very good.
Traditional beer snacks in the West are Bavarian sausages, salted pretzels, blue-mold cheeses, and sausages made in various ways, including hot sandwiches like hot dogs.
All beer snack recipes fall into two large categories: fast and complex. The first ones take just a few minutes to make. The second take longer to cook, but the result is more rewarding, too. For example, delicate cheese balls that look like exquisite candies on the outside but have a juicy filling inside. They're deep-fried after being frozen first, then rolled in breadcrumbs. They contain raw eggs, cheese, ham, or any other suitable ingredients: olives, mushrooms, chicken, juicy vegetables.
Another classic beer snack option is chicken wings baked in the oven.
The five fastest beer snack recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avocado with soy sauce | 1 min | 203 | +4 |
| Canapés on a cracker with salmon for the New Year | 5 min | 250 | +202 |
| Egg and cheese appetizer | 5 min | 149 | +34 |
| Fake tapenade | 5 min | 231 | +23 |
| Canapé Boat | 5 min | 302 | +54 |
Besides croutons, homemade chips can be added to the fast list. Yes, they usually take too much time and effort to make. But you can use a trick and make them from thin pita bread. The sheet is simply cut into squares of a convenient size. Then drizzle with vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt and paprika. And bake in a preheated oven for about 5–10 minutes. Other spices suitable for such chips are coriander, cumin, and hot ground pepper. If you sprinkle the pita bread with grated cheese, you get cheese chips. Serve them with a sauce — for example, ketchup, or better yet spicy salsa. And don't forget a bottle of beer, of course!