Recipe of the day: Sandwich sushi and snack cone

Today’s recipes are all about creativity and bite-sized deliciousness.

These mouth-watering snacks combine fresh ingredients with a touch of culinary artistry that will delight your taste buds and brighten your meal.

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Sandwich sushi

Ingredients

• 2 slices (2 x 30 g) of white bread, crusts removed
• 4 Tbsp (24 g) cream cheese or cheddar cheese spread
• A quarter red pepper (30 g), deseeded, thinly sliced
• A quarter carrot (20 g), peeled and thinly sliced

To serve

• Sweet chilli sauce to serve
• Cheese wedges to serve
• Raisins to serve
• Fruit to serve

Method

1. Place the bread on a clean, flat surface. Using a rolling pin, flatten the bread slightly.
2. Spread the cheese spread evenly over the bread slices, leaving a 2 cm border along 1 edge.
3. Top with red pepper and carrot strips.
4. Roll up to enclose filling and slice each roll into thirds. Serve with sweet chili sauce.

*This recipe was sourced from Rediscover Dairy with permission.

Sandwich sushi

• Author: Rediscover Dairy
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 5 minutes
• Total Time: 15 minutes
• Category: Lunch, Dinner
• Method: no cook
• Cuisine: Asian

Ingredients

Scale 1x2x3x

• • 2 slices (2 x 30 g) of white bread, crusts removed

• • 4 Tbsp (24 g) cream cheese or cheddar cheese spread

• • A quarter red pepper (30 g), deseeded, thinly sliced

• • A quarter carrot (20 g), peeled and thinly sliced

To serve

• • Sweet chilli sauce to serve

• • Cheese wedges to serve

• • Raisins to serve

• • Fruit to serve

Instructions

1. Place the bread on a clean, flat surface. Using a rolling pin, flatten the bread slightly.
2. Spread the cheese spread evenly over the bread slices, leaving a 2 cm border along 1 edge.
3. Top with red pepper and carrot strips.
4. Roll up to enclose filling and slice each roll into thirds. Serve with sweet chili sauce.

Snack cone

Ingredients

• 1 Snack cone
• 2 slices salami
• 1 small cheese round (20 g per round)
• 30 g piece of blue cheese
• 3 breadsticks (breadsticks are 15g each)
• 1 gherkin
• 6 cherry tomatoes

Method

1. Using skewer sticks and culinary imagination, make up a few skewers to go into a paper cone.
2. Cut the mini cheese rounds in half and then place a blackberry on the stick followed by half a cheese round, a blackberry, and half a cheese round.
3. On another skewer add a few slices of salami, folded into mini triangles topped with a gherkin.
4. Fill a paper cone halfway up with a couple of mixed baby tomatoes then slip in a couple of cheese sticks/flat crackers.
5. Fill in the rest of the cone with the 2 skewers.
6. Decorate with a fresh sprig of rosemary and maybe some edible flowers.

*This recipe was sourced from Rediscover Dairy with permission.

Snack cone

• Author: Rediscover Dairy
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 5 minutes
• Total Time: 10 minutes
• Category: Lunch, Dinner
• Method: no cook
• Cuisine: Asian

Ingredients

Scale 1x2x3x

• • 1 Snack cone

• • 2 slices salami

• • 1 small cheese round (20 g per round)

• • 30 g piece of blue cheese

• • 3 breadsticks (breadsticks are 15g each)

• • 1 gherkin

• • 6 cherry tomatoes

Instructions

1. Using skewer sticks and culinary imagination, make up a few skewers to go into a paper cone.
2. Cut the mini cheese rounds in half and then place a blackberry on the stick followed by half a cheese round, a blackberry, and half a cheese round.
3. On another skewer add a few slices of salami, folded into mini triangles topped with a gherkin.
4. Fill a paper cone halfway up with a couple of mixed baby tomatoes then slip in a couple of cheese sticks/flat crackers.
5. Fill in the rest of the cone with the 2 skewers.
6. Decorate with a fresh sprig of rosemary and maybe some edible flowers.

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