
Feta & cucumber bites
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- No cook
- Easy
- Makes 24
These decorative canapés look impressive when laid out - flavour your ricotta cheese filling with dill and garlic
- Vegetarian
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App onlyThai-style fishcakes with cucumber smacked noodles. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
App onlyMaple baked pumpkin, wild rice & feta salad. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Stollen bites
New!Fresh cucumber & apple salad. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Baked feta with sesame & honey
App onlyThai-style fishcakes with cucumber smacked noodles. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
App onlyMaple baked pumpkin, wild rice & feta salad. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
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Tortilla tapas
These bite-sized Spanish omelettes are cooked in the oven, making them low in fat but still delicious
- 1 garlic clovecrushed
- 200g feta cheese
- 100g ricotta
- 4 tbsp chopped dillplus extra fronds, to garnish
- 1 large cucumberhalved lengthways, seeds scooped out and discarded
- cracked black pepperto serve
Nutrition: per bite
- kcal29
- fat2g
- saturates1g
- carbs0g
- sugars0g
- fibre0g
- protein2g
- salt0.3glow
Method
step 1
Add the garlic, feta, ricotta and dill to a food processor and whizz until smooth but thick.
step 2
Fill the middle of the cucumber with the cheese mix and smooth over. Cut into 3cm-thick slices. Sprinkle with cracked pepper and garnish with the dill fronds.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2012
Comments, questions and tips (8)
Overall rating
Debra Norris
The cheese mix was very tasty but too rich and too much I would halve the cheese mix and reduce the garlic
vegetarina
Made this as a pass-around for a cocktail party for 30 - really divine. I made tofu feta and almond ricotta and the results were wonderful.
I bought "English cucumbers" without realizing that they're fairly seedless and their middles can't be scooped out, so I ended up slicing them and using a…
Moomarang
I used Mascarpone cheese instead of ricotta - delicious! Looked great too.
sylviacauser
Made this canapé twice now. I felt the first batch with a whole clove of garlic was too garlicky especially, as the garlic is raw. I also added some lemon juice and olive oil to loosen the mix. Best with fresh dill. For m second batch, I've reduced the garlic but couldn't get fresh dill so used…

dreamweaver
Use it as part of a fish starter with smoked salmon and potted shrimp- its perfect, light and fresh!