Gluten Free Appetizers

I love making appetizers for parties but do not like labor intensive appetizers or for that fact anything laborious in the kitchen. So you will find my recipes simple but delicious. Let me know how these turned out for you and your company. In the future I will post pictures for you to drool over. Let me know what kinds of recipes you might like on here, I can convert any recipe.


Appetizers:

Savory Herb Cheese Puffs

1 cup water
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 teas salt
3/4 cup rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca starch
3/4 cup Gruyere, Swiss or Jarlsberg cheese
1/2 teas pepper
1 tab of your favorite chopped fresh herbs

Preheat over to 400. Line a baking sheet or grease the baking sheet.
Bring water, butter and salt to boil in a 2 qt. size pan. Add the flour all at once and mix with a wooden spoon until it forms a mass, cook for about 1 more min and transfer to a kitchen aid or mixer of your choice with a paddle attachment, cool mixture for a couple of mins. Start mixer and add one egg at a time otherwise the eggs will be flung all over the kitchen, LOL!!! Mix until fully incorporated and add the rest of ingredients till combined. You can transfer dough to a piping bag with a tip or you can use a tablespoon to make round mounds about an inch apart on the cookie sheet. Bake for about 20 to 25 mins puffy golden brown. You can serve warm or at room temperature.


Polish Sausage Pastry Bites

2 cups rice flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1 teas xanthan gum
6 oz. cream cheese room temp
8 oz. butter room temp
1 egg
and a little milk to hold all of it together.
1 egg beaten for egg wash

Your favorite Polish Sausage

I just putt all ingredients into a mixer and mix till combined with a little bit of milk.

Chill dough for about 30 mins. Roll dough out with rice flour about 1/4 in thick into about 4 to 5 in strips. Wrap the dough around the sausage (the dough repairs well if it breaks) and place seem side down on cookie sheet that has been greased and use a pastry brush with extra egg and coat the pastry all over. Bake at 350 for about 25 mins. Take out and cool, cut up into bite size pieces and serve with your favorite sauce like honey dijon. (equal amounts dijon and honey and mix)

My Favorite Dip For Veggies

2 cups of gluten free mayonnaise
2 tab apple cider vinegar (I have tried other vinegars and the taste is different)
1 large bunch of cilantro washed
6 cloves of garlic
1/2 teas pepper

Put all ingredients into a food processor and blend till it looks a pretty green and then you can taste to see if it needs salt depending on the kind of mayonnaise you used. I usually make my own mayonnaise but we won't get into that right now, we need to save you time.