Mixed crostini platter

This mixed crostini platter tastes as good as it looks. With a variety of toppings from smoked salmon to beetroot hommus, there’s something for everyone.

Mixed crostini platter

Serves

12

Prep

30m

Note: + cooling time

Cooking

25m

Ingredients

  • 2 sourdough baguettes, cut into 5mm-thick slices

Prawn cocktail

  • 1/4 cup (60ml) seafood cocktail sauce
  • 1 cup finely shredded baby cos lettuce
  • 250g Coles Australian Cooked Prawns, peeled, deveined
  • Finely chopped chives, to sprinkle

Beetroot hommus with blue cheese

  • 1 cup (100g) walnuts
  • 2 tbs honey
  • 150g beetroot dip
  • 100g blue cheese, crumbled

Avocado and salmon

  • 200g spreadable cream cheese
  • 1 avocado, stoned, peeled, chopped
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp horseradish cream
  • 100g smoked salmon slices
  • Dill sprigs, to serve
  • Lemon zest, to serve

Goat’s cheese with fig and prosciutto

  • 150g marinated goat’s cheese
  • 6 slices prosciutto, coarsely torn
  • 4 dried figs, thinly sliced
  • Mint leaves, to serve

Tandoori chicken and cucumber

  • 2 Coles RSPCA Approved Australian Chicken Thigh Fillets, cut into 2cm pieces
  • 1 1/2 tbs tandoori paste
  • 1 tbs Greek-style yoghurt
  • 200g Coles Tzatziki
  • 2 Coles Australian Qukes Baby Cucumbers, thinly sliced
  • Coriander leaves, to serve

Tapenade with roasted peppers

  • 95g jar black olive tapenade
  • 300g jar whole roasted peppers (capsicum), drained, torn
  • 100g marinated goat’s cheese, crumbled
  • Thyme sprigs, to serve

Method

STEP 1

Heat a barbecue grill or chargrill on medium. Spray baguette slices with olive oil spray. Cook on grill, in 2 batches, for 1-2 mins each side or until lightly toasted. 

STEP 2

To make the prawn cocktail crostini, spread a little cocktail sauce over each baguette slice. Top with lettuce and prawns. Drizzle with extra cocktail sauce. Sprinkle with chives to serve.

STEP 3

To make the beetroot hommus with blue cheese crostini, preheat oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Arrange walnuts over the tray and drizzle with honey. Bake for 7-10 mins or until lightly toasted and caramelised. Set aside to cool. Spread beetroot dip over baguette slices. Top with blue cheese and walnut mixture.

STEP 4

To make the avocado and salmon crostini, place cream cheese, avocado, lemon juice and horseradish cream in a food processor and process until smooth. Season. Spread the baguette slices with avocado mixture and top with smoked salmon. Sprinkle with dill and lemon zest.

STEP 5

To make the goat’s cheese with fig and prosciutto crostini, spread baguette slices with goat’s cheese. Top with fig and prosciutto. Sprinkle with mint.

STEP 6

To make the tandoori chicken and cucumber crostini, heat a barbecue grill or chargrill on medium. Combine the chicken, tandoori paste and yoghurt in a medium bowl. Cook chicken on the grill, turning, for 5 mins or until cooked through. Transfer to a plate. Set aside to cool. Spread baguette slices with tzatziki. Top with chicken and cucumber. Sprinkle with coriander.

STEP 7

To make the tapenade with roasted peppers crostini, spread baguette slices with tapenade. Top with capsicum and goat’s cheese. Sprinkle with thyme.

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