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Michael Kuettner Michael Kuettner is offline
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> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Our little Dinner Club selected Austria for its country this week and
> I'm to bring the hors d'oeuvres or appetizer. Yikes, I have spent more
> than 2 hours googling Austrian recipe sites and besides soup (which I
> can't take down my bumpy road in the car), I have found one recipe.
> (Austrian Cheese with butter cream cheese, onion, parsley, chives
> etc.)
>
> Does any one have an Austrian recipe for hors d'oeuvres which is trans
> portable. I would SO appreciate it!! Second problem, is that I need
> to make it the day before because painters will be painting around my
> kitchen until the late afternoon of Dinner Club and we meet at 5 pm to
> enjoy the sunset and cocktail hour. It's a fun group and we have met
> for 6 years now, almost every month.
>
> I found tons of recipes for sacher torte and veal things and even
> laughed my way through some Vienna Sausage recipes, but no intriguing
> appetizer or hors d'oeuvres.
>
> TIA to the max.
>

Transportable ? Made the day before ?
OK, here we go !

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

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Avocado cocktail
(serves 4)

2 ripe avocados
lemon juice
100 g shrimps, boiled
4 lettuce leaves
cocktail sauce (see below)

Cut avocados in half (lengthwise). Remove kernel.
Remove meat with a spoon. Don't damage the skin !
Chop avocado finely, mix with shrimps, lemon juice
and cocktail sauce.
Fill the mass back in the skins. Serve on lettuce leaves.

Cocktail sauce

4 tbsp mayo
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp horseraddish, grated
lemon juice
a pinch sugar
salt, pepper
1 tbsp Cognac

Just mix eveything together
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Chicken cocktail
(serves 4)

4 chicken breast filets, smoked, grilled or boiled
2 oranges
lettuce leaves
parsley, finely chopped
cocktail sauce (see below)

Cut meat into small cubes or stripes.
Peel oranges and filet them.
Mix with chicken.
Put lettuce leaves in small bowl, put mass on
them.
Pour over cocktail sauce and sprinkle with parsley.

Cocktail sauce

1/8 l sour cream
0,2 l Cognac
juice of half a lemon
juice of 1 orange
1 tbsp green pepper, crushed
1 tbsp ketchup
1 tsp mustard
salt, pepper
1/2 tsp Worcestershiresauce

Mix everything.
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