You don’t have to visit a luxurious land-based casino resort or even participate in online games at a Google Pay casino to have a gambling night party with friends. In fact, you can have such a party at home and it is not even expensive. (Spoiler: you don’t even need to make real bets or play real games to have fun. You can make bets with cookies. It is the atmosphere that is the point.)
Besides the actual games and perhaps some extra atmosphere, you will need some stylish starters that are easy and fast to cook. So, in this post, we provide four recipes of some fun stuff to prepare for your at home casino night with friends!
Spring Rolls
Shrimp spring rolls are a Vietnamese version of this dish, and traditionally the fresh vegetable filling is only supplemented with shrimp. In this recipe, we use only shrimp for the filling, adding garlic with spices and herbs to their taste.
Your appetizer will be original and tasty, because many people like shrimp. We take the number of ingredients to our taste and the required number of portions.
Ingredients:
- Rice paper
- Shrimps are frozen
- Garlic
- Seasoning for shrimp
- Dried basil
- Green dill
- Olive oil
- Soy sauce
Peel a few pieces of garlic and finely chop them with a knife, better make them smaller than bigger.
Heat the olive oil in a pan and put the prepared shrimp into it. Immediately add chopped garlic and stir-fry the shrimp over high heat for 2 minutes.
Pour a spoonful of soy sauce over the shrimp, mix and turn off the heat after a minute.
Sprinkle the garlic-fried shrimp with seasoning, dried basil and add finely chopped green dill. Mix everything again.
Soak the rice paper sheets in water for 15 seconds each to soften them. Put the prepared shrimp filling on each leaf. Then carefully wrap the filling in sheets of rice paper to make spring rolls, similar in shape to stuffed pancakes.
Cooked spring rolls with shrimp can be served both warm and cold.
Stuffed Mushrooms
Crafting these fancy starters is a breeze, and you can stuff them with all sorts of foods like creamy cheese, sausage, or leafy spinach. Stuffed mushrooms with ground meat and cheese are a big hit. You can toss in some grated cheese for extra flavor, or skip it altogether to make it even easier.
Ingredients:
- Large champions – 10
- Minced meat – 300 g
- Hard cheese – 200 g
- Breadcrumbs – 50 g
- Green onions – a few
- Butter – 1 tbsp
- Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
- Garlic
Season the ground meat with salt and pepper, then toss in diced onion and garlic. Cook it all up in a skillet. Mix in half of the shredded cheese and some crushed crackers.
Next, split the mushroom caps from their stems and brush the outsides with melted butter. Stuff those caps with the filling and sprinkle on the rest of the shredded cheese. Put them in a preheated oven at 200°C for 15 minutes. Serve warm or cold.
Poker Chip Cookies
This recipe makes 35 cookies, whether you opt for chocolate casino chips or something else. Here’s what you’ll need for a batch of poker chip cookies:
Ingredients:
- 250-gram butter
- 300-gram plain flour
- 140-gram caster sugar
- One egg
- Two teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract
- Red food color
- Green food color
- Blue food color
- Black food color
- Icing sugar
Start by preheating the oven to 180°C. In a mixing bowl, mix together the butter and caster sugar until smooth and creamy. Add the egg and vanilla extract, then mix until well combined. Gradually sift in the flour while continuing to beat the mixture until everything is evenly blended.
Sprinkle some flour on your table and press the dough until it’s flat and about a quarter-inch thick. Then, use your round cookie cutter to make your cookies.
Line your baking tray with parchment paper, then arrange the cookies on top. Pop them in the oven for around 12 minutes; don’t let them go past 15 minutes.
Take them out when they’re firm and golden brown. Let them cool for about 15 minutes before you start decorating.
Prepare your frosting. Whip up a batch of glaze icing by slowly combining powdered sugar and water in a mixing bowl until you reach the consistency and amount you want. Adjust the sugar and water as needed to get it just right for your cookies. Keep stirring until it’s perfect.
Divide the frosting into five bowls, with three having more frosting and the other two less. Use food coloring to dye the larger portions red, green, and blue until they’re vibrant. Leave one batch as is for a creamy hue, and color the other batch black. Then decorate the cookies with different colors and add numbers in black color.
Stuffed Jalapeños in Bacon
Start with halved jalapeño peppers as your base, choosing larger ones for extra cheesy options. Removing the seeds reduces the heat level but this is still a spicy dish.
- Cheese: Use a mix of cream cheese and shredded cheese for the filling. Some people use shredded cheddar cheese, but Mexican-style or pepper jack are also tasty.
- Garlic: 1 minced clove of garlic adds a hint of flavor.
- Paprika: Smoked paprika adds spice and bold flavor.
- Bacon: Each stuffed pepper is wrapped in bacon before baking.
- Prepare the peppers. Cut the jalapeño peppers in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds and center membrane.
- Make the filling. Combine both cheeses, garlic, and paprika together.
- Fill the peppers. Spoon the cheesy filling equally among all jalapeño halves.
- Wrap a piece of bacon around each cheese-filled jalapeño. Stick a toothpick through the center to ensure the bacon stays in place.
- Bake the peppers until the bacon is crisp. You can even use the broiler for the last minute or two to really crisp them up.
If you would like to make this dish even spicier, just keep the seeds and the inner membrane when you stuff the jalapeños.
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