12 Easy Finger Food Appetizers
These recipes are the perfect heavy finger food appetizers for casual evening gatherings.
Sometimes it’s nice to host or attend gatherings where just heavy or hearty appetizers are served instead of dinner.
As a host I like to make a variety of finger food appetizers for guests to choose from especially when the get-together is in the early evening.
Here are 12 easy finger food heavy appetizers for casual gatherings that are made with shrimp, chicken and cheese.
These recipes include Mexican food, Asian inspired food, comfort food, pizza and garlic bread.
Let’s check these recipes out.
Below each of the following images, there’s a link to the respective recipe.
Shrimp Appetizers:
Starting off with “Tempura Shrimp with Honey Mustard Sauce”…
…a quick and easy honey mustard dipping sauce (included in the Tempura Shrimp recipe) tastes wonderful with this shrimp.
Tempura Shrimp with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce.
Next, beautiful “Fresh Spring Rolls with Shrimp”.
These fresh spring rolls are so pretty when served cut in half so that the colorful ingredients can be seen.
These fresh spring rolls need a dipping sauce, and this “Easy Peanut Sauce” is just the thing.
Fresh Spring Rolls with Shrimp
Next, let’s check out “Shrimp and Guacamole Mini Tostadas”.
The crispy tortilla base for the tostadas is made from corn tortillas and cut into rounds with a cookie cutter.
The shrimp are cooked in butter and spices.
Also included in this recipe is a quick and easy guacamole topping.
These mini shrimp tostadas are an eye catcher and taste amazing.
Mini Shrimp Tostadas with Homemade Guacamole
Meatless Appetizers with Cheese:
Warm “Cream Cheese Garlic Bread” cut into smaller size pieces (not too small of course) is an irresistible appetizer.
This is a heartier finger food appetizer which is perfect when only appetizers are served at a gathering.
This comfort food favorite “Grilled Cheese Roll Ups” is the perfect shape for finger food.
It’s made with simple ingredients that taste so good together, American cheese, wheat sandwich bread and butter.
These grilled cheese roll ups taste wonderful served by themselves or…
…serve them with a warm “dipping sauce” (good old fashioned tomato soup from a can).
This unique cheese wonton appetizer or “Wonton Cheese Bites” are made with a variety of 4 cheese fillings.
…brie, brown sugar and walnuts…
…brie and chives (or the green part of a green onion)…
…sharp cheddar cheese and slices of fresh jalapenos…
…string cheese and slices of fresh jalapenos.
And also includes 3 quick and easy dipping sauces.
Wonton Cheese Bites with 4 Varieties
Next…
…another recipe with brie. “Brie and Olive Tapenade Nachos“.
Homemade crispy corn tortilla chips are topped with chili powder and salt…
…put in a small serving skillet and topped with chunks of brie…
…and baked in an oven just long enough to melt the cheese and topped with olive tapenade.
The salty and tangy tapenade with the melted brie and crispy homemade tortilla chips tastes heavenly.
Brie Cheese and Olive Tapenade Nachos
“Jalapeno and Cheese Taquitos”….
…corn tortillas are filled with a stick of cheese and slices of fresh jalapeno.
…they taste like a combination of crispy nachos and a jalapeno popper.
Top with a quick and easy homemade,
Pico de Gallo and…
Appetizers with Meat:
Here’s a hearty finger food that falls in the category of a breakfast-for-dinner recipe, “Crispy Breakfast Quesadillas“.
It’s filled to the brim with a mix of cheese, scrambled eggs and breakfast sage sausage.
Cheesy and flavorful breakfast-for-dinner goodness.
These “Mini Kaiser Roll Pizzas” are made with a simple homemade sauce.
The firmness of a kaiser roll stands up nicely to the pizza ingredients…
…and the crispy roll is perfect with each bite.
These homemade Sloppy Joe Sliders are made with ground turkey.
The sauce is cooked down to a thick consistency and the sloppy joes are served…
…in soft slider buns or Hawaiian rolls.
Ground Turkey Sloppy Joe Sliders
A fried chicken slider “Chipotle Chicken Nugget and Honey Dijon Sliders“.
Served in soft slider buns or Hawaiian rolls and topped with a quick and easy honey Dijon sauce.
Top with chives and these yummies are ready to eat.
They taste sooo good with the combination of spiciness in the chicken and sweet in the Dijon sauce.
Chipotle Chicken Nugget and Honey Dijon Sliders
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