Retro's Summer Recipes: Starters

Hors d'oeuvres, also known as starters or appetizers. I've got a simple treat for everyone for this season :)

Today we'll start off with some Hors d'oeuvres and then I'll proceed to the main course followed by a dessert. This dish is really easy to make and in fact anyone can make this is. The total amount of time needed for preparation is 10 minutes and the refrigeration time is 1 hour and 12 minutes (72 minutes in total).

Ingredients:

• 18 Boiled Mussels with out brine sauce (please make sure you boil them for about 5 to 10 minutes)
• 1 packet of RIO Tuna Pate: plain *Alternative will be posted down below*
• 2 sweet peppers (any two colors of your choice, whether it's red or yellow or green or orange) cut into cubes
• 1 table spoon of black pepper
• 1 hand full of freshly sliced parsley diced 
• green onion seasoning powder
• lemon and aromatic herbs powder
• 18 Ritz salted crackers or 9 pieces of Melba Toast cut into halves

Before I start I would like to note that in case no one finds the RIO Tuna Pate in plain flavor. You can simply take 2 cans of tuna and mince it with half of an onion that is chopped into cubes and half a teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce. You will then need to put all of this into a food processor and NOT a blender. Add some water but make sure it's not too watery. That's the alternative way.

Now on to the preparation of the Tuna and Mussels Hors D'oeuvres. You will need to take a tray and put some wax paper on it and then you will need to lay out the Ritz crackers on to the tray (Please make sure that they are not broken in anyway possible), then you will need to add the RIO Tuna pate or the alternative and whip it on to the cracker. When I say whip it, I mean like how you would add whipped cream on to a cake, you know like how people add it on their brownies :)

Then after that you will need to add a mussel on top of the tuna and then you will need to add 2 to 3 cubes of sweet pepper around the tuna and then you will need to sprinkle of freshly cut parsley and both those powders as well and you may garnish it with some black pepper. NO SALT IS ALLOWED!

After you're done you can bake it in the oven until a brownish glaze forms over it or you can just put it in the fridge for about 72 minutes and there you go. Freshly homemade Hors D'oeuvres :)

Please serve it cold !!!!!!

This is how it looks like once you serve it cold. If however you put it in the oven for more than 5 minutes the whole thing will be burnt. Trust Me On That!









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