I have been busy hosting parties for family and friends for the last few weeks after the Eid holiday. What have you been up to? For my parties I love to serve easy, elegant, and fast bite size appetizers. What about you? The dried apricot cheese appetizer scores extra points as they have all the qualities and on top they are no bake and no cook. Within minutes you can assemble an easy, fancy, healthy appetizer for a crowd without a sweat. Without fail, these elegant fruit appetizer pleases anyone and everyone. Satisfaction guaranteed.
This easy, healthy fruit appetizer is not really a recipe but an idea. The apricot, cheese and nut appetizer can be easily customized to your liking. We love the combination of Turkish apricot a.k.a dried apricot with Brie cheese and salted pistachio. However, this can also be assembled using cream cheese or goat cheese. If you like a nut-free version, top the cheese piece with a dried cranberry instead of pistachio. The simple and elegant apricot bites are perfect appetizer for holiday party or dinner party.
Fair warning, a tray of these jewel-like fabulously elegant appetizers at your next holiday party, dinner party, BBQ, tea party or whatever the occasion is, will likely be gorged up in a matter of minutes. They are that good yet so easy to assemble. I love them so much that I often put them together in a matter of minutes and eat as a healthy snack too. Try them sometimes to understand the appeal of sweet and dried apricot, creamy cheese with crunchy salted pistachio. Divine!
- Dozen dried Apricots, washed and drained
- 12 bite size pieces of brie cheese
- 12 Pistachio, roasted and salted
- Take the apricots and lay in a serving platter.
- Cut 12 pieces of brie cheese and put on top of each apricots.
- Garnish with pistachio and serve.
For a nut-free version, use dried cranberry in place of pistachio.
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৩. পেস্তা বাদাম দিয়ে পরিবেশন করুন।
I love this idea!!! Pairing sweet dried apricots with creamy cheese and crunchy pistachios is such a brilliant idea! Not sure I could do any sharing if I made these though 🙂
Nice idea for a party appetizer!! Loved the color combo of the snack!!
Thank you, Shibi.
An easy and pretty appetizer to make any host (ans guests) happy. I love its contrasting flavors (buttery, salty and sweet).
I agree, Denise. This apricot appetizer is a win win for the host(for being so easy to put it together) as well as the guests(for being utterly delicious). Thank you!
Ooh, beautiful looking and delicious! 😀
Thank you, my friend.
Holy YARM! I love this… sooo much! 🙂 Dried apricots with cheese and crunchy finish. I want them in my belly now! I adore your gorgeous little cups too, so elegant and pretty. 🙂
Thank you, Anna. Yup!! These apricot bites are scrumptious! Thank you for noticing the cups. I love those too. We picked those up from a trip to Egypt. A lot of good memories. Thanks a lot, my friend.
This sounds like a great combination – brie is a favorite around here!
We love Brie too. And if you love Brie you’ll definitely love this combination. Thanks a bunch!
Wow this look delicious. Thanks for this lip-smacking recipe.
My pleasure. GLad you like the tart. Thank you!
OOFT dried apricots are my favourite sweet treat! This mini appetiser seems so good for parties 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
They sure are, Uru. Besides, it takes no time to set them out. Thank you!
Beautiful and elegant appetizer. I’ve also heard that apricot is a really healthy fruit so this recipe has it all!
Yup, the recipe has it all. You can serve these as appetizer or healthy snack. Thank you Daniela.
loving the combo of flavors going on and what a perfect appetizers that can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion!
That’s a great way to look at it, Jessica. Now that you said it, I do just cut me few cheese pieces and grab apricot and pistachio and put it together in a snap for a quick snack. Thanks a bunch!
What a great, simple dish! Dried apricot and cream cheese sound like such an ideal pairing. And the pistachio is a little jewel on top. 🙂 Plus this looks gorgeous! Good stuff — thanks.
Thanks a lot!
What a terrific idea! I never would have thought of combining these 3 delicious foods, but they work together perfectly!
The combination is really divine, Liz. Thank you!
Looks so bright and colorful! I love the pops of color from all of the use of whites 🙂
THank you, my friend.
these sound amazing – am looking forward to making these
Thank you, Johanna. These fruit, cheese bites are divine. I am glad you decided to give them a try. Have a fabulous week ahead.
Apu, do you think you can get us the Chom chom recipe?
Hi Samia! Yes, chomchom is on my list of recipes to publish on the blog. However, I have to perfect the recipe a little so I can fail proof it before posting so it will most likely be later in the year.
Thank you for stopping by. Hope to see you around soon again.