Cheese Corn Canapes | White sauce vegetable Canapes
Cheese Corn Canapes is a delicious snack that is made of crisp Canapés that are topped with an awesome mix of veggies, Maida free White sauce, and cheese.
Servings 20 canapes
Ingredients
For the Canapes
- 20 Monita canapes
For making white sauce
- Butter- 2 tablespoons
- Oats powder - 2 tablespoons
- Milk - 1 cup
- Salt- to taste
- Processed cheese grated - 3/4 cup or more
- Cream cheese - 1 small pack
- Oregano - 1teaspoon
- Red chilli flakes- 1 teaspoon
- Black pepper powder- 1 teaspoon
- Mixed herbs seasoning- 1 tbsp
- Fresh Basil/Tulsi leaves- 3-4
- Tomato ketchup - 1tsp
- Chopped vegetables like boiled American corn kernels red yellow and green peppers - 1 cup
Instructions
Prepare the vegetables
- In a pan add oil. Once heated, on a high flame sauté bell peppers for few minutes then add the boiled corn kernels and cook it for a minute.
- Do not overcook, it shouldn’t loose it’s colour and texture . Once sautéed vegetables are ready, keep it aside.
Make white sauce
- Heat butter in a large pan on a low flame. Once it starts melting add oats powder and stir it continuously for around 2 minutes.
- Cook it until it’s fragrant, but doesn’t changes its color and immediately add milk. Keep stirring continuously with whisk to avoid lump formation.
- Now add salt to taste, black pepper powder, chilli flakes, mixed herbs and grated processed cheese. Stir the mixture and let cheese melt completely in the white sauce.
- To this sauce, add the previously sautéed vegetables, basil leaves and mix it well. Cook it for 2-3 minutes.
- Add cream cheese. In the last add tomato ketchup.
- The cheesy white sauce is ready!
- Please note that you want a thick, creamy mixture rather than a runny sauce, so that it is convenient to bite into and also a runny sauce would make the canapes soggy.
Prepare the Canapes
- You can use the canapes as it is from the box, but we prefer to crisp them up in oven. Just put the canapes in the oven on Toast mode for about 5 mins.
- Or deep fry it.
Assembling the Canapes
- Fill each canape with the white sauce and veges mixture. Serve as is or top with more ketchup / oregano / chili flakes / hot sauce as per your and your family's taste.
Notes
You may use vegetables of your choice like capsicum, broccoli, bell peppers, corn, baby corn, cabbage, French beans and mushrooms.
White sauce can be made with All purpose flour/maida also.