Appetizers, snacks, meals - whichever the reason - crostini are the quintessential perfect bite. Italian for little toasts, they are the ideal serving vessel for your favorite food combinations. The tiny toasts were meant to be topped with smoked meats, fancy fruits, roasted veggies, and of course, cheese. Yes, you can pretty much add cheese to any crostini.
With endless combinations of sweet, salty, savory, bitter, and umami on top of the crisp, starchy toasted bread, all your taste buds will be happy. It looks like your next get together, dinner party, and even football game just a little bit better with these 15 delectable crostini.
1. Smoked Salmon Crostini
Smoked salmon and crostini were made for each other.
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2. Prosciutto Crostini with Burrata and Lemon Honey Drizzle
Sweet and citrusy honey, salty prosciutto, and creamy burrata hit the taste buds in one delectable bite.
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3. Short Rib Crostini with Cambozola Cheese and Cherry Jam
Sometimes, bold flavors require a bold cooking wine. Short ribs simmered in a red wine reduction paired with strong cambozola cheese and sweet cherry jam just upped the game in the crostini world.
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4. Wild Mushroom and Fromage Fort Crostini
Cheese whipped in dry white wine topped with wild mushrooms is a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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5. Onion and Fig Jam Crostini with Roasted Garlic, Brie and Prosciutto
These Onion and Fig Jam Crostini are topped with a whirlwind of flavor that will send you running for more.
6. Fig and Goat Cheese Crostini
Quite possible the perfect duo, Fig and Goat Cheese Crostini is elegant, simple, and down right good.
7. Roasted Concord Grapes Two Ways
The Roasted Concord Grapes Two Ways crostini was made to impress.
8. Blue Cheese and Asian Pear Crostini
Grab one before they're all gone because these Blue Cheese and Asian Pear Crostini go fast.
9. Honey, Walnut, and Goat Cheese Crostini
If you're a cheese for dessert kind of person, then this is the crostini for your. Fresh goat cheese drizzled with honey makes a simple, yet elegant Honey, Walnut, and Goat Cheese Crostini.
10. Spicy Kumquat and Whipped Ricotta Crostini
Spicy kumquats pair nicely with mild ricotta in this simple, yet tasty crostini.
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11. Basil Pesto Hummus and Roasted Tomato Crostini
Smooth creamy hummus topped with bursting roasted cherry tomatoes is the crostini recipe everyone can eat, and nobody will want to share.
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12. Grilled Avocado Caprese Crostini
Grilled Avocado Caprese is the crostini you could eat everyday, with every meal. And maybe even as a meal.
13. Crab, Bacon, and Guacamole Crostini
Surf and turf crostini anyone?
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14. BBQ Shrimp Crostini with Basil Pesto Feta
The smoky sweet tang of BBQ Shrimp Crostini with Basil Pesto Feta gives you a little taste of summer all year long.
15. Blistered Tomato Crostini with Gorgonzola and Balsamic Glaze
Blistered Tomato Crostini with Gorgonzola and Balsamic Glaze - need we say more?
