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15 Easy, Impressive Super Bowl Appetizers

15 Easy, Impressive Super Bowl Appetizers

By Margaret Eby

Updated January 31, 2020

Credit: FREDRIKA STJÄRNE

A great Super Bowl party has certain key ingredients, besides a television to watch the game on and some sort of reasonable seating arrangement: good drinks and good appetizers. A Super Bowl platter is a way to make the small dishes that usually preface a meal into the central focus point, sort of like a makeshift tapas meal. But if you’re putting together a whole lot of appetizers, you probably don’t want to spend a lot of time on any individual dish, and you certainly don’t want multiple dishes that require you to use every appliance you have in your home. Here, our round-up of the best easy Super Bowl appetizers to feed a crowd—or just yourself.

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Slow Cooker Meatballs and Tomato Sauce

Credit: FREDRIKA STJÄRNE

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Let your slow cooker do your work for you and serve these saucy meatballs with toast, or just a knife and fork. To make them more bite-sized, just cut down the portions of the meat mixture into smaller balls.

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Crispy Buffalo Potatoes

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Buffalo flavoring doesn’t stop at buffalo chicken wings. Try these steak fries with buffalo seasoning and blue cheese dip for a twist on a classic.

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Chips in Salsa

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A secret about chips is that making your own actually isn’t all that hard—you just need to have the right set-up. Here, Chef Traci Des Jardins tosses just-fried chips with an easy fresh salsa and cotija cheese

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Baked Cheese With Herbs and Crudite

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Yes, cheese counts as an appetizer, particularly when you dress it up with fresh herbs and serve it alongside crackers and vegetable for dipping.

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Bacon Wrapped Dates

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Bacon-wrapped dates look fancy, but they’re pretty easy to put together. Wrap up some and put them on a platter for guests to grab with their forks, or just their fingers.

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Tiki Snack Mix

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Snack mixes are the ultimate easy appetizer secret weapon. All you need to do is throw them together on a sheet pan to make a salty, sweet, and tangy concoction that looks more complicated than it really is.

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Stilton-Stuffed Pickled Peppers

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It takes under half an hour and just three ingredients to make delicious, tangy peppers full of rich, funky blue cheese.

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Crostini With Ricotta, Honey, and Fava Beans

Credit: Eric Wolfinger

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Fancy toasts loaded down with ricotta, beans, and good honey—along with a shower of sea salt—are a filling, vegetarian party option your guests will appreciate

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Charred Shishito Peppers With Furikake

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A big pile of gently charred peppers with a sprinkling of Japanese furikake seasoning is just the ticket for a plant-forward appetizer that goes beyond a pile of crudité.

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Cheddar Rillettes

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Queso is a stalwart of the party table. Take it a step further with these easy but sophisticated Cheddar Rillettes

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Crispy Cheese Sticks

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These bite-sized cheese snacks use white sandwich bread as a wrapper for a filling of mozzarella and Parmigiano-Reggiano, for a simple, quick riff on mozzarella sticks.