Sometimes preparing for a holiday takes a lot of time and this time is often not enough to prepare complex holiday dishes.

Therefore, we suggest considering dishes that are prepared quickly, but in no way inferior to dishes that are difficult to prepare.

What can be quickly prepared for a birthday: recipes

Roll "Cheese" with salmon

This dish is quite easy to prepare. Cheese and salmon go well together.

These ingredients will suit the taste of almost everyone. If desired, this dish can be supplemented with any ingredients. After all, cooking can be attributed to this kind of art, which is based on various experiments.

Cooking:

All you need is a thin sheet of pita bread. A thick sheet will not work - a roll will not work out of it. It is necessary to spread it on cling film and apply a thick layer of processed cheese;
Then lay finely chopped salmon over the entire surface of the sheet;
Lavash sheet must be twisted into a tube. Then put the resulting roll in the refrigerator and leave it there for 27-30 minutes so that it is fed;
When the roll is saturated, it must be carefully cut and garnished with herbs. The dish is ready.

Cheese "Raffaello"

The preparation of this appetizer is quite unpretentious, despite this, it is very original and will look great on every holiday table. When cooking, the hostess will save a lot of time.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

Processed cheeses should be placed in the freezer for 25 minutes so that they harden a little and it is convenient to grate them;
After 25 minutes, remove the cheese from the freezer and grate on a coarse grater;
Mix curds with nuts and garlic, passed through the garlic;
Roll the resulting mass into small balls;
Grate crab meat on a fine grater;
Roll cheese "Raffaello" in crab shavings;
Put lettuce leaves on a dish, put Raffaello on them. The dish is ready.

Watch the video with another version of cheese balls:

Dishes for hot

Hot dishes are crown on every festive table. And, most often, hostesses try to make a good impression on guests with the help of original and hearty hot dishes.

Tender chops

A very tasty dish and very easy to prepare. Pork goes well with tomatoes and cheese. These ingredients give the meat a special taste.

Ingredients:

450 grams of pork meat, preferably the neck part (you need to choose low-fat);
Two large tomatoes;
450 grams of mushrooms, preferably oyster mushrooms;
250 grams of Parmesan cheese;
Large bulbous head;
300 grams of mayonnaise (it is better to take olive);
Greens;
Olive oil.

Cooking:

Cut the meat into slices of medium thickness, beat off;
Pour the meat with mayonnaise, leave to nourish for a couple of hours;
Grate cheese;
Cut into rings tomatoes;
Fry oyster mushrooms with onion (finely chopped);
Put the meat on a baking sheet greased with olive oil;
Put oyster mushrooms with onions on meat, then tomato, on tomato - cheese and mayonnaise;
Put the resulting chops in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees;
The chops are ready, after which you can decorate them with herbs.

Cutlets "Swallow's Nest"

A very delicate dish. It will look great on the holiday table.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

Soak the loaf in milk or water;
Add garlic, dill, allspice, eggs, chopped loaf to minced meat. Mix well;
On a baking sheet greased with olive oil, put the cakes made from minced meat;
Cut cheese, tomato, bell pepper (rings);
Spread on a meat cake in this order: ketchup, onion, tomato, mayonnaise, cheese. Put pepper on top and lightly press down so that the filling enters it a little;
Place in oven at 180 degrees. Bake 25 - 35 minutes;
Put cutlets on a dish, decorate with dill. The dish is ready to serve on the festive table.

Such cutlets are prepared differently by different housewives. Below we suggest you cook them in a different recipe.

It will turn out very interesting and festive:

Recipes for holiday snacks for a team at work

Many people often celebrate their birthday with the work team. If you also want to share this holiday with your work colleagues, then you will need delicious and most unpretentious dishes.

Salad with red fish in tartlets

This salad is very unique. It consists of classic ingredients, but they are all loved by many.

Salad with red fish in tartlets is suitable for a festive table outdoors or in the office.

Ingredients:

Greens;
100 grams of cream cheese;
350 grams of any red fish;
150 grams of mayonnaise;
10 small tarts.

Cooking:

Cut the fish into slices;
Grate cheese on a coarse grater;
Mix cheese and fish, add mayonnaise and herbs;
Put the resulting salad into tartlets;
Decorate with green sprigs. The dish can be served on the festive table.

Buffet herring under a fur coat

Delicious and easy to prepare dish. In taste, it resembles a Soviet herring under a fur coat. Very good for a buffet.

Ingredients:

A bunch of greens;
Salted herring fillet - 300 grams;
One large beet;
Mayonnaise - to taste;
Bread.

Cooking:

Cut herring fillet into slices;
Boil beets and grate on a fine grater;
Cut the bread into small slices, grease with mayonnaise and sprinkle with herbs on top;
Finely chopped onion is placed on top;
Next, put the beets, then a couple of pieces of herring fillet;
Decorate with greenery.

And you know, canapes are considered the best snack to take to work and celebrate your birthday there. Why the best? Yes, because they are quickly made, there are a lot of them and you can bring them to the office without losing aesthetics and appetizing appearance.

That's why the following video is for your attention:

What delicious to cook for a birthday inexpensively?

If the amount that can be spent on food for preparing festive dishes is limited, then tasty, but inexpensive dishes will come to the rescue.

zucchini cake

This dish is quite cheap to prepare. It will be an excellent option not only for a festive table, but also for a family Sunday dinner.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

If the zucchini is old, then you need to peel, and if young, then you can not peel;
Rub the zucchini on a coarse grater;
Add flour, three eggs, soda slaked with vinegar, salt to taste into the mass of zucchini;
Spread the resulting mass a little on a preheated pan to make pancakes. Fry on both sides;
Rub the cheese on a fine grater;
Mix mayonnaise with garlic, previously passed through the garlic;
Lubricate the resulting zucchini cakes with garlic mayonnaise, put the tomato sliced into thin circles and sprinkle with cheese;
Spread the cake on the cake;
Lubricate the last cake with mayonnaise and sprinkle with boiled grated eggs;
Put the resulting cake in the refrigerator to nourish;
Decorate with greenery.

Delicious chicken in sauce

Chicken dishes very often decorate the festive table and suit almost everyone's taste.

Chicken can be cooked very tasty without much financial cost. And it will always be in demand on the festive table.

Ingredients:

Large chicken carcass about 2 kilograms;
400 grams of sour cream;
Two st. l. apple cider vinegar;
500 grams of onion (purple, lettuce);
A bunch of greens;
Olive oil;
Turmeric.

Cooking:

The carcass of the bird must be cut into small slices, the onion - into thin rings;
Put the pan on a small fire, pour olive oil into it, put the chicken;
Stir onion, sour cream and turmeric;
Pour apple cider vinegar into the pan to the chicken, after which - the prepared sauce;
Cover with a lid, simmer over low heat until cooked;
The dish is ready, decorate with greens before serving.

The following video is about how to make a spectacular birthday salad:

Celebrate in nature

A holiday in nature is always good. But dishes for a holiday in nature should generally be prepared in advance.

The main thing is that they should taste excellent both hot and cold.

Puff salad with mushrooms, cheese and chicken

Great salad for a holiday outdoors. Delicious and very satisfying.

Ingredients:

250 grams of hard cheese;
450 grams of fresh mushrooms (can be frozen);
Five boiled chicken eggs;
250 grams of mayonnaise;
Boiled chicken fillet - 0.5 kg;
Four small onions;
A bunch of greens;
Vegetable oil;
Salt.

More Interesting options for light dishes that are prepared quickly and simply.

Recently, such an appetizer as tartlets is gaining more and more popularity. If you consider yourself one of those people who like them, then you will definitely get a bright holiday table!

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Cooking:

Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop, pass through over low heat;
Add boiled mushrooms to the pan with onions and fry;
Cheese cut into thin strips;
Rub the eggs on a coarse grater;
Boil the fillet in salted water and cut into strips;
Lay out in layers:

I layer - chicken fillet cut into strips;
II layer - shabby eggs;
Lubricate with mayonnaise;
III layer - cheese;
VI layer - onions with fried mushrooms;
Lubricate with mayonnaise;
V layer - cheese mixed with eggs;
Lubricate with mayonnaise, decorate with herbs.

Put the salad in a cold place in order to nourish. Decorate with greenery. The dish is ready to serve.

Grilled calamari stuffed with cheese and tomato

An exquisite dish for a holiday in nature. Guests will be pleasantly surprised.

Ingredients:

1.5 kg of freshly frozen squid carcasses;
400 grams of hard Parmesan cheese;
Seasoning for seafood;
6 small tomatoes;
Greens.

Cooking:

Wash and clean squid carcasses;
Grate with seasoning, salt, leave for several hours;
Cut the tomatoes into quarters;
Cheese cut into large cubes;
In each squid carcass we put a cube of cheese, then a quarter of a tomato;
Lay carefully on the barbecue grill, bake on coals for 25 minutes;
Decorate the baked squids with herbs.

Festive menu for children

A child's birthday is slightly different from an adult's. This is because little guests are, most often, finicky. It is necessary to prepare such dishes that will satisfy all the requirements of children.

Fruit icecream

At a children's party, this dish will be very relevant. All kids love ice cream.

And it will be especially tasty on a fruit basis. If the children's birthday is in the summer, then this dish will even be indispensable.

Ingredients:

Four bananas;
400 grams of strawberries;
Four kiwis;
400 grams of creamy ice cream;
Mint leaves.

Cooking:

Grind all fruits in a blender separately;
Lay out in layers: banana, strawberry, kiwi, ice cream;
Put in the freezer;
Decorate with mint leaves;
The dish is ready.

Homemade pizza "Dream"

It is believed that pizza is a harmful dish, but if you cook it at home from natural ingredients, then the harm from it will be minimal.

All kids love pizza. And at the children's birthday, she will take far from the last place.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

Flour must be sifted;
Break an egg into a 3 liter bowl, add sugar, salt, soda;
Add flour, kefir;
The dough must be kneaded;
Put the resulting dough on a baking sheet greased with sunflower oil;
Put the chopped tomatoes on the dough;
Mushrooms need to be fried over low heat;
Cut the sausage into strips;
Pepper is also cut into strips;
Grate cheese;
Cut the onion into rings, fry;
Mushrooms, onions, sausage, mayonnaise, pepper are placed on the tomatoes laid out on the dough. Sprinkle cheese on top;
Bake at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.
The dish is ready.

Which of the dishes to cook for the holiday, the hostess decides for herself, based on personal beliefs and taste preferences of the guests. This article will help a little to decide on the choice of dishes for celebrating a birthday.

We offer you a wonderful video from which you will learn what else you can cook for children on the festive table on the occasion of their birthday so that they are not bored and their tummies do not hurt:

A difficult question for most housewives: what to cook for the holiday table? After all, I want the dish to be not only tasty and beautiful, but also new, not beaten. The best recipes for such treats are collected below.

The choice of unusual snacks on the festive table is huge. Among all the existing recipes, every culinary specialist will find the ideal one for himself.

Pancake bags with chicken and mushrooms

Ingredients:

pancakes - 10 pcs. ready;
chicken fillet - 300 - 350 g;
peeled mushrooms - 0.2 kg;
grated cheese - a glass;
sour cream / classic mayonnaise - to taste;
butter;
salt, spices and smoked cheese braid for tying pouches.

Cooking algorithm:

Cut the onions and mushrooms into smaller pieces, fry them in butter.
Boil the meat, cut into small pieces. Send to fry.
Add sour cream/mayonnaise to the pan. Salt, add spices. Soak for a couple of minutes.
Rub the cheese.
Spread the stuffing from the pan over the pancakes. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
Tie the delicious pouches with strips of smoked cheese.

Before serving, warm the snack in the microwave.

"Mushrooms"

Ingredients:

boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
cheese and ham - 100 - 150 g each;
cherry - 12 - 14 pcs.;
fresh cucumbers - 2 - 3 pcs.;
fresh herbs - 1 bunch;
homemade mayonnaise and salt.

Cooking:

Grind eggs, cheese, ham with a grater. Salt as needed.
Add mayonnaise, mix everything.
Blind from the mass of the legs of "mushrooms". Set each on a circle of fresh cucumber and put the blanks on a plate covered with chopped herbs.
Make hats from cherry tomatoes and drops of mayonnaise.

Refrigerate and serve to guests.

Roll "Crab"

Ingredients:

thin pita bread - 2 pcs.;
boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
processed and hard cheese - 150 g each;
garlic - 5 teeth;
greens - 1 bunch;
mayonnaise, salt.

Cooking:

Boiled eggs, two types of cheese and finely rub the garlic. Mix with mayonnaise and chopped herbs. Salt at will.
Divide the resulting filling into two portions.
Spread two pita breads with it in turn. Lay them on top of each other and roll up.

Cool the appetizer, covering it with a film, then cut into portioned pieces.

What salads to prepare for the holiday

From salad recipes for the holiday, it is better to choose those that do not have quickly spoiling and soaking ingredients. If the appetizer is with crackers, then the latter are best served separately with the dish.

With meat and crackers

Ingredients:

any boiled meat - half a kilo;
Chinese cabbage - half a kilo;
cucumbers (fresh) - 4 pcs.;
peeled champignons - half a kilo;
dry garlic and yesterday's white bread - for crackers;
oil;
lettuce leaves;
mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Cooking:

Rinse the lettuce leaves and lay them on a beautiful dish.
In a separate bowl, send boiled meat cut into thick strips. Chicken and pork are best suited for such an appetizer.
Send thinly chopped cabbage to the meat.
Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil until light brown.
Then, on the remaining fat, lightly brown the diced yesterday's bread. Sprinkle with dry garlic as you go.
Cut fresh cucumbers into cubes.
Mix all prepared products. Salt. Fill with sauce.

Put them on a plate with lettuce leaves.

"Anthill"

Ingredients:

chicken fillet - 250 - 280 g;
tomato - 1 pc.;
cucumber - 1 pc.;
raw potatoes - 2 pcs.;
garlic - optional;
bow arrows - 3 - 4 feathers;
hard cheese - 50 - 70 g;
salt, mayonnaise sauce;
quality vegetable oil.

Action algorithm:

Boil the chicken until fully cooked. Cool it directly in the broth for greater juiciness of the meat. Cut into small arbitrary pieces.
Mix the chicken with slices of tomato, grated cheese and chopped cucumber in the same way. Season everything with salted sauce mixed with crushed garlic.
Put the composition on a flat plate with a slide.
Cut the potatoes into very thin long strips. Fry the product in small portions in hot oil until golden brown and crispy.
Cover a slide of lettuce with potato straws.

Complement the appetizer with finely chopped green onions.

"Rainbow"

Ingredients:

hunting sausages - 250 - 300 g;
red salad pepper - 1 pc. (large);
fresh strong cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs.;
canned corn grains - 1 tbsp.;
red onion - 1 head;
boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
mayonnaise sauce - ½ tbsp.;
French mustard - 1 dessert spoon;
salt and spices.

Cooking:

Cut the sausages into slices.
Cut all vegetables and eggs into cubes. Drain liquid from corn.
Mix all.
Dress the salad with a mixture of sauce, mustard, salt and spices.

Serve with rye toast.

Holiday Sandwiches: Recipes

To make sandwiches on the festive table tasty and crispy, they should be prepared just before serving. You can make the filling in advance, and put it on the bread before the guests arrive.

With crab sticks and dill

Ingredients:

loaf - 1 fresh;
cucumber - 1 pc.;
dill - 5 - 6 branches;
crab sticks - 1 medium pack;
grated processed cheese - ½ tbsp.;
butter - 20 g;
mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Cooking:

Very finely chop a fresh cucumber. Also chop the crab sticks.
Add grated cheese to ingredients. To easily and quickly grind it, the product must first be frozen.
Finely chop the dill. Pour into the base of the future salad.
Fill with sauce. Salt to taste.
Lightly toast thin slices of white bread in butter.
Cover the pieces with buttercream.

Immediately serve sandwiches to the table.

With sprats

Ingredients:

baguette - 6 pieces;
sprats in oil - 6 pcs. (large);
boiled egg - 1 pc.;
fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
mayonnaise - 3 dessert spoons;
lettuce leaves - 1 bunch;
salt, spices - optional.

Cooking:

Immediately cover a large flat plate with lettuce leaves.
Cut each banana slice into halves. Dry them in a pan and grease with mayonnaise.
Lay them on the salad and sprinkle with finely grated boiled egg.
Add a fish to each serving.
Cucumbers cut into thin slices and with the help of toothpicks fix them on the basis of sandwiches in the form of sails.

Serve an appetizer to the table, without pre-chilling.

Canape on skewers on the festive table

Appetizing canapes on skewers can be both a budget snack and a real delicacy. It all depends on the filling chosen for them.

With red fish and black caviar

Ingredients:

white bread - ½ loaf;
butter (softened) - ½ pack;
slightly salted trout / salmon - 200 - 250 g;
black caviar - 50 - 70 g;
fresh parsley - to taste.

Cooking:

Cut round pieces from white bread.
Brush each with softened butter.
Lay out portions of black caviar.
Finely chop the fish and roll it into the shape of a sail. Attach to bread with skewers.

Garnish the finished canapes with fresh parsley.

With dried sausage

Ingredients:

baguette - 200 g;
dry-cured sausage (sliced) - 80 - 100 g;
large fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
small tomatoes - 2 - 3 pcs.;
toast cheese - 50 g;
pitted olives - 10 pcs.

Cooking:

Cut the baguette into portions and lightly dry in the oven.
Decorate the cucumber with thin slices, tomatoes with plastics. Olives - halves.
Put the toast cheese on the cooled croutons, one plate for each. You can pre-cover the bread with mayonnaise or soft curd cheese.
Next, distribute the circles of tomatoes.
On each skewer, first string a piece of olive, then a cucumber slice in waves and thin pieces of dry-cured sausage.
Insert blanks into croutons.

Serve the resulting canapes on a beautiful plate.

New meat dishes

Meat dishes will become obligatory on the festive table. They should be served shortly after the start of the feast, when the guests had time to try the appetizers, hot.

Stuffed liver tubes

Ingredients:

chicken liver - half a kilo;
beef liver - 400 g;
boiled eggs - 10 pcs.;
raw eggs - 4 pcs.;
carrots - 10 pcs.;
milk - half a liter;
flour - 1/3 tbsp.;
sour cream - 5 dessert spoons;
mayonnaise - 1/3 tbsp.;
garlic - to taste;
salt and spices.

Cooking:

Kill two types of liver with a blender. Salt. Add spices.
Pour well-beaten eggs and part of the milk into the liver mass.
Enter flour. Beat again until the lumps disappear and dilute with the remaining milk.
From the resulting mass, cook 25 - 30 pancakes.
Fry onions with carrots. Salt. Add half of the sour cream.
Mix the remaining sour cream with grated boiled eggs, mashed garlic and chopped cheese. Add salt and mayonnaise.
Cover each pancake with cheese and egg mass and vegetable fry in turn.

Serve this unusual meat dish hot with any side dish.

Meat "balls"

Ingredients:

mixed minced meat - half a kilo;
yeast puff pastry - half a kilo;
onion - 1 head;
yolk - 1 pc.;
garlic - to taste;
milk - 2 dessert spoons;
salt pepper.

Cooking:

Mix minced meat with onion, garlic and re-pass through a meat grinder. Salt, add pepper.
Carefully beat off the mass on a horizontal surface.
Roll out the dough and cut into thin strips.
Form “balls” of minced meat, cover them with strips of dough so that small gaps remain.
Lubricate the blanks with a mixture of yolk and milk.

Bake the treat in the oven for 40-45 minutes at medium temperature until golden brown.

Original holiday garnishes

Instead of the usual rice and mashed potatoes for the holiday, you should cook something more interesting as a side dish. It is delicious to complement both of the dishes below with spicy sauces.

"Duchess"

Ingredients:

raw potatoes - 1 kg;
hard cheese - 50 - 80 g;
chicken yolks - 2 pcs.;
nutmeg - on the tip of a spoon;
salt and pepper.

Cooking:

Boil potatoes in salted water until tender.
Drain all the water, add nutmeg, pepper, grated cheese, yolk (1 pc.). Mix everything well.
On a baking sheet lined with parchment, use a pastry bag to squeeze out small roses.
Lubricate the blanks with the remaining yolk.
Bake in a very hot oven for 15-17 minutes.

Stuffed "Peking"

Ingredients:

Chinese cabbage - 1 fork;
cottage cheese of medium fat content - 300 - 350 g;
high-quality gelatin - 10 g;
drinking water - 60 ml;
colored salad peppers - 150 g;
fresh parsley - 10 g;
garlic, salt, pepper.

Cooking:

Pour gelatin with water and leave to swell.
Finely chop parsley and garlic, mix with cottage cheese.
Cut lettuce peppers into small cubes. Add to curd. Salt and pepper everything.
Dissolve gelatin in the microwave, send to the filling.
Divide the cabbage into leaves. Rinse and dry each.
Take 2 leaves, fill them with stuffing and connect them together.
Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for a couple of hours.

Such an unusual side dish is served chilled with meat or fish.

Lenten menu

Lenten festive table can also be appetizing and tasty. True, the recipes in it will be simpler.

Casserole with potatoes and mushrooms

Ingredients:

raw potatoes - 1.5 kg;
peeled fresh mushrooms - half a kilo;
onions - 2 heads;
tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
lean mayonnaise, vegetable oil and salt.

Cooking:

Fully boil the peeled potatoes. Turn into a puree with the remaining water after cooking. Salt. You can add spices.
Cut the onion with mushrooms randomly and fry in oil. Salt. Break with a blender.
Pour 1/3 of the puree into the prepared glass dish. Cover with frying and another 1/3 puree.
Next, lay out the thinly sliced tomatoes.
Close everything with the remaining potatoes and lean mayonnaise.

Bake the dish at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Lenten cabbage rolls

Ingredients:

white cabbage - 1 head;
white rice - ½ tbsp.;
carrots and onions - 1 pc.;
ketchup - 5 dessert spoons;
tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
mushrooms - 1 tbsp.;
oil, salt, pepper.

Cooking:

Separate the cabbage into leaves. Each wash and cook in boiling water for 3 minutes until softened. Cut off thickenings from them.
Rinse rice and cook for 7 minutes.
Wild mushrooms are also pre-boiled. Mushrooms - just finely chopped.
Remove the skin from the tomatoes, chop finely.
Mash the garlic.
Fry chopped onions and carrots in oil until golden brown. Add mushrooms. Cook the mass for another 7 - 8 minutes.
Mix the roast with tomatoes, rice, garlic. Salt and pepper.
Stuff the cabbage leaves. Roll them up tightly and fry in hot oil for a couple of minutes.
Pour the cabbage rolls in a frying pan with a small amount of water with ketchup and simmer the treat over low heat for a little more than an hour.

Lean "Olivier"

Ingredients:

boiled potatoes - 4 pcs.;
boiled carrots - 3 pcs.;
canned peas - 1 tbsp.;
onion - 1 head;
sour barrel cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
pickled seaweed - 100 - 150 g;
lean mayonnaise and salt.

Cooking:

Chop all vegetables (both boiled, and fresh, and salted) into cubes.
Drain liquid from peas. Cut olives into slices.
Cut the cabbage short.
Mix all.

Season the finished salad with salted lean mayonnaise.

The most simple but delicious dishes

If there is no time to mess around with the design of the festive table for a long time, you should choose the simplest dishes. It remains only to take care of their interesting design, which can pleasantly surprise guests.

Baked Mackerel

Ingredients:

fish carcasses - 2 large;
garlic - 3 - 4 cloves;
ground paprika - 1 pinch;
provencal herbs - 2 tsp;
oil and salt.

Cooking:

Rinse and clean the fish. Leave a clean fillet on the halves with the skin. There should be no bones left in it.
Crush garlic, mix with all seasonings and about 1/3 tbsp. any vegetable oil. Salt the mass. Grate the fish fillet with it and leave it in this form for about 1 hour.
Place the prepared mackerel on a parchment-lined baking sheet, skin side up.

Bake the fish for 15 - 17 minutes at 220 degrees.

striped tomatoes

Ingredients:

oblong-shaped cherry - 12 pcs.;
garlic - to taste;
cheese - 100 - 150 g;
mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Cooking:

Grate the cheese very finely and mix with mayonnaise, mashed garlic, and salt.
In each cherry, make two transverse horizontal cuts. Fill them with stuffing.
Stuff all the tomatoes in this way.

Serve the resulting "bees" as a cold appetizer.

Salad with ham and pickled onions

Ingredients:

pork ham - 200 - 250 g;
processed cheese - 2 pcs.;
tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
red pickled onion - 150 g;
cream sauce and salt.

Cooking:

Cheese, tomatoes and ham cut into medium cubes.
Mix everything, add the onion, squeezed from the marinade.
Top with sour cream sauce.

Salt to taste and serve immediately.

Interesting recipes for the holiday table

Experienced housewives can take on slightly complicated recipes. Their dishes are very interesting, unusual and tasty.

brawn with olives

Ingredients:

chicken - 700 - 750 g;
purified water - 2 l;
green olives - ½ tbsp.;
carrot - 100 g;
garlic - 1 tooth;
high-quality gelatin - 50 g;
salt pepper.

Cooking:

Chop the chicken with bones into pieces and send to cook for 90 minutes. At the very end of cooking, add the peeled carrots.
Dilute gelatin in cold boiled water according to the instructions. After a quarter of an hour, dissolve it in a water bath and mix with 1.5 tbsp. chicken broth. Add minced garlic to it. Salt.
Boiled carrots and olives cut into small cubes. Mix with them small pieces of boiled meat removed from the bones.
Pour the filling components with gelatin broth.
Send the mass into a beautiful shape and move in the coolness for the whole night.

Serve the finished brawn upside down, decorating with fresh herbs.

Mushroom zucchini roll

Ingredients:

fresh zucchini - 2 pcs.;
peeled champignons - 450 g;
hard cheese - 150 g;
eggs - 2 pcs.;
flour - 1 tbsp.;
sour cream - 1 tbsp.;
onion - 1 head;
garlic - 3 - 4 cloves;
baking powder - 10 g;
salt, pepper, oil.

Cooking:

Peel the zucchini, grate coarsely and mix with crushed garlic. Salt.
Add yolks, grated onion.
Sift in flour with baking powder. Add whipped egg whites until stiff. Spice up
Spread the resulting mixture on an oiled baking sheet.
Send to the oven, preheated to 170 degrees. Bake for 35 - 45 minutes.
Finely chop the mushrooms, fry until golden brown. Add sour cream and grated cheese.
Coat the prepared squash cake with the mushroom mass. Roll it up.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet - 1 pc.;
champignons - 5 pcs.;
smoked sausage - 1 pc.;
bell pepper - ½ pod;
pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
olives - 9 pcs.;
green onion - 2 feathers;
cheese - 80 - 100 g;
sour cream and butter - optional;
salt, vegetable oil, spices.

Cooking:

Finely chop the sausage, mushrooms, pepper. Fry until golden brown. You can use butter for this.
Add cubes of pickled cucumber and olives, as well as chopped green onions.
Mix products and season with sour cream.
Thinly beat the chicken fillet. Sprinkle with salt and spices. Cut out pieces the size of cupcake liners.
Cover oiled containers with thin slices of meat.
Distribute the filling on top.
Cover everything with cheese. You can spread a piece of butter on top for juiciness.

Bake hearty muffins for half an hour at 190 degrees.

What drinks to surprise guests

There will certainly be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks on the adult table. Habitual store-bought bottles can be replaced with unusual hand-made cocktails.

Orange drink without alcohol

Ingredients:

high-quality vodka - half a liter;
condensed milk - 100 ml;
freshly squeezed cherry juice - 1 tbsp.

Cooking:

Mix condensed milk and juice. Another berry will do.
Add vodka.
Mix everything with a long coffee spoon.

Pour the liquor into a beautiful decanter or bottle. Cool down.

For a festive table, it is better to cook several interesting tasty dishes at once, but in small portions. In this case, each guest will be able to find among them something to their liking. Particular attention should be paid to snacks. There are never too many of them on the festive table.

If you are planning to celebrate something, but money is tight, this post is for you.

Today, with a very modest budget, I managed to cook six different dishes.

1. Chicken breast skewers.

2. Squid salad in tartlets

3. Stuffed chicken legs

4. Fish in beer batter

5. Pancakes stuffed with chicken and cheese

6. Sandwiches

So, how can you prepare a festive table for 10-20 people at the rate of 1000-1200 rubles.

First, a shopping list.

I bought everything in one place, but if you set out to reduce the amount of the purchase, then it might be worth going to specialized stores.

plus to it:

20 tartlets for 6 rubles - 120 rubles.

0.5 l of milk, skewers, garlic, adjika, chili sauce.

So let's get started.

Cut up 5 chicken breasts. Separate the fillet from the bones.

Cut into 100 pieces (each breast respectively into 20 pieces).

Peel two onions (I have a white onion). Grind on a coarse grater.

With the same grater, remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out all the juice.

Add spices, a teaspoon of salt, two tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Stir and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.

Remove the skin from three legs with a stocking.

Separate the meat from the bones and cut it into small pieces.

Pour the remaining bones from the legs and breast with water, salt and cook over low heat.

When the bones are well cooked, cool them. Then separate the remaining chicken meat from the bones. There will be enough of it.

Salad pepper of two types. Two large red peppers, and 5 small green ones.

Rinse the red pepper, cut in half and remove the seeds and stalk.

Finely chop half of the pepper.

With the other three halves, do this: cut the smooth flesh into large pieces, often chop the rest finely as well as at the very beginning.

Set aside large pieces of pepper (25 pieces). And add small pieces to the chopped meat from the legs.

Adyghe cheese. Separate 1/3 and set aside separately. Cut the remaining 2/3 into small cubes.

Mix together finely chopped leg pulp, Adyghe cheese, red lettuce pepper. Add one raw egg and a teaspoon of salt. Mix well.

Stuff the chicken legs with the resulting filling, fasten the holes with toothpicks.

Transfer the legs to a saucepan, cover with cold water, lightly salt. Cook over low heat after boiling for another 40-45 minutes. Then cool.

Remove the toothpicks from the cooked, cooled chicken legs and carefully cut into slices.

Cut the fish fillet into thin sticks. Add 2 teaspoons of prepared adjika and stir gently.

Remove the fish from the refrigerator.

Knead the dough: half a liter of milk, two cups of water, salt, sugar, a pinch of soda, 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 2 eggs and a pound of flour.

Fry 20 thin pancakes.

By the way, the best device for flipping pancakes in a pan is a Chinese stick. Try it!

Separate 1/3 from hard cheese. Save most of it for the salad.

Grind a smaller piece of hard cheese and the remaining piece of Adyghe cheese on a grater.

Add finely chopped green onions (2-3 feathers).

Grind the boiled chicken meat (from the bones) with a knife.

Transfer to bowl with cheese. Add a teaspoon of chili sauce.

Stir the filling.

Stuff pancakes and roll up.

Cut each pancake in half diagonally.

I cooked "for export" so I immediately packed everything in a container or under a film.

For salad:

Cut the green salad pepper into strips and steam with a little water.

Clean and boil the squid. Cut into strips. Add 2/3 hard cheese chopped on a coarse grater, 2-3 cloves of garlic passed through a press, finely chopped green onions, steamed salad peppers.

Season with mayonnaise and stir.

Then fill the tartlets with this salad. But just before serving.

Thread the marinated chicken breast onto 20 wooden skewers, 5 pieces per skewer.

Place on a wire rack and bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Not more. Do not wait for the chicken to brown - otherwise dry the skewers.

From the remaining half kilogram of flour, pour a portion (about 4 tablespoons) onto a plate - for breading.

Pour the rest of the flour into a deep bowl. Add two raw eggs, a teaspoon of salt. Pour in half a liter of light weak beer.

Mix the batter well with a whisk.

From a whole liter bottle of vegetable oil, you should have more than 3/4 left. Pour the oil into a suitable pot or saucepan (I use a wok). And heat up for deep frying.

Bread the fish pieces in flour, then dip in batter and deep-fry.

Remove from oil with a slotted spoon. I got 40 pieces.

And lastly, sandwiches.

Hard boil the remaining 5 eggs (out of a dozen).

Salad pepper, cut into large pieces, bake in the oven.

Cut two rye loaves, two fresh cucumbers and almost 400 grams of half-smoked sausage. You should have 25 pieces (slices). Cut each boiled egg into 5 pieces.

Brush slices of rye loaf with butter.

On top of the butter - a slice of cucumber.

Parsley sprigs - so that they protrude a little to the side.

Pieces of sausage.

Arrange slices of roasted lettuce on top of the sausage.

Pierce the sandwiches with skewers strung with pitted olives.

I cooked from 8 am to 2 pm, slowly, with breaks for coffee and chatting on the phone

Addition

A light but hearty summer salad. Looks very elegant on the holiday table.

For 8 servings you will need:

700 grams of squid

4 small salad peppers

Salt for cooking squid

150 grams hard cheese

2-3 garlic cloves

1 small bunch of green onions (4-5 stalks)

mayonnaise or salad dressing

clean.

Boil for salad and cut into rings.

Grind the cheese on a coarse grater.

Finely chop the green onion feathers, holding the knife obliquely.

Cut the lettuce in half. Remove the stem and seeds.

Cut into strips.

Transfer to a saucepan, add half a glass of water and simmer, covered, until all the water has evaporated. Then cool down the pepper.

Put the squid rings, grated cheese, green onions and cooled peppers into a deep bowl. Add minced garlic.

Season with ready-made salad dressing or mayonnaise.

Stir and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Pink salmon in beer batter

A fish prepared in this way is good for a festive, and especially a buffet table. It is always eaten very quickly and with pleasure and looks very elegant. The pieces are small, and even dieters are tempted to eat a piece.

For 6-10 servings you will need:

2 fillet halves from one pink salmon (about 800 grams)

2 tablespoons Caucasian adjika

6-8 tablespoons flour for breading

for batter:

500 grams of premium flour

0.5 liters of light weak beer

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon salt

for deep fat:

1 liter refined vegetable oil

Separate the pink salmon fillet from the skin and cut into sticks 4-5 centimeters long, and about 1-1.5 centimeters wide and high. Lubricate the fish pieces evenly with adjika.

Prepare the batter. In a deep bowl, whisk together the flour, eggs and beer. Salt. Leave for 20 minutes for the gluten to swell. The dough should be as thick as sour cream.

Heat vegetable oil in a small saucepan.

Take fish pieces one at a time. Roll on all sides in flour. Dip in batter. Take out of the batter and let the excess dough drain. Dip in fryer. Try not to drop too much at once. The battered fish pieces should float freely in the oil without sticking to each other. Fry the fish in batter on both sides. In a well-heated oil, the pieces should immediately float up and the dough should “swell”. You need to fry no more than 5-7 minutes on each side. Remove the fish from the oil with a slotted spoon and be sure to put it in a colander beforehand. And then shift, simultaneously separating drops of fried dough - they will only spoil the look of the finished dish.

Such a dish is usually served either on a common large plate or on portioned plates - laying out a "hut" and eating with your hands. If you are cooking for a buffet table, you can stick skewers or toothpicks.

Stuffed chicken legs (boiled)

Legs stuffed with pepper and cheese are one of my favorite dishes. According to the method of preparation - boiling and natural gelling - it can also be attributed to galantines.

For 4-8 servings you will need:

2 large chicken legs with whole skin, about 500 grams each

1 raw egg

1 large red lettuce pepper (or different colors)

200 grams of Adyghe cheese

1/2 teaspoon salt

Rinse well-thawed chicken legs, carefully remove the skin from them, chop off the bone at the base.

Remove the meat from the bones and cut it into small pieces.

Remove stem and seeds from lettuce peppers. Cut the pulp of pepper and Adyghe cheese into small cubes, add chopped chicken meat, raw egg and salt. Mix well.

Fill the “stockings” removed from the legs with the resulting mass, fasten the holes with toothpicks.

Lay the stuffed chicken legs on the bottom of the pan and fill with water so that the water covers the chicken legs only 1-2 centimeters.

Bring to a boil and lower the heat. Cook at a very low boil for another 40 minutes.

Cool the chicken legs without removing from the broth. Then take out and remove the toothpicks.

I usually make this dish ahead of time and leave it overnight in the fridge.

Before serving, cut the chicken legs into slices of 1-1.5 centimeters thick and arrange on a dish.

Looks very elegant.

There is one more small addition. A couple of times I made a mistake in choosing the legs for this dish. Their peel had holes through which my filling fell out. Then I wrapped each stuffed leg in several layers of cling film. Then she filled it with water and put a plate on top, and a jar of water on it: an impromptu press was obtained, which did not allow the film to unfold during boiling. Under it, it is necessary to cool the legs.

Remove the film from the cooled chicken legs. Cooking "under the film" will not affect the appearance or taste.

Birthday is the most important holiday for most of us. But over time, fantasy is depleted, monotonous dishes appear on the table. I want something new, but no less tasty. What should be the birthday menu? What original can be put on the table, surprising the guests?

Composition of the birthday menu

If you decide to celebrate your holiday at home, then you need to decide in advance what dishes and in what quantity you will cook. However, one should not overdo it here and cook too many all kinds of dishes, most likely, it will not come to most of them. In addition, it should be relatively easy to prepare dishes, especially if you will be doing the cooking alone. Otherwise, you will be so tired that you will no longer want a holiday or a festive table.

The choice of dishes for your birthday depends on the format of the event. Will you sit at the table all the time, or maybe you want to arrange a buffet table, and soon move on to entertainment and dancing. In addition, here it is necessary to take into account the age of your guests and the time of year. The colder it is outside, the more food will be eaten.

Write on a piece of paper how many salads you want to cook, how many snacks, hot. Moreover, try to cook as few dishes of the same type as possible. For example, if you decide to make a traditional salad "Herring under a fur coat", you should not make another fish salad, for example, "Mimosa".

Traditional dishes for a birthday

First, of course, snacks. There should not be too many of them, their goal is not to kill the appetite before the main course, but rather to excite it. Three to five types of snacks will be enough on the table.
Secondly, it is of course salads. It will be enough three types of different salads. And it's just great if the base of these salads is different, for example, fish salad, vegetable and meat.

Third, cutting. Slicing is not considered a separate dish, but it should always be present on the table. Do not make too many cuts of one product - such dishes quickly wind up and spoil the overall look. It will be enough for 1 plate (depending on the number of people) of meat, fish, vegetable and cheese cuts.
Fourthly, a side dish must be present on the birthday table. At least one kind. Most often, this is either mashed potatoes or potatoes baked with mayonnaise.
Fifth, and this is practically the main dish on the table, hot. One kind of hot must be required. But you can cook 2-3 types, for example.
And the final chord of the holiday is dessert. It must be on the holiday table. It can be a cake, a pie, a variety of cakes or cookies, ice cream, jelly and puddings. Here, focus on the preferences of most guests. If you do not know their tastes, you can cook two or three types of dessert to please everyone.

Snacks for the birthday menu

Lavash roll with crab sticks

Compound:

Crab sticks - 200 g

Sausage cheese - 200 g

Garlic - 2 cloves

Butter - 100 g

Mayonnaise - 100 g

Lavash - 2 pcs

Dill - 1 bunch

Cooking:

Crab sticks cut into small cubes. Grate chilled sausage cheese and butter and mix with crab sticks.
Finely chop the greens, crush the garlic, mix with the previously prepared mixture, add mayonnaise and spices. Spread the resulting mass with a thin layer on pita bread, roll it up, wrap it with cling film on top and put it in the refrigerator for several hours. Before serving, cut into beautiful pieces, obliquely.

Salad with chicken and pickled mushrooms

Compound:

Hard cheese - 200 g

Smoked chicken - 400 g

Pickled mushrooms - 50 g

Onion - 2 heads

Boiled eggs - 4 pcs

Garlic - 3 cloves

Fresh tomatoes - 5 pcs

Lemon juice - from ½ lemon

Salt, mayonnaise

Cooking:

Finely chop the onion, fry it with mushrooms. Cut the chicken into cubes. Three cheese and eggs on a grater.
We make sauce. To do this, mix mayonnaise with lemon juice and garlic.
We begin to spread the salad in layers, spreading each layer with the prepared sauce and pressing down a little. The first layer is chicken. The second layer is mushrooms with onions. The third layer is the eggs. The fourth is cheese. Fifth - tomatoes.
Tomatoes can be cut into shapes to decorate the top of the salad.

Hot for a festive birthday menu

Meat with cheese and mushrooms

Compound:

Pork - 600 g

Mushrooms - 250 g

Cheese - 150 g

Flour - 200 g

Mayonnaise - 200 g

Pepper, salt

Cooking:

On a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, lay out half the onion, which we previously cut into rings.
We cut the meat like chops, along the fibers, about 1.5 cm thick, beat off, salt and pepper. Put the meat on a baking sheet, on top of the onion.
Mushrooms are fried and put on meat.
Put the second half of the onion on top, cut into rings, lightly press.
Sprinkle our dish with grated cheese on top, pour over with mayonnaise and put in a preheated oven for 30-40 minutes.
You can make this dish even simpler, and use marinated rather than raw mushrooms. Then they don't need to be fried.

How to decorate a holiday table?

Prepared dishes, both salads and hot dishes, cuts and snacks, you can beautifully decorate, giving them additional beauty. Such dishes will seem even tastier.

Bon appetit and happy holidays!

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Sometimes creating a menu for a birthday becomes a difficult task for the hostess. Every time you want to please your guests with delicious dishes and surprise with unusual recipes. And every time the hostess faces the question of the family budget: How tasty and beautiful to feed guests without spending a lot of money? Many years of experience show that the optimal holiday menu scheme looks like this:

two or three salads;
several snacks;
the second festive dish with a side dish.

Despite the fact that you always want to save money, you should not refuse one dish of expensive products. An example of such a dish is sandwiches with good caviar or baked salmon. The main decoration of the table can be a beautifully decorated cut of vegetables or fruits. Do not make several mayonnaise salads. It is better to make one original, the guests will appreciate it.

MAIN MENU FOR BIRTHDAY AT HOME FOR 10 PEOPLE:

FRENCH MEAT

potato
any meat
spices

To cook meat in French, you need any meat. Pork is traditionally used, but a recipe using chicken meat is common. It should be fresh, cut into 1.5 cm thick across the grain. Such cutting of meat will allow it to remain tender and juicy. You will also need an onion, which is cut into rings and marinated in vinegar in advance. In the original French meat recipe, the main thing is to follow the sequence of laying out the products. On a greased baking sheet, meat is laid out, tightly to each other. Then onions and sliced potatoes. All this is topped with spices and grated cheese. The dish is baked in the oven for about an hour.

MEAT "Accordion"

pork or beef
tomato
mushrooms
garlic, spices

Meat baked with an accordion is quite simple to prepare. For this, a long piece of meat is taken, cuts are made so that the thickness of the plate is one and a half centimeters. A slice of cheese, a circle of tomato and crushed garlic are placed in each cut. Mushrooms also cut into plates and put on a baking sheet next to the meat. Wrap everything in foil and bake for an hour and a half. Traditionally, mashed potatoes are used to serve meat as a side dish. However, potatoes are already in the "meat in French" dish, so to diversify the festive table, you can cook a side dish of rice with vegetables.

RICE WITH VEGETABLES IN THE MULTICOOKER

carrot
tomato
frozen vegetable mix (corn, beans, peppers)
tomato paste, spices

To cook rice with vegetables in a slow cooker, a lot of work is not required. Just chop the vegetables finely, put them in the multicooker bowl along with the pre-fried frozen vegetable mixture. Pour rice on top and pour water so that it covers the rice completely. Season everything with vegetable oil, tomato paste and spices. Turn on the multicooker in the "Rice" or "Cereals" mode for an hour and a half. After cooking, mix everything and serve.

SALADS AND SNACKS FOR BIRTHDAY AT HOME FOR 10 PEOPLE

As mentioned earlier, do not repeat in salads. For a menu for 10 people, it is enough to prepare one mayonnaise salad, one vegetable salad and various cold appetizers.

SALAD "TENDERNESS"

From the variety of salads with mayonnaise, it is preferable to choose puff salads. One of these simple but delicious salads is the Tenderness salad.

crab sticks
boiled eggs
boiled carrots
grated cheese
mayonnaise

There are several versions of this salad. In the first, each grated ingredient is separately mixed with mayonnaise. In the second, the grated products are smeared with sauce layer by layer. The order of the layers is determined only by the tastes and preferences of the household.

SALAD WITH CUCUMBERS AND WHITE BEANS

Chinese cabbage
cucumbers
can of canned beans
sour cream for dressing, spices to taste

Chop all ingredients into thin strips. Rinse the beans from the marinade and add to the greens. Season everything with sour cream and spices. If desired, the salad can be varied with other fresh vegetables, as well as boiled eggs.

No meal is complete without cold appetizers. They make the feast varied, and a beautifully decorated appetizer will decorate the festive menu. For a modest holiday for 10 people, it is enough to cook several types of snacks.

LAVASH ROLL WITH SALMON

smoked salmon
pita
bell pepper
processed cheese
herbs, garlic

This appetizer combines the salty taste of fish and buttery cheese. Grate melted cheese mixed with garlic on thin pita bread. Top with herbs, finely chopped pepper and lay out the fish. Roll up, slice and serve. Such an appetizer will become tastier if it stands in the refrigerator for a while and soaks. To do this, the roll should be wrapped in cling film and left overnight or for several hours.

KOREAN-STYLE SQUID SNACK

squid carcasses
onion, carrot, garlic
vinegar
seasoning in Korean
sunflower oil

Rinse squid carcasses, boil and chop into strips. Also chop the vegetables into strips. Fry the onion in sunflower oil until golden brown. Mix everything in a large bowl, season with spices, vinegar and insist in the refrigerator for several hours. In order to diversify the recipe, some add bell peppers, zucchini or another vegetable.

In addition to all this, not a single feast can do without meat and cheese cuts, as well as pickled mushrooms.

SWEET MENU FOR HOME BIRTHDAY

Every birthday must end with a sweet treat. On a sweet table for 10 people, you can prepare a fruit salad or a small cake.

FRUIT SALAD WITH ICE CREAM

cream
Walnut
chocolate
Apple
banana
orange

Cut all fruits into medium-sized cubes, peeling and seeds. Grind the nuts, and grate the chocolate on a medium grater. Combine fruit with nuts and ice cream, mix and refrigerate. Serve sprinkled with grated chocolate.

When compiling a menu for a birthday at home for 10 people, one must not only take into account the tastes of the invited guests, but also the seasonality of the products. Thanks to the presence of these two components, a birthday will leave many positive impressions.