You can arrange a small feast on your own for any reason and often enough (anniversaries, New Year, February 23 (I advise you to see ideas), March 8, successful completion of affairs, and so on).

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What to cook for a buffet at work?

I do not agitate to cook all these snacks! Choose!

“On one tooth” - collection “100 canapes”

The first thing that comes to mind is small elegant snacks (canapes). I collected all these ideas in pictures for a long time and replenish them regularly, so be sure to find suitable options (evaluate the time and financial costs).

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The sandwich will be tastier if ...

  ... if grease bread cooked at home mustard oil  (for 200 g of softened oil - 1 tablespoon of finished mustard from a jar)

… make cheese cream(in a blender, beat 150 g of hard cheese, 150 soft cream cheese, 2 cloves of garlic and a few sprigs of herbs, 1/2 cup cream 20-22%)

  ... put a piece of sausage or boiled pork on tartar sauce  (add 150 g of finely chopped pickled cucumbers to 150 grams of mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon of chopped capers and green onions, cool for 30 minutes, pour 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste).

The buffet reception at work is prepared, as a rule, by more than one person, therefore it is possible to pre-distribute among colleagues who can do something in advance at home. Exemplary sandwiches  on the picture:

  Sandwich Meat  better to do it yourself. Believe me, your colleagues will highly appreciate the natural home-made product, it’s worth a little effort! The meat is cooked simply.

... just garnish with a sprig of greenery:

Herring oil  (beat one herring fillet in a blender with 200 g butter) or minced meat  (roll a herring filet through a meat grinder, a green apple without a peel, a small onion, a boiled egg, 70-100 g of butter, season with black pepper) will require only a small decoration from a slice of cucumber and a sprig of dill. Figured bread can be made using cookie cutters.

  Homemade Chicken Liver Pate  on a slice of bread with a thin straw of bell pepper - a great snack for a buffet at work. Recipe:  put carrot and onion in a pot of water, boil until tender, add 500 g of chicken liver to boiling vegetables. Cook everything together for 15 minutes, remove from water and whisk hot while using a blender, gradually adding the broth in which the products were cooked, until a homogeneous mass similar in density to sour cream was obtained. Allow to cool slightly, add 150 g of softened butter, salt to taste. This is a very cheap but festive appetizer!

Cheese cream with garlic on bread toast. I already wrote about how to do it in this article a little higher (it can be used as a “pillow” for boiled pork and sausage). But the cream itself is incomparably tasty and beautiful if it is laid out on a lettuce leaf using a pastry syringe.

Pies and crepes

Small pies made from yeast or puff pastry with the most traditional filling (meat, cabbage with eggs, potatoes with mushrooms) are always successful. Scatter first! I will not describe in detail, while I just throw up the idea for a holiday in the office. The most important thing - small size, also for “one bite”.

  Another successful snack for a buffet in the office, which can be prepared at home and eat cold - spring rolls. Tiny too, of course. With red caviar or slightly salted salmon, for example. Look for a craftsman in the team, someone will surely cope :-)!

Buffet at work: are salads appropriate?

Yes, I declare boldly, as there are several ways of their original submission!

If you chop the usual salad (olivier, crab, etc.) a little smaller than you used to cut for a regular feast, you can put it on a slice of bread or in a basket. Sometimes for salads they use disposable glasses or the most ordinary glass glasses (wine glasses for martini, bowls). Here's what it looks like:

  By the way, you can put it in glasses and decided to drop a very nice idea here! I saw in the magazine, immediately scanned for you :-). it will look very original (if your buffet at work was organized on New Year's Eve) or just a “tree of happiness” from sweets if you celebrate something else.

Solemn events, as a rule, gather a huge number of people: these can be corporate parties in large companies or anniversaries in a large family. Such big holidays used to be celebrated at a huge banquet table, but it was not always possible for guests to leave it at least for a while and dance or chat with different people.

In order to save space and more enjoyable leisure in the modern world, it is customary to arrange receptions.

The buffet table came to us from Europe, and specifically from France, where the word "a la buffet" means "fork", since the main and almost the only device at the buffet table is the buffet table.

The design of the buffet table implies free space around it, so that guests can freely move around the room, pour drinks into their glasses, and enjoy refreshments prepared. But the main thing at the buffet was not food, but communication in an interesting company.

The buffet table should be accessible from either side.

The Russian mentality of such a celebration is not characteristic, in our minds, the celebration should take place at the festive table, which is bursting with all kinds of dishes, and preferably also to the accompaniment of accordion or accordion. For us, the following picture is more familiar:

Recently, European culture has penetrated more and more into our orders, so holidays in large companies are held "in a Western manner." Many young people liked it so much that some even think about designing a buffet table for a wedding, forgetting about the traditional banquet.

It should immediately be noted that not in any company such a holiday will be successful. If you are planning a major family celebration, which involves the presence of relatives of different ages, you should think about additional places for sitting, or abandon the idea of \u200b\u200ba buffet at all, as older people and small children are unlikely to be delighted with the idea of \u200b\u200ba holiday "on their feet."

If you nevertheless settled on the idea of \u200b\u200ba buffet table, you should know the basic rules of its organization, so that each guest remembers this event only from the best side. Having become acquainted with them, making the buffet table with your own hands will no longer seem difficult and irresistible.

A holiday or celebration always implies a certain entertainment program, and a buffet in this regard is no exception. If possible, the hostess of the evening can arrange competitions herself or invite artists or a host to celebrate.

Before holding the holiday, you should think about the musical accompaniment of the evening so that guests are not constantly in silence. For the time when there is no competition or performance, you can include light instrumental music in the background.

How to make a table?

Important when holding the buffet are a properly located table and food on it. The design of the buffet table for a gala event or party involves observing certain rules:

- The table should not be placed close to the wall so that each guest has the opportunity to approach him from any direction. But even in the center of the room you should not install it, as this place is intended for the free movement of people, dancing, games and competitions.

- The buffet table should be slightly higher than usual, so that guests can conveniently approach it and eat while standing. Basically, there should be such dishes for which you do not need anything but a fork.

- The design of the buffet table implies decorating it with a large tablecloth of any color to the taste of the hostess. Most often they use dark cherry or dark green shades of the tablecloth, which are more practical for such a celebration. Sometimes a table skirt is used to decorate the table, which covers its legs.

- Cutlery and clean dishes are placed at different ends of the table in order to avoid fuss, and you should provide three times more dishes than guests are invited (during the buffet, it is not customary to eat from the same dishes all evening). Not far from the main table should provide a table on castors or a tray for used dishes.

- Symmetrically from the middle of the table are snacks, salads, hot, fruit slices, desserts and other dishes. Its edges should be left free so that guests can place their full plates on them. As an option, you can consider several tables for a buffet: separately - with snacks, separately - with drinks, separately - with clean dishes.

- It is better to choose light dishes for the buffet, and preferably white. The decoration of the buffet table is not dishes, but what is in it.

- Around the room or next to small coffee tables, you need to arrange several places for sitting: stools, folding chairs, pouffes. It is also desirable that the room was at least one sofa. Not every guest in the evening can eat while standing, but you need to take care of everyone.

- Making a buffet table with your own hands necessarily includes its decor. Tables are usually decorated with fresh flowers or floral arrangements, balloons, edible and inedible symbols of the holiday: angels - for a wedding or Christmas, multi-tiered cakes - for an anniversary, etc. Even the decoration of napkins can play a decorative role in the design.

- Various holiday agencies often offer the design of a buffet table in the form of a "living" table. A girl or a young man at such a table will help to choose a dish or drink, as well as put it on a plate for a guest. To make life easier for the hostess of the holiday, you can invite the waiters so that they monitor the availability of dishes and replenish supplies, if necessary. Invited assistants can also clean used dishes.

Buffet service can be done by waiters

How to make snacks?

Serving a buffet table is also not the easiest thing, but if you work hard and arm yourself with some ideas, you can independently come up with and arrange the appetizers for the buffet table:

- One of the main ways to serve dishes at the buffet is canapes or small sandwiches. Also, small sandwiches can be served on skewers. There are many recipes for such sandwiches, they are selected for main drinks.

- Tartlets are also popular at buffet receptions - dough baskets in which you can put different salads or snacks.

- Another way to serve snacks is tartinki. These are also small sandwiches such as canapes, but they are made on toasted bread.

- Meat delicacies, cheeses, vegetables and fruits are served at the receptions in the form of slices. This can be a regular cut, or a special decorative cut made in the form of hearts, stars, butterflies and other different shapes, as in the preparation of homemade cookies. Fruits can also be served on multi-tiered plates or in baskets.

Traditional buffet meals are pre-prepared portioned snacks that are eaten with forks or skewers.

Buffet cuts

For a buffet table for 10 people, it is enough to purchase two types of cheese, 250 grams each and 2-3 types of meat cuts with a total weight of one kilogram. Divide the sliced \u200b\u200bproducts into 2 plates, lay them out figuratively, decorate with greens. Be sure to have a vegetable cut on the table. You will need one kilogram of tomatoes and cucumbers, 5-6 pieces of bell pepper in different colors, a bunch of greens.

Original snacks

Prepare delicious and nutritious cold and hot snacks.

Liver Balls

Pass the fried liver through a meat grinder, combine with onions and proteins. Make balls from this mass, roll in yolks. Cut the cheese into squares, put a ball of liver on each of them. When serving, put the dish on a plate, sprinkle with chopped cheese and garnish with greens.

Fried eggs in champignons

For the dish you will need 10 large champignons and as many quail eggs. Fry the mushroom caps and put in a baking dish. Gently beat a raw quail egg into each of them and bake until the eggs are ready. Put on a dish, shape with greens and slices of tomatoes.

Tartlets, shuttlecocks

It is enough to put tartlets with various fillings on the table at the rate of 2-3 pieces per person.

"Mushroom basket"

For the filling, stew the mushrooms with onions in sour cream, fill the baskets. Shortly before the start of the buffet, add the sour cream and garlic sauce to the baskets and send to the microwave for a few minutes. Serve hot.

Tuna tartlets

Mix a jar of canned tuna with diced tomatoes, mayonnaise and grated cheese. Grease the bottom of the tartlets with ketchup, lay out the filling. Before serving, heat in a microwave, decorate with greens.

Julien in tartlets

Put boiled chicken, mushrooms, onions on tartlets. Pour in creamy sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese, bake in the microwave.

For filling the baskets, you can use a wide variety of products:

1. Mash the sardines preserved in oil, cut into small cubes eggs and tomatoes, mix with green peas mustard, mayonnaise, pepper.
2. Mix chopped salted salmon fillet with fat cottage cheese and chopped herbs.
3. Grind smoked salmon fillet, combine with Philadelphia cheese, garlic and lemon juice. Beat the mass in a blender. Using a pastry bag, beautifully lay the resulting mousse in tartlets, decorate with red caviar and greens.
4. Combine the butter with canned mushrooms, herbs and spices. Garnish with chopped quail eggs.
5. Grind the prepared squid and seaweed, season with oil and spices. Garnish with greens and grated egg.

Instead of tartlets, you can use chips with a neutral taste.

Vol au vents can be served with caviar. Place a quail egg in the middle, lay red caviar around it, add a sprig of parsley.

Canapes

This is the perfect snack for a buffet table. Tiny bright sandwiches will decorate any table. Prepare several types of canapes, lay them out on a diagonal tray, and you get an elegant, beautiful dish. For the preparation of canapes, the same products are used as for sandwiches. On a piece of bread put a layer of paste, a piece of ham, fish and complement with fresh and pickled vegetables, mushrooms, fruits and herbs.

All layers are interconnected with sauce or butter. As a basis for canapes, you can pick up unsalted crackers, dry sliced \u200b\u200bbread. Instead of regular butter, use butter with fillers - red caviar, boiled yolks, herbs, horseradish, mustard, cream cheese. Cook 3-4 types of canapes.

Canapé cooking options:

• bread, bacon, cheese, olives;
• salted cracker, ham, pickled cucumber, greens;
• rye bread, butter, sprats, cheese;
• bread, butter with horseradish, boiled tongue, cucumber;
• toasted bread, grated with garlic, mayonnaise, cheese, kiwi.

Rolls

During the buffet dinner, meat-rich meals must be present on the table. Prepare 10 rolls with different fillings.

Ham roll

It is most convenient to cook this roll from ready-made slices. For the filling, combine the crushed cheese, eggs, herbs, bell pepper and mayonnaise. Wrap the stuffing in a plate of ham, roll with a roll, fasten with a skewer. You can stuff the roll with chicken meat with mushrooms, add pickled cucumbers.

Chicken roll

Fight chicken, put on a slice of cheese and tomato, roll, roll, fasten with skewers. Sauté. Before serving, warm and decorate with lettuce leaves.

Liver roll

Prepare the dough for the liver cake, fry small thin pancakes from it. For the filling, mix the fried mushrooms with carrots and mayonnaise.

To submit:

1. Cut each liver pancake into two and roll into a cone shape.
2. Fill with the filling, put on the dish in a circle, with the sharp edges of the cone to the center of the plate.
3. Decorate the middle of the plate with greens and a flower of red bell pepper.

Omelette roll

Combine eggs with mayonnaise and flour, fry omelets. Lubricate them with liver or meat paste, dab with herbs. Roll up. When serving, cut obliquely in even slices, decorate with lettuce and tomato slices.

Vegetable rolls

The filling is soft cream cheese with chopped capers, olives, herbs. All this is mixed, dressed with mayonnaise. Cut a long salad cucumber into slices.

1. From the filling, make a small ball, put on a tape of cucumber.
2. Twist the roll, secure with toothpicks.
3. Cover the dish with lettuce leaves, lay out the rolls, decorate with olives rings.

Dessert

Traditionally, a birthday celebration ends with the advent of a festive cake. You can try and bake at home a delicious home-made cake, for example, Napoleon, Honey cake, Enchantress, sponge cake with cream. If there is no time for baking, buy a cake in the confectionery department. For 10 people, it is enough that the pastries have a mass of one to one and a half kilograms. You can prepare portioned pastries - custard cakes, meringues, rolls with protein cream, bush, baskets with cream and berries, profiteroles with chocolate or lemon cream, muffins, muffins. Tea or coffee is served at the sweet table.

Topic video : Buffet at work: recipes with photos

If you are looking for snacks for a buffet table, the recipes with photos are simple and tasty, our section will give you an idea of \u200b\u200bthe many snacks that will decorate the buffet table, and make the holiday a magnificent one. What is a buffet table and where did this now fashionable word come from? It was invented by the French, for those cases where not gatherings by the company at the table are arranged, but some kind of presentations, business negotiations, or meetings where free movement between people and communication is important, and snacks and drinks fade into the background.

The essence of the buffet table is tiny snacks that you can eat by putting in your mouth, without cutting, for one bite. Therefore, in order to find out how to choose snacks for a buffet at work inexpensively, see our recipes. For the office version of the birthday, a buffet reception is an excellent way out. Bulky tables do not take their place, there is no need to prepare hot and cold complex dishes, everything is simple and elegant.

Consider the buffet snacks on the festive table, recipes with photos, simple, beautiful, interesting, and not complicated, and choose the most suitable options for each. First of all, pay attention to tartlets - in these small baskets you can serve portions, anything - salads, cheese fillings, crab meat, caviar, desserts and so on. Baskets can be baked by yourself, if a small number of guests are expected, or bought, now there are many variations of tartlets in stores.

Further, if a buffet at work for a birthday is supposed, all kinds of cheap canapes are perfect, as a basis can be crackers, chips, small pieces of bread. Canapes can be with seafood, meat, cheese and dessert. Such a buffet appetizer would look very nice: a small piece of bread, a bit of cream sauce in the middle, a shrimp pinned on a skewer, literally a few eggs on the side. The option is simpler: canapes with herring - on a mug of black bread, greased with oil, a sprig of dill and a piece of herring are placed. Simple and delicious.

An appetizer option is perfect for a buffet at work: a circle of bread is cut out, smeared with mayonnaise, a thin piece of salami is folded into a tube, wrapped across with a thin slice of cucumber and pierced with a skewer, a small sprig of dill will complete the decoration. The buffet table will look great with cheese slices, cold cuts, fruit vases. Glass glasses where you can serve sauce, portioned small salads, fruits in yogurt are also perfect.

Buffet dishes are varied: small pies, puff mini buns, sandwiches, mini skewers on skewers, laid out on a dish with lettuce.

You can simply plant 1-2 pieces of meat on each skewer and place a cherry tomato between them, it will be beautiful and tasty. See snacks at the buffet with tol, recipes with photos will tell you ideas, the rest will be complemented by imagination, and the possibilities of a wallet. You can buy a herring, make an imitation of red caviar, a tasty and economical buffet meal will work. Herring is sorted into fillets, grinded with a pack of butter, raw carrots and cream cheese, and an excellent spread of mini-sandwiches is obtained. Decorate with greenery and quite beautifully, you can put it on plates.

Also, the budget version of the snack for the buffet table can be made from mushroom caviar, eggplant, grated cheese - it is laid out in tartlets, or on crackers, pieces of fried bread, millet and hearty. Any buffet snacks, if they are miniature and beautifully decorated, will be acceptable. Do not forget about pita bread, you can cook a bunch of goodies from it if you are planning a buffet at work for any holiday or birthday. For example, grease pita bread with mayonnaise, put Korean carrots, lettuce, chopped sausage, roll tightly. Then just cut into small oblique portions, cover the dish with lettuce leaves and lay out a snack. Beautiful, satisfying, budget.

The buffet table is convenient if there are a lot of guests and they have something to talk about. This form of organizing a festive feast allows guests to freely move from table to table and try snacks while chatting with other guests. Choosing this form instead of a traditional banquet, it is necessary to prepare the dishes in advance (there should be 2-3 times more plates and forks than invited ones), think over where to put the tables and how to cover them. What cold snacks to prepare for a buffet reception, prompt recipes with photos below. Gives a hint and the word "buffet", translated from French, meaning "fork". For a buffet, everything that fits on a fork or, in other words, what can be eaten in one bite, is suitable. The selection of these dishes is huge, and we collected the best ideas in this material, accompanying them with a description of the preparation.

Simple solutions

Simple solutions

Let's start with simple decisions on how to set up a buffet table quickly and effortlessly.

• Traditionally, on the buffet table, a large place with slices of meat, sausage, fish, cheese and vegetables occupies an honorable place. It’s convenient to “take” flat slices to your plate, to make a sandwich out of them. They fit easily in your mouth. Do not refuse cuts, considering them commonplace. If everything is laid out beautifully and in an original way, as in the photo, then a sliced \u200b\u200bdish will surely attract the attention of guests.
• You can not force the guests to make sandwiches themselves, but put on the table prepared in advance, fastening them with skewers for strength. Such sandwiches look interesting and elegant, hardly anyone will refuse to take canapes to their plate.
• Instead of canapes, you can use slices of vegetables, fruits, cheese, olives, meat and other products, simply by strung them on a long wooden skewer.
• The basis for canapes is most often used dried or toasted bread. However, crackers for this purpose will serve no worse
• If the cold appetizer is not too liquid, then you can put it in potato chips, decorating the appetizer with caviar or greens.
• Such a cold appetizer as stuffed eggs will never lose its popularity - they are suitable not only for a buffet table, but will decorate any feast.

You can stuff eggs with different pastes, cottage cheese, cheese, herring. We propose to take weapons recipe of one of the most sophisticated and simple to prepare buffet meals - eggs stuffed with shrimp paste and red caviar.

What do you need:

• eggs - a dozen;
• shrimp - 0.3 kg;
• dill greens - 5 branches;
• red caviar - 0.25 kg;
• mayonnaise, white pepper, salt - to taste.

How to cook:

1. Boil the shrimp for 5 minutes in salted water with dill. Cool, remove from the shell. Finely chop the shrimp meat with a knife.
2. Boil hard-boiled eggs in salted water. Peel, cut in half lengthwise, remove the yolk.
3. Chop the dill finely.
4. Mash yolks with a fork.
5. Mix the yolks with shrimp and dill, adding a little mayonnaise.
6. Begin the resulting squirrel paste.
7. Put a spoonful of caviar on top.

It remains to spread out on a dish and put on the buffet table. It can be argued that this is one of the first guests to eat this appetizer. She looks, as seen in the photo, more than seductive.

If you want a salad

Cold appetizers for buffet

One of the most popular dishes on any holiday table is salad. However, to put a large vase with salad on the buffet table - this means cruelly teasing the guests. Such a snack is not suitable for a buffet table. But if you still really want to offer guests a salad or pate, there is a solution. More precisely, there are several options for serving salad to the buffet table.

• Tartlets. You can cook them yourself, using simple ones, you can buy ready-made ones at the store.
• Profiteroles. This original replacement of tartlets is also not left without attention of guests. They are baked in the same way as profiteroles for dessert, then they are cut and filled with a gentle paste.
• Spoons. Spoons can be baked on their own, using the dough for tartlets, you can search for beautiful ceramic or metal, designed specifically for the buffet table (you can see them in the photo). They can be filled in pieces in random order or salad. Cold snacks in the form of rolls and balls, for example, “Raffaello” made from crab sticks, look beautiful in such spoons.

Raffaello recipe from crab sticks  known to many, but if you do not have it, be sure to write it down.

What do you need:

• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• crab sticks - 0.2 kg;
• cheese - 0.2 kg;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• mayonnaise - 100 g.

How to cook:

1. Hard boil eggs, cool, peel and grate on a fine grater.
2. Crush the garlic by mixing with the eggs.
3. Finely grate the cheese and mix with the eggs too.
4. Wet balls from the cheese and egg mass with wet hands.
5. Roll them in grated crab sticks (frozen ones are easier to rub).

You need to serve this cold appetizer to the buffet really cold - so it tastes better and holds its shape better.

Buffet rolls

Buffet rolls

Small buffet rolls are ideal.

• They can be made from salmon with cottage cheese or soft cheese, from ham with nuts, cheese and garlic, from ham or salmon with eggs and herbs.
• Leading snacks include vegetable rolls. You will find many recipes on our website. Zucchini rolls are made on the same principle.
• Lavash rolls look completely different. To do this, Armenian lavash is smeared with soft cheese, cottage cheese or sauce, sprinkled with herbs, put plates of slightly salted fish, ham or cheese, rolled and cooled. It remains only to cut and spread.
• The original version is cheese rolls. They are not made too often, meanwhile they are very tasty. And you can evaluate their appearance yourself by looking at the photo.

To confirm these words, we give recipe for cheese rolls with chicken breast and mushrooms.

What do you need:

• boiled or smoked chicken breast;
• mushrooms (e.g. champignons);
• mayonnaise, greens - to taste;
• cheese - 0.5-0.7 kg.

How to cook:

1. Finely chop the breast, fry with mushrooms.
2. Mix the filling with mayonnaise and herbs.
3. Finely grate the cheese and place in the microwave for 2 minutes.
4. Pour the cheese mass onto the cling film, quickly spread on it with a spoon.
5. Spread the cheese base with the filling.
6. Roll into a roll and cool.
7. Cut, lay on a platter, serve and collect compliments - the buffet participants will certainly appreciate your ingenuity and culinary skills.

Cheese roll can be made not only with chicken. Ham, greens, trout, cottage cheese - also a good filling for him.