An appetizer that accompanies an alcoholic drink can emphasize its merits or completely overshadow its taste. In the review: recipes for quick snacks that can be served with popular types of alcohol.

Light beer is well suited for french fries, spicy dishes with chicken and seafood, a cheese plate consisting of soft and semi-hard cheeses, cheese balls.

Spicy Sauce Wings

Ingredients:

• chicken wings - 1-1.2 kg,
• american mustard - 20 g,
• kefir of any fat content - 300 ml,
• butter - 60 g,
• spicy tomato sauce "Chile" - at least 30 g,
• granulated sugar - 1-2 tbsp. (if you do not like meat in combination with sweet sauces, limit yourself to 1 tablespoon sugar),
• spices (salt, pepper, paprika, turmeric) - to taste,
• tomato paste or sauce - 50-75 g,
• garlic - 30 g (possible less).

Cooking:

• Rinse chicken wings, dry. Cut off the first (smallest) phalanx at each wing. Put off the cut phalanges aside. Cut the wings into two parts.
• In a separate container for pickling, mix kefir, mustard, spices, garlic, passed through a press. Stir the wings and marinade thoroughly. Place the container with wings in a cold place for 4-5 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Put the wings on a baking sheet, pre-lubricating it with vegetable oil.

Bake the wings until cooked. The approximate cooking time is 40-50 minutes. Turn the wings 1 time during cooking to avoid burning. Ready wings should have a delicious golden crust.

Important: the sauce must be prepared immediately before serving the wings.

• Melt the butter in a bowl convenient for making the sauce. As soon as the oil has dispersed, add granulated sugar. Stir the mixture thoroughly until sugar is completely dissolved.
• After boiling the mixture, reduce the intensity of the fire to a minimum. Then gently introduce the tomato paste (with constant stirring!). Add the chili sauce. The amount of hot sauce depends on your personal taste preferences. Be careful: the sauce should not boil!
• Salt and pepper the sauce. Remove from heat.
• Put the wings in the sauce and mix gently. Use a wooden spatula to mix, so as not to spoil the appearance of the wings.
• Serve the dish hot.

Snack for beer "Liptovsky cheese"

Ingredients:

• feta cheese - 200 g,
• mustard powder - 4-5 g,
• salt, pepper - to taste,
• butter (room temperature) - 60 g,
• ground paprika - 3 g,
• onions (finely chopped) - 50 g.

Cooking:

• Brynza must be dry! If your cheese is wet, remove excess whey. To do this, wrap the cheese in a cloth, for example in a clean waffle towel, and hang it overnight so that the whey escapes.
• At low speed, try the feta cheese, butter, spices, onions. The mass should be a homogeneous consistency. If the cheese is too dry, you can add a few tablespoons of sour cream, fat content of at least 30%.
• Chill the cheese for at least two hours before serving.
• Serve the cheese as a topping for croutons, crackers, crackers, tortillas, bread rolls.

Salads, sushi, rolls, Bavarian sausages are suitable for unfiltered wheat beer.

Beer appetizer

Ingredients:

• korean carrots - 300 g,
• crab meat or crab sticks - 300 g,
• green onion - 40 g,
• canned sweet corn - 300 g,
• potatoes - 400 g
• chicken egg - 4 pcs.,
• mayonnaise for lubrication.

Cooking:

• Cut crab meat / sticks into rings of 3-5 mm thickness. Boiled potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, cut into cubes. Chop green onions. Grind the finished carrot in Korean to a convenient length.
• Flip the corn into a colander and wait for the excess fluid to drain.
• In a separate container, mix all the ingredients of the salad, salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise. The finished dish should "rest" 15-20 minutes.

Pizza, burgers, wings with spicy sauce (see recipe above) and steaks are ideally combined with ales. Serve potato casseroles, goulash, stew or grilled meat with the porter.

Fast potato casserole

The dish will become not only tasty, but also a hearty hot snack to a cold glass of beer.

Quick snacks to vodka

Remember the advice of the Bulgakov professor Preobrazhensky that vodka should certainly be eaten with something hot and dense? For example, julienne.

Chicken and mushroom julienne

A light and fragrant dish will not ruin your appetite and, at the same time, will prepare your stomach well for taking strong alcohol.

In addition, sandwiches with bacon are perfect for vodka.

Smoked drink is well complemented in combination with fresh vegetables, olives or olives.

Be sure to serve potato salads, such as Olivier.

And do not forget about assorted pickles and pickled vegetables.

Whip up cognac snacks

Unlike vodka, cognac is not eaten with fatty and spicy dishes.

Cheese and nut balls to cognac

Ingredients:

• walnut kernels - 300 g,
• medium-fat cottage cheese - 150 g,
• semi-solid feta cheese - 150 g,
• some leaves of green basil.

Cooking:

• Carefully chop the dried kernels with nuts.
• Problend cottage cheese, feta and basil leaves.
• From the cheese-curd mass, form small balls and bread them in nut crumbs.
• Place the appetizer in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.

A good snack for a noble drink is a plate with cheese and meat slices. For slicing, choose solid mild cheese, beef, veal or poultry without a lot of spices.

Often, cognac is offered meat and liver pastes. You can serve them portionwise, using as a basis for filling flounces, tartlets or saltine crackers.

Champagne Snacks

Each type of champagne requires its own snack.

For semisweet champagne (sugar 6%), serve light fruit pastries, ice cream, poultry, mild cheese, seasonal fruits and berries, and cauliflower dishes.

Cauliflower Appetizer

Such an original appetizer will bring a pleasant variety to the common snack menu.

Pink champagne goes well with duck dishes and pastes.

Quick snacks to rum

Rum is a drink of sea wolves. Accordingly, as an appetizer, the following dishes will be appropriate:

• various seafood, fish of all varieties (except herring), caviar,;
• meat dishes, including lean fried meat
• cheeses
• olives and olives.

Red Wine Quick Snacks

Classic snacks for wine:

• meat dishes, including grilled
• pizza and pasta. You will find many delicious pizza recipes by going to;
• cheese. In addition to cheese cutting, you can serve the original;
• grilled vegetables;
• fruits.

Important: the brighter the taste of wine, the more piquant the dish should be.

An overview of snacks from different products is located.

Video: Elena Malysheva. How to bite alcohol?

Sandwiches are excellent, they are made on the basis of bread or a loaf with a certain filling. Most often, sausages, mushrooms, eggs, cheese and many other products are taken as fillings. The most popular are considered with sausages. They are very tasty, they are easy to cook, you can eat anywhere and this is the most hearty snacks.

The calorie content of this simple dish ranges from 250 to 460 calories per hundred grams of product. It all depends on the composition of the remaining food ingredients. Therefore, after eating at least one sandwich, a feeling of fullness sets in. In general, the calorie content of such a dish is almost the same as the average piece of cake.

For diabetics and vegetarians, manufacturers offer sausages with low calories, so they can be eaten without harm to their figure and cook delicious cold snacks in haste. But even from two delicious sandwiches with this product no one has gained extra pounds.

Whip up snacks: recipes

Whip up snack recipes   with sausage there is a lot. They are able to decorate any table at the holiday, become a hearty and tasty breakfast. You can also offer such a simple dish to a company of friends while watching an exciting movie in your home environment.

Essential Ingredients:

• 300 g of sausage;
• 2 raw chicken eggs;
• 1 onion;
• 8 slices of loaf;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.

First grate the sausage. The peeled onions must be finely chopped and combined with grated sausage. Stir the resulting sausage stuffing thoroughly with raw eggs in a bowl. Now you can smear the loaf with the resulting mass. Pieces of the loaf are very thin to do is not recommended, otherwise they will fall apart during cooking. Toast the sandwich over medium heat. In the pan, place them with the sausage down. As soon as it starts to smell like fried onions - whip up delicious snack   ready. Take the dish from the pan to the plate and you can start breakfast.

Cheese and sausage hot sandwich

You will need:

• one loaf;
• ketchup and mayonnaise to taste;
• 200 g of doctor's sausage;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• some sunflower oil.

Cut the loaf into slices of medium thickness, and the sausage into strips. Cheese must be grated on a small grater. In a separate bowl, mix the ketchup with mayonnaise well. You have prepared a sauce that you spread on each piece of loaf. We place strips of sausage on the sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Do not forget to preheat the oven to 180 degrees and spread a small amount of sunflower oil on the pan.

Put our sandwiches on a baking sheet and send them to the oven for 7 or 10 minutes. These hors d'oeuvres - with sausage and hard cheese, are best served for breakfast, but they can also be used to treat unexpected guests. Hot sandwiches with tomatoes, smoked sausage and cheese. This is very whip up delicious hot snacks. And cooking these sandwiches is simple, fast and enjoyable.

Cook the following foods:

• 5 tomatoes;
• loaf;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• some mayonnaise, vegetable oil and fresh parsley;
• 300 g smoked sausage.

Tomatoes with sausage will need to be cut into slices, the loaf is cut into slices. Their thickness should not be more than one centimeter. Three hard cheese on a grater. Fry the sliced \u200b\u200bloaf in oil on both sides to a golden hue. First you need to preheat the oven to 185 degrees.

Place sausage circles on each fried loaf of loaf, and tomatoes on top of them. Spread the products with a small layer of mayonnaise. Then sprinkle grated cheese on the appetizer. Put the sandwiches on a baking sheet, drizzled with oil. Bake until the cheese is completely melted. After the sandwiches are taken out of the oven, decorate them with sprigs of parsley on top and treat your family or friends.

Holiday Recipe - Ladybug Sandwiches

You will need:

• white bread or loaf - 400 g;
• 8 pcs cherry tomatoes;
• 200 g of cooked sausage;
• 100 g black olives;
• 80 g butter;
• some dill, lettuce and mayonnaise.

We cut sausage into slices, loaf or bread - into slices. Now you need a special cookie cutter. With the help of this mold you need to cut circles out of bread. Cut the cherry into two halves. Now butter the bread and put the sausage on it. Put halves of tomatoes on it. The olives are cut in half along, then the resulting halves need to be cut again in half. These will be the heads of “ladybugs,” and olives thinly cut into half rings will become their legs.

Sprinkle tomatoes on top with finely chopped olives, you will make a kind of "point" on the body of ladybugs. Make the nose and eyes with mayonnaise. On a large dish, we beautifully lay out the leaves of the salad, and place sandwiches on them. We decorate the reconciliation with dill leaves, and you can surprise guests with an original new dish.

Charcoal salami sandwiches

Inexpensive whip up snacks   with sausage, you can cook in the open air on coals, and not just at home. This is a great option on a picnic or during a hike.

Prepare these foods:

• 9 slices of salami sausage;
• 6 slices of white bread;
• one yellow and one red tomatoes;
• 10 slices of hard cheese.

Prepare six slices of bread, on each of them lay out three thinly sliced \u200b\u200brings of salami. Cheese cut into slices is also laid out on sandwiches, it needs so much so that the sandwich is completely filled with food. Washed tomatoes, cut into rings, spread on top of the cheese with sausage. For each piece, one ring of different tomatoes is enough.

And now you need to make the sandwiches "closed." To do this, lay one more piece on top of each bread slice. In your prepared barbecue net, put your whip up quick appetizer. Prepare the barbecue with coals in advance, and set the grid on the barbecue. The dish is cooked for five to seven minutes on each side. Serve the appetizer in a warm form, and you can fully enjoy the great taste and aroma of these delicious sandwiches.

Budget option - sandwiches with potatoes and sausage

You don’t need to spend a lot of money to prepare this tasty dish, but such quick budget snacks   Help satisfy your entire family.

You will need:

• three potatoes;
• 10 slices of bread;
• 200 g smoked sausage;
• pepper and salt and sugar to taste;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil.

Washed and peeled potatoes are grated together with smoked sausage. In the resulting mass, put pepper with sugar and salt, as well as eggs. We mix everything very well. Gently apply this mass with a spoon on pieces of bread. Heat the butter in a frying pan and start frying - first you need to put the bread with the filling down, and then turn it on the other side. You need to fry until you see that the bread is browned and has become crispy.

Very healthy and light sandwiches

First, prepare these products:

• 150 g of sausage;
• 2 pickles;
• 6 slices of bread;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 3 tbsp sour cream;
• 6 slices of hard cheese;
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil;
• 1 Bulgarian pepper;
• 1 onion.

It is best to preheat the oven to 200 degrees in advance. While you are preparing food, it will heat up to the desired temperature. Cut the peeled onions into rings, cut all the cucumbers into thin circles. Washed and peeled Bulgarian pepper also needs to be cut into beautiful mugs.

Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. On it, place beautifully sliced \u200b\u200bslices of bread and spread them with sour cream. Place sausage cut into circles on top. Onions are laid on it, put cucumbers of both kinds on the onion. Put the bell peppers on the cucumbers. These products are complemented by slices of hard cheese, and all this is sent for fifteen minutes to cook in the oven, which should already be well warmed up. Fast, useful and most importantly - inexpensive.

Sausage appetizer

Very popular and   whip up salads   with sausages. Therefore, we want to offer you, among the whole variety of sandwich recipes, one of the most delicious and simple salad.

Two servings will need a few foods:

• half stick salami
• 200 g of Russian cheese;
• two fresh cucumbers of medium size;
• put the mayonnaise to taste.

We cut the cheese and sausage in a beautiful straw and mix them in a salad bowl. Add chopped cucumbers to these products. It remains only to fill the dish with mayonnaise, mix well and the salad salad is ready! Such a dish will help out well when guests unexpectedly arrived or just do not want to cook something complicated.

As you can see, sausage sandwiches are great cheap whip up snacks. Cooking them is very simple and most importantly - quickly. But it is very important to know how to decorate them correctly, otherwise your dish will not be very attractive. This is especially true when snacks are put on the table for guests. Of course, for yourself they can not be decorated.

You can take them to the office for lunch, transport them easily and before lunch they will not go bad without a refrigerator. It is worth noting that they are considered a kind of sandwiches, but for sandwiches the filling is located between two pieces of bread, and sandwiches usually do not cover with another piece of bread.

Photo of quick snacks   can be seen on sites on the Internet and choose the most suitable option for yourself, based on the current situation. For decoration, you can always use circles of both fresh and pickled cucumbers, olives, lettuce and other fresh herbs, as well as garlic sauce.

  Evening. You have a rest after a working day on your favorite sofa with a TV remote control and a cup of fragrant tea.

Tink tink   Guests have arrived! With cake and good mood. Holiday? Of course, a holiday!   After all, only the closest friends come like that. Those for whom the most important thing is communication with you, and not an ideal feast by all the rules, but some quick meal   still needed.

Each mistress has a different understanding. "Quick recipe". Someone barely has time to unfold a dried piece of cheese, and some sorceresses manage to cook a hodgepodge while guests wash their hands.

The call to use what is in your refrigerator can also be interpreted in different ways.   Why do I need a quick recipe for a salad that includes quinoa (such cereals), rice vinegar, sesame oil and chilled king prawns? If the latter appear in my refrigerator, then they will certainly not wait for random guests.

I did in some way “Reminder sheet”   those snacks that can be prepared in a few minutes, listening to the latest news from friends. It does not make sense to describe these quick recipes in detail - they are too simple and familiar to any adult.

Guests on the doorstep: quick food recipes

At the end of the article I will do a list of products with a long shelf life that are simply required to be in the refrigeratorwhen an unexpected guest crosses the threshold of your home.

So. Here is my "reminder"
(click on the links, many quick recipes will open :-)):

1.   With melted cheese, you can eat everything.   When guests are on the doorstep, recipes of fast dishes are remembered with great difficulty, so hot sandwiches are a real salvation for such an occasion. The only unchanged ingredient is cheese, so you need to always have some kind of hard variety in an impenetrable shell (such as Olterman) with a shelf life of up to 8 months. On bread of any freshness, put slices of boiled chicken or meat, slices of sausages or sausages, slices of tomato or just ketchup, thin rings of onions or pickles. You can parsley dill for beauty. Three cheese on top, and put in the microwave for one and a half minutes.

Cheese can be eaten in its original form.

2. "Italian Dinner."   Perhaps this is the leader among quick recipes and the rest of humanity. A pack of quality spaghetti and a factory spin with vegetable sauce. Do not digest pasta, do not overheat gravy. Sprinkle with fresh herbs. All! Beautiful plates, tablecloths, candles, napkins. Glasses of red wine. Oh…

3. "Russian vodka, herring brown bread."   Also an option. Herring happens in iron banks. Let lies in the bins for such a case. You can put lightly salted trout on fresh butter. Or red caviar. For a leisurely conversation, and young potatoes quickly boil. And if you have a piece of slightly salted salmon in the refrigerator, hid ...

4. “In the morning - scrambled eggs, in the afternoon - scrambled eggs, at night - scrambled eggs”. Here it’s how the fantasy breaks out. You can simply put several eggs on the halves of boiled eggs, you can mix the yolks with cod liver. Omelet with herbs, with tomatoes and onions, with cheese, ham, with green beans (or with other deep-frozen vegetables), etc. Just fried, after all. The main thing is beautiful, fast and satisfying. Another option - let the omelet become "Envelope"   for the cheese, ham and vegetables that you have. Here is a photo.

5. Snacks from frozen puff pastry.   This quick recipe needs some skill. Rehearse a little, so as not to experiment with guests. The fillings can be salty and sweet. The dough defrosts very quickly. Make, for example, small triangles with cheese. 20-25 minutes in the oven, and you will have wonderful.

6. Shrimp like sweets.   A pack of frozen shrimp in the freezer never hurts. If you don’t feel like messing around, just boil it with well salted water and spices. And if after short cooking they are fried in tomato-garlic sauce ... Guests are always delighted with such a quick recipe.

If your guest is going to come alone, and even in a romantic mood ... Here is a very quick and simple one (this vegetable is now in any vegetable stall, not more exotic than radish).

7. Quick salads.   You will find a huge number of recipes on the Internet, it is difficult to advise something specific. Better decide what exactly you will cook in an emergency. Let the canned fish, crab or cod liver, champignons in their own juice, green peas, sweet corn, etc. In the refrigerator - crab sticks, ham, feta cheese, mayonnaise, some vegetables.

Just in case, here's a cheat sheet:.

8. Hearty hot dessert.   This is my weakness ... Dumplings with cherries and sour cream for tea ... If you had the patience to stick in advance and freeze, you are a hero of our time. You can also find a decent option in the store. After all, there is nothing inside these dumplings except cherries and sugar.

9. Pita bread stuffed.   Personally, I like the hot option. I wrap brynza, tomatoes, diced and greens in sheets of Armenian pita bread. Fry on a dry frying pan on both sides. Someone lubricates with butter, someone likes crispy pita bread with hot filling. .

10. For the most helpless. It also happens - guests are on the doorstep, recipes for quick meals cause panic or a sharp attack of laziness. Hang on the refrigerator the phones of trusted suppliers of pizza, sushi and Ossetian pies. Not always fast and tasty, but guests will not stay hungry.

Now the promised list of products for cooking quick recipes.

Grab some of the above in the store, and the “guest on the doorstep” situation will no longer scare you.

• Juices, mineral water with gas, good white and red wine, liqueurs.
• Canned vegetables (corn, peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, mushrooms, olives).
• Ketchup, mayonnaise, ready-made seasonings for spaghetti.
• Frozen shrimp, crab sticks, deep-frozen vegetable mixes, dumplings, puff pastry.
• A jar of caviar (even pollock), canned fish.
• Brynza in cardboard or plastic packaging, a small, one-piece cheese head.
• Ice cream in a large package.
• A beautiful tablecloth, wine glasses, bright napkins, candles.

When laying the table, great importance is given to snacks, because they are designed to stimulate appetite and satisfy hunger. What kind of snacks to cook, the hostess decides, but the main thing is to follow some rules.

Snack is usually understood as a light dish, which is served at the beginning of lunch or dinner. Snacks can also be served as a standalone dish, usually when they are served with alcoholic drinks or cocktails. In this case, they serve as a snack.

There are a huge number of different snacks, but all snacks can be conditionally divided into two main types: cold and hot. Cold appetizers, as a rule, may include fish and meat cuts, salads, tartlets, canapes, vegetables or fruits. Pies, quiches, gratins, pies and croquettes are traditionally referred to as hot. Earlier souffle was served as a hot snack, but now this tradition is far behind.

When preparing snacks, it is important to remember one main rule: do not combine with each other some foods that impede the process of digestion and metabolism. The main mistakes when choosing products are a combination of cheese and meat products, potatoes and eggs, fish and dairy, etc. You should not combine starchy foods and sugar. But vegetables can be confidently used in most cases!

Simple hors d'oeuvres

All the charm of simple snacks is that you do not need to have outstanding culinary skills in order to cook them. They take very little time and help out a lot when the guests suddenly arrived. In addition, products for such an appetizer are almost always found in the refrigerator.

The meaning of the snack is that inside a slice of ham is placed a filling of cheese, garlic and herbs, after which the ham is wrapped in a tube.

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Calorie content (per 100 g) - 244 kcal

Cooking method:

1. You need to start with the preparation of the filling. To do this, clean the cheese from a hard outer crust and grate on a fine grater. Rinse green onions under cold water, cut the white part of the onion, since green is not required. Green onion arrows can be finely chopped and used as a decoration for the dish, however, this is not for everybody;
2. Put a frying pan on the stove and pour curry, lightly fry for half a minute (no need to add oil). When the curry is fried, a spicy aroma will fill the kitchen. Remove the curry from the pan and mix with mayonnaise and two kinds of pepper;
3. In the resulting mixture of curry and mayonnaise add chopped onion, grated cheese and mix thoroughly - the filling for ham rolls is ready;
4. Try to cut the ham into thin layers, on top of which put half a teaspoon of the filling and wrap it in a roll. If the roll does not hold its shape, you can fasten it with a toothpick or special sticks for canapes;
5. Repeat these steps with the remaining components, remove the resulting rolls in the refrigerator for one and a half to two hours so that they are saturated. Remove from the refrigerator, cool and serve. A light snack is ready!

Whip up cold snacks

Such appetizers, as the name implies, are served chilled, and they also go well with hot dishes. The undoubted advantage of cold appetizers is that they can be prepared in advance and not worry about keeping them hot.

One of the most popular snacks is eggplant, which can be prepared in several ways. With the help of simple culinary manipulations, eggplants can be made to taste like mushrooms or heh, baked, fried or stewed. In a word, a whole field for creativity. But today we will focus on such an appetizer as eggplant rolls with garlic and cheese.

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Calorie content (per 100 g) - 185 kcal

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the eggplant under cold water and peel it. Cut the eggplant into thin, long layers and fry in vegetable oil until tender. When removing eggplants from the fire, put them on kitchen paper towels to remove the "excess" oil;
2. While the eggplant is cooling, prepare the filling. To do this, grate the cheese, pass the garlic cloves through the garlic squeezer, finely chop the greens and mix it all with mayonnaise. Put a small amount of filling on each layer of eggplant, then wrap them in rolls. Remove for half an hour in the refrigerator, and then you can serve it to the table.

Quick Snack

If all the usual snacks are boring, and you want something unusual, you can please yourself with Italian cuisine and cook bruschettas. In Italy, bruschettas are called a variety of light snacks that are served specially before main dishes. Traditionally, bruschetta is a toasted bread (baguette, ciabatta, toaster, etc.), with various fillings. This recipe will focus on tuna and lentil bruschettas.

Cooking time: 55 minutes

Calorie content (per 100 g) - 294 kcal

Cooking method:

1. Lentils will be cooked the longest, so it needs to be tackled in advance. Rinse lentils under cold water and leave in water for 2 hours. Then boil the lentils in plenty of water until soft. Brown lentils are cooked for about 40 minutes, and if you choose red lentils, they will be ready in 10 minutes. Therefore, if there is no time, you can do with red lentils;
2. While the lentils are cooking, it's time to cook the tuna. Mix tuna (with oil) with mayonnaise and spices in a blender until a homogeneous consistency;
3. Throw green beans into boiling water and cook until soft. Hard-boiled eggs also, peeled and cut into thin rings;
4. In a separate bowl, mix the lentils and beans, add the tuna sauce. Ciabatta needs to be cut into slices of medium thickness, sautéed in vegetable oil until crisp, and put the filling on top. Bruschettas with tuna and lentils are ready. Bon Appetit!

Whip up cognac snack

Cognac is a strong alcoholic drink, however, unlike vodka, it has a more complex taste, therefore, it needs a few other snacks. Most often, along with brandy, they serve fruits (strawberries, grapes, pears), various types of nuts, low-fat poultry meat or seafood. Alternatively, shrimp and chicken shish kebabs will be an excellent snack to cognac.

Cooking time: 2.5 hours

Calorie content (per 100 g) - 288 kcal

Cooking method:

1. Thaw chicken fillet and rinse under cold water, then cut into long ribbons. Pieces of fillet string on skewers and set aside for now;
2. Peel, wash and shrimp skewers;
3. Melt orange jam in a water bath, then add finely chopped garlic, lemon juice, soy sauce and salt, and mix everything thoroughly. Pour the kebabs with this mixture, cover them with cling film and leave to marinate for 2-2.5 hours;
4. After the specified time, lay the kebabs on a grilled grease with sesame oil (you can put it in a skillet) and fry until cooked. Serve hot with a glass of brandy.

The most difficult task for the hostess is to choose which snacks to choose, especially when it comes to the festive table.

For example, seafood goes for white wine, and meat - for red. Vermouth is best served with fruits and nuts, and champagne and other sparkling drinks are served with cheese. As for strong alcoholic drinks, pickles and marinades are traditionally chosen for vodka, lemon or chocolate are used for cognac, olives are relied on gin and grappa.

The list goes on and on, the main thing is that snacks were chosen with a soul!

Now there are a huge number of recipes for snacks, but this does not mean that you must definitely try all of them. When choosing snacks, the main thing is to remember that the snack should still set off the main dish or drink, and not interrupt its taste.

It is also important to take into account the format of the event, the contingent of guests and the conditions for the compatibility of products, and having decided on the choice, approach cooking with the soul - only in this case everything will work out, and the guests will be full and satisfied!

Quick table festive

Recently, I had to assemble a festive table in haste. There was little time for cooking - only 2.5 hours + 1 more hour - for a quick run to the store for everything you need. I did it. It turned out very tasty, the guests were satisfied.

I will tell you how you can distribute time, manage to assemble a table and not be very tired. And what to cook for the guests whipped up.

What should be at hand

• Good knives (sharp enough small and 1 large enough for me);
• Cutting board (2 possible);
• Grater (large and small);
• Several bowls for cooking and mixing dishes;
• Spices (which you usually use);
• Apron;
• Dishes for table setting (plates-forks-spoons-glasses-glasses-glasses and dishes for tea-coffee: cups-saucers-plates for cake-teaspoons), napkins, a jug for drinks (under compote, juice), a tablecloth.
• Dishes for serving dishes to the table and tablespoons (for folding salads and other dishes);
• Cookware (pots, pans, kettle).

In addition, the house needs clean hand towels, toilet paper, soap. Perhaps slippers, if you and your guests usually put them on.

I cooked on foreign territory. Therefore, I took with me: an apron, spices (dried basil) and a grater (all of a sudden there is no in the house). If you go to cook in a strange house and are not sure if there are convenient knives there, I advise you to definitely take your own, proven ones.

What can I buy in the store

We proceed from the fact that time is running out. Therefore, complex salads, for which you need to cook and cut many different ingredients or lay out somehow in a special way, do not suit us. They can be taken, but only ready-made. Yes, I know that ready-made salads are evil, but we have an urgent men's birthday. Here - either all from the culinary of the supermarket, or we still manage to cook some of the dishes ourselves, giving the table a home look.

With our own hands, we will only do what is being prepared quickly. The principle of distribution of forces is as follows:

1. A few home-made quick and easy meals.
2. A little ready-made meal (1-2 salads, 1 meat). This is to guarantee something to feed, if we do not have time to cook.
3. Snacks - that will be a delicious addition to dishes or diversify the table, but does not require cooking (sausage, cheese, olives, cherry tomatoes, fruits, sweets and other snacks).

I write only what I choose for a particular birthdayfor 7-8 people. And you are guided by the situation.

Shopping list

Of the spices, I had only dried basil (in cutlets and cucumbers, but you can do without it). Check if there is salt at home. Otherwise - it must be added to the list.

Cooking Dishes

• Choice of mayonnaise salads: – 700-800 g   - Olivier (almost a win-win option, most of the guests love him, we bought him). A herring under a fur coat is also an option, women love it. You can take any other delicious salad that you have already bought here and are confident in its quality.
• Roasted / Roasted Meat: – by the piece, by the number of guests. We took the meat in French. Can be replaced or supplemented with chicken thighs or chicken legs (baked in the oven or on the grill). Choose something traditional, beautiful and fresh.
• Vegetable salads - 400 g (not all of them will be). Instead of vegetable salads, we bought 300-400 g of pickled mushrooms with onions. Options: coleslaw or sauerkraut, if you like spicy: Korean salads (seaweed, mushrooms, pork ears), Georgian cabbage (in large pieces in beetroot juice). Spicy and fresh diversifies the taste of guests.

Semi-finished products

• Stuffing (we have delicious pork and beef, pork and chicken and chicken) - 700-800 g.

Canned food

• Pickled cucumbers   (gherkins) - 1 can(not necessarily, we did not open, and there are so many). You can - pickled tomatoes;
• Mushrooms (salty tastier than pickled) - 1 can. We didn’t buy, we managed with those from cooking;
• Olives and olives – 1 can;
• Pineapples - 1 can   (480 g). This is for a salad with cheese and garlic.

Vegetables fruits

• Cherry Tomatoes (Fresh) - 500 g (packaging). Put a whole sprig on the table. They are very well eaten between cases, like grapes (you can take and / or grapes - both on a salty and on a sweet table). Choose those cherry that sit tight on a branch, they are fresh (those that have fallen off are long standing).
• Fresh cucumbers - 5-8 pieces   (medium size). This is for fast salted cucumbers;
• Potato - 2-2.5 kg   (whole cellophane bag);
• Lemon - 1 piece;
• Garlic - 1 head;
• Onion - 2 heads   (in salad and cutlets);
• Dill - a bunch.
• Tangerines, grapes, any seasonal fruit and berries. We had 1 kg of tangerines.

Sausage, cheese, minced meat, fish, eggs

• Cooked sausage (doctor's) - 0,5   a small loaf;
• Sausage Boyarskaya   (like ham) - 0,5   a small loaf;
• Cheese Black Prince   (Belarusian) - 250 g. The taste is good, traditional;
• Cheese (some ordinary, such as Russian, in a salad) - 100 g;
• Cream cheese (Friendship or Orbit) - 1 piece;
• Eggs - 1 ten   (large);
• Herring in oil - 1 package;

• Mayonnaise (The mistress’s dream turned out to be quite normal) - 1   small package (200 ml);
• Vegetable oil for frying   (you need a little, maybe at home you have a quarter of a bottle).

Beverages

Remember that you always want to drink at a plentiful table and 1 cup of compote or juice will not be enough for the guest (consider that everyone will drink 2-3 glasses).

• Alcoholic drinks: wine, martini, vodka - what you love. We have 1 bottle each: white and red wine (dry and semi-sweet), martini bianco. We drank a little, but everyone had a choice. Focus on your company.
• Juice - 2-4 liters   (orange, grapefruit, apple, multifruit, tomato) - what you love. You can - a three-liter jar of homemade compote.
• Mineralka - 2 bottles   1.5 liters each.

• Tea - packaging. Perhaps coffee (we dispensed with ordinary tea Ahmad);
• Sugar - packaging   lump (refined) or 0.5 kg of ordinary loose.

Hercules or semolina   - he lies right there (you will need a couple of handfuls of meatballs). I took a package of hercules, then from the remnants of the owners the porridge will be cooked.

Sweet

• Cake - 1 piece   (we had 800 g honey-sour cream, the most common, similar to homemade).
• Candies - 500 g. I bought by weight, 3 species - Gulliver (funny, big), Bear (good) and some ordinary ones. You can just box or dispense with sweets.

Bread

Take everything in the cut, remember that we have no time.

• Black or custard - 1 loaf / loaf;
• White bread or loaf - 1 piece.

What dishes were on the table (menu)

• Cutlets (cooked) - 12-14 pieces left (depending on size);
• French meat - 7 pieces;
• Olivier salad - a large salad bowl;
• Salad Pineapples with cheese and garlic (cooked) - 1 medium salad bowl;
• Stuffed eggs - 2 plates, a Jewish salad of processed cheese with garlic (cooked);
• Slicing (2 kinds of sausage and cheese) - 2 plates;
• Olives and olives;
• Herring with onions;
• Pickled champignons;
• Mashed potatoes). She did it with olive oil, there was no cream or sour cream-milk at home. It turned out delicious.
• Cherry tomatoes;
• Tomatoes in Korean (pre-cooked).

Procedure

Stewed meatballs

Hard boiled eggs   - 9 pieces to cook, the tenth raw - in minced meat. Put in cold water, bring to a boil, cook for 10-12 minutes. Cool in cold water.

• Cook minced meat on cutlets: Paste 1 egg into the minced meat, add the oatmeal (1/2 or 2/3 cups), grate a couple of garlic cloves (small grater) and 1 onion (large grater) into it. Add a pinch of basil. To salt. Knead. Let it stand while peeling potatoes - just the flakes will swell, absorb excess moisture.
• Salted Cucumbers   cook and then - peel potatoes   (put in water, set to cook 40-50 minutes before the arrival of the guests). Quick preparation of salted cucumbers with slices: wash, cut off the ends. Cut each cucumber in half and doormats into 4 segments. Slices (as chopped) toss into a container or jar and add salt on top. A few branches of dill and 2-3 cloves of garlic - chop, add to the cucumbers. Close the lid and shake vigorously for 2-3 minutes. Then leave at room temperature until serving (under tightly closed lid). You can shake it from time to time (as you recall about them - shake it, it will be better to salt out).

  

  Salted Cucumbers

• Fry cutlets - heat the oil in a pan, form patties and fry them on both sides until a small crust appears. Fried - put in a pan, at the bottom of which a layer of oil is poured. When all the cutlets are in the pan, add 2/3 cups of cool water, cover with a lid (or slightly open if there is no steam outlet in the lid so that the water gradually evaporates) and simmer over a low heat until cutlet smells appear (about 30 minutes) . Take care not to burn.



Salad Stuffed Eggs

Stuffing eggs   - clean hard-boiled eggs, cut into halves. Take out the yolks, knead them with a fork. Add finely grated: cream cheese and 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped onion (1/2 head). Mix. Season with a little mayonnaise. Stuff the eggs with the resulting salad (in 1 egg - 1 teaspoon with the top). Tamping is not necessary, let it be with a slide. I decorated with dill and a slice of sweet pepper (yes, we didn’t buy it, I found it in the owner’s refrigerator, but this is not necessary). 4 eggs fit on a dessert plate (7 halves in a circle + 1 in the center), I had 9 (18 halves), the extra was squeezed in somehow. Before serving, each plate can be placed in a plastic bag (so that the bag does not come into contact with the eggs on top, let the air in). And put in the refrigerator before serving.

• Chopped sausage and cheese. I cut the loaf of sausage lengthwise into 2 parts and then with thin semicircles across the loaf. You probably cut the same way. Put the slices on the plates, put them in bags and put them in the refrigerator too, so that the slices do not deteriorate or get windy.
• Make pineapple salad. Put pineapples in a bowl (slices or cut rings into slices), grate cheese (hard, like Russian) - a coarse grater, garlic (2 cloves) - a fine grater. Closer to serving, mix, season with mayonnaise.

In the process, you need to set the table - entrust it to someone from home or run yourself in between cooking. Put the table, cover with a tablecloth, arrange the plates, lay out the napkins (put additional ones in the napkin holder), forks. Put glasses and glasses. Transfer drinks to the table. Put bread on a plate (cover with a napkin or also put it in a bag for now).

• Assemble the table: gradually lay out all the prepared dishes in salad bowls and plates and transfer to the table. You can immediately put the bowls with olives and olives (do not spoil); pickled tomato cucumbers; put the herring in the herring, add the onion sliced \u200b\u200bin semicircles (half of the stuffed eggs remained). Just the cutlets will have already arrived, the potatoes will be boiled (drain the water, salt, add oil, ceil). I also sliced \u200b\u200ba lemon for tea (I sprinkled slices of sugar to make it tastier, but - whoever loves). Get salads and slices from the refrigerator right before the guests arrive, so as not to spoil.

All! Bon Appetit!

Quick festive table whipped up.