In order to compose holiday menu, it is not at all necessary to spend incredible funds. Dishes from available products, cooked with fiction, a kind of "zest", will delight your guests and at the same time will not pose a threat to your family budget. Any family certainly has some of its own holiday dishes, familiar and enjoying constant success. It can be an appetizer that goes with a bang with vodka, or a signature ceremonial-weekend dish that is prepared once or twice a year ... But life does not stand still, and unusual combinations, new forms and dishes prepared fast, simple and tasty.

Ingredients:
600 g of Chinese cabbage,
200 g crab meat,
4 eggs,
6 tbsp soy sauce,
4 tablespoons vegetable oil,
2 reading sheets sesame seeds,
2 tsp Sahara,
Red ground pepper- taste.

Preparation:
Beat eggs with 2 tablespoons. soy sauce. Pour some vegetable oil into a preheated pan, pour eggs and fry an omelette for 3-4 minutes on each side over low heat. Remove the finished omelet from the pan, sprinkle sesame seeds and a pinch of red pepper on it and fry for 1-2 minutes until the aroma appears. Combine sesame seeds, soy sauce, vegetable oil and sugar and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Cut cabbage, scrambled eggs and crab meat into thin strips and season with sauce.

Ingredients:
2 boiled beets,
4-5 cloves of garlic
200-250 g of hard cheese,
handful walnuts or prunes,
mayonnaise, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Rub boiled beets on a coarse grater, salt, add 2-3 cloves of garlic, passed through a press, and mix with 2-3 tbsp. mayonnaise. The mayonnaise for this snack can be mixed with sour cream or cream. Add finely chopped nuts or prunes. Grate the cheese on a medium grater, add the remaining garlic and mayonnaise. Share on flat dish in layers, alternating between cheese and beets (top layer - beets). Garnish with chopped nuts and herbs.

Ingredients:
400 g boiled beef or veal,
4 onions,
200 g of hard cheese,
6% apple cider vinegar
mayonnaise mixed with sour cream in a 1: 1 ratio.

Preparation:
Cut the onion into quarters and soak in vinegar for 15 minutes. Cut the meat into thin strips, grate the cheese and eggs on a coarse grater. Spread in layers, sprinkling each layer with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream: onions (no vinegar) - meat - eggs - cheese. Decorate with herbs.

Ingredients:
500 g beef liver
4 onions,
2 carrots,
1 egg,
2 tbsp flour,
½ stack. milk,
mayonnaise, salt, black pepper, herbs - to taste.

Preparation:
Clean the liver from films and ducts, rinse well and cut into pieces. Grind the liver and one onion in a blender, then pour in the milk, add the egg and flour and beat until smooth. In a frying pan with a diameter of 20 cm, bake liver pancakes, frying them on both sides in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes. Cool it down. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into half rings. Fry the onions and carrots separately in vegetable oil, put in bowls and mix with mayonnaise. Assemble the cake by layering: liver pancake- carrots - pancakes - onions, etc. Upper layer should be from vegetables. Leave to soak in a cool place overnight. Sprinkle with herbs when serving.

Ingredients:
8 squid carcasses (better than unpeeled),
4 eggs,
200 g cheese
40 pcs. pickled mushrooms,
½ tsp salt,
½ tsp dried thyme.

Preparation:
Rinse the squid and boil one at a time in boiling salted water for 15-20 seconds. You cannot cook the squid longer, they will become rubbery. Dip the squids in cold water, peel off the skin and entrails and rinse. Cut off the protruding parts of the squid, being careful not to damage the carcass, cut into small cubes and mix with eggs and cheese, also diced. Add salt and thyme and stir. Stuff the squid carcasses and place in the oven at 220 ° C for 10 minutes. Ready squids can be served as hot appetizer or cool and cut into slices.

Ingredients:
300 g lightly salted trout or salmon,
250 g of peeled boiled shrimp,
100 g of crab meat (imitation),
½ avocado,
3 boiled eggs
1 tomato,
1 cucumber,
½ lemon (juice),
salt, black pepper, mayonnaise - to taste,
red caviar, soft cream cheese- for decoration.

Preparation:
Cut the crab meat into small cubes. Peel the boiled eggs, separate the whites from the yolks and chop finely. Cut the avocado into cubes and drizzle with lemon juice. Cut the tomato and cucumber into cubes as well. Cut the trout into thin slices using a sharp knife (ceramic knives do an excellent job of this). Layer the salad in layers, spreading each layer with mayonnaise and sprinkling with ground pepper: crab meat - cucumber - shrimp - proteins - yolks - tomatoes - avocado. Also grease the top layer with mayonnaise and salt a little. Then cover the whole salad with the trout strips. Whip the soft butter with a mixer, transfer to a cornette and decorate the top of the "cake", planting patterns as desired. Garnish with red caviar.

Ingredients:
Ingredients for 6 tins with a diameter of 15 cm:
700 g minced pork
1 large onion
250 g of hard cheese
2-3 potatoes,
mayonnaise, salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Preparation:
Pass the minced meat through a meat grinder again, salt, pepper and knead well. Cut the onion into small cubes, raw potatoes and grate the cheese on a coarse grater, chop the herbs. Put prepared food in layers in oiled tins: minced meat, onions, potatoes, cheese, pour with mayonnaise and sprinkle with herbs. Bake at 190 ° C for 30 minutes. Serve directly in the tins.

A hot dish for a festive table is always the hostess's signature number, the main treat for guests.

Ingredients:
1 kg beef tenderloin
1 egg,
500 g ready-made yeast puff pastry,
salt, pepper - to taste.
For the sauce:
200 ml cream
1 tbsp mustard,
1 onion.

Preparation:
Chop the meat in large pieces 4-5 cm thick and fry in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes on each side. Place on a plate, sprinkle with salt and pepper on all sides and let cool slightly. Divide the layers of dough into pieces equal to the number of pieces of meat, roll them into strips 4-5 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick. Stir the egg with a fork, salt a little. Grease the strips of dough with an egg, place the meat on them and wrap. Brush the top of the dough also with an egg and place the pieces on a baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in an oven heated to 180 ° C for 10-15 minutes and bake until the dough is ready. In the meantime, prepare the sauce: finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil until transparent, pour in the cream, bring to a boil, add mustard, salt and pepper to taste and simmer a little over low heat until thickened.

Ingredients:
1 kg smoked brisket(choose the one with more meat than lard),
2 packs of ready-made puff yeast dough(about 1 kg),
8-10 carnation buds,
2 tsp Georgian adjika,
½ stack. tomato ketchup.

Preparation:
Fold the thawed dough into layers and roll them into a layer large enough to hold a piece of brisket. Mix the ketchup with adjika and rub the brisket thoroughly on all sides. Stick in a clove. Transfer the brisket to the dough, wrap the edges and pinch the seams so that the juice that comes out during baking does not leak out. Place in a greased baking dish and place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 15-20 minutes. The dough should brown well. Serve hot with fresh vegetables and sour cream sauce.

Ingredients:
1 chicken (preferably chilled)
150 g ham
150 g hard cheese
2 eggs,
2 sweet red peppers
1 bunch of greens
1 tsp dried rosemary
50 bread crumbs,
salt, black pepper.

Preparation:
Remove the skin from the chicken, being careful not to break it. When removing the skin, leave the legs and wings intact, cutting them off at the joint. Remove all meat from the bones and mince. Cheese, ham and Bell pepper cut into small cubes and combine with minced meat. Add chopped greens, breadcrumbs and eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Sew up or secure the hole at the neck on the skin with toothpicks, stuff the skin with the minced meat and sew up the abdomen. Place on a greased baking sheet. Mix vegetable oil with rosemary and rub the surface of the chicken with it. Bake at 180 ° C for 1.5 hours, pouring the juice over the chicken every 20 minutes.

For baking, take the meaty part of the back pork legs, cut off excess fat, leaving a thin layer, and using a disposable syringe with a thick needle, inject a strong saline solution into the thickness of the meat - syringe. Place the meat in a frying pan greased with mayonnaise, salt and pepper and brush with a thick layer of mayonnaise. The places where the bacon remains do not need to be lubricated. Place in an oven preheated to 200-220 ° C and bake until tender. Check the readiness by piercing the thickness of the meat with a thin long knife - if the juice that stands out is transparent, the meat is ready. Remove the skillet from the oven, transfer the meat to a plate and peel off the mayonnaise. Cover the meat with foil and let cool.

Ingredients:
8 slices of loin,
4 oranges,
2 lemons
1 tbsp liquid honey,
2 tbsp dry mustard,

Preparation:
Juice oranges and lemons. Chop the pieces of meat in several places and place in the citrus juice mixture for 12 hours. Combine mustard, honey and 4 tablespoons. water. Remove the meat from the marinade, grate with a honey-mustard mixture and fry in hot vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown... Place in a baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and top with remaining marinade. Cover the mold with foil and place in an oven heated to 180 ° C for 40 minutes. Then remove the foil and brown the meat for 10 minutes.

Ingredients:
8 tilapia fillets,
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp vegetable oil,
2 lemons (juice),
salt.

Preparation:
Pour salt and coriander seeds into a mortar and crush, then add 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and stir. Grate the tilapia fillet with the resulting mixture and place in a greased vegetable oil... Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 20 minutes. Top with lemon juice when serving. Garnish - boiled loose rice or mashed potatoes and more fresh vegetables.

Ingredients:
900 g salmon steaks (3 large pieces),
150 ml soy sauce
3 tbsp Sahara,
3 tsp sesame seed,
3-4 cloves of garlic
1 tsp ground red pepper.

Preparation:
Divide the salmon steaks along the spine and remove all bones. Place the fish, skin side down, in a roasting sleeve, deflate and tie the ends, leaving 15 cm on both sides. Place the sleeve on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the sauce: pour the soy sauce into the pan, add sugar, red pepper, sesame seeds and garlic crushed with a knife blade, stir, bring to a boil and evaporate for 5-7 minutes until thickened. Ready sauce strain through a sieve. Serve salmon with sauce. Garnish with steamed broccoli and boiled rice.

Ingredients:
1 kg fillet of any white fish,
400 ml 35% cream,
2 eggs,
200 g of grated hard cheese,
salt, black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
Put the fish fillets in a dish greased with vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Whip the cream with eggs, add the cheese grated on a fine grater and pour over the fish in a mold. Bake at 180 ° C for 20 minutes.

And finally, dessert!

Ingredients:
250 g flour
¼ tsp baking powder,
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
115 g sugar
2 eggs,
150 ml odorless vegetable oil,
150 ml of milk.
Cream:
1 tsp instant coffee,
1 tbsp water,
300 ml 35% cream,
2 tbsp icing sugar.

Preparation:
Sift flour into a bowl, add cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar, eggs, milk and butter. Stir with a mixer and divide into 2 parts. Pour the dough into 2 molds and place in an oven heated to 170 ° C for 5-7 minutes (if the oven is small or there is only one mold, bake the cakes in turn). Cool it down. For the cream, dissolve the coffee in water. Whip the cream with powdered sugar until thick, add coffee and beat a little more. Put the first crust on a flat dish, put half of the cream on it, put the second crust and brush everything with the remaining cream. Sprinkle with coarsely grated chocolate and refrigerate overnight. The next day, almost all the cream will be absorbed into the cakes, turning the cake into the most delicate delicacy.

Bon Appetit!

Larisa Shuftaykina

To make a birthday menu for a house for 10 people, you need to have at least a basic knowledge of home economics. Reception of guests, even if there are few of them, is a troublesome business. But, with proper preparation for the holiday, every guest will be full, happy and satisfied in the evening.

Important! You can start cooking on the eve of the holiday, for example, on the evening of the previous day. This will help the hostess to maintain her strength, as well as reduce the time. general cooking directly on the solemn day. In advance, you need to go to the store, boil vegetables, meat for salads. If you are planning a birthday cake, then it is best to make it in the evening.

Birthday menu at home for 10 people budget

Sandwiches with meal

Canned sprats are not expensive, and other ingredients for this simple snack are required to a minimum. Still needed french loaf, a clove of garlic, pickled cucumber. So, cut the loaf thinly and fry in vegetable oil on both sides. Place the bread on the paper to absorb the oil.

Now grate each piece of bread with garlic, put a circle of pickled cucumber, and on top - two fish. You can decorate sandwiches with herbs or lemon. To prepare sandwiches for a company of ten, two cans of fish are enough. It will be a good snack.

Tomatoes with cheese and garlic filling

A traditional appetizer that many people love and expect at every meal. You will need a kilogram of tomato, 300 grams hard cheese, a couple of garlic cloves and tablespoons of mayonnaise. First you need to prepare the filling: grate the cheese on a fine grater, squeeze the garlic into it, season with mayonnaise and salt. Cut each tomato into medium-sized circles and put cheese and garlic on each circle. You should not prepare this appetizer in advance, because the cheese may weather.

Carrot and cheese salad with croutons

V mandatory even a birthday menu for a house for 10 should include several salad options.

Required Ingredients:
300 grams of croutons. They can be made from a loaf by slicing bread and frying it in a dry frying pan;
300 grams of cheese;
250 grams of carrots;
Two cloves of garlic;
Mayonnaise;

Peel and grate the carrots fine grater, in the same way grate cheese. Mix the ingredients, add the garlic (pass through a press) and season the salad with mayonnaise. Croutons should be added to the salad just before serving it, otherwise they may get wet and simply lose their taste.

Sunflower salad (puff)

Required Ingredients:
300 grams of chicken fillet (boil);
150 grams of champignons;
Three chicken eggs(boil);
150 grams of cheese;
Three boiled carrots;
Large chips and pitted olives for garnish;

Cut the fillet into cubes, grate the eggs and carrots on coarse grater, also grate cheese. Finely chop the mushrooms, fry with chopped onions in vegetable oil until full readiness mushrooms. Lay out the salad in layers, each will need to be coated with mayonnaise mesh.

First comes chicken, then carrots, mushrooms and onions, eggs, cheese. The last layer, this is cheese, does not need to be greased with mayonnaise. On it you need to put olives, cut into two parts. It is good to cook the salad in the evening so that it has time to soak. Before serving on festive table put chips around the salad to make a beautiful sunflower. A good option: .

Radish salad with sour cream

Simple and budgetary, but vitamin salad... It is good to cook it in autumn and winter, because, seasonal vegetables especially appreciated in haute cuisine, and why is your holiday worse?

Required Ingredients:
500 grams of radish;
200 grams of sour cream;
Salt;

Peel and grate the radish. Mix with sour cream and salt to taste. Radish has a specific smell, if you want to avoid this awkward moment in front of guests, you can buy Chinese radish (daikon).

Baked chicken with mashed potatoes

Required Ingredients:
Two kilograms of potatoes;
150 grams of broccoli (frozen can be used);
Greens;
Chicken carcass for two kilograms;
A kilogram of coarse salt;
Black pepper to taste;

First you need to do chicken, put the oven to warm up to 200 degrees Celsius in advance. Cut the carcass in the center and open it like a book. Rub generously with black pepper on all sides. Pour salt on a baking sheet in an even layer and put the chicken so that it lies on its back. The chicken will not be oversalted, because it will absorb exactly as much salt as it needs to great taste... The crust will be crispy. Cook for about two hours, watch when the meat is ready.

For mashed potatoes, peel and boil. Boil the broccoli and add to the finished potatoes. Add a little butter, broth vegetables and make mashed potatoes. The broccoli adds a nice green tint to the garnish.

Sweet pancake cake(no baking)

Required Ingredients:
12 large pancakes... You can bake on (even the most simple, on water);
A kilogram of apples;
Two tablespoons of cream or milk;
Two tablespoons of rum (brandy);
Half a glass of sugar;
Half a cup of chopped almonds
Two tablespoons of butter;

The pancakes should be allowed to cool, they can be baked in the evening, and the cake should be formed in the morning on a holiday. Cut the apples into slices and place in a saucepan under the lid. Simmer until the fruit turns into a puree. Add sugar and butter and cook for another five minutes. Then remove the puree from the heat and add milk, rum, almonds.

Take a baking dish and grease it with oil. Put a pancake on the bottom and then grease it applesauce... Do this with each pancake. Before serving, literally send the cake to the oven for 30 minutes, because it must be served only hot. You can also make it easy.

Different drinks can be included in this birthday menu at a house for 10 people. Both vodka and cognac go well with chicken, wine goes well with poultry. The dessert is quite sweet and can be complemented with the same sweet cocktails with or without alcohol. May the holiday be successful, and each guest will remember the exquisite and delicious festive table for a long time.

Anniversary is a very symbolic date. It means that a person has passed a certain stage in life. That is why it is customary to celebrate anniversaries on a special scale. Today it is customary to celebrate such a day in restaurants and cafes, where professional chefs ready to make any fantasy come true. If funds are limited, the celebration may well be held at home in a narrow circle. Our article will tell you how to create an anniversary menu and prepare holiday treats at home.

The anniversary menu must be composed so that the dishes in it are:
original,
bright,
combining,
varied,
delicious.

Then your holiday will surely be remembered by the guests for a long time, and, probably, later your help will be in demand for drawing up the menu for the anniversary.

We offer a festive menu with original and simple treats.

Snacks

Preparation:

The tops of 8-10 tomatoes are beautifully cut with a thin-bladed knife. Take out the pulp. Rub the inner walls of the tomatoes with salt and paper napkin put the holes down for half an hour. 200 gr loved by many Adyghe cheese knead with a fork. Rinse a bunch of aromatic green onions, a bunch of dill and a bunch of parsley, chop finely enough. Then combine with cheese. Squeeze 1 clove of garlic into the mixture and add a couple of tablespoons of sour cream / mayonnaise. Spices to taste. Fill the tomatoes with the resulting filling. Place on a wide platter.

Preparation:

Cut chicken fillet (3 pieces) into thin plates each, beat off. Add salt and spices. Leave for half an hour. Put on fillet cottage cheese(100 grams), 1 tomato and wrap each of the mini rolls tightly with bacon. Bake in cast iron cookware for 30 minutes at 200 degrees.

Preparation:

1 french baguette cut into slices, brown without adding oil in a pan. Then grate 3 pieces boiled eggs... Next, knead 1 canned cod liver, combine with your favorite cheese (quantity at will) and finely chopped herbs (dill / parsley). Add 5 tbsp mayonnaise sauce... Spread the mixture over the baguette slices. Serve to the table, sprinkle with herbs.

1) "Gift"

Preparation:

The salad consists of the following layers, each coated with mayonnaise:

Chicken fillet cubes;
coarsely grated boiled carrots;
fried with onions champignons, seasoned with pepper, salt;
grated apple;
chopped walnuts;
pounded yolks;
finely crumbled egg whites.

For decorating a "Gift" from beautifully cut ribbons raw carrots make a bow. Garnish with chopped dill and tomatoes.

2) "Fish cake"

Preparation:

Basis: 5 tbsp boiled rice, pack crab sticks, a pound of salted salmon, 4 boiled eggs.

Cream: 100 grams of Philadelphia-like cheese, 4 tablespoons of sour cream, the same amount of mayonnaise, 8 grams of gelatin.

Grate sticks, whites, yolks separately. Place the strips of salmon at the very bottom of the mold covered with cellophane. On the fish, greasing with cream, lay out rice, yolks, whites and sticks in layers. Cool in the refrigerator for several hours. Remove and turn onto a plate. Decorate with herbs and red caviar.

Hot

Preparation:

Rinse half a glass of rice. Then put in boiling water for 20 minutes. Hold a small cabbage forks in hot water 3 min. Take it out and disassemble it into leaves. Spread the onion, carrots, 5 mushrooms and a garlic clove in 2 tablespoons of oil. Then grind 300 g of chicken fillet in a meat grinder. Then mix with salt, fried vegetables, rice and spices.

For tomato sauce: Grate 3 tomatoes, pass through a sieve. Then add 300 grams of sour cream.

In tartlet molds, greased with any butter, put cabbage leaf and minced meat on top. Drizzle over 2 tablespoons of the sauce and wrap the loose edges of the sheet. Then pour the remaining sauce over all the cabbage rolls.

Dessert

Woodpile cake

Preparation:

Boil 1 cup running water with a small pinch of salt. Then add 100 g of butter. Then 1 tablespoon of sugar, 150 gr. wheat flour and stir vigorously. Allow to cool and beat in 3 eggs at a time. Stir the mass with a mixer. On a baking sheet with a good baking paper, squeeze out pastry bag"Log" in size at will.

Boil a little more than half a liter of milk. Then add a couple of eggs, 2 tbsp flour and 1 tbsp white sugar... Beat everything with a whisk. Bring to boiling point. Cool down. Grate the zest of 1 lemon. Whisk with butter. Then put it in your refrigerator for half an hour.

Put a layer of custard cakes on the bottom of a rectangular shape, coat with plenty of cream. All other layers are stacked in the same way. Leave the received "Woodpile" in the refrigerator until the guests arrive.

A birthday menu for a house for 10 people is quite simple and quick to compose. On our website you can find great amount recipes that include the most simple and inexpensive products... In this article, we have put together a complete menu.

V correct menu for a birthday, when it is planned to gather in a close circle of 10 people, it necessarily includes several snacks and salads. You can't do without a hearty one. Many types of desserts will be easier and cheaper to prepare yourself than to buy in the store.

Birthday menu at home for 10 people (photo)

Lavash rolls with red fish

it universal option great snack... In general, absolutely any ingredients can be put in pita bread so that there are a variety of snacks on the festive table. If the budget does not allow you to buy red fish, then the exact same appetizer can be prepared, for example, with canned fish.

What do you need:
One thin pita;
200 grams soft cheese(you can take processed cheese);
Fresh dill;
200 grams of slightly salted red fish;

Lavash needs to be carefully expanded in one layer. Spread cheese evenly, then spread out small and thin pieces of red fish. It remains to sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and roll up a roll. If you prepare an appetizer in advance, then the roll can be simply wrapped in foil, and cut across into thin portions before serving.

Salad with crab sticks and oranges

A great option that can be included in the birthday menu at home for 10 people in winter. If desired, the salad can be served in portions by placing it in cleaned orange rugs.

What do you need:
250 grams of crab sticks;
Three oranges;
A can of canned corn;
Three chicken eggs;
A couple of garlic cloves;
Mayonnaise;

Boil the eggs, drain the corn from the liquid. Chop the ingredients and mix in a salad bowl. We recommend peeling the oranges before slicing them. As for the garlic, it must be processed with a press, mixed with mayonnaise. Garlic mayonnaise fill the original bright salad... You can still cook.

Chicken and cheese salad

This is a fairly traditional combination of products that turns out to be relevant in any situation. Chicken makes the salad filling but leaves it dietary.

What do you need:
250 grams boiled breast chicken;
Three chicken eggs;
One big green apple;
100 grams of hard cheese;
Dill;
Several tablespoons of mayonnaise;

Wait until the breast has cooled, chop finely. Peel the apple, grate on a coarse grater. Grate the cheese in the same way. Boil the eggs and cut into medium cubes. Mix the ingredients and season with mayonnaise, sprinkle with herbs on top.

Pork with potatoes and apples (in the oven)

A child's or an adult's birthday menu at a house for 10 people must include a hot dish. We suggest leaving your choice on the given universal recipe.

What do you need:
500 grams of pork;
Two medium green apples;
Five large potato tubers;
500 ml sour cream;
Half a glass of water;
Salt, ground red pepper (paprika);

At the very beginning, turn on the oven 200 degrees so that it has time to warm up. Wash the meat, peel and cut small pieces... Also cut the apple, potatoes. To prepare the sauce, mix sour cream and water, paprika and salt.
Take an oven dish and grease it with vegetable oil. Put the pork and apples first, mix. Next, lay out the potatoes. Pour sauce over everything. Send in the oven for an hour.

Chocolate cookie sausage

Of course, Birthday is with tea. If you are already tired of ordinary cakes, we suggest preparing delicious chocolate sausage for tea.

What do you need:
600 grams of cookies for tea;
Condensed milk can;
Pack of butter room temperature;
Seven tablespoons of cocoa tablespoons;
150 grams of nut kernels;

Place the cookies in a large bowl and knead to form a round crumb. Chop half of the nuts and leave half whole. Mix everything with cookies, add cocoa, butter and condensed milk. Stir the mixture with your hands (it will be impossible to do this with a spoon).

Divide the mass into three parts. Put each on cling film and twist in the form of a roll. Close the ends, put in the freezer. Get it right before serving, cut it into portioned slices when serving on the festive table.

A birthday menu for a house for 10 people is quite simple to compose. Let it include several appetizers and salads, one hearty main course and, of course, dessert.

If a birthday of a loved one is planned in your home, it is important to prepare thoroughly for this event. Ahead is a lot of pleasant efforts to prepare the holiday. With the gift and guest list issues resolved, it's time to plan your birthday table menu at home.

1. Decide on the theme of the holiday- a list of dishes in cowboy party and the ball at Barbie will be clearly different. The theme of the evening or day depends on the hero of the occasion: on age, preferences, interests.
2. Count the number of guests invited... Only if you know the total number of guests, you can correctly plan the variety of dishes and the number of servings.
3. Important not only count the guests, but also decide in age categories... If children predominate, then the menu will be appropriate. For adults, there are also nuances: advanced youth, open to new taste experiences, or people of a respectable age with established taste preferences, and maybe contraindications.
4. Solve the issue with the format of the holiday: traditional table or a buffet table, or sitting on the veranda in the case of a house outside the city. The format primarily depends on the area of ​​the house. Typical city ​​apartment and a country cottage dictate different rules.

Important to remember! Planning a menu for a birthday table at home or in a restaurant is a serious and responsible business. Never leave it to the last moment.

Traditionally, the following dishes are on the birthday table:

• snacks;
• salads;
• hot dishes;
• cake.

There is no one size fits all option. Each holiday forms its own table. Here are several options for treats so that there is a maneuver for choosing.

Snacks - simple but delicious babes

If there was only the main course on the table, then it would no longer be holiday option... Exactly variety of snacks set the right tone and mood. There are countless options, the main division is cold or hot.
Options for cold appetizers for the menu on the birthday table at home.

1. Lavash rolls- the basis is taken from the traditional thin armenian lavash, but the filling is already a flight of imagination. The method of preparation is simple: lavash is spread with a soft component, the rest is crushed and laid in a thin even layer, then the lavash is rolled and cut into pieces.

Possible fillings:

• cream cheese, lightly salted salmon, fresh dill;
• mayonnaise, crab sticks, cheese, herbs;
• mayonnaise, Korean carrots, cheese, herbs;
• mayonnaise, ham, cheese.

2. Tartlets. We buy or bake molds and fill them with various mixtures:

Cod liver, cream, mascarpone;
boiled chicken fillet, fresh cucumbers, onions, mayonnaise, salt-pepper.

3. Cheese balls - finely grated cheese and garlic are mixed with mayonnaise. Balls are rolled from the resulting mass and sprinkled coconut flakes or paprika.

4. Snacks on chips.

5. Ham rolls.

6. Rolls from crab sticks.

7. Canapes.

Hot snack options for the menu on the birthday table at home

1. Breaded vegetables:

Zucchini are cut into slices, slightly salted and sprinkled with flour. An egg is stirred in a bowl, into which prepared zucchini must be dipped. Breadcrumbs and grated cheese are mixed separately with spices if desired. The vegetable circles must be rolled in the resulting breading and baked in the oven until browned;

Avocado slices breaded with breadcrumbs and spicy spices fry in oil.

Sauces based on mayonnaise, ketchup, herbs are served with such snacks.

2. Pita bread rolls- cheese is kneaded with a fork and mixed with yolk, lavash is cut into triangles. Put the filling on the base of the triangle and twist the pita bread with a tube, fix the edge of the roll egg white... Bake in the oven or deep-fry.

3. Fried cheese. Dip pieces of cheese no more than 1 cm thick in an egg, then in a mixture of crackers and sesame seeds. Fry in a skillet until golden brown.

What is a holiday without a salad? Holiday Salad Recipes

Chicken fillet and pineapple salad

V equal proportions take boiled chicken breast, eggs, canned pineapple and corn. Cut the ingredients and lay them in layers: chicken-pineapple-corn-eggs. All layers are coated with mayonnaise. Finally, sprinkle the salad with chopped walnut.

Squid salad with rice

Cut the boiled squid into strips. Cut the onions into half rings and simmer with boiling water. Slice the eggs. In a dish, mix the chopped food and boiled rice, season the salad with mayonnaise. To serve, lay out ready meal on a plate decorated with lettuce leaves.

Korean style smoked chicken salad with carrots

Mix the chopped chicken, carrots and canned corn... Season with mayonnaise.

The main dish is the main decoration of the table

What is the birthday table at home if the menu does not include the main decoration - a hot meat or fish dish?

Delicious meat on the festive table

1. Baked chicken- this is a primordially Russian version of a dish for any table. To add festivity and showiness, you need to use non-standard options marinade and sauces.

Mix onion, soy and pomegranate sauce , olive oil with spices (paprika, garlic, salt, pepper), beat with a blender and add starch. Pour chicken pieces with the resulting sauce and send them to the refrigerator for pickling. After an hour, bake the chicken at 190 degrees for an hour.

Honey sauce for marinade- grated ginger and garlic, chili rings mixed with honey, seasoned soy sauce and olive oil... Add curry, salt, pepper to the sauce, at the end, pour over lemon juice... Grease the chicken with the resulting sauce, bake after half an hour.

Important to remember! For these recipes, no whole carcass, and chicken pieces!

2. Pork with cherry jam... To make this flavorful roast, use: cherry jam and a little apple cider vinegar, mix everything with olive oil and tabasco sauce. Add herbs - chopped fresh or dry mixture.

A piece of pork is poured with the resulting marinade and stands in the refrigerator for several hours. The meat is additionally salted before baking. Bake in a dish with high edges to pour red wine over the meat. The dish is being prepared a little more than an hour, every quarter of an hour it is necessary to grease the meat with the juice released during the baking process.

Fish for hot

1. Dorado is ideal for a festive table. Easy to prepare and looks great. The fish should be peeled and rolled in a mixture of spices and salt. Let it marinate for up to half an hour. Fry in a grill pan until golden brown on both sides. To bring fish to readiness, reduce heat and fry for another three minutes on each side.

His majesty cake

To complete holiday dinner at home, for a birthday, there must be a cake on the table on the menu. A birthday boy of any age will be happy to make a wish and blow out the candles. Especially if a cake prepared by a person who loves it is decorated with candles. However, cake is always not easy, it is actually the pinnacle of confectionery art.

If you are not a culinary talent, then for birthday cake you can use ready-made biscuits, shortbread or wafer cakes ... Any cream is suitable for them: traditional butter with condensed milk, or custard, or sour cream.

If you add fruit layers, the cake will taste even richer. For those who are not afraid of culinary experiments, you can cook the cake inside and out yourself.

Pancake cake

A glass of flour, one and a half glasses of milk, 3 eggs, a third of a teaspoon of baking soda and vinegar to extinguish it.

• Shake eggs, pour in milk, salt.
• Sift flour into milk and egg mixture.
• Add slaked soda at the end.
• From the received batter we bake traditional pancakes.

400 gr of cottage cheese, a glass of powdered sugar, a pinch of vanilla.

The ingredients for the filling are mixed into a homogeneous mass.
The cooled pancakes are smeared with cream and stacked on top of each other. The cake should stand in the refrigerator for at least two hours.

You can then garnish with chocolate chips or chopped nuts.

Cake "Prague"

95 gr flour, eggs 5 pcs, granulated sugar 130 g, butter 30 g, cocoa 20 g - a set of products for a chocolate biscuit.

Separate the yolks from the whites.
Beat half of the sugar with the whites, and the other with the yolks.
Pour cocoa into the yolks, gradually add flour, carefully introduce proteins.

Note! The mixer cannot be used!

Melt the butter and carefully pour into the dough.
Bake in a mold with a diameter of 20 cm at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
The biscuit cools down in the mold.

1 yolk, 140 g of condensed milk, 10 g of cocoa, a bag of vanilla, 200 g of butter, Art. a spoonful of water is all that is needed for the cream.

The yolk is mixed with water, condensed milk is added, brought to thicken with continuous stirring.
Mix oil with vanilla.
Beat butter and cooked chilled cream in portions.
Add cocoa and bring with a mixer to a state air cream.
Cut the cooled biscuit into three layers.
Apply the cream to the first and second layers. Coat the entire surface of the cake with jam or jam.

Butter and chocolate 75 g each. - for glaze.

The components are heated over low heat and stirred until smooth, cooled.
Pour the icing over the cake.

Inexpensive birthday menu

Birthday even once a year, but not always there is an opportunity to mindlessly spend money on festive feast... To organize a birthday table on a budget, the main thing is to use traditional available products, but it is original to serve and decorate them.

Lavash and crab stick snacks won't hit your pocket hard... It is better to choose salads from seasonal products... In the summer, it will be economical to prepare a salad of fresh vegetables, and in the winter, choose more hearty option – classic olivier or "Mimosa".

It is better to take chicken for hot dishes - minimum labor costs.

The cake can be made without baking: cut the gingerbread into cubes, prunes and dried apricots into pieces, mix everything and pour sour cream with sugar. After the cake is thoroughly soaked, serve it to the table.

All kinds of cuts are a great addition to the festive table

When the menu on the table for the birthday celebrated at home has already been determined, you can add a couple delicious nuances using slices of vegetables, cheese and sausages.

The components are beautifully laid on a platter, decorated with carved figures from the same products and herbs. Can be formed from strips of vegetables or cheese into rosettes. Add elegance and circles of olives, sprinkled on top of the slices.

It is better not to expose fruit slices from the very beginning of the evening. as fruit can lose its attractive fresh look... It is better to put them on the table closer to the dessert.

Ideas for decorating dishes for a festive table

Dishes can be arranged in the most bizarre ways:

• you can unconventionally lay out salads, for example, in the form of a ring;
• decorate cuts and snacks with roses from lettuce leaves, curls from feathers of green onions, just sprigs of parsley;
• salads can be served outside common dish, and in portions in graceful outlets;
• on children's day birth, you can create whole edible compositions of egg mice, mushrooms and hedgehogs.

Experiment! Don't be afraid of new recipes! Cook with pleasure, and any festive meal will delight you and your guests.

Take care of yourself and be healthy!

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