As always, before the holiday, every housewife begins to be tormented by the question: what to put on the table? It seems like there are a lot of products in stores now. But there is one thing: our wallet does not always have funds for expensive delicacies and delicacies.

And then I remember my grandmother. She was a renowned needlewoman and cook. I could whip up a holiday dinner even with my small pension. And if she did prepare, then from the simplest and most ordinary products she served a luxurious banquet table to the envy of Astoria and Metropol. And she always taught me: our native land produces fruits no worse than those overseas, and you can always surprise your guests with tasty, healthy, and most importantly not expensive treats.

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Salad

Let's start with the king of any of our tables - salad. It is similar to the popular herring under a fur coat, but it has a “zest” – pickled mushrooms.

Ingredients:

1 boiled beets – 1 pc.

2 boiled carrots – 1 pc.

3 sour apple – 1 pc.

4 marinated mushrooms – 150 gr

5 herring – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Divide all the ingredients in half and place them in a festive bowl, layer by layer, not forgetting to coat with mayonnaise to your taste.

Ingredients:

1 boiled potato – 2 pcs.

2 boiled chicken – 200 g

3 bows – 1 pc.

4 eggs – 2 pcs.

5 pickled cucumber (large) – 1 pc.

6 boiled beets – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Cut potatoes, chicken, eggs, cucumber into cubes, season with mayonnaise, add scalded onions to them. Place everything in a deep plate. On top - grated beets and decorate with a mesh of mayonnaise.

Snacks

Ingredients:

1 chicken gizzards – 1 kg

2 red onions – 2 pcs.

3 garlic – 2 cloves

4 soy sauce – 3 tbsp. spoons

5 vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon

Preparation:

Boil the cleaned chicken gizzards for 1.5 hours. Fry the onion cut into half rings together with the stomachs. Add spices, soy sauce, garlic, vinegar. Mix all this deliciousness and put it in a cold place.

There can be many options for filling, whatever is available from the products. I offer 2 options. The form of delivery may vary, try envelopes.

Ingredients:

1 thin pita bread – 1 package

2 canned fish – 1 can

3 grated cheese – 400 gr

4 greens (dill, parsley, cilantro)

Preparation:

First filling: mash canned fish with a fork, mix with cheese, dill

Second filling: mix any cheese with plenty of greens, add spices, a little mayonnaise

Unwrap the thin pita bread, you can cut it into several parts, put your own filling on each sheet, and roll up a small envelope. I like lavash with filling to fry a little on both sides.

From this fish you can make dishes for a whole banquet. I'll add one more recipe.

Ingredients:

1 large fresh frozen herring – 3 pcs.

2 bows – 2 pcs.

3 spices, granulated sugar

4 mustard

6 vegetable oil

Preparation:

Peel the herring and cut into strips, sprinkle with salt, ground pepper, and sugar. We cut the onion into rings and place them tightly in jars in layers: onion - herring - onion and so on until the top. Pour in the sauce: vegetable oil, vinegar and mustard. Close the lid and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

And, of course, my favorite quick pickled cucumbers. I cook them for any holiday. And no matter how rich the table is set, my cucumbers are the first to be swept away! They will be especially relevant for the Lenten holiday menu.

Ingredients:

1 cucumber – 5-6 pcs.

3 garlic – 4-5 cloves

Preparation:

Wash the cucumbers; if they are large, cut them into several parts; if they are small, cut them into 2 parts. Place in any dense container - bag, jar - add coarsely chopped garlic, dill and salt well. Close, shake the contents and put in the refrigerator. While you are waiting for guests, shake regularly.

Second course

Let me remind you that today I am offering you inexpensive dishes for your holiday table. And for a hot meal you can prepare tender and juicy liver pancakes.

Ingredients:

1 liver (any, your favorite) – 1 kg

2 bows – 2 pcs.

3 eggs – 2 pcs.

4 flour - 3 tbsp

5 semolina - 3 tbsp

6 carrots – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Pass the liver, onions and carrots through a meat grinder, add eggs, semolina, flour, spices, mix everything thoroughly. Place the minced meat in a heated frying pan with a spoon and fry on both sides. Serve with sour cream

You can prepare original potatoes as a side dish

Ingredients:

1 potato – 6 pcs.

For the sauce:

2 butter – 100 g

3 grated cheese – 5 tablespoons

4 sour cream – 1 tbsp

5 garlic – 3 cloves

6 herbs, spices

Preparation:

Wash the potatoes and boil until tender. Once cool, cut in half lengthwise. Place each slice on a baking sheet and spread with garlic sauce: mixed butter, cheese, sour cream, garlic and herbs. Next you will need to bake it all. Everyone knows their stove, cook over moderate heat for 15 minutes.

Dessert

Let's move on to desserts. For savory baked goods, I offer puff pastries with vegetables. They have a great aromatic taste.

Ingredients:

1 frozen puff pastry – 1 package

2 red onions – 3 pcs.

3 sweet tomatoes – 6 pcs.

4 bell peppers

5 herbs, spices

Preparation:

Fry all the chopped vegetables, herbs, and garlic in vegetable oil and simmer for 5 minutes. Roll out the dough and cut out small squares, place them on a greased baking sheet. Along the perimeter of the squares, slightly retreating from the edge, make shallow cuts. Place the filling in the middle of our boats. Bake for 20 minutes.

And you can serve wonderful unusual cupcakes with tea. Guests will be pleased: healthy, and most importantly, delicious!

Ingredients:

1 peeled pumpkin – 200 g,

2 finely ground oat flakes – 100 g

3 peeled nuts – 100 g

4 butter – 150 g

5 sugar – 150 gr

6 eggs – 3 pcs.

7 flour – 150 gr

8 baking powder – 2 teaspoons

Preparation:

Grind the pumpkin on a fine grater and chop the nuts in a blender. Grind the butter with sugar and eggs, add pumpkin, nuts, oatmeal, flour and baking powder. Mix everything thoroughly. Place the dough in small molds, filling them halfway as they will rise twice as much. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 C for 25 minutes. Decorate the finished cupcakes with powdered sugar.

Well, for dessert – fruit.

Ingredients:

1 any fruit

2 skewers or toothpicks

Preparation:

Cut any fruits that are on the store counter at this time of year - apples, pears, raspberries, gooseberries, bananas - into small cubes. Thread onto skewers or toothpicks, alternating colors. It will be bright and original.

So, with a minimal budget, we have prepared 11 dishes for the holiday menu. Even our respected pensioners and students can afford it. Bon appetit!

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

The choice of unusual snacks for the holiday table is huge. Among all the existing recipes, every cook will find one that is ideal for themselves.

Pancake bags with chicken and champignons

Ingredients:

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

Cooking algorithm:

1. Chop the onions and mushrooms into smaller pieces and fry them in butter.
2. Boil the meat, cut into small pieces. Send for frying.
3. Add sour cream/mayonnaise into the pan. Salt and add spices. Simmer for a couple of minutes.
4. Grate the cheese.
5. Spread the filling from the frying pan over the pancakes. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
6. Tie delicious bags with strips of smoked cheese.

Before serving, warm the appetizer in the microwave.

"Mushrooms"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Grind eggs, cheese, ham with a grater. Add salt as needed.
2. Add mayonnaise, mix everything.
3. Make “mushroom” legs from the mixture. Place each on a slice of fresh cucumber and place the preparations on a plate covered with chopped herbs.
4. Make hats from cherry tomatoes and drops of mayonnaise.

Cool the treat and serve to guests.

Crab roll

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Finely grate boiled eggs, two types of cheese and garlic. Toss with mayonnaise and chopped herbs. Add salt if desired.
2. Divide the resulting filling into two portions.
3. Coat two pita breads with it in turn. Place them on top of each other and roll them up.

Cool the appetizer, covering it with film, then cut into portions.

What salads to prepare for the holiday

When it comes to holiday salad recipes, it’s best to choose those that don’t contain quickly perishable or soggy ingredients. If the appetizer contains crackers, then it is better to serve them separately with the dish.

With meat and crackers

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Wash the lettuce leaves and place them on a beautiful dish.
2. Place the boiled meat, cut into thick strips, into a separate bowl. Chicken and pork are best suited for this appetizer.
3. Add finely shredded cabbage to the meat.
4. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil until lightly browned.
5. Then use the remaining fat to lightly brown the diced yesterday's bread. Sprinkle it with dry garlic during the process.
6. Chop fresh cucumbers into cubes.
7. Mix all prepared products. Add salt. Top with sauce.

Place them on a plate with lettuce leaves.

"Anthill"

Ingredients:

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

Algorithm of actions:

1. Boil the chicken until fully cooked. Cool it directly in the broth for greater juiciness of the meat. Cut into small arbitrary pieces.
2. Mix the chicken with tomato slices, grated cheese and chopped cucumber in the same way. Season everything with salted sauce mixed with crushed garlic.
3. Place the mixture onto a flat plate in a heap.
4. Cut the potatoes into very thin long strips. Fry the product in small portions in hot oil until golden brown and crispy.
5. Cover the pile of salad with potato strips.

Complete the appetizer with finely chopped green onions.

"Rainbow"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut the sausages into slices.
2. Chop all vegetables and eggs into cubes. Drain liquid from corn.
3. Mix all.
4. Season the salad with a mixture of sauce, mustard, salt and spices.

Serve with rye toast.

Holiday sandwiches: recipes

To ensure that the sandwiches on the holiday table are tasty and crispy, they should be prepared just before serving. You can make the filling in advance and apply it to the bread before your guests arrive.

With crab sticks and dill

Ingredients:

• loaf – 1 fresh;
• cucumber – 1 pc.;
• dill – 5 – 6 sprigs;
• crab sticks – 1 medium package;
• grated processed cheese – ½ tbsp.;
• butter – 20 g;
• mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Preparation:

1. Chop the fresh cucumber very finely. Also chop the crab sticks.
2. Add grated cheese to the ingredients. To grind it easily and quickly, the product must first be frozen.
3. Finely chop the dill. Pour into the base of the future salad.
4. Season the mixture with sauce. Add salt to taste.
5. Lightly fry thin slices of white bread in butter.
6. Cover the pieces with the spread.

Serve the sandwiches immediately.

With sprats

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Immediately cover a large flat plate with lettuce leaves.
2. Cut each loaf slice into halves. Dry them in a frying pan and coat with mayonnaise.
3. Place them on the salad and sprinkle with finely grated boiled egg.
4. Add fish to each serving.
5. Cut the cucumbers into thin slices and use toothpicks to secure them to the bases of the sandwiches in the form of sails.

Serve the appetizer without refrigerating it first.

Canapés on skewers for the festive table

Appetizing canapés on skewers can be either a budget snack or a real delicacy. It all depends on the filling chosen for them.

With red fish and black caviar

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut round pieces from white bread.
2. Coat each with softened butter.
3. Add a portion of black caviar.
4. Finely chop the fish and roll it into a sail. Secure to the bread with skewers.

Garnish the finished canapés with fresh parsley.

With dry-cured sausage

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut the baguette into portions and lightly dry in the oven.
2. Decorate the cucumber into thin slices, and the tomatoes into plastic slices. Olives - in halves.
3. Place toasted cheese on the cooled croutons, one slice for each. You can pre-coat the bread with mayonnaise or soft curd cheese.
4. Next, distribute the tomato slices.
5. First thread a piece of olive onto each skewer, then a cucumber slice in waves and thin pieces of dry-cured sausage.
6. Stick the pieces into the croutons.

Serve the resulting canapés on a beautiful plate.

New meat dishes

Meat dishes will be a must on the holiday table. They should be served soon after the start of the feast, when guests have had time to try the appetizers, hot.

Liver tubes with filling

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Blend two types of liver with a blender. Add salt. Add spices.
2. Pour well-beaten eggs and part of the milk into the liver mixture.
3. Add flour. Whisk everything again until the lumps disappear and dilute with the remaining milk.
4. Prepare 25 - 30 pancakes from the resulting mass.
5. Fry onions with carrots. Add salt. Add half the sour cream.
6. Mix the remaining sour cream with grated boiled eggs, mashed garlic and chopped cheese. Add salt and mayonnaise.
7. Cover each pancake with cheese and egg mixture and fried vegetables in turn.

Serve this unusual meat dish hot with any side dish.

Meat balls

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Mix the minced meat with onion, garlic and mince again. Salt and add pepper.
2. Carefully beat the mixture onto a horizontal surface.
3. Roll out the dough and cut into thin strips.
4. Form “balls” from the minced meat, cover them with strips of dough so that small gaps remain.
5. Brush the pieces with a mixture of yolk and milk.

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

Original holiday side dishes

Instead of the usual rice and mashed potatoes, you should prepare something more interesting as a side dish for the holiday. It’s delicious to complement both of the dish options below with hot sauces.

"Duchess"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender.
2. Drain all the water, add nutmeg, pepper, grated cheese, yolk (1 pc.). Mix everything well.
3. Using a pastry bag, pipe small roses onto a baking sheet lined with parchment.
4. Brush the pieces with the remaining yolk.
5. Bake in a very hot oven for 15 – 17 minutes.

Stuffed "Beijing"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Pour gelatin with water and leave to swell.
2. Finely chop the parsley and garlic, mix with cottage cheese.
3. Cut the lettuce peppers into miniature cubes. Add to cottage cheese. Salt and pepper everything.
4. Dissolve the gelatin in the microwave and add to the filling.
5. Divide the cabbage into leaves. Rinse and dry each one.
6. Take 2 leaves, fill them with filling and connect them together.
7. Wrap each piece in film and place it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

This unusual side dish is served chilled with meat or fish.

Lenten table menu

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

Casserole with potatoes and mushrooms

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Completely boil the peeled potatoes. Puree with remaining cooking water. Add salt. You can add spices.
2. Roughly chop the onion and mushrooms and fry in oil. Add salt. Beat with a blender.
3. Place 1/3 of the puree into the prepared glass pan. Cover with frying and another 1/3 puree.
4. Next, add thinly sliced ​​tomatoes.
5. Cover everything with the remaining potatoes and lean mayonnaise.

Bake the dish at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Lenten cabbage rolls

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Disassemble the cabbage into leaves. Wash each and cook in boiling water for 3 minutes until softened. Cut off the thickenings from them.
2. Rinse the rice and cook for 7 minutes.
3. Also pre-boil wild mushrooms. Champignons - just finely chop.
4. Remove the skins from the tomatoes and chop finely.
5. Mash the garlic.
6. Fry chopped onions and carrots in oil until golden brown. Add mushrooms. Cook the mixture for another 7 - 8 minutes.
7. Mix the frying with tomatoes, rice, garlic. Salt and pepper.
8. Stuff the mixture with cabbage leaves. Roll them tightly and fry in hot oil for a couple of minutes.
9. Pour the cabbage rolls in a frying pan with a small amount of water and ketchup and simmer the treat over low heat for a little over an hour.

Lenten "Olivier"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Chop all vegetables (boiled, fresh, and salted) into cubes.
2. Drain liquid from peas. Cut the olives into slices.
3. Cut the cabbage shorter.
4. Mix all.

Season the prepared salad with salted lean mayonnaise.

The simplest but most delicious dishes

If you don’t have time to spend a long time fiddling around with decorating the festive table, you should choose the simplest dishes possible. All that remains is to take care of their interesting design, which can pleasantly surprise guests.

Baked mackerel

Ingredients:

• fish carcasses – 2 large;
• garlic – 3 – 4 cloves;
• ground paprika – 1 pinch;
• Provençal herbs – 2 tsp;
• butter and salt.

Preparation:

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

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

Striped tomatoes

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Grate the cheese very finely and mix with mayonnaise, mashed garlic, and salt.
2. Make two transverse horizontal cuts in each cherry. Fill them with filling.
3. Stuff all the tomatoes this way.

Serve the resulting “bees” as a cold appetizer.

Salad with ham and pickled onions

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut the cheese, tomatoes and ham into medium cubes.
2. Mix everything, add the onion, squeezed from the marinade.
3. Season the appetizer with sour cream sauce.

Add salt to taste and serve immediately to guests.

Interesting recipes for the holiday table

Experienced housewives can take on slightly more complicated recipes. Their dishes turn out to be very interesting, unusual and tasty.

Seltz with olives

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Chop the chicken with bones into pieces and cook for 90 minutes. At the very end of cooking, add peeled carrots.
2. Dilute gelatin in cold boiled water according to instructions. After a quarter of an hour, dissolve it in a water bath and mix with 1.5 tbsp. chicken broth. Add chopped garlic there. Add salt.
3. Cut the boiled carrots and olives into small cubes. Mix with them small pieces of boiled meat removed from the bones.
4. Pour the broth with gelatin over the filling components.
5. Place the mixture into a beautiful form and refrigerate overnight.

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

Mushroom zucchini roll

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Peel the zucchini, grate coarsely and mix with crushed garlic. Add salt.
2. Add yolks, grated onion.
3. Sift flour and baking powder into mixture. Add the whites whipped until stiff. Spice up
4. Distribute the resulting mixture onto an oiled baking sheet.
5. Place in the oven preheated to 170 degrees. Bake for 35 – 45 minutes.
6. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry until golden brown. Add sour cream and grated cheese.
7. Coat the prepared zucchini cake with the mushroom mixture. Roll it up.

Cut the resulting dish into pieces and decorate to your liking.

Chicken muffins

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Finely chop the sausage, mushrooms, peppers. Fry until golden brown. You can use butter for this.
2. Add pickled cucumber and olive cubes, as well as chopped green onions.
3. Mix the products and season with sour cream.
4. Pound the chicken fillet thinly. Coat with salt and spices. Cut pieces of it to fit the muffin tins.
5. Line oiled containers with thin slices of meat.
6. Spread the filling on top.
7. Cover everything with cheese. You can spread a piece of butter on top for juiciness.

Bake hearty muffins for half an hour at 190 degrees.

What drinks to surprise your guests with?

The adult table will likely include both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Conventional store bottles can be replaced with unusual cocktails made with your own hands.

Orange drink without alcohol

Ingredients:

• purified water – 2 l;
• juicy sweet orange – 2 pcs.;
• mint – 4 – 5 sprigs;
• sugar – 3 tbsp. l.;
• ice cubes.

Preparation:

1. Place washed, dried mint, lightly mashed by hand, on the bottom of the decanter.
2. Add pitted orange slices and sugar on top.
3. Mash everything with a spoon.
4. Fill the carafe ½ full with ice.

Preparation:

1. Mix condensed milk and juice. Any other berry will do.
2. Add vodka.
3. Mix everything with a long coffee spoon.

Pour the liqueur into a beautiful decanter or bottle. Cool.

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

An article about how to prepare inexpensive dishes for the holiday table. You will find several recipes in the text.

Saving is common, necessary and widespread. But it’s not easy, because there are many temptations around to spend money “for other purposes,” and prices in stores do not always please us... So where to save?

Holiday? This is some kind of complete waste! But nice

Our lives are full of “non-working days”. From the point of view of a thrifty person, these are the days when he does not earn money, but spends a lot of money. Let's try to find recipes on how to bypass wasteful traditions, but so that the holiday remains a holiday!

Principles of economical feasting

What are the principles of saving? How to organize a festive table inexpensively and deliciously, with recipes that would be accessible to any housewife?

1. The main thing is to shift the emphasis of the evening from food towards humor and entertainment.

2. Avoid cafes and restaurants, celebrate holidays at home, with family or friends.

3. Prepare long-lasting products for the cherished day in advance - a week or two, or even a month, without waiting for the trade to congratulate you on the holiday with new prices.

4. Avoid delicacies - they are always expensive.

5. Focus on national cuisine - the cuisine of your mothers and grandmothers.

6.Use your imagination: an artistically decorated dish is twice as tasty. Proven by science!

7. Celebrating with friends? Cook together, with joy and laughter!

Principles for selecting products for the holiday table

Of course, the economical table rejects delicacies. The task is to try to turn the most ordinary foods and drinks into them. Agree in advance with your friends where you will celebrate, buy together, bring the food in advance, optimally two days before the start of cooking. Decide in advance who has artistic abilities and experience in decorating dishes.

1. Focus mainly on seasonal vegetables.

2.If it is winter or spring, then use a small amount of expensive vegetables (sweet peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers) only to decorate salads.

3. Buckwheat and rice are appropriate cereals on the holiday table, but you can refuse them in favor of potatoes, because the variety of dishes made from them is incredibly large!

4.Use mostly chicken or other meat, but with plenty of side dishes.

5. A very economical meat dish - jellied meat or jellied meat (jelly), because their main ingredient by weight is the same jelly, consisting of meat, broth (that is, practically water!) and gelatin.

6. Jelly is perfectly combined (decorated) with green peas, boiled carrots, and small pieces of sweet pepper. Everything you put into the jelly must be blanched!

7. A fairly universal meat dish is zrazy. Also on the festive table, liver dishes are appropriate - pates, liver “cake”. They will allow you to save on meat, because these are also almost “meat” dishes.

Recipes for inexpensive salads for the holiday table

Of course, “Herring under a fur coat”, “Mimosa” salad and “Olivier” salad are simply a must on an economical holiday table. Without the latter, it seems that holidays (especially New Year's!) are generally unthinkable. These inexpensive salads consist of the most common and inexpensive products. And you can even make mayonnaise for them yourself if you are an experienced housewife. Practice, but not before the holiday itself - then you won’t have time! However, these three salads will be lonely if you limit yourself to decorating an inexpensive holiday table only with them. An inexpensive table can be decorated with other salads.

Salad “Crystal Bird’s Nest”

This is both a salad and an appetizer at the same time. Base: any of your favorite salad with mayonnaise, preferably green vegetables - green onions, lettuce, etc. The salad must be prepared in advance, it must be placed on a large dish, and carefully decorated with “crystal eggs” on top, which will decorate it with both appearance and taste.

• Ingredients and materials

• Whole, without cracks, eggshells - 2 pieces per serving.
• Strong meat broth - 40 ml per 1 eggshell
• Gelatin 1 tablespoon for every 180 ml of broth.

• For minced meat

Sweet corn, green sweet peas, boiled carrots, ham, pickled or fresh cucumber, sweet pepper - 1 tablespoon of mixture for each eggshell. You can replace it with a frozen vegetable mixture in the form of vegetable cubes, blanched before cooking, in the same quantity, adding cubes of boiled chicken meat.

• Shell preparation

Take the required amount of raw eggs and wash them thoroughly. Very carefully, without breaking the shell, make a hole in it with a diameter of 1-1.5 centimeters from the blunt end. Carefully pour in the whites and yolks - they can be used for any other dishes. We will need a shell. Rinse the whole shells of each egg thoroughly with cold water and boil in boiling water for 5-10 minutes to disinfect.

• Preparation of broth with gelatin

Carefully, through several layers of gauze, filter the pre-prepared transparent (and slightly salted) meat broth and set the gelatin to swell, which should be taken at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon for 1 cup of broth. Having prepared the broth with gelatin, cool it to a barely warm state and pour it into egg shells placed on a regular egg tray, but pour it so as to fill the egg no more than a third. To pour the broth into the shells, it is convenient to use a teapot with a long spout. After pouring, place the tray with shells in the cold.

• Filling (minced meat)

Meanwhile, prepare the filling for the “crystal eggs”. Suitable: sweet corn, sweet peppers, cubes or slices of boiled meat (ham), cubes of hard pickled or fresh cucumber, cubes of boiled carrots, tender sprigs of dill up to 5 cm long, thin onion feathers several centimeters long, hard cheese cubes or omelette cubes from the same egg whites and yolks. The more bright colored pieces, the better. The cubes should be 1cm in size.

• The final

After making sure that the broth in the shells has frozen, fill them to the top with the multi-colored ingredients you prepared and fill them with broth with gelatin. And - again in the cold (not in the freezer and not in the frost!), until completely frozen. After the gelatin hardens, peel the shells from the “crystal eggs” and artistically decorate the “nest” of the Crystal Bird with them!

Recipes for appetizers for the holiday table

White cabbage “chops”

An inexpensive dish suitable for any table.

• Ingredients

• White cabbage - 0.5 kg.
• Egg - 2 pieces
• Milk - 2-3 tablespoons.
• Flour for breading.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Refined vegetable oil -1/3 cup.

• Preparing cabbage

Cut a small head of cabbage into quarters, place in cold salted water, and place on low heat. Cook until tender, piercing occasionally to check with a fine-toothed fork. You can't digest it! Place the finished cabbage in a colander to cool. Disassemble into leaves, cutting off the hard part.

• Preparation

Beat 2-3 eggs, lightly dilute with milk. Place a frying pan on the fire and pour in a little refined vegetable oil. Dip the cabbage in flour, then in the egg, repeating the cycle three times. The last one should be the egg. Place in a frying pan and fry until golden brown. Serve hot or warm. Option: between two leaves before breading, you can put the thinnest slice of any sharp cheese or even a thin slice of chopped pickled cucumber.

“Mushroom stump” made from mashed potatoes

• Ingredients

• Potatoes - 250 grams per serving.
• Butter - 10g per serving.
• Raw egg - 1 pc. for 1 kg of puree. If 1.5 kg of puree - 2 eggs, etc.
• Rye bread or
• crusts of toasted wheat bread for decoration - 1 cup per 1 kg of puree.

Marinated or freshly fried mushrooms, or fried minced meat - 200 grams for every 1 kg of mashed potatoes.

Salt, pepper, fried onion until golden brown - to taste.

• Preparation

Preparing mashed potatoes

Boil the peeled potatoes until tender, drain the water, mash while the potatoes are hot, add butter to the mashed potatoes, mushroom seasoning to taste and a raw egg at the rate of 1 egg per 1 kg of mashed potatoes. Mash the puree thoroughly while it is hot.

Dish decoration

Place on a dish, form a stump, making its side surface a “coarse bark” and imitating it with crushed rye bread or crispy crushed wheat bread crusts. Generously and artistically decorate the top of the “stump” with whole pickled or fried mushrooms. Fried mushrooms can also be added to the puree before the “stump” is formed. Small pieces of well-fried meat or simply fried onions until golden brown are sometimes added to the puree for taste. The dish will remain inexpensive, because 70-80% of it consists of potatoes.

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What recipes to choose for the holiday table? On the one hand, these should be recipes with photos, simple and tasty. On the other hand, you always want guests

Surprise with something new and unusual. Yes, simply, you often want to prepare original holiday dishes not just for guests, but also for yourself. After all, the traditional salad with crab sticks and herring under a fur coat is, to put it mildly, already tired.

You won’t get lost or confused in this section of the large culinary portal. All for the reason that the most delicious salads for the festive table and their recipes with photos are collected here. Each recipe was checked by moderators, and we try to give preference to those cooking options that have step-by-step pictures of preparing and combining the products, as well as a clear verbal description. As a result, you can quickly and efficiently prepare a new holiday dish and understand exactly: not only by the final taste, but also by appearance, how well it turned out.

A separate place is occupied by simple recipes with photos of sandwiches for the holiday table. This is a snack that is understandable to everyone, which has a classic format, but with the right approach it can differ greatly in both appearance and composition. If in your mind sandwiches are still associated with a large piece of loaf and boiled sausage, then you should get rid of such a cliché. You can prepare a variety of sandwiches for the holiday table, any combination of original products.

For example, some make classic sandwiches with sprats, adding kiwi to them, others fry croutons for sandwiches with caviar. There will be a huge variety of options and variations here, the most important thing is to find the correct and understandable recipe, which on the pages of our site, especially in this section, will be simple and easy to do.

If you need recipes for a festive table, then simple recipes with photos from this section, which is entirely dedicated to the festive table setting, will be useful for every housewife. In addition to salads and sandwiches, which were already briefly discussed above, in the section you can find many options for preparing various types of cold and hot appetizers, main courses and desserts. Having looked at how many recipes have been collected on the pages of our website, you will understand that you will definitely not have more culinary creative block before guests arrive.

22.09.2019

Kulich in the microwave

Ingredients: flour, egg, kefir, peanut butter, candied fruit, dry jam, honey, sugar, baking powder, butter, salt, lemon juice, confectionery sprinkles, decoration

It’s quite possible to cook Easter cake outside of the oven: you can bake it in the microwave - it’s very simple and relatively quick.
Ingredients:
- 0.5-0.7 cups of flour;
- 1 egg;
- 60 ml of kefir, yogurt or milk;
- 1 tbsp. peanut butter;
- 1 tbsp. candied fruits;
- 1 tbsp. Kyiv dry jam;
- 2 tbsp. honey;
- 2 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 dessert spoon of baking powder;
- 50 g butter;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 0.5 tsp. lemon juice;
- confectionery topping;
- decorations.

19.07.2019

An old Easter cake recipe from our grandmothers

Ingredients: yeast, milk, sugar, flour, egg, butter, raisins, dried apricots, vanillin, salt, powdered sugar

If you need an excellent, proven Easter cake recipe, then you can’t find anything better than this - this is how our grandmothers baked Easter cake. Try it, you will definitely be absolutely delighted with the result!

Ingredients:
- 23 grams of fresh yeast;
- 150 ml milk;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 500 grams of flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 110 g butter;
- 150 grams of raisins;
- 150 grams of dried apricots;
- vanillin;
- salt;
- powdered sugar.

31.05.2019

Easter cake from Anastasia Skripkina

Ingredients: milk, egg, butter, yeast, sugar, vanilla sugar, honey, flour, salt, nuts, raisins, candied fruit, dried black currants, nutmeg, lemon zest

Easter cakes are an integral attribute of any Easter feast. There are many different recipes for their preparation, and we invite you to try one of them - tested by Anastasia Skripkina.

Ingredients:
- 120 ml milk;
- 1 egg;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 12 grams of yeast;
- 30 grams of sugar;
- 10 grams of vanilla sugar;
- 1 tbsp. honey;
- 250 grams of flour;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 10 grams of nuts;
- 20 grams of raisins;
- 20 grams of candied fruits;
- 20 grams of dried black currants;
- 0.5 tsp. nutmeg;
- 0.5 tsp. lemon zest.

20.04.2019

Layered Mimosa salad with butter and cheese

Ingredients: canned food, egg, onion, cheese, butter, mayonnaise, dill

Even a novice housewife can prepare mimosa salad, especially if she has our detailed master class at hand. This is a very tasty and appetizing salad that all guests will certainly enjoy.

Ingredients:
- 100 grams of canned fish;
- 2 hard-boiled eggs;
- 0.3 small purple onion;
- 20 grams of butter;
- 50 grams of hard cheese;
- mayonnaise;
- dill for decoration.

05.04.2019

Arugula salad with shrimp and cherry tomatoes

Ingredients: arugula, shrimp, tomato, cheese, garlic, nuts, sauce, lemon juice, oil, honey

I bring to your attention a recipe for a very tasty and healthy arugula salad with shrimp and cherry tomatoes. The recipe is very simple and quick.

Ingredients:

- 1 bunch of arugula,
- 15-17 shrimps,
- 10 pieces of cherry tomatoes,
- 30 grams of hard cheese,
- 1 clove of garlic,
- 25 grams of pine nuts,
- 2 tbsp. soy sauce,
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice,
- 3 tbsp. olive oil,
- 1 tsp. honey

07.03.2019

Salad "Pearl"

Ingredients: salmon, egg, cheese, dill, turmeric, orange, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, caviar, olive, dill

Salad "Pearl" is a very tasty fish salad that I often prepare for the holiday table. The recipe is quite simple.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of salmon or salmon;
- 2 eggs;
- 50 grams of cheese;
- 20 grams of dill;
- half tsp turmeric;
- 1 orange;
- 120 grams of mayonnaise;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- 30 grams of red salmon caviar;
- 30 grams of olives;
- 1 quail egg;
- a sprig of dill.

06.03.2019

Kulich according to Dukan

Ingredients: cottage cheese, oat bran, starch, turmeric, sesame, egg, baking powder, milk powder

If you are on the Dukan diet, I suggest you prepare a delicious and easy-to-prepare Easter cake for Easter. The recipe is quite simple.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of cottage cheese;
- 35 grams of oat bran;
- 30 grams of corn starch;
- 5 grams of ground turmeric;
- 10 grams of black sesame;
- 1 egg;
- 5 grams of baking powder;
- sugar substitute;
- powdered milk.

21.02.2019

Dietary Easter cake

Ingredients: cottage cheese, honey, egg, starch, cut, baking powder, raisins, nuts, candied fruit

Ingredients:

210 grams of cottage cheese 2%;
- 3 tbsp. honey;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 tbsp. potato starch;
- 4 tbsp. bran;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- raisin;
- hazelnuts;
- candied fruits.

20.02.2019

Festive salad "Kaleidoscope"

Ingredients: chicken meat, Korean carrots, chips, fresh cucumber, boiled beets, white cabbage, mayonnaise, salt, pepper

The Kaleidoscope salad is not only tasty, but also looks presentable. This salad is easy and quick to prepare, it tastes very original and everyone will notice this.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of chicken meat;
- 150 grams of Korean carrots;
- 50 grams of chips;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 1 beet;
- 150 grams of white cabbage;
- 100-130 grams of mayonnaise;
- salt;
- black pepper.

16.09.2018

Warm seafood salad

Ingredients: seafood, tomato, dill, salt, pepper, spice, oil

In just 15 minutes I suggest you prepare a delicious warm seafood salad. The recipe is simple. I propose to serve this dish on the festive table.

Ingredients:

200 grams of seafood cocktail,
- 1 tomato,
- a bunch of dill,
- a pinch of salt,
- a pinch of ground black pepper,
- a pinch of nutmeg,
- a pinch of marjoram,
- a pinch of chopped ginger,
- 20 grams of butter,
- 3 tbsp. olive oil.

23.07.2018

Delicious and beautiful salad "Pine cone"

Ingredients: chicken fillet, egg, cheese. potatoes, corn, onions, almonds, mayonnaise

On winter holidays, most often on New Year's, I prepare Pine Cone Salad. The recipe is very simple and quite quick.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of chicken fillet,
- 4 eggs,
- 2 processed cheeses,
- 1 potato,
- 100 grams of canned corn,
- 1 onion,
- 250 grams of roasted almonds,
- 100 grams of mayonnaise.

23.07.2018

Salad "Pomegranate bracelet" with almonds

Ingredients: potatoes, mayonnaise, carrots, beef. onion, egg, beets, almonds, pomegranate

There are a lot of recipes for the Pomegranate Bracelet salad. Today I suggest you cook it with almonds and beef. The salad turns out very tasty.

Ingredients:

- 2 potatoes,
- 100 grams of mayonnaise,
- 2 carrots,
- 200 grams of beef,
- 1 onion,
- 4 eggs,
- 2 beets,
- 20 grams of almonds,
- 1 pomegranate.

23.07.2018

Mimosa salad with apple without potatoes

Ingredients: canned food, apple, carrots, onion, potatoes, egg, cheese, mayonnaise

There are a lot of recipes for Mimosa salad. Today I will tell you how to prepare a very tasty and simple Mimosa salad without potatoes with cheese and apple.

Ingredients:

- 1-2 cans of canned food “Sardine”,
- 1 apple,
- 3 carrots,
- 1 onion,
- 3-4 potatoes,
- 5 eggs,
- 100 grams of cheese,
- mayonnaise.

23.07.2018

Salad "Berezka" with prunes

Ingredients: chicken breast, mushroom, cucumber, egg, prunes, onion, mayonnaise, butter, salt, pepper, herbs

For the holiday table, I suggest you prepare this very tasty Fairy Tale salad with prunes. chicken and champignons.

Ingredients:

- 300-350 grams of chicken breast,
- 300-350 grams of champignons,
- 2 cucumbers,
- 2 eggs,
- 50 grams of prunes,
- 1 onion,
- 200-220 ml. mayonnaise,
- 50-60 ml. vegetable oil,
- salt,
- black pepper,
- parsley and dill.

20.07.2018

"Country" salad with cucumbers and champignons

Ingredients: potatoes, chicken fillet, mushroom, onion, cucumber, salt, pepper, oil, mayonnaise

Today I suggest you prepare a very tasty “Country” salad with mushrooms and pickled cucumbers. The recipe is very simple and quick.

Ingredients:

- 2 potatoes,
- 200 grams of chicken fillet,
- 6-8 champignons,
- 1 red onion,
- 5 pickled cucumbers,
- salt,
- black pepper,
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil,
- 1 tbsp. mayonnaise.

We were lucky to be among the guests at a real village wedding! We had a lot of fun! It felt like we were back in the dashing nineties! Firstly, this event was celebrated not in a cafe, as is now customary, but at home, in a hut specially built for this purpose, which was a huge tent with tables and benches inside. Secondly, almost all local residents were invited to visit. Restless cooks, racing with each other, rushed from the kitchen to the tent, bringing more and more new dishes, which were already standing on tables in two tiers. It’s impossible to even count what was there! How delicious it is! “This is our signature salad, it is prepared for all events, in every home,” the woman sitting next to me whispered in my ear. “You should definitely try it,” she added, which is exactly what we did. I’ll be honest: the salad is so tasty that it’s very difficult to stop eating it, and besides, all the necessary products for preparing it are almost always on hand in every home. Interested? In that case, come in and help yourself!