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- the list of dishes in a cowboy party and a Barbie ball 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 buffet table, or sitting on the veranda in case of a house outside the city. The format primarily depends on the area of ​​the house. A 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 dish on the table, then it would no longer be a festive option. It is a variety of snacks that set the right tone and mood. There are countless options, the main division is cold or hot.
Cold appetizer options for the menu on the birthday table at home.

1. Lavash rolls- the traditional thin Armenian lavash is taken as a basis, but the filling is already a flight of imagination. The cooking method 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 and pepper.

3. Cheese balls- finely grated cheese and garlic are mixed with mayonnaise. From the resulting mass, balls are rolled and sprinkled with coconut 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, in which prepared zucchini must be dipped. Breadcrumbs and grated cheese with optional spices are mixed separately. Vegetable circles must be rolled in the resulting breading and baked in the oven until browned;

Fry slices of avocado in breadcrumbs and spices in oil.

Sauces based on mayonnaise, ketchup, herbs are served with similar 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 with 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

In equal proportions, take boiled chicken breast, eggs, canned pineapples 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 walnuts.

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. For serving, place the prepared dish on a plate decorated with lettuce leaves.

Korean style smoked chicken salad with carrots

Combine 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 for marinades and sauces.

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

Important to remember! For these recipes, not a whole carcass is used, but chicken pieces!

2. Pork with cherry jam... To make this flavorful roast, take: cherry jam and a drop of 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. It is necessary to bake in a dish with high edges to pour red wine over the meat. The dish is being prepared for a little over 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 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 round off a festive dinner at home, there must be a cake on the menu on the birthday table. 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 a birthday cake, you can use ready-made biscuit, 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, then the taste of the cake will become 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.
• We bake traditional pancakes from the obtained batter.

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 g 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 add the 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 sponge cake 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 to an airy cream with a mixer.
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 gr. - 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 waste money thoughtlessly on a festive feast. To organize a birthday table on a budget, the main thing is to use traditional affordable products, but serve and decorate them in an original way.

Lavash and crab stick snacks will not hit your pocket hard... It is better to choose salads from seasonal products. In summer, it will be economical to prepare a salad of fresh vegetables, and in winter, choose a 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 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 a birthday celebrated at home has already been determined, you can add a couple of delicious nuances using slices of vegetables, cheese and sausages.

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

It is better not to expose fruit slices from the very beginning of the evening. as the fruit may lose its attractive fresh appearance. 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 green onion feathers, just sprigs of parsley;
• salads can be served not in a common dish, but in portions in elegant rosettes;
• on a children's birthday party, 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 feast will delight you and your guests.

Take care of yourself and be healthy!

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