For any festive table, and especially for a birthday, every hostess always wants to cook something unusual and tasty. In addition to the main dishes, there are always salads and snacks on the table, with which the festive feast begins. There are thousands of their recipes, all of them are good in their own way. Today we want to invite you to look at our holiday salads and snacks that can be prepared for a birthday or any other holiday feast, and simple recipes with photos will help you navigate your choice.

Another good selection of holiday, many delicious recipes.

Salads and appetizers with meat

Salads cooked with meat are always tasty, satisfying and look beautiful. These include salads with chicken, pork, beef, turkey. They can be with mayonnaise, with sour cream sauce, puff, served as a cake or in separate portioned glasses.

Salad with chicken and apples

Products:

• 100 g sweet and sour apples
• 300 g young fresh cucumbers
• 300 g chicken fillet
• Mayonnaise, how much will take
• A little green light
• 1 boiled carrot
• 3 eggs
• Salt pepper.

Salad preparation method:

Boil the fillet, eggs and carrots

1. Finely chop the chicken and 2 eggs, grate one egg separately.
2. Peeled cucumbers and apples cut into thin strips.
3. The products are ready, you can collect the salad.
4. Put everything in a bowl, except for one egg, salt, season with mayonnaise.
5. Transfer to a beautiful salad bowl, sprinkle with grated egg, garnish with green onions and carrots.

If someone does not like mayonnaise, then this salad can be served with sour cream.

meat muffins

Ingredients:

• 300 g minced meat
• 1 bulb
• 1 spoon semolina
• 2 large or 3 small eggs
• 1 spoon of sour cream
• 50 g cheese (take a hard one, it rubs better)
• Salt pepper
• 1 teaspoon managed hops
• Silicone or iron molds for small cupcakes

How to cook cupcakes:

1. Finely chop the onion, add to the minced meat, add semolina, salt, more pepper and hops-sumeli to them.
2. Mix well with your hand and set aside.
3. Now let's prepare the filling. Beat eggs with a fork, add 20% sour cream, salt and pepper.
4. Whisk again with a fork.
5. Grate the cheese finely.
6. Lubricate silicone molds with odorless vegetable oil, put minced meat in them, spreading them on the sides, and leaving an empty place in the middle, you will get meat baskets.

Thus, fill in all the forms until the stuffing ends, approximately 10-12 molds should be obtained. While filling out the forms, turn on the oven to 180 degrees, let it warm up. Now put the muffins on a baking sheet and fill with a spoon, but not to the very edge, with the egg mixture.

We send to bake for half an hour, then carefully, so as not to burn yourself, take out a baking sheet and sprinkle the muffins with cheese, put in the oven for another 10 minutes. That's all. A wonderful holiday appetizer is ready.

A very interesting video on the topic: you will definitely like festive salads and birthday snacks from YouTube from Natalia Gorbatova. He tells and shows in an interesting way how tasty and beautiful to set the table for a birthday.

Salad with beef

Products:

• 300 g boiled beef
• 8 eggs
• 150 g hard cheese
• 2 white onions
• A little bit of vinegar 6% vinegar
• Mayonnaise
• Quite a bit of salt and pepper

1. This salad is perfect for any birthday or New Year, for any feast.
2. First of all, you need to chop the onion very finely, put it in a cup, pour some water and add vinegar. In such a weak solution, leave to marinate.
3. Cut the beef into slices, and then chop into small cubes.
4. The onion is already marinated, drain the liquid and lightly salt.
5. Take a large flat dish, put half of the chopped beef in the first layer, half of the onion on top.
6. Apply a mesh of mayonnaise, now rub two eggs and grated cheese, again make a mesh of mayonnaise.
7. Now you need to repeat all the layers first two times.

In total, in the sum of each product there are three layers except for eggs, they get 4 layers, since the eggs will be the last and final.

Salad with pork and mushrooms

We will need:

• 100 g champignons
• 150 g lean pork
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 large potato
• How much mayonnaise will take, about 3 tablespoons
• 200 g canned peas
• 50 g leek
• some greenery

Boil potatoes in their skins, meat and mushrooms. Accordingly, cook everything in a separate bowl. When the food has cooled, cut into cubes. Put everything in a festive salad bowl, add onion and salt, peas, crushed garlic, season with mayonnaise.

Meatloaf

Products:

• 1 kg mixed minced meat (500 g pork and 500 g beef)
• 2 medium bows
• 4 eggs boiled and one raw
• Salt pepper

Beautiful and delicious holiday appetizer.

1. Grind the onion on the smallest side of the grater, squeeze the juice slightly, salt and add, not sparing the pepper.
2. Mix with minced meat, add a raw egg and mix well.
3. Beat off a few times and leave aside.
4. Boil the eggs in a steep, immediately pour cold water, which is drained several times and poured again.
5. Clean the eggs.
6. Put the stuffing on the board, spread it with your hands into a long strip.
7. Arrange boiled eggs side by side.
8. Raise the edges and close the roll.
9. Grease a baking sheet with oil, lay parchment paper, grease it too.
10. Transfer the roll to a baking sheet.

Put to bake at 200 degrees, about 40 minutes. You should get a beautiful crust. When cool, cut into portions and put on a dish.

Festive salads and appetizers with fish

Such salads can be prepared with fresh fish, smoked, canned food or lightly salted red fish. They are prepared easily, quickly, and their taste is always excellent. Combine with sauces, mayonnaise, vegetables and spices. We offer you several options for preparing fish salads for your birthday. You choose for yourself the one you like the most, treat your friends and family at the festive table.

Salad with salmon

Ingredients:

• 150 g potatoes
• 200 g fish
• 3 eggs
• 100 g carrots
• 3 green onions
• Mayonnaise
• round mold

How to cook:

1. Boiled eggs, green onion and salmon cut very finely. Leave one piece of fish for decoration, make a rose out of it.
2. Boil potatoes and carrots, when cool, grate.
3. Place the form on the dish, the potatoes will go first, press it with a fork, grease with mayonnaise.
4. Beautifully lay out the fish, press, grease with mayonnaise.
5. Sprinkle green onions, mix eggs with mayonnaise, this will be the next layer.
6. Lay out the carrots last, a thin layer of mayonnaise, and sprinkle with a green onion. Place a salmon rosette and decorate with herbs. Remove the form.

Salad with red fish and red caviar

Products:

• 500 g red fish
• 5 spoons of boiled rice
• 4 hard boiled eggs
• crab sticks packaging
• For sauce:
• 4 spoons of mayonnaise
• 100 g soft curd cheese
• Sour cream about 4 tablespoons
• 8 g gelatin

For decoration:

Spoon of red caviar and greens

Salad preparation method

1. Finely grate the whites, crab sticks and yolks separately. The salad will look like a big slide, so you need a deep salad bowl, which tapers a little downwards.
2. You need to cover it with cling film, since then the salad will need to be turned over, the bottom will turn out to be on top.
3. Cut the fish into thin long plates, put on the bottom and on the sides of the dish.
4. Soak gelatin in half a glass of water, wait until it swells, and then dissolve it in a water bath.
5. Gelatin has dissolved, leave it aside to cool.
6. Combine mayonnaise, cheese and sour cream, add gelatin and mix. The sauce should be similar in thickness to sour cream.

Lubricate the salmon with the prepared dressing and start collecting the salad: the first layer of yolks, crab sticks, squirrels, rice. In the process, lubricate each layer with dressing, including the last one. Leave the salad in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, put a large flat plate on top, turn over, remove the film. Put red caviar on top and decorate with greens, spreading small leaves of curly lettuce around.

This salad takes a little longer to prepare than others. But its unique taste and appearance deserve to spend a little more time and prepare it for the festive table. Your guests will be pleasantly surprised, the salad is unusually tasty and beautiful.

See more: with fish, seafood, chicken and mushrooms.

Salad with saury

We will need:

• Jar of canned saury
• Boiled potatoes - 200 g
• 2 boiled eggs (hard boiled)
• 2 sour apples
• Gouda cheese grams 100
• Mayonnaise
• handful of walnuts

Recipe:

1. Boiled potatoes and eggs cut into small cubes.
2. Drain the yushka from the canned food and separate the bones.
3. Pass the cheese and apples through a coarse grater, chop the nuts. All products are prepared, you can start picking up the salad.
4. We will need a round small mold, which is placed in the center of the dish. Put products in layers in it: potatoes, mayonnaise, cheese, apple, eggs, mayonnaise, cheese, nuts.
5. Remove the form, decorate with nuts.

Snacks and salads with mayonnaise on the festive table

It is not difficult to prepare simple snacks with mayonnaise. They always become a wonderful decoration of any table, there are many cooking options, adults and children eat them with pleasure.

Fried zucchini and tomatoes

Products:

• 2 small zucchini
• 4-5 medium tomatoes
• Vegetable oil for frying pan
• Mayonnaise
• 3 garlic cloves
• 100 grams of hard cheese
• Salt pepper
• some flour

Cooking process:

1. Cut the zucchini into thin circles, put in a bowl, salt, add pepper.
2. Spread the zucchini on the heated oil, after dipping both sides in flour. Then put on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
3. Crush the garlic, mix with mayonnaise, cut the tomatoes into circles, grate the cheese on a fine grater.
4. Now take one piece of zucchini, grease with mayonnaise, dip a tomato on top, zucchini again, grease with mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese. And so on until the vegetables run out.
5. Spread immediately on a plate in which you will serve.

Salad with beef

A very simple and quick recipe, such holiday salads always come to the court at any feast.

• Piece of beef 250 grams
• 2 white onions
• 3 eggs
• Mayonnaise spoons 4
• Salt pepper
• 150 grams semi-hard cheese
• Half a glass of grape vinegar

Recipe:

1. Put the meat and eggs to boil.
2. Cut the onion into half rings, put in a bowl, fill half with water and add vinegar, so that the onion is completely covered.
3. While the food is being cooked, the onion is pickled.
4. Cut the beef into strips, drain the marinade from the onion and add salt.
5. Put the onion in the first layer, then the beef, add salt, make a mesh of mayonnaise, grate the eggs on top, again a little mayonnaise and cheese.

Such a salad can be served by putting it into glasses on a short leg, each guest is portioned.

Korean carrot salad

Very easy to prepare salad, and the products required a minimum. It can be served in a large salad bowl or in portion molds for each guest.

• 200 g lean pork
• 150 g Korean carrots
• jar of canned peas
• 4 spoons of mayonnaise

Boil the meat and cut into thin strips, you can cubes. Put in a salad bowl, combine with peas, carrots, add salt, pepper and mayonnaise. Mix. Very simple, right? And how delicious!

Vegetable snacks and salads for birthday

A wonderful video on the topic from YouTube - a festive Korean-style eggplant salad, be sure to cook it for your guests.

Vegetable salad with beets

Products:

• 400 g boiled beets
• 2 potatoes
• 2 carrots
• 3 eggs
• Salt pepper
• Mayonnaise
• One large onion

How to cook:

1. Boil all the products, beets for this salad choose a sweet, beautiful dark color.
2. Grind all boiled and cooled vegetables on a fine grater, each in a separate bowl.
3. Chop the onion very finely.

Salad can be put in one large detachable cake pan, or you can make it in small molds. To whom it is convenient, do so. In any case, the salad is collected in layers. The first will be boiled potatoes, which need to be salted and peppered, then onions, carrots, eggs mixed with mayonnaise, beets. All layers are smeared with mayonnaise, including the last one.

look beautiful for a holiday and on weekdays.

Vegetable salad with cheese

Ingredients:

• 2 red peppers
• 2 cucumbers
• 4 tomatoes
• Olive oil
• Lemon juice (1 spoon)
• 150 g cheese
• A little dill

Cooking:

1. Peel peppers from seeds, cut into strips, cucumbers, without peeling, into cubes.
2. Chop the tomatoes into small cubes.
3. Chop the dill very finely, mix with cheese, knead well with your hands and roll into small balls (15 pieces).
4. Put the vegetables in a deep salad bowl, salt, add juice, mix. Lay cheese balls on top. Very easy, fast and tasty.

Vegetable canapes

Such festive canapes can be prepared in various versions with boiled pork, with sausage, with red fish.

Products:

• 200 g cheese
• Two handfuls of black and the same number of green olives
• 15 cherry tomatoes
• One white loaf
• 2-3 cucumbers
• boiled carrot
• Wooden skewers or toothpicks

1. Boil carrots, cut into small square cubes and all other products.
2. Choose the smallest tomatoes and cut into two parts.
3. Cut the loaf into the same shape as all other products. Take olives without pits.
4. String all products alternately on sticks, alternating with each other.

look Also - very tasty!

You have looked at our holiday salads and birthday snacks, we hope you liked them and you can choose the best ones for your holiday table and feed your guests deliciously.