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Snacks

First, let's start with what is really fast and really not expensive. And, of course, snacks. The simplest version of a birthday is a buffet table, and next to it is music and pleasant communication. What can fill the buffet table? We offer several recipes.

Chicken and potatoes would also be very good. The cooking time is minimal, the same as for the previous chicken + to peel the potatoes. Potatoes are better to choose not large. Sauces can be served separately (if there are several, it will also decorate the festive table).

The next inexpensive and quick option for a birthday is stuffed champignons! We offer you a recipe with minced meat. This is the most satisfying dish. But you can fill it with cheese and boiled egg and even boiled rice mixed with herbs. The main thing is to choose large champignons.

Here is a recipe for simple and delicious mushrooms - ““.

Salads

Well, firstly, vegetables can be served simply sliced. It's not a lot of money, even less time. Arrange these chopped vegetables in the form of small skewers. Very elegant!

Do not give up on a seemingly ordinary salad with fresh cabbage. It's not always easy. Here is an example of a recipe for lokshina and mayonnaise. Just a chic combination of cabbage and soft lokshina .... Add greens and corn - and this is a festive salad.

Prepare a modernized version of the famous Greek salad by adding croutons to it. It's very, very tasty! It is only important to add crackers just before serving, so that they do not soften, but are crispy and appetizing. .

Salad with beans! Yes, it is very tasty and very economical. Beans are hearty and very soft in a salad. The easiest option: boiled red beans (or canned) + boiled chicken breast + croutons + herbs + mayonnaise ....

There are a lot of variations - choose any: salads with beans on the festive table.

Sweet

Ear Napoleon. Ears are the so-called cookies in the form of two circles, it is tender and crumbly. Preparing such a cake is very easy: buy cookies "Ears" 800 grams and cook from 1 liter of milk. Lay out the ears in layers and lubricate each layer with cream. Be sure to let it brew and soak.

Fried bananas. Bananas are peeled and cut into 3-4 pieces. Then roll them in flour, and then in a beaten egg. And then again in flour. And deep-fry for 2-3 minutes. Very original and very satisfying. This dish is also suitable for a buffet table.

Cream of semolina. It's very tasty, simple and cheap. The recipe is simple, available on the site (). The cream should be laid out in bowls and garnished with fruit or pieces of chocolate. You can serve jam separately (for example) or cook sweet sauce separately.

Pancake cake. This is a modern invention, although it has not yet gained popular popularity, but the dessert is very tasty. Pancakes should be fried with a minimum amount of oil. To do this, add 1 tablespoon of vegetable deodorized oil to the pancake batter. grease the pan 1st time and then without oil. Any cream for such a cake is suitable, but the best for my taste is from semolina or custard.

Your guests will not even guess that these are pancakes if you serve sliced ​​cake in portions.

outdoor birthday party

Summer and autumn are the time for organizing friendly meetings in garden plots, in the garden, in nature. The menu at these receptions should not be overly sophisticated. The treat usually consists of appetizers, meat dishes cooked in the fresh air, seasonal salads and salads from raw vegetables, fruits, and cakes.

Table setting is usually modest. Dishes with food, baskets of fruit, jugs of drinks, plates of cakes are set on multi-colored, often oilcloth, tablecloths. Approach the table setting with imagination, use stylish design, interesting little things and nuances that will make the reception interesting and memorable. Serve fruits and vegetables not traditionally, but colorfully and unusually.

“Garden bouquets” of vegetables and fruits look unusually impressive.

A vegetable bouquet is slices of cucumber, tomato, radish, red pepper, planted on sticks and stuck, for example, in a head of cabbage.

Fruity bouquet - slices of apples, pears, plums, apricots, peaches planted on long sticks and stuck in some large watermelon, pineapple or pumpkin. They wonderfully decorate the table and attract the eye with their shape and various colors. They are also very good tasting and healthy. By experimenting with the height of the sticks used for “bouquets”, you can get an unexpected solution in the form of three-dimensional figures from vegetables or fruits.

An excellent solution for a “picnic in nature” is to prepare various types of salads and offer them to guests a la buffet. The rest of the dishes must be prepared so that they can be eaten standing or sitting and only with a fork.

Sandwiches prepared in a bizarre shape, interestingly or funny decorated, will help to add a touch of humor.

Outdoor dining can be made more inviting by serving food from the grill. They are not only exceptionally tasty, but also spectacular. They have the advantage that they are prepared practically without fat. Due to the high temperature, the outer layer of the meat thickens, a crispy crust forms, which protects against the loss of juice, aroma and nutrients.

All types of meat, offal, fish, vegetables, such as potatoes, red peppers, eggplant, are suitable for grilling. You can also experiment here by trying grilled tomatoes or onions.

In all receptions, in addition to the principle of proper nutrition, it is important to adhere to one more thing, namely: do not force anyone to eat, do not forcibly put dishes on the guests' plate. The same applies to the reception of guests in the fresh air, or a picnic.

Birthday is a great occasion to lay a festive table and surprise guests with interesting recipes. The main thing is that all the photo recipes below are very tasty and easy to prepare.

Snack "Peacock tail"

In order to prepare this dish, you will need simple and affordable ingredients. Namely:

• 2 fresh cucumbers;
• 2 large tomatoes;
• 2 ripe eggplants;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• cheese (hard) is added to taste;
• olives are added to taste;
• mayonnaise for dressing;
• salt.

Cooking:

• All vegetables are thoroughly washed under running water and gently dried with a towel.
• cut into slices and spread in a deep bowl. Sprinkle with plenty of table salt and mix with clean hands. After about an hour, all the bitterness will come out of the vegetables, after which they need to be washed with plenty of water.

• Eggplant rings are fried in a heated pan on each side for 4 minutes. To remove all excess oil after frying, transfer them to a paper towel or baking paper.

• During this time, tomatoes and cucumbers are cut into thin slices. The appetizer will look even more interesting if you choose tomatoes of different colors.

• The cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater, combined with chopped garlic and mayonnaise. Everything is thoroughly mixed and set aside for a while.

• Ready eggplants are transferred to a large dish so that the shape of a peacock's tail is obtained. A circle of tomato is laid out on top, then the cheese mixture, and at the very end - a cucumber.

• It remains only to decorate the pitted appetizer and put the dish in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.

Festive appetizer "Mushroom stumps"

With such an unusual dish, which will disperse in the first place, even a beginner can handle it.

Ingredients:

• 250 g of champignons;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 4 tbsp. l. refined oil;
• 1 baguette (fresh);
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 1 onion;
• salt and fresh herbs are added to taste.

Cooking:

• The cooled filling is carefully laid out in a baguette and sprinkled with grated on top.

• The future snack is laid out on a clean baking sheet and sent to an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 10 minutes.

The finished dish can be decorated with fresh herbs. It will be equally delicious both warm and cold.

Mushroom cake for a snack

Birthday recipes should be distinguished by an interesting presentation, memorable taste and simplicity. All these criteria are met by the following dish, which can be prepared according to the indicated instructions with a photo.

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg of fresh mushrooms;
• 100 g + 4 tbsp. l. thick sour cream;
• 100-150 g of hard cheese;
• 80 ml of sunflower oil;
• 2-3 bulbs;
• For the recipe, salt and pepper are added to taste.

Cooking:

• The onion is cut into small pieces. Mushrooms are chopped into thin plates.

• First, chopped onions are sent to a preheated pan for a few minutes, and then fresh mushrooms. Everything is thoroughly mixed, the field of which is fried over high heat until cooked. At the very end, the mushrooms are brought to taste with spices.

• The resulting filling is passed through a meat grinder. If you want to get a mass that looks like a paste, then you can repeat this action one more time.

• The baking foil is folded into 6 layers. cut into 4 equal parts, that is, the result should be 8 sheets.

• The first layer is laid out on foil, smeared with a thin layer of filling and covered with pita bread. The steps are repeated until the filling is finished.

• The mushroom mass is not laid out on the topmost layer - it is smeared with sour cream, just like the sides of the future filling.

Grate the cheese on a fine grater and use as a decoration.

It remains only to send the cake to the oven preheated to 180 degrees until the cheese is melted. Before serving, the appetizer is cut into small portions and, if desired, decorated with fresh herbs.

Quick salad "Men's tears"

For the following photo-recipe, only the most delicious and at the same time affordable products are used.

Ingredients:

• 350 g champignons (pickled);
• 250 g boiled chicken breast;
• 200-250 g of carrots in Korean;
• 150 g grated cheese;
• 50 ml of vinegar;
• 4 chicken eggs (pre-boiled);
• 1 onion;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking:

• Chop in half rings and marinate it in table vinegar (9%).

• During this time, the boiled brisket is cut into small pieces and laid out in the first layer on a beautiful round dish. Everything is smeared with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Pickled onions are laid out on top.

• Pickled mushrooms are also crushed and laid out in the next layer. Everything is again smeared with mayonnaise, which can be mixed with a small amount of mustard.

• The penultimate layer of salad is Korean carrot. It remains to add mayonnaise again and sprinkle everything with grated cheese.

Salad "Men's Tears" can be served immediately after cooking, but the longer the dish is infused, the richer its taste will be.

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"Anthill" - salad with chicken and potato straws

The unusual presentation of the next dish attracts the attention of the guests and arouses their curiosity. It is hard to believe at the very beginning that elementary ingredients are used for its preparation.

• 250 g chicken fillet;

• 100 g light mayonnaise;
• 100 ml of refined oil;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 3 green onion feathers;
• 2 potato tubers;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt and pepper are added to taste.

Cooking:

• Boil the fillet in plenty of salted water. After cooking, the meat must cool directly in the water to retain its juiciness.

• At the next stage of a simple photo-recipe suitable for a birthday, the meat is cut into small squares and transferred to a deep bowl.

• Chopped tomato and chopped cucumber are added to it. To make the salad look unusual and tasty, according to the recipe, you need to grate it for Korean carrots.

• Grated cheese and a pressed clove of garlic are also sent to the bowl. The amount of these ingredients may vary, depending on personal preference.

The salad is brought to taste with spices and seasoned with light mayonnaise, which can be replaced with low-fat sour cream.

• It remains to prepare straws from potatoes. For this, a Korean carrot grater is used. After the potatoes are thoroughly washed and dried on a kitchen towel.

• Oil for frying is heated in a deep saucepan. Potato strips are fried in it in batches until a golden hue appears.

• The salad is laid out in portions on plates, and sprinkled with cooled potato straws on top.

Meat in French with Adyghe cheese

The following recipe for a hot birthday dish will appeal to any meat eater. It is not only delicious, but also incredibly easy to prepare. Here is a list of products you will need:

• 1 kg (preferably without fat);
• 1 kg of fresh mushrooms (preferably champignons);
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 100 g of Adyghe cheese;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 2 onions;
• salt, ground pepper and mustard are added to taste.

Cooking:

• Mushrooms are cut into thin slices and fried in heated sunflower oil. During cooking, they must be gently stirred.

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• After a few minutes, finely chopped onions are added to the mushrooms. Everything is mixed with a wooden spatula.

• Ready ingredients are transferred to a deep plate. You have to wait until they cool down a bit.

• During this time, two types of cheese are rubbed on a coarse grater.

• The meat is cut into small slices and well beaten off with a special hammer on both sides.

• The oven is heated to 200 degrees. The chops are smeared with mustard and laid out on a baking sheet, which was previously greased with vegetable or butter. You can also use baking paper.

• Mushrooms are first laid on the meat, then chopped tomato, and at the very end - Adyghe and hard cheeses. The baking sheet goes into the oven for 35-40 minutes.

• The finished dish is served hot to the table along with your favorite side dish or vegetable salad.

"Duchess" - a side dish of potatoes that is impossible to forget

Simple and delicious birthday recipes should and should look the same. After all, even the most ordinary side dish can be turned into a small culinary masterpiece.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of raw potatoes;
• 50-100 g of hard cheese (you can combine different varieties);
• 2 chicken yolks;
• 0.5 tsp nutmeg;
• salt and ground pepper are added to taste.

Cooking:

• Peeled potatoes are poured with a small amount of water, salted and boiled until tender. It remains only to make puree with the addition of fresh milk.

• The cheese is rubbed on a fine grater. Otherwise, the dish may fall apart during cooking.

• Cheese is mixed with slightly cooled puree. Yolk and spices are also added there. Everything is well mixed until maximum uniformity.

• The potato mass is laid out with a spoon in a pastry bag with a curly nozzle. It is important that the potatoes are still warm.

The baking sheet is lined with baking parchment. If you grease it with oil, then the dish can “spread” over the entire surface.

Small roses are carefully squeezed onto the parchment. The distance between them should be 1-2 cm. You need to make sure that they do not stick together.

With a culinary brush, potato flowers are smeared with raw yolk. You can do without it, but then the dish will be pale and less appetizing.

The side dish is baked in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes. During this time, a delicious golden crust should appear.

Lemon liqueur: for lovers of elite alcohol

The recipe for Italian Limoncello liqueur is simple and unpretentious. Such a drink is most often prepared for a birthday and is considered very tasty in Italy.

Ingredients :

• 500 ml of high-quality vodka;
• 350 g of drinking water;
• 350 g of granulated sugar;
• 5 ripe lemons.

Cooking:

• Lemons are thoroughly washed under running water, after which the peel is peeled off with a sharp knife.

• The resulting zest is laid out on the bottom of a glass jar and filled with vodka. The container is tightly covered with a lid and infused in a dark place for a week. It is important to gently shake the lemon drink every few days.

• After the specified time, the syrup is prepared. To do this, in a deep saucepan, granulated sugar is combined with drinking water. Everything is mixed several times and put on a slow fire. After boiling, the syrup is boiled for no more than 5 minutes and cooled to room temperature.

• According to the recipe, to get a delicious and simple birthday drink, all that remains is to strain the vodka through a fine sieve or gauze and mix it with sugar syrup.

As you can see, cooking with photo recipes is much easier.

Based on the experience of past generations and famous chefs, even from ordinary products you can cook incredible dishes that will decorate any table.

Before the onset of this significant date, the heart invariably stops with joy in anticipation of gifts, fun, friendly meetings. But some people don't like their birthdays for various reasons. Someone due to the fact that they are at least a year, but they are getting older. And some, especially economical subjects, are busy calculating how much it will cost them, and from the announcement of the estimate, their mood deteriorates. Life so develops that everyone is periodically forced to save. But this is not a reason to deprive yourself of the holidays. Therefore, we will try to answer the question: how to inexpensively set the table for a birthday?

Where is the tradition from?

When did people start celebrating birthdays? There are two versions. According to the first, the tradition was based on Roman rites in honor of the gods. The pagans laid plentiful tables, congratulations sounded, various gifts were given. This hypothesis is more recent. And the second version says that the roots of the tradition go back to ancient times, when there were beliefs about the special vulnerability of a person on his birthday. It was believed that any wishes or curses have a double effect on such dates. Therefore, with offerings, ancient people tried to appease the spirits so that they would not harm the newborn.

Name day of Mukha-Tsokotukha

Birthdays gradually turned into personalities, but for a long time no one paid attention to the date of the birth of children and women. The first woman whose birthday was celebrated on a grand scale was the beautiful Cleopatra. It was not customary for the common people to record and celebrate women's birthdays.

The Greeks and Egyptians often and pathetically celebrated the birth dates of the gods, as well as the pharaohs and kings. Sometimes, on the occasion of the birth of the pharaoh, prisoners were released from prisons. In ordinary families, it was practiced to celebrate only the birthday of the head of the family.

The position of Christianity on this issue at first was extremely tough: life is given to a person to atone for sins, so he is not up to fun. Later, the church softened somewhat and allowed baptisms with name days. But the Soviet system was against name days and, figuratively speaking, trampled on the tradition with its iron boot. Even the famous birthday fly was ordered to be removed from the works of old Korney.

By the way, name days were very popular in Russia: they baked a loaf, brewed delicious beer, cooked pies and sang songs. Of course, the peasant holidays were much more modest than the royal ones: sometimes the amount spent on the name day of the crowned person could be used to build several luxurious palaces.

Surprise Cake

It is clear that ordinary people have always dreamed of deliciously and inexpensively setting the table for a birthday. But what's a holiday without cake? Few people know where this indispensable attribute of birthdays came from. If you dig deeper, it is believed that the idea itself came again from the times of paganism, when sacred altars were lit in pitch darkness in honor of the ancient gods.

But the Germans introduced the tradition. They created a common ritual for celebrating a child's birthday. To do this, they prepared a delicious cake, in which various iconic objects were hidden, candles were placed on top according to the number of years of the hero of the occasion, and, having woken up the child with the dawn, they sang healthy songs to him. It is noteworthy that the cake was not eaten until evening, until the whole family gathered at the table. The child had to think of something cherished and blow out the candles at a time. Familiar, right?

Jam Day: their manners

In different countries, such holidays are treated differently. The most reverent attitude of the majority of the inhabitants of the planet to anniversaries. But some nationalities celebrate just odd or non-circular dates. Traditions are also different: in Italy, spaghetti will be an indispensable dish on the table of the birthday boy (so that he lives long), and in Latin America they always break a piñata with gifts loaded into it.

The British, who have lived to be 80 years old or more, are personally congratulated by Her Royal Majesty. But the most unlucky birthday people live in Japan: instead of children, their parents are congratulated, and it is generally customary to give gifts only after the age of 60.

Economy table rules

If the birthday hostess nevertheless decided to gather close people under her hospitable roof, but wants to measure needs with opportunities, then there is a way out.

Setting a table for a birthday at home is inexpensive, very tasty, and even so that it looks presentable - an absolutely doable task. To do this, you must follow the simplest rules:

1. The menu must be thought out in advance. It's good to delve into cookbooks, look through magazines. It is necessary to pay attention to the ingredients: it is cheaper to buy seasonal products, so the menu is selected accordingly. If the hostess wants to set the table for her birthday at home inexpensively, recipes with photos are especially welcome, because you can immediately see how the dishes will look on the table.
2. Accurately calculate the number of invitees (considering, of course, a few uninvited guests). You can cook hot portions, but in this case, the birthday girl will not have peace. It’s better to make a common dish with a margin.
3. The first courses in the birthday menu, as a rule, are not included. The exception is exotic gourmet soups.
4. If a traditional celebration is planned, then it is quite possible to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively. Recipes for budget meals can be found in any source to your taste. But cold and hot appetizers, main course (meat or fish), salads and dessert must be included.

Alcoholic drinks are also an important attribute of the festive table, as they increase the degree of mood, pardon the pun.

Modest cut and luxurious roll

Many families adhere to classic long-term traditions and set the table with favorite dishes that guests know by heart. But this approach has its own benefit: people will never leave hungry and are guaranteed to be satisfied.

Meat, cheese and vegetable cuts belong to the standard cold appetizers. This classic approach has never let anyone down. The main thing is the variety of varieties in the composition of the cut. Everyone knows that it is with cold appetizers that any feast should begin. This is the so-called organizational moment: after all, it is useless to hope that no one will be late. And while waiting, the rest of the guests will be able to eat well so as not to drink on an empty stomach.

For those who want to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, Korean snacks are perfect: get a little bit of everything (pre-tasting the dishes) and put them on the table in small plates. Homemade pickles and marinades are also in great demand among guests.

There are express recipes for the dedicated on how tasty and inexpensive to set the table for a birthday: a cold roll and an appetizer with the romantic name "Raffaello". The first is prepared as follows:

• a sheet of thin pita bread is smeared with a mixture that includes: mayonnaise, garlic, dill and grated cheese;
• top with thinly sliced ​​ham;
• then the steps are repeated;
• roll pita bread in the form of a roll;
• wrap the product in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Serve such an inexpensive, but original dish by cutting it with a very sharp knife into portioned pieces.

Appetizer "Raffaello" will require the following ingredients:

• crab sticks;
• garlic;
• hard cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• cashews (but you can use walnuts to save money).

A walnut kernel is rolled into a mixture of cheese, fat mayonnaise and garlic. Next, the frozen crab stick is rubbed on a fine grater. In grated crab meat it crumbles with a surprise: the dish is ready. Including with the help of this recipe, you can reveal the secret of how to quickly and inexpensively set the table for a birthday. To make such balls look festive, they are laid out on fresh lettuce leaves.

You can also use seasonal dishes. The budget version of the menu is compiled in the summer. For example, eggplant tongues or fingers. The second option is more expensive, since it has very little, but meat is included.

Delicious hot appetizers

The hostess, asking herself the question of how tasty and inexpensive to set the table for her birthday, should not forget about hot snacks. They follow the cold when everyone has gathered at the table and it's time for the first toasts. They should not be many, and they are prepared shortly before serving. This is a light meal with small portion sizes. An example of such a snack can be easy-to-cook meat balls:

• traditional, minced meat is made, with the addition of a raw egg;
• the finished layer of dough is rolled out and cut into strips;
• meat balls are wrapped with threads of dough like a ball;
• the dish is baked in the oven until cooked.

This appetizer looks very presentable.

Now it is not a problem for the hostess to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, the recipes just jump out of magazines, cookbooks, and Internet portals. Here, for example, is a dish similar to julienne, which is prepared ridiculously quickly, but tastes simply charming. We present to the attention of the housewives champignons in sour cream sauce.

The dish is prepared like this:

• peeled mushrooms are added to carefully sautéed onions and carrots and stewed for about 10 minutes;
• later sour cream, seasonings are laid and everything is stewed until tender.

The simplest dish can be made beautiful if you sprinkle it with grated cheese and herbs on top, and serve it in ceramic pots.

Salads for a date

If you set out to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, then you can’t do without salads. For a traditional approach, Olivier, herring under a fur coat, Mimosa or Caesar are suitable. You can use the simplest option, which will require products such as:

• green pea;
• ham;
• pickled champignons;
• mayonnaise.

This salad is suitable when guests are literally on the doorstep or come unexpectedly. After all, nothing needs to be prepared in advance, all the components are simply mixed.

Salads with seafood can look original, they especially appeal to the female half of the guests.

Main meal serving

A very important moment when, after an artistic exclamation: “Fedya! Game!" on the table appears, for example, a baked appetizing duck stuffed with dried apricots and apples. But the question was how inexpensively to set the table for a birthday, what does the game have to do with it? So it is not necessary to bake the duck, the same can be done with chicken. You can use not the whole bird, but its legs or wings. If you marinate them well, and even roll them in honey, you get an excellent dish with a delicious crispy crust.

In general, before planning the main serving, you need to ask yourself what your guests like more: meat or fish? Only then can you prepare the coveted main course. Of course, fish is several times more troublesome than meat, but either pike will become truly festive and will be remembered by guests for a long time. It is not bad to serve chops, meatballs, medallions or steaks to the festive table. One thing can be said with certainty - meat must be present on the table.

As a side dish for main dishes, you should choose potatoes in any form: mashed potatoes, french fries, fried, boiled with herbs.

What about compote?

To set the table for a birthday inexpensively, recipes are not all that a hostess needs. Drinks are also important. Of course, you can not do without compotes, juices, carbonated drinks, maybe even crocks. And what about alcohol? It is important to take into account here that not everyone drinks strong alcohol, therefore champagne, as well as other wines, is an obligatory attribute on the festive table.

Desserts require tea or coffee. As a sweet, of course, in the classic version they serve a cake with candles, but how to set a festive table for a birthday inexpensively? After all, cakes are quite expensive. There is a way out: either bake a cake with your own hands, or purchase cakes, cookies or sweets. By the way, a confectionery product prepared personally is better than any purchased product, because the hostess puts her soul into the dish.

Mistress Secrets

To set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, but at the same time make it unforgettable, you need to know the main secret: competent serving and decoration of dishes. This is not worth your time.

What you need for serving and decorating:

1. Tablecloth. The classic version is white, but other colors are allowed.
2. Tableware. Cutlery and glasses should be polished to a shine. For a solemn occasion, it will be useful to get your best service from the bins.
3. Do not forget about cloth napkins according to the number of guests. They can be laid out beautifully in waves or in the form of shapes.
4. Decorate dishes with herbs, bright berries, like cranberries, peas, olives. For curly and fruit there is a special knife, it would be nice to buy it. If you ask yourself the question: how to set the table for a birthday inexpensively, recipes can be very surprising. And not only with not too expensive and tasty dishes described in them, but also with a presentable appearance. This is due to the fact that the dish is decorated correctly, because when looking at food, appetite should come.
5. You should not conduct a lot of culinary experiments, let everything be familiar, with the exception of one or two dishes.

A festive table should not be complete without a variety of vegetables and fruits. If the alcohol is planned to be strong, then take care of a hearty and plentiful snack.

Little birthday boy

How to inexpensively set the table for a child's birthday so that he is delighted, probably many mothers think.

Actually, it's quite easy. There are several tips, using which you can make an unforgettable celebration for your child and his friends:

• paper dishes of bright colors - safe and beautiful, and you don’t need to wash anything;
• decoration of the room with balls, paper garlands;
• small dishes - mostly canapes, salads in bowls, lavash rolls with various fillings, chicken croquettes - children do not really like to overeat, unless, of course, these are sweets;
• water drinkers can be offered home-made lemonade, fruit drinks, juices, compotes and milk-fruit shakes;
• desserts are preferably from cottage cheese;
• salads are best seasoned with sour cream and yogurt.

Everything is suitable for canapes: ham, cheese stars, pepper slices, olives, corn, shrimp. The sweet version is done like this: bananas, grapes, kiwi are pricked on skewers.

From boiled chicken, tomatoes, sweet peppers and hard-boiled eggs, you can make a delicious salad by decorating it in the form of a hedgehog with fly agarics on its back. Lettuce is laid in layers: chopped chicken → tomatoes → grated eggs → crushed peppers. Each layer is smeared with sour cream and yogurt dressing. The hedgehog should be sprinkled with grated carrots, and the muzzle should be marked with egg white. The eyes and nose are made from olives and prunes, and fly agaric from eggs and tomatoes.

It is important to create a festive atmosphere and provide the opportunity for the kids to actively move.

Alternative Ideas

Finally, you can offer a few ideas when there is neither time nor desire to spend time in the kitchen, and the soul needs a holiday. You can set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively and tasty by purchasing prepared food from a cookery or restaurant. This option is especially suitable for a young advanced company. You can order pizza, grilled chicken and salads. Japanese dishes are a little more expensive.

There is also an interesting and modern option - a buffet table. But he is subject to certain rules:

• division into disposable portions;
• dishes should be mostly on skewers;
• you can lay out all kinds of goodies on one large table;
• the main dish should be in baskets or make pancakes, after cutting them;
• if chicken legs are served, then the bone is wrapped with a napkin.

Alcoholic drinks must be uncorked, and glasses and glasses must be provided to guests. But a huge plus will be that the birthday girl does not need to constantly change plates and appliances.

The most interesting option would be a birthday in nature. Happy people born in the summer months know what that means. Outdoor picnic, barbecue, barbecue, air and sun - what could be more tempting? But here there are nuances:

• salads with mayonnaise - not recommended picnic dishes;
• meat must be marinated in advance;
• take care of drinking water;
• sandwiches and side dishes can be taken from home.

And what a delicious pilaf on a fire or potatoes baked in ashes!

But whatever the birthday person chooses, the main thing is a festive mood and loved ones nearby.

Laying a festive table is a rather expensive business. Let's talk about various options for budget, hearty and delicious dishes.

To begin with, we choose the practice of planning. We study the products in stock, try to use them in festive dishes. We write a list of dishes with ingredients and a list to buy in the store.

We offer examples of options for delicious and inexpensive dishes with a brief description.

Salads, appetizers

Envelopes / tubules with cheese and mushrooms. We wrap fried mushrooms with grated cheese in thin pita bread or pancakes, heat them in a pan with butter on both sides so that the cheese melts. Can be served both hot and cold.

Salad with mushrooms. Ingredients: boiled red beans -100 gr., mushrooms fried in butter - 100 gr., 2 boiled eggs, garlic, salt, sour cream or mayonnaise. Mix everything.

Herring under a Fur Coat. Ingredients: 0.5 onions, 1 herring, boiled grated potatoes, grated carrots, eggs, beets, mayonnaise or sour cream)

Sandwiches with cheese clouds. Grate 2 processed cheeses like "Hope", "City", 2 eggs, grate garlic, sour cream or mayonnaise, mix. Put the resulting cheese cloud on bread, you can add cucumbers and sprats.

Sauerkraut.

Salad in a hurry. Mix 1 jar of canned green peas, 0.5 finely chopped onions with sour cream or mayonnaise, plus salt and pepper to taste. It turns out simple and quite tasty.

Sharp carrot. These are variations on the theme of “Korean-style carrots”. Three carrots on a grater with garlic and ground black pepper, coriander, and other spicy hot spices, season with sour cream or vegetable oil.

Radish with carrots. Three grated radishes with carrots, salt and season with sour cream.

Avocado with cheese and garlic. Three grated 1-2 medium avocados, 150 gr. cheese, 2-3 cloves of garlic, salt, season with sour cream or mayonnaise.

Available cutting options: cheese, sausage, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers.

Pancakes with various "economical" fillings. We wrap various fillings in thin pancakes: finely chopped or grated boiled eggs, rice with fried onions; liver with onions and eggs; mashed potatoes with mushrooms and fried onions; cheese with mushrooms; sliced ​​boiled sausage with mushrooms and cheese.

Salad with biscuits "Fish". Lay out in layers: “fish” cookies, coat with mayonnaise, grated smoked cheese (“Sausage”), finely chopped chicken breast with green onions, 3 finely grated eggs, a layer of mayonnaise. It is better to let it brew in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours so that the cookies are “soaked”.

Salad with fresh vegetables and herbs:
Option 1: young cabbage, cucumber, dill, green onion, sour cream, salt.
Option 2: cucumber, radish, 2 finely chopped eggs, lots of herbs, salt, sour cream.
Option 3: cucumber, tomato, sweet pepper, cheese, onion, herbs, salt, sour cream.
Option 4: chicken breast or ham, cheese, bell peppers, tomatoes, 2 boiled eggs, salt, ground pepper, sour cream or mayonnaise.

Tomatoes with cheese and garlic. Cut the tomatoes into rings, put grated cheese with garlic and mayonnaise on top.

Liver plates. We make a liver pate: 0.5 kg of boiled or fried liver, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 0.5 packs of plums. oils, salt and spices to taste. Scroll the liver with vegetables in a meat grinder, mix everything. Then put on "wheat plates", tartlets or bread.

Salo. Salo can be used both as a cut, and make a kind of snack by chopping it together with garlic and pepper in a meat grinder. Then spread this mixture on bread. It turns out especially tasty if such sandwiches are slightly warmed over a fire on a grate.

It is more economical when using an abundance of seasonal ingredients: if there are freshly picked or canned, frozen mushrooms, we cook dishes with them, in the season of an abundance of fresh vegetables, we use them to the maximum, etc.

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Chicken breast fritters. Finely chop the raw chicken breast, 1 onion, salt, pepper, mix with mayonnaise and fry in a pan.

Chicken cutlets. We scroll the chicken breast, add a small piece of bacon or pork, 2 eggs, salt, pepper, a little milk, bread or potatoes. Mix thoroughly and fry.

Liver pancakes. Grind 0.5 kg of chicken liver in a meat grinder or blender, 1-2 eggs, 2 tbsp. spoons of milk, onion, 100-200 gr. flour. Mix thoroughly until thick sour cream and spread the pancakes on a preheated pan.

Fish in sauce. Ingredients: 3 large pollock, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 100 gr. milk, 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, salt, pepper. Put the fish in a hot pan, fry on both sides, add chopped carrots and onions, simmer for 5 minutes, add milk, sour cream, seasoning, simmer for another 5-10 minutes.

Fried potatoes with onions.

Fried mushrooms with onions and sour cream.

Fish cutlets.

Boiled rice with fried mushrooms. Separately, cook the rice and fry the mushrooms with onions, then mix or spread the mushrooms on top of the rice.

Chicken wings baked in the oven. A few hours before baking, soak chicken wings in sauce: sour cream or mayonnaise, salt, pepper, spicy seasoning. Then spread on a baking sheet and bake until crispy.

Potato casserole. We wrap it in thin pita bread, laying it out in layers: mashed potatoes, minced meat or stew, fried onions, cheese, sour cream.

Warm meat salad. Fry separately: finely chopped chicken breast, a little beef and vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, onions. We spread it on a plate, serve it short.

Potato pancakes with sour cream and mushrooms.

Zucchini pancakes with sauce(mayonnaise, sour cream and garlic)

For tea

Homemade cakes are much cheaper and more natural than purchased ones.

Biscuit pie with apples. Beat 5-6 eggs and 150-200 gr. sugar, add 100 gr. flour, the dough should be like liquid sour cream. Cut 2 medium apples into a baking dish, spread the dough and bake for 30 minutes.

Pie based cake. Based on this cake, you can make a cake. We cut the cake into several cakes, coat with cream, add soaked dried fruits, marmalade, berries, pour chocolate icing.

Pancakes or thin pancakes with jam, condensed milk, chocolate

Homemade cookies and waffles

Ice cream with jam or sliced ​​bananas

Marshmallow and cookies

Cheesecakes for tea with jam and sour cream

Cake from cottage cheese. Lay out in layers: cookies like "Jubilee", "Sugar", a layer of cottage cheese with sour cream, a layer of thinly sliced ​​​​marmalade, a layer of cookies, a layer of cottage cheese with sour cream, a layer of marmalade, cookies, cottage cheese and pour chocolate icing.
For chocolate icing, melt 2 tsp in 100g of milk. cocoa powder, 4-5 cloves of dark chocolate, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar.

Fruit

The use of exotic fruits significantly increases the cost of the festive table, you can use more affordable fruits: apples, pears, bananas, oranges. In season - watermelon, melon.

After the holiday

It happens that many products remain after the holiday. So, from vegetable and sausage cuts, you can cook soup-hodgepodge, make a kind of gravy for a side dish, and cook a casserole from the remaining side dish and hot. If there are a lot of products left after the celebration, then some can be frozen in the refrigerator, for example, chicken, meatballs, sausage, pancakes and cheesecakes, fish and many others. So they will remain fresh and significantly reduce the time for cooking in the future, it will be enough just to get them out and warm them up.

Complete the list. What options for delicious and inexpensive dishes do you prepare for the holiday?

In our difficult time, many are tormented by the question: what to cook for a birthday quickly and inexpensively? Lack of significant funds is not a reason to refuse a holiday. From quite affordable products, you can cook simple and quick dishes for your birthday. In our article, we have selected for you some original and simple recipes.

No meal is complete without salads. In our opinion, salads stacked in layers in vases or bowls with transparent walls look most advantageous on the festive table. At the beginning of the review, we will talk about inexpensive salads for a birthday. Recipes with photos can be found below.

Ingredients:

• Chicken (leg or medium-sized breast);
• Onion (2 heads);
• Eggs (2-3 pieces);
• Apples (2 fruits);
• Greenery.
• Cheese (sausage, hard or processed cheese) 50-100 g;
• Mayonnaise, allspice or ground white pepper.

Boil meat (without skin) with salt, cool in broth. Remove the chicken from the pan, put in a separate bowl and leave for a while to drain excess liquid from it. Cut into small pieces. I must say that the chicken will give the salad a special flavor, but you can completely do without it.

Hard-boil the eggs (throw a pinch of salt into the water), cool, peel and chop. Coarsely grate the cheese into a separate bowl. Prepare peeled apples in the same way.

Peel the onion. Cut each head in half, and then cut into very thin half rings. Put the prepared onion in a colander, pour over boiling water, and immediately cold. Leave the onion for a while in a colander to drain the water.

For this salad, as for any other that is stacked in layers, a transparent salad bowl with even walls is best suited. Spread the layers of lettuce in the following order: 1. Chicken mixed with mayonnaise and pepper. 2. Bow. Cover this layer with a thin layer of mayonnaise. 3 eggs. Spread with mayonnaise. 4. Apples. More mayonnaise. 5. Grated cheese. Mayonnaise.

The finished salad can be sprinkled with chopped herbs or garnished as desired. Be sure to insist it in the cold for several hours.

Ingredients:

• Carrot (large root crop);
• Raisins or prunes (a quarter cup);
• Beets (large root crop);
• Any cheese (150 g);
• Garlic (4-5 cloves);
• Peanuts or walnuts (half a glass);
• Mayonnaise.

Cooking method:

Boil beets and carrots and cool. Grate into different cups on a grater with large holes.

Rinse raisins or prunes, place in a glass of boiling water, let stand for about 15 minutes. Drain the water, and pour the dried fruits on a napkin to remove moisture. Crush the nuts with a knife or in a blender, but not to the state of dust.

Finely grate cheese and garlic. Using a fork, mix them with mayonnaise.

Put carrots mixed with raisins or pieces of prunes in a salad bowl. Lubricate the top of the layer with mayonnaise. Place cheese mixture on top. And finally, put the beets mixed with half the nuts and a small amount of mayonnaise in a salad bowl.

Lubricate the salad with mayonnaise, sprinkle with the remaining crushed nuts. Let it soak in the cold for about two hours.

Note that all the ingredients that make up this salad go well with meat and seafood, so you can change it to your liking. For example, a layer of crushed crab sticks or squid can be placed between carrots and cheese. And between the cheese and beets - finely chopped chicken.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 2 pcs.
• Korean carrot - 300 gr.
• Cheese - 150 gr.
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Mayonnaise

Cooking method:

To begin with, we put eggs on the stove, as well as chicken fillet. We clean the finished eggs from the shell, and separate the whites from the yolks.

We cut the cooled chicken fillet into cubes, add the yolks mashed with a fork to it, and grease everything with mayonnaise. This will be the first layer of our salad.

The second layer is Korean carrots, which we also mix with mayonnaise.

The third layer is cheese grated on a coarse grater. We also add a little mayonnaise to it, mix, and then spread it.

And the last layer is protein grated on a coarse grater.

That's all, a delicious salad is ready.

The next obligatory attribute of the holiday is an appetizer. This, for example, can be a fish roll. The most affordable fish is mackerel. From it you can cook inexpensive dishes for a birthday. Recipes with photos will continue the story of how to cook a great appetizer roll from this fish with eggs and vegetables.

Ingredients:

• Carrots (1 medium-sized root vegetable);
• Chicken egg;
• Mackerel (carcass);
• Gelatin (half a tablespoon);
• Ground black pepper;
• Salt.

Cooking sequence:

Release the mackerel from the head and entrails, pull out the ridge and small bones from the carcass. Lightly rub the fish with salt, pepper if desired. Place the mackerel in a bowl, cover and leave in the refrigerator for an hour or two to soak in the salt.

Carrots, peel, lengthwise cut into 2 halves. Boil it together with eggs (do not overcook). Cool the boiled eggs, peel and cut in half.

Remove the mackerel from the refrigerator, place the prepared carrots and eggs in the middle of the carcass, sprinkle them with gelatin. Twist the fish into a roll and carefully pack it in polyethylene (you can use a bag or film). Tie the entire length of the roll with thin twine (like a sausage).

Boil water in a wide-bottomed saucepan, carefully lower the roll into it. Boil the fish over medium heat for strictly 10 minutes. At the end of cooking, remove the roll from the pan, without unfolding, cool. When the fish has cooled, you need to place it under a press and refrigerate overnight. You need to unroll the roll just before serving.

But if you don't have that much time to prepare such an appetizer, there are many other options that can be prepared much faster. So, let's look at the simplest snacks for the festive table in a hurry.

Such an appetizer is very quickly prepared, the products are the most affordable and inexpensive, but it is eaten instantly.

Ingredients:

• Processed cheese "Druzhba" - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Mayonnaise
• Tartlets

Cooking method:

Boil eggs, cool and peel. Then you need to grate them on a fine grater. We also rub cheese and garlic. Lubricate everything with mayonnaise and mix.

Now we take ready-made tartlets, and fill them with salad. It is better that they stand for about 30-40 minutes, so that they have time to soak. But even if you prepared this appetizer right before serving, don't worry, even without soaking, it still turns out very tasty.

Ingredients:

• Greenery
• Mayonnaise

Cooking method:

We cook eggs. Let them cool and remove the shells. We cut into halves, and take out the yolks from them, which we put in a separate container. Next, knead them with a fork, add finely chopped greens and mayonnaise to them, mix everything thoroughly. Greens can be any at your discretion: parsley, dill, green onions, cilantro, etc.

Fill the egg whites with the mixture. If you have a pastry bag, it's best to use it.

Ingredients:

• Tomato - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 2-3 cloves
• Cheese - 50 gr.
• Mayonnaise

Cooking method:

Wash the tomatoes and cut into slices. In a small bowl, mix a little mayonnaise with grated or squeezed garlic. Spread the mixture over the tomatoes. Sprinkle them with grated cheese on top.

A festive dinner is unthinkable without a hot meal. An alternative to traditional cutlets or chicken with a side dish can be budgetary birthday dishes in which they are combined.

Ingredients (arbitrary amount):

• Potato;
• Fat and vegetable oil for frying;
• Onion;
• Mushrooms fresh or frozen;
• Any minced meat;
• Eggs;
• 1 olive or prunes for garnish

Cooking method:

Potato tubers, peeled, boiled. Drain the broth and mash the potatoes with yolks until a homogeneous puree is obtained. Spread the puree on a woven napkin or thick cellophane in an even layer (its height should be approximately 3-4 cm). Set aside a few tablespoons of puree in a separate bowl.

Finely chop the mushrooms. If forest mushrooms are used, then they should be boiled beforehand. Fry mushroom pieces in refined vegetable oil.

Chop the onion (preferably finely). Pour into a pan with hot fat or sunflower oil, fry until it becomes transparent. Put the minced meat in the pan, fry it along with the onion until it becomes crumbly. If the liver is used, then it must first be boiled and then twisted. Pour the mushrooms into the minced meat and mix. Place the mixture in a metal bowl and cool slightly.

Put minced meat in the middle of the potato layer. Then lift the edges of the towel and pull the layer of mashed potatoes into a roll. Carefully transfer the workpiece to a greased baking sheet, give it the shape of a piglet. From the reserved puree, make a tail, a piglet and ears. From prunes or olives cut in two - eyes.

Whisk cold egg whites. Lubricate the piglet with them. Bake the dish in the oven until it is covered with a beautiful crust.

Very quickly and without much hassle, you can cook delicious chicken thighs in a honey mustard marinade.

Ingredients:

• Chicken thighs - 1.5 kg
• Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Honey - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Mustard - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Olive or sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. spoons

Cooking method:

Wash chicken thighs, remove fats, and put in a deep baking dish. Next, we make the sauce. We mix in equal proportions: soy sauce, honey, mustard and oil, mix, and pour over the chicken.

We put the dish in the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees, about 1-1.5 hours. To make the thighs brown on all sides, turn them over from time to time.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 2 pcs.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Pineapple - 1 small jar
• Cheese - 150 gr.
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking process:

Chicken fillet cut and beat off. Then salt and pepper to taste. Crack two eggs into a bowl and lightly beat with a fork. Dip the beaten fillet in flour, then in the egg and put in a preheated pan.

We fry the cue balls on medium heat. After the cue ball is ready on one side, we turn it over and put a pineapple on top (it can be either a whole ring or several pieces). Top with grated cheese. As soon as the cheese has melted - remove the cue balls from the pan.

Now you know what to cook for a birthday quickly and inexpensively. Recipes with photos, we hope you were able to help decide on the menu.