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Snacks

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

Don't skip the usual ham sandwiches either. The modern industry says that people buy pleasure. If the sandwich is decorated beautifully (and this can be done simply), then your guests will get double the pleasure. Here is an example nice sandwich with ham laid in a wave and stabbed with a skewer.

Filled tarts! The tartlets themselves are sold in any more or less small supermarket and they are not expensive. So there is no need to mess around with the test. you can start with anything, from rice with mayonnaise and herbs to minced meat with cheese, you can also cook fruit. A huge selection of toppings for tartlets -.

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 one is not expensive and fast option for birthday - stuffed champignons! We offer you a recipe with minced meat. Exactly this hearty meal. 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 simple recipe 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!

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 is the name of a cookie 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.

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 the minimum amount oils. 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 meal usually consists of appetizers, meat dishes cooked on fresh air, seasonal salads and salads from raw vegetables, fruits, 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 cook various types 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 high temperature the outer layer of meat thickens, a crispy crust is formed, which will prevent 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 experiment here too by trying grilled tomatoes or onion.

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

I love accuracy in everything, so I always make a birthday menu in advance. Even if the guests are scheduled almost for tomorrow, I will still make time for this. It is better to spend an extra 10 minutes writing a list than to go to the store twice because of something you accidentally missed.

What lists are needed?

I write several lists at once:

1. a list of dishes and drinks that will be on the table;
2. list of ingredients and purchases;
3. a to-do list, that is, a sequence of actions so as not to forget anything.

Example: organizing a husband's birthday at home

I will show you how I organized this process for my husband's birthday.

Initially, we decided that we would celebrate this day together in a restaurant, but later my husband said that he would just like to sit with friends and drink beer ... and this is at home ... tomorrow. Does it happen to you? In 5 minutes, the men decided that the restaurant was canceled, and long live the homemade feast. Shock? Stress? No, absolutely.

We specify the number of guests: together with us, we got 6 adults and 2 children. So the menu I counted on this number of people.

If you have more time, it means more opportunity to plan everything carefully and correctly, but if you don’t have it, as in my case, just stop for a few minutes and think about what the people who come to visit you like. I know that two of the guests do not eat liver, two more seafood, etc., so these dishes on the table are not desirable. It is probably impossible to take into account all tastes and preferences, but what guests do not eat for sure is not worth cooking. And vice versa, if you know for sure that your guests love some of your dishes very much, they always eat it first, be sure to cook it!

I don’t really bother with the compatibility of dishes, I cook what I am sure of. Just because it's a beer party doesn't mean there won't be cake or light snack. Less conventions, unless you have to meet some ambassador.

An example of a birthday menu at home

Previously, my menu did not always fit on one sheet. Three salads, three types of sandwiches, 3-4 appetizers, etc. Naturally, all this remained after the holiday and disappeared. What for? To show what I am good hostess? This is superfluous, my guests already know it :)

I'm not calling you to minimalism, I'm calling you to be objective. Just think, would you eat so many dishes at a party? If so, you don’t need to invent anything else and add another extra salad.

Because I have little time to prepare, I chose all the recipes simple and not too labor-intensive:

Salads and appetizers

• Salad with smoked chicken (hearty)
• Spring salad (light)
• Tomato salad with green dressing (instead of appetizer)
• Baskets with mushrooms and chicken

hotter

• Rustic potatoes
• Grilled chicken wings
• Khachapuri homemade

Dessert

• Strawberry yogurt cake

Beverages

• Beer, wine
• Juice, compote, tea, coffee

Additionally:

• Adjika, mustard, ketchup

Recipes:

Making a shopping list

If I am cooking certain recipes, then I select all the recipes I need on the table: I print it out, I take it out of folders or I put the notebooks aside.

Why do I need it? So I am sure that having written out all the ingredients, I will not miss anything I need, but I will not buy too much either. Often, relying on our memory, we stand at the store counter and cannot remember how many grams of chicken we need for a salad, or whether there is cheese in this dish at all, so we always take more than we need, being safe.

I making a shopping list based on the ingredients of the recipes I need. After reviewing all the ingredients, I write out only what I don’t have at home, immediately indicating how many grams, kilograms, etc. I need one or the other. My list this time looked like this:

Tip: Take the time to rewrite your list to match the departments of the store you go to. I know exactly the location of my favorite supermarket, so I start with fruits and vegetables, then meat products, cheeses and sausages, etc. Those few extra minutes will save you a lot of time in the store. you will not rush around the entire store, but calmly go around it only once.

And one more important point. If there are products on the list that you need to go to a specialized store or market, take them out separately. With such a detailed list, you can send your husband to the store, and do other things yourself.

I think you noticed what's on my list chicken wings and potatoes are highlighted in red. That's because we ordered them to be made at a beer specialty store that has a huge grill. If there is an opportunity to facilitate your preparation, and you are sure of the quality, be sure to use this. Price difference from raw foods not as big as it might seem.

We plan a sequence of actions

Important plan a sequence of actions so that before the arrival of the guests do not run around in an apron and a dressing gown, cutting food.

Everything that can be cut in the store should be cut there. Having on hand sliced ​​loaf and sliced ​​​​sausage for sandwiches you spend 5 minutes, not 20.

I said that I am writing a list of actions, while indicating what the husband can do, for example. And don't forget to include things like hair washing and beauty treatments on your list. You don't want to remember this half an hour before the guests arrive.

What can you do the night before

If possible, do some of the preparatory work the night before: cook compote, bake cake layers, boil eggs and vegetables. In the morning, you can start cooking directly, rather than preparing the ingredients and chilling them.

I cooked compote in the evening to cool it down, baked a biscuit, and made croutons for salad in the cooling oven. Also boiled chicken fillet and eggs. In the evening, it is better to clean the house, wash the bathrooms and wipe the dust. Tomorrow you just might not be in time.

If I cooked the wings at home, then I would pickle them in the evening too. I usually marinate the wings in a mixture of vegetable oil, soy sauce, ketchup and honey with garlic.

If possible, then in the evening you can cook the whole cake, it will perfectly stand in the refrigerator until the next evening. If not, then start from this point in the morning.

Morning

In the morning it is necessary to do the remaining preparatory work, namely, cut the eggs and chicken fillet for salad and baskets.

I trained myself to cut the same type of food for several dishes at once, for example, all eggs for all recipes. Naturally, I take into account how many of them are needed for which dish, and I divide them into different salad bowls. It really saves time - you only wash the grater, board and knife after this product, not 3-4.

You can also do with cheese and other products. At this stage, I also cook mushrooms so that I no longer have to be distracted by snacks.

It is important to do it in advance stuffing for baskets , then you just have to lay it out in baskets and bake. cook salad with smoked chicken. Since all the ingredients are already cut, it will take quite a bit of time.

What is important to do during the day

In order to switch, and simply not to miss this moment, you need to postpone all necessary utensils which you will need for serving. I put it on a chest of drawers in my room, checking to see if anything needs extra wiping or rinsing along the way. Of course, it is better to accustom yourself to thoroughly wash and wipe the dishes after each feast, then before the holiday it will take only 5-10 minutes.

Prepare the tablecloth and napkins. Refrigerate drinks if necessary.

Whisk dressing sauce spring salad and tomato salad .

cook spring salad , for which mix 4 diced boiled eggs, sliced ​​​​radish rings, thinly sliced ​​\u200b\u200bcucumbers. Separate a third of the green tomato salad dressing, add sour cream and dress the spring salad. Garnish with quail egg halves.

Transfer the adjika to the bowl (if there is no adjika, take care of another sauce for the wings in advance).

What to do in the evening

An hour before the arrival of guests, you can start cooking sandwiches . I will share family recipe. At first glance, the combination is strange, but try them, you will definitely like them. Lubricate the loaf slices with a thin layer of butter, mayonnaise or tartar sauce, lay the sausage slices and top with a slice of kiwi. Garnish with half an olive.

How long did it take for this dish? On the strength of 5-7 minutes, because. only kiwi had to be cut. Such sandwiches look spectacular on the table, kiwi gives sourness and emphasizes the taste of sausage. In this recipe, it is best to use boiled smoked sausage.

If you decide, like me, to make khachapuri, then put the dough on the kneading. We need about 40 minutes to knead and rise. We will do the main work when the guests have already gathered.

While the bread machine is running, spread the filling in baskets . When the guests are already at the table, put the dish in the microwave for a few minutes.

cook tomato salad , it is quite simple, so it is prepared quickly.

It's time to set the table. You can put appetizers and salads, sauce, sandwiches.

It only took me a few minutes to heat up the wings and potatoes. The table is set, the guests are assembled.

If you, like me, decide to treat your guests to khachapuri, then it's time to roll out the dough. They bake pretty quickly. So the guests will not have time to deal with snacks, as you serve them with heat and heat on the table. No fuss, but no one will leave hungry.

I hope that in this birthday menu at home you will find something useful for yourself, making it easier for you to prepare for a holiday or a feast. Put on a beautiful dress, a radiant smile and meet the guests!

Merry and joyful home holidays!

In the age of information technology in which we live, it is not difficult to find out the festive menu for a birthday. Just ask Google. This makes life much easier for our home cooks: now the most complicated recipes, everything is painted step by step, photographed, there are any products in stores. But if you do not have professional training, a lot of experience or talent, it is better complex dishes cook for small companies.

Preparing for the next birthday, the hostess puzzles over how to surprise the guests, what have they not tried yet? And preparation for identity turns into stress. Maybe it’s worth preparing not complicated, but tasty and proven recipes? Design beautiful table, create a warm holiday atmosphere, take care of fun surprises and entertainment? Today we offer you just such an option - a simple menu for a festive birthday table that you celebrate at home.

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Snacks

Canape is the most a win-win: they look festive, you can cook a lot of options so that any guest can find the filling to their liking. Canapes are loved by those who are on a diet. Take multi-colored skewers with curly tips.

For the filling, use cheese, pickled cucumbers, mushrooms, corn, fresh tomatoes durum varieties, cucumbers, meaty bell pepper, shrimps, slightly salted fish, olives, black olives, seedless grapes, lemon slices. In general, everything that can be cut into even squares. And ... fantasize, create on every skewer different version. Or lay out the ingredients, skewers on a large plate: let the guests assemble their own canapes.

Stuffed eggs too a traditional dish holiday table. Our suggestion is to make not one, but several fillings, the plate will immediately bloom.

Boil eggs for 15 minutes, peel, cut in half. Remove the yolk, mix with the filling, where required.

Filling options:

Mash green peas with a fork, add yolk, dill, spices

Mix finely chopped herring with grated beets, pickled onions, a little mayonnaise for viscosity

Any canned fish own juice mash with a fork, removing large bones, yolk, parsley

Finely chopped mushrooms fried with onions, sour cream

Mix any ready-made pate with the yolk, put on a thin layer of butter

Peel the avocado, mash with a fork, yolks, greens

Cod liver, cottage cheese, yolks, dill

Heh from seafood - savory snack. It is better to cook seafood on the eve of the holiday so that everything is well soaked, and add fresh vegetables to the dish half an hour before the guests arrive.

We will need: boiled squid, shrimps, fresh cucumber, bell pepper, for sauce - sesame, onion, garlic, vegetable oil, soy sauce, vinegar, spices, favorite herbs.

Sauce recipe for our Heh: heat the oil in a frying pan, add all the ingredients, but do not boil. Rinse the squids well, boil for a few minutes in boiling water, cut into strips, add the shrimp, season with the prepared sauce.

Fish in batter

Many housewives like to cook fish in batter at home. It is delicious, beautiful, satisfying. We have a potato batter recipe for you.

We will need: pieces of fresh fish, peeled raw potatoes, onion, egg, flour, salt

While preparing the batter, marinate the fish in finely grated onions. Grate the potatoes, squeeze out the starch, add the egg, a pinch of flour, salt, mix everything. Dip the fish in batter, pressing the potatoes tightly, fry in a pan with vegetable oil from 2 sides.

Salads

Without this dish, it is impossible to imagine a festive table, whether you are relaxing at home or invited to a banquet in a restaurant. We offer you salad recipes, each served in a different way.

« » — hearty salad, you can do it a little, you get enough of it quickly

We need: 1 large boiled carrots, Beijing cabbage, 1 boiled chicken breast, a handful of peeled walnuts, a handful of raisins soaked in warm water, fresh cucumber, two boiled eggs, cheese, mayonnaise, spices

Put in layers in a salad bowl: grated on coarse grater carrots, a thin layer of mayonnaise, finely chopped chinese cabbage, mayonnaise, finely chopped chicken fillet, mayonnaise, chopped walnuts, raisins, cucumbers cut into squares, mayonnaise, grated eggs, mayonnaise, grated cheese on top, decorate with herbs.

« Boatswain » — a budget option for holiday menu, the products are the simplest, but original gas station. Serve in individual salad bowls or low, wide glasses.

We need: bank canned fish necessarily in oil, half a cup boiled rice, 2 boiled eggs, apple, pickled onion, 80 gr butter, mayonnaise, sugar, lemon juice.

We spread in layers in personal salad bowls: an egg grated on a coarse grater, half a can of canned fish, mashed with a fork, rice, mayonnaise, grated apple, the remaining fish, pickled onion, grated on fine grater frozen butter. Gently pour over the sauce: canned oil, mayonnaise, sugar and lemon juice, thoroughly mixed.

polka dots

« polka dots » in composition - traditional, beloved by all. Each house has its own recipe for its preparation. We will serve it to the table in an original way.

We will need: boiled potatoes, carrots, eggs, fresh cucumber, boiled sausage, canned green pea, green onion, sour cream or mayonnaise.

In a bowl, cut all the ingredients into small cubes. We season a little with mayonnaise or sour cream, as you like, add spices, herbs. Salad should not be runny.

It is unlikely that every home has a salad ring, we will teach you how to make a replacement for it. Made of plastic 1.5 liter bottle we cut out a low glass without a bottom, put it on a dessert plate, personalized for each guest, and fill it tightly with salad. We remove the container, add mayonnaise on top, decorate with herbs.

Cowboy

« Cowboy » we will decorate in tartlets. So that they do not get wet, you need to fill them with salad just before serving. The recipe is very simple.

We will need: ready-made tartlets, 800 gr boiled beef liver, Korean carrot, 2 boiled eggs, fried onion, mayonnaise, spices.

Pass the boiled liver through a meat grinder, add chopped Korean carrot, chopped eggs, onion, mayonnaise. Decorate with a sprig of greenery.

Second course

Hot at home can serve 2 dishes

Pork rolls - they are not difficult to prepare, they look festive.

We will need: pork tenderloin, for the filling - fried mushrooms, Dijon mustard in grains or regular, cheese, breadcrumbs, egg, vegetable oil.

Pork cut into plates, beat well, salt and pepper. Put the filling of mushrooms, cheese, mustard, roll up the rolls, fasten with a toothpick, roll in egg and breadcrumbs, fry on 2 sides in a pan. Then simmer for 15 minutes in a preheated oven. Serve with fresh vegetables.

Chicken breasts stewed in wine with herbs - delicious, low calorie meal. Can be saved in notebook like a diet menu.

We will need: chicken breasts, any wine, preferably dry, garlic, onions, a lot of greens - basil, rosemary, thyme.

We cut the chicken breasts into portions, add spices and pour 250 g of any wine, marinate for an hour and a half. Fry garlic, onion in a deep frying pan, add chicken pieces to them, fry on 2 sides. Pour the wine in which the chicken was marinated, add herbs and simmer for 15 minutes.

Garnish for our chicken can serve boiled potatoes with butter and herbs, airy mashed potatoes, boiled vegetables. Rice will go great.

Dessert

Pie with curd cream and berries - light, tasty, will come in handy after a hearty menu.

We will need: for the dough - 300 grams of flour, 2 eggs, 100 grams of butter and sugar, baking powder; for the filling - a pound of cottage cheese, a glass of any pitted berries (cherries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, blueberries), a glass of sour cream, half a glass of sugar.

Grind sugar with butter, add eggs, flour, baking powder, mix well. Put the dough in a form with high edges, make sides. Prepare the filling - mix all the ingredients, stir well. Put the filling on the dough, bake for a little more than half an hour.

Muffins with orange peel- easy and delicious dessert

We will need: 250 grams of flour, 1 large orange, 3 eggs, 150 grams of sugar and butter, vanillin, baking powder or soda

Rub sugar with soft butter, vanillin. Add eggs, zest, orange juice, flour, baking powder. Knead the dough with a consistency like sour cream. Pour into cupcake molds. Bake for half an hour.

Marmalade from fruit juice very easy to prepare, looks beautiful.

We will need: a large glass of any juice, you can take half a glass of juice of different colors (apple, cherry), half a glass of sugar, a bag of gelatin, juice of half a lemon.

Gelatin pour ½ juice, let swell for half an hour. In the rest of the juice, stir the sugar, heat over a fire so that the sugar is completely dissolved, remove from heat. Add gelatin, mix very well. Pour the resulting mixture into silicone molds for sweets, refrigerate until set.

As you can see from our recipes, at home you can make budget menu for the festive table, the products are the most ordinary, not complicated cooking. Good luck!

If a birthday of a loved one is coming up in your house, it is important to prepare thoroughly for this event. Ahead of a lot of pleasant troubles for the preparation of the holiday. Once the gift and guest list issues are resolved, it's time to plan your birthday menu at home.

1. Decide on a holiday theme- list of dishes cowboy party and Barbie's ball will be clearly different. The theme of the evening or the day depends on the hero of the occasion: on age, preferences, interests.
2. Count the number of invited guests. Only knowing 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 on age groups. If children prevail, then the menu will be appropriate. For adults, there are also nuances: advanced youth, open to new taste experiences, or people of respectable age with established taste preferences, and maybe contraindications.
4. Solve the issue with the format of the holiday: traditional table or a buffet table, or gatherings on the veranda in the case of a country house. The format primarily depends on the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe house. Typical city ​​apartment and a country cottage dictate different rules.

Important to remember! Planning a menu for a birthday table, even at home, even in a restaurant, is a serious and responsible matter. Never leave it to the last minute.

Traditionally, on the table on a birthday there are the following dishes:

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

There is no universal option. Each holiday forms its own table. Here are a few options for treats so that there is a maneuver for choosing.

Snacks - simple but delicious babies

If only the main course were on the table, then it would not be festive option. Exactly variety of snacks set the right tone and mood. There are countless options for them, the main division is cold or hot.
Options for cold appetizers for the menu on the table for a birthday at home.

1. Lavash rolls– based on the traditional thin Armenian lavash, but the filling is already a flight of fancy. The preparation method is simple: pita bread is spread with a soft component, the rest is crushed and laid in a thin even layer, then the pita bread is twisted and cut into pieces.

Possible toppings:

• cream cheese, slightly salted salmon, fresh dill;
• mayonnaise, crab sticks, cheese, herbs;
• mayonnaise, Korean-style 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, onion, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

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

4. Snacks on chips.

5. Ham rolls.

6. Rolls from crab sticks.

7. Canape.

Options for hot snacks for the menu on the table for a birthday at home

1. Breaded vegetables:

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

Pieces of avocado breaded with breadcrumbs and spicy spices fry in oil.

Sauces based on mayonnaise, ketchup, greens are served with similar snacks.

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

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

What's a holiday without a salad? holiday salad recipes

Salad with chicken fillet and pineapple

AT equal proportions take boiled chicken breast, eggs, canned pineapple and corn. We cut the ingredients and lay them in layers: chicken-pineapple-corn-eggs. All layers are smeared with mayonnaise. At the end, sprinkle the salad with chopped walnut.

Squid salad with rice

Boiled squid cut into strips. Onion cut into half rings and simmer with boiling water. Cut eggs. In a dish, mix chopped foods and boiled rice, season the salad with mayonnaise. To serve, lay out ready meal on a plate garnished with lettuce.

Korean-style smoked chicken salad with carrots

Mix chopped chicken, carrots and canned corn. Fill with mayonnaise.

Main course - the main decoration of the table

What is a table for a birthday at home if there is no main decoration on the menu - a hot meat or fish dish?

Delicious meat on the festive table

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

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

honey sauce for the marinade– grated ginger and garlic, chili pepper rings are mixed with honey, dressed soy sauce and olive oil. Add curry, salt, pepper to the sauce, at the end, pour lemon juice. Lubricate the chicken with the resulting sauce, bake in half an hour.

Important to remember! These recipes use whole carcass and chicken pieces!

2. Pork with cherry jam. To prepare this fragrant roast, take: cherry jam and a drop 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. Before baking, the meat is additionally salted. It is necessary to bake in a form with high edges to pour red wine over the meat. The dish is getting ready more than an hour, every quarter of an hour it is necessary to lubricate 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 spectacular. The fish must be cleaned 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 the fish to readiness, reduce the heat and fry for another three minutes on each side.

his majesty cake

To complete holiday dinner at home, for a birthday, there must be a cake on the menu on the 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 him is decorated with candles. However, a cake is not always easy, it is actually the pinnacle of confectionery art.

If you are not distinguished by culinary talents, then for birthday cake you can use ready-made biscuit, sand or waffle cakes . Any cream is suitable for them: traditional oil with condensed milk, or custard, or sour cream.

If 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 from and to on your own.

pancake cake

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

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

400 gr cottage cheese, glass 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 rest in the refrigerator for at least two hours.

Then you can decorate with chocolate chips or chopped nuts.

Cake "Prague"

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

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

Note! Mixer must not be used!

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

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

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

Butter and chocolate 75 gr. - for glaze.

The components are heated over low heat and stirred until smooth, cool.
Drizzle frosting over cake.

Inexpensive birthday menu

Birthday, though once a year, but it is not always possible to thoughtlessly spend money on festive feast. To organize a birthday table on a budget, the main thing is to use traditional available products, but in an original way to serve and decorate them.

Snacks from lavash and crab sticks won't hurt your pocket too much. Salads are better to choose from seasonal products. In the summer, it will be economical to make a salad from fresh vegetables and in winter choose more hearty option – classic Olivier or Mimosa.

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

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

All kinds of cuts - 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 make a couple of delicious nuances using sliced ​​vegetables, cheese and sausage.

The components fit beautifully on a dish, decorated with carved figures from the same products and greens. You can form roses from strips of vegetables or cheese. Add elegance and circles of olives, sprinkled on top of the sliced.

It is better not to display fruit slices from the very beginning of the evening, because fruits can lose their attractive fresh look. It is better to put them on the table closer to dessert.

Ideas for decorating dishes for a festive table

Dishes can be decorated in the most bizarre ways:

• you can lay out salads in an unconventional way, for example, in the form of a ring;
• decorate cuts and snacks with lettuce roses, curls of green onion feathers, just parsley sprigs;
• salads can be served common dish, and in portions in elegant rosettes;
• on the children's day birthday, you can create whole edible compositions from 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.

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Birthday is the most important holiday for most of us. But over time, fantasy is depleted, monotonous dishes appear on the table. I want something new, but no less tasty. What should be the birthday menu? What original can be put on the table, surprising the guests?

Composition of the birthday menu

If you decide to celebrate your holiday at home, then you need to decide in advance what dishes and in what quantity you will cook. However, one should not overdo it and cook too many all kinds of dishes, most likely, it will not come to most of them. In addition, it should be relatively easy to prepare dishes, especially if you will be doing the cooking alone. Otherwise, you will be so tired that you will no longer want a holiday or a festive table.

The choice of dishes for your birthday depends on the format of the event. Will you sit at the table all the time, or maybe you want to arrange a buffet table, and soon move on to entertainment and dancing. In addition, here it is necessary to take into account the age of your guests and the time of year. The colder it is outside, the large quantity food will be eaten.

Write on a piece of paper how many salads you want to cook, how many snacks, hot. Moreover, try to cook as few dishes of the same type as possible. For example, if you decide to do traditional salad"Herring under a fur coat", you should not do one more fish salad such as Mimosa.

• First, of course, snacks. There should not be too many of them, their goal is not to kill the appetite before the main course, but rather to excite it. Three to five types of snacks will be enough on the table.
• Secondly, it is of course salads. Three types will suffice. various salads. And it's just great if the base of these salads is different, for example, fish salad, vegetable and meat.
• Third, cutting. Cutting does not count a separate dish, but it should always be present on the table. Do not make too many cuts of one product - such dishes quickly wind up and spoil general form. It will be enough for 1 plate (depending on the number of people) of meat, fish, vegetable and cheese cuts.
• Fourthly, a side dish must be present on the birthday table. At least one kind. Most often, this is either mashed potatoes or potatoes baked with mayonnaise.
• Fifth, and this is practically the main dish on the table, hot. One kind of hot must be required. But you can cook 2-3 types, for example.
• And the final chord of the holiday is dessert. It must be on the holiday table. It can be a cake, a pie, a variety of cakes or cookies, ice cream, jelly and puddings. Here, focus on the preferences of most guests. If you do not know their tastes, you can cook two or three types of dessert to please everyone.

Snacks for the birthday menu

Lavash roll with crab sticks

Compound:

• Crab sticks - 200 g
• Sausage cheese - 200 g
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Butter - 100 g
• Mayonnaise - 100 g
• Lavash - 2 pcs
• Dill - 1 bunch

Cooking:

1. Crab sticks cut into small cubes. Cooled sausage cheese and grate the butter and mix with crab sticks.
2. Finely chop the greens, crush the garlic, mix with the previously prepared mixture, add mayonnaise and spices. Spread the resulting mass with a thin layer on pita bread, roll it up, wrap it on top cling film and put in the fridge for a few hours. Before serving, cut into beautiful pieces, obliquely.

Salads for the birthday menu

Salad with chicken and pickled mushrooms

Compound:

• Hard cheese - 200 g
• Smoked chicken - 400 g
• Pickled mushrooms - 50 g
• Onion - 2 heads
• Boiled eggs - 4 pcs
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Fresh tomatoes - 5 pcs
• Lemon juice - from ½ lemon
• Salt, mayonnaise

Cooking:

1. Finely chop the onion, fry it with mushrooms. Cut the chicken into cubes. Three cheese and eggs on a grater.
2. We make sauce. To do this, mix mayonnaise with lemon juice and garlic.
3. We begin to spread the salad in layers, spreading each layer with the prepared sauce and pressing down a little. The first layer is chicken. The second layer is mushrooms with onions. The third layer is the eggs. The fourth is cheese. Fifth - tomatoes.
4. Tomatoes can be cut into shapes to decorate the top of the salad.

Hot for a festive birthday menu

Meat with cheese and mushrooms

Compound:

• Pork - 600 g
• Mushrooms - 250 g
• Cheese - 150 g
• Flour - 200 g
• Mayonnaise - 200 g
• Pepper, salt

Cooking:

1. On a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, lay out half the onion, which we previously cut into rings.
2. We cut the meat like chops, along the fibers, about 1.5 cm thick, beat off, salt and pepper. Put the meat on a baking sheet, on top of the onion.
3. Mushrooms are fried and put on meat.
4. Put the second half of the onion on top, cut into rings, lightly press.
5. Sprinkle our dish with grated cheese on top, pour over with mayonnaise and put in a preheated oven for 30-40 minutes.
6. You can make this dish even simpler, and use no raw mushrooms, but marinated. Then they don't need to be fried.

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