Sometimes making a birthday menu becomes a daunting task for the hostess. Every time you want to please guests with delicious dishes and surprise with unusual recipes. And every time the hostess faces the question of the family budget: How to feed the guests deliciously and beautifully without spending a lot of money? Many years of experience show that the optimal layout of the holiday menu looks like this:

1. two or three salads;
2. several snacks;
3. second festive dish with a side dish.

Despite the fact that you always want to save money, you should not give up one dish made from expensive products. An example of such a dish is sandwiches with good caviar or baked salmon. The main decoration of the table can be a beautifully designed cutting of vegetables or fruits. Don't make a few mayonnaise salads. Better to make one original, guests will appreciate it.

MAIN MENU FOR BIRTHDAY HOUSE FOR 10 PERSONS:

MEAT IN FRENCH

• potatoes
• any meat
• spice

To cook meat in French, you need any meat. Pork is traditionally used, but chicken is the common recipe. It should be fresh, sliced \u200b\u200b1.5 cm across the grain. Such cutting of meat will allow it to remain tender and juicy. You will also need onions, which are cut into rings and marinated in vinegar in advance. In the original French meat recipe, the main thing is to adhere to the sequence of laying out the products. The meat is laid out on a greased baking sheet, tightly to each other. Then onions and potatoes, cut into circles. All this is sprinkled with spices and grated cheese on top. The dish is baked in the oven for about an hour.

MEAT "ARMOSHKA"

• pork or beef
• a tomato
• mushrooms
• garlic, spices

The accordion baked meat is quite simple to prepare. For this, a long piece of meat is taken, cuts are made so that the thickness of the plate is one and a half centimeters. A plate of cheese, a round of tomato and crushed garlic are placed in each cut. Also cut the mushrooms into slices and place on a baking sheet next to the meat. Wrap everything in foil and bake for an hour and a half. Traditionally, they used to serve crushed potatoes as a garnish for meat. However, potatoes are already in the French-style meat dish, so to diversify the festive table, you can prepare a side dish of rice with vegetables.

RICE WITH VEGETABLES IN A MULTI-COOKER

• carrot
• a tomato
• a mixture of frozen vegetables (corn, beans, peppers)
• tomato paste, spices

It doesn't take much work to cook rice with vegetables in a slow cooker. Just chop the vegetables finely, put them in the multicooker bowl along with the pre-fried frozen vegetable mixture. Pour rice on top and add water to cover the rice completely. Season everything with vegetable oil, tomato paste and spices. Turn on the multicooker in the "Rice" or "Groats" mode for an hour and a half. After finishing cooking, mix everything and serve.

SALADS AND SNACKS FOR BIRTHDAY HOUSE FOR 10 PEOPLE

As mentioned earlier, do not repeat yourself in salads. For a menu for 10 people, it is enough to prepare one mayonnaise salad, one vegetable salad and various cold snacks.

SALAD "TENDERNESS"

From the variety of salads with mayonnaise, it is preferable to choose puff salads. One of these simple but delicious salads is the "Tenderness" salad

• crab sticks
• boiled eggs
• boiled carrots
• grated cheese
• mayonnaise

There are several versions of this salad. In the first, each grated ingredient is separately mixed with mayonnaise. In the second, the grated products are smeared with sauce layer by layer. The order of the layers is determined only by the tastes and preferences of the household.

SALAD WITH CUCUMBER AND WHITE BEANS

• chinese cabbage
• cucumbers
• can of canned beans
• sour cream for dressing, spices to taste

Chop all components into thin strips. Rinse the beans from the marinade and add to the herbs. Season everything with sour cream and spices. If desired, the salad can be varied with other fresh vegetables, as well as boiled eggs.

No meal can be complete without cold snacks. They make the feast varied, and a beautifully designed appetizer will decorate the festive menu. For a modest celebration for 10 people, it is enough to prepare several types of snacks.

LAVASH ROLL WITH SALMON

• smoked salmon
• pita
• bell pepper
• processed cheese
• greens, garlic

This appetizer combines the salty taste of fish and buttery cheese. Grate melted cheese mixed with garlic on thin pita bread. Sprinkle with herbs, finely chopped pepper and fish on top. Wrap in a roll, cut and serve. Such an appetizer will taste better if it stands in the refrigerator for a while and soaks. To do this, the roll should be wrapped in plastic wrap and left overnight or for several hours.

KOREAN SQUID STARTER

• squid carcasses
• onions, carrots, garlic
• vinegar
• korean seasoning
• sunflower oil

Rinse squid carcasses, boil and chop into strips. Chop vegetables also into strips. Fry the onions in sunflower oil until golden brown. Mix everything in a large bowl, season with spices, vinegar and leave in the refrigerator for several hours. In order to diversify the recipe, some add bell peppers, zucchini or other vegetable.

In addition to all this, not a single feast can do without cold cuts of meat and cheese, as well as pickled mushrooms.

SWEET MENU FOR HOME BIRTHDAY

Every birthday must necessarily end with a sweet serving. On a sweet table for 10 people, you can prepare a fruit salad or a small cake.

FRUIT SALAD WITH ICE CREAM

• cream
• walnut
• chocolate
• apple
• banana
• orange

Cut all fruits into medium-sized cubes, peeling off the peel and seeds. Chop the nuts and grate the chocolate on a medium grater. Combine fruits with nuts and ice cream, stir and refrigerate. Serve sprinkled with grated chocolate.

When drawing up a menu for the birthday of a house for 10 people, you need not only to take into account the tastes of the invited guests, but also the seasonality of the products. Thanks to the presence of these two components, a birthday will leave behind a lot of positive impressions.

Birthday menu at home for 10 people

Sometimes making a birthday menu becomes a daunting task for the hostess. Every time you want to please guests with delicious dishes and surprise with unusual recipes. And every time the hostess faces the question of the family budget: How to feed the guests deliciously and beautifully without spending a lot of money?

Many years of experience show that the optimal layout of the holiday menu looks like this:

1. several types of salad;
2. 2-3 snacks;
3. second festive dish with a side dish.

The correct and tasty menu for a birthday, when it is planned to gather in a close circle of about 10 people, necessarily includes several hot dishes, snacks and salads. Drawing up a festive menu for a birthday requires a lot of effort from the hostess. Despite the fact that you always want to save money, you should not give up one dish made from expensive products. An example of such a dish is sandwiches with good caviar or baked salmon.

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For 10 people, it is enough to serve two herring, cut into pieces, decorated with herbs and onions. The main decoration of the table can be a beautifully designed cutting of vegetables or fruits. Don't make a few mayonnaise salads. Better to make one original, guests will appreciate it.

MAIN MENU FOR BIRTHDAY HOUSE FOR 10 PERSONS:

Simple Meat in French

• potatoes
• any meat
• spice

To cook meat in French, you need any meat. Pork is traditionally used, but chicken is the common recipe. It should be fresh, sliced \u200b\u200b1.5 cm across the grain. Such cutting of meat will allow it to remain tender and juicy. You will also need onions, which are cut into rings and marinated in vinegar in advance. In the original French meat recipe, the main thing is to adhere to the sequence of laying out the products. The meat is laid out on a greased baking sheet, tightly to each other. Then onions and potatoes, cut into circles. All this is sprinkled with spices and grated cheese on top. The dish is baked in the oven for about an hour.

Pork "Accordion"

• pork or beef
• a tomato
• mushrooms
• garlic, spices, mayonnaise

The accordion baked meat is quite simple to prepare. For this, a long piece of meat is taken, cuts are made so that the thickness of the plate is one and a half centimeters. A plate of cheese, a round of tomato and crushed garlic are placed in each cut. Also cut the mushrooms into slices and place on a baking sheet next to the meat. Wrap everything in foil and bake for an hour and a half. Traditionally, they used to serve crushed potatoes as a garnish for meat. However, potatoes are already in the French-style meat dish, so to diversify the festive table, you can prepare a side dish of rice with vegetables.

Rice garnish with frozen vegetables

• carrot
• a tomato
• a mixture of frozen vegetables (corn, beans, peppers)
• tomato paste, spices

It doesn't take much work to cook rice with vegetables. Just chop the vegetables finely, put them in the multicooker bowl along with the pre-fried frozen vegetable mixture. Pour rice on top and add water to cover the rice completely. Season everything with vegetable oil, tomato paste and spices. Turn on the multicooker in the "Rice" or "Groats" mode for an hour and a half. After finishing cooking, mix everything and serve.

SNACKS & SALADS FOR BIRTHDAY HOME FOR 10 PEOPLE

As mentioned earlier, do not repeat yourself in salads. For a menu for 10 people, it is enough to prepare one mayonnaise salad, one vegetable salad and various cold snacks.

Chicken salad with pickled mushrooms

No holiday is complete without delicious salads. And the more of them on the table, the better. All housewives know about it. Therefore, every time another celebration is coming, we plan to put delicious salads on the table.

If you are thinking about which salad recipe to choose this time, then let me suggest an excellent salad using chicken meat, pickled mushrooms and other ingredients. With such products, the dish will undoubtedly turn out great.

It is best to pickle mushrooms yourself. So you will save money and prepare a delicious appetizer that can serve as an independent dish on the festive table, and of course, as an addition to the salad.

Preparing pickled mushrooms is very simple. It only takes a day for the mushrooms to become suitable for use in salad. To do this, take 500-600 grams of mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons). Boil them for about eight minutes in a marinade made from one liter of water, 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar and vegetable oil. Add allspice and peas. Cool and put the mushrooms in the refrigerator for a day. Exactly in 24 hours your mushrooms will become the most delicious and will successfully replenish the festive menu.

This dish is quite high-calorie, hearty and tasty. Perfect for any birthday menu at home. With it, you will diversify your holiday menu and please your guests. So, let's start preparing a delicious salad with chicken and mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• - chicken quarter - 1 pc .;
• - pickled mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons) - 200 grams;
• - canned corn - 1 can;
• - chicken eggs - 2-3 pcs.;
• - onion - 1 small head;
• - mayonnaise with fat content from 50% - 1 small pack.

Recipe:

Before preparing our salad, boil the chicken and eggs. Finely chop the onion and pickle. Peel and chop the eggs. Place in a bowl.

Divide the chicken into small pieces of meat. Drain the liquid from the mushrooms. Place both ingredients in a bowl with eggs.

Open a can of corn and drain off the liquid. Place the corn in a bowl. Send pickled onions there. Stir the salad.

It remains to fill the dish with mayonnaise. The higher the fat percentage of the mayonnaise, the tastier the salad will be. Do not use light mayonnaise for this purpose, because then the taste of the dish will deteriorate significantly. And we make a salad with chicken and mushrooms in order to fully enjoy its taste, which will help us with mayonnaise with a fat content of 50 or 67%.

After mixing with mayonnaise, the salad should be served immediately to the festive table. Move it to a salad bowl and decorate the table with this dish.

If you decide to prepare a salad with chicken and mushrooms in advance for your birthday, then leave the slices without dressing (mayonnaise) before serving. When guests are on their way, you can start refueling. If you did this in advance, then pour the salad with mayonnaise again before serving.

This recipe will come in handy in any case, whether it be New Year, March 8 or Birthday. The taste of the salad is really rich thanks to the presence of pickled mushrooms in it, which have a sour-salty taste. Sweet corn is also present in the salad, which adds richness to the dish and softens possible acidity. In general, canned corn often helps housewives in the process of preparing various salads. After all, with its help, you can decorate a dish, add sweets to it, or simply use corn as an additional ingredient.

Rest assured that you and your guests will enjoy the chicken and mushroom salad. And perhaps it will become one of the favorite holiday dishes.

Crab salad

From the variety of salads with mayonnaise, it is preferable to choose puff salads. One of these simple but delicious salads is the Crab salad

• crab sticks
• boiled eggs
• boiled carrots
• grated cheese
• mayonnaise

There are several versions of this salad. In the first, each grated ingredient is separately mixed with mayonnaise. In the second, the grated products are smeared with sauce layer by layer. The order of the layers is determined only by the tastes and preferences of the household.

Peking cabbage and ham salad

• chinese cabbage
• cucumbers
• can of canned beans
• ham
• sour cream for dressing, spices to taste

Chop all components into thin strips. Rinse the beans from the marinade and add to the herbs. Season everything with sour cream and spices. If desired, the salad can be varied with other fresh vegetables, as well as boiled eggs.

No meal can be complete without cold snacks. They make the feast varied, and a beautifully designed appetizer will decorate the festive menu. For a modest celebration for 10 people, it is enough to prepare several types of snacks.

Liver cake

The liver is a storehouse of iron, vitamins, minerals, and deficient amino acids. Dishes from the liver are obtained simply with a bang. The liver cake turns out to be airy and tender, it is simply impossible to believe that this dish is made from ordinary liver.

Liver cake consists of pancakes coated with mayonnaise, decorated with pieces of vegetables. Cold liver cake is even tastier.

• A piece of frozen pork or beef liver (500 g);
• Some milk;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• 2 onions;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 2 pieces of carrots;
• Garlic;
• Mayonnaise;

The liver is known to have a bitter taste and can be easily removed by soaking in milk. Just soak the liver in milk for two hours. You can make the liver soft by scalding it with boiling water, or lower it in boiling water for 4 minutes and put it on a sieve. Next, cook as usual. Remove all films and ducts, do not allow bile to enter the dish.

Grind onion and liver in a meat grinder, add flour and eggs, pepper and salt. Prepare the filling with a mixture of garlic, mayonnaise and carrots. Boil carrots and grate on a fine grater. Fry liver pancakes for 4 minutes on each side. Use wooden spatulas to turn the pancakes. It is important that the cake cannot burst, because it turns out to be soft and juicy. Coat each cake with mayonnaise, lay out a thin layer of grated boiled carrots, herbs, egg crumbs.

You can decorate the top of the cake with half a boiled egg or radish, cucumbers.

Lavash rolls with fish

• smoked salmon
• pita
• bell pepper
• processed cheese
• greens, garlic

This appetizer combines the salty taste of fish and buttery cheese. Grate melted cheese mixed with garlic on thin pita bread. Sprinkle with herbs, finely chopped pepper and fish on top. Wrap in a roll, cut and serve. Such an appetizer will taste better if it stands in the refrigerator for a while and soaks. To do this, the roll should be wrapped in plastic wrap and left overnight or for several hours.

Pickled squid

• squid carcasses
• onions, carrots, garlic
• vinegar
• korean seasoning
• sunflower oil

Rinse squid carcasses, boil and chop into strips. Chop vegetables also into strips. Fry the onions in sunflower oil until golden brown. Mix everything in a large bowl, season with spices, vinegar and leave in the refrigerator for several hours. In order to diversify the recipe, some add bell peppers, zucchini or other vegetable.

In addition to all this, not a single feast can do without cold cuts of meat and cheese, as well as pickled mushrooms.

HOME BIRTHDAY DESSERTS

Every birthday must necessarily end with a sweet serving. On a sweet table for 10 people, you can prepare a fruit salad or a small cake.

Ice cream with fruits

• cream
• walnut
• chocolate
• strawberry
• banana
• orange

Cut all fruits into medium-sized cubes, peeling off the peel and seeds. Chop the nuts and grate the chocolate on a medium grater. Combine fruits with nuts and ice cream, stir and refrigerate. Serve sprinkled with grated chocolate.

When drawing up a menu for the birthday of a house for 10 people, you need not only to take into account the tastes of the invited guests, but also the seasonality of the products. Thanks to the presence of these two components, a birthday will leave behind a lot of positive impressions.

If a birthday of a loved one is planned in your home, it is important to prepare for this event thoroughly. Ahead is a lot of pleasant efforts to prepare the holiday. With the gift and guest list issues resolved, it's time to plan your birthday table menu at home.

1. Decide on the theme of the holiday - The list of dishes in a cowboy party and a Barbie ball will be clearly different. The theme of the evening or day depends on the hero of the occasion: on age, preferences, interests.
2. Count the number of guests invited... Only if you know the total number of guests, you can correctly plan the variety of dishes and the number of servings.
3. Important not only count the guests, but also decide in age categories... If children predominate, then the menu will be appropriate. For adults, there are also nuances: advanced youth, open to new taste impressions, or people of a respectable age with established taste preferences, and maybe contraindications.
4. Solve the issue with the format of the holiday: traditional table or buffet table, or sitting on the veranda in case of a house outside the city. The format primarily depends on the area of \u200b\u200bthe house. A typical city apartment and a country cottage dictate different rules.

Important to remember! Planning a menu for a birthday table at home or in a restaurant is a serious and responsible business. Never leave it to the last moment.

Traditionally, the following dishes are on the birthday table:

• snacks;
• salads;
• hot meals;
• cake.

There is no one size fits all option. Each holiday forms its own table. Here are several options for treats so that there is a maneuver for choosing.

Snacks - simple but delicious babes

If there was only the main dish on the table, then it would no longer be a festive option. It is a variety of snacks that set the right tone and mood. There are countless options, the main division is cold or hot.
Cold appetizer options for the menu on the birthday table at home.

1. Lavash rolls - the traditional thin Armenian lavash is taken as a basis, but the filling is already a flight of imagination. The method of preparation is simple: lavash is spread with a soft component, the rest is crushed and laid in a thin even layer, then the lavash is rolled and cut into pieces.

Possible fillings:

• cream cheese, lightly salted salmon, fresh dill;
• mayonnaise, crab sticks, cheese, herbs;
• mayonnaise, Korean carrots, cheese, herbs;
• mayonnaise, ham, cheese.

2. Tartlets. We buy or bake molds and fill them with various mixtures:

Cod liver, cream, mascarpone;
boiled chicken fillet, fresh cucumbers, onions, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

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

4. Snacks on chips.

5. Ham rolls.

6. Rolls from crab sticks.

7. Canapes.

Hot snack options for the menu on the birthday table at home

1. Breaded vegetables:

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

Fry slices of avocado in breadcrumbs and spices in oil.

Sauces based on mayonnaise, ketchup, herbs are served with such snacks.

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

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

What is a holiday without a salad? Holiday Salad Recipes

Chicken fillet and pineapple salad

In equal proportions, take boiled chicken breast, eggs, canned pineapples and corn. Cut the ingredients and lay them in layers: chicken-pineapple-corn-eggs. All layers are coated with mayonnaise. At the end, sprinkle the salad with chopped walnuts.

Squid salad with rice

Cut the boiled squid into strips. Cut the onions into half rings and simmer with boiling water. Slice the eggs. In a dish, mix the chopped foods and boiled rice, season the salad with mayonnaise. For serving, place the finished dish on a plate decorated with lettuce leaves.

Korean style smoked chicken salad with carrots

Combine chopped chicken, carrots and canned corn. Season with mayonnaise.

The main dish is the main decoration of the table

What is the birthday table at home if the menu does not include the main decoration - a hot meat or fish dish?

Delicious meat on the festive table

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

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

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

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

2. Pork with cherry jam... To make this flavorful roast, take: cherry jam and a drop of apple cider vinegar, mix everything with olive oil and Tabasco sauce. Add herbs - chopped fresh or dry mixture.

A piece of pork is poured with the resulting marinade and stands in the refrigerator for several hours. The meat is additionally salted before baking. You need to bake in a dish with high edges to pour red wine over the meat. The dish is being prepared for a little over an hour, every quarter of an hour it is necessary to grease the meat with the juice released during the baking process.

Fish for hot

1. Dorado is ideal for a festive table. Easy to prepare and looks great. The fish should be peeled and rolled in a mixture of spices and salt. Let marinate for up to half an hour. Fry in a grill pan until golden brown on both sides. To bring fish to readiness, reduce heat and fry for another three minutes on each side.

His majesty cake

To round off a festive dinner at home, there must be a cake on the menu on the birthday table. A birthday boy of any age will be happy to make a wish and blow out the candles. Especially if a cake prepared by a person who loves it is decorated with candles. However, cake is always not easy, it is actually the pinnacle of confectionery art.

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

If you add fruit layers, the cake will taste even richer. For those who are not afraid of culinary experiments, you can cook the cake inside and out yourself.

Pancake cake

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

• Shake eggs, pour in milk, salt.
• Sift flour into milk and egg mixture.
• Add slaked soda at the end.
• We bake traditional pancakes from the obtained batter.

400 gr of cottage cheese, a glass of powdered sugar, a pinch of vanilla.

The ingredients for the filling are mixed into a homogeneous mass.
The cooled pancakes are smeared with cream and stacked on top of each other. The cake should stand in the refrigerator for at least two hours.

You can then garnish with chocolate chips or chopped nuts.

Cake "Prague"

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

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

Note! The mixer cannot be used!

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

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

The yolk is mixed with water, condensed milk is added, and brought to thicken with continuous stirring.
Mix oil with vanilla.
Beat butter and cooked chilled cream in portions.
Add cocoa and bring to an airy cream with a mixer.
Cut the cooled biscuit into three layers.
Apply the cream to the first and second layers. Coat the entire surface of the cake with jam or jam.

Butter and chocolate 75 gr. - for glaze.

The components are heated over low heat and stirred until smooth, cooled.
Pour the icing over the cake.

Inexpensive birthday menu

Birthday even once a year, but not always there is an opportunity to mindlessly spend money on a festive feast. To organize a birthday table on a budget, the main thing is to use traditional affordable products, but serve and decorate them in an original way.

Lavash and crab stick snacks won't hit your pocket hard... It is better to choose salads from seasonal products. In summer, it will be economical to prepare a salad of fresh vegetables, and in winter, choose a more hearty option - classic Olivier or Mimosa.

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

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

All kinds of cuts are a great addition to the festive table

When the menu on the table for a birthday celebrated at home has already been determined, you can add a couple of delicious nuances using slices of vegetables, cheese and sausages.

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

It is better not to display fruit slices from the very beginning of the eveningas the fruit may lose its attractive fresh appearance. It is better to put them on the table closer to the dessert.

Ideas for decorating dishes for a festive table

Dishes can be arranged in the most bizarre ways:

• you can unconventionally lay out salads, for example, in the form of a ring;
• decorate cuts and snacks with roses from lettuce leaves, curls from feathers of green onions, just sprigs of parsley;
• salads can be served not in a common dish, but in portions in elegant rosettes;
• on a children's birthday party, you can create whole edible compositions of egg mice, mushrooms and hedgehogs.

Experiment! Don't be afraid of new recipes! Cook with pleasure, and any festive meal will delight you and your guests.

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In order to create a holiday menu, it is not at all necessary to spend incredible funds. Dishes from available products, cooked with fiction, a kind of "zest", will delight your guests and at the same time will not pose a threat to your family budget. Any family certainly has some kind of festive dishes, familiar and enjoying constant success. It can be an appetizer that goes with a bang with vodka, or a signature ceremonial-weekend dish that is prepared once or twice a year ... But life does not stand still, and unusual combinations, new forms and dishes prepared fast, simple and tasty.

Ingredients:
600 g of Chinese cabbage,
200 g of crab meat,
4 eggs,
6 tbsp soy sauce,
4 tablespoons vegetable oil,
2 reading sheets sesame seeds,
2 tsp Sahara,
ground red pepper to taste.

Preparation:
Beat eggs with 2 tablespoons. soy sauce. Pour some vegetable oil into a preheated frying pan, pour the eggs and fry the omelet for 3-4 minutes on each side over low heat. Remove the finished omelet from the pan, sprinkle sesame seeds and a pinch of red pepper on it and fry for 1-2 minutes until the aroma appears. Combine sesame seeds, soy sauce, vegetable oil and sugar and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Cut cabbage, scrambled eggs and crab meat into thin strips and season with sauce.

Ingredients:
2 boiled beets,
4-5 cloves of garlic
200-250 g of hard cheese,
a handful of walnuts or prunes,
mayonnaise, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Grate boiled beets on a coarse grater, salt, add 2-3 cloves of garlic, passed through a press, and mix with 2-3 tbsp. mayonnaise. The mayonnaise for this snack can be mixed with sour cream or cream. Add finely chopped nuts or prunes. Grate the cheese on a medium grater, add the remaining garlic and mayonnaise. Place on a flat dish in layers, alternating between cheese and beets (top layer is beets). Garnish with chopped nuts and herbs.

Ingredients:
400 g of boiled beef or veal,
4 onions,
200 g of hard cheese,
6% apple cider vinegar
mayonnaise mixed with sour cream in a 1: 1 ratio.

Preparation:
Cut the onion into quarters and soak in vinegar for 15 minutes. Cut the meat into thin strips, grate the cheese and eggs on a coarse grater. Spread in layers, sprinkling each layer with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream: onions (no vinegar) - meat - eggs - cheese. Decorate with herbs.

Ingredients:
500 g beef liver
4 onions,
2 carrots,
1 egg,
2 tbsp flour,
½ stack. milk,
mayonnaise, salt, black pepper, herbs - to taste.

Preparation:
Clean the liver from films and ducts, rinse well and cut into pieces. Grind the liver and one onion in a blender, then pour in the milk, add the egg and flour and beat until smooth. In a frying pan with a diameter of 20 cm, bake liver pancakes, frying them on both sides in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes. Cool it down. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into half rings. Fry the onions and carrots separately in vegetable oil, put in bowls and mix with mayonnaise. Assemble the cake by layering: liver pancake - carrot - pancake - onion, etc. The top layer should be vegetables. Leave to soak in a cool place overnight. Sprinkle with herbs when serving.

Ingredients:
8 squid carcasses (better than unpeeled),
4 eggs,
200 g of cheese
40 pcs. pickled mushrooms,
½ tsp salt,
½ tsp dried thyme.

Preparation:
Rinse the squid and boil one at a time in boiling salted water for 15-20 seconds. You cannot cook the squid longer, they will become rubbery. Immerse the squid in cold water, peel and viscera and rinse. Cut off the protruding parts of the squid, being careful not to damage the carcass, cut into small cubes and mix with eggs and cheese, also diced. Add salt and thyme and stir. Stuff the squid carcasses and place in the oven at 220 ° C for 10 minutes. Ready-made squid can be served as a hot snack or chilled and cut into slices.

Ingredients:
300 g lightly salted trout or salmon,
250 g of peeled boiled shrimp,
100 g of crab meat (imitation),
½ avocado,
3 boiled eggs
1 tomato,
1 cucumber,
½ lemon (juice),
salt, black pepper, mayonnaise - to taste,
red caviar, soft cream cheese - for decoration.

Preparation:
Cut the crab meat into small cubes. Peel the boiled eggs, separate the whites from the yolks and chop finely. Cut the avocado into cubes and drizzle with lemon juice. Cut the tomato and cucumber into cubes as well. Cut the trout into thin slices using a sharp knife (ceramic knives do an excellent job of this). Layer the salad in layers, spreading mayonnaise on each layer and sprinkling with ground pepper: crab meat - cucumber - shrimp - proteins - yolks - tomatoes - avocado. Also grease the top layer with mayonnaise and salt a little. Then cover the whole salad with the trout strips. Whip the soft butter with a mixer, transfer to a cornette and decorate the top of the "cake", planting patterns as desired. Garnish with red caviar.

Ingredients:
Ingredients for 6 tins with a diameter of 15 cm:
700 g minced pork
1 large onion
250 g of hard cheese
2-3 potatoes,
mayonnaise, salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Preparation:
Pass the minced meat through a meat grinder again, salt, pepper and knead well. Cut the onion into small cubes, grate the raw potatoes and cheese on a coarse grater, chop the herbs. Put prepared food in layers in oiled tins: minced meat, onions, potatoes, cheese, pour with mayonnaise and sprinkle with herbs. Bake at 190 ° C for 30 minutes. Serve directly in the tins.

A hot dish for a festive table is always the hostess's signature number, the main treat for guests.

Ingredients:
1 kg beef tenderloin
1 egg,
500 g ready-made yeast puff pastry,
salt, pepper - to taste.
For the sauce:
200 ml cream
1 tbsp mustard,
1 onion.

Preparation:
Cut the meat into large pieces 4-5 cm thick and fry in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes on each side. Place on a plate, sprinkle with salt and pepper on all sides and let cool slightly. Divide the layers of dough into pieces equal to the number of pieces of meat, roll them into strips 4-5 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick. Stir the egg with a fork, salt a little. Grease the strips of dough with an egg, place the meat on them and wrap. Brush the top of the dough with an egg and place the pieces on a baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in an oven heated to 180 ° C for 10-15 minutes and bake until the dough is ready. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil until transparent, pour in the cream, bring to a boil, add mustard, salt and pepper to taste and simmer a little over low heat until thickened.

Ingredients:
1 kg of smoked brisket (choose the one with more meat than lard),
2 packs of ready-made puff yeast dough (about 1 kg),
8-10 carnation buds,
2 tsp Georgian adjika,
½ stack. tomato ketchup.

Preparation:
Fold the defrosted dough into layers and roll them into a layer large enough to hold a piece of brisket. Mix the ketchup with adjika and rub the brisket thoroughly on all sides. Stick in a clove. Transfer the brisket to the dough, wrap the edges and pinch the seams so that the juice that comes out during baking does not leak out. Place in a greased baking dish and place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 15-20 minutes. The dough should brown well. Serve hot with fresh vegetables and sour cream sauce.

Ingredients:
1 chicken (preferably chilled)
150 g ham
150 g of hard cheese
2 eggs,
2 sweet red peppers
1 bunch of greens
1 tsp dried rosemary
50 bread crumbs,
salt, black pepper.

Preparation:
Remove the skin from the chicken carcass, being careful not to break it. When removing the skin, leave the legs and wings intact, cutting them off at the joint. Remove all meat from the bones and pass through a meat grinder. Cut the cheese, ham and bell peppers into small cubes and combine with the minced meat. Add chopped herbs, bread crumbs and eggs, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Sew up or secure the hole at the neck on the skin with toothpicks, stuff the skin with the minced meat and sew up the abdomen. Place on a greased baking sheet. Mix vegetable oil with rosemary and rub the surface of the chicken with it. Bake at 180 ° C for 1.5 hours, pouring the juice over the chicken every 20 minutes.

For baking, take the fleshy part of the back pork leg, cut off excess fat, leaving a thin layer, and using a disposable syringe with a thick needle, inject a strong saline solution into the thickness of the meat - syringe. Place the meat in a frying pan greased with mayonnaise, salt and pepper and brush with a thick layer of mayonnaise. The places where the bacon remains do not need to be lubricated. Place in an oven preheated to 200-220 ° C and bake until tender. Check the readiness by piercing the thickness of the meat with a thin long knife - if the juice that stands out is transparent, the meat is ready. Remove the skillet from the oven, transfer the meat to a plate and peel off the mayonnaise. Cover the meat with foil and let cool.

Ingredients:
8 slices of loin,
4 oranges,
2 lemons
1 tbsp liquid honey,
2 tbsp dry mustard,

Preparation:
Juice oranges and lemons. Chop the pieces of meat in several places and place in the citrus juice mixture for 12 hours. Combine mustard, honey and 4 tablespoons. water. Remove the meat from the marinade, rub with a honey-mustard mixture and fry in hot vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown. Place in a baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and top with remaining marinade. Cover the mold with foil and place in an oven heated to 180 ° C for 40 minutes. Then remove the foil and brown the meat for 10 minutes.

Ingredients:
8 tilapia fillets,
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp vegetable oil,
2 lemons (juice),
salt.

Preparation:
Pour salt and coriander seeds into a mortar and crush, then add 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and stir. Grate the tilapia fillet with the resulting mixture and put in a dish greased with vegetable oil. Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 20 minutes. Top with lemon juice when serving. Garnish - boiled crumbly rice or mashed potatoes and a lot of fresh vegetables.

Ingredients:
900 g salmon steaks (3 large pieces),
150 ml soy sauce
3 tbsp Sahara,
3 tsp sesame seed,
3-4 cloves of garlic
1 tsp ground red pepper.

Preparation:
Divide the salmon steaks along the spine and remove all bones. Place the fish skin side down in a roasting sleeve, deflate and tie the ends, leaving 15 cm on both sides. Place the sleeve on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: pour the soy sauce into the pan, add sugar, red pepper, sesame seeds and garlic crushed with a knife blade, stir, bring to a boil and evaporate for 5-7 minutes until thickened. Strain the finished sauce through a sieve. Serve salmon with sauce. Garnish with steamed broccoli and boiled rice.

Ingredients:
1 kg fillet of any white fish,
400 ml 35% cream,
2 eggs,
200 g of grated hard cheese,
salt, black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
Put the fish fillets in a dish greased with vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Whip the cream with the eggs, add the cheese grated on a fine grater and pour the fish into the mold. Bake at 180 ° C for 20 minutes.

And finally, dessert!

Ingredients:
250 g flour
¼ tsp baking powder,
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
115 g sugar
2 eggs,
150 ml odorless vegetable oil,
150 ml of milk.
Cream:
1 tsp instant coffee,
1 tbsp water,
300 ml 35% cream,
2 tbsp icing sugar.

Preparation:
Sift flour into a bowl, add cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar, eggs, milk and butter. Stir with a mixer and divide into 2 parts. Pour the dough into 2 molds and place in an oven heated to 170 ° C for 5-7 minutes (if the oven is small or there is only one mold, bake the cakes in turn). Cool it down. For the cream, dissolve the coffee in water. Whip the cream with powdered sugar until thick, add coffee and beat a little more. Put the first crust on a flat dish, put half of the cream on it, put the second crust and brush everything with the remaining cream. Sprinkle with coarsely grated chocolate and refrigerate overnight. The next day, almost all the cream will be absorbed into the cakes, turning the cake into the most delicate delicacy.

Enjoy your meal!

Larisa Shuftaykina

Sometimes making a birthday menu becomes a daunting task for the hostess. Every time you want to please guests with delicious dishes and surprise with unusual recipes. And every time the hostess faces the question of the family budget: How to feed the guests deliciously and beautifully without spending a lot of money? Many years of experience show that the optimal layout of the holiday menu looks like this:

1. two or three salads;
2. several snacks;
3. second festive dish with a side dish.

Despite the fact that you always want to save money, you should not give up one dish made from expensive products. An example of such a dish is sandwiches with good caviar or baked salmon. The main decoration of the table can be a beautifully designed cutting of vegetables or fruits. Don't make a few mayonnaise salads. Better to make one original, guests will appreciate it.

MAIN MENU FOR BIRTHDAY HOUSE FOR 10 PERSONS:

MEAT IN FRENCH

• potatoes
• any meat
• spice

To cook meat in French, you need any meat. Pork is traditionally used, but chicken is the common recipe. It should be fresh, sliced \u200b\u200b1.5 cm across the grain. Such cutting of meat will allow it to remain tender and juicy. You will also need onions, which are cut into rings and marinated in vinegar in advance. In the original French meat recipe, the main thing is to adhere to the sequence of laying out the products. The meat is laid out on a greased baking sheet, tightly to each other. Then onions and potatoes, cut into circles. All this is sprinkled with spices and grated cheese on top. The dish is baked in the oven for about an hour.

MEAT "ARMOSHKA"

• pork or beef
• a tomato
• mushrooms
• garlic, spices

The accordion baked meat is quite simple to prepare. For this, a long piece of meat is taken, cuts are made so that the thickness of the plate is one and a half centimeters. A plate of cheese, a round of tomato and crushed garlic are placed in each cut. Also cut the mushrooms into slices and place on a baking sheet next to the meat. Wrap everything in foil and bake for an hour and a half. Traditionally, they used to serve crushed potatoes as a garnish for meat. However, potatoes are already in the French-style meat dish, so to diversify the festive table, you can prepare a side dish of rice with vegetables.

RICE WITH VEGETABLES IN A MULTI-COOKER

• carrot
• a tomato
• a mixture of frozen vegetables (corn, beans, peppers)
• tomato paste, spices

It doesn't take much work to cook rice with vegetables in a slow cooker. Just chop the vegetables finely, put them in the multicooker bowl along with the pre-fried frozen vegetable mixture. Pour rice on top and add water to cover the rice completely. Season everything with vegetable oil, tomato paste and spices. Turn on the multicooker in the "Rice" or "Groats" mode for an hour and a half. After finishing cooking, mix everything and serve.

SALADS AND SNACKS FOR BIRTHDAY HOUSE FOR 10 PEOPLE

As mentioned earlier, do not repeat yourself in salads. For a menu for 10 people, it is enough to prepare one mayonnaise salad, one vegetable salad and various cold snacks.

SALAD "TENDERNESS"

From the variety of salads with mayonnaise, it is preferable to choose puff salads. One of these simple but delicious salads is the "Tenderness" salad

• crab sticks
• boiled eggs
• boiled carrots
• grated cheese
• mayonnaise

There are several versions of this salad. In the first, each grated ingredient is separately mixed with mayonnaise. In the second, the grated products are smeared with sauce layer by layer. The order of the layers is determined only by the tastes and preferences of the household.

SALAD WITH CUCUMBER AND WHITE BEANS

• chinese cabbage
• cucumbers
• can of canned beans
• sour cream for dressing, spices to taste

Chop all components into thin strips. Rinse the beans from the marinade and add to the herbs. Season everything with sour cream and spices. If desired, the salad can be varied with other fresh vegetables, as well as boiled eggs.

No meal can be complete without cold snacks. They make the feast varied, and a beautifully designed appetizer will decorate the festive menu. For a modest celebration for 10 people, it is enough to prepare several types of snacks.

LAVASH ROLL WITH SALMON

• smoked salmon
• pita
• bell pepper
• processed cheese
• greens, garlic

This appetizer combines the salty taste of fish and buttery cheese. Grate melted cheese mixed with garlic on thin pita bread. Sprinkle with herbs, finely chopped pepper and fish on top. Wrap in a roll, cut and serve. Such an appetizer will taste better if it stands in the refrigerator for a while and soaks. To do this, the roll should be wrapped in plastic wrap and left overnight or for several hours.

KOREAN SQUID STARTER

• squid carcasses
• onions, carrots, garlic
• vinegar
• korean seasoning
• sunflower oil

Rinse squid carcasses, boil and chop into strips. Chop vegetables also into strips. Fry the onions in sunflower oil until golden brown. Mix everything in a large bowl, season with spices, vinegar and leave in the refrigerator for several hours. In order to diversify the recipe, some add bell peppers, zucchini or other vegetable.

In addition to all this, not a single feast can do without cold cuts of meat and cheese, as well as pickled mushrooms.

SWEET MENU FOR HOME BIRTHDAY

Every birthday must necessarily end with a sweet serving. On a sweet table for 10 people, you can prepare a fruit salad or a small cake.

FRUIT SALAD WITH ICE CREAM

• cream
• walnut
• chocolate
• apple
• banana
• orange

Cut all fruits into medium-sized cubes, peeling off the peel and seeds. Chop the nuts and grate the chocolate on a medium grater. Combine fruits with nuts and ice cream, stir and refrigerate. Serve sprinkled with grated chocolate.

When drawing up a menu for the birthday of a house for 10 people, you need not only to take into account the tastes of the invited guests, but also the seasonality of the products. Thanks to the presence of these two components, a birthday will leave behind a lot of positive impressions.