To set the festive table is a rather expensive affair. Let's talk about various options for budget, hearty and delicious dishes.

To begin, we choose the practice of planning. We study the products in stock, we try to use them in holiday dishes. We write a list of dishes with the composition and a list for purchase in the store.

We offer examples of options for tasty and not expensive dishes with a brief description.

Salads, snacks

Envelopes / tubes with cheese and mushrooms.  Wrap fried mushrooms with grated cheese in thin pita bread or pancakes, heat in a frying pan with butter on both sides, so that the cheese melts. Serve 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. To mix everything.

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

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

Sauerkraut.

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

Spicy carrots.  These are variations on the theme of "carrots" in Korean ". Three grated carrots with garlic and black pepper, coriander, etc. spicy spicy seasonings, season with sour cream or vegetable oil.

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

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

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

Pancakes with various "economical" filling. In thin pancakes we wrap a different filling: boiled eggs, finely chopped or grated, 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 fish cookies.  We spread in layers: “fish” cookies, spread 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 “get wet”.

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

Tomatoes with cheese and garlic.  We cut the tomatoes in rings, spread grated cheese with garlic and mayonnaise on top.

Liver plates.  We make a liver paste: 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.

Fat.  Salo can be used both as a slicer and as a kind of snack by chopping it together with garlic and pepper in a meat grinder. Then put this mixture on bread. It turns out especially tasty if such sandwiches are slightly warmed over a bonfire on a wire rack.

It turns out more economically when using an abundance of seasonal ingredients: in the presence of freshly picked or canned, frozen mushrooms - we prepare dishes with them, in the abundance of fresh vegetables - we use them to the maximum, etc.

Hotter

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

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

Hepatic pancakes.  Grind 0.5 kg of chicken liver in a meat grinder or blender, 1-2 eggs, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, onion, 100-200 gr. flour. Thoroughly mix to a thick sour cream and spread the pancakes in a heated pan.

Fish in the sauce. Ingredients: 3 large pollock, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 100 gr. milk, 2 tbsp. tablespoons sour cream, salt, pepper. We spread 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 cakes.

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

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

Potato casserole.  Wrap in a thin pita bread, spreading in layers: mashed potatoes, minced meat or stew, fried onions, cheese, sour cream.

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

Potato pancakes with sour cream and mushrooms.

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

For tea

Home baking is much cheaper and more natural than purchased.

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

Cake based cake.  Based on this cake, you can make a cake. Cut the cake into several shortcakes, coat with cream, add soaked dried fruits, marmalade, berries, fill with chocolate icing.

Pancakes or thin pancakes with jam, condensed milk, chocolate

Homemade Cookies and Waffles

Ice cream with jam or sliced ​​banana slices

Marshmallows and cookies

Cheesecakes for tea with jam and sour cream

Cottage cheese cake. We spread in layers: cookies like "Yubileinoe", "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 fill with chocolate glaze.
  For chocolate glaze, melt 2 tsp in 100g of milk. cocoa powder, 4-5 slices of dark chocolate, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar.

Fruits

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 slices, you can cook soup-hodgepodge, make a kind of gravy to the side dish, and use the remaining side dish and hot to cook the casserole. If there are many products left after the celebration, then part 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 and warm them.

Complete the list. What options of tasty and not expensive dishes do you prepare for the holiday?

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Hot meals for birthday

The most popular holiday dish in our area, the recipes of which are known to many housewives - chicken with potatoes in the oven. I share a good and simple recipe for cooking chicken with potatoes with photos.

Khashbraun is a popular potato dish of American cuisine that is very simple and easy to prepare. We need potatoes, butter and onions. And we will cook in the oven and on the stove. Go!

A popular and very tasty dish of meat baked with potatoes under a beautiful crust of melted cheese. Meat in French with potatoes is something that is definitely worth a try!

For you - recipe chicken Kiev with photos. Chicken Kiev cutlets made from chipped chicken fillet wrapped around a piece of butter, fried in boiling oil. I tell you how to cook!

The name of this recipe is to some extent conditional - chops in French are the most common chops, just baked with cheese. For French cuisine - no relation. But the main thing is delicious!

For me there is nothing tastier and more satisfying than well cooked meatloaf. Meatloaf is a real celebration of life for lovers of meat and meat products. I share a proven recipe! :)

Beef goulash is a classic Hungarian dish. For me, this is the soup and the second. Do not do here without the popular Hungarian paprika. Still need potatoes, peppers, onions and spices.

Chicken tobacco - a popular Georgian dish. It is prepared simply and fairly quickly. Fry chicken with coriander and zira. Two or three chickens will be enough for a family. It will take a hammer and mortar.

Fragrant, juicy potatoes in cream in the oven can be cooked in portion pots or large heat-resistant form - choose the dishes yourself, but it will be delicious in any case, I promise!

Another "exotic" dish of poultry and fruit - for supporters of unusual culinary solutions. The original recipe for cooking chicken breast with a pear is also relevant for those who watch the figure!

Scientists call potatoes a "botanical masterpiece." This root vegetable is one of the most valuable on earth. Options for its preparation simply do not count, one of them - potato casserole with bacon.

Another unusual fruit and meat dish. The recipe for cooking beef with pear is perfect for a romantic dinner together or a solemn family feast.

Only three ingredients, but what a colorful and tasty dish we get! You can please your family with an unusual dinner, feel free to put the boats on the festive table. Sharing a recipe!

I just got a great piece of beef. It was a pity to cut such meat into pieces. I decided to cook beef, baked a piece. Beef came out gentle, melting, and the spices were baked with a crisp crust.

Chicken with apples is delicious, and chicken with apples and prunes is even tastier! It is easy to cook, and the dish turns out amazing - try it! :)

From chicken fillet and bell pepper it turns out a delicious and very beautiful roll. It can be served as a hot dish or cut for a snack or used in the preparation of sandwiches.

Chicken legs with apples will amaze you with a combination of chicken and sour apples flavored with onions. I received this recipe from a friend, and she came up with this dish when she could not buy a duck.

French-style meat with tomatoes is a great festive dish for dinner with friends or family members. The meat is very juicy and tender, and the dish is fragrant and appetizing.

Your attention - a simple but very effective recipe for pork in the oven. With this recipe, you can easily cook a hot dish that can be safely put even on a festive table.

Tender beef with mushrooms and sour cream served with rice or noodles. The recipe of cooking was invented by Count Pavel Alekandrovich Stroganov in 1890 in St. Petersburg.

Properly cooked piece of meat is the best that can be served on the table. Beef medallion prepared according to this recipe is a dish of exactly this kind.

Duck with apples is a classic New Year and Christmas dish in many European countries, especially in Germany and Austria. If you do not know what to cook for the new year - try it!

Pork zrazy is a great way to make pork zrazov. The dish fits perfectly into the harmony of the festive feast - for example, in honor of the New Year. Try it - everyone will be delighted! :)

A turkey leg with garlic and rosemary is a trivial dish, but it’s worth cooking once and you'll cook it all the time.

Chateau potatoes - very popular in France, a side dish of potatoes to meat or fish. A great alternative to bored mashed potatoes and fried potatoes :)

Baked potatoes with avocado sauce is an incredibly simple dish for vegetarians. Potatoes are very appetizing and fragrant, and avocado sauce makes the taste more varied. Try it!

Duck baked with oranges is a very festive and solemn dish that I usually cook for the New Year or Christmas. The hostess cooks, the host cuts and imposes everyone on the plate ... ah!

Pork brisket - the meat is rather dry, and it is not easy to cook it tasty. I share a very successful recipe - pork loin on the bone with carrots. A couple of tricks - and the meat turns out very juicy.

Recipe for pork with mushrooms and cheese - a wonderful dish for the New Year's table. Festive table setting, tender and juicy meat, a great spicy aroma - the dish meets all quality criteria.

Chicken, baked with pineapples - simple to prepare, but very tasty dish that can be prepared for the holiday - New Year or birthday. Effective, unusual and original.

French spiced potatoes are a very original way cooked potatoes, which will serve as a great side dish to any meat, fish or vegetable dish.

Recipe for cooking chicken with tomatoes, sweet peppers and olives in white wine. French cuisine.

Chicken with garlic and thyme is another simple but very effective way to bake chicken in the oven. Marinade made of garlic and thyme makes the chicken very tender and fragrant.

Armenian-style stuffed eggplants are my signature dish, which was taught to me by a professional Armenian cook. Eggplants turn out simply excellent - you will lick your fingers!

Chicken with peanuts is a bit unusual for a Slavic person, but a very tasty dish of Chinese traditional cuisine. Properly cooked, it is simply doomed to success. Preparing is very simple!

"French Meat" made from minced chicken

The recipe for cooking popular meat dishes using chicken mince. In fact, we cook the same meat in French, but instead of chop meats we use chicken mince. Delicious!

Pork stuffed with dried apricots and onions is a very unusual and original meat dish, which is pork chops with very juicy and tasty minced meat. Surprise your eaters!

If you do not know how to cook beef, I recommend to pay attention to this recipe. Beef chops with garlic are very soft, delicate, with a pleasant garlic taste and aroma. Try it!

Transylvanian puffed cabbage is a very tasty Romanian national dish, with something remotely resembling lazy cabbage rolls. Delicious dish of simple and affordable ingredients.

Rooster in wine - a delicious French dish that can be cooked in your home kitchen. As for me, the dish has the full right to be called festive - and it looks solemn, and very tasty.

Escalopes are lean, boneless pieces of meat, fried in a pan without breading. It is best to use pork tenderloin. Escalope is made from the renal part, where the meat is especially soft and tender.

If you do not know what to cook for the New Year - I recommend to try chicken breasts, baked in spices. This is a fairly simple to prepare, but very festive and decent hot dish.

A simple recipe for chops for fans of roast pork. Step by step preparation with photos.

Are you looking for something original for a side dish or for a snack? Then meet - balls of thread. This chicken dish will not only surprise you with its appearance, but also delight you with its taste.

I tell you how to cook classic schnitzel - a thin pork chop, which is rolled in batter and fried in oil. A wonderful male lunch or dinner - simple and satisfying.

Breaded pork is a very unusual way to cook the trivial pork meat. Thanks to the original breading, the taste of pork is very original and unexpected.

Kefir marinated chicken with potatoes - a great option for a fairly quick and simple dinner or lunch made from simple ingredients. No frills, everything is very simple, but tasty.

Lavangi is a delicious chicken dish that is traditionally cooked in the southern regions of Azerbaijan. I share the secrets of cooking!

Chicken in an almond crust is another great way to make your favorite chicken meat. Almond crust gives the chicken a completely new taste - try, you will not regret!

I haven't cooked such a bright, colorful and tasty dish like stuffed peppers and tomatoes for a long time. The ingredients are the simplest, but the dish is a real masterpiece both visually and in taste :)

Baked potatoes with filling - a smart side dish for meat dish. A very satisfying, attractive and beautiful side dish for some (for example, for vegetarians) can become a separate serious dish!

Bulgarian pepper mackerel - the perfect union and a great taste combination. Before you cook the mackerel, remember this admonition and you will get an excellent dish!

Ragu is a great solution for those who like to cook in pottery. Meet a very simple recipe for stews with meat and green beans in a pot.

Squashes with meat go together just fine, but I don't like big chunks of meat with zucchini, so I mix this vegetable with minced meat. It turns out very juicy and tender casserole.

Roasted tomatoes - one of my favorite snacks for both everyday and festive table. Prepared in two accounts, but it turns out very tasty and beautiful.

Found another interesting way to cook pork meat - pork with bell pepper. It turns out very juicy, fragrant and delicate dish.

As always, before the holiday, every housewife begins to torment the question: what to put on the table? It seems that there are a lot of products in stores now. But there is one thing: in our wallet there are not always funds for expensive goodies and delicacies.

And then I remember my grandmother. Noble was a needlewoman and a culinary specialist. I could whip up a gala dinner even for my small retirement. And if it was being prepared, then from the simplest and most ordinary products I served a chic banquet table to the envy of Astoria and Metropol. And I have always been taught: our native land gives fruit no worse than overseas, and you can always surprise your guests with delicious, healthy, and most importantly not expensive treats.

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Salad

Let's start with the king of any of our salad tables. It looks like a popular herring under a fur coat, but it has a “highlight” of pickled mushrooms.

Ingredients:

1 boiled beet - 1 pc.

2 boiled carrots - 1 pc.

3 sour apple - 1 pc.

4 pickled mushrooms - 150 gr

5 herring - 1 pc.

Cooking:

Divide all the ingredients in half and put them in the festive dishes layer by layer, do not forget to smear with mayonnaise to your liking.

Ingredients:

1 boiled potato - 2 pcs.

2 boiled chicken - 200 gr

3 onions - 1 pc.

4 eggs - 2 pcs.

5 pickled cucumber (large) - 1 pc.

6 boiled beets - 1 pc.

Cooking:

Cut potatoes, chicken, eggs, cucumber into cubes, season with mayonnaise, add scalded onions to them. Put everything in a deep plate. Top - beets grated on a coarse grater and decorated with a mayonnaise net.

Snacks

Ingredients:

1 chicken ventricles - 1 kg

2 red onions - 2 pcs.

3 garlic - 2 cloves

4 soy sauce - 3 tbsp. spoons

5 vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon

Cooking:

Boil peeled chicken ventricles for 1.5 hours. Fried onion cut in half rings together with stomachs. Add spices, soy sauce, garlic, vinegar. We mix all this tasty food and - in a cold place.

There can be many filling options, all that is from the products. I offer 2 options. The form of submission may be different, try converting.

Ingredients:

1 thin pita bread - 1 pack

2 canned fish - 1 can

3 grated cheese - 400 gr

4 greens (dill, parsley, cilantro)

Cooking:

First filling: canned fish canned with a fork, mixed with cheese, dill

The second filling: mix any cheese with a lot of greens, add spices, a little mayonnaise

Expand thin pita bread, you can cut it into several parts, put your filling on each sheet, roll up a small envelope. I love pita bread stuffed with a little fry from 2 sides.

From this fish you can make dishes for a whole banquet. I will add another recipe.

Ingredients:

1 large fresh-frozen herring - 3 pcs.

2 onions - 2 pcs.

3 spices, granulated sugar

4 mustard

6 vegetable oil

Cooking:

Peel herring and cut into strips, sprinkle with salt, ground pepper, sugar. Cut the onion into rings and lay it out tightly in jars in layers: onion - herring - onion and so on to the top. Pour the sauce: vegetable oil, vinegar and mustard. Close the lid and remove the refrigerator for several hours.

And, of course, my favorite salted cucumbers whipped up. I cook them for any occasion. And no matter how rich the table is set, my pickles are the first to be swept away! They will be especially relevant for the lean holiday menu.

Ingredients:

1 cucumber - 5-6 pcs.

3 garlic - 4-5 cloves

Cooking:

We wash cucumbers, large - cut into several parts, if small - can be in 2 parts. We put in any dense container - a bag, a jar - add chopped garlic, dill and salt well. Close, shake the contents and put in the refrigerator. Shake regularly while you wait for guests.

Second course

I remind you that today I offer you inexpensive dishes for the festive table. And on the hot you can cook tender and juicy liver pancakes.

Ingredients:

1 liver (any, your favorite) - 1 kg

2 onions - 2 pcs.

3 eggs - 2 pcs.

4 flour - 3 tablespoons

5 decoy - 3 tablespoons

6 carrots - 1 pc.

Cooking:

Skip the liver, onions and carrots through a meat grinder, add eggs, semolina, flour, spices, mix everything thoroughly. Spread the minced meat on a preheated pan with a spoon and fry on 2 sides. Serve with sour cream

You can cook original potatoes for a side dish

Ingredients:

1 potato - 6 pcs.

For the sauce:

2 butter - 100 gr

3 grated cheese - 5 tablespoons

4 sour cream - 1 tablespoon

5 garlic - 3 cloves

6 herbs, spices

Cooking:

Wash the potatoes and boil until tender. As it cools, cut along in half. We put each slice on a baking sheet and spread with garlic sauce: mixed butter, cheese, sour cream, garlic and herbs. Next, you will need to bake all this. Everyone knows their stove, cook over moderate heat for 15 minutes.

Dessert

Go to the desserts. From unsweetened pastries, I offer puff boats with vegetables. They have a great aromatic taste.

Ingredients:

1 frozen puff pastry - 1 pack

2 red onions - 3 pcs.

3 sweet varieties tomatoes - 6 pcs.

4 bell pepper

5 herbs, spices

Cooking:

We fry all chopped vegetables, herbs, garlic in vegetable oil and simmer for 5 minutes. Roll out the dough and cut out small squares, spread them on a greased baking sheet. Along the perimeter of the squares, slightly departing from the edge, make shallow cuts. Put the filling in the middle of our boats. Bake for 20 minutes.

And for tea you can serve wonderful unusual cupcakes. Guests will be satisfied: healthy, and most importantly, delicious!

Ingredients:

1 peeled pumpkin - 200 g,

2 oatmeal finely ground - 100 g

3 peeled nuts - 100 g

4 butter - 150 gr

5 sugar - 150 gr

6 eggs - 3 pcs.

7 flour - 150 gr

8 baking powder - 2 tsp

Cooking:

Three pumpkin on a fine grater, chop the nuts in a blender. Pound the butter with sugar and eggs, add pumpkin, nuts, oatmeal, flour and baking powder for the dough. Knead everything thoroughly. We spread the dough in small molds, filling half of the volume, as it will rise 2 times. Bake in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 25 minutes. Decorate the finished muffins with powdered sugar.

Well, for sweets - fruits.

Ingredients:

1 any fruit

2 skewers or toothpicks

Cooking:

Cut any fruit that is at this time of year on the store counter - apples, pears, raspberries, gooseberries, bananas - cut into small cubes. Skewer or toothpicks, alternating in color. It will be bright and original.

So with a minimum budget, we have prepared 11 dishes for the holiday menu. It is affordable even for our esteemed senior citizens and students. Enjoy your meal!

An article about how to cook inexpensive meals for the holiday table. Several recipes can be found in the text.

Saving is common, necessary and widespread. But not easy, because there are a lot of temptations to spend money “not on purpose”, and the prices in the stores do not always make us happy ... So what should we save?

Celebration? This is sheer waste! But pleasant

Our life is full of “non-working days”. These are, from the point of view of a lean person, days when he does not earn, but spends a lot of money. Let's try to pick up recipes, how to bypass the wasteful traditions, but in order for a holiday to remain a holiday!

Principles of an economical feast

What are the principles of saving? How to organize a festive table inexpensive and tasty recipes to which would be available to any hostess?

1. The main thing is to shift the accents of the evening from food to humor and entertainment.

2. Give up on cafes and restaurants, celebrate holidays at home, with family or friends.

3. Prepare long-term products for the cherished day in advance - for a week or two, or even a month, without waiting for the trade to congratulate you on the holiday with new prices.

4. Give up delicacies - it is always expensive.

5. Focus on the national cuisine - the kitchen of your mothers and grandmothers.

6. Include fantasy: an artistically decorated dish - twice as tasty. Proved by science!

7. Do you celebrate with friends? Cook together with joy and laughter!

Principles of selection of products for the holiday table

Of course, an economical table rejects delicacies. The task is to try to turn the most ordinary products and drinks into them. Agree in advance with your friends, from whom you will celebrate, buy into the clubhouse, bring the products in advance, optimally - two days before the start of cooking. Decide in advance who has artistic abilities and experience decorating dishes.

1. Focus mainly on seasonal vegetables.

2.If it is winter or spring, then use a small amount of expensive vegetables (sweet peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers) only to decorate salads.

3. From cereals on the festive table, appropriate buckwheat and rice, but they can be abandoned in favor of potatoes, because the variety of dishes from it is incredibly large!

4. Use meat mainly chicken or other, but with abundant side dishes.

5.Very economical meat dish - meat aspic or jelly (jelly), because their main ingredient by weight is the same jelly, consisting of meat, broth (that is, almost water!) And gelatin.

6.Studen perfectly combined (decorated) with green peas, boiled carrots, small pieces of sweet pepper. Everything that you put in jelly, you need to blanch!

7. A fairly versatile meat dish - Zrazy. Also on the festive table are appropriate dishes from the liver - pies, liver “cake”. They will save on meat, because it is also almost “meat” dishes.

Recipes inexpensive salads on the holiday table

Of course, “Herring under the“ fur coat ”, the salad“ Mimosa ”and the salad“ Olivier ”are simply obliged to attend the budget holiday table. Without the latter, it seems, holidays (especially New Year's holidays!) Are generally unthinkable. These inexpensive salads consist of the most common and inexpensive products. And even you can make mayonnaise to them yourself, if you are an experienced hostess. Practice, but not before the holiday itself - then there will be no time! However, these three salads will be alone, if you limit yourself and decorate an inexpensive holiday table only with them. Inexpensive table can be decorated with other salads.

Salad “Nest of the Crystal Bird”

This is a salad, and at the same time - an appetizer. Basis: any of your favorite salad with mayonnaise, preferably of green vegetables - green onions, lettuce leaves, etc. The salad should be prepared in advance, it should be laid out on a large dish, and neatly decorated on top with “crystal eggs” that will decorate it with both appearance and taste.

• Ingredients and Materials

• Whole, no cracks, eggshell - 2 pcs per serving.
• Strong meat broth - 40ml per 1 egg shell
• Gelatin 1st st. For every 180ml of broth.

• For stuffing

Sweet corn, green sweet peas, boiled carrots, ham, salted or fresh cucumber, sweet pepper - 1 tablespoon of the mixture for each egg shell. You can substitute frozen vegetable mixture in the form of cubes of vegetables, blanched before cooking, in the same amount by adding cubes of boiled chicken meat.

• Shell preparation

Take the right amount of raw eggs, thoroughly wash them. Very carefully, without splitting the shell, make a hole with a diameter of 1-1.5 centimeters in it from the blunt end. Carefully pour the protein and yolks - they can be used for any other dishes. We also need the shell. Rinse the whole eggshells of each egg thoroughly with cold water and boil it in boiling water for 5-10 minutes, for disinfection.

• Preparation of gelatin broth

Carefully, after several layers of gauze, filter the previously prepared transparent (and slightly salty) meat broth and put the gelatin to swell, which must be taken from the calculation of 1 tbsp. spoon on 1 glass of broth. After preparing the broth with gelatin, cool it to a barely warm state and pour it into the egg shells laid on the usual egg tray, but pour so that the egg is no more than a third full. For pouring broth in the shell is convenient to use a teapot with a long spout. After pouring, put the tray with the shells in the cold.

• Stuffing (minced)

In the meantime, prepare the stuffing for “crystal eggs”. Suitable: sweet corn, sweet peppers, cubes or slices of boiled meat (ham), cubes of hard salted or fresh cucumber, cubes of boiled carrots, tender sprigs of dill up to 5 cm, thin feathers of onions several centimeters long, cubes of hard cheese or omelet cubes from the same egg whites and yolks. The more bright colored pieces, the better. Cubes should be 1cm.

• The final

After making sure that the broth in the shells has frozen, fill them with the multicolored ingredients you have prepared to the top and pour it with the broth with gelatin. And - again in the cold (not in the freezer and not in the frost!), Until it hardens completely. After gelatin hardening, peel the shells from “crystal eggs” and artistically decorate the “nest” of the Crystal Bird with them!

Recipes for appetizers on the festive table

“Chops” of white cabbage

Inexpensive dish is appropriate on any table.

• Ingredients

• Cabbage - 0.5 kg.
• Egg - 2 pieces
• Milk - 2-3 tablespoons.
• Flour for breading.
• Salt, pepper to taste.
• Refined vegetable oil -1/3 cup.

• Cabbage preparation

Cut a small cabbage head into quarters, put it in cold salted water, put on a slow fire. Boil until tender, periodically piercing to check with a fork with fine teeth. You can not digest! Finished cabbage discarded to a colander to cool. Disassemble the leaves, cutting off the hard part.

• Cooking

Beat 2-3 eggs, lightly dilute with milk. Put the pan on the fire, where you pour in a little refined vegetable oil. Dip the cabbage into the flour, then into the egg, repeating the cycle three times. The last should be an egg. Put it on the pan and fry until golden brown. Serve hot or warm. Option: between two leaves before breading you can put the thinnest slice of any sharp cheese or even a thin plate of chopped pickled cucumber.

“Mushroom stub” of mashed potatoes

• Ingredients

• Potatoes - 250 grams per serving.
• Butter - 10g per serving.
• Raw Egg - 1 pc. on 1 kg mashed potatoes. If 1.5 kg mashed potatoes - 2 eggs, etc.
• Rye bread or
• crusty wheat bread crust for decoration - 1 cup per 1 kg mashed potatoes.

Marinated or freshly roasted mushrooms or roasted minced meat - 200 grams per 1 kg of mashed potatoes.

Salt, pepper, fried to golden onions - to taste.

• Cooking

Preparation of mashed potatoes

Boil peeled potatoes until cooked, drain the water, make mashed potatoes while the potatoes are hot, add butter, mushroom seasoning to taste and a raw egg at the rate of 1 egg per 1 kg of mashed potatoes. Carefully mash the mashed potatoes while it is hot.

Dish design

Put on a dish, form a stump, making its side surface under the “coarse bark” and simulate it with chopped rye bread or crispy crushed crusted wheat bread. Liberally and artistically decorate the “stump” on top with whole marinated or fried mushrooms. Fried mushrooms can also be added to the mash before forming the “stump”. In mashed potatoes for taste, small pieces of well-fried meat or onions just roasted to golden brown are sometimes added. The dish will remain inexpensive, because 70-80% of it consists of potatoes.

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Quite often a situation arises when fast food recipes can come in handy. The guests are on the doorstep, and you have a lot of things to do, and you have just returned from work. In order to quickly set the table for guests, it is not necessary to cook exotic dishes for hours. You can quickly and inexpensively, and most importantly, deliciously set a festive table, and guests will not even believe that it was cooked almost before their arrival. And you can just please home simple and tasty dishes for the lazy.

The classic festive table set is appetizers, salads, hot and dessert. It is in this sequence that I propose to cook.

  Quick snacks in a hurry

  Canape with boiled pork and cucumber

Ingredients:

• white bread - 10 slices
• baked ham - 20 piece
• butter - 100 gr.
• olives - 20 pcs.
•   cucumber, dill for decoration

Thinly sliced ​​white bread is cut in half diagonally, spread with butter, beautifully laid boiled pork. On a skewer we pin olive, cucumber and stick in a slice of bread with boiled pork

  Canape with egg and salmon

Ingredients:

• rye bread - 10 pcs.
• salmon - 10 pcs.
• eggs - 5 pcs.
• butter - 100 gr.
• ½ lemon
• Dill, green onions, black or red caviar for garnish

Cut the black bread into small squares, grease with oil and sprinkle with green onions. Put the salmon, slightly sprinkle with lemon juice. Top lay half boiled eggs. Decorate with dill and caviar.

  Mozzarella with ham

Ingredients:

• smoked ham strips - 150 gr.
• arugula salad
• a bit of olive oil and black pepper

Apply arugula leaf to the mozzarella ball and wrap it in a strip of ham. Top with a little olive oil and sprinkle with black pepper. Toothpick we pierce a roll and put it on a serving plate.

  Tomato and Mozzarella Snack

Ingredients:

• small balls of mozzarella cheese - 150 gr.
• cherry tomatoes - 250 gr.
• fresh basil
• olive oil - 3 tbsp. l
• salt and black pepper

Mix olive oil with salt and black pepper. Mozzarella balls are removed from the brine, dried slightly and marinated for 10-15 minutes in olive oil with salt and pepper. Slightly slice the bottom of the tomato for sustainability. Prick a tomato, a ball of cheese and a leaf of basil on a toothpick.

  Simple tomato snack

The easiest and quickest snack for guests. Cut the tomatoes into circles. Finely chop the garlic and dill. Slightly sprinkle with lemon juice or vinegar, salt, pepper and sprinkle with garlic and dill.

  Classic genre - stuffed eggs

All familiar, simple, fast, but always popular dish. Feed all the guests with this snack. Boil the eggs, take out the yolk, and then - freedom for creativity. An incredible amount of toppings, I suggest only a few:

• yolk with canned cucumbers, mustard and mayonnaise;
• cheese with yolk and mayonnaise;
• cod liver and yolk (if you have time, you can fry the onion);
• green peas, yolk and mayonnaise;
• liver or goose pate with yolk and a drop of brandy;
• yolk with butter and a piece of salted salmon.

There can be countless fillings, invent yourself from what is in the refrigerator. The main thing is that the products combine with each other to taste.

  Salads fast

Salads are very popular on our traditional table. Therefore, despite the lack of time, it is worth offering a few recipes to guests. And as we hurry, then the salads will be quick and easy to prepare.

  Salad "In a hurry"

Ingredients:

• cucumber - 2 pcs.
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• half-smoked sausage or ham - 100 gr.
• canned peas - 100 gr.
• cheese - 50 gr.
• mayonnaise

Boil eggs. While eggs are boiled and cooled, chop cucumbers and sausage into strips. Eggs also cut into strips, mix with cucumbers and ham, add green peas and mayonnaise.

  Quick and delicious salad "Exotic"

Ingredients:

• smoked chicken breast - 300 gr.
• canned pineapples - 250 gr.
• apple - 2 pcs.
• mayonnaise
• salt pepper

Slice chicken breast and apple into strips. Pineapple cut into cubes. Salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise.

  Simple and tasty cucumber salad

Preparing such a salad in 5 minutes, but in order for the cucumbers to cool and pickle a little, it will need to be put in at least 15 minutes in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

• cucumbers - 2 -3 pcs.
• sesame - 2 tbsp. l
• Cup rice vinegar (can be replaced by any other)
• 3 tbsp. l Sahara

Three grated cucumbers for Korean carrots. If there is no such grater, then just cut into strips.In a hot pan, fry a little sesame until brownish.

Mix vinegar with sugar and simmer for 5 minutes over medium heat. Pour the pickles with the obtained marinade and put the salad in the fridge as long as there is enough patience.

  Smoked fish and beans salad

Delicious salad, which is prepared quickly, but there will be no limit to the surprise of the guests.

Ingredients:

• cold smoked fish (I have a hake) - 1 pc.
• canned red beans - 250 gr.
• leeks to taste
• mayonnaise

In fish, we will need a fillet, remove bones and skin. Fillet cut into small pieces. In red beans, drain the liquid and add to the fish. Leek cut into rings. Add mayonnaise and mix.

  Hot dishes fast and tasty

It is not necessary to spend hours at the stove to cook the main hot dish on the festive table. There are a lot of simple and quick recipes. In just 15 minutes you can cook delicious meals.

For fish lovers, perfect recipes with red fish, better with salmon.

  Salmon in caramel crust

Quick and delicious recipe for a hot dish, which is suitable for a festive table, and for a quick dinner.

Ingredients:

• salmon fillet - 1 kg.
• honey - 3 tbsp. l
• apple juice - 1 glass
• salt, pepper to taste
• olive oil

For quick cooking, preheat the oven to 200°   C. Mix 1 cup of apple juice with 3 tbsp. l honey, bring to a boil and cook for 1 minute. Salmon cut into portions and put in a baking dish, greased with olive oil.

Bake fish in the oven for 10 minutes. After that, remove the salmon from the oven, salt and pepper and fry in a pan for 2 minutes on each side until a ruddy glazed crust forms. When serving, sprinkle with lemon juice.

  Salmon in ginger marinade

This dish is also prepared very quickly, and ginger gives it a specific taste. Moreover, this fish steak invariably turns out to be soft and fragrant.

Ingredients:

• salmon fillet - 1 kg.
• ginger root - about 3 - 4 cm.
• sesame - 2 tbsp. l
• soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l
• sunflower, olive or sesamebutter

Cut the salmon or other red fish into pieces. Ginger root cleaned and grated. Mix ginger, soy sauce and olive, sunflower oil (sesame oil is even better). Marinate fish in this sauce for at least 5 minutes. Roll each slice in sesame seed. Fry in a hot pan of 3-4minutes from each side.

  Korean Pork

15 minutes is enough to cook this delicious meat, which on the festive table will be a welcome guest.

Ingredients:

• pork (preferably soft neck) - 0.5 kg.
• onion - 2 pcs.
• garlic - 2 cloves
• soy sauce - 4 tbsp. l
• chili sauce - 2 tsp.
• ginger root - 2 cm.
• green onions - 100 gr.

Pork cut into portions into thin strips.

Onion cut into rings, chop the garlic finely. In the pan with the addition ofolive oil fry the pork over high heat for 2 minutes. Then add onion and garlic to the pan, reduce the fire and fry for another 5 minutes.

Now add soy sauce, chili sauce, grated ginger and finely chopped green onions to the skillet.Close the lid and then another 2 minutes.

  Chinese Chicken Breast with Vegetables

And this dish will take even less time, as the chicken with soy sauce and ginger is cooked instantly, and the output is soft and juicy.

Ingredients:

• chicken breast - 1 kg.
• soy sauce - 50 ml.
• canned pineapple - 1 can
• sweet pepper - 2 pcs.
• onions - 1 pc.
• sesame - 2 tbsp. l
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l
• starch - 1 tbsp. l

Cut chicken breast into thin strips and pour soy sauce for 5 minutes. Onions cut into fairly large pieces and also pour soy sauce.At this time, cut canned pineapple cubes,sweet pepper strips.

Place the breast on a preheated pan and fry for 5 minutes in olive oil over high heat. Reduce the heat, add chopped vegetables to the chicken, add some pineapple juice and simmer another 5 minutes. At the end, if desired, you can add starch. In order not to form lumps, pre-dissolve the starch in a small amount of sauce.

Well, now that the main dishes are ready, you can quickly make a dessert.

  Desserts for guests quickly

  Tangerines in honey glaze

Very simple and vitamin recipe. We clean tangerines, put them on a plate and pour liquid honey on top. If the honey has thickened, melt it in a water bath. Sprinkle tangerines on top with any nuts.

  Dessert with mascarpone and cookies

Ingredients:

• mascarpone cheese - 100 gr.
• cream - 50 gr.
• chocolate chip cookies - 50 gr.
• fresh or frozen fruit

Beat cream, mix them with mascarpone. Grind cookies. To grind fresh fruit with sugar. Pour some of the biscuits into the glass goblets, put the cheese mass on top, and then the fruits ground with the sugar. Repeat one more time. again a layer of biscuits and cheese mass. Top with grated chocolate, fruit and almond nut chips.

  Hot chocolate

Ingredients:

• almond milk (can be replaced by regular) - 250 ml.
• dark chocolate - 200 gr.
• cinnamon - 1 tsp
• ground ginger - 0.5 tsp.
• nutmeg - pinch

In the milk, pour chopped chocolate. Add cinnamon, ginger, grated nutmeg. Boil, stirring constantly, and boil for 2 minutes. Check that all chocolate melts. Hot pour into small glasses.

So, did you make sure that you can quickly and tasty set the table before the arrival of the guests? The main thing is to have on hand the right products and recipes.

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