Birthday is not only a holiday of fun, a sea of ​​congratulations and gifts, but also the pre-holiday bustle and worries that fall on the shoulders of the one who decided to treat and surprise everyone at the birthday table. How to set the table inexpensively and tasty for a birthday, a photo so that the feast will be remembered for a long time by the long-awaited guests.

On the eve of the holiday

A variety of dishes, invented and tested by lovers of tasty food and feeding others, allows you to create a festive and inexpensive menu from almost any product. Therefore, long before the birthday, it is worth deciding which products are profitable to buy this season, i.e. when the name day is celebrated.

So, for example, in summer, emphasis is placed on fruits, vegetables, herbs, in winter - conservation and pickles. However, it is worth remembering about the big plus of our time - hypermarkets and supermarkets with their regular discounts and promotions. An analysis of these stocks should be done in advance and, based on this, make purchases of inexpensive products for your birthday.

The basis of the holiday menu

The feast is a set various dishes for every taste and stomach. The festive table includes a large number of snacks (hot and cold sandwiches, tartlets, rolls, canapes, croutons, toasts). Considering that guests come to have fun and have fun, there should be a lot of such snacks, however, as well as drinks. Place of honor are occupied by hot dishes (meat, fish, poultry, cutlets, cabbage rolls). Salads, there should be at least two or three different types... As a side dish, you can serve rice, buckwheat or mashed potatoes, familiar to everyone. But it is not necessary, for example, potatoes can be stewed with meat or cooked whole (well, if these are young potatoes), pour over with oil and sprinkle with herbs. For sweet cakes, pastries, sweets or cookies. As for drinks, it is decided here individually, depending on the guest company and the habits of the hosts.

Simple and inexpensive recipes

When creating a menu for a birthday, it is important to take into account not only the size of your wallet and culinary possibilities, but also how convenient and tasty it will be for guests to eat this or that dish. Then, it is not entirely correct to set the table with only nutritious and fatty masterpieces, thereby turning a noisy party into a well-fed and lazy feast.

1. Snacks, salads

Hot sandwiches

Will need delicious buns or normal White bread... Separately finely chop the sausage or ham, cucumbers, tomatoes, mix everything with mayonnaise and put on the buns halves. Top - grated cheese and herbs and for a couple of minutes in the microwave (oven).

Rolls with cheese

Chilled processed cheese grate, add finely chopped garlic, herbs, boiled egg... Pour all over with mayonnaise. Wrap the resulting mixture in pita bread and cut into small tape measures.

Herring rolls

Herring fillet, boiled carrots and shake the minced meat in a blender (in a meat grinder). Spread two sheets of pita bread with the minced meat obtained, put pita bread on top of each other and roll into a roll. Wrap the roll in foil and hide in the cold. Cut the cooled dish into small rolls and place on a flat plate.

Tomatoes with cheese

Put the squeezed garlic mixture on the tomato slices, grated cheese and mayonnaise.

Rafaelki from pate

Diced liver (chicken or beef), grated carrot, chopped onion simmer in a sealed container or in the oven until completely soft. Season with salt and pepper. Turn the resulting mass through a meat grinder or blender, make balls, roll in grated cheese and put in wafer or sand baskets.

Chicken and Korean carrot salad

Boiled chicken, cucumbers (fresh or salted) cut into strips, add grated cheese, ready Korean carrot, squeezed garlic and chopped herbs. Season everything with mayonnaise and salt to taste.

Mushroom clearing

A salad of several layers, which must be placed in a deep plate. After all the ingredients are soaked in mayonnaise, ready salad flip it upside down on a wide flat dish. It will look like a mushroom cake. Layers: chopped greens, boiled small mushrooms, place with the caps down, chopped boiled chicken, grated carrot, chopped fresh cucumber, chopped onion, grated potatoes. Soak the layers with mayonnaise.

"Snack" cake

From margarine (100 g), soda (0.5 tsp), slaked sour cream (1 glass), eggs and flour (2.5 tbsp.) Knead soft dough, divide into 4 parts and hide in the cold. After an hour from the dough, form 4 thin layers for the cake and bake each until golden brown.

For interlayers you will need: hard and processed cheese, herbs (onions, parsley, dill), an egg (2), garlic and a can of canned food in oil (saury).

To form a cake, coat each cake with mayonnaise on both sides (the first cake is only on one side). On the first crust smeared with mayonnaise, put a mixture of grated processed cheese with garlic. The second is chopped boiled egg with onions, the third - fish from a can (chopped with a fork), put grated cheese (hard) and finely chopped greens on the last crust smeared with mayonnaise.

Ruby Stars Salad

Mix boiled grated beets, chopped prunes, chopped walnuts, a little garlic. Season the resulting mass with vegetable oil (olive).

Salted fish (red)

Divide fresh fish into beautiful portions. Prepare a mixture of 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 tablespoons salt. Grease the bottom of the salting dish with vegetable oil, sprinkle the fish on one side with a salt-sugar mixture and place in a bowl, pour vegetable oil on top. Put in the cold for 2 days.

Sea fish in sauce

Fry the fish and place on a dish. Separately, sauté the onion and carrots, put on top of the fish, pour over everything with Krasnodarsky sauce and put in the refrigerator to soak the fish with the marinade.

2. Hot dishes

Potatoes with chicken

Put chicken pieces (or whole chicken) on a baking sheet, season with salt and pepper, put peeled potatoes next to them. Bake the dish for about an hour. One chicken requires one kilogram of potatoes. Sprinkle with spices.

Potatoes with mushrooms

Put pieces of potatoes in a fireproof dish, fresh mushrooms, bell pepper, herbs, onions (you can pre-fry). Cook in the oven in a sleeve or on the stove (microwave).

3. Desserts

Universal biscuit

Separate the whites from the yolks, beat the whites with a mixer, add successively, without stopping whipping, the yolks, one at a time, then 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of flour. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. The resulting biscuit can be decorated with any cream, berries and fruits.

Rotten stump cake

Mix well flour and jam in a glass, an egg and 1 tsp. soda, bake until tender. Divide the resulting pie into two cakes, grease with cream. Cream: beat sour cream and sugar in equal proportions (3 tablespoons each).

An article on how to cook inexpensive dishes for a festive table. You will find several recipes in the text.

Saving is a common, necessary and widespread business. But it’s not easy, because there are many temptations around to spend money “not for the intended purpose”, and the prices in stores do not always make us happy ... So, how to save money?

Celebration? This is sheer waste of some sort! But pleasant

Our life is full of “days off”. These, from the point of view of a thrifty person, are days when he does not earn, but spends a lot of money. Let's try to pick up recipes on how to get around wasteful traditions, but so that the holiday remains a holiday!

Principles of a thrifty meal

What are the principles of economy? How to organize festive table inexpensive and tasty recipes for which any housewife would be available?

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

2. Avoid cafes and restaurants, celebrate the holidays at home, with family or friends.

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

4. Ditch the delicacies - it's always expensive.

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

6. Turn on your imagination: An artistic dish is twice as delicious. Proven by Science!

7. Celebrating with your friends? Cook together with joy and laughter!

The principles of selection of products for the festive table

Of course, economical table rejects delicacies. The task is to try to turn the most common foods and drinks into them. Agree in advance with your friends whom you will celebrate, buy in a club, bring the food in advance, optimally two days before the start of cooking. Decide in advance who has the artistic ability and experience in decorating dishes.

1. Focus mainly on seasonal vegetables.

2.If it is winter or spring, then a small amount of expensive vegetables ( Bell pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers) use only for dressing salads.

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

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

5. A very economical meat dish - jellied meat or jellied meat (jelly), because their main ingredient by weight is the same jelly, consisting of meat, broth (that is, practically from water!) And gelatin.

6.The student is perfectly combined (decorated) green peas, boiled carrots, small pieces of sweet pepper. Everything that you put in the jelly must be blanched!

7. Quite a versatile meat dish - zrazy. Liver dishes are also appropriate on the festive table - pates, liver “cake”. They will allow you to save on meat, because these are also almost “meat” dishes.

Recipes for inexpensive salads for the festive table

Of course, “Herring under a fur coat”, “Mimosa” salad and “Olivier” salad are simply required to be present on an economical festive table. Without the latter, it seems that the holidays (especially New Years!) Are generally unthinkable. These inexpensive salads consist of the most common and inexpensive products. And you can even make mayonnaise for them yourself, if you experienced hostess... Practice, but not before the holiday itself - then there will be no time! However, these three salads will be lonely if you limit yourself and decorate an inexpensive holiday table with them only. An inexpensive table can be decorated with other salads.

Crystal Bird's Nest Salad

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

• Ingredients and materials

• Whole, no cracks, eggshells - 2 pcs per serving.
• Strong meat broth- 40ml for 1 eggshell
• Gelatin 1 tablespoon for every 180 ml of broth.

• For minced meat

Sweet corn, green sweet peas boiled carrots, ham, pickled or fresh cucumber, sweet pepper - 1 tablespoon of the mixture for each eggshell. Can be replaced with ice cream vegetable mixture in the form of cubes of vegetables, blanched before cooking, in the same amount, adding cubes of boiled chicken meat.

• Shell preparation

Take the right amount of raw eggs, wash them thoroughly. Very carefully, without splitting the shell, make a hole with a diameter of 1-1.5 centimeters in it from the blunt end. Pour the whites and yolks gently - they can be used for any other dish. We'll need a shell. Rinse the whole shells of each egg well cold water and boil in boiling water for 5-10 minutes to disinfect.

• Preparing the gelatin broth

Thoroughly, after several layers of gauze, filter the previously prepared transparent (and slightly salted) meat broth and put the gelatin to swell, which must be taken at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon for 1 glass of broth. Having prepared the broth with gelatin, cool it to a barely warm state and pour into the eggshells laid on a regular egg tray, but pour so as to fill the egg by no more than a third. It is convenient to use a teapot with a long spout to pour the broth into the shells. After pouring, place the shell tray in the cold.

• Filling (minced meat)

In the meantime, prepare the filling for the crystal eggs. Best: sweet corn, bell peppers, cubes or slices boiled meat(ham), cubes of hard salted or fresh cucumber, cubes of boiled carrots, delicate sprigs of dill up to 5 cm long, thin onion feathers a few centimeters long, cubes hard cheese or omelet cubes from the same egg whites and yolks. The more brightly colored pieces, the better. The cubes must be 1cm in size.

• The final

After making sure that the broth in the shells is frozen, fill them with the multi-colored ingredients you have prepared to the top and pour the broth with gelatin. And - again in the cold (not in the freezer and not in the cold!), Until it solidifies completely. After the gelatin has hardened, peel the shells from the "crystal eggs" and artistically decorate the "nest" of the Crystal Bird with them!

Recipes for snacks on the festive table

White cabbage chops

An inexpensive dish is appropriate for any table.

• Ingredients

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

• Preparing the cabbage

Cut a small head of cabbage into quarters, put it in cold salted water, put on low heat. Cook until tender, piercing occasionally with a fine-toothed fork to check. You can't digest! Discard the finished cabbage in a colander to cool. Disassemble into leaves, cutting off the hard part.

• Preparation

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

"Mushroom stump" from mashed potatoes

• Ingredients

• Potatoes - 250 grams per serving.
• Butter - 10g per serving.
• Raw egg - 1 pc. for 1 kg of puree. If 1.5 kg puree - 2 eggs, etc.
• Rye bread or
• crispy crust wheat bread for decoration - 1 glass per 1 kg of puree.

Pickled or freshly fried mushrooms, or fried minced meat - 200 grams for each 1 kg mashed potatoes.

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

• Preparation

Preparing mashed potatoes

Boil the peeled potatoes until tender, drain the water, purée 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 puree. Mash the puree thoroughly while hot.

Dish decoration

Put on a dish, form a stump, making its side surface look like “coarse bark” and imitating it with chopped rye bread or toasted crusts of wheat bread. Garnish the stump generously and artistically with whole pickled or fried mushrooms. Fried mushrooms can also be added to the puree until the stump is formed. Small pieces of well-fried meat or simply fried onion until golden brown are sometimes added to the puree for taste. The dish will remain inexpensive, because 70-80% of it consists of potatoes.

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Festive table: chicken, cutlets, Olivier, salted red fish, tartlets with sprat salad, pickled tomatoes, sausage and potatoes

The menu for the festive table, recipes and the order of distribution of forces (so that the hostess does not get tired), a list of purchases (products for recipes) - at the very end. Some of the dishes can be prepared in advance, the rest are done just before the holiday. Everything is delicious, everyone will be satisfied and satisfied.

Composition of dishes for a simple holiday table

Cooked for 4-6 persons(adults), if more guests gather at the table, the norm of food can be increased.

This festive the table will do as for a small reception for a birthday, March 8, February 23, for meeting old friends and girlfriends, for other family holidays, when a narrow circle of relatives gathers who do not need to be amazed with amazing culinary delights, but simply and deliciously need to be fed. And not to fall from fatigue afterwards, but to keep the strength for warm communication with pleasant table conversations.

By clicking on the name of the dishes, you will be taken to detailed recipe their preparation (basically, all recipes with step by step photos and calculated on the number of pieces-portions indicated below).

1. Meat dishes, side dishes and appetizer salads

• (12-16 pieces on a baking sheet);
• (from 2 kg of minced chicken, but it is possible from minced turkey or pork and beef, pork, 18-20 pieces). The recipe is given without eggs and onions, but you can.
• Raw smoked sausage and pork neck - sliced ​​(0.5 kg each, depending on how much you love). You can add a piece of cheese (0.3-0.4 g) to the slices.
• (1 large chum salmon was salted);
• (2 cans of sprat, 8-10 tartlets);
• (with sausage, but you can also with the same neck or with chicken);
• pickled or other delicious homemade preparations (, or) - 1 can or 1 kg of cucumbers for quick salting;
• Boiled potatoes - large saucepan(approximately, 4-5 potatoes are not less than average size for 1 guest, have 3 kg of potatoes on hand, it will come in handy);
• Bread (0.5 loaves of black and a loaf for 4-6 guests) or Uzbek - 2-3 pieces.

2. Sweet and tea

• Tangerines or seasonal fruits - 2-4 for each guest;
• from a purchased ready-made meringue with banana cream (it is possible with the usual butter and powdered sugar);
• Drinks: tea - pack, coffee - can, 1 can of compote or juice (3 liters), mineral water and alcoholic drinks- optional);
• Sugar - 0.5 kg or a pack of refined sugar.

Cutlery

• Tablecloth and paper napkins (2-3 for each guest). Some require napkins or towels on their knees to avoid getting dirty (keep 1 per guest handy, if asked).
• Dinner and dessert plates for cake, cups, glasses for compote or mineral water, wine glasses, forks, teaspoons - only 1 for the number of guests; tablespoons - 1 in each dish to be applied, a knife and a cake slice.

Cooking procedure

In fact, you only have to cook 6 dishes (or 7, if you yourself want to pickle cucumbers in a bag, it's quick). Everything else is ready (homemade canned food is either bought in the store) and it needs to be sliced ​​or simply spread out.

In advance (one day before the holiday) you can prepare:

• Red fish (peel and salt);
• Cutlets;
• Cake (you can also on the day of the celebration, it's quick. Or you can prepare the cream in advance, and collect the cake 1 hour before the arrival of the guests, so that the butter has time to freeze);
• Cook vegetables in their uniforms (Olivier) and eggs (Olivier and tartlets).

On the day of the holiday

• Thighs (salt, put on a baking sheet, grease with mayonnaise and take out when baked) = you can put in the oven for 1-1.5 hours after the arrival of guests;
• Boil the potatoes - peel them in advance and put them on the fire 1-1.5 hours before the guests arrive (along with the thighs);
• Cut the Olivier salad (you can not season it, but cover it and refrigerate it. And season it with mayonnaise just before serving).
• Do fish salad and set aside the tails of fish for the tartlets (also put it in the refrigerator for now, and put it in the tartlets 10-15 minutes before the guests arrive).

If guests come, for example, for lunch (2 pm), then you need to start at 10-11. Make salads, peel potatoes, assemble a cake (if not prepared in advance).

Scoop up the cream with a small meringue and lay out a new layer of cake
We spread the second layer of meringue on the first layer (coated with cream)
Quick cake Earl ruins from purchased bezeshek

The meringue is scattered on the plate. How delicious!

Thighs baked in mayonnaise

Put potatoes and chicken to cook in about 1.5 hours. While everything is being cooked and baked, cut the sausage, meat, cheese and bread (cover everything with napkins or cling film), put the pickles, towards the end - heat the cutlets. At the same time, you can cover with a tablecloth and set the table. Minutes in 10-15:

• Arrange the sprat salad over the tartlets and stick the fish in them;
• Season Olivier with mayonnaise;
• Put ready-made thighs on a dish, on another - heated cutlets (you can also cold, it's also delicious);
• Lay out the finished potatoes and pour over the thigh sauce;
• Pour the compote or juice into a jug or decanter;
• Remove napkins from slices and bread, check if all dishes have spoons for laying out, if there is enough cutlery and napkins for all;
• Wash tangerines;
• Meet all the guests and eat!

Good appetite! And have a great holiday!

Festive table with chicken, cutlets, Olivier, salted red fish, sprat tartlets, pickled tomatoes, sausage and potatoes

If necessary, here's one for preparing these recipes for 4-6 people (food remains, 8 will also be full):

Shopping list for the holiday

Bread and baked goods

• Black bread - 0.5-1 loaf;
• Baton - 0.5-1 pieces;
• Tartlets - 16 pieces (with a margin);
• Meringue (meringue cookies, small beeshki) - 300-350 g;

Meat, fish, sausage

• Thighs - 12-16 pieces (for 1 baking sheet, depending on the size);
• Minced chicken (or pork and beef, pork, minced turkey) - 1.8-2 kg;
• Red fish (chum salmon, coho salmon, pink salmon, or other good) - 1 large fish;
• Cooked sausage - 300-400 g in Olivier;
• Smoked sausage (0.5-1 stick), neck, bacon, brisket - optional (by package);

Cheese, butter, eggs, mayonnaise

• Cheese - 1 slice (for slicing, optional);
• Chicken eggs - 10-16 pieces (in 2 salads and minced meat, if you like);
• Mayonnaise - 1 large pack (or 1 medium and 1 started at home);
• Butter - 360-400 g;
• Vegetable oil for frying - 0.5 bottles (for cutlets and for lightly salted fish);

Canned food

• Sprats - 2 cans of 180-200 g each;
• Green peas - 0.5-1 cans;
• Canned tomatoes-cucumbers-mushrooms-olives-olives - optional, if there are no homemade preparations, 1-2 cans.

Vegetables, fruits, nuts

• Potatoes - 3-5 kg ​​(for garnish and in Olivier);
• Carrots - 1 medium (in Olivier);
• Pickled cucumber - 1 (in Olivier), but more is possible - on the table;
• Fresh cucumber (for lightly salted) - 1 kg;
• Onions - 2-3 heads;
• Garlic - 1 head (less if there is a started head at home);
• 1 bunch of greens: green onions (if not, we'll get by with the available onions), dill, parsley and basil;
• Walnuts for cake (peeled) - 100-200 g (not necessary, but tastier with them);
• Tangerines - 2 kg or apples, oranges, persimmons (if it does not fall apart and you don’t remember it with other purchases), the number of pieces - according to the number of guests (+ 2-6 spare), 2 clusters of grapes;
• Bananas - 2-3 pieces (for a cake, but you can make a cream without them);
• Lemon - 2 (in lightly salted fish, for thighs and for tea or brandy);

Spices, semolina, salt-sugar, someone's coffee

• Dried basil - 1 sachet;
• Black pepper or allspice ground (whatever you like, if you wish) - a small bag;
• Semolina (you can oatmeal, rice flakes or 2 slices of rolls) - 0.5 cups for minced meat, if you buy, then 0.5-1 kg;
• Salt;
• Sugar - 0.5 kg of granulated sugar (in a sugar bowl, for lightly salted fish and 1 glass in cream, if not icing sugar). For sugar bowls, you can buy 1 pack of refined sugar if you want.
• Powdered sugar for a cake - 1 glass (this is a small package of 200 g);
• Tea - 1 pack;
• Coffee - 1 can;

Drinks, napkins

• Juice (if not homemade compote) - 3 liters;
• Mineral water - 2 bottles of 1.5 liters;
• Wine, other alcoholic drinks - at your discretion;
• Napkins - packaging;
• Toilet paper - packaging (you can + a roll of paper towels, it is convenient to wipe your hands when preparing);
• Paper tablecloth (if there is no usual at home).

Time flies by quickly, and every year we get older and older. Every year we are faced with the same question. Should you celebrate a birthday? If you celebrate, who should you invite, where to celebrate, and what to cook? If you invite friends to a cafe or restaurant, then there will be no problems with cooking. But if you decide to celebrate your birthday at home, in the country or somewhere in nature, then the problem of making a menu will become especially acute. ›

In order to compose 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. ›

As you know, the menu for the New Year's table includes snacks, salads, a hot dish, a side dish, various drinks, fruits and, of course, desserts. It is simply impossible to imagine the New Year without them. The main rule of the menu for the New Year's table: food should be varied, tasty and beautiful! ›

Have you already chosen a place for a romantic evening, thought over decorations and entourage and bought cute gifts? Now is the time to think about the treat. And it doesn't matter where the festive breakfast, lunch or dinner will take place, the main thing is not to miss the selection of dishes. ›

Men now have the hottest days - chasing gifts and making menus for a romantic breakfast-lunch-dinner (underline as appropriate). Moreover, the fuss in the kitchen of some of the stronger sex scares much more than running around the shops! But it is not in vain that it is believed that men are the best cooks. ›

Drawing up a menu for any festive table is a long and complicated business. And if we are talking about New Year's Eve, smoothly turning into morning, the task becomes much more complicated. No, of course, you can simply prepare a whole table of proven dishes or, conversely, try to impress the guests' imagination by composing something exquisite or exotic, but all your efforts can go to dust if you miss some important points. ›

We have compiled the menu of the Christmas table according to traditional recipes Russian cuisine, published in The Big Book of Christmas. It turned out to be really big - 20 recipes, but you don't have to cook all the dishes at once, because, by tradition, the Christmas table should consist of 12 dishes. ›

The bright holiday of Easter is approaching. On this day (and throughout the entire festive week) we want to surprise our family and friends with a rich, magnificent festive table. Someone uses time-tested recipes, while others scour the Internet in search of unusual or even exotic dishes. Maybe our recipes will suit you? ›

We can say with full confidence that each hostess has already compiled at least an approximate menu for the New Year's table 2015, which includes both snacks and a variety of salads, and original hot dishes and, of course, dessert. There is still time to make some adjustments to the menu, replacing a couple of dishes from the list with more original and interesting ones. ›

The morning of a holiday should be special. It is the morning that can give you and your dear men a wonderful mood for the whole day. The brunch menu that we offer you is simple, but you should worry about the products for it in advance. ›