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An article about how to prepare inexpensive dishes for the holiday table. You will find several recipes in the text.

Saving is common, necessary and widespread. But it’s not easy, because there are many temptations around to spend money “for other purposes,” and prices in stores do not always please us... So where to save?

Holiday? This is some kind of complete waste! But nice

Our lives are full of “non-working days”. From the point of view of a thrifty person, these are the days when he does not earn money, but spends a lot of money. Let's try to find recipes on how to bypass wasteful traditions, but so that the holiday remains a holiday!

Principles of economical feasting

What are the principles of saving? How to organize a festive table inexpensively and deliciously, with recipes that would be accessible to any housewife?

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

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

3. Prepare long-lasting 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. Avoid delicacies - they are always expensive.

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

6.Use your imagination: an artistically decorated dish is twice as tasty. Proven by science!

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

Principles for selecting products for the holiday table

Of course, the economical table rejects delicacies. The task is to try to turn the most ordinary foods and drinks into them. Agree in advance with your friends where you will celebrate, buy together, bring the food in advance, optimally two days before the start of cooking. Decide in advance who has artistic abilities and experience in 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. Buckwheat and rice are appropriate cereals on the holiday table, but you can refuse them in favor of potatoes, because the variety of dishes made from them is incredibly large!

4.Use mostly chicken or other meat, but with plenty of 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 water!) and gelatin.

6. Jelly is perfectly combined (decorated) with green peas, boiled carrots, and small pieces of sweet pepper. Everything you put into the jelly must be blanched!

7. A fairly universal meat dish is zrazy. Also on the festive table, liver dishes are appropriate - pates, liver “cake”. They will allow you to save on meat, because these are also almost “meat” dishes.

Recipes for inexpensive salads for the holiday table

Of course, “Herring under a fur coat”, “Mimosa” salad and “Olivier” salad are simply a must on an economical holiday table. Without the latter, it seems that holidays (especially New Year's!) 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 are an experienced housewife. Practice, but not before the holiday itself - then you won’t have time! However, these three salads will be lonely if you limit yourself to decorating an inexpensive holiday table only with them. An inexpensive table can be decorated with other salads.

Salad “Crystal Bird’s Nest”

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

Ingredients and materials

Whole, without cracks, eggshells - 2 pieces per serving.
Strong meat broth - 40 ml per 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 mixture for each eggshell. You can replace it with a frozen vegetable mixture in the form of vegetable cubes, blanched before cooking, in the same quantity, adding cubes of boiled chicken meat.

Shell preparation

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

Preparation of broth with gelatin

Carefully, through several layers of gauze, filter the pre-prepared transparent (and slightly salted) meat broth and set the gelatin to swell, which should be taken at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon for 1 cup of broth. Having prepared the broth with gelatin, cool it to a barely warm state and pour it into egg shells placed on a regular egg tray, but pour it so as to fill the egg no more than a third. To pour the broth into the shells, it is convenient to use a teapot with a long spout. After pouring, place the tray with shells in the cold.

Filling (minced meat)

Meanwhile, prepare the filling for the “crystal eggs”. Suitable: sweet corn, sweet peppers, cubes or slices of boiled meat (ham), cubes of hard pickled or fresh cucumber, cubes of boiled carrots, tender sprigs of dill up to 5 cm long, thin onion feathers several centimeters long, hard cheese cubes or omelette cubes from the same egg whites and yolks. The more bright colored pieces, the better. The cubes should be 1cm in size.

The final

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

Recipes for appetizers for the holiday table

White cabbage “chops”

An inexpensive dish suitable 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 cabbage

Cut a small head of cabbage into quarters, place in cold salted water, and place on low heat. Cook until tender, piercing occasionally to check with a fine-toothed fork. You can't digest it! Place 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. Place a frying pan on the fire and pour in a little refined vegetable oil. Dip the cabbage in flour, then in the egg, repeating the cycle three times. The last one should be the egg. Place in a frying 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 slice of chopped pickled cucumber.

“Mushroom stump” made 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 of puree - 2 eggs, etc.
Rye bread or
crusts of toasted wheat bread for decoration - 1 cup per 1 kg of puree.

Marinated or freshly fried mushrooms, or fried minced meat - 200 grams for every 1 kg of mashed potatoes.

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

Preparation

Preparing mashed potatoes

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

Dish decoration

Place on a dish, form a stump, making its side surface a “coarse bark” and imitating it with crushed rye bread or crispy crushed wheat bread crusts. Generously and artistically decorate the top of the “stump” with whole pickled or fried mushrooms. Fried mushrooms can also be added to the puree before the “stump” is formed. Small pieces of well-fried meat or simply fried onions 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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Before the onset of this significant date, the heart invariably swells with joy in anticipation of gifts, fun, and friendly meetings. But some people don't like their birthdays for various reasons. Someone because they are at least a year older, but they are getting older. And some, especially thrifty people, tensely calculate how much it will cost them and the announcement of the estimate spoils their mood. Life is such that everyone is forced to save money from time to time. But this is not a reason to deprive yourself of the holidays. Therefore, we will try to answer the question: how to inexpensively set a table for a birthday?

Where does the tradition come from?

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

Name day of Mukha-Tsokotukha

Gradually they got personal, but for a long time no one paid attention to the date of birth of children and women. The first woman whose birthday was celebrated on a grand scale was the beautiful Cleopatra. It was not customary for ordinary people to record and celebrate ladies' birthdays.

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

The position of Christianity on this issue was initially extremely harsh: life was given to man to atone for sins, so he had no time for fun. Later, the church softened somewhat and allowed baptisms with name days. But the Soviet system was against name days and, figuratively speaking, trampled tradition with its iron boot. Even the famous birthday fly was ordered to be removed from the works of old man Korney.

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

Cake with surprise

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

But the tradition was introduced into use by the Germans. They created a common ritual for celebrating a child's birthday. To do this, they prepared a delicious cake in which they hid various symbolic objects, placed candles on top according to the number of years of the hero of the occasion, and, waking up the child at dawn, sang cheerful songs to him. It is noteworthy that the pie was not eaten until evening, until the whole family had gathered at the table. The child had to wish for something cherished and blow out the candles in one go. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Jam Day: their morals

Different countries treat such holidays differently. Most people on the planet have a reverent attitude towards anniversaries. But some nationalities celebrate odd or non-round dates. Traditions are also different: in Italy, spaghetti is an indispensable dish on the birthday boy’s table (so that he lives for a long time), and in Latin American countries they always break a piñata with gifts loaded into it.

Englishmen who have lived to 80 years or more are personally congratulated by Her Royal Majesty. But the most unlucky birthday people live in Japan: instead of children, their parents are congratulated, and gifts are generally given only after the age of 60.

Economy table rules

If the birthday hostess still decides to gather close people under her hospitable roof, but wants to balance her needs with her capabilities, then there is a way out.

Setting the table for a birthday at home is inexpensive, very tasty, and in such a way that it looks presentable - an absolutely doable task. To do this, you need to adhere to the simplest rules:

The menu must be thought out in advance. It’s a good idea to delve into cookbooks and leaf through magazines. You need to pay attention to the ingredients: it’s cheaper to buy seasonal products, so the menu is selected accordingly. If a housewife wants to set a birthday table at home inexpensively, recipes with photos are especially welcome, because you can immediately see how the dishes will look on the table.
Accurately calculate the number of invitees (taking into account, of course, several uninvited guests). You can prepare hot food in portions, but in this case the birthday girl will have no peace. It is better to make a common dish with a reserve.
As a rule, first courses are not included in the birthday menu. The exception is exotic gourmet soups.
If you are planning a traditional celebration, then it is quite possible to set the birthday table at home inexpensively. Recipes for budget dishes can be found in any source to suit your taste. But it must include cold and hot appetizers, a main course (meat or fish), salads and dessert.

Alcoholic drinks are also an important attribute of the holiday table, since they increase the mood, forgive the pun.

Modest cut and luxurious roll

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

Standard cold appetizers include meat, cheese and vegetable slices. This classic approach has never failed anyone. The main thing is the variety of varieties in the cutting composition. Everyone knows that any feast should start with cold appetizers. This is the so-called organizational moment: it is useless to hope that no one will be late. And while waiting, the rest of the guests will be able to have a great meal so as not to drink on an empty stomach.

For those who want to set a birthday table at home inexpensively, Korean snacks are perfect: buy a little of everything (try the dishes first) and place them on the table in small plates. Homemade pickles and marinades are also in great demand among guests.

There are express recipes for those initiated on how to deliciously and inexpensively set the table for a birthday: a cold roll and an appetizer with the romantic name “Raffaello”. The first one is prepared as follows:

a sheet of thin pita bread is greased with a mixture that includes: mayonnaise, garlic, dill and grated cheese;
Thinly sliced ham is placed on top;
then the actions are repeated;
roll the pita bread into a roll;
Wrap the product in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

This inexpensive but original dish should be served by cutting it into portioned pieces with a very sharp knife.

The Raffaello appetizer will require the following ingredients:

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

A nut kernel is rolled into a mixture of cheese, full-fat mayonnaise and garlic. Next, grate the frozen crab stick on a fine grater. Roll in grated crab meat with a surprise: the dish is ready. Using this recipe, you can reveal the secret of how to quickly and inexpensively set the table for a birthday. To make these balls look festive, they are placed on fresh lettuce leaves.

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

Delightful hot snacks

A hostess asking herself the question of how to set a tasty and inexpensive table for a birthday party should not forget about hot appetizers. They follow the cold ones when everyone has gathered at the table and it’s time for the first toasts. There should not be a lot of them, and they are prepared shortly before serving. This is a light dish with small portion sizes. An example of such a snack would be easy-to-prepare meat balls:

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

This snack looks very presentable.

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

The dish is prepared like this:

Add peeled mushrooms to carefully sautéed onions and carrots and simmer for about 10 minutes;
later sour cream and seasonings are added and everything is stewed until cooked.

The simplest dish can be made beautiful by sprinkling it with grated cheese and herbs on top and serving it in ceramic pots.

Salads for the date

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

green pea;
ham;
pickled champignons;
mayonnaise.

This salad is suitable when guests are literally on the doorstep or come unexpectedly. After all, you don’t need to prepare anything in advance, all the components are simply mixed.

Salads with seafood can look original; the female half of the guests especially like them.

Main serving of dishes

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

In general, before planning the main serving, you need to ask yourself what your guests like more: meat or fish? Only after this can you prepare the treasured main course. Of course, with fish there is several times more trouble than with meat, but pike will become truly festive and will be remembered by guests for a long time. It’s a good idea to serve medallions or steaks to the holiday table. One thing is certain - meat must be present on the table.

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

What about compote?

To set the table for a birthday inexpensively, food recipes are not all that a housewife needs. Drinks are also important. Of course, you can’t do without compotes, juices, carbonated drinks, maybe even croutons. What about alcohol? It is important to take into account here that not everyone drinks strong alcohol, so champagne and other wines are a mandatory attribute on the festive table.

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

Mistress's secrets

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

What you need for serving and decorating:

Tablecloth. The classic version is white, but other colors are allowed.
Dishes. Cutlery and glasses should be polished to a shine. For a special occasion, it would be useful to take out your best set from the bins.
Don't forget about cloth napkins depending on the number of guests. They can be beautifully laid out in waves or in the form of shapes.
Decorate dishes with herbs, bright berries, like cranberries, peas, olives. There is a special knife for curly and fruit, it would be nice to buy it. If you ask yourself: how to set a table for a birthday inexpensively, the recipes may be very surprising. And not only the not too expensive and tasty dishes described in them, but also a presentable appearance. This happens because the dish is decorated correctly, because when you look at the food, your appetite should come.
You shouldn’t do a lot of culinary experiments, let everything be as usual, with the exception of one or two dishes.

The holiday table should not be complete without a variety of vegetables and fruits. If you plan to have strong alcohol, then take care of a hearty and plentiful snack.

Little birthday boy

Many mothers probably think about how to inexpensively set the table for a child’s birthday so that he is delighted.

It's actually not difficult at all. There are several tips that you can use to make an unforgettable celebration for your child and his friends:

paper dishes in bright colors - safe and beautiful, and you don’t need to wash anything;
decorating the room with balloons, paper garlands;
small-sized dishes - mostly canapés, salads in bowls, pita rolls with various fillings, chicken croquettes - children do not really like to overeat, unless, of course, it is sweets;
water drinkers can be offered homemade lemonade, fruit drinks, juices, compotes and milk and fruit cocktails;
desserts made from cottage cheese are preferable;
It is better to season salads with sour cream and yoghurt.

Anything is suitable for canapés: ham, cheese stars, pepper slices, olives, corn, shrimp. The sweet version is made like this: bananas, grapes, and kiwi are stuck on skewers.

You can make a delicious salad from boiled chicken, tomatoes, sweet peppers and hard-boiled eggs, decorating it in the shape of a hedgehog with fly agarics on its back. The salad is laid in layers: chicken cut into pieces → tomatoes → grated eggs → chopped pepper. Each layer is coated with sour cream and yogurt dressing. The hedgehog should be sprinkled with grated carrots, and its face should be marked with egg white. The eyes and nose are made from olives and prunes, and fly agaric mushrooms are made from eggs and tomatoes.

It is important to create a festive atmosphere and provide the baby with the opportunity to move actively.

Alternative ideas

Finally, we can offer a few ideas when there is neither time nor desire to spend time in the kitchen, but the soul requires a holiday. You can set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively and deliciously by purchasing ready-made food from a deli or restaurant. This option is especially suitable for a young, advanced company. You can order pizza, ready-made grilled chicken and salads. Japanese cuisine will cost a little more.

There is also an interesting and modern option - a buffet table. But it obeys certain rules:

division into single portions;
dishes should be mostly on skewers;
you can put all kinds of goodies on one large table;
the main course should be in baskets or make plates by cutting them first;
If chicken legs are served, the bone is wrapped in a napkin.

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

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

salads with mayonnaise are not recommended dishes for a picnic;
the meat must be marinated in advance;
you should take care of drinking water;
Sandwiches and side dishes can be taken from home.

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

But no matter what the birthday boy chooses, the main thing is his loved ones nearby.

Holiday salads are a special topic of conversation. Personally, I can spend hours discussing salad recipes for the holiday table with my girlfriends on the Internet and on the phone, and I always write down recipes for delicious holiday salads when visiting. Salads for the festive table are a separate philosophy for every housewife, because salad is the first thing served on the table, and it is salads that set the tone for the entire feast.

As the wise proverb says: “A dull pencil is better than the sharpest memory,” so I decided to collect all my favorite and proven recipes for holiday salads in one place.

To open the page before the holidays - and all the salads for the holiday table in one place, all that remains is to choose the appropriate salad and send your husband to the supermarket for groceries. Friends, I really hope that you will definitely like my salads for the holiday table!

Salad in heaps "Jumble"

The “Jumble” salad is prepared in heaps very quickly, the ingredients are simple and accessible, and the original design allows you to serve the salad in heaps on a flat dish on a festive table. See the recipe with step-by-step photos.

Salad with squid, egg and cucumber

The recipe for salad with squid, egg and cucumber is one of my favorites. It is easy and quick to prepare; no special ingredients or culinary skills are required. See the recipe with step-by-step photos.

Salad with crab sticks and carrots

I would like to present to your attention a very tasty salad with crab sticks and carrots. A friend shared his recipe with me when I once complained to her that I couldn’t find some new interesting salad - one that was easy to prepare, looked appetizing, and turned out tasty and tender. How to cook, see.

Salad “Cod liver under a fur coat”

The prepared cod liver salad turns out to be especially tender. All my friends have long copied this recipe into their cookbooks and are sure to prepare it for the holiday table. I hope you will also enjoy the delicious canned cod liver salad. You can see how to prepare the salad “Cod liver under a fur coat”

Salad with prunes and chicken “Venice”

I prepare a very tasty salad with chicken and prunes for almost all family holidays. It turns out satisfying, with a pleasant piquant note, which is given to the dish by prunes and fried champignons. The classic combination of boiled chicken fillet, cheese and mushrooms is complemented by fresh cucumber, making the salad juicy and fresh. See recipe with photo.

A very tasty salad for the holiday table with pancakes, Korean carrots, Chinese cabbage, ham and chicken. Your guests will be delighted! See the recipe with step-by-step photos.

Delicious salad with canned beans and croutons

Well, a very tasty salad with canned beans, croutons, sausage and fresh cucumber! All the ingredients work well together, and the mayonnaise dressing with garlic makes this salad a favorite of all guests. Recipe with photo.

Salad with smoked chicken “Mosaic”

A delicious salad with smoked chicken, cheese and fresh vegetables will take a special place on your holiday table. See the recipe with step-by-step photos.

Layered salad with sardine

You can see how to prepare a very tasty and simple puff salad with sardines.

Chicken breast salad “Air”

This salad is really very tasty, despite the fact that it is prepared easily and quickly and from quite affordable ingredients. As a housewife, I also like this salad with chicken breast - a simple recipe, and the result is very appetizing and interesting, quite suitable for a regular lunch-dinner, and for a holiday table. Look at the recipe with photos.

Salad with crab sticks and tomatoes

Who wants a simple and quick recipe for a delicious, but at the same time very affordable salad made from the most common ingredients? I have just such a salad with crab sticks and tomatoes. It really turns out very tasty, bright and appetizing. Recipe .

Salad with chicken and pineapple “Spicy”

You can see the recipe for “Spicy” chicken and pineapple salad.

You can see how to prepare the “Obsession” salad

If you are looking for a simple but tasty salad for the holiday table, then I think you will like this recipe with the funny name “Mushrooms under a fur coat.” There is no need to draw an analogy with the famous salad “Herring under a fur coat” - there will be no beets and herring in this recipe. But there will be mushrooms and hard cheese, pickles and green onions: this combination turns out to be very successful and tasty, and the appetizer is filling. See the recipe with step-by-step photos

Salad with chicken and prunes “Birthday Boy”

You can see how to prepare a salad with prunes and chicken “Birthday Boy”

If you are looking for a good and simple salad recipe for the holiday table, “Kucheryashka” will be a great option. I like this salad with chicken and beets because it’s easy to prepare; just boil the beets and chicken fillet in advance, and then all you have to do is chop the ingredients and lay them out in layers. I wrote how to prepare a salad with beets and cheese “Kucheryashka”.

Red Sea salad with tomatoes, sweet peppers, cheese and crab sticks. This combination of ingredients turns out to be very successful, so you will definitely like the taste of this dish. And the salad is prepared simply and quickly, and it also looks bright and appetizing... See the recipe with step-by-step photos

I suggest you try to prepare a very simple and tasty salad with sprats and croutons, which all my guests have already fallen in love with. Despite the fact that the salad does not contain fresh vegetables, this does not “spoil the picture” at all. Mushrooms go well with sprats and crackers, and for those who like something spicy, you can add garlic! You can see how to prepare a salad with sprats and croutons .

Salad with croutons and ham “Carmen”

A very tasty and original salad with croutons, chicken and ham with adjika and mayonnaise dressing. Your guests will be satisfied. Let's see how to prepare the salad

Salad with mushrooms, chicken and nuts “Leshy”

Ingredients:

1 PC. boiled chicken breast,
400 g champignons,
2 pcs. Luke,
3 pcs. boiled eggs,
100 g hard cheese,
0.5 tbsp ground walnuts,
mayonnaise.

Preparation:

Chop the champignons, chop the onion, and fry them separately.

Cut the breast into cubes, boil the eggs, grate on a coarse grater, grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add nuts, season with mayonnaise, stir.

Place a glass or bottle in the center on a flat dish, place our salad and press it down a little. Then very carefully remove the glass and decorate.

We decorate our salad with herbs and olive flowers.

Salad with squid, mushrooms and nuts “Kyiv”

How to prepare Kyiv salad, see

Salad with chicken and mushrooms “Zostolny”

Ingredients:

boiled eggs 5 pcs
smoked chicken breast 200g
pickled mushrooms 200g
cheese 100-150g
greens for decoration
mayonnaise or sour cream.

Preparation:

Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate separately.

Finely chop the meat and mushrooms.

Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Season the meat with mayonnaise.

Lay out in layers from bottom to top: meat, mushrooms, mayonnaise, proteins, mayonnaise, cheese, mayonnaise. yolks. Decorate with greens.

Salad with tomatoes and croutons “Astra”

You can see the recipe for Astra salad.

Finger-licking salad

Ingredients:

300 g cabbage
200 g boiled meat (pork or beef)
3 small beets
2 carrots
1 medium onion
4-5 potatoes
2 cloves garlic
1 cucumber
2 tomatoes
hard cheese
mayonnaise
soy sauce
vegetable oil

Preparation:

Boil carrots (one), beets and meat and cut into strips separately. Cut the potatoes into strips, then fry (make French fries). Cabbage and cucumber - in strips.

1st layer - cabbage (salt, squeeze lightly and pepper, mayonnaise);

2 — carrots (1 fresh + 1 boiled, soy sauce and a little mayonnaise);

3 - beets + garlic and mayonnaise;

4 - meat + mayonnaise;

5 - finely chopped onion;

6 - potatoes + mayonnaise.

Place sliced tomatoes on top, salt them, put a little mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese and garnish with herbs.

Salad with cheese, pineapple and garlic

Women especially like a spicy salad with cheese, pineapple and garlic, because it turns out incredibly tasty and at the same time inexpensive. Another advantage of this recipe is that to prepare it you do not need to boil vegetables or eggs in advance, grind all the ingredients for a long time and then lay them out in layers. Everything is very simple. Recipe with photo.

Salad with smoked chicken and fresh vegetables “Versai”

You can see how to prepare Versai salad

Salad with crab sticks and cheese “Tender”

The salad is really very tender and airy. It's quick and easy to prepare. A great budget salad option for the holidays!

Ingredients:

200 g crab sticks
200 g cheese (not spicy varieties)
6 boiled eggs
30 g butter
mayonnaise

Preparation:

We arrange the salad in layers.

The first layer is to grate frozen crab sticks on a coarse grater and coat with mayonnaise.

The next layer is grated cheese, the next is grated egg white, then grate the yolk on a fine grater. And grate 30 grams of butter on top.

Coat each layer with mayonnaise. Leave to infuse.

See the recipe with step-by-step photos.

Salad with croutons and red fish “Peak of Bliss”

The salad is prepared very quickly and simply, but incredibly tasty.

Dedicated to all red fish lovers!

Ingredients:

200 g salted red fish (I used trout)
a small head of Chinese cabbage
100 g white(!!!) crackers (Klinskie were recommended, but I couldn’t find them)
mayonnaise.

Preparation:

Cut the fish into small strips, chop the cabbage, and mix.

Add mayonnaise, mix and add crackers.

Mix again and you are ready to eat. You can let the salad sit for about ten minutes and the croutons will soften slightly. Delicious both ways!

Salad with smoked ham “To Hurray!”

A very original salad with an amazing composition. All ingredients go well together. If you don't like celery, replace it with cucumber.

Ingredients:

Smoked ham pcs.
Celery (stems) 100 gr.
Tomato 1 pc.
Boiled eggs 2 pcs.
Mayonnaise 2 tablespoons
Sour cream 1 tbsp.
A little bit of garlic.

Preparation:

Cut chicken, celery, tomato and eggs into cubes + sauce (mayonnaise + sour cream + garlic).

Bon appetit!

Salad with canned mackerel

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Setting a festive table is quite an expensive task. Let's talk about various options for budget-friendly, satisfying and tasty dishes.

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

We offer examples of tasty and inexpensive 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 until the cheese melts. Can be served both hot and cold.

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

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

Sandwiches with cheese clouds. Grate 2 processed cheeses such as “Nadezhda”, “Gorodskoy”, grate 2 eggs, garlic, sour cream or mayonnaise, mix. Place the resulting cheese cloud on bread; you can add cucumbers and sprats.

Sauerkraut.

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

Spicy carrots. These are variations on the theme of “Korean style carrots”. Grate carrots with garlic and ground black pepper, coriander, and other spicy hot seasonings, season with sour cream or vegetable oil.

Radish with carrots. Grate radishes with carrots, add salt and season with sour cream.

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

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

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

Salad with “Fish” cookies. Lay out in layers: “fish” cookies, coat with mayonnaise, grated smoked cheese (“Kolbasny”), finely chopped chicken breast with green onions, 3 finely grated eggs, a layer of mayonnaise. It’s better to let it sit in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours so that the cookies “soak.”

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

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

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

It turns out to be more economical when using an abundance of seasonal ingredients: if you have freshly picked or canned, frozen mushrooms, we prepare dishes with them; in the season of an abundance of fresh vegetables, we use them to the maximum, etc.

Hot

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

Chicken cutlets. Scroll through 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.

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

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

Fried potatoes with onions.

Fried mushrooms with onions and sour cream.

Fish cutlets.

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

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

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

Warm meat salad. Fry separately: finely chopped chicken breast, some beef and vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, onions. Place in a heap on a plate and serve sizzling.

Potato pancakes with sour cream and mushrooms.

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

For tea

Homemade baked goods are much cheaper and more natural than store-bought ones.

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 2 medium apples into a baking dish, add the dough and bake for 30 minutes.

Pie based cake. You can make a cake based on this pie. Cut the pie into several layers, coat with cream, add soaked dried fruits, marmalade, berries, and fill with chocolate glaze.

Pancakes or thin pancakes with jam, condensed milk, chocolate

Homemade cookies and waffles

Ice cream with jam or chopped bananas

Marshmallows and cookies

Cheesecakes for tea with jam and sour cream

Cottage cheese cake. Lay out in layers: cookies like “Jubilee”, “Sugar”, a layer of cottage cheese with sour cream, a layer of thinly sliced marmalade, a layer of cookies, a layer of cottage cheese with sour cream, a layer of marmalade, cookies, cottage cheese and fill with chocolate glaze.
For chocolate glaze, melt 2 tsp in 100 g of milk. cocoa powder, 4-5 cloves of dark chocolate, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar.

Fruits

The use of exotic fruits significantly increases the cost of the holiday 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, you can cook a hodgepodge soup from sliced vegetables and sausages, make a kind of gravy for a side dish, and make a casserole from the remaining side dish and hot dishes. If there is a lot of food left after the celebration, then some can be frozen in the refrigerator, for example, chicken, cutlets, sausage, pancakes and cheesecakes, fish and many others. This way they will be kept fresh and will significantly reduce the time it takes to prepare food in the future; all you need to do is take them out and heat them up.

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

A difficult question for most housewives: what to cook for the holiday table? After all, you want the dish to be not only tasty and beautiful, but also new and original. The best recipes for such treats are collected below.

The choice of unusual snacks for the holiday table is huge. Among all the existing recipes, every cook will find one that is ideal for themselves.

Pancake bags with chicken and champignons

Ingredients:

pancakes – 10 pcs. ready;
chicken fillet – 300 – 350 g;
peeled mushrooms – 0.2 kg;
grated cheese - a glass;
sour cream/classic mayonnaise - to taste;
butter;
salt, spices and smoked cheese braid for tying the bags.

Cooking algorithm:

Chop the onions and mushrooms into smaller pieces and fry them in butter.
Boil the meat, cut into small pieces. Send for frying.
Add sour cream/mayonnaise into the pan. Salt and add spices. Simmer for a couple of minutes.
Grate the cheese.
Spread the filling from the frying pan over the pancakes. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
Tie delicious bags with strips of smoked cheese.

Before serving, warm the appetizer in the microwave.

"Mushrooms"

Ingredients:

boiled eggs – 3 pcs.;
cheese and ham – 100 – 150 g each;
cherry – 12 – 14 pcs.;
fresh cucumbers – 2 – 3 pcs.;
fresh herbs – 1 bunch;
homemade mayonnaise and salt.

Preparation:

Grind eggs, cheese, ham with a grater. Add salt as needed.
Add mayonnaise, mix everything.
Make “mushroom” legs from the mixture. Place each on a slice of fresh cucumber and place the preparations on a plate covered with chopped herbs.
Make hats from cherry tomatoes and drops of mayonnaise.

Cool the treat and serve to guests.

Crab roll

Ingredients:

thin pita bread – 2 pcs.;
boiled eggs – 3 pcs.;
processed and hard cheese – 150 g each;
garlic – 5 teeth;
greens – 1 bunch;
mayonnaise, salt.

Preparation:

Finely grate boiled eggs, two types of cheese and garlic. Toss with mayonnaise and chopped herbs. Add salt if desired.
Divide the resulting filling into two portions.
Coat two pita breads with it in turn. Place them on top of each other and roll them up.

Cool the appetizer, covering it with film, then cut into portions.

What salads to prepare for the holiday

When it comes to holiday salad recipes, it’s best to choose those that don’t contain quickly perishable or soggy ingredients. If the appetizer contains crackers, then it is better to serve them separately with the dish.

With meat and crackers

Ingredients:

any boiled meat – half a kilo;
Chinese cabbage – half a kilo;
cucumbers (fresh) – 4 pcs.;
peeled champignons – half a kilo;
dry garlic and yesterday's white bread - for crackers;
oil;
lettuce leaves;
mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Preparation:

Wash the lettuce leaves and place them on a beautiful dish.
Place the boiled meat, cut into thick strips, into a separate bowl. Chicken and pork are best suited for this appetizer.
Add finely shredded cabbage to the meat.
Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil until lightly browned.
Then use the remaining fat to lightly brown the diced yesterday's bread. Sprinkle it with dry garlic during the process.
Chop fresh cucumbers into cubes.
Mix all prepared products. Add salt. Top with sauce.

Place them on a plate with lettuce leaves.

"Anthill"

Ingredients:

chicken fillet – 250 – 280 g;
tomato – 1 pc.;
cucumber – 1 pc.;
raw potatoes – 2 pcs.;
garlic - optional;
bow arrows – 3 – 4 feathers;
hard cheese – 50 – 70 g;
salt, mayonnaise sauce;
high quality vegetable oil.

Algorithm of actions:

Boil the chicken until fully cooked. Cool it directly in the broth for greater juiciness of the meat. Cut into small arbitrary pieces.
Mix the chicken with tomato slices, grated cheese and chopped cucumber in the same way. Season everything with salted sauce mixed with crushed garlic.
Place the mixture onto a flat plate in a heap.
Cut the potatoes into very thin long strips. Fry the product in small portions in hot oil until golden brown and crispy.
Cover the pile of salad with potato strips.

Complete the appetizer with finely chopped green onions.

"Rainbow"

Ingredients:

hunting sausages – 250 – 300 g;
red salad pepper – 1 pc. (large);
fresh strong cucumber – 1 – 2 pcs.;
canned corn grains – 1 tbsp.;
red onion - 1 head;
boiled eggs – 3 pcs.;
mayonnaise sauce – ½ tbsp.;
French mustard – 1 dessert spoon;
salt and spices.

Preparation:

Cut the sausages into slices.
Chop all vegetables and eggs into cubes. Drain liquid from corn.
Mix all.
Season the salad with a mixture of sauce, mustard, salt and spices.

Serve with rye toast.

Holiday sandwiches: recipes

To ensure that the sandwiches on the holiday table are tasty and crispy, they should be prepared just before serving. You can make the filling in advance and apply it to the bread before your guests arrive.

With crab sticks and dill

Ingredients:

loaf – 1 fresh;
cucumber – 1 pc.;
dill – 5 – 6 sprigs;
crab sticks – 1 medium package;
grated processed cheese – ½ tbsp.;
butter – 20 g;
mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Preparation:

Chop the fresh cucumber very finely. Also chop the crab sticks.
Add grated cheese to the ingredients. To grind it easily and quickly, the product must first be frozen.
Finely chop the dill. Pour into the base of the future salad.
Season the mixture with sauce. Add salt to taste.
Lightly fry thin slices of white bread in butter.
Cover the pieces with the spread.

Serve the sandwiches immediately.

With sprats

Ingredients:

baguette – 6 pieces;
sprats in oil – 6 pcs. (large);
boiled egg – 1 pc.;
fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
mayonnaise – 3 dessert spoons;
lettuce leaves - 1 bunch;
salt, spices - optional.

Preparation:

Immediately cover a large flat plate with lettuce leaves.
Cut each loaf slice into halves. Dry them in a frying pan and coat with mayonnaise.
Place them on the salad and sprinkle with finely grated boiled egg.
Add fish to each serving.
Cut the cucumbers into thin slices and use toothpicks to secure them to the bases of the sandwiches in the form of sails.

Serve the appetizer without refrigerating it first.

Canapés on skewers for the festive table

Appetizing canapés on skewers can be either a budget snack or a real delicacy. It all depends on the filling chosen for them.

With red fish and black caviar

Ingredients:

white bread – ½ loaf;
butter (softened) – ½ pack;
lightly salted trout/salmon – 200 – 250 g;
black caviar – 50 – 70 g;
fresh parsley - to taste.

Preparation:

Cut round pieces from white bread.
Coat each with softened butter.
Add a portion of black caviar.
Finely chop the fish and roll it into a sail. Secure to the bread with skewers.

Garnish the finished canapés with fresh parsley.

With dry-cured sausage

Ingredients:

baguette – 200 g;
dry-cured sausage (sliced) – 80 – 100 g;
large fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
small tomatoes – 2 – 3 pcs.;
toast cheese – 50 g;
pitted olives – 10 pcs.

Preparation:

Cut the baguette into portions and lightly dry in the oven.
Decorate the cucumber into thin slices, and the tomatoes into plastic slices. Olives - in halves.
Place toasted cheese on the cooled croutons, one slice for each. You can pre-coat the bread with mayonnaise or soft curd cheese.
Next, distribute the tomato slices.
First thread a piece of olive onto each skewer, then a cucumber slice in waves and thin pieces of dry-cured sausage.
Stick the pieces into the croutons.

Serve the resulting canapés on a beautiful plate.

New meat dishes

Meat dishes will be a must on the holiday table. They should be served soon after the start of the feast, when guests have had time to try the appetizers, hot.

Liver tubes with filling

Ingredients:

chicken liver – half a kilo;
beef liver – 400 g;
boiled eggs – 10 pcs.;
raw eggs – 4 pcs.;
carrots – 10 pcs.;
milk - half a liter;
flour – 1/3 cup;
sour cream – 5 dessert spoons;
mayonnaise – 1/3 cup;
garlic - to taste;
salt and spices.

Preparation:

Blend two types of liver with a blender. Add salt. Add spices.
Pour well-beaten eggs and part of the milk into the liver mixture.
Add flour. Whisk everything again until the lumps disappear and dilute with the remaining milk.
Prepare 25 - 30 pancakes from the resulting mass.
Fry onions with carrots. Add salt. Add half the sour cream.
Mix the remaining sour cream with grated boiled eggs, mashed garlic and chopped cheese. Add salt and mayonnaise.
Cover each pancake with cheese and egg mixture and fried vegetables in turn.

Serve this unusual meat dish hot with any side dish.

Meat balls

Ingredients:

mixed minced meat - half a kilo;
yeast puff pastry - half a kilo;
onion – 1 head;
yolk – 1 pc.;
garlic - to taste;
milk – 2 dessert spoons;
salt pepper.

Preparation:

Mix the minced meat with onion, garlic and mince again. Salt and add pepper.
Carefully beat the mixture onto a horizontal surface.
Roll out the dough and cut into thin strips.
Form “balls” from the minced meat, cover them with strips of dough so that small gaps remain.
Brush the pieces with a mixture of yolk and milk.

Bake the treat in the oven for 40 - 45 minutes at medium temperature until golden brown.

Original holiday side dishes

Instead of the usual rice and mashed potatoes, you should prepare something more interesting as a side dish for the holiday. It’s delicious to complement both of the dish options below with hot sauces.

"Duchess"

Ingredients:

raw potatoes – 1 kg;
hard cheese – 50 – 80 g;
chicken yolks – 2 pcs.;
nutmeg - on the tip of a spoon;
salt and pepper.

Preparation:

Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender.
Drain all the water, add nutmeg, pepper, grated cheese, yolk (1 pc.). Mix everything well.
Using a pastry bag, pipe small roses onto a baking sheet lined with parchment.
Brush the pieces with the remaining yolk.
Bake in a very hot oven for 15 – 17 minutes.

Stuffed "Beijing"

Ingredients:

Chinese cabbage - 1 fork;
medium fat cottage cheese – 300 – 350 g;
high-quality gelatin – 10 g;
drinking water – 60 ml;
colored salad peppers – 150 g;
fresh parsley – 10 g;
garlic, salt, pepper.

Preparation:

Pour gelatin with water and leave to swell.
Finely chop the parsley and garlic, mix with cottage cheese.
Cut the lettuce peppers into miniature cubes. Add to cottage cheese. Salt and pepper everything.
Dissolve the gelatin in the microwave and add to the filling.
Divide the cabbage into leaves. Rinse and dry each one.
Take 2 leaves, fill them with filling and connect them together.
Wrap each piece in film and place it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

This unusual side dish is served chilled with meat or fish.

Lenten table menu

A Lenten holiday table can also be appetizing and tasty. True, the recipes in it will be simpler.

Casserole with potatoes and mushrooms

Ingredients:

raw potatoes – 1.5 kg;
peeled fresh mushrooms – half a kilo;
onion – 2 heads;
tomatoes – 3 pcs.;
lean mayonnaise, vegetable oil and salt.

Preparation:

Completely boil the peeled potatoes. Puree with remaining cooking water. Add salt. You can add spices.
Roughly chop the onion and mushrooms and fry in oil. Add salt. Beat with a blender.
Place 1/3 of the puree into the prepared glass pan. Cover with frying and another 1/3 puree.
Next, add thinly sliced tomatoes.
Cover everything with the remaining potatoes and lean mayonnaise.

Bake the dish at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Lenten cabbage rolls

Ingredients:

white cabbage – 1 head;
white rice – ½ cup;
carrots and onions – 1 pc.;
ketchup – 5 dessert spoons;
tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
mushrooms – 1 tbsp.;
oil, salt, pepper.

Preparation:

Disassemble the cabbage into leaves. Wash each and cook in boiling water for 3 minutes until softened. Cut off the thickenings from them.
Rinse the rice and cook for 7 minutes.
Also pre-boil wild mushrooms. Champignons - just finely chop.
Remove the skins from the tomatoes and chop finely.
Mash the garlic.
Fry chopped onions and carrots in oil until golden brown. Add mushrooms. Cook the mixture for another 7 - 8 minutes.
Mix the frying with tomatoes, rice, garlic. Salt and pepper.
Stuff the mixture with cabbage leaves. Roll them tightly and fry in hot oil for a couple of minutes.
Pour the cabbage rolls in a frying pan with a small amount of water and ketchup and simmer the treat over low heat for a little over an hour.

Lenten "Olivier"

Ingredients:

boiled potatoes – 4 pcs.;
boiled carrots – 3 pcs.;
canned peas - 1 tbsp.;
onion – 1 head;
sour barrel cucumbers – 3 pcs.;
pickled seaweed – 100 – 150 g;
lean mayonnaise and salt.

Preparation:

Chop all vegetables (boiled, fresh, and salted) into cubes.
Drain liquid from peas. Cut the olives into slices.
Cut the cabbage shorter.
Mix all.

Season the prepared salad with salted lean mayonnaise.

The simplest but most delicious dishes

If you don’t have time to spend a long time fiddling around with decorating the festive table, you should choose the simplest dishes possible. All that remains is to take care of their interesting design, which can pleasantly surprise guests.

Baked mackerel

Ingredients:

fish carcasses – 2 large;
garlic – 3 – 4 cloves;
ground paprika – 1 pinch;
Provençal herbs – 2 tsp;
butter and salt.

Preparation:

Rinse and clean the fish. Leave the clean fillet on the skin-on halves. There should be no seeds left in it.
Crush the garlic, mix with all seasonings and approximately 1/3 tbsp. any vegetable oil. Salt the mass. Rub the fish fillet with it and leave it like that for about 1 hour.
Place the prepared mackerel on a baking sheet lined with parchment, skin side up.

Bake the fish for 15 - 17 minutes at 220 degrees.

Striped tomatoes

Ingredients:

oblong shaped cherry – 12 pcs.;
garlic - to taste;
cheese – 100 – 150 g;
mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Preparation:

Grate the cheese very finely and mix with mayonnaise, mashed garlic, and salt.
Make two transverse horizontal cuts in each cherry. Fill them with filling.
Stuff all the tomatoes this way.

Serve the resulting “bees” as a cold appetizer.

Salad with ham and pickled onions

Ingredients:

pork ham – 200 – 250 g;
processed cheese – 2 pcs.;
tomatoes – 3 pcs.;
pickled red onion – 150 g;
sour cream sauce and salt.

Preparation:

Cut the cheese, tomatoes and ham into medium cubes.
Mix everything, add the onion, squeezed from the marinade.
Season the appetizer with sour cream sauce.

Add salt to taste and serve immediately to guests.

Interesting recipes for the holiday table

Experienced housewives can take on slightly more complicated recipes. Their dishes turn out to be very interesting, unusual and tasty.

Seltz with olives

Ingredients:

chicken – 700 – 750 g;
purified water – 2 l;
green olives - ½ tbsp.;
carrots – 100 g;
garlic – 1 tooth;
high-quality gelatin – 50 g;
salt pepper.

Preparation:

Chop the chicken with bones into pieces and cook for 90 minutes. At the very end of cooking, add peeled carrots.
Dilute gelatin in cold boiled water according to instructions. After a quarter of an hour, dissolve it in a water bath and mix with 1.5 tbsp. chicken broth. Add chopped garlic there. Add salt.
Cut the boiled carrots and olives into small cubes. Mix with them small pieces of boiled meat removed from the bones.
Pour the broth with gelatin over the filling components.
Place the mixture into a beautiful form and refrigerate overnight.

Serve the finished brawn upside down, garnished with fresh herbs.

Mushroom zucchini roll

Ingredients:

fresh zucchini – 2 pcs.;
peeled champignons – 450 g;
hard cheese – 150 g;
eggs – 2 pcs.;
flour – 1 tbsp.;
sour cream - 1 tbsp.;
onion – 1 head;
garlic – 3 – 4 cloves;
baking powder – 10 g;
salt, pepper, oil.

Preparation:

Peel the zucchini, grate coarsely and mix with crushed garlic. Add salt.
Add yolks, grated onion.
Sift flour and baking powder into mixture. Add the whites whipped until stiff. Spice up
Distribute the resulting mixture onto an oiled baking sheet.
Place in the oven preheated to 170 degrees. Bake for 35 – 45 minutes.
Finely chop the mushrooms and fry until golden brown. Add sour cream and grated cheese.
Coat the prepared zucchini cake with the mushroom mixture. Roll it up.

Cut the resulting dish into pieces and decorate to your liking.

Chicken muffins

Ingredients:

chicken fillet – 1 pc.;
champignons – 5 pcs.;
smoked sausage – 1 pc.;
bell pepper – ½ pod;
pickled cucumber – 1 pc.;
olives – 9 pcs.;
green onion – 2 feathers;
cheese – 80 – 100 g;
sour cream and butter - optional;
salt, vegetable oil, spices.

Preparation:

Finely chop the sausage, mushrooms, peppers. Fry until golden brown. You can use butter for this.
Add pickled cucumber and olive cubes, as well as chopped green onions.
Mix the products and season with sour cream.
Pound the chicken fillet thinly. Coat with salt and spices. Cut pieces of it to fit the muffin tins.
Line oiled containers with thin slices of meat.
Spread the filling on top.
Cover everything with cheese. You can spread a piece of butter on top for juiciness.

Bake hearty muffins for half an hour at 190 degrees.

What drinks to surprise your guests with?

The adult table will likely include both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Conventional store bottles can be replaced with unusual cocktails made with your own hands.

Orange drink without alcohol

Ingredients:

purified water – 2 l;
juicy sweet orange – 2 pcs.;
mint – 4 – 5 sprigs;
sugar – 3 tbsp. l.;
ice cubes.

Preparation:

Place washed, dried mint, lightly mashed by hand, on the bottom of the decanter.
Add pitted orange slices and sugar on top.
Mash everything with a spoon.
Fill the carafe ½ full with ice.

Preparation:

Mix condensed milk and juice. Any other berry will do.
Add vodka.
Mix everything with a long coffee spoon.

Pour the liqueur into a beautiful decanter or bottle. Cool.

For the holiday table, it is better to prepare several interesting, tasty dishes at once, but in small portions. In this case, each guest will be able to find something to their liking among them. Particular attention should be paid to snacks. There are never too many of them on the holiday table.