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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 until barely warm 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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If a loved one's birthday is coming up in your home, it is important to prepare thoroughly for this event. There is a lot of pleasant troubles ahead in preparing the holiday. If the issues with gifts and the guest list are resolved, it’s time to plan the menu for the birthday table at home.

Decide on the theme of the holiday– the list of dishes at a cowboy party and Barbie’s ball will be clearly different. The theme of the evening or day depends on the hero of the occasion: age, preferences, interests.
Count the number of invited guests. Only knowing the total number of guests can you competently plan the variety of dishes and the number of servings.
Important not only count the guests, but also decide on age categories. If children predominate, then the menu will be appropriate. There are also nuances for adults: advanced youth, open to new taste experiences, or people of advanced age with established taste preferences, and perhaps contraindications.
Resolve the issue with the holiday format: a traditional table or a buffet table, or gatherings on the veranda in the case of a house outside the city. The format primarily depends on the area of the house. A typical city apartment and a country cottage dictate different rules.

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

Traditionally, the following dishes are present on the birthday table:

snacks;
salads;
hot dishes;
cake.

There is no universal option. Each holiday forms its own table. Here are several options for treats to give you room to choose.

Snacks - simple but delicious babies

If there were only the main course on the table, it would no longer be a festive option. It is the various snacks that set the proper tone and mood. There are countless options, the main division is cold or hot.
Options for cold appetizers for the menu on the table for a birthday at home.

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

Possible fillings:

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

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

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

3. Cheese balls– finely grated cheese and garlic are mixed with mayonnaise. Roll the resulting mass into balls and sprinkle with coconut or paprika.

4. Snacks on chips.

5. Ham rolls.

6. Crab stick rolls.

7. Canapes.

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

1. Breaded vegetables:

Zucchini is cut into slices, lightly salted and sprinkled with flour. Mix the egg in a bowl and dip the prepared zucchini into it. Separately mix breadcrumbs and grated cheese with spices as desired. Vegetable slices must be rolled in the resulting breading and baked in the oven until browned;

Fry avocado pieces breaded with breadcrumbs and spicy spices in oil.

Such snacks are served with sauces based on mayonnaise, ketchup, and herbs.

2. Lavash rolls– the cheese is kneaded with a fork and mixed with the yolk, the pita bread is cut into triangles. Place the filling on the base of the triangle and roll the pita bread into a tube, secure the edge of the roll with egg white. Bake in the oven or deep fry.

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

What's a holiday without salad? Holiday salad recipes

Salad with chicken fillet and pineapples

In equal proportions we take boiled chicken breast, eggs, canned pineapples and corn. We cut the ingredients and place them in layers: chicken-pineapple-corn-eggs. All layers are coated with mayonnaise. To finish, sprinkle the salad with chopped walnuts.

Squid salad with rice

Cut the boiled squid into strips. Cut the onion into half rings and simmer with boiling water. Chop the eggs. Mix chopped products and boiled rice in a dish, season the salad with mayonnaise. To serve, place the finished dish on a plate decorated with lettuce leaves.

Korean smoked chicken salad with carrots

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

The main dish is the main decoration of the table

What kind of birthday table is there at home if the main decoration is not on the menu - a hot meat or fish dish?

Delicious meat on the festive table

1. Baked chicken– this is an original Russian version of a dish for any table. To add festiveness and effectiveness, you need to use non-standard options for marinade and sauces.

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

Honey sauce for marinade– grated ginger and garlic, chili pepper rings are mixed with honey, seasoned with soy sauce and olive oil. Add curry, salt, pepper to the sauce, and finally sprinkle with lemon juice. Coat the chicken with the resulting sauce and bake after half an hour.

Important to remember! These recipes do not use the whole carcass, but pieces of chicken!

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

A piece of pork is poured with the resulting marinade and left in the refrigerator for several hours. The meat is additionally salted before baking. It is necessary to bake in a form with high edges in order to pour red wine over the meat. The dish takes a little over an hour to prepare; every quarter of an hour you need to brush the meat with the juice released during the baking process.

Fish for main course

1. Dorado is ideal for the holiday table. Easy to prepare and looks impressive. The fish must be cleaned and rolled in a mixture of spices and salt. Let marinate for up to half an hour. Fry in a grill pan until golden brown on both sides. To finish cooking the fish, reduce the heat and fry for another three minutes on each side.

His Majesty cake

To complete the festive dinner at home, there must be a cake on the menu for a birthday. A birthday person of any age will be happy to make a wish and blow out the candles. Especially if a cake prepared by a person who loves him is decorated with candles. However, a cake is never easy; it is actually the pinnacle of confectionery art.

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

If you add fruit layers, the taste of the cake will become even richer. For those who are not afraid of culinary experiments, you can prepare the cake from start to finish on your own.

Pancake cake

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

Beat the eggs, pour in the milk, and add salt.
Sift flour into milk-egg mixture.
Add slaked soda at the end.
We bake traditional pancakes from the resulting batter.

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

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

Then you can decorate with chocolate chips or chopped nuts.

Cake "Prague"

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

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

Note! The mixer must not be used!

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

1 yolk, 140 g condensed milk, 10 g cocoa, vanilla bag, 200 g butter, tbsp. a spoonful of water is all you need for the cream.

The yolk is mixed with water, condensed milk is added, and brought to thickening with continuous stirring.
Mix butter with vanilla.
Beat the butter and cooked chilled cream in portions.
Add cocoa and mix with a mixer until it becomes a fluffy cream.
Cut the cooled biscuit into three layers.
Apply the cream to the first and second layers. Cover the entire surface of the cake with jam or marmalade.

Butter and chocolate 75 gr. - for glaze.

The components are heated over low heat and stirred until smooth and cooled.
Drizzle glaze over cake.

Inexpensive birthday menu

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

Appetizers of pita bread and crab sticks won't hurt your pocket too much. It is better to choose salads from seasonal products. In the summer, it will be economical to prepare a salad from fresh vegetables, and in the winter, choose a more satisfying option - classic Olivier or Mimosa.

For hot dishes, it’s better to take chicken – minimum labor costs.

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

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

When the menu for the table for a birthday celebrated at home has already been determined, you can add a couple of tasty nuances using sliced vegetables, cheese and sausage.

The components are beautifully placed on a dish, decorated with carved figures from the same products and herbs. You can form roses from strips of vegetables or cheese. Slices of olives sprinkled on top of the slices will add elegance.

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

Ideas for decorating dishes for the festive table

Dishes can be decorated in the most bizarre ways:

you can lay out salads in an unconventional way, for example, in the shape of a ring;
decorate cuts and appetizers with roses from lettuce leaves, curls from green onion feathers, or just sprigs of parsley;
salads can be served not in a common dish, but in portions in elegant rosettes;
At a children's birthday party, you can create entire edible compositions from egg mice, mushrooms and hedgehogs.

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

Take care of yourself and be healthy!

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

And then I remember my grandmother. She was a renowned needlewoman and cook. I could whip up a holiday dinner even with my small pension. And if she did prepare, then from the simplest and most ordinary products she served a luxurious banquet table to the envy of Astoria and Metropol. And she always taught me: our native land produces fruits no worse than those overseas, and you can always surprise your guests with tasty, healthy, and most importantly not expensive treats.

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Salad

Let's start with the king of any of our tables - salad. It is similar to the popular herring under a fur coat, but it has a “zest” – pickled mushrooms.

Ingredients:

1 boiled beets – 1 pc.

2 boiled carrots – 1 pc.

3 sour apple – 1 pc.

4 marinated mushrooms – 150 gr

5 herring – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Divide all the ingredients in half and place them in a festive bowl, layer by layer, not forgetting to coat with mayonnaise to your taste.

Ingredients:

1 boiled potato – 2 pcs.

2 boiled chicken – 200 g

3 bows – 1 pc.

4 eggs – 2 pcs.

5 pickled cucumber (large) – 1 pc.

6 boiled beets – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Cut potatoes, chicken, eggs, cucumber into cubes, season with mayonnaise, add scalded onions to them. Place everything in a deep plate. On top - grated beets and decorate with a mesh of mayonnaise.

Snacks

Ingredients:

1 chicken gizzards – 1 kg

2 red onions – 2 pcs.

3 garlic – 2 cloves

4 soy sauce – 3 tbsp. spoons

5 vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon

Preparation:

Boil the cleaned chicken gizzards for 1.5 hours. Fry the onion cut into half rings together with the stomachs. Add spices, soy sauce, garlic, vinegar. Mix all this deliciousness and put it in a cold place.

There can be many options for filling, whatever is available from the products. I offer 2 options. The form of delivery may vary, try envelopes.

Ingredients:

1 thin pita bread – 1 package

2 canned fish – 1 can

3 grated cheese – 400 gr

4 greens (dill, parsley, cilantro)

Preparation:

First filling: mash canned fish with a fork, mix with cheese, dill

Second filling: mix any cheese with plenty of greens, add spices, a little mayonnaise

Unwrap the thin pita bread, you can cut it into several parts, put your own filling on each sheet, and roll up a small envelope. I like lavash with filling to fry a little on both sides.

From this fish you can make dishes for a whole banquet. I'll add one more recipe.

Ingredients:

1 large fresh frozen herring – 3 pcs.

2 bows – 2 pcs.

3 spices, granulated sugar

4 mustard

6 vegetable oil

Preparation:

Peel the herring and cut into strips, sprinkle with salt, ground pepper, and sugar. We cut the onion into rings and place them tightly in jars in layers: onion - herring - onion and so on until the top. Pour in the sauce: vegetable oil, vinegar and mustard. Close the lid and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

And, of course, my favorite quick pickled cucumbers. I cook them for any holiday. And no matter how rich the table is set, my cucumbers are the first to be swept away! They will be especially relevant for the Lenten holiday menu.

Ingredients:

1 cucumber – 5-6 pcs.

3 garlic – 4-5 cloves

Preparation:

Wash the cucumbers; if they are large, cut them into several parts; if they are small, cut them into 2 parts. Place in any dense container - bag, jar - add coarsely chopped garlic, dill and salt well. Close, shake the contents and put in the refrigerator. While you are waiting for guests, shake regularly.

Second course

Let me remind you that today I am offering you inexpensive dishes for your holiday table. And for a hot meal you can prepare tender and juicy liver pancakes.

Ingredients:

1 liver (any, your favorite) – 1 kg

2 bows – 2 pcs.

3 eggs – 2 pcs.

4 flour - 3 tbsp

5 semolina - 3 tbsp

6 carrots – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Pass the liver, onions and carrots through a meat grinder, add eggs, semolina, flour, spices, mix everything thoroughly. Place the minced meat in a heated frying pan with a spoon and fry on both sides. Serve with sour cream

You can prepare original potatoes as a side dish

Ingredients:

1 potato – 6 pcs.

For the sauce:

2 butter – 100 g

3 grated cheese – 5 tablespoons

4 sour cream – 1 tbsp

5 garlic – 3 cloves

6 herbs, spices

Preparation:

Wash the potatoes and boil until tender. Once cool, cut in half lengthwise. Place 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 it all. Everyone knows their stove, cook over moderate heat for 15 minutes.

Dessert

Let's move on to desserts. For savory baked goods, I offer puff pastries with vegetables. They have a great aromatic taste.

Ingredients:

1 frozen puff pastry – 1 package

2 red onions – 3 pcs.

3 sweet tomatoes – 6 pcs.

4 bell peppers

5 herbs, spices

Preparation:

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

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

Ingredients:

1 peeled pumpkin – 200 g,

2 finely ground oat flakes – 100 g

3 peeled nuts – 100 g

4 butter – 150 g

5 sugar – 150 gr

6 eggs – 3 pcs.

7 flour – 150 gr

8 baking powder – 2 teaspoons

Preparation:

Grind the pumpkin on a fine grater and chop the nuts in a blender. Grind the butter with sugar and eggs, add pumpkin, nuts, oatmeal, flour and baking powder. Mix everything thoroughly. Place the dough in small molds, filling them halfway as they will rise twice as much. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 C for 25 minutes. Decorate the finished cupcakes with powdered sugar.

Well, for dessert – fruit.

Ingredients:

1 any fruit

2 skewers or toothpicks

Preparation:

Cut any fruits that are on the store counter at this time of year - apples, pears, raspberries, gooseberries, bananas - into small cubes. Thread onto skewers or toothpicks, alternating colors. It will be bright and original.

So, with a minimal budget, we have prepared 11 dishes for the holiday menu. Even our respected pensioners and students can afford it. Bon appetit!

There are a huge number of recipes for hot meat dishes for the holiday table.

Tasty, aromatic, beautiful, cooked with soul and skill, they will bring joy to family and guests, adding celebration and good mood during any feast.

The best recipes for delicious hot dishes for the holiday table

Simple recipes can become the basis of an exquisite dish that guests simply cannot tear themselves away from.

Even from a small amount of quite ordinary products, with the help of simple manipulations you can easily get wonderful dishes, the main thing is a little imagination, desire and effort.

Meat pancakes

This hearty dish can be served separately or in combination with any side dish.

And if you put the meat in the marinade in the evening, then the next day you can fully enjoy the surprisingly juicy pancakes.

Cooking method:

Pancakes are prepared from finely chopped marinated meat. For the marinade, mix eggs, crushed garlic, add starch, add mayonnaise and finely chopped onion;
Very small pieces of meat are thoroughly mixed with the prepared mixture, salt and pepper;
The finished mass is left in a cold place for 8 - 10 hours;
The final stage is baking. Heat a frying pan, scoop the thick mixture with a spoon and fry like regular pancakes.

Chicken strips

This hot chicken dish appeared in our country and gained recognition thanks to fast food establishments.

Strips are translated from English as “strips” - this is fillet cut into strips.

Crispy chicken fingers are perfect for any occasion. They require a minimum of ingredients, they cook quickly, but are so tasty that they are also eaten with lightning speed.

Ingredients:

The main meat product in this dish is chicken fillet;
Spices play an important role; they give the strips a special taste. In this recipe, mustard will serve as a spice;
Salt and breadcrumbs.

Cooking method:

Place thin strips of chicken pulp in a sauce consisting of mustard and salt for an hour;
Each piece of the future crispy delicacy needs to be rolled in breadcrumbs (for spiciness, fans can add red pepper);
The strips are fried in hot oil so that a golden crust appears on both sides of the meat sticks.

There are many variations on this simple recipe. Seasonings for strips and types of breading are chosen at the discretion of the hostess. Change a couple of spices and enjoy the new taste of the dish!

Meat with pineapple under a cheese coat

A minimum of time, effort and products are spent, and the result is a delicious hot dish for the holiday table. All ingredients combine harmoniously with each other.

Required Products:

Preparation:

Beat thin slices of meat and place in a pan lined with foil;
Sprinkle and then rub salt, spices, sour cream (or mayonnaise) into the pieces of meat;
Place onion cut into rings or half rings on top;
The next layer is pineapple slices;
Sprinkle the entire dish with grated cheese.

Place the baking sheet with meat in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. After 30 minutes, reduce the oven temperature and bake the hot meat dish for another half hour. Then it can be served to guests on the festive table.

This recipe is often called meat in French and each housewife prepares it in her own way. We invite you to see another version of preparing this festive hot dish:

Hot layered chicken and potato cake

A beautiful, original and extremely tasty dish.

Simple ingredients are used as a basis, and the end result is a flavorful meat puff pastry with a crispy crust and delicate filling.

Required ingredients:

Sequence and features of preparation:

Meat and potatoes are cut into very thin slices;
Onions and carrots are fried in oil until golden brown;
Potatoes need to be fried in a dry frying pan;
Beat the egg;
Meat, potatoes and fried meat are laid out on a baking sheet in a kind of mound. The bottom and top layers are chicken fillet. Inside the cake, meat alternates with a layer of vegetable filling. Each layer of meat is coated with beaten egg. Place the filling on the fillet in the center, leaving a little space at the edges. Coat the sides with eggs and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.

All that remains is to preheat the oven to 180 degrees for the meat cake. For the first half hour, the dish is cooked at the specified temperature. For the last 10 -15 minutes, the temperature should be increased to 200 - 210 degrees.

Chicken with fruit

A rosy chicken cooked entirely in the oven will look appetizing on a holiday table. Fruits baked in it will give the dish a special taste and aroma.

Required ingredients:

One chicken;
Fruits: one orange and one apple, half a lemon;
Mayonnaise and salt, spices;

Preparation:

Salt the chicken carcass, rub with spices and mayonnaise. Cut the fruit into cubes and place in the belly;
Use toothpicks to carefully close the hole in the stuffed belly;
The chicken should marinate for a while and only then can it be placed in a preheated oven;
For 1.5 hours, while the chicken is baking, it needs to be poured with broth from time to time.

Juicy pork with accordion filling

The recipe for the hot pork dish “Garmoshka” is simple, but despite this, the result is a juicy dish with an appetizing crust and a delicate taste.

For 1 kilogram of pork you will need:

2 tomatoes;
200 grams of cheese (any variety will do);
A few cloves of garlic;
Salt and pepper to taste.

Prepare the filling for the “Accordion”: you need to mix salt and pepper, add any other spices. Cut the cheese, tomatoes and garlic into thin slices.

Wash the meat, pat dry with a paper towel;
An “accordion” is made from a piece of pork: the fillet is cut at a short distance to put the filling in the openings, but not all the way;
The meat is thoroughly coated with a mixture of salt and pepper. Then each cut opening is filled with a slice of cheese, tomato and garlic;
Mushroom lovers can add thinly sliced champignons.

Stuffed meat, wrapped in foil, goes into a preheated oven.

In order for a beautiful and appetizing crust to appear on the meat, the foil must be removed 20-30 minutes before the end of cooking.

Baking time depends on the weight of the meat. A kilogram of pork will take about an hour to cook.

Another hot meat dish is ready for the holiday table!

We offer another interesting recipe - “Meat fingers”. This dish will perfectly decorate the holiday table! Watch the video:

Meat roll with prunes and dried apricots

Meatloaf with dried fruits and smoked meats is an original recipe for a very tasty and beautiful dish.

A soft, fragrant bundle will look impressive either whole or cut into slices.

Ingredients needed to prepare this simple dish:

Pork - about 1 kg and 500 g;
Dried apricots and prunes - 300 g;
Smoked brisket - 150-200 g;
Black tea - 1 glass;
Onion - 1 pc.;
Salt, mustard, other spices, garlic - to taste.

Cooking method:

First you need to prepare the dried fruits. Pour the washed prunes and dried apricots into hot tea and leave to steep for about an hour;
Then marinate the meat. For convenience, a piece of pork can be cut into a book shape and beaten thoroughly. Coat with spices and mustard, salt. Leave for 30-50 minutes;
Prepare the remaining ingredients: finely chop the brisket, onion, garlic. Place the mixture in a frying pan and fry, stirring, for 10 minutes;
Squeeze the liquid out of the dried fruits and add them to the prepared mass;
Mix the filling and spread in an even layer on the meat;
Roll up the roll and tie tightly with thread.

Bake in the oven for 2 hours. You can prepare the roll in two ways: either put it on a baking sheet and add water during baking, or wrap it in foil. In this case, you need to remember to remove it half an hour before it’s ready.

And here is another version of the festive pork roll:

Beef dish "Khazar"

Delicious hot with a spicy taste. A special marinade will add a little spiciness and flavor to the meat. Soft, juicy beef will appeal to many.

500 grams of beef;
100 grams of fresh champignons;
One red sweet bell pepper;
2 tablespoons sesame seeds;
Oil for frying.

Ingredients for the marinade:

2 tablespoons each of soy sauce and balsamic vinegar;
3 chopped cloves of garlic;
1 tablespoon each of honey and ginger powder;
Salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking method:

The meat is cut into strips, poured with the prepared marinade and placed in a cold place for 6-8 hours;
Marinated beef is fried until half cooked and then stewed with chopped mushrooms and peppers;
A nuance: the meat should not be cooked at first, but rather fried over medium heat. After adding the remaining ingredients, the fire is reduced and the dish is stewed;
Before serving, Khazar is sprinkled with sesame seeds.

You can cook a lot of different dishes from beef. For example, beef cooked in Chinese style, which, by the way, Bruce Lee himself adores. And here are the stages of preparing the dish:

Braided cutlets

This original dish will surprise guests with its unusual appearance and delight with its excellent taste. You can prepare small cutlets for each of the guests.

Another option - a large beautiful “braid” is cut into portions after serving.

To prepare the cutlets you will need:

200 grams each of chicken and pork fillet;
Salt and pepper, vegetable oil for frying.

We make cutlets from meat strips:

Pork and chicken fillets are cut into thin strips. The longer the pieces of meat, the better;
Interlace fillet strips of two types of meat in a checkerboard pattern. The edges are pinned with toothpicks;
The cutlet can be any size as long as it fits in the frying pan;
Then everything is sprinkled with salt, spices and put into a frying pan;
Meat products can be fried and then stewed in a frying pan. The entire cooking process will take 30 - 40 minutes. You can cook well-fried cutlets until cooked in the oven or microwave.

Chicken "Devotion"

The meat gets its unique taste and attractive appearance thanks to the caramel mass.

You will need:

Chicken meat (any parts: legs, thighs, drumsticks) - 2 kg;
For the caramel mixture: a glass of water (250), salt and sugar 1 tablespoon each and a couple of cloves of garlic.

Fry the salt and sugar over high heat in a dry, hot frying pan. The mixture must be stirred constantly. It is important not to overdo it. As a result, the melted sugar should form a brown mass similar to caramel;
Immediately add a glass of water and turn the heat to medium. While the sugar dissolves with salt, the mixture must continue to be stirred;
Prepare the chicken: rub the meat with salt and spices, place on a baking sheet;
The final stage is to generously pour the prepared mixture over the meat;
Bake the dish in the oven at 190-200 degrees for about an hour.

Tongue in cream

A simple recipe for beef tongue and pork casserole is suitable for any feast.

The combination of two types of meat will give the dish additional juiciness.

Ingredients:

Cooking sequence:

Pre-cook the tongue, slice it thinly and place it on the bottom of the mold. Then the fried mushrooms and onions are laid out;
Divide the pork into pieces, beat well, add salt and spices. The chops will be laid in the next layer;
Pour cream over the dish and sprinkle cheese on top. Then the mold along with its contents is sent to a preheated oven for about an hour and baked for about an hour.

The advantage of the above recipes is their simplicity and wonderful taste. Any of these hot dishes will take their rightful place on the holiday table, and even a culinary novice can handle their preparation.

Finally, let’s step back a little from the meat menu, as we want to recommend some good holiday video recipes for cooking Flounder fish for hot dishes:

If the holiday “takes you by surprise” and it is not possible to spend a large amount of time preparing a variety of culinary masterpieces, you can always use a number of quick and tasty recipes for holiday dishes. It’s worth adding such recipes to your culinary “arsenal” - and you will always be “fully armed” for any holiday.

Quick recipes for hot dishes for the holiday table

Of course, no holiday feast is complete without hot dishes. But what if guests are already on the doorstep, and there is simply no time to prepare the same, for example, traditional fried chicken? The answer is simple - there are a surprising number of quick hot recipes that will take literally 20-30 minutes. These are, for example, unusual “pancakes” made from spaghetti with mushrooms, herbs and cheese - the dish both looks appetizing and is extremely simple to prepare. In case of “force majeure”, you can store a pack or two of egg noodles in the kitchen cabinet, which cook very quickly: in this case, you can serve an original Asian-style dish for the holiday table. A “quickie” recipe is good not only because it takes 15-20 minutes at most to prepare, but also because when preparing such a festive hot dish, you can fantasize endlessly, adding any greens that you have in the refrigerator, recycling any remaining pieces of meat.

Quick and delicious sweet recipes for the holiday

Something, and all kinds of desserts for the holiday table can really be prepared in a hurry - if only the necessary ingredients were found. And first of all, this option for quick sweet dishes on the festive table is all kinds of cakes without baking. Most recipes for such cakes do not even require ready-made cake layers - just ordinary cottage cheese, sour cream and cookies and some frozen berries or jam will be enough.

If you have ready-made “store-bought” cakes on hand, it’s absolutely wonderful: in a matter of minutes you can prepare a quick and delicious cake with the most delicate coconut cream for the holiday table. However, ready-made cakes are not needed at all to prepare truly delicious homemade “pseudo-baking” - you can use, for example, the most ordinary gingerbread cookies. The finished “gingerbread” cake turns out no worse than the “store-bought” one. If time allows, you can prepare a chocolate-coconut roll without baking in advance for the holiday: it is made quickly and simply from available ingredients (cookies, coconut flakes, chocolate), but until ready, the delicious dessert will have to be “frozen” in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

If you show a little imagination, then without baking you can prepare not only a birthday cake, but also a great variety of desserts. So, for example, the dessert “Pleasure” will be an excellent table decoration without any effort or waste of time: in “baskets” of chocolate cookie crumbs there is an airy and very delicate mass of cottage cheese and strawberries (the berries can be used either fresh or frozen). From the same chocolate cookies and condensed milk you can make the well-known Potato cakes. If you have nothing at hand except cottage cheese, eggs and sour cream, you can serve an original cottage cheese casserole for the holiday table, the preparation of which does not require either flour or semolina. Simple and very tasty, this casserole has the consistency and taste of a classic cheesecake.

Recipes for a quick holiday dinner

In order for the holiday table to be replete with a variety of dishes, it is not at all necessary to spend the whole day in the kitchen - it will be enough to use a couple of recipes for quick holiday snacks. Try treating your gathered guests to miniature canapés with pate, rolls with curd cheese and herbs, or Raffaello cheese with walnuts and garlic - such snacks are ideal with wine and other festive alcoholic drinks.

Of course, the more original the appetizer looks, the better - after all, it is the design that distinguishes holiday dishes, first of all, from the “every day” menu. Even the most ordinary sandwiches with sprats can be an excellent holiday snack if you spend an extra 5 minutes decorating them. The appetizer with the self-explanatory name “Tomato Salad” also looks very nice - the great thing is that it takes only 10 minutes maximum to prepare. And in the same 10-15 minutes, from the leftovers that are found in the refrigerator, you can prepare a traditional “quickly” appetizer - stuffed eggs (the main thing is that you have something to stuff them with).

Not only snacks, but also salads can be prepared from literally anything you can find in the kitchen - if you don’t have time to go to the store, you can prepare, for example, an original warm buckwheat salad. And if you have any canned fish in the house, the number of available options for holiday salads immediately increases tenfold. A salad made from a can of canned tuna with eggs and cheese will be very tasty and festive. In addition, from any canned fish, if time permits, you can quickly prepare a variation of the classic holiday salad “under a fur coat” from potatoes, gherkins, beets, and chicken eggs.

If the holiday really took you by surprise and you don’t have any ingredients at home to prepare any holiday appetizers or desserts, “lazy” mince pies are an excellent option - for example, the original meatball pie or the hearty and tasty lavash jellied cake “Men’s Joy” " And even if the list of available products is limited to lavash, sour cream, milk and eggs, you can prepare a quick “lazy” pie with cheese filling for the holiday table.