Appetizers and salads for the holiday table

Chicken and curly pasta aspic

Chicken aspic is a light holiday appetizer.
It turns out transparent, and all the ingredients are clearly visible. If you add curly paste to the composition and give the jellied shape a hemisphere, you will get an amazingly beautiful dish. Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 1 kg.
Medium sized carrots – 1-2 pcs.
Onions – 1 pc.
Celery root – 0.5 pcs.
Pitted olives – 150 g.
Gelatin – 20-25 g.
Fine curly paste – 100 g.
Fresh dill - several sprigs.
Salt and black pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

Pour cold water over the chicken fillet (about 1.5 liters).
Peel carrots, celery and onion and chop coarsely.
Salt the chicken meat with vegetables, add pepper to taste and put on fire. After the water boils, cook for another 20 minutes, periodically removing the foam.
Cook the pasta until done.
Cool the cooked broth and strain it.
Dice the carrots that were cooked in the broth and the olives.
Chop the chicken into strips.
Pour gelatin with cold water for 10 minutes, heat and strain. Depending on the type of gelatin, it must either be pre-soaked in water, or immediately heated and stirred - this information is indicated on the packaging.
Heat approximately 1/3 of the broth together with gelatin, stir, and then add the rest of the broth.
Place chopped vegetables and chicken, as well as pasta, into bowls, cups or bowls.
Fill the containers with the ingredients for the aspic broth so that they are filled to ¾ of the volume. Place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Mix the remaining broth with chopped dill and add to the frozen aspic. Place back in the refrigerator and let harden completely.
Place the finished aspic out of the containers upside down - you will get beautiful hemispheres.

What kind of birthday salads and snacks can you make?

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Sage (11168) 4 months ago

Ingredients for the “Cheese Snack”: Soft cheese (processed cheese or 500-600 grams of any soft cheese) - 6 pcs Sun-dried tomatoes - 100 g Bell pepper - 0.5 pcs Meat (any boiled meat - beef, turkey, etc.) — 150 g Green olives — 10 pcs. Garlic — 2 teeth. Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l. Lavash (thin, or crackers) - 1 pc. Greens (any) - 1 bunch.

Recipe for “Cheese appetizer”: Cheese appetizer ingredients Varian first. Grate three processed cheeses (or take 300 grams of any soft cheese), cut into approximately 100 grams. sun-dried tomatoes and 10 pieces of olives. Add a pinch of dried basil (regan). Add 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise and 1 clove of garlic, passed through a press, mix. If you are using soft cheese, you don't need to use mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is only needed here to combine the ingredients.

Cheese appetizer ingredients Option two. Mix three processed cheeses (or 300 grams of any soft cheese) with bell pepper and boiled dry meat. I had turkey.

Dry - this means that when the meat is removed from the broth, put it in a colander so that the broth drains and the meat dries. Add mayonnaise and a clove of garlic, passed through a press.

Cheese appetizer ingredients Place the resulting cheese masses in different disposable bags (or cling film) and roll into “sausages”. Place the resulting “sausages” in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator for 10 minutes so that they harden a little. At this time, chop the greens. I like it according to your taste.

Cheese appetizer ingredients: Cut the greens, take out the cheese sausages, remove the film and sprinkle them well on both sides with greens. All. The appetizer is ready. Place it on a dish and place a table knife next to it.

For a snack, serve crackers, toast or chips (homemade). Everyone takes chips (crackers, etc.) and spreads the snack to their liking. Of course, the composition of cheese snacks can be changed according to your taste and the availability of food in the refrigerator. It could be lightly salted fish, and just cumin, and shrimp and salami and mushrooms and and and. so on, as far as your imagination dictates.

Ingredients for the “Festive Confetti Snack”: Chicken egg - 4 pcs Hard cheese (I used Russian) - 100 g Cottage cheese (0%) - 250 g Garlic - 3 teeth. Milk - 2 tbsp. l. Olives (pitted) - 11 pcs. Carrots (fresh, small) - 1/2 pcs. Corn (canned) - 3 tbsp. l. Sweet red pepper (fresh, small) - 1/2 pcs.

Recipe “Festive Confetti Appetizer”: Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients: First, prepare the omelettes: beat the eggs with milk, add 50 grams of finely grated cheese and chopped olives

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients fry three omelettes in a heated frying pan (small) greased with oil

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients Before frying each omelette, grease the frying pan with oil

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients: prepare the filling: grate cheese and garlic on a fine grater and mix with cottage cheese until smooth.

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients: each omelette is coated with cheese and curd mixture

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients: first place chopped pepper

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients for the second – corn

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients for the third - finely grated carrots, roll the omelettes into rolls, wrap tightly in cling film and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours

Appetizer “Festive Confetti” ingredients: cut the prepared omelets into circles, add a piece of canned pineapple and an olive. you can simply cut it into pieces and put it on a plate with greens.

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Sage (14249) 4 months ago

Caviar is easy to puke, but vinaigrette is beautiful.

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Pro (894) 4 months ago

Chicken, pineapple, cheese, walnuts and garlic mayonnaise. Chicken, mushrooms fried. cor. carrots, mayonnaise. Fruit salad: tangerine, apple, banana, grapes. Tartlets with crab salad or butter, red fish and olives. Huge shells with any of the salads.

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Connoisseur (424) 4 months ago

Two types of meat roll with mushrooms

This roll looks beautiful when cut, thanks to the many colorful ingredients. It is made from minced chicken and meat, and the duo tastes amazing. When starting to prepare this delicacy, you need to be prepared for the fact that the process takes more than an hour.

Ingredients:

Half a kilogram of pork.
Half a kilogram of chicken meat.
2 carrots.
1 clove of garlic.
1 onion
2 eggs.
300 g champignons or other mushrooms.
2 sweet peppers.
1 bunch of spinach.
Italian herbs, pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking process:

Peel the carrots, boil in water until ready, but do not overcook them so that the root vegetable retains its shape when cut.
Prepare two types of minced meat from pork and chicken in separate containers. Grind the meat using a meat grinder or food processor.
Peel and finely chop half an onion
Add one egg and half the volume of onion to each type of minced meat. Add chopped garlic to the pork. Add salt and pepper to your taste.
Cut the remaining onion into half rings and fry a little in a frying pan.
Wash the mushrooms and cut into medium-sized pieces. Place them on the onion and simmer over the fire for some time until the excess liquid evaporates from the mushrooms.
Sweet peppers - preferably of different colors - peel and cut into cubes.
Boil spinach in salted water for about 5 minutes.
Cool mushrooms and spinach.
To form the roll, spread cling film on a work surface and place a sheet of foil on top of it. If it is narrow, make two overlapping cuts.
Spread the minced pork over the foil.
Then cover half the minced meat with a layer of spinach, the other half with chopped pepper. Add a little salt.
Form the next layer from minced chicken.
Sprinkle fried mushrooms on top.
The last layer is boiled carrots cut into strips. It should be placed on the half of the roll from which we will begin to wrap it.
Roll the roll tightly so that there are no holes in the foil and fold the edges.
Bake the roll in the oven at 200 degrees for one hour.
Unfold the foil, brush the almost finished dish with egg and put it back in the oven for 10 minutes.

The amazing aroma and amazingly appetizing appearance of the dish will make all your guests fans of it!

Snacks and delicious salads for a birthday

Author: vita | 01.11.2012 |The article is protected by copyright.

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A birthday is a special holiday, a reason to get together with friends and even distant relatives and have fun celebrating another milestone in your life. But, as a rule, it is always accompanied by troubles.

Year after year we try to surprise guests with a varied program of entertainment and food. Today we will talk about appetizers and delicious salads, cold dishes that precede the serving of hot food.

Each family has developed its own specific traditions about what should be on the tables. Some appetizers, such as jellied meat and jellied fish, are prepared exclusively on holidays.

Everyone eats delicious salads, so the birthday boy must make sure that they don’t run out before the end of the evening. Meat salads are often preferred, but if a vegetarian comes to visit, you should think about that too.

Sandwiches are easy to prepare and easy to eat.

Sometimes you want something new to surprise your guests, and therefore you can move away from traditional family snack dishes by coming up with something new. If you look in the refrigerator, you will find many ingredients, the main thing is to combine them correctly. When cooking for a birthday, there are a lot of ingredients in the kitchen, and you can experiment.

Don't forget about spices. You can try to discover the cuisine of other countries on your own; they are very different from traditional Russian ones and will delight you with new flavor combinations.

For example, in Italy it is crostini - an appetizer made from toasted bread, or carpaccio - an appetizer made from thinly sliced meat, and in Japan they prepare takuan - an appetizer made from radish.

In the usual menu, the TOP snacks are located as follows. Sandwiches come first, and their choice depends on the taste preferences of the birthday person, from the choice of bread to the quantity and thickness of cut ingredients.

Read: Salad With Krill Meat

Second place rightfully went to sliced cheese and sausage. As a rule, more than one plate with these snacks is placed on the table.

In third place are salads. Multi-colored and varied, they make our table more elegant and tastier. Homemade salad recipes don't take much time to prepare.

For the festive table, you can look at recipes and prepare delicious salads, traditional Olivier, Shuba, Mimosa and others, and delicious salads according to exclusive recipes. You should not buy those salads that are sometimes sold in the culinary departments of supermarkets; we prepare them at home from those products and using those ingredients that are absolutely safe, and the ingredients used for preparing salads in the store may not be the freshest.

The fourth position is occupied by Korean carrots and everything that can be bought in the store does not need to be cooked and can be served as a side dish. All this will go well with alcohol.

We'll give fifth place to vegetables. Eggplant with tomatoes is a familiar and very easy to prepare mix of flavors.

When choosing dishes for new appetizers, you should take into account the tastes of your guests, cooking time and portions so as not to get into trouble. It’s also worth inquiring in advance about your guests’ allergies to a particular ingredient if you don’t know each other too well. You can serve new snacks in unusual plates or decorate them in a special way.

When using snacks from other countries, it can be fun to play with the theme of that country. For example, you can attach a small copy of an umbrella to a Japanese snack.

You should not be afraid to experiment, because it is in creativity that a masterpiece is born! It’s always a pleasure to search, select and try something new.

Such a creative approach will not go unnoticed; guests will be surprised by the non-standard approach, and the mood at the holiday promises to be completely special.

Chicken and mango salad

Chicken meat goes well with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including exotic ones. Mango, for example, adds delicate flavor notes to chicken salad. Honey and mustard used as a dressing add piquancy to the dish. This salad looks harmonious on the holiday table, since it contains bright fruits and vegetables, as well as herbs.

Ingredients:

250-300 g chicken fillet.
1 bell pepper.
1 red onion.
1 ripe mango.
1 cucumber.
A bunch of lettuce leaves and a couple of basil leaves.

For refueling:

100 ml olive oil
1 tsp. honey.
2 tsp. mustard and 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise.
1 tbsp. l. lemon juice.
Salt and ground black pepper.

Cooking process:

Boil chicken fillet in salted water until tender. Cut the finished cooled meat into small cubes.
Peel the sweet pepper and cut into bars or strips. The shape is only aesthetic, so choose for yourself.
Cut the red onion into thin half rings. If you wish, if you do not tolerate the pronounced sensation of onion, you can finely chop it.
Peel the mango and cut into very thin slices.
Chop the cucumber into cubes.
Mix kuru, vegetables and mango in a deep bowl.
Prepare the dressing: mix olive oil, mustard, honey, mayonnaise and lemon juice. Add as much pepper and salt as needed.
Pour most of the dressing into the salad and mix the ingredients. Dip lettuce and basil leaves into the remaining dressing and garnish the dish with them.

Red Sea salad with crab sticks

Salad with crab sticks is a frequent guest on the holiday table. Most often it is prepared with rice and corn, a classic version. This same recipe differs from the classic one in its ingredient composition. It is called "Red Sea" because most of the ingredients are red.

By the way, the appetizer according to this recipe is prepared very quickly; there is no need to pre-cook any ingredients. You just chop everything, season it, mix it and get a delicious result.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 200 gr.
fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs. average
sweet red pepper - 2 pcs. average
garlic - 2 cloves
hard cheese - 150 gr.
mayonnaise
salt, pepper - to taste

Preparation:

Crab sticks need to be cut into strips. To do this, cut each stick into three parts, and then cut each part into thin strips. We also cut the tomatoes into the same strips, but without seeds. Cut the tomato into 4 parts, cut out the stalk, remove the seeds with a spoon and cut the fleshy walls lengthwise into strips.

Place tomatoes and crab sticks in a salad bowl.

Also cut the pepper into strips. It is very good if all the red ingredients are cut approximately equally, there will be a good effect. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and add to the rest of the ingredients in the salad bowl.

Finely chop the garlic or squeeze it through a press. Salt and pepper the salad, and season with mayonnaise to taste. Stir.

You can immediately serve the treat with crab sticks to the table.

Olivie

This is one of the most famous salad recipes for the holiday table. The snack, the photo of which awakens the appetite, was in demand among the older generation and still remains popular. To prepare the dish yourself, you will need:

200 g low-fat boiled sausage;
300 g canned peas;
5 potatoes;
2 carrots;
6 eggs;
2 fresh and pickled cucumbers;
mayonnaise, herbs and spices.

Boil potatoes, eggs and carrots until tender, cool, peel and cut into cubes. At the next stage, pieces of sausage and chopped cucumbers are added to them. All this is peppered, supplemented with chopped herbs and a canned pot, and then mixed with mayonnaise.

Salad with ham “Tenderness” - a classic recipe for the holiday table

There are many salads with this name. The cheese gives them that very tenderness, and all other ingredients can easily be changed to suit your taste. This salad will be a very good solution for your holiday table and for your everyday menu. Another good thing is that it is easy to prepare.

This salad is a must-have dish on our holiday table. This salad is one of our first family recipes. A simple, light, but very satisfying salad made from products available to anyone.

Ingredients

Ham - 300 grams
Fresh cucumber - 2-3 pcs.
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Cheese - 100 grams
Mayonnaise

1. First of all, boil the eggs. Eggs need to be hard-boiled. The boiling time for such eggs takes from 8 to 10 minutes.

Next, we clean them and cut them into small cubes.

2. Cut the cucumbers into strips. It will be best if you clean them. Add chopped cucumbers to the eggs.

3. Cut the ham into exactly the same strips as the cucumbers and place in a common salad bowl.

4. Grate cheese there on a coarse grater and add mayonnaise.

All you have to do is stir and the salad is ready.

Important!!! If you need to add salt, do it before serving the salad. Otherwise, the cucumbers will give juice from the salt and the salad will turn out watery...

Garlic lovers can add a couple of cloves to the salad. All the ingredients are in great harmony with it.

This salad can be served individually to each person in a separate plate. And to make it look festive, we’ll give it a neat cylindrical shape using a ring.

Birthday snacks

It's also worth thinking about the birthday snacks you'll be serving. They can be very different: meat, cheese, vegetables.

Here are just a few possible recipes.

Olives in dough

Olives stuffed with peppers (20 pcs.)
Hard cheese (120 gr.)
Flour (50 gr.)
Butter (2 tbsp.)
Sour cream (2 tbsp.)
Ground red pepper

Melt the butter. Grate the cheese and mix with butter. Add flour, sour cream, a little pepper and salt, mix thoroughly.

Form the resulting dough into balls with an olive inside. Bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes.

Read: Recipe Salad With Pineapples and Cheese

Stuffed tomatoes

First you need to cut the tops off the tomatoes. Then you need to remove the pulp from them with a spoon so that you get a small “pot”.
The remaining pulp, ham and greens are finely chopped, the cheese is grated. All this is mixed together with salt and pepper. Place this filling in the resulting pots, sprinkle a little more cheese on top.
Bake for 15-2 minutes at a temperature of about 180°C.

Cheese balls

Grind the cottage cheese in a blender, grate the cheese. Mix them. Form into balls and place a nut in the middle.
Divide the balls into parts. Roll one in roasted sesame seeds, the second in herbs, and the third in paprika.

Delicious and beautiful salad for the holiday table with ham and sweet bell pepper

This salad is very suitable for decorating a holiday table, such a beautiful summer flower among the cold winter tones! And the fresh taste of bell pepper will remind you of summer warmth. Plus, it's not difficult to prepare. All the ingredients are simple and easy to buy at any store. Prepare this delicious salad and you will be pleased with its beauty.

All the ingredients in the salad go together very well. This salad is prepared quickly and easily, and in the form in which we prepare it, there is no shame in putting it on the New Year's table or for a birthday.

Ingredients

Ham – 250 grams
Cheese - 150 grams
Bell pepper - 1-2 pcs.
Tomato - 2-3 pcs.
Mayonnaise

We paid attention to the minimum set of ingredients.

1. To make the salad look more festive, cut the ham into thin strips. Otherwise it’s just a cube and a cube))).

2. Peel the bell pepper and remove the seeds. We will also cut into strips. And to make the salad even more beautiful, take peppers of two colors: red and yellow.

3. Tomatoes must be cut in half and seeds and juice removed. In general, we remove the insides. Cut the tomato pulp into strips.

4. Grate the cheese on a medium grater.

We will prepare the salad in layers. For ease of shaping, use a pastry ring.

5. Place the first layer of ham. Lubricate with mayonnaise.

6. Place bell pepper in a second layer and also coat with mayonnaise.

7. Next, put tomatoes on the pepper and again mayonnaise.

8. Finish the layers with grated cheese. Let's make a mayonnaise mesh and decorate the salad with the remaining bell pepper.

All that remains is to remove the ring and let the salad stand for a couple of hours to soak in better. Ready!

Snack "Tulip Tomato"

The spectacular design of a simple snack will not leave any guest indifferent.

Ingredients:

Small tomatoes – 30 pcs.
Green onions - 1 bunch
Mayonnaise
Hard cheese - 200 gr
Crab sticks – 250 gr
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Cucumber

Preparation:

Cut the tomatoes crosswise on top and remove the core using a teaspoon. Grate the cheese on a fine grater, finely chop the crab sticks. Mix cheese, chopped garlic, crab sticks and mayonnaise. Carefully fill the tomatoes with the resulting mixture. You can use sausage or cucumber as decoration. Arrange the tomatoes in a bouquet shape, using the onions as stems.

A quick and easy snack.

Ingredients:

Thin slices of ham
Hard cheese
Garlic
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Grate the cheese and mix with chopped garlic and mayonnaise. Fill the ham slices with the desired amount of cheese mixture. Connect the ends of the ham and secure with a toothpick. Let the snack brew for a while in the refrigerator.

This appetizer can easily be served as a salad. It is very tasty and filling.

Ingredients:

Lavash - 3 pcs
Egg - 3 pcs
Garlic - 3 cloves
Crab sticks – 200 gr
Cheese - 200 gr
Mayonnaise
Greenery

Preparation:

Grease two sheets of pita bread with mayonnaise and sprinkle with spices. Chop the garlic and sprinkle on the leaves, spreading evenly over the entire surface. Cut the crab sticks into small pieces and also sprinkle one sheet of pita bread. Then chop half the cheese, you can grate it, sprinkle on both leaves. Boil the eggs and chop them very finely, you can also grate them. Sprinkle the leaf where there are no crab sticks. Carefully place the sheet with crab sticks on the sheet with eggs and roll it into a roll. Cut the roll into pieces and place on a plate. You can decorate with parsley sprigs.

Canapes have always been considered the best snacks. They prepare quickly and do not linger on the holiday table.

Ingredients:

Black bread
Herring fillet
Butter
Red sweet onion
Lemon
Dill

Preparation:

Cut the bread into small rectangular pieces. Grease the top with a thin layer of butter and place a herring fillet of the same size and a piece of onion. Place a quarter of a lemon slice and a sprig of dill on top. Secure everything with a skewer.

Very simple, tasty and affordable.

Ingredients:

White bread
Lettuce leaves
Doctor's sausage
Cherry tomatoes
Parsley

Preparation:

From white bread you cut small slices in the shape of circles. Place a leaf of lettuce on them and a piece of sausage of the same size, folded in four. Place a piece of cherry tomato and a sprig of parsley on top. Secure everything with a skewer.

It resembles an ordinary sandwich, but its special shape and interesting composition gives the dish elegance.

Ingredients:

Black bread
Smoked sausage
Hard cheese
Lettuce leaves
Olives

Preparation:

Cut the bread into small round pieces. Give the cheese the same shape and place it on the bread. Place two slices of thinly sliced sausage and one black olive on top of the cheese. You can place a leaf of lettuce between the sausage and cheese. Secure everything with a skewer.

Bread for canapés should be peeled and only the crumb should be used.

A very good appetizer for a holiday.

Ingredients:

Fresh champignons – 200 gr
Spices
Crab sticks - 3 pcs
Tartlets
Hard cheese - 100 gr
Heavy cream
Soy sauce

Preparation:

Finely chop the mushrooms, fry in sunflower oil until tender, add a little salt. Cut crab sticks into small pieces. Fill the tartlets halfway with mushrooms and lightly sprinkle with crab sticks. Cut the cheese into cubes and sprinkle on the tartlets. Add one teaspoon of soy sauce and cream to each tartlet. Place the tartlets in the oven or microwave to melt the cheese.

Capercaillie's Nest salad with smoked chicken

This salad is an absolute treat for the eyes and delicious too. Guests will definitely love it, and relatives will ask to cook it on weekdays.

Ingredients

8 potatoes;
400 grams of smoked chicken;
5 pickles;
15 quail eggs;
a bunch of dill;
mayonnaise - for dressing.

Step-by-step instruction

For this salad, potatoes are cut into strips; this can be done on a special grater, or done by hand. You need to grate about 3 potatoes: we do it in a convenient way, then dry the resulting straws on a towel.
Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan or frying pan with high sides and wait until it warms up well. Fry the potatoes in batches until they turn golden. Place the finished straw on a napkin so that the fat drips off well.
We cook the remaining potatoes directly “in the clothes”. Then we peel and cut into strips using a knife.
Boil the quail eggs and cut half of them.
We also chop cucumbers and chicken.
Finely chop the greens.
Combine everything except the fried potatoes in a salad bowl and mix with mayonnaise. In the center we make a recess - a nest.
We decorate the sides with fried potatoes, herbs, and put boiled eggs on top (the author of the video is Olga Matvey’s channel).

Liver snack “Friends Forever”

This appetizer is appropriate on any holiday table.

Ingredients:

Liver – 600 gr
Onion - 1 pc.
Eggs - 2 pcs
Flour - 80 gr
Milk – 50 g
Pepper
Baking powder - ½ tsp.
Hard cheese – 150 gr
Mayonnaise
Garlic - 2-3 cloves
Greenery
Tomato

Preparation:

Pass the liver and onions through a meat grinder. Add salt, pepper and eggs, mix well. Add milk and baking powder to the liver mass. Mix again, add flour and beat. Fry liver pancakes in vegetable oil. Cool the finished pancakes. Peel the garlic and grate it on a fine grater, grate the cheese on a medium grater. Mix cheese, garlic, mayonnaise and chopped herbs, mix the resulting mixture well. Grease the pancakes with the filling, and place another greased pancake on top. Decorate the finished double pancakes with a tomato slice and herbs.

To make the liver softer when frying, it needs to be soaked for 10 minutes in lightly salted milk.

A wonderful fish and vegetable table decoration.

Ingredients:

Herring - 1 piece
Puff pastry – 500 g
Leek - 35 g
Mayonnaise
Beetroot - 2 pcs.
Eggs - 1 piece
Cucumber - 1 pc.
Dill
Parsley
Radishes - 3 pcs.
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.

Preparation:

Cut the puff pastry into equal pieces and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Brush the puff pieces with beaten egg and bake at 180 degrees until golden brown. Grind the cleaned fish fillet in a meat grinder. Combine herring, chopped leek and a tablespoon of mayonnaise and mix well. Boil and peel the beets. Then grate on a coarse grater, add salt and mix with a tablespoon of mayonnaise. Sprinkle the bottom of the dish with chopped herbs, cut the cucumber into slices. Place puff pastries on top of the greens, and a slice of cucumber on each puff pastry. Then place herring on one side of each puff and beets on the other. Decorate with roses made from radishes.

A birthday celebration is just around the corner, but are you bored with the standard recipe book?

We have several tips that will help you quickly prepare a festive table, without spending much effort and precious time.

So, let’s not waste time and start looking at all kinds of birthday snacks, or rather their recipes with photos.

“Obzhorka” salad with croutons

Smoked sausage and croutons are an excellent combination, although not very dietary. And its preparation is easy and quick, especially if you take a ready-made pack of crackers. Just fifteen minutes - and the festive appetizer is ready.

Ingredients

250 grams of smoked sausage;
2 cucumbers;
1 onion;
3 carrots;
1 pack of crackers;
mayonnaise - for dressing.

Step-by-step instruction

We cut the onion into half rings, and grate the carrots into three.
Fry them in a frying pan until they soften slightly.
Cut the sausage into bars or cubes.
We do the same with cucumber.
Mix the prepared ingredients in a bowl, season with mayonnaise, and then place them on a plate in a heap.
Sprinkle the top with crackers.

For this salad, you can prepare the croutons yourself by drying them in the oven with your favorite spices or garlic (the author of the video is the Time for Delicious Recipes channel).

Fried zucchini

Those who are experiencing temporary financial difficulties should pay attention to one of the most budget-friendly options for snacks and salads. It is not necessary to serve expensive dishes on the festive table, because the most important thing is that they are prepared with soul. To make fried zucchini for a family celebration, you will need:

100 g breadcrumbs;
50 g Dijon mustard;
50 g flour;
20 ml table vinegar;
120 ml of any vegetable oil;
3 zucchini;
2 eggs.

Washed and dried zucchini are cut into cubes and rolled in flour. Each of them is dipped into a bowl of beaten egg whites, breaded in breadcrumbs and fried in hot oil. They are served with a sauce made from the remaining yolks, mustard and vinegar.

With tomatoes and zucchini

This is a very bright and beautiful vegetable appetizer. It is very popular among zucchini lovers and is prepared using incredibly simple technology. To create it you will need:

100 g hard cheese;
100 g non-acidic thick sour cream;
3 zucchini;
3 tomatoes;
5 cloves of garlic.

This is one of the simplest options for zucchini salads and appetizers. On the festive table, the bright combination of red and soft green vegetables covered with an appetizing cheese crust immediately catches your eye. But in order to surprise your family and guests with it, you need to know how to prepare them correctly. To begin, the washed zucchini is cut into rings and placed in a heat-resistant form. They are topped with sour cream, supplemented with crushed garlic, and covered with tomato slices. All this is covered with cheese and sent to a preheated oven. Bake vegetables at standard temperature for about twenty-five minutes. Then the appetizer is cooled, decorated at your own discretion and served.

Appetizer (salad) “Mushroom Glade”

An easy to prepare and delicious holiday appetizer.

Ingredients:

Marinated champignons – 300 gr
Fresh cucumber – 300 gr
Hard cheese - 100 gr
Boiled eggs - 3 pcs
Mayonnaise
Olives
Pepper

Preparation:

Grate the cheese and eggs, add salt, pepper and coat with mayonnaise. Cut the cucumber into slices and brush with cheese mixture. Place one mushroom and an olive on top and connect with a skewer.

Layered salad with ham and mushrooms - a delicious recipe for any holiday table

As you know, there are a huge variety of salads with ham and mushrooms. Today we have puff pastry. You can cook it without layers, but I like it this way better. To simplify the preparation of this tasty and satisfying salad, prepare all the ingredients in advance and place everything on plates.

The salad is easy to prepare and all ingredients are available. It is absolutely suitable for any holiday. See for yourself...

Ingredients

Ham
Mushrooms (canned) - 1 jar
Potatoes - 2 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Eggs - 3-4 pcs.
Cheese - 150 grams
Mayonnaise
Greenery

1. Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs for salad in salted water.

It is NOT convenient for me to peel boiled carrots, so I peel them raw, and boil the potatoes in their skins and then peel them.

2. Grate the boiled potatoes and carrots on a coarse grater.

3. Grate eggs and cheese on a medium or fine grater.

You can use two types of cheese. In addition, I also take melted.

4. Cut the ham and greens (I used green onions) into small cubes.

We finished preparing the ingredients and this is what we got:

Now all that remains is to assemble the layers of lettuce. We will form it on a beautiful one, in the form of a square.

5. The first layer is potato, grease it with mayonnaise.

6. Next is a layer of greenery. But in my case, a layer of green onions.

7. Place grated eggs on the onion. Coat the layer with mayonnaise.

8. But put canned mushrooms on top of the eggs. I have sliced champignons.

9. Place a layer of ham on the mushrooms and brush it with a thin layer of mayonnaise.

10. The next layer is carrots. We put it on top of the ham and don’t spare it generously. And again mayonnaise.

11. Our layers are completed with cheese. You need a lot of it to completely cover the salad and grease it again with mayonnaise.

Using a spoon, smooth out the edges and give the salad a neat square shape. If you have a salad pan, then of course you can use it.

Wait until the salad is soaked for several hours and only then serve it to your guests.