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

Snacks on the festive table

The selection of unusual snacks on the festive table is huge. Among all the existing recipes, every culinary specialist will find the perfect one for himself.

Pancake bags with chicken and mushrooms

Ingredients:

  • pancakes - 10 pcs. ready-made;
  • 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 bags.

Cooking Algorithm:

  1. Cut smaller onions and mushrooms, fry them in butter.
  2. Cook the meat, cut into small pieces. Send to roast.
  3. Add sour cream / mayonnaise to the pan. Salt, add spices. Darken a couple of minutes.
  4. Cheese rub.
  5. Put the filling from the pan into pancakes. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
  6. Tie delicious bags with strips of smoked cheese.

Before serving, warm the snack 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 greens - 1 bunch;
  • homemade mayonnaise and salt.

Cooking:

  1. Grind eggs, cheese, ham. Salt as needed.
  2. Add mayonnaise, mix everything.
  3. Blind the legs of the "mushrooms" from the mass. Each set on a circle of fresh cucumber and put the workpiece on a plate covered with chopped herbs.
  4. Hats made from cherry and drops of mayonnaise.

Chill refreshments and serve guests.

Roll "Crab"

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

  1. Boiled eggs, two types of cheese and garlic finely rub. Displace with mayonnaise and chopped herbs. Add as desired.
  2. Divide the resulting filling into two servings.
  3. Lubricate it in turn two pita bread. Lay them on top of each other and roll them up.

Cool the appetizer by coating it with a film, and then cut into portions.

What salads to prepare for the holiday

Of the salad recipes for the holiday, it is better to choose those that do not have quickly spoiling and soaking ingredients. If an appetizer with crackers, then the latter is best served separately.

With meat and crackers

Ingredients:

  • any boiled meat is half a kilo;
  • Chinese cabbage - a pound;
  • 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.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse lettuce leaves and lay them on a beautiful dish.
  2. In a separate bowl, send cooked meat cut in thick strips. Chicken and pork are best suited for such an appetizer.
  3. Send finely chopped cabbage to the meat.
  4. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil until lightly crusted.
  5. Then, on the remaining fat, lightly brown yesterday's diced bread. In the process, sprinkle it with dry garlic.
  6. Chop fresh cucumbers with cubes.
  7. Mix all prepared foods. To salt. Dress with sauce.

Put 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 - at will;
  • bow arrows - 3 to 4 feathers;
  • hard cheese - 50 - 70 g;
  • salt, mayonnaise sauce;
  • high-quality lean oil.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Boil chicken until fully cooked. Cool it directly in the broth for greater juiciness of meat. Cut into small arbitrary pieces.
  2. Mix chicken with tomato slices, grated cheese and chopped cucumber in the same way. Season with salted sauce mixed with crushed garlic.
  3. Put the composition on a flat plate with a slide.
  4. Cut the potatoes into very thin long strips. Fry the product in small portions in hot oil until golden brown and crisp.
  5. Pour potato sticks of salad into the straws.

Top the appetizer with chopped green onions.

"Rainbow"

Ingredients:

  • hunting sausages - 250 - 300 g;
  • red lettuce - 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.

Cooking:

  1. Cut sausages into circles.
  2. Dice all vegetables and eggs. Drain the liquid from the corn.
  3. Mix all.
  4. Season the salad with a mixture of sauce, mustard, salt and spices.

Serve with rye toast.

Holiday sandwiches: recipes

To make the sandwiches on the festive table tasty and crispy, they should be cooked just before serving. You can make the filling in advance, and apply it on the bread already before the arrival of the guests.

With crab sticks and dill

Ingredients:

  • long loaf - 1 fresh;
  • cucumber - 1 pc.;
  • dill - 5 - 6 branches;
  • crab sticks - 1 medium pack;
  • grated cream cheese - ½ tbsp .;
  • butter - 20 g;
  • mayonnaise sauce and salt.

Cooking:

  1. Finely chop the fresh cucumber. Also grind crab sticks.
  2. Add the grated cheese to the components. To easily and quickly grind it, the product must first be frozen.
  3. Finely chop the dill. Pour into the base of the future salad.
  4. Season the mass with sauce. Salt to taste.
  5. Lightly fry thin slices of white bread in butter.
  6. Coat the pieces with a spread.

Immediately serve sandwiches to the table.

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.

Cooking:

  1. Immediately cover with lettuce leaves a large flat plate.
  2. Cut each slice of the loaf into halves. Dry them in a pan and grease with mayonnaise.
  3. Lay them on the salad and sprinkle with finely grated boiled egg.
  4. Add fish to each serving.
  5. Cut cucumbers into thin slices and use toothpicks to fix them on the bases of sandwiches in the form of sails.

Serve the appetizer to the table without pre-cooling.

Canapes on skewers on a festive table

Appetizing canapes 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;
  • slightly salted trout / salmon - 200 - 250 g;
  • black caviar - 50 - 70 g;
  • fresh parsley to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Cut white slices from white bread.
  2. Grease each with softened oil.
  3. Put in a serving of black caviar.
  4. Thinly chop the fish and roll it in the form of a sail. Fix on bread with skewers.

Garnish ready-made canapes with fresh parsley.

With dried sausage

Ingredients:

  • baguette - 200 g;
  • uncooked sausage (sliced) - 80 - 100 g;
  • big fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
  • small tomatoes - 2 - 3 pcs.;
  • toast cheese - 50 g;
  • pitted olives - 10 pcs.

Cooking:

  1. Cut the baguette portionwise and slightly dry in the oven.
  2. Decorate cucumber with thin slices, tomatoes with plastics. Black olives in halves.
  3. On toasted croutons put toast cheese, one plate for each. You can pre-cover the bread with mayonnaise or soft curd cheese.
  4. Next, distribute the circles of tomatoes.
  5. On each skewer, first string a piece of olive, then cucumber slice in waves and thin slices of dried sausage.
  6. Stick the workpiece into the croutons.

Serve the resulting canapes on a beautiful plate.

New meat dishes

Mandatory on the festive table will be meat dishes. Serve them soon after the start of the feast, when the guests had time to try the appetizers, hot.

Stuffed liver tubes

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

  1. Two types of liver to kill with a blender. To salt. Add spices.
  2. Pour well beaten eggs and some milk into the liver mass.
  3. Introduce the flour. Beat everything until the lumps disappear and dilute with the remaining milk.
  4. From the resulting mass, cook 25-30 pancakes.
  5. Fry onions with carrots. To salt. Add half the sour cream.
  6. Mix the remaining sour cream with grated boiled eggs, mashed garlic and chopped cheese. Add salt and mayonnaise.
  7. Cover each pancake with cheese and egg mass and vegetable frying in turn.

Serve such an 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.

Cooking:

  1. Stuffing minced meat with onion, garlic and re-pass through a meat grinder. Add salt and pepper.
  2. Thoroughly repel the mass on a horizontal surface.
  3. Roll out the dough and cut into thin strips.
  4. Form “balls” from the minced meat, cover them with strips of dough so that small gaps remain.
  5. Lubricate the workpiece with a mixture of yolk and milk.

Bake refreshments 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 for the holiday, you should cook something more interesting as a side dish. It is tasty to complement both of the options below with spicy 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.

Cooking:

  1. Cook the potatoes in salt water until cooked.
  2. Drain all water, add nutmeg, pepper, grated cheese, yolk (1 pc.). Mix everything well.
  3. On a baking sheet covered with parchment, squeeze small roses with a pastry bag.
  4. Lubricate the workpieces with the remaining yolk.
  5. Bake in a very hot oven for 15 - 17 minutes.

You can prepare such a side dish in the form of eights on March 8.

Stuffed Beijing

Ingredients:

  • Chinese cabbage - 1 forks;
  • 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.

Cooking:

  1. Pour gelatin over water and leave to swell.
  2. Chop parsley and garlic finely, mix with cottage cheese.
  3. Cut salad peppers into miniature cubes. Add to cottage cheese. All salt and pepper.
  4. Dissolve gelatin in the microwave, send to the filling.
  5. Cabbage divided into leaves. Rinse and dry each.
  6. Take 2 leaves, fill them with filling and connect with each other.
  7. Wrap each blank in a film and send for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.

Such an unusual side dish is served chilled to meat or fish.

Lenten Menu

Lenten festive 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.

Cooking:

  1. Boil peeled potatoes completely. Mash with the remaining water after cooking. To salt. You can add spices.
  2. Chop the onion and mushrooms and fry in oil. To salt. Interrupt with a blender.
  3. Put 1/3 of mashed potatoes in a prepared glass form. Cover with roasting and 1/3 of mashed potatoes.
  4. Next, put thinly sliced ​​tomatoes.
  5. Close everything with the remaining potatoes and lean mayonnaise.

Bake the dish at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Lean stuffed cabbage

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

  1. Disassemble the cabbage into leaves. Wash each and boil in boiling water for 3 minutes until soft. Cut off thickenings from them.
  2. Rinse and cook rice for 7 minutes.
  3. Forest mushrooms, too, pre-boil. Mushrooms - just chop finely.
  4. Peel tomatoes, chop finely.
  5. Mash the garlic.
  6. In oil, fry chopped onion and carrot until golden. Add mushrooms. Cook the mass for another 7 - 8 minutes.
  7. Mix frying with tomatoes, rice, garlic. Salt and pepper.
  8. Stuff cabbage leaves in bulk. Roll them tightly and fry in hot oil for a couple of minutes.
  9. Pour the cabbage rolls in the pan with a little water with ketchup and simmer the refreshment over low heat for a little over an hour.

Lean Olivier

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

  1. Chop all the vegetables (both boiled, fresh and salted) into cubes.
  2. Drain the liquid from the peas. Cut olives in circles.
  3. Cut the cabbage shorter.
  4. Mix all.

Season the finished salad with salted lean mayonnaise.

The simplest but most delicious dishes

If you don’t have time to bother with the design of the festive table for a long time, you should choose the simplest dishes possible. It remains only to take care of their interesting design, which can pleasantly surprise guests.

Baked mackerel

Ingredients:

  • fish carcasses - 2 large;
  • garlic - 3 to 4 cloves;
  • ground paprika - 1 pinch;
  • Provencal herbs - 2 tsp;
  • oil and salt.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse and clean the fish. Leave a clean filet on halves with skin. There should not be any bones in it.
  2. Crush the garlic, mix with all seasonings and about 1/3 tbsp. any vegetable oil. Salt the mass. Grate the fish fillet with it and leave it in this form for about 1 hour.
  3. Lay the prepared mackerel on a baking sheet covered with parchment, skin up.

Bake fish for 15 - 17 minutes at 220 degrees.

Striped Tomatoes

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

  1. Rub the cheese very finely and mix with mayonnaise, mashed garlic, salt.
  2. Make two transverse horizontal cuts in each cherry. Fill them with filling.
  3. So stuff all the tomatoes.

The resulting "bees" serve as a cold snack.

Ham Salad with Pickled Onions

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

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

Salt to taste and immediately serve guests.

Interesting recipes for the festive table

Experienced housewives can tackle slightly complicated recipes. The dishes on them are very interesting, unusual and tasty.

Selts with olives

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

  1. Chop the chicken with bones into pieces and send to cook for 90 minutes. At the very end of cooking, add peeled carrots.
  2. Dilute gelatin in cold boiled water according to the instructions. After a quarter of an hour, dissolve it in a water bath and mix with 1.5 tbsp. chicken stock. Add chopped garlic there. To salt.
  3. Cut boiled carrots and olives into small cubes. Mix with them small pieces of skimmed boiled meat.
  4. Pour the filling components with broth with gelatin.
  5. Send the mass in a beautiful shape and move it cool all night.

Serve the prepared brawn upside down, decorating with fresh herbs.

Zucchini mushroom 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 to 4 cloves;
  • baking powder - 10 g;
  • salt, pepper, oil.

Cooking:

  1. Peel the zucchini, rub coarsely and mix with crushed garlic. To salt.
  2. Add the yolks, grated onions.
  3. Sift flour with baking powder into the mass. Add whipped until stable foam proteins. Spice up
  4. Distribute the resulting mixture over the oiled baking sheet.
  5. Send to the oven, preheated to 170 degrees. Bake for 35 - 45 minutes.
  6. Finely chop the mushrooms, fry until golden brown. Add sour cream and grated cheese.
  7. Lubricate the prepared squash cake with mushroom mass. Roll it up.

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

Chicken Cupcakes

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.

Cooking:

  1. Finely chop the sausage, mushrooms, peppers. Fry until golden brown. You can take butter for this.
  2. Add the cubes of pickled cucumber and olives, as well as chopped green onions.
  3. Mix the products and season with sour cream.
  4. Chicken fillet thinly beat off. Spread with salt and spices. Cut pieces out of it to fit the muffin tins.
  5. Cover the oiled containers with thin plates of meat.
  6. Spread the filling on top.
  7. All fill up with cheese. For juiciness, you can spread on top of a piece of butter.

Bake hearty muffins for half an hour at 190 degrees.

What drinks to surprise guests

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will probably be present on the adult table. Familiar store bottles can be replaced with unusual, self-made cocktails.

Alcohol-free orange drink

Ingredients:

  • purified water - 2 l;
  • juicy sweet orange - 2 pcs.;
  • mint - 4 to 5 branches;
  • sugar - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • ice cubes.

Cooking:

  1. At the bottom of the carafe lay the washed dried mint, slightly mashed by hands.
  2. Top with circles of pitted oranges and sugar.
  3. Mash everything with a spoon as well.
  4. Fill the carafe with ice ½.
  5. Fill everything with water.

Let the drink brew for 10 minutes and serve.

Berry liquor with condensed milk

Ingredients:

  • quality vodka - half a liter;
  • condensed milk - 100 ml;
  • freshly squeezed cherry juice - 1 tbsp.

Cooking:

  1. Mix condensed milk and juice. Another berry will do.
  2. Add vodka.
  3. Mix everything with a long coffee spoon.

Pour liquor into a beautiful decanter or bottle. Cool.

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

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