It is not easy to impress guests with snacks. Very often, delicious salads prepared for a birthday remain on the table and “delight” the hosts for a couple more days. What should I do so that the treat is eaten cleanly, and guests with excitement try out a recipe from the hostess?
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Original recipes to surprise guests
You need to have a delicate taste in order to choose a slightly extravagant and at the same time harmonious combination of ingredients.
It is important to remember that snacks should irritate your appetite and not fill your stomach.
For experimenters:
- Cut the pear pulp and spicy cheese into identical slices, season with a mixture of natural yogurt, Dijon mustard and dry white wine.
- Dress shrimps, orange slices, red onions, almond petals with a mixture of honey, grated ginger, sesame and lemon juice.
- Slices of boiled turkey, white quiche-mish, chopped pistachios and salad leaves season with olive oil.
- Crush a little garlic into sliced banana and steamed raisins. Put a layer of boiled beets, mayonnaise, fruit and garlic filling and another layer of beets with mayonnaise. The last layer is chopped walnut.
- Finely chop mushrooms, blue cheese, celery stalks and fresh hard pear. For refueling use multifruit juice and olive oil.
- Prawns, cherry tomatoes and avocado pulp, diced, pour lemon juice and olive oil. Before seasoning, add salt and pepper to taste.
Do not forget about the spectacular design of the salad. If you do not have time to carve out vegetables, you can find a simple solution. For example, any salad looks good on slices of bread, in tartlets or in "boats" of vegetables: colored peppers, cucumbers, avocados.
Cheap birthday salads
The festive menu almost always requires solid spending. But snacks can save a lot, of course, not at the expense of quality. It is enough to add a pinch of surprise to a familiar recipe, and it will sparkle with new shades of taste.
- The well-known cheese and garlic salad with mayonnaise can be varied with finely chopped canned pineapple and herbs.
- Sweet pineapple feels great in a popular salad with crab sticks. For this dish you will need: crab meat, cheese, boiled eggs, canned corn and canned pineapple, mayonnaise.
- Another version of this salad: sour hard apple, boiled rice, eggs, crab meat, corn and fresh cucumber. The usual dressing is mayonnaise.
Puff salads with boiled vegetables and a variety of vinaigrettes will always find loyal fans. These traditional dishes can bring a fresh touch. For example, make a usual Norwegian style vinaigrette: with slices of salted fish, instead of pickled cucumber or cabbage. A juicy sour apple does not hurt.
A layer of cheese, boiled eggs or grated apple, a little green peas can be added to the “herring” coat.
Products from the daily menu with original sauce are also easily converted into simple new birthday salads.
A simple recipe:
- turnip onions;
- sweet apple;
- pickled cucumber.
Just take it equally and cut into identical small pieces.
For refueling:
- mayonnaise;
- “Soft” mustard;
- sour cream;
- lemon juice;
- salt and pepper as desired.
Delicious Snack Options
The best remembered snacks with rich taste and bright accents. Therefore, it is useful to take note of the recipes for delicious salads with smoked fish.
With pink salmon:
- hot smoked salmon fillet;
- pitted olives;
- strong tomatoes without juice;
- boiled eggs;
- Red onion;
- parsley.
For dressing - olive oil and lemon juice.
With mackerel:
- smoked mackerel fillet;
- green pea;
- fresh cucumber;
- boiled eggs;
- sour apple;
- green onions.
For dressing - mayonnaise and lemon juice.
Another delicious and hearty salad:
- smoked squid;
- boiled eggs;
- green pea;
- boiled rice;
- dill;
- mayonnaise.
Any spicy / spicy ingredients will give a bright flavor to the dish: Korean carrots, smoked sausage, corn, onions, hard apple, mayonnaise.
Tiffany salad with a touch of curry:
- curry fried chicken;
- boiled eggs;
- hard cheese;
- chopped almonds or walnuts;
- mayonnaise;
- seedless grapes.
Lettuce spread in thin layers in the specified order. Depending on the number of products, the layers are repeated several times. Halves of grapes are laid out in the last layer on mayonnaise.
Quick recipe:
- smoked chicken;
- green radish grated on a fine grater;
- mayonnaise.
Light and diet foods
Light snacks are usually prepared with seafood, fresh vegetables and cheese.
An example of such a dish:
- shrimp
- feta cheese
- Tomatoes
- cucumbers
- colored peppers;
- olives;
- lettuce leaves
- greenery.
Refueling is also easy: lemon juice and olive oil.
Light meal option for meat lovers:
- boiled lean meat;
- Red onion;
- Tomatoes
- fresh arugula
- a drop of sweet mustard;
- lemon juice.
The hostess should have a vegetarian holiday recipe in the piggy bank:
- fresh cucumber;
- avocado;
- kiwi;
- pine nuts.
All ingredients need to be chopped finely, but not grated (especially cucumber). For dressing - lemon juice and cedar oil or any odorless vegetable.
Hearty, meat snacks
Hearty snacks are also useful at the festive table, especially if strong alcohol is served.
Tasty and quick salads are prepared from meat and canned vegetables.
Ingredients:
- pieces of fried pork without lard;
- canned white beans;
- Tomatoes
- soy sauce;
- garlic;
- ground ginger;
- vegetable oil.
Fresh or frozen vegetables are useful for making warm meat salad:
- fried beef julienne;
- roasted bell peppers;
- blanched green beans;
- Fresh basil and olives for decoration.
If you are not afraid of calories, you can serve a salad with pasta and meat:
- pasta (boiled and cooled);
- lean meat fried in strips;
- marinated mushrooms;
- fresh cucumber;
- Cherry tomatoes;
- turnip onions;
- leek;
- vegetable oil and lemon juice for dressing.
With spicy dressing of mayonnaise, tomato paste and pepper mixture:
- pasta;
- roasted or smoked meat;
- olives;
- onion.
Another recipe with the same dressing:
- boiled chicken fillet;
- bacon;
- pasta;
- fresh cucumber;
- canned corn;
- black olives.
Ideas for a child’s birthday
Special recipes will have to be selected for the children's menu.
Children are great conservatives. Most likely, young guests will be distrustful of unusual dishes.
The most important rule is safe foods. Nothing overly spicy, salty, oily.
From hearty salads, it is best to choose a traditional olivier (less mayonnaise!) Or vinaigrette.
Always a good choice - potato salad.
You will need:
- boiled vegetables (potatoes, carrots),
- eggs
- fresh cucumber,
- green pea,
- fresh greens
- sour cream.
To make the dishes look delicious, you need to pay attention to the design.
- Salads can be laid out using molds and garnished with bright cranberries and herbs.
- Summer salads from bright fresh vegetables are best served in the form of slices. Children like nobody else will appreciate the decoration and any experiments with carving. In addition, salads filled with dressing give a plentiful juice and quickly deteriorate. And children are not always accurate and are distinguished by sensitive digestion.
Sweet fruit salads with ice cream or yogurt will certainly be a success. Their components should also not be crushed and mixed with dressing.
- When choosing fruits for a salad, very acidic fruits should be avoided.
- Citrus fruits are used sparingly, as it is a strong allergen.
Kids Fruit Salad Option:
- bananas
- melon;
- orange;
- chopped walnuts;
- apple juice for dressing.
Salads with berries:
- strawberries, blackberries, mangoes, kiwi, ice cream;
- strawberries, banana, blueberries, thick natural yogurt;
- strawberries, plums, nectarine, pears, grapes, whipped cream.
You can arrange fruit salad in portions, in the form of cakes: lay out colored pieces of fruit in layers, and dressing - on top, in the form of a creamy “hat”.
Fancy Fruit Salads
A seasonal fruit basket is simply a fountain of taste for experimentation. And in preparing a feast for adults, nothing limits imagination.
Ingredients:
- hard persimmon;
- Red onion;
- an Apple;
- lettuce;
- lemon juice and vegetable oil,
- necessarily salt and pepper, as this is an unsweetened snack.
Brazilian fruit salad seasoned with mayonnaise:
- bananas
- apples
- tangerines;
- seedless grapes;
- celery root.
Another crazy and insanely delicious treat.
The proportions are important here:
- white cabbage - 200 g;
- fresh carrots - 150 g;
- green onions - 50 g;
- oranges - 100 g;
- hard apples - 240 g;
- canned or fresh peach;
- sour cream - 150 g;
- sugar - 30 g;
- juice from half a lemon;
- salt to taste.
All the ingredients seem to be a little bit, but it turns out a whole kilogram of salad.
- Cut vegetables into very thin strips.
- Squash the cabbage slightly with your hands.
- Fruits in small cubes.
- Mix everything and season with lemon juice, sugar, salt, and then sour cream.
Fruit summer salad for dessert is a good substitute for cakes, especially in the heat and outdoors. This salad is served with ice cream or with a cupcake.
Ingredients:
- apples
- pears
- peaches;
- grapes.
Refueling syrup: dry white wine, water, sugar 1: 1: 1 and vanilla extract.
The next salad is better to offer as a separate dish.
Ingredients:
- hard cheese;
- wheat bread crackers;
- watermelon;
- melon;
- pear;
- an Apple;
- plums
- natural yogurt.
Pieces of the loaf are best fried in a pan. Then you get a crisp on the outside and an elastic crumb inside.
The ingredients in the most original snacks will sooner or later be declassified. However, experienced housewives, while maintaining the intrigue, are in no hurry to disclose their proprietary recipes.
