On the eve of the celebration, almost everyone thinks about what to cook dishes on the festive table. They must have an original appearance and taste. Nowadays, few people will be surprised by Olivier salad or ordinary patties, so the banquet menu should be modern, unusual and relatively inexpensive.
Banquet Appetizer
This is a very simple recipe for canapes for a festive table, the dish is a variation of the famous Italian salad "Caprese". The main difference is that it looks in the form of small canapes that look great, it is convenient to take them from plates. To cook 20 such skewers, you should take 20 cherry tomatoes and 150 g of mozzarella cheese.
Also, according to the recipe for preparing canapes for the holiday table, you need to take 20 small leaves of basil. To prepare the original sauce, you will need 100 g of pine nuts, 100 g of Parmesan cheese, basil, 1 clove of garlic, 50 g of cilantro and 150 ml of olive oil.
How to cook canapes
The dish is very simple, it will not take so much time to prepare it. Cheese should be cut into small cubes, approximately 2 x 2 centimeters. Cherry should be cut in half.
Now you need to take a skewer and plant the upper half of the tomato on it, string one leaf of basil, then cheese, and at the very end put on the bottom of the cherry tomato. Thus, all the ingredients are combined. You can see the result in the next photo.
When all the skewers are prepared, start cooking the sauce. To do this, put pine nuts, parmesan, several basil leaves, cilantro leaves, garlic and olive oil in a blender bowl. Grind all products until smooth.
Put the canapes on a beautiful dish, pour over the cooked sauce. The dish is ready to serve. Note! It is best to collect skewers immediately before the celebration, as the products can quickly weather, and the tomatoes will start letting juice out.
Canned Tuna Sandwiches
A very original recipe for sandwiches, probably not one of your guests has ever tried this. According to the recipe for sandwiches for the holiday table, you should take: a loaf of black bread (Borodinsky can be), tuna in butter - 2 cans, butter (for spreading bread), 150 g of mayonnaise, one lemon and about 70 g of tomato paste. As a decoration, you can use tomatoes, green onions or lettuce.
How to cook a snack
To get delicious sandwiches for the holiday table according to the recipe, you need to follow the step by step instructions:
- Remove the tuna from the jar and dry it slightly with paper towels (to remove excess fat). Grind it a little and put in a bowl, add mayonnaise and tomato paste there. Kill everything in a blender or grind with a fork. A homogeneous mass should be obtained.
- Cut the bread into 10 pieces, cut each piece diagonally - you should get beautiful triangles.
- Fry the bread in a dry pan so that it acquires a pleasant crisp.
- Spread all the pieces with a small amount of butter.
- Spread tuna paste on bread.
- Garnish ready-made sandwiches with lemon, tomatoes, lettuce and green onions.
For the piquancy of the filling, you can add a small amount of lemon juice to it.
Banquet table salad
The holiday menu should consist of quality and nutritious food so that guests do not go home hungry. This salad is exactly what you need. It uses a large number of different ingredients, including fried pork neck. Incredibly tasty, nutritious and beautiful salad.
To prepare a delicious salad for the festive table, you need to take three cucumbers, several bell peppers, a salad mix - 300 g, one pomegranate, a package of Feta cheese, 500 g pork collar and walnuts. Here, not only meat is pickled, but also vegetables, a few spoons of apple cider vinegar, sugar and water should be added to the marinade for vegetables.
The meat is pickled in rosemary, thyme, garlic and vegetable oil. As a salad dressing, a mixture of mayonnaise and yogurt is used. These products should be taken in equal proportions of 200 grams. You can also add a little lemon juice to the dressing.
Cooking process
The salad is prepared for a long time, so you need to prepare all the ingredients for it in advance. Follow the step by step instructions:
- In a small saucepan, mix water, sugar and vinegar, bring the mixture to a boil, boil a little. Set aside, let the liquid cool to room temperature.
- Cut bell pepper into strips, and cucumbers in half rings or also strips, in the recipe there are no strict criteria regarding the shape of the cut. Put vegetables in the cooled liquid in a saucepan. Leave them there for 1 hour. Peel pomegranate.
- Cut the meat into large pieces (as in the photo below), marinate in spices with vegetable oil. Fry the neck in a grill pan or in an ordinary pan with a thick bottom. After that, put the meat in the oven and bring it to full readiness. Usually it takes about 20 minutes with a heated oven at 200 degrees.
- In a bowl, mix natural yogurt with mayonnaise and lemon juice. Optionally, add one clove of chopped garlic.
- Lettuce leaves must be picked by hands, put them in a bowl and mixed with 2/3 of the sauce of mayonnaise and yogurt.
- Put the salad on a plate, top with vegetables and Feta cheese sliced in a medium cube.
- Cut the meat into cubes or straws, put it on the very top of the salad, sprinkle with pomegranate and pour over the remaining salad dressing. This completes the process of preparing a delicious salad on the festive table. It remains only to decorate with herbs and serve.
If desired, the dish can be supplemented with a small amount of grated Parmesan, which is poured on top of all the ingredients.
Hot dish on the festive table
This dish will surely appeal to the whole male part of the banquet. It uses pork shoulder, which is cooked in an original and fairly sharp marinade. The meat is incredibly tender and tasty, be sure to try this dish.
On a festive table of 10 people you need to take 2 kg of pork shoulder, 200 g of soy sauce, 200 g of acute Abkhaz adjika, 100 g of honey and one lemon. Of spices, you need to use coriander, red and black pepper, paprika. As you can see, in this case the minimum amount of ingredients is used.
Main course
The meat must be cut into large cubes (like a barbecue), put it in a cauldron or any other similar utensils. Add all of the above ingredients, mix thoroughly and leave in the refrigerator overnight. Note! The meat must be marinated long enough, otherwise it will not reach the desired softness and taste. Night is the minimum pickling time.
Now you need to preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees, cover the casseroles and set it to cook. The meat must be cooked in the oven for two hours. This is the optimal cooking time for this dish. If the meat is in the oven beyond this time, it simply begins to disintegrate into fibers, then it will not be a hot meat dish, but a stew.
Serve the dish in deep plates along with the sauce. When serving, you can sprinkle with parsley, dill or cilantro.
Cutting on a festive table
Today, there are many different products that can be cut into a banquet table as a light meal. These may be cheese plates, in which case several types of cheese will be needed: regular hard cheese, camembert, feta, parmesan and roquefort.
Meat plates can consist of home and shop sausages, boiled pork, ham and balyk. You can combine cheese and meat products, that is, take several types of your favorite cheese and combine them on the same plate with meat products, as in the following photo.
We must not forget about various vegetable plates, especially when the time of year allows you to put on the table various gifts of the fields. Here you can use anything you like: tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, green onions, various types of herbs and herbs. It is also difficult to imagine a good banquet table without fruit slicing, in which case it is recommended to use seasonal fruits. It is not entirely rational to serve strawberries on the table in winter, but if the financial situation allows, the guests will be delighted.
The festive table feature is beautiful presentations. Any dish that will be served at the table should be decorated with bright vegetables and herbs. Then the festive menu will seem rich and original to all guests. Now you know interesting recipes for the festive table of canapes, salad and hot dishes. All guests will be delighted!