How to surprise guests at the festive table? If you do not know the answer to this question, then this article is intended specifically for you. In it you will find information on how to make an expensive and very tasty snack, an unusual minced meat roll with egg filling, as well as a dessert with fruits and ice cream.
Putting the following recipes into practice, you will never again ask a question about how to surprise guests at the festive table.
Making a delicious red caviar appetizer
There are many different recipes for snacks, but the most popular and popular of them is the one that uses red caviar during cooking. Thanks to this component, you can make not only very tasty and beautiful, but also an expensive canapé sandwich. For him we need:
- white sandwich long loaf (French baguette available) - 1 pc.;
- real red caviar - about 100-150 g;
- fresh greens (dill) - medium bunch;
- purple onions - a small head;
- thick sour cream, and preferably medium-fat mayonnaise - about 180 g;
- small fresh lemon - 2 pcs.
Ingredient Processing
In this article we will tell you how to make a festive snack. You can surprise guests with various dishes. But to keep your table in their memory for a long time, you should try hard.
So, before you make a canapé sandwich, you need to process all the ingredients. First you need to cut a white sandwich loaf into pieces 1 cm thick. Then they should be fried in a dry pan or with a toaster. As for the purple onion, it must be peeled and finely chopped with a knife along with fresh herbs. It is also required to separately cut fresh lemon into very thin circles.
Sauce making
Surely you have an idea of how delicious to surprise guests. But finding recipes suitable for the festive table is not enough. They still need to be implemented.
To make canapes with caviar, it is necessary to prepare a special sauce, which in the future needs to be spread on the stick. To do this, mix chopped purple onions with chopped herbs, and then add sour cream or mayonnaise to them. If there is a desire, then for this dish you can add a little grated cheese.
Shaping and proper serving
Do not know how to prepare a holiday table with your own hands But you can always learn this. So, to prepare a delicious snack, you should take toasted toasts made from a sandwich loaf, and then spread them with a fragrant sauce based on mayonnaise or sour cream. After that, a small amount of red caviar must be carefully laid out on the bread.
Having carried out these actions, you should take a long skewer for canapes and put a thin circle of lemon on it so that it looks like a sail of a boat (i.e., with two punctures). Next, the same stick must be stuck in a previously formed sandwich. In this form, the appetizer needs to be placed on a flat plate and served to guests.
Cooking meatloaf with vegetables and egg
What to cook to surprise guests, as well as to nourish them heartily? We suggest making an unusual meatloaf as a hot dish.
To prepare it, we need:
- low-fat beef and pork - 300 g each;
- small chicken eggs - 5 pcs. (1 of them is minced);
- the flesh of white bread - a few fists;
- nonfat milk - ½ cup;
- onion and carrot - 2 large pieces each. (1 onion - in minced meat);
- vegetable oil - about 45 ml;
- iodized salt, chopped allspice - apply to taste;
- breadcrumbs - a full glass.
Minced meat
To understand how to surprise guests at the festive table, you should find out what they have not eaten yet. If your friends and immediate family have never tried meatloaf with egg filling, then we suggest making it.
First you need to cook the stuffing. To do this, grind the meat product (beef and pork) in a meat grinder along with one head of onion. Next to the ingredients should be laid out the flesh of white bread soaked in milk. It is also necessary to add salt, pepper and raw chicken egg to the minced meat. By mixing all the ingredients with your hands, you should get a viscous and fragrant base.
Making the filling
Now you know how to surprise guests at the festive table. After the mince is ready, you should start cooking the toppings. To do this, you just need to boil the chicken eggs to a steep state. After cleaning the product, it is advisable to leave it aside for a while.
Also, to prepare a delicious roll, we recommend making vegetable frying. For it, it is necessary to heat the refined oil in a pan, and then put the onion chopped into cubes and the grated carrot. Peppercorns and salted ingredients, they should be cooked until light redness.
Roll forming process
How to form homemade meatloaf on the festive table? Recipes of such dishes may require the use of different devices. We need to take a multilayer gauze or dense linen cloth. It should be well soaked in water, squeezed and laid on a flat surface. Next, the whole mixed stuffing is required to be laid out on the fabric and distributed so that a layer is obtained that is 1.5 centimeters thick, 25 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters long. If the base is not enough, then these dimensions can be reduced (except for the thickness).
After that, sautéed vegetables must be placed on the minced meat sheet, not reaching the edges two or three centimeters. Next, whole boiled eggs should be laid in the center of the formation. In conclusion, raising the ends of the gauze, you need to form a roll, tightly connecting the meat edges.
Bake roll in the oven
Ready-to-cook semi-finished product with egg filling should be carefully moved to a plate sprinkled with breadcrumbs and carefully roll it. Next, put the roll on a greased baking sheet and immediately put in a preheated oven. It is recommended to cook this dish for about 50-65 minutes at a temperature of 206 degrees.
We serve to the table
How should I make a festive table with my own hands? To do this, cover it with a beautiful white tablecloth, install appliances and arrange a snack with salads.
After the time is right for a hot lunch, the meatloaf should be removed from the oven and cut into pieces 2 cm thick. Having distributed them on plates, the dish is required to be presented to guests along with tomato or creamy gravy. By the way, in the context of such a roll is very beautiful. That is why you are sure to surprise them with all your guests.
We set the festive table. Dessert Recipes
Dessert is the dish that absolutely all guests at the festive table expect. And in order not to disappoint the invited friends and relatives, we suggest making a sweet salad of fruits seasoned with ice cream.
So, we need:
- soft ripe bananas - 2 pcs.;
- sweet red or yellow apples - 2 pcs.;
- tangerines - 3 pcs.;
- soft kiwi - 3 pcs.;
- ice cream sundae - about 500 g;
- soft sweet pears - 2 pcs.;
- Fresh berries - to decorate the dessert.
Ingredient preparation
We talked about how to make an original holiday table. However, it should be noted that not a single dinner in the circle of close friends and relatives can do without a delicious dessert. And before you cook it, you must pre-process all the fruits and berries. To do this, they need to be washed and peeled, as well as stalks, seed boxes and other unnecessary items. Next, start grinding all the ingredients. Bananas, apples, kiwi and pears must be cut into cubes measuring 1.2 x 1.2 cm. As for tangerines, they only need to be divided into slices and peeled off the film. Fresh berries should also be cut separately. Although they can be left in an integral form. After all, they are useful to us only for decorating the finished dish.
The process of dessert formation and its presentation to the festive table
To form such a sweet meal, all the fruits must be laid out in a common container, and then season them with slightly melted ice cream. After mixing the ingredients, the dessert needs to be distributed on glass bowls and a little freeze. Before serving to the festive table, all portioned dishes should be garnished with fresh berries.
Serving such a dessert to the table is necessary at the very end of the celebration, present it complete with a small spoon.