What celebration - a wedding, anniversary, corporate party - does without a banquet? Unless small parties or presentations, where receptions are often organized.
A real banquet menu always involves the main hot dish (baked duck with apples or goose, barbecue or kebab), several salads (fish, meat, vegetable), many cold and hot snacks, dessert, drinks.
All dishes of the festive event are distinguished by a special approach to cooking, beautiful presentation, and the table - exquisite serving.
Description
Banquets are fully serviced (receptions) and partial. As a rule, the number of waiters is invited at the rate of one for 10-15 guests.
Also, for these types of celebrations, their own table setting is supposed: in the first case more thorough, in the second - simplified. However, as well as the served dishes.
The menu for the celebration is recommended to be planned in advance. As for the number of dishes, especially the main ones, this will depend on the number of guests expected at the event.
But still there are some nuances:
- if the celebration takes place during breakfast or dinner - it is necessary that the banquet table had hot and cold snacks, salads, pickles or fresh vegetables, hot dishes, side dishes, dessert, drinks;
- if the event takes place at lunchtime, the first one (soup) is added to the above categories of dishes.
What dishes from the category of snacks and hot can I prepare for a banquet - at home or in a restaurant?
Sample banquet menu
For example, below is an indicative menu with banquet dishes (photo):
- Cold snacks (fish platter, cold cuts, cheeses, canapes, meatloaf, vegetables, pickles).
- Hot snacks (baked pies - stuffed with cabbage, meat, potatoes, mushrooms).
- Salads ("Caesar", "Greek", meat, fish, vegetable).
- Hot banquet dishes (salmon steaks with cream sauce; duck with apples; goose, baked whole in the oven; barbecue).
- Side dishes (potato wedges, grilled vegetables).
- Desserts (fruits, cakes, cake).
- Drinks (water, cold, hot, alcoholic).
Recipes for appetizers and hot dishes that can be prepared for a banquet (at home), we will consider in the article below.
About snacks
Fine, concise and fairly satisfying miniature snacks - canapes - will decorate the festive table and give it a special charm and sophistication.
They can be prepared from slightly salted fish, cheese, olives, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, ham, bread and other products, which, combining with each other, form a complex laconic dish. All ingredients are fixed with a skewer or toothpick.
A few canapé recipes:
- A slice of dried bread with mustard, a slice of smoked chicken breast, olive.
- Soft cheese with greens and salt is wrapped in a thin layer of fresh cucumber - the upper part, and a piece of bread below.
- A slice of lemon and grape is placed in the inside of the boiled shrimp, everything is strung on a skewer.
- A slice of fried chicken pulp with corn.
- Hard cheese, ham, olive.
You can supplement these small cold snacks with more substantial ones - a sandwich of meat cake and chicken roll.
Sandwich cake
Fast enough to prepare a dish belonging to the category of cold appetizers, will not leave anyone indifferent at the banquet table.
Ingredients:
- wheat flour bread (round) - 1 piece;
- butter - 20 grams;
- ham - 150 grams;
- paste of poultry meat - 250 grams;
- boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
- sour cream with horseradish - 50 milliliters;
- hard cheese - 150 grams;
- fresh tomatoes - 100 grams;
- fresh cucumbers - 100 grams;
- pickled mushrooms - 100 grams;
- onions - 100 grams;
- fresh greens - 20 grams.
Cooking:
- Cut the bread lengthwise into two parts - upper and lower.
- All the ingredients will be laid out on the bottom - in circles (make “marking” with mayonnaise).
- Oil the entire surface.
- The first circle (central) is filled with finely chopped eggs with sour cream and horseradish.
- In the second circle - finely chopped onions and herbs.
- The following is crushed ham.
- In the fourth - grated cheese.
- Along the edge are vegetables and pickled mushrooms.
Before serving, cut the dish into portions.
Chicken roll
The dish is prepared from several components - meat, omelet, vegetables and greens, but the result is excellent.
Ingredients:
- The whole chicken is 1.5 kilograms.
- Egg - 1 piece.
- Ham (smoked and boiled) - 50 grams.
- Fresh cucumbers and tomatoes - 100 grams.
- Margarine - 20 grams.
- Milk - 20 milliliters.
- Fresh greens - 20 grams.
- Ground black pepper - 3 grams.
- Salt - 10 grams.
Cooking:
- Choose from raw carcass bones.
- Put the meat and beat with a kitchen hammer.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper on all sides.
- From an egg, milk, ham, make an omelet on margarine.
- Put the omelet inside the bird carcass, roll it up and fix it with a thread.
- Boil the dish in water - 1 hour.
- Cut the chilled roll into portions and serve with vegetables and herbs.
Salads
Among the banquet dishes, salads are a separate item. They can be varied - from seafood, fresh vegetables and cheese, meat and so on.
An original roast beef and miso salad recipe is offered, the recipe of which was created by the chef of one of the European restaurants.
Ingredients:
- Veal tenderloin - 400 grams.
- Fresh tomatoes - 200 grams.
- Celery roots - 2 pieces.
- Fresh cucumber - 200 grams.
- Red onion - 100 grams.
- Shallots - 80 grams.
- Greens - 20 grams.
- Lime - 300 grams.
- Ground red pepper - 1 gram.
- Olive oil - 15 milliliters.
- White miso paste - 20 grams.
- Garlic - 20 grams.
- Ginger root - 30 grams.
- Cane sugar - 10 grams.
- Chili paste - 1 spoon.
- Vegetable oil - 100 milliliters.
Cooking:
- Grate a whole piece of meat with ground pepper, grease with olive oil and fry until cooked.
- Peel and chop the celery roots, tomatoes and cucumber with a long straw.
- Prepare a miso dressing of pasta, chili, lime, sugar, garlic, shallots and vegetable oil.
- Mix vegetables, add finely chopped red onion and miso dressing.
- Cut the meat into plates and lay out with vegetables, decorate with greens.
Such an exotic banquet dish according to the chef's recipe will be a real table decoration.
Duck with apples
A popular and beloved by many treats, especially on a solemn day, will delight guests. Baked duck or goose is often cooked by housewives for the New Year.
This hot dish is one of the main, and therefore served a little later snacks.
Duck carcass must first be thawed, cleaned, dried.
Ingredients for a banquet recipe with a photo:
- Duck - 2 kilograms.
- Sour apples - 500 grams.
- Lemon - 200 grams.
- Spices - 5 grams.
- Salt - 15 grams.
Cooking.
- Grate the carcass with salt and spices.
- Chop apples (without seeds) in medium slices, soak in lemon juice, sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Put the filling inside the bird and sew it with thread.
- Bake for 2 hours at 200 ° C.
- Before serving, remove the threads, put apples on a dish.
Instead of threads, you can use toothpicks, which then also need to be removed from the finished dish.
Baked goose
The meat of this poultry is very useful in its composition (contains iron, copper and other trace elements), tender, as well as diet. It can be consumed by anyone who prefers lean meat dishes.
Goose is tasty both baked whole and portioned. You can cook it in a sleeve or foil.
To give the dish a highlight, the bird can be pre-marinated, then the meat will be even more saturated in taste. You can choose any marinade, starting with simple spices and salt with which the carcass is rubbed.
Ingredients:
- Goose - 3 kilograms.
- Boiled buckwheat - 300 grams.
- Fresh mushrooms - 200 grams.
- Onions - 100 grams.
- Garlic - 10 grams.
- Salt - 20 grams.
- Ground black pepper - 5 grams.
- Apple cider vinegar - 200 milliliters.
- Water - 1 liter.
Cooking a meat banquet dish:
- Cook spices, chopped garlic and apple cider vinegar - for pickling.
- Grate clean and dried poultry carcass with salt, spices and garlic.
- Marinate in a bowl of vinegar for a day.
- Before baking meat, prepare the filling: sauté mushrooms with onions, mix with buckwheat.
- Fill the goose, sew it with thread or toothpicks.
- Water the carcass with water - 200 milliliters.
- Bake meat for 2.5 hours at a temperature of 200 ° C, periodically pouring with water so that the meat is soft and tender.
Serve the whole dish to the table, laying on the plates portioned goose slices and a side dish of buckwheat with mushrooms.
Special marinated pork skewers
This dish can be prepared from the meat that is at home, but more delicious it is obtained from the tender pulp of pork.
As marinade, unusual vinegar is used - raspberry. You can cook it with fresh raspberries, table vinegar and sugar.
Ingredients for Kebab:
- pork - 0.5 kilograms;
- onions - 200 grams;
- raspberry vinegar - 350 milliliters;
- water - 350 milliliters;
- vegetable oil - 30 milliliters;
- salt, spices.
Cooking:
- chop meat into cubes, grate with salt and spices, put in a deep container;
- chop most of the onion rings, add to the meat;
- mix 250 milliliters of vinegar with 250 milliliters water, add to pork;
- marinate for 3 hours under pressure;
- chop the remaining onion into medium slices and marinate in a mixture of 100 milliliters of water and the same amount of vinegar;
- cooked skewers on skewers, alternating with onions (in which the meat was marinated), and cook on fire;
- Serve with separately pickled onions and sauces.
Summary
For a festive table, you always want to cook some special banquet dishes and snacks according to recipes from leading chefs or specialties of the menu of the restaurant where the holiday is planned.
Triumphs in life happen infrequently, but every housewife can make them memorable, bright and tasty.