Festive table: recipes for simple and delicious holiday dishes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

On the eve of the celebration, almost every person thinks about what dishes to cook on the festive table. They must have original appearance and taste. Nowadays, few people can be surprised by Olivier salad or ordinary meatballs, so the banquet menu should be modern, unusual and relatively inexpensive.

Snack for a banquet

This is a very simple canape recipe for the festive table, the dish is a variation of the famous Italian Caprese salad. The main difference is that it looks like small canapés that look great and are easy to take from plates. To prepare 20 of these skewers, you should take 20 cherry tomatoes and 150 g of mozzarella cheese.

Also, according to the recipe for making canapes, you need to take 20 small leaves of basil for the festive table. To prepare the original sauce, you will need 100 g of pine nuts, 100 g of parmesan cheese, basil, 1 garlic clove, 50 g of cilantro and 150 ml of olive oil.

How to cook canapés

The dish is very simple, on itit won't take that long to cook. Cheese should be cut into small cubes, about 2 x 2 centimeters. Cherries should be cut in half.

Now you need to take a skewer and stick the top half of the tomato on it, string one leaf of basil, then cheese, and at the very end put on the lower part 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, you should start preparing the sauce. To do this, put pine nuts, parmesan, a few basil leaves, cilantro leaves, garlic and olive oil into the blender bowl. Grind all products until smooth.

Put the canape on a beautiful dish, pour the prepared sauce on top. The dish is ready to serve. Note! It is best to collect skewers immediately before the celebration, as the products can quickly become weathered, and the tomatoes will start to let out juice.

Canned tuna sandwiches

A very original recipe for sandwiches, probably none of your guests have tried this yet. According to the recipe for sandwiches on the festive table, you should take: a loaf of black bread (you can Borodino), tuna in oil - 2 cans, butter (for spreading on bread), 150 g of mayonnaise, one lemon and about 70 g of tomato paste. You can use tomatoes, green onions or lettuce as a garnish.

How to make a snack

To get delicious sandwiches on the festive table according to the recipe, you needfollow step by step instructions:

1. Remove the tuna from the can and lightly dry it with paper towels (to remove excess fat). Grind it a little and put it in a bowl, add mayonnaise and tomato paste there. Kill everything in a blender or grind with a fork. You should get a homogeneous mass.
2. Cut the bread into 10 pieces, cut each piece diagonally - you should get beautiful triangles.
3. Toast the bread in a dry pan for a nice crispy crust.
4. Spread all pieces with a little butter.
5. Spread tuna paste on bread.
6. Ready-made sandwiches decorate with lemon, tomatoes, lettuce and green onions.

For a spicy filling, you can add a small amount of lemon juice to it.

Salad on the banquet table

Festive menus should be high quality and nutritious so guests don't 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 on the festive table, you need to take three cucumbers, a few bell peppers, a salad mix - 300 g, one pomegranate, a package of Feta cheese, 500 g of pork neck and walnuts. Here, not only meat is marinated, but also vegetables, you need to add a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, sugar and water to the marinade for vegetables.

Meatmarinated in rosemary, thyme, garlic and vegetable oil. A mixture of mayonnaise and yogurt is used as a salad dressing. These products should be taken in equal proportions of 200 grams. You can also add some lemon juice to the dressing.

Cooking process

The salad takes a long time to cook, so you need to prepare all the ingredients for it in advance. Follow the step by step instructions:

1. In a small saucepan, mix water, sugar and vinegar, bring the mixture to a boil, boil a little. Set aside and let liquid cool to room temperature.
2. Bulgarian pepper cut into strips, and cucumbers into half rings or also into strips, there are no strict criteria in the recipe regarding the shape of the cut. Place the vegetables in the cooled liquid in a saucepan. Leave them there for 1 hour. Clear the pomegranate.
3. Cut the meat into sufficiently large pieces (as in the photo below), marinate in spices with vegetable oil. Fry the neck in a grill pan or in a regular pan with a thick bottom. After that, put the meat in the oven and bring it to full readiness. Usually, about 20 minutes is enough for this when the oven is heated to 200 degrees.



4. In a bowl, mix natural yogurt with mayonnaise and lemon juice. Optionally, you can add one clove of minced garlic.
5. Pick lettuce leaves with your hands, put them in a bowl and stir with 2/3 of the mayonnaise and yogurt sauce.
6. Put the salad on a plate, top with vegetables and diced cheeseFeta.
7. Cut the meat into cubes or strips, put it on the very top of the salad, sprinkle with pomegranate and pour over the rest of the salad dressing. This completes the process of preparing a delicious salad for the festive table. It remains only to decorate with greenery and serve.

If desired, the dish can be supplemented with a small amount of grated parmesan, which is sprinkled on top of all ingredients.

Hot dish on the festive table

This dish is sure to please the entire male part of the banquet. It uses pork shoulder, which is cooked in an original and rather spicy marinade. The meat is incredibly tender and tasty, be sure to try this dish.

For a festive table of 10 people, you need to take 2 kg of pork shoulder, 200 g of soy sauce, 200 g of spicy Abkhazian adjika, 100 g of honey and one lemon. From spices, you need to use coriander, red and black ground pepper, paprika. As you can see, in this case, the minimum number of ingredients is used.

Cooking the main course

The meat should be cut into large cubes (like a barbecue), put it in a cauldron or any other similar dish. 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. Overnight is the minimum marinating time.

Now you need to preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees, cover the cauldron with a lid and put it to cook. Meatmust undergo heat treatment in the oven for two hours. This is the optimal cooking time for this dish. If the meat is in the oven for more than this time, it will simply begin to disintegrate into fibers, then you will no longer get a hot meat dish, but a stew.

Serve the dish in deep bowls along with the sauce. When serving, you can sprinkle with parsley, dill or cilantro.

Cutting for the festive table

Today, there are many different products that can be cut into a banquet table as a light snack. These can be cheese plates, in which case you will need several types of cheese: regular hard, camembert, feta, parmesan and roquefort.

Meat plates can consist of homemade and store-bought 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 one plate with meat products, as in the following photo.

We should not forget about various vegetable plates, especially when the season allows you to put various gifts of the fields on the table. Anything can be used here: tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, green onions, various types of herbs and greens. It is also difficult to imagine a good banquet table without fruit slices, in this 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 peculiarity of the festive table isbeautiful 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, salads and hot dishes. All guests will be delighted!