Banquet dishes: recipes with photos

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

What kind of celebration - wedding, anniversary, corporate party - does without a banquet? Perhaps small parties or presentations, where a buffet table is more often organized.

And a real banquet menu always includes the main hot dish (roasted duck with apples or goose, barbecue or kebab), several salads (fish, meat, vegetable), many cold and hot appetizers, dessert, drinks.

All the dishes of the solemn event are distinguished by a special approach to cooking, beautiful presentation, and the table is exquisitely served.

Description

Banquets are available with full service (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, so are the dishes served.

It is recommended to plan the menu for the celebration in advance. As for the number of dishes, especially the main ones, it will bedepending on the number of guests expected at the event.

But still there are some nuances:

• if the celebration falls at breakfast or dinner time, it is necessary that the banquet table has hot and cold appetizers, salads, pickles or fresh vegetables, hot dishes, side dishes, dessert, drinks;
• if the event takes place at lunchtime, the first meal (soup) is added to the above categories of dishes.

Which appetizers and hot dishes can be prepared for a banquet - at home or in a restaurant?

Sample banquet menu

For an example, below is an indicative menu with banquet dishes (photo):

1. Cold snacks (cold fish, cold cuts, cheeses, canapes, meatloaf, vegetables, pickles).
2. Hot appetizers (baked pies - stuffed with cabbage, meat, potatoes, mushrooms).
3. Salads ("Caesar", "Greek", meat, fish, vegetables).
4. Hot banquet dishes (salmon steaks with cream sauce; duck with apples; whole oven-baked goose; barbecue).
5. Side dishes (potato wedges, grilled vegetables).
6. Desserts (fruits, pastries, cake).
7. Drinks (water, soft, hot, alcoholic).

Recipes for snacks and hot dishes that can be prepared for a banquet (at home), we will consider in the article below.

About snacks

Beautiful, concise and quite satisfying miniature snacks - canapes - will decorate the festive table andwill give it a special charm and sophistication.

They can be made from slightly s alted fish, cheese, olives, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, ham, bread and other products, which, combined with each other, form a complex concise dish. All ingredients are fixed with a skewer or toothpick.

Several canape recipes:

1. A slice of toasted bread with mustard, a piece of smoked chicken breast, an olive.
2. Soft cheese with herbs and s alt is wrapped in a thin layer of fresh cucumber - the top part, and a piece of bread below.
3. A piece of lemon and a grape is placed in the inside of the boiled shrimp, everything is strung on a skewer.
4. Slice of fried chicken with corn.
5. Hard cheese, ham, olive.

Complete these small cold appetizers with more substantial sandwich meat cake and chicken roll.

Sandwich cake

Sufficiently quick to prepare a dish belonging to the category of cold appetizers that will not leave anyone indifferent at the banquet table.

Ingredients:

• bread made from wheat flour (round) - 1 piece;
• butter - 20 grams;
• ham - 150 grams;
• poultry pate – 250 grams;
• boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
• sour cream with horseradish - 50 milliliters;
• hard cheese - 150 grams;
• fresh tomatoes - 100 grams;
• fresh cucumbers - 100 grams;
• marinated mushrooms - 100 grams;
• onion - 100 grams;
• fresh greens - 20 grams.

Cooking:

1. Cut the bread lengthwise into two parts - top and bottom.
2. All ingredients will be laid out on the lower part - in circles (make a "markup" with mayonnaise).
3. Spread the entire surface with oil.
4. The first circle (central) is filled with finely chopped eggs with sour cream and horseradish.
5. In the second circle - finely chopped onion and greens.
6. The next one is shredded ham.
7. Fourth - grated cheese.
8. On the edge - vegetables and pickled mushrooms.

Before serving, cut the dish into portions.

Chicken roll

The dish is prepared from several components - meat, scrambled eggs, vegetables and herbs, but the result is excellent.

Ingredients:

• Whole chicken - 1.5 kilograms.
• Egg - 1 piece.
• Meat ham (smoked-boiled) - 50 grams.
• Fresh cucumbers and tomatoes - 100 grams.
• Margarine - 20 grams.
• Milk - 20 milliliters.
• Fresh greens - 20 grams.
• Ground black pepper - 3 grams.
• S alt - 10 grams.

Cooking:

1. Select bones from a raw carcass.
2. Spread the meat and beat with a kitchen mallet.
3. Sprinkle all over with s alt and pepper.
4. From egg, milk, ham to cook an omelet on margarine.
5. Put an omelette inside the bird carcass, roll it up and fix it with a thread.
6. Boil the dish in water - 1 hour.
7. Cut the chilled roll into portioned slices and serve with vegetables andgreenery.

Salads

Among banquet dishes, salads are a separate item. They can be varied - from seafood, fresh vegetables and cheese, meat and so on.

Offering an original recipe for roast beef salad with miso, 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.
• Shallot - 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:

1. Grate a whole piece of meat with ground pepper, brush with olive oil and fry until fully cooked.
2. Peel and cut long strips of celery roots, tomatoes and cucumber.
3. Make miso dressing with pasta, chili, lime, sugar, garlic, shallots and vegetable oil.
4. Mix vegetables, add finely chopped red onion and miso dressing.
5. Cut meat into slices and put with vegetables, garnish with herbs.

Such an exotic banquet dish according to the chef's recipe will be a real table decoration.

Duck with apples

A popular and beloved delicacy, especially on a solemn day, will delight guests. Roasted duck or goose is often cooked by housewives for the New Year.

This hot dish is one of the main dishes, and therefore is served a little later than appetizers.

Duck carcass must first be thawed, cleaned and dried.

Ingredients for a banquet recipe with photo:

• Duck - 2 kilograms.
• Sour apples - 500 grams.
• Lemon - 200 grams.
• Spices - 5 grams.
• S alt - 15 grams.

Cooking.

1. Grate the carcass with s alt and spices.
2. Apples (pitted) chop into medium pieces, soak with lemon juice, sprinkle with cinnamon.



3. Put the stuffing inside the bird and sew with thread.
4. Bake for 2 hours at 200°C.
5. Before serving, remove the threads, put the 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 he althy in its composition (contains iron, copper and other trace elements), tender, and also dietary. It can be consumed by anyone who prefers lean meat dishes.

The goose is delicious both baked whole and in portions. Cancook it in a sleeve or foil.

To give the dish a zest, the bird can be pre-marinated, then the meat will be even richer in taste. You can choose any marinade, starting with simple spices and s alt, with which the carcass is rubbed.

Ingredients:

• Goose - 3 kilograms.
• Boiled buckwheat - 300 grams.
• Fresh mushrooms - 200 grams.
• Onion - 100 grams.
• Garlic - 10 grams.
• S alt - 20 grams.
• Ground black pepper - 5 grams.
• Apple vinegar - 200 milliliters.
• Water - 1 liter.

Preparing a banquet meat dish:

1. Prepare spices, minced garlic and apple cider vinegar for pickling.
2. Grate a clean and dried bird carcass with s alt, spices and garlic.
3. Marinate in a container with vinegar for a day.
4. Before baking the meat, prepare the filling: saute mushrooms with onions, mix with buckwheat.
5. Stuff the goose, sew with thread or toothpicks.
6. Pour the carcass with water - 200 milliliters.
7. Bake the meat for 2.5 hours at 200°C, periodically pouring water to keep the meat soft and tender.

Serve the dish as a whole, putting portioned pieces of goose and a side dish of buckwheat with mushrooms on plates.

Special Marinated Pork Skewers

This dish can be prepared from the meat that is at home, but it turns out to be more delicious from the tender pulp of pork.

Unusual raspberry vinegar is used as a marinade. It can be prepared from freshraspberries, table vinegar and sugar.

Ingredients for barbecue:

• pork - 0.5 kilograms;
• onion - 200 grams;
• raspberry vinegar - 350 milliliters;
• water - 350 milliliters;
• vegetable oil - 30 milliliters;
• s alt, spices.

Cooking:

• cut meat into cubes, rub with s alt and spices, put in a deep container;
• cut most of the onion into rings, add to the meat;
• mix 250 ml vinegar with 250 ml water, add to pork;
• pickle 3 hours under pressure;
• cut the remaining onion into medium pieces and marinate in a mixture of 100 milliliters of water and the same amount of vinegar;
• string the finished kebab on skewers, alternating with onions (in which the meat was marinated), and cook on fire;
• serve the dish with separately pickled onions and sauces.

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For a festive table, you always want to cook some special banquet dishes and snacks according to recipes from leading chefs or signature dishes from the menu of the restaurant where the holiday is planned.

Celebrations in life happen infrequently, but every housewife can make them memorable, bright and tasty.