Are you planning a holiday dinner? What foods do you need to stock up on? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. Many people think that a full meal should consist of a first course, a second and dessert. But housewives can not always please their loved ones and relatives with such an impressive assortment.
If you wish, of course, you can easily cook a stunning dinner in just a couple of minutes, if you know all the necessary recipes by heart. Next, you will get acquainted with such lush dishes that fill the body with all the necessary nutrients. With the help of them you can surprise guests and relatives with their grace and beauty.
Zucchini cake with cheese and vegetables
For a festive dinner you can make an amazing cake of zucchini. You will need 150 g of hard cheese, 3 carrots, 2 eggs, one zucchini, 5-7 tbsp. l flour, garlic, one onion, salt and mayonnaise.
First, rub the squash coarsely and drain the juice. Beat the egg into the resulting substance, add flour, salt. Knead the dough from the mixture and fry the pancakes in a pan greased with oil.
Next, you need to rub the carrots, chop the onion. Mix and fry these ingredients. Add grated cheese, pressed garlic, mayonnaise to the resulting mass. You can also put greens. Spread pancakes with this filling. Set the squash cake with cheese and vegetables aside for a couple of hours to soak.
Czech fried blue cheese
You will have an unforgettable holiday dinner if you serve grilled cheese prepared according to the Czech recipe. So, you should have 200 grams of cheese with white mold, 100 grams of breadcrumbs, two eggs.
First cut the cheese into cubes the size of one centimeter. Break eggs into one bowl, beat them. Pour breadcrumbs into another one for breading. Cheese cubes must first be bathed in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs, and so a couple of times. You need to fry them over high heat for forty seconds on each side.
Homemade lard
Not a single festive dinner is complete without home-made bacon. You should have 600 g of brisket, seven cloves of garlic, black pepper in grains and ground, salt.
To make delicious bacon, you need to grind garlic with salt, allspice and black pepper. Spread the fat with the resulting hash and wrap it in polyethylene a couple of times. Try not to let the air get inside.
Leave the product to marinate overnight. In the morning, pour water into a pan, put lard in it and cook for several hours. After let it cool in water. Then send the amazing fat cooked at home in the refrigerator.
White Chocolate Muffins with Berries
You will have a festive dinner for the guests if you serve unusual cupcakes on the table. To prepare them, you need to buy 400 g of berries, flour (260 g), milk (250 ml), sugar (150 g), white chocolate (200 g), one egg, sunflower oil (125 ml). You should also have ยผ tsp. salt, baking powder (3 tsp), lemon juice (2 tsp).
Pour liquid products into one container: milk, eggs, butter, lemon juice. Stir until smooth. Cut white chocolate into small pieces. Put dry products in another container: sugar, flour, baking powder and chocolate. Leave half of the prepared chocolate for decoration.
Mix dry foods and pour them into a liquid mixture. Gently mix them. Combine the berries with the dough.
Place the paper in the mold and fill it with dough to the top, so that during the baking process you get a nice dome. Garnish the cupcakes with white chocolate. You need to cook them at a temperature of 180 degrees twenty minutes. When the items turn golden, remove them from the oven.
Sweet sausage
What else can I serve for a festive dinner? The menu should be varied. Try making the sweet sausage โThe Wizard of the Emerald Cityโ. Buy 350 g of condensed milk, 200 g of marmalade, 700 g of cookies, 200 g of butter.
Melt the butter at room temperature and whisk it, slowly mixing with condensed milk. Grind the cookies in a meat grinder and cut into small pieces of marmalade. Combine the cookies with cream and marmalade, wrap the resulting mass in special paper, forming an oblong shape. Send the sweet loaf to the cold. When it hardens, cut it into pieces and place on a dish.
Baked fish with tomatoes and potatoes
Oh, this holiday dinner ... For guests, you can bake fish with potatoes and tomatoes. To do this, you will need 600 g of fish, three tomatoes, half a glass of olive oil, three onions, three branches of celery, two branches of thyme, ground black pepper and salt. Cut the vegetables into cubes, clean the fish from scales, cut the gills, fins, gut it and rinse it. Put the vegetables in a cookie cutter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and stir by hand. Put the fish on vegetables, and garnish with tomato rings on top.
Then sprinkle everything with thyme, pepper and salt, pour olive oil. Cover the mold with foil. Bake fish with tomatoes and potatoes at a temperature of 200 degrees 40 minutes. Then remove the foil and cook for another fifteen minutes.
Royal Cake
What is a good dinner party? Its menu is amazing. Serve the Royal cake with dried fruits on the table, and your holiday will be remembered for a long time. For the test you should prepare the following products: one and a half glasses of flour, three eggs, one and a half glasses of sugar and the same amount of sour cream. And buy half a glass of prunes, half a glass of poppy seeds and the same amount of raisins. In addition, you must have a baking powder (3 tsp).
Products for cream: butter (200 g), boiled condensed milk (one can) and fruit. In order to make the first cake, combine and stir the egg, flour, sugar, poppy, sour cream, soda, slaked with vinegar. Also make the second crust (only with raisins) and the third - with nuts and prunes. Bake and chill them. Then whip the butter with condensed milk and spread the cream with the resulting cream. Garnish the cake with dried fruit.
Dessert
Many people ask what to cook for a festive dinner. Treat your loved ones with a Tiramisu-truffle strawberry dessert. Buy 980 grams of strawberries, 225 grams of Mascarpone cheese, 170 grams of dark chocolate, 100 grams of pudding mix, 85 grams of cookies, two glasses of whipped cream, as much strong coffee and a half cup of milk.
Cut strawberries to leave one berry for decoration. Dilute the pudding mixture in milk and refrigerate for a couple of minutes. Beat with a mixer Mascarpone cheese until creamy density. Add whipped cream, pudding and coffee to it.
Dip each cookie in coffee and place 1/3 of the cookie in a flat-bottomed bowl. On top put a third of strawberries, a third of grated chocolate, the same amount of Mascarpone cream. Do this in two layers. At the end, put the Mascarpone and chocolate. Garnish Tiramisu-strawberry strawberries with whole strawberries. Send for 5 hours in the cold, preferably at night.
Exceptional dishes
Without a doubt, each of your friends wants to get to you for a festive dinner. You can find recipes with photos in our small cookbook article.
Many people like to cook simple holiday dishes, simple and not requiring much time. A bachelor who wants to bring joy to his beloved, an experienced hostess or a girl who wants to understand culinary science, can easily cope with the following recipes:
- Pork baked pork in foil. It is important that the meat stand the night in the refrigerator and make high-quality marinade. You need to buy 1 kg of pork pulp per bone, one orange, six cloves of garlic, 1 tsp. olive oil, dry mustard in grains (1 tsp), spices for baking meat (1 tsp), salt, basil. Make cuts with a sharp knife on a piece of pork, and in each of them place a clove of peeled garlic. Salt the meat, sprinkle with spices, basil. Cut three rings from an orange, and squeeze the juice from the rest. Mix the juice with olive oil and pour the meat with the marinade. Place orange rings on it and refrigerate for 10 hours. In the morning, lay the pickled pork on a sheet of foil, pour it with marinade, sprinkle with mustard. Wrap the meat completely in foil and put in a small form with the sides. Bake boiled pork for 1 hour at a temperature of 160 degrees. Then open the top of the foil and leave the meat in the oven for another 10 minutes. To get a beautiful crust, grease pork with honey. Next, lay the boiled pork on the table where it should cool. Wrap cold meat in foil and put in the freezer for half an hour. As a result, boiled pork will become tight and will be perfectly cut.
- What is Olivier Salad? No delicious holiday dinner can do without this amazing dish. Use a simple classic recipe. For 4 people you need to have 6-8 potatoes, two carrots, 6 eggs, 250 g of cooked sausage, a jar of green sweet peas, a bag of delicious fat mayonnaise. Boil eggs, carrots and potatoes, drain the water and cool. Cut food into cubes and sprinkle in a bowl, add mayonnaise, herbs and mix. Salt, pepper and refrigerate. Sausage is not forbidden to replace meat, chicken, tongue or quail - as you like.
Name day
The birthday dinner menu should be varied. Compiling it from the hostess requires tremendous efforts, because you want to surprise guests with new dishes, shapes, tastes and at the same time try not to crash the family budget. Naturally, you are an economical housewife, but for the celebration you need to cook at least a couple of dishes from delicious, expensive products.
When inventing a menu, try not to cook a few mayonnaise puff salads, but rather, wander over one unusual one. Other salads can be made from fresh vegetables or just serve tomatoes and cucumbers in the form of a beautiful cut.
Amazing food
You do not know what to cook for a festive dinner? For a birthday, serve a salad with smoked salmon and cheese. You need to have half a cup of Beijing cabbage, soft cheese (150 g), smoked pink salmon (150 g), sour cream (100 ml), ground black pepper and salt.
Remove the bones from the fish and cut it into thin bars. Peking cabbage cut into strips. Lightly freeze the cheese and grate it with a coarse grater. Combine all ingredients with salt, pepper and sour cream.
Tidbit
What else can diversify a festive dinner? For their birthday, many prepare puff salad in glasses. Buy 700 grams of shrimp, 100 grams of feta cheese, one cucumber, one avocado, one tomato and lemon. For the sauce you need to have mayonnaise (200 g), ground black pepper and sour cream (100 g).
Boil the shrimp and peel. Dice the cucumber and tomato. Cut the avocado and remove the stone. Sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice so that it does not turn dark. Dice the cheese into small cubes. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise and ground pepper. Lay the lettuce in four transparent tall glasses in layers, pouring each sauce - first shrimp, then tomatoes, then cucumbers, slices of avocado and shrimp again. Make a cheese cubes pattern on top.
"Monomakh hat"
Cooking a holiday dinner is not an easy task. Surprise guests with puff salad "Monomakh's hat". You should have three potatoes, 300 grams of boiled meat, three eggs, a couple of raw carrots, 200 grams of cheese, one glass of walnuts, and mayonnaise. Use one pomegranate and canned green peas for decoration.
Boil the jacket potatoes, eggs and cool. Grind hard cheese, eggs, potatoes and carrots on a coarse grater. Cut walnuts and meat with a knife. Mix all the ingredients with mayonnaise separately and, forming a cone, lay on a plate in layers in the following order: potatoes, meat, eggs, nuts, carrots, cheese. Lubricate the delicious mountain with mayonnaise and garnish with pomegranate seeds and green peas.
Antique Appetizer
You still do not understand what should be the menu of a festive dinner? Birthday is an amazing holiday. Feed your loved ones a salty tongue appetizer. To prepare this old recipe, you need to buy one medium beef tongue, one head of garlic, rock salt (3 tbsp.), Sugar (1 tbsp.).
Combine sugar, salt and crushed garlic. Wash your tongue, dry and tumble in this mixture. Wrap it in a plastic bag, remove the air and tie it tightly. Put your tongue in a bowl and press down with a stone so that the juice stands out. He should lie down one night at room temperature, and then put it in the refrigerator for 10 days.
Turn the tongue daily so that it is evenly salted. After the expiration date, remove it from the bag and put it in a container with cold water. Put the product on the fire and cook until fully cooked for about two hours (cooking time depends on the size of the tongue). Put the finished delicacy in ice water for a couple of minutes, then remove the skin and cool. Wrap it in polyethylene and store in the refrigerator until the celebration begins. Before serving, cut the tongue into thin slices.
Hot food
Are you planning a holiday dinner? Take pictures of the dishes you have prepared yourself! Serve boiled potatoes with butter or mashed potatoes, crumbly rice, lots of vegetables and fresh herbs. Please guests with beef rolls. They can be prepared from 1 kg of pulp of veal or beef, lard (100 g), sour cream (500 ml), salt, tomato paste (3 tbsp), ground black pepper.
Rinse the meat and freeze in a freezer. Cut it into thin plates across the fibers. Beat off from two sides, put on a table, pepper and salt on one side. Slice the fat into 5 mm thick long bars. Put a bar on the edge of the meat plate and roll it into a roll. Perform this procedure with all the meat. Pour some water into the pan, put the rolls and pour in the sour cream sauce. For its preparation, mix the tomato paste and sour cream and salt. Put the workpiece on low heat and simmer under the lid for about two hours.
Pork zrazy with mushrooms and cheese
Each housewife should know the recipes for the festive dinner. Surprise your family with pork zrazy with cheese and mushrooms. This dish is made from 1 kg of minced pork, one egg, butter (50 g), three onions, milk (20 ml), fresh mushrooms (400 g), hard cheese (100 g), half a loaf of white stale bread, salt, ground black pepper, wheat bran or bread crumbs.
Soak stale bread in milk for 30 minutes and finely chop one onion. Grind the minced bread with minced meat in a meat grinder. Add pepper, salt and mix. To prepare the filling, cut two onions, cheese and mushrooms into cubes. With butter, do the same and put it in the refrigerator.
Fry the onion in sunflower oil so that it acquires a golden color. Fill the pan with onions with mushrooms, which need to be fried until cooked. Pepper and salt to taste. Divide the minced meat into 8 parts, make cakes out of it. In the center of each put a filling, cheese and a slice of butter. Blind the oval cutlets, roll them in breading and fry on both sides until cooked.
Kish
Donโt be afraid, everyone will enjoy your holiday dinner. The dishes listed above will make your celebration unforgettable. Pash guests with a pie "Kish" with shrimp and pink salmon. You need to have a pound of flour, frozen butter (300 g), two eggs, salt, sour cream (2 tbsp.). The filling is prepared from 300 g of boiled shrimps, hard cheese (200 g), smoked pink salmon (300 g). To fill, buy 4 eggs and cream (400 ml).
Chop the butter with a knife, add salt, flour and grind the mixture into crumbs. Add sour cream and eggs and knead the dough. It should lie down for about thirty minutes. Then put it in a cake pan, and knead it with your hands so that you get sides. Cover the workpiece with parchment greased with oil, and on top of it lay a flat plate the size of a little smaller than the shape. Place oppression on top of this structure. This is necessary so that when baking the dough does not rise. Bake it for 30 minutes in an oven heated to 200 degrees.
Put peeled shrimp and diced fish on the finished base, sprinkle with cheese. Combine the cream with the eggs and beat. Pour the cake with the resulting air mass and put it back into the oven. Bake the delicacy for about 30 minutes.
You may also add some dishes to the holiday dinner menu. Homemade food has always been considered the most delicious. But it happens that guests are on the doorstep, and recipes for quick meals cause an attack of laziness and panic. Attach the phones of trusted suppliers of sushi, pizza and Ossetian pies to the refrigerator. You will get ready to receive guests very quickly, and they will not stay hungry.