Preparation for the holiday is not always troublesome and takes a lot of time. If the piggy bank has the right recipes for fast, but tasty and beautiful dishes, then you can manage in a couple of hours.
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Quick Birthday Meals - General Cooking Principles
The festive table usually gathers from hot dishes and cold appetizers. For dessert, enough cake, which you can buy or cook in advance. Hot dishes are easily and quickly cooked in the oven. This method is good in that it does not require active participation, it is enough to put everything in shape, put it on and you can start cooking cold snacks. They will occupy the main part of the table and it is advisable to make several different types.
What fast salads and snacks are made of:
• cheeses of different types;
• sausages;
• canned and fresh vegetables;
• pita bread, tartlets, chips, crackers.
Mayonnaise is often used for dressing. Almost all cold and hot snacks like greens, which can be laid inside or used for decoration. If the dish is hot, then it is undesirable to do it in advance. Any, even difficult to prepare food, rarely takes more than two hours.
Quick Hot Birthday Recipe
It opens a selection of quick birthday recipes for a very tasty, hearty, but easy to prepare hot dish of potatoes, meat and poultry. And all this is laid together. For cooking, it is better to use a high baking sheet or a large shape with sides 4-5 cm.
Ingredients
• 800 g of pork;
• 1 kg of potatoes;
• 1 kg of chicken drumsticks or wings;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• 30 ml of soy sauce;
• spice mix;
• 1 tsp honey;
• 2 tsp mustard.
Cooking
1. Cut the pork into slices half a centimeter, lightly beat, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper or a mixture of meat spice, spread as a first layer on a greased baking sheet. If desired, chopped onions can be placed on pork.
2. Rinse the drumsticks or take the wings, drop into a bowl. Add soy sauce, mustard, a teaspoon of honey and mix thoroughly, leave to marinate.
3. Peel the potatoes, cut into small pieces, add mayonnaise and spices to it, stir, salt.
4. Put the potatoes in a baking sheet on top of the pork.
5. Put in the oven for 20 minutes, bake at 200 degrees.
6. We get the form with the dish. We lay the chicken pieces on top in one layer.
7. Put again in the oven, bake for about half an hour. During this time, the potatoes are baked, the pork inside is saturated with juices from juice products, it will be very tender, and the chicken pieces will be fried to a very beautiful color.
Prefab salad - a very quick birthday recipe
A variant of a very simple salad, which is prepared in five minutes. Nevertheless, it turns out very tasty, bright, aromatic.
Ingredients
• a can of beans;
• a can of corn;
• a pack of crackers;
• 200 g of sausage;
• 2 cucumbers;
• mayonnaise, garlic.
Cooking
1. Cut the sausage. You can take boiled, smoked sausage, ham is suitable.
2. Cut the fresh cucumbers into slices, add to the sausage.
3. Open a can of corn, drain the liquid, pour into the total mass.
4. Open the beans and transfer to a colander, let the liquid drain well. Drain the marinade too slimy, this often happens. You can rinse the beans with cold water and shake the colander so that all the droplets fall.
5. We shift the beans, squeeze a clove of garlic, season the salad with mayonnaise, stir. If necessary, transfer to a beautiful dish.
6. Top the salad with croutons. You need to stir them just before serving, otherwise the pieces will become sour, will not crunch.
Vegetable Salad (quick birthday recipe)
Of course, you can just cut the vegetables and place on a plate. But there are more interesting and also quick birthday recipes. It is based on Chinese cabbage.
Ingredients
• 0.5 head of Beijing cabbage;
• cucumber;
• a tomato;
• 0.5 cans of olives;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil;
• 120-150 g of cheese.
Cooking
1. Cut large pieces of Chinese cabbage, thickened veins can be omitted. Fold in a large bowl, in which it will be convenient to stir.
2. Cut the tomato into slices, add to the cabbage. Often, cherry tomatoes are used in this salad. They need to be cut in half.
3. Crush the cucumber with large, but thin plates, shift to the main vegetables. If they cut food finely, then there will be a lot of juice in the salad, it will simply flow.
4. Cut all olives in half, pour to vegetables.
5. Cheese also needs to be cut into thin slices, the size of the slices is about two centimeters. You can cook without cheese.
6. Make a gas station. To do this, squeeze the juice of lemon, mix with olive or any other vegetable oil, salt and pepper. If desired, add mustard, sometimes put liquid honey, one teaspoon is enough.
7. Season the salad immediately before serving.
Lavash roll (a very quick birthday recipe)
Another quick recipe for your birthday. This is a universal snack that you can take with you or serve on the festive table. The number of products is calculated on one large sheet of pita bread.
Ingredients
• pita;
• 150 g of soft cheese;
• 200 g of crab sticks;
• 120 g of mayonnaise;
• a bunch of any greenery;
• two cucumbers
• 2-3 boiled eggs.
Cooking
1. Chop finely fresh cucumber. Pour into a bowl.
2. Thawed crab sticks to free from the film, also crumble, pour to a cucumber. You can use crab meat.
3. Add boiled eggs to the total mass. They can also be cut or grater and quickly rub.
4. We fill the filling with mayonnaise so that it is soaked and does not spill out.
5. Lubricate pita bread with soft cheese. You can use any product with fillers. If the cheese is not soft enough, it is recommended to beat it with a blender with 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise or sour cream, in this case there will be no problems with spreading.
6. Spread the crab filling. Sprinkle with chopped herbs.
7. Level the layer, roll the roll.
8. Put in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Before serving, the appetizer needs to be cut. It is better to make slices obliquely, as they cut sausage. It will turn out much more beautiful.
Surprised Eggs: A Quick Birthday Recipe
A variant of very simple and quick to cook stuffed eggs. If you boil them in advance, the process does not take more than twenty minutes.
Ingredients
• 7 eggs;
• cheese in foil;
• mayonnaise;
• 40 g of red fish;
• greenery.
Cooking
1. Cut the boiled eggs along, remove the yolk, transfer it to a bowl. Mash thoroughly with a fork.
2. Grate cheese. You can use hard cheese, but with a processed product, the filling is softer.
3. Add a little mayonnaise, spices, stir.
4. Cut the red fish into small cubes. It should turn out 14 pieces.
5. Put the fish in eggs, it should fit.
6. Top with cheese and egg yolk filling, smooth gently. The eggs will turn out with a good slide, it is better to immediately lay them on a flat plate.
7. Garnish each egg with a small sprig of greenery or just sprinkle it.
Quick Birthday Recipe: Straws Salad
Another quick birthday recipe. The preparation of this salad will take no more than fifteen minutes. If desired, mayonnaise can be replaced with a mixture of sour cream with mustard, it will also turn out very tasty.
Ingredients
• 3 eggs;
• 250 g smoked sausage;
• 250 g of Korean carrots;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 150 g of mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Beat with a fork one egg, but not until foam, just until smooth. Pour into a greased hot pan, shake to get a pancake. Bake on each side, this is done very quickly. We also act with the second and third egg. Let the pancakes cool down for now.
2. Cut the smoked sausage into strips. We throw it into a bowl.
3. Add Korean carrots to the sausage.
4. Cut into strips fresh cucumbers. But you can also make a salad with pickled cucumbers, but it is important not to add salt, as there is a lot of it in sausage.
5. Squeeze a clove of garlic.
6. Roll the egg pancakes into a single tube and cut into strips. Add to salad.
7. Fill the products with mayonnaise, stir and you're done!
Sandwiches with herring: a quick recipe for birthday snacks
You can cook everyone's favorite herring under a fur coat. But it takes so long! There are other quick birthday recipes from this fish.
Ingredients
• one fillet of herring;
• 100 g of oil;
• 0.5 loaves of dark bread;
• cucumber;
• greenery.
Cooking
1. Bread cut into squares no more than 5 cm. You can dry in the oven or fry in a pan.
2. Grease each sandwich with butter.
3. Cut the herring fillet across the slices. Width is arbitrary.
4. Spread herring on bread.
5. Cut the cucumber in half, then crosswise, to get semicircular slices.
6. Arrange the cucumbers on the free part of the sandwich, additionally decorate with greens.
Quick Birthday Meals - Tips & Tricks
• If there is very little time to prepare the festive table, then it is better to cook, peel and crumble all the vegetables and other foods for snacks the day before, but do not mix. It is better to put everything in containers and put in the refrigerator, and quickly gather food before the feast.
• Is the mayonnaise over or is it completely at the bottom? You can mix sour cream with mustard, spices, add a little lemon juice. It will turn out no less tasty sauce.
• Festive dishes are different from everyday meals in design. Even a boring sandwich, decorated with greens, vegetable figures, olives, will be a wonderful treat.
