How to economically decorate a holiday table with food. For dessert - fruit salad and anniversary cookie cake. Champignons stuffed with cheese

How to set the New Year's table without going broke and how much the most modest feast will cost - in the material “Arguments and Facts”.

It's time to plan a holiday feast. All-round chef Andrei Butkov shared with us six recipes for dishes that are not a shame to put on the New Year’s table, and they are cheaper than traditional Olivier.

Bacon and chicken curls

Ingredients:

• Chicken breasts – 2 pcs.
• Raw smoked bacon – 8 slices
• Cheese “Russian” – 200 g.
• Fresh champignons - 3 pcs.
• Chopped parsley - 1 tbsp. spoon
• Chopped dill – 1 tbsp. spoon
• Salt, pepper to taste

Cooking method:

Cut the fillet into eight thin slices, beat them, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Finely chop the champignons. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Mix with mushrooms and finely chopped herbs and spread on chicken meat. Roll the fillet into a tight roll. Wrap each roll with a slice of bacon. Place the rolls on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, seam side down. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Price of the dish: 290 rubles.

Herring rolls

Ingredients:

• Herring fillet – 2 pcs.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1-2 pcs.
• Butter – 10-15 g.
• Cream cheese – 25 g.
• Borodino bread

Cooking method:

Cook carrots, hard-boiled egg. Grate the whites and carrots on a coarse grater. Combine the egg and carrots and season with melted butter. Mix. Then add cream cheese. Mix again. Cover the board with cling film and place the herring fillet on it. Place the carrot and egg mixture on top of the fillet. Cover all this with the second fillet. Wrap the fillet in cling film. Place in the refrigerator for 40 minutes. Before serving, unroll the film and cut the rolls into slices. Place on pre-fried circles of Borodino bread.

Price of the dish: 125 rubles.

Pancake bags

Ingredients:

• Pancakes – 8 pcs.
• Champignons – 10-15 pcs.
• Cream – 100 ml.
• Vegetable oil
• Salt, pepper to taste
• Green onions

Cooking method:

We bake pancakes according to any convenient recipe. Clean and chop the champignons, fry in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Then add cream, salt, pepper, simmer a little. Place the mushroom filling in the middle of the pancake. Fold the pancake into a bag and tie it with a green onion feather.

Price of the dish: 205 rubles.

Salad with chicken fillet and fresh cucumbers

Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken fillet – 2 pcs.
• Cheese – 150 g.
• Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - 150 g.
• Greens - 1 bunch
• Cucumbers - 3-4 pcs.

Cooking method:

Finely chop the fillet and place it on the bottom of the plate. Cut out the middle fresh cucumber, cut into strips, squeeze excess liquid. Place on top of the meat. Coat with mayonnaise. Then grate the boiled whites and cheese on a coarse grater. Coat with mayonnaise again. Grate the yolks on a fine grater. Sprinkle with herbs.

Price of the dish: 240 rubles.

Russian salad

Ingredients:

• Fresh cabbage – 350 gr.
• Beetroot – 1 pc.
• Apple – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – ½ cup
• Salt, sugar, vinegar to taste

Cooking method:

Finely chop the cabbage. Place in a saucepan, add a little vinegar, water, salt, sugar. Place on the fire, stirring all the time. Grate the boiled beets. Carrots and apples cut into strips. Mix with cabbage, beets and season with sour cream.

Price of the dish: 55 rubles.

Roast "Derevenskoe"

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 500 g.
• Potatoes – 5 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Cheese – 200 g.
• Sour cream – 200 g.
• Garlic – 1 pc.
• Greens, salt, pepper to taste

Cooking method:

Boil the meat until half cooked, cut into small pieces. Strain the broth. Coarsely chop the carrots, onions and potatoes, finely chop the greens. Place half the vegetables and a peeled clove of garlic into the pot. Next we put all the meat, on top - a layer of vegetables. Salt, pepper, add broth. The pot should be a little more than half full. Cover with a lid and place in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. After 30 minutes, take it out, add grated cheese and sprinkle with herbs. Can be served directly in pots. If there is no lid, then the pot can be covered with simple yeast dough. And then use the flatbread as bread.

Price of the dish: 210 rubles.

“The main secret to saving money when preparing a holiday menu is the similarity of the ingredients of the dishes,” says the specialist. - Choose a couple of staples, such as chicken fillet, mushrooms and cheese. And experiment with them. Of course we all want to treat ourselves on holiday, but don't go overboard."

There are a little less than three weeks left until the New Year. It's time to decide what to put on festive table, and buy groceries.

You can feed your household and even guests a tasty and satisfying meal for just 1,000 rubles. Of course, this price does not include fruits, wines and delicacies. But the dishes themselves, despite their budget, are certainly not inferior to the notorious Olivier, chicken legs with mashed potatoes and other usual attributes of the New Year's table.

"AiF-Volgograd" has selected five simple recipes for delicious dishes - from hot dishes to dessert.

Chicken under puff pastry in a pot

Cut the meat and vegetables into cubes and fry separately in a frying pan. Place everything in portioned pots, add beans, salt and pepper. Cut the dough into squares and cover the pots with them. Cut the dough crosswise in the middle. Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees.

Approximate cost: 200 rubles.

Squid salad with apples

Peel the squid from the film. Add some salt to boiling water, add a slice of lemon and throw in the squid for 1.5-2 minutes.

Boil the eggs. Peel the apples. Cut everything into strips. Add corn, salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise.

On a note: To keep the color of the apples, you can sprinkle them with lemon or immediately pour mayonnaise on them.

Approximate cost: 270 rubles.

Salad with herring, green peas and mustard

Photo: AiF / Niodor Islin

Clean and cut the herring. Cut the fish fillet into pieces. Cut the onion into cubes, pour over boiling water, rinse cold water and squeeze. Place onions, fish in a salad bowl, add canned green peas and chopped herbs. Prepare the dressing: whisk vinegar, oil and mustard, adding salt and sugar to taste. Stir and pour over dressing.

approximate cost: 160 rubles.

Champignons stuffed with cheese

Remove the stems from the mushrooms. Grate the cheese on a medium grater. Chop the garlic. Mix cheese, garlic, pepper and mayonnaise. Stuff the caps with the mixture. Grease a baking sheet with oil and place the champignons. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Approximate cost: 200 rubles.

Napoleon with apple cream

Photo: AiF / Niodor Islin

Core the apples, cut into small pieces and place in a saucepan. Add 2-3 tablespoons of water, cover with a lid and simmer until done. At the end of the stew, add 3 tablespoons of sugar, stir and keep on fire for another 5 minutes.

Cut each sheet of dough into two parts. You will get 4 cakes. Roll them out and bake in the oven at 190 degrees until browned.

Cool the finished apples completely and beat lightly with a blender so that pieces remain. Grind 1 tablespoon of sugar into powder and beat with sour cream. Place in sour cream applesauce and mix with a mixer for no longer than a minute.

The cake layers can be left as is, or you can trim them to give the cake a round shape. Grease each cake with cream and combine. The top of the cake can be sprinkled with the remaining crumbs from trimming.

Approximate cost: 170 rubles

The prices given in the article are current for mid-December for supermarkets in Volgograd. Closer to the New Year, many stores increase prices, and therefore those who want not to go broke on the holiday table better stock up on products right now that can be stored until the end of the month.

Time flies forward like a swift bird. And again, holiday days are ahead, which give us the opportunity to energetically and emotionally recharge. But how to set the holiday table quickly and inexpensively, because hiding this year turned out to be very difficult in economic terms... You will find the answer to this question in the article.

Original snacks

If you have asked yourself: how to set a festive table so that it is both beautiful and inexpensive and you think that combining the incompatible is simply impossible, we will answer: a tasty and beautiful table does not have to be expensive, you can do it within minimum budget, presenting the maximum of culinary skills and a wide range of dishes. It all depends only on your creativity and enthusiasm.

So, the most versatile and popular dish on the New Year's table are snacks. Their list is wide, from original salads to light canapé sandwiches. Let's look at the most acceptable options.

Sausage in dough

It's simple, but very tasty dish gives us the answer to the originally posed question: how to inexpensively set a festive table. In addition, this dish prepares very quickly.

To prepare we will need:

• A kilogram of sausages;
• Thin pita bread;
• Greenery;
• Peas;
• Cheese (can be processed).

Boil the sausages (you can fry them as you prefer) and put them aside for now, we will need them a little later.

Now take thin pita bread and cut one sheet into 6 equal parts. Make sure that the pita bread does not tear, it is very fragile, this is its only drawback.

Some people think that wrapping the sausage in pita bread will be enough, but it won't be as tasty as it could be. Now, with utmost attention, let’s reveal the secret of this snack.

Wrap the sausage in pita bread, add a teaspoon of peas, chopped herbs and a slice of cheese, and place the wrapped envelope on a hot frying pan. Fry pita bread in vegetable oil until crispy crust forms. Now you know what to cook inexpensively for an idle table. But let's move on.

Mushroom salad “Assorted”

An inexpensive menu for a holiday table can be decorated with Assorted mushroom salad. Ingredients:

• Can of red canned beans;
• Mushrooms;
• 2 eggs;
• Sour cream (100 g) and mayonnaise (20 g);
• Salt, garlic, spices to your taste.

Fry mushrooms with onions and carrots.

HELP: Mushrooms will be much tastier if you add a little butter when frying.

Then boil the eggs and mix all the ingredients. Sprinkle herbs on top as a decorative garnish for the dish.

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Herring under a Fur Coat

So, our task is to set the festive table cheaply and tasty. Then it is simply impossible to cross off such a simple and at the same time colorful dish as herring under a fur coat from the list. It is done simply.

We will need the following ingredients: 10 potatoes average size; herring; bulb; carrot; beet; 3 eggs; mayonnaise and sour cream, as well as salt.

Boil vegetables and eggs, grate (grind in a blender). We clean the herring from bones. Now we lay out our dish in layers: a layer of chopped herring, a layer of potatoes, carrots, beets. The top layer is egg, sprinkled with herbs. Colorful, beautiful, tasty and healthy.

Hot dishes and meat sauce

Any inexpensive holiday table will look ordinary and dull without hot dishes. There is also a wide range of products available here, from which every housewife will choose something of her own.

To treat your guests to a delicious and inexpensive dish, you can serve meat sauce. It is made simply: boil any meat, beef or chicken.

HELP: Very original taste obtained by mixing chicken meat, stomachs and liver. When the meat is ready, throw in the potatoes.

IMPORTANT: There should be more potatoes than for a simple soup. Based on a three-liter pan, this is approximately a full bowl of peeled vegetables.

When the potatoes are almost ready, add a can of canned beans and fried onions and carrots. Let the sauce simmer for two minutes and turn off. Serve hot.

Fried potato pancakes and wings

A cheap holiday table looks more colorful if you serve potato pancakes. This is a Belarusian national dish, the second name is “potato pancakes”. It has gained great popularity among admirers of original hot dishes due to its unique taste and the warm, cozy atmosphere, which is created in the house from the aroma of hot potato pancakes.

They are made simply: grate or chop a bowl of potatoes in a blender. A glass of yogurt or kefir is poured into the resulting mixture, the soda is quenched in vinegar (1/5 teaspoon of soda), a pinch of salt and 2 tbsp are added. spoons of sugar, add flour.

IMPORTANT: It is impossible to say exactly how much flour is needed for pancakes. The consistency of the dough should resemble thick sour cream and be neither thicker nor thinner. Only such dough will fry well.

HELP: To make potato pancakes softer, you should mix yogurt with kefir. In addition, a large part of the success lies in the strength of the stirring. Stir the dough until air bubbles form. This is the main indicator that the dough will be soft and the dish will be impeccably tasty.

Even a cheap holiday table should include meat dishes. If you don’t indulge in gourmet excesses, but give preference chicken meat, then the table will indeed be quite economical.

We buy a pack of chicken wings at the supermarket and place them on a hot frying pan. Fry under a covered lid in vegetable oil over low heat for 10 minutes, then turn over, add a little water and salt. An important point here is to add a small amount of ketchup and mayonnaise, they will make the wings softer and more flavorful.

A drop of ketchup and mayonnaise on each wing is enough. Simmer under closed lid until done. Serve hot. If desired, you can sprinkle with herbs and grated cheese.

For dessert - fruit salad and anniversary cookie cake

What to prepare for the holiday table inexpensively and tasty from the category of desserts? Here too we have a choice.

Fruit salads look bright and colorful. They will appeal equally to both adults and children.

For the salad we need:

• 5 bananas;
• Raisin;
• Peanut;
• 4 apples;
• Cream or thick yogurt.

We cut the fruits and season with cream (yogurt). You can sprinkle coconut flakes on top for decoration or garnish with berries.

For many, a holiday is unthinkable without sweets. But, if buying a cake in a store is too expensive, and for some reason it is not possible to cook at home, then you can give preference to a cake made from cookies, which, if you do not know its composition, cannot be distinguished from the real thing, purchased.

We prepare the following list of products:

• A kilo of anniversary cookies. It is the cheapest in stores, costs about 70-80 rubles. per kg.
• Half a kilo of curd product or curd mass;
• Sugar;
• Condensed milk (not necessarily whole condensed milk, a simple condensed product is also quite suitable);
• Milk.

Pour warm milk over the cookies and leave to soak for 30 minutes. Then, carefully, so as not to break the cookies, place them in a layer on a flat plate. Then add a layer of curd product mixed with condensed milk. Next, we lay out as many layers as you need and decorate the top of our cake in any known way: coconut flakes, grated chocolate, chocolate icing, berries, peanuts.

IMPORTANT: And now main point preparing the cake - put the cake in the refrigerator for three hours (put it on the highest shelf). When it freezes, it will be very tasty.

So we told you how to set a delicious holiday table. Happy holidays to you and may every day be a small celebration of love, hope, faith and joy!