The festive meal - is not just a meal, but a great opportunity to communicate with loved ones, while enjoying delicious dishes. Recipes festive dishes extraordinarily diverse, but they share one thing: meals turn out very tasty, beautiful and unusual. Carefully thought-out menu - a guarantee that the gala dinner to remember.

General Principles

On holiday always want to cook all the delicious dishes of all those who for one reason or another do not get to cook often. It can be expensive dishes of food, various specialties as well as those products that are banned by most diets. But not all of these dishes are combined with each other. The secret menu for literacy celebrations - in a harmonious combination of dishes.

This means that the table should present a variety of dishes that will complement each other. If guests will be plenty of food and it also must be many: for a variety of table no one will go hungry, everyone will find a dish to your liking. If the event is taking place in a small circle, the foods may be less. This should be selected for the menu only dishes that are popular with all guests without exception.

Effect of diversity can be easily achieved if alternate courses of meat, poultry, fish and vegetables. You should also alternate between dishes at different temperatures, with different consistencies with different flavors. For example, after a sharp crispy croutons or snack cakes you can submit a tender julienne Julien: gourmet hot appetizer And after the Cold tapas would be appropriate to a hot dish with a delicate taste.

Typically, at a gala dinner is served cold and hot appetizers, main courses and desserts. In some cases, the menu include soups and sometimes refuse of various types of foods, for example, from hot snacks.

It is important that all the dishes in harmony with accompanying drinks. If you stand on the table a variety of snacks, drinks and something must be different. General rules for selection of dishes are simple enough: red meat is served with red wine (and the deeper the flavor of the meat, the more robust the wine used) to the bird - pink wine with fish - white. Fatty snacks and hot meals (eg, goose, baked apples) decided to accompany spirits. For desserts served liqueurs and sweet wines, sometimes - champagne. Throughout the celebrations should be on the table and soft drinks: fruit juices and mineral water, dessert and coffee or tea served.

Appetizers

Festive table without cold snacks Appetizers: from cutting up lettuce   unthinkable. This is primarily a variety of salads - vegetables, meat, fish, mushrooms with a variety of ingredients. Salad recipe, there are many, many options for filing too. For example, a very original look portioned salads in bowls. Also salads are often served in baskets of puff pastry or savory. Less than high-calorie option - vegetable baskets. For example, containers for salad can be made from tomato halves, slices of cucumber, celery stalks, and even cabbage leaves.

In addition to the salads on the table is traditionally exhibited a variety of delicacies - slicing smoked, salted, roasted meat, boiled tongue, salted and smoked fish, caviar. All these dishes lavishly decorated with greens and vegetables.

Vegetables - fresh or pickled - also take on a snack table a place of honor. Sometimes served as sharp pickled fruit, which perfectly complement the taste of meat.

If the budget does not allow to offer guests a large number of cuts, you can put on the table dishes and sandwiches. Of course, festive sandwiches are different from their everyday counterparts: they decided to make a small size (one bite) on dried bread, and be sure to decorate with greenery, vegetables and sauces. For example, ham combined with a circle of fresh cucumber, salted fish - with a slice of lemon and a sprig of parsley, slide caviar circle with a boiled egg, and meat pate - with grilled mushrooms and herbs. These sandwiches are not only decorative look, they are also very tasty.

Hot appetizers

Hot snacks are often neglected, and for good reason: these meals make dinner a truly aristocratic. From the main course hot meals are smaller portions and more piquant taste, in addition, they are served without garnish, but often accompanied by sauces.

If the main dish prepared from meat, poultry or fish, hot snacks are best used vegetables or mushrooms. For example, you can cook the mushrooms in cream sauce and boiled broccoli with cheese sauce Dor Blue. Stuffed eggplant or peppers, cauliflower Cauliflower: Queen vegetable table   or assorted wild mushrooms - all of these snacks will make the meal memorable.

Main dishes

In most cases, the main hot dishes made from meat, poultry or fish, and often dish baked in the oven. In everyday life, baked dishes are relatively rare - most ordinary lunch and dinner on the stove. Therefore, a dish from the oven always turns festive. In addition, these foods are also very tasty. A stuffed transform an ordinary piece of meat, poultry or fish in a particularly elegant and original pudding.

Side dish can be prepared separately or together with the main course: for example, a duck baked with apples, served with a garnish of these fruits. If a side dish prepared separately, it is best to make it difficult, that is composed of several ingredients. For example, you can apply to the chicken rice (boiled or fried in Chinese) and a variety of vegetables, meat or fish - fresh, cooked and roasted vegetables.

Dessert

The choice depends on the dessert main course - it is better fed than the easier and the air has to be a dessert. This can be weightless souffle, fruit jelly, mousse or Sambuc. If a light main course, then dessert, respectively, may be more "thorough" - suit, sweet pies, puddings and cakes.

Sweet tooth can offer two kinds of desserts to choose from. This could be, for example, chocolate cake and fruit souffle or a light cake with fruit and vanilla pudding. Such desserts would be the perfect end to a meal.

Maria Bykov

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