How to prepare dishes for a buffet table

Cocktail is a kind of snack at an official event or a friendly party, when the main task of the event is not to feed guests to the dump, but to communicate, exchange ideas, information, etc.

Stand-up menu

The peculiarity of such a feast is that guests eat on a self-service basis, standing up. Dishes for a buffet table include:

• Sliced vegetable and meat, cheese, sandwiches, fruit. At will, the owners can put on the buffet rack dishes with pastries, including muffins. Sweets are also offered: cookies, cakes, sweets. As a dessert served jelly, ice cream.
• From drinks - refreshing, soft, including cold tea, water, juices, cocktails (already ready). Alcohol is exposed depending on the nature of the event: wine, gin and tonic, vodka, etc.
• Dishes for a buffet table are superimposed on disposable plates. Eat them with their hands, fork or with skewers (for example, canapé). Spoons and table knives, as a rule, are not provided.
• In individual bottles, sauce can be different sauces, spicy and sweet and sour. Some dishes for a buffet table come with ketchup: it is put in factory containers. It is desirable to buy several different varieties - to the tastes of guests. The same can be said about mayonnaise.
• Now about the bird and the fish. If the dish includes a poultry (game, chicken), it should be cut in advance into portions and laid beautifully with greens. If it is supposed to serve fish, then it's better stuffed, also cut already, so that it would be convenient to take it to your plate. Herring, by the way, is a very good snack for such an event. It is recommended to do this with her: take off the skin, cut off the meat from the skeleton, remove the stones, cut into pieces, lay on an oblong dish, sprinkle with spring onions, sprinkle with lemon juice.

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Let's consider in detail what dishes for a buffet table can be prepared.

• Sandwiches. Different types are offered: with butter and caviar, with cheese and sausage, with fleshmak, with tuna and butter, tuna and boiled eggs, etc. Here, for example, is a recipe: grate pieces of French loaf, sprinkle with oil, sprinkle with grated cheese And slightly dry in the oven. It will turn out to be sharp, fragrant and very tasty. For ready-made sandwiches, put tomato slices or fresh cucumber slices.
• A variety of canapes. Beautiful and appetizing look such light snacks for a buffet table, as canapes with cheese and pineapple, cheese and olives or olives, with salmon and other valuable fish. For example, on a piece of fresh bread put a slice of soft to taste hard cheese, and on top - a piece of pineapple, cut into a circle or a cube. Connects all with sharp wooden sticks-skewers or toothpicks. By the way, modern culinary books and magazines publish a lot of advice on the design of a dish for a buffet table with photos.
• Vegetables on a buffet table are always welcome. In addition to traditional cucumbers and tomatoes, cut in such a way that the juice does not flow very well, you can offer stuffed eggplants or tomatoes. The latter are prepared as follows: cut off the solid whole small tomato root part, carefully choose the middle. Stuff it with grated cheese and garlic. Success snack is assured.
• Cheese and sausage slicing. In addition to boiled, smoked, dry sausage, guests will swallow a boiled pork, ham, balyk. The original will be cottage cheese balls: soften the medium soft curd, sprinkle with hot pepper, add the garlic, mix well. Take a lump of mass and roll into balls. Top with mayonnaise.

Tips for last

Ideas on how to organize a stand-up meal cheaply and angrily, any creative hostess can have a lot of money. The main thing is not to overdo it. Take care of a sufficient number of paper napkins. And do not forget not only about disposable plates, but also about glasses.