Spicy and refined dishes for a festive feast or a romantic dinner on March 8, cooking technology and design options for culinary masterpieces. On this day, traditionally, all the fair sex accept congratulations from their husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, colleagues and friends. Some women are waiting for guests and prepare a festive dinner as a treat, which consists of delicious and original dishes. Men themselves try to surprise others by preparing exquisite, new dishes.
Festive fish snacks by March 8
Each hostess has her own signature recipes and secrets of preparing fish snacks for the festive table. But what should a man do to surprise his beloved with culinary talents? Consider a few recipes for simple and interesting appetizers using red fish that can be prepared on March 8th.
Canapes with salmon
For cooking, you will need fillet of slightly salted salmon and soft curd cream cheese (like "Almette") in equal proportions, as well as an egg, lemon, grain bread and herbs.
We are preparing this culinary delight according to this recipe:
- Cut 150 grams of fillet into slices and squeeze a quarter of lemon onto it.
- Cut out circles from a grain loaf and place the fish on them.
- Chop the boiled egg finely, mix with 200 grams of cheese and finely chopped herbs.
- Put the resulting mixture on top of the fish. It is more convenient to use a cornet with an asterisk attachment for this.
- Cut 50 grams of fillet into strips, and the remaining 3/4 lemon into slices.
- Spread the fillet strips and lemon slices on the cream
… This appetizer has not only an appetizing smell, but also a festive, pleasant color (yellow-orange). Additionally, this color palette can be diluted with a sprig of dill.
Rolls of red and white fish "Yin-Yang"
This dish is easy and quick to prepare with the following ingredients: 2 to 1 cod and salmon fillets, mustard, soy sauce, lemon, herbs and spices.
Cooking technology:
- Cut into 5 cm strips 700 grams of cod fillets and 300 grams of salmon fillets.
- In a separate bowl, mix the juice of a quarter of a lemon and two tablespoons of soy sauce.
- Pour the cut fillet with the resulting sauce and leave to marinate for 20 minutes.
- Fold in pairs a white and a red piece of fillet, wrap it in a roll and fix it with skewers in pairs. We should get neat eights.
- We put on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 160 degrees for 25 minutes.
Toasted roll eights can be garnished with parsley or cilantro.
Fish tartlets with mushrooms
This festive appetizer is made from salmon fillets, mushrooms, sour cream, and hard cheese. The tartlets themselves (baskets, tubes) can be bought in almost any supermarket.
We cook according to this recipe:
- Cut into small cubes 300 grams of fillets and 500 grams of mushrooms.
- Fry mushrooms and fish separately in vegetable oil. Do not forget to salt and pepper.
- Mix the mushrooms with salmon, add three to four tablespoons of sour cream and chopped greens.
- We simmer this filling for several minutes and lay out on the tartlets.
- Sprinkle with grated hard cheese and put in the oven for 5-7 minutes at 160 degrees. Tartlets are considered ready when the cheese has melted.
It is better to serve them warm, and therefore the baskets can be stuffed in advance, and heated in the oven before serving.
Original meat dishes for March 8
Any self-respecting man should have several secret recipes for meat dishes, because it is believed that it is a man who knows how to properly handle meat. If you do not have a signature, original dish yet, then you can choose from the following and pleasantly surprise the lady on a holiday.
Juicy pork with pineapple
You can please your darling on this festive day with delicious, spicy pork with pineapple. To prepare the dish, you will need: pork fillet, white bread, pineapple, hard cheese, cherry tomatoes, garlic, ketchup, mayonnaise, spices, herbs.
Recipe:
- In any vegetable oil, fry ten slices of bread on one side, cool and rub with garlic.
- Cut 1, 5 kg pork fillet into 10 equal pieces.
- Marinate the meat for 20 minutes in a mixture of mayonnaise, ketchup, salt, pepper.
- Lubricate the baking dish with vegetable oil and put the meat in it.
- On each slice, put a pineapple ring on top and send it all to the oven for half an hour. We bake at a temperature of 160 degrees.
- After cooking, put a slice of hard cheese on top of each pineapple slice and leave in the oven for a few minutes.
- When the cheese is melted, take out the baking sheet and put each piece of meat with pineapple on the uncooked side of the pre-cooked crouton.
- Cut the cherry tomato into four parts and put two slices inside the pineapple ring.
You can decorate the dish with herbs, and it should be served with a spicy sauce.
Roast beef recipe in "fur coat"
One of the most savory and delicious dishes for the festive table is beef roast beef. For its preparation, it is advisable to choose meat with streaks of fat so that it is more juicy. We will prepare the "fur coat" from sweet peppers, tomatoes, garlic and hard cheese. In addition to traditional spices and herbs, rosemary will fit well into this flavor range.
Cooking technique:
- We make a marinade from three tablespoons of mustard, ground coriander and black pepper.
- Thoroughly coat one kilogram of meat (veal, beef) with the resulting mixture, put it under a press in the refrigerator.
- After two to three hours, take out the meat and fry in any vegetable oil on all sides until a golden crust appears.
- We transfer this piece of beef to a baking dish and send it to the oven.
- We bake the meat at a temperature of 180 degrees. A kilogram piece is baked for one hour. If the fillet weighs 0.5 kg, then halve the cooking time. Every 15 minutes when baking, do not forget to water the meat with the juice that comes out during cooking.
- When the meat is ready, turn off the oven, but leave the baking sheet in it for another 15-20 minutes.
- Finely chop one bell pepper, tomato and garlic.
- Mix vegetables and fry in vegetable oil.
- Cool the resulting "coat", add spices and grated hard cheese.
- Cover the meat evenly with the vegetable mixture and add a sprig of rosemary.
This dish is very tender and juicy, and therefore guests and heroes of the occasion will surely appreciate it.
Salad recipes and beautiful decoration for the table on March 8
March 8 is a holiday of female beauty and spring, and therefore the festive table should be colorful, bright, with a beautiful design of dishes. The best option to "add color" to the menu is to prepare original salads. Here you can show your imagination in any direction. You can lay out puff salads in the shape of an eight, and chop the stuffed tomatoes on a kebab skewer, tying it with a bunch of greens, imitating a bouquet of tulips.
Delicate salad "Sprig of mimosa"
This dish can be prepared even by a simple schoolboy who has decided to please his mother with a “delicious” bouquet of spring flowers. For cooking, use chicken fillet, mushrooms, sour cream, cheese, green peas, dill and spices.
Recipe:
- Boil 250 grams of chicken fillet in salted water, cool and cut into small cubes.
- We rub 200 grams of hard cheese on a coarse grater.
- We wash 100 grams of mushrooms, dry and chop finely.
- Thoroughly mix the meat with mushrooms and cheese.
- Add peas, salt, 100 grams of sour cream, grated horseradish to the mixture.
After the salad is laid out on a dish in the shape of a circle or square, we put a sprig of dill on top, it acts as a green stalk. The mimosa flowers themselves can be made from finely grated egg yolk.
Layered salad "Bouquet of roses"
This original dish is made from herring, hard cheese, pancakes, vegetables (potatoes, beets, carrots, garlic, onions, cucumbers), herbs and spices.
Cooking and decoration technology:
- Chop the onion and pour boiling water over it.
- Add 2 teaspoons of vinegar, marinate for 10 minutes and drain.
- Cut the herring fillets into small cubes.
- Chop a cucumber (canned), boiled potatoes.
- Grate cheese and boiled carrots on a fine grater.
- Put the onion on the dish in the first layer, then the herring, mayonnaise, cucumber, potatoes, grated cheese, mayonnaise, carrots.
- Grate the beets and mix with grated cheese.
- Squeeze the garlic into the cheese-beetroot mixture and add mayonnaise.
- Put the filling on the finished pancakes and roll them into tubes.
- We cut each tube into 4 cm pieces.
As a result, you should get "roses", which should be placed vertically on the salad and decorated with herbs. If you make different fillings, then in the bouquet "roses" can be made red, pink, white, orange.
Preparation and decoration of desserts by March 8
Divine meat or an original salad will undoubtedly surprise your darling on March 8, but dessert will be a real trump card. Most women have a sweet tooth, and therefore no one will refuse to eat a delicious dessert at the end of the evening. Moreover, there are recipes for simple and quick dishes that even those who have never heard of confectionery can cope with.
Fruit parfait
Almost any fruit can be used for cooking. We will share a banana, raspberry, tangerine and kiwi recipe. In addition to fruits, you will need 30% cream and a thickener for them, powdered sugar, vanilla.
Cooking technology:
- Add thickener, icing sugar and vanilla to the cream.
- Beat the mixture with a mixer and put in the refrigerator.
- Peel the fruit and cut into thin rings.
- Put bananas on the bottom of the bowl, and on top a layer of cream from the refrigerator.
- We put kiwi rings in a circle, and inside we put tangerine slices.
- Fill in a layer of cream again.
- Lay out a layer of raspberries. First you need to wait until it defrosts.
- Pour the rest of the cream on top of the raspberries.
You can decorate the dish by cutting into cubes all the fruits that are included in the composition, and putting them on top of the bowl in a slide.
Chocolate honey caramel
A delicious and original dessert will be caramel reminiscent of toffee. It can be made with sugar, dark chocolate, milk powder, butter, honey, and walnut kernels.
We cook according to this recipe:
- Rub finely dark chocolate and mix it with sugar and milk powder.
- Add water to the mixture and again thoroughly mix all the ingredients in a saucepan.
- Boil over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Cool the resulting mass to a temperature of 40 degrees.
- Add honey and crushed walnut kernels. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
- Cover the bottom of the form with cling film and transfer the caramel to it.
- We level the layer and send it to the refrigerator.
When the mixture hardens, it should be laid out on a board and cut into cubes. To make it easier to cut, the knife can be greased with vegetable oil.
Delicious drinks for the festive table on March 8
Self-prepared delicious drink for ladies will be appreciated both at a festive feast and during a romantic dinner on March 8th. Banal wine and champagne can be replaced with exquisite cocktails and homemade drinks. Moreover, they are being prepared in a matter of minutes.
Peach cocktail "Glass of passion"
To prepare a liter of drink, you will need five juicy, ripe, large peaches, 0.6 liters of red wine (dry or semi-sweet, depending on the woman's taste preferences), 50 grams of sugar. White wine can be used if desired. For harmony of taste, the ratio of peach puree to wine should be the same.
Preparation:
- Peel the peaches and remove the seeds.
- Cut into pieces and place in a deep bowl.
- Use a blender to break the fruit into puree and add sugar.
- Pour half of the peach puree into a glass and pour red sparkling to the top.
As the wine is heavier, it will sink to the bottom. A small pink speck will remain at the top.
Coffee liqueur
You can prepare a delicious and aromatic coffee liqueur in just 20 minutes, but it is advisable to insist for at least two weeks, therefore it is recommended to take care of the preparation in advance. For preparation you will need: 150 grams of cane sugar, 180 ml of water, 350 ml of white rum, 2, 5 tablespoons of instant coffee, half a packet of vanillin and 2 tablespoons of coffee beans.
Cooking technique:
- Dissolve sugar in water, bring to a boil and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes to make a syrup.
- Pour into cool dishes, add instant coffee and vanilla.
- Cool the syrup and pour it into a 0.7 liter glass bottle.
- Pour coffee beans into the same bottle.
- Pour in the rum, tighten the lid tightly and put it in a dark place.
Keep in mind that the longer the liqueur is stored, the more pleasant and softer its taste will be. What to cook for March 8 - watch the video:
You need to lay the festive table on March 8 using the maximum number of bright colors. Prepare delicious and beautiful dishes, use herbs, egg yolk, canned corn, red fish, tomatoes, and various fruits. Nature itself gives you bright ingredients, all that remains is to skillfully use them. But in this we will already help you with a variety of recipes provided.
