Large meat plate. Beautiful cuts for the festive table: fruit, vegetable, cheese, meat, fish, sausage

Not a single holiday in Russia is complete without a large plate with slices of meat that will whet the appetite of the guests of the celebration. Meat cuts on festive table can be performed in completely different techniques. And the choice of products for creating a dish is wide. How to make slices from meat ingredients? Let's figure it out.

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Choosing the ingredients

Cold cuts belong to the group of the main dishes of the feast. Usually it consists of such products as sausage, boiled pork, salami, beef, lard with a meat layer, balyk. Vegetables that slowly perish in the air, fresh and dried herbs, as well as olives and olives of all colors, fruits, soft and hard cheeses are used for decoration. Boiled chicken or quail eggs, a large list of sauces will come in handy different types, Bee Honey and berry jams.

In fact, culinary art allows you to create the most extraordinary. There are numerous photos at home on the network that will greatly facilitate the cooking process. The composition and method of serving snacks will depend only on the budget and the imagination of the cook. How to choose the right one and arrange it in an original way on a dish? We have prepared unusual ideas for our readers.

Recipes for cuts on a buffet table

Start your slicing by creating delicious sauce: mix 2 large spoons soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, as many olive oil and pepper. Place the pieces in a baking dish chicken breast, sprinkle everything with crushed garlic and pour over the sauce, and then let it freeze for about 12 hours in the refrigerator. Wrap the already pickled chicken in plastic wrap and beat it off. Place all the bacon slices diagonally, then roll the breast and bacon into a roll filled with several gherkins and a mixture of chicken and minced pork... Secure the dish with special food threads, and after 40 minutes, bake at 200 degrees. Festive cuts must be judged, cut into beautiful pieces a centimeter or a couple wide and served. You can decorate the appetizer with small pickled cucumbers and dill.

If the product is not sublime taste, you can play on it appearance... The flower cut begins in the middle. Roll a piece of sausage in half, and do the same with other equal-sized slices. Then arrange the second row: lay out the folded pieces until they close a semblance of a circle. The last row is made using the same technology. For a greater visual resemblance to the plant, we advise you to decorate the dish with herbs or leaves of decorative flowers. As you can see, slicing meat gives you a chance to bring even boring everyday products to the table in an unusual way. The algorithm in the photo at home and a text description will help you figure out this dish.

This simple recipe will help you if guests arrive unexpectedly quickly. The first layer on the plate consists of the cut at an angle. Next come the smoked cheese mugs. It is important that they are thin. The third step is a new layer raw smoked sausage... Lay ordinary hard cheese, halves of sausage circles on top at an angle. Try to arrange the remaining sausage pieces with rolls, and arrange the green olives pieces in the middle. It will take no more than 15 minutes to prepare such a cut.

To bring this recipe to life, prepare 500 grams lard with large layers of meat. You need to start making slices from the loin by creating a pickling solution. It needs to be made from 150 grams of table salt, onion peel, a spice of your choice, and a couple of garlic prongs. You need to put bacon in the brine, and then boil it on the stove for about 8 minutes. Remove the boiled loin, rub with spices and garlic. Leave the meat in the freezer for about 24 hours, during which time the loin will acquire a pleasant color, like after smoking.

As soon as the pork loin freezes, slice the dish into thin slices and place on a flat plate. The loin can be served in portions, but traditionally it is placed on a single plate. Some people prefer to use the loin with onions and garlic as part of a large-scale cut. An interesting combination of colors of meat and loin will advantageously emphasize the color scheme of the table.

Into little pieces white bread lay out the rolled smoked sausage pieces. Next to them, arrange thin-thin circles of fresh green cucumber and a quarter of a tomato. Use ripe or pickled. Cut the boiled quail eggs into halves and place one at a time on top of the bread so that the yolk is on top. Sprinkle the dried herbs over the eggs and serve on a single platter. For greater structural stability, you can fasten the cut with wooden skewers.

First, cut the body of the insect from the peeled cucumber. Bump the cucumber. On the serving plate, begin to lay out the wings in a "B" shape. Layer thin slices of uncooked sausage or salami on top, doctor's sausage on top, rolls of thinly sliced ​​bacon. Arrange fresh parsley leaves in the middle of the wings, and a peeled cucumber on them. The finishing touches remained: eyes made of peppercorns, antennae made of skewers with carrot or cucumber endings.

Pour drinking water into the heated water, add the peeled onion, carrot and chopped garlic clove. There you also need to put a bay leaf, table salt, ground pepper and spices that you like. Wait for the water to boil. Kilogram of fresh pork meat tie with a cooking thread so that it does not deform during heat treatment... Boil the meat in hot water, it will take 60 minutes to fully cook it, but in no case pierce it. In this case, natural juice will pour out of the boiled pork.

After removing the meat from the water, wipe with paper towels and brush over the pork with the crushed garlic and spice mixture. Wrap the boiled pork in cling foil and place the meat in a cool place for 24 hours: freezer or refrigerator. After this time, unfold the boiled pork, cut it into slices and serve as you like. Boiled pork can successfully complement any buffet table.

The first layer is pieces of salami. It is important that they are thin: it is easier to taste the taste. Lay the chopped boiled tongue and ham on the sides. Place a leaf of lettuce in the remaining free space, and on top of it jerky sausages(at least one species, at least a few). Any type of meat can be used, but we recommend using this combination. On the lettuce, place a small saucepan with sour cream sauce or tartare, and put the twisted pieces in the middle of the cut doctor's sausage and thin slices of pickled cucumber.

It takes patience and creative thinking to prepare such a dish. How to bring food to life from an aesthetic shot step by step? From boiled eggs make an eye: the yolk will act as a fish pupil. Top with black peppercorns if desired. Cut the sponges out of half juicy tomato, and lay the scales from thinly sliced ​​salami on a flat surface. The fins and dorsal ridge are made from small cherry tomatoes and slices hard cheese... To form a fish tail, you will need a different type of sausage: it is desirable that it be larger than the first and cut at an angle. If you use the instructions correctly, you will end up with an interesting dish in the form of an inhabitant of the seas.

Slicing - original way warm up the anticipation of the meal among the guests, and our simple recipes will help you quickly bring to life all your holiday ideas.

Before the holidays, we always think about holiday menu... I would like it to be varied and updated every time. Sliced ​​dishes are on almost every festive table. Vegetables, cheese, sausages and fish are standard sliced ​​dishes. But it is worth adding something new, and the festive table will sparkle with new colors, tastes and aromas. Here are some ideas for inspiration:
Cheese slices- gourmet snack
The cheese platter is the finest of all festive slicing.
It is an assortment of several types of cheese, which can be cut into thin slices, sticks or cubes. The choice of cheeses is not limited, you can safely combine any of its types.
For cheese cutting, it is advisable to use at least five types of cheese, and for decoration, fruits (grapes, apples, pears), nuts, dried fruits, olives and even honey are best suited!
Meat platter
A meat plate can include a variety of sausages, boiled pork, brisket, bacon with layers, balyks, meat rolls sliced ​​in portions.
In the center of the dish, you can put a gravy boat with mustard, ketchup, horseradish or several gravy boats or a bowl with different sauces.
Greens are used to decorate cold cuts (lettuce, parsley, dill, green onions), vegetables, olives or olives.
Fish platter
Fish slicing takes important place on the festive table. Plain salted herring or smoked mackerel can be supplemented with other types of salted and smoked fish, beautifully lay out on a dish and decorate. This kind of fish serving will not go unnoticed!
To make a delicious fish dish, you should use fish of different colors: lightly salted salmon, halibut, oil, smoked eel, sprats, etc.
Olives, sour citrus fruits (lemon, lime, grapefruit) and greens are good choices for decorating fish platter. You can also add caviar and butter platter!
Assorted pickles
Ordinary pickles, tomatoes and sauerkraut have a whole new twist on the festive table! One has only to pay a little attention to serving - put chopped pickles or whole gherkins, tomatoes on the dish, Bell pepper, sauerkraut and Korean-style carrots with slides, pickled mushrooms, eggplants, onions and garlic and one more dish for the holiday is ready! It remains only to supplement it with olives, olives and herbs.
Vegetable mix
Vegetable slicing is also important on the holiday table. Fresh vegetables will be a great addition to meat.
Vegetable slices traditionally include cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers. This standard set can be supplemented with radishes, thin rings of lettuce or blue onions, fresh carrots cut into long cubes, several types of salads and a large bunch of greens. And for more variety, it is better to use peppers of different colors and add cherry tomatoes.
Fruit slices
The festive feast is not complete without fruit serving. And beautiful cutting of fruits is always present in addition to cold appetizers, desserts, dessert wines.
Fruit platter can be made from any fruit! From simple oranges, apples, bananas, kiwi to beautifully sliced ​​pineapple, peaches, mangoes, etc. You can also put small bunches of grapes of different varieties on the dish, chopped or whole strawberries, cubes of melon ...
As an additional decoration, sprinkle with powdered sugar in several places through a strainer, add mint leaves or chocolate decorations.
Bread platter
The bread platter will be a surprise for guests and loved ones! Plain sliced ​​white or rye bread you won't surprise anyone, but if you put a basket with various buns, portioned baguettes, bread sticks, lavash on the table, then the bread will not be left without attention. Another such basket can be supplemented Italian focaccia, cheese and spicy sticks, various miniature loaves and wicker buns.
Such bread can be baked at home, which will delight guests and relatives!
Assorted butter
Common butter can be diversified various additives! With the help of herbs, spices and beets, the butter will acquire a beautiful color and interesting taste. This oil will complement canapes, sandwiches or fish cuts.
In softened butter, you can add mustard and saffron, finely chopped parsley and dill, garlic, beet juice and pieces of boiled beets, curry or turmeric.
The softened butter can be figured out using a pastry bag and a nozzle on parchment paper(simple stars or even roses), put in the refrigerator and use beautiful figurines to decorate dishes. And to get beautiful shavings - thinly cut the cold butter with a curly knife.
I hope that such a small memo will be useful to everyone who gets lost in the pre-holiday bustle. Good luck and inspiration to everyone!

Quite rarely, you can observe the phenomenon when there is no plate with cheese and sausage slices on the festive table. This is not surprising, because it is these products that become an excellent appetizer, which usually warms up the guests' appetite before serving the main courses.

Therefore, you should not neglect the slicing of sausage and cheese, it is better to study the ways of laying out the products so that they resemble a dish from the most expensive restaurant, and then all guests will remember your feast for a long time.

If there are several types of sausages or meat products of different shades, they can simply be laid out in an original assortment.

Thin slices can be arranged in a spiral or in a circle, alternating between dark and light shades, a rainbow layout will also look good, while the pieces are laid out in rows from lightest to darkest, or vice versa.

Since sausage is more pliable than meat, for example, it can be laid out in the shape of a flower. This is not difficult to do, one piece is twisted into a tube, after which it must be wrapped in other thin slices.

It is easier to roll a rose out of cut slices, securing it with a toothpick.

Another type of original cutting can be made using conventional dough molds, preferably metal. Thinly sliced ​​sausage slices need to be shaped to your liking, and then carefully arrange the slices in rows or assemble in canapes.

A sausage of a rather large diameter can be thinly sliced ​​and folded in half, then all the other slices can be laid out side by side in the same direction. You can put additional products in the pockets that have formed, for example, a tomato or a cucumber.

Also, the slices can be twisted into a cone resembling a calla flower or rolled into tubes.

To make a sausage cut in the form of a large flower, spread lettuce leaves on a plate, and then thin slices that will resemble petals; with this arrangement, it is advisable to lay out the middle with dark products, for example, olives. You can also place a saucer of sauce in the center of the slices.

Here are some examples of beautiful sausage layouts:

Cheese plate - how beautiful to cut and lay cheese

Unlike sausages, it is not necessary to cut the cheese into thin slices, although if the cheeses are of different shades or with additional additives, then laying in a spiral with passing colors will look spectacular, the main thing is to lay them alternately from neutral to savory.

Also, this product can be rolled into tubes and cones, if it is soft and does not break and crumble, you can add olive, olive or even a slice of tomato to the middle of each piece, or bell pepper... This design will resemble a plate with blooming calla flowers.

You can also make roses from this cheese. Their composition is the same as in the case of sausage.

Soft and semi-soft types of cheese can be cut into large identical squares or triangles and then lay out any shape you like from them, alternating varieties with fruits, berries, nuts.

Also with cheese cubes you can create original canapes... To do this, you need to string a piece of cheese on skewers and add a suitable product to it (olives, walnuts, strawberries and so on).

Canape-sandwiches with the addition of bread, pickled vegetables, herbs, pickles and so on are also original.

In addition to skewers for decoration, you can use glass containers and multi-level trays.

Also, all kinds of figures will look beautiful from pieces cut into small cubes.

Suitable for decorating plates and all kinds of cookie cutters.

Here are examples of cheese plate layouts:

Combined cheese and meat platter

According to the rule of serving dishes, cheese and meat platter should be stacked so that meat products occupy ⅔ of the plate, and only ⅓ part is allocated to cheese.

Given this rule, in the design of the layout, you can apply all the above techniques regarding cheese and meat products.

Here are examples of slicing meat and cheese with a photo:

Tools

There are many different tools with which you can create an original and beautiful cuts of sausage and cheese. To cut extra thin slices, use a special device called a slicer. Housewives also use slicers with different attachments.

A special knife is usually used for slicing "blue cheeses", instead of a blade it has a strong fishing line. For especially soft varieties, a knife with teeth is better, and for hard varieties use a special spatula.

Housewives use curly knives for festive slicing of sausage and cheese. Especially creative people use metal bakeware to shape the slices into interesting shapes.

The main rule of successful slicing is a well-sharpened knife or any other device.

Slicing products

For a variety of cold cuts, you can take any meat products (balyk, brisket, boiled pork, and so on), the only remark is that the products are not too fatty, that is, it is better not to use fatty species in such a dish.

Any type of product from blue cheeses to regular processed cheese can be used for the cheese composition.

To make the sausage-cheese slices look bright and beautiful, it is recommended to use other additional products as decorations. For example the following:

• greens;
• olives and olives;
• grape;
• a tomato;
• cucumber;
• pomegranate seeds;
• nuts;
• bell pepper;
• figs;
• boiled eggs;
• various sauces;
• berry jams;
• boiled and raw vegetables;
• pickled vegetables;

Long gone are the days when cold cuts appeared in our homes exclusively on the festive table. Now almost everyone can afford it and not only on especially solemn dates.

A variety of sausages, boiled pork, brisket, lard with layers, balyk, all this is constantly on sale and can be used for meat cutting.

Lay out the sliced ​​meat products on the dish beautifully: fan, overlap, as your imagination allows. Along the outer edge of the dish, you can put one type of sausage, closer to the center - balyk, even closer - brisket, and so on.

To decorate the cold cuts, use vegetables, herbs: lettuce, parsley, chopped green onions, olives or olives.

You can place a gravy boat with mustard or any other sauce in the center of a cold cuts dish.

If you know how, try cutting flowers from vegetables, this is called carving, as for decorating salads, and then your guests will never forget the cold cuts from your festive table!