The buffet menu has its own characteristics. Knowing them, you can cover a beautiful and delicious table without much effort. The main rule: the food should be tasty, beautiful and framed in such a way that it was convenient to take and not less convenient to eat. The main dishes for a buffet table, the recipes of which we propose in this article, are all kinds of snacks. But if, for example, we serve salads for a regular table in voluminous salad dishes, then tartlets, profiteroles are used for a stand-up meal for this purpose. These are dough products that can be filled with a wide variety of contents: salads, pates, meat, mushrooms, a word to all that your imagination is capable of. Perfect for these purposes thin pancakes, which can also be filled with any stuffing. Another option is vegetables. They can be stuffed (for example, peppers, tomatoes) or used as a basis. There are many ideas, so let's get down to business: we give recipes for dishes for a buffet table.
Canape on skewers
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of hard cheese
- 200 grams of large grapes
- 200 grams of cherry tomatoes
- 2 sweet and sour apples
- 2 pears
- lemon juice
Method of preparation: Wash vegetables and fruits. Apples and pears cleaned, cut into cubes and sprinkled with lemon juice, so as not to darken. Cheese is also cut into cubes. String on skewers: apple, cheese, pear; cherry, cheese, grapes. Note: You can use different sorts of cheese and grapes, thus diversifying the taste of canapé. Preferably choose cherry tomatoes of sweet varieties.
Grilled shrimps with teriyaki sauce
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of large shrimp
- 200 grams of cherry tomatoes
- 150 milliliters of teriyaki sauce
- 3-4 cloves of garlic
- 30 grams of crushed fresh ginger
- chili pepper (or pasta from this pepper)
- 50 grams of olive oil
- juice of one lemon
Preparation: Prepared and peeled shrimps marinated in teriyaki sauce, in which to add lemon juice, chili pepper (or paste), chopped garlic and ginger and a little olive oil. They can be left in the refrigerator for the whole night. String the skewers on shrimps and cherry tomatoes and fry on the grill for 4-5 minutes on both sides. If there is no grill, you can fry shish kebabs in a frying pan. Serve with teriyaki sauce. Note: Teriyaki sauce is sold in specialized stores that sell products used in the eastern kitchen.
Kebabs of chicken breast
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of chicken breast
- 50 grams of olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- 50 grams of soy sauce
- 1-2 teaspoons of hot chilli sauce
- juice of one lemon
Cooking method: Prepare marinade from soy sauce, olive oil, chopped garlic, honey, hot sauce and lemon juice. Cut the meat into small cubes and dip into the marinade. String on a few slices of skewers and fry in a grill or pan. You can serve both cold and hot. 
Crackers with liver pâté pâté
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of salted crackers
- 300 grams liver turkey
- 100 grams of smoked pork belly
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 1 apple
- 50 grams of butter
- 50 milliliters of good port wine or sherry
- Salt, pepper, nutmeg, greens
Cooking method: Fry the brisket, onions and carrots, add the liver, apple, butter, salt, pepper, nutmeg and put it all together until cooked. At the end, pour in the wine. Cool and grind everything in a blender. For each cracker put the pastry out of the pastry bag, decorate with a sprig of parsley lily dill.
Tomatoes with mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes and basil
Ingredients:
- 5 small tomatoes
- 100 grams of dried tomatoes
- 200 grams of mozzarella
- a bunch of green basil
- salt pepper
Cooking method: Cut the tops and tomatoes and spoon gently select the flesh. Add the inside surface of tomatoes and sprinkle with pepper. Mozzarella grind, add sliced thin strips of dried tomatoes, finely chopped basil. All salt and pepper, add a little oil, which prepared dried tomatoes. Stuff tomatoes. Decorate with a basil leaf. Note: Instead of mazarella, you can use Adyghe, amateur cheese or a good cottage cheese.
Spicy eggplant rolls
Ingredients:
- 2-3 average aubergine
- 50 grams of hot chilli sauce
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 3 cloves of garlic
- salt, pepper, greens to taste
- 30-50 grams of vegetable oil
Cooking method: Eggplant cut into thin plates, sprinkle with salt and leave for 30 minutes. In the meantime, prepare a dressing: mix hot sauce, mayonnaise, chopped garlic, add salt, pepper, greens to taste. Wash off the salt with eggplant, dry and fry in vegetable oil. Chop the strips of eggplants with a prepared dressing, roll up and fasten with a toothpick. Note: Eggplants absorb a lot of oil. To ensure that they are not too greasy, chopped eggplants should be immersed for 20-30 minutes in cold salted water. After that, fry as usual. 
Profiteroles with meat salad
Ingredients for profitroles:
- 100 grams of butter
- 1 glass of water
- 1 cup of flour
- 3-4 eggs
- a pinch of salt
Cooking method: In the pot, pour water, put oil, a pinch of salt and put on fire. When the water boils, and the oil melts, gradually pour in the flour, stirring constantly so that lumps do not form. Brew the flour (a nice nutty smell should appear). The dough should be slightly cooled (it should be warm, but not hot) and one by one to insert eggs, stirring them in the dough in circular motions. The next egg to add after the previous one is fully connected to the test. Form small balls, spread them on a baking tray at a sufficient distance from each other and bake in an oven heated to 175 degrees. Oven for the first half an hour not to open, so that profiteroles do not "fall." Ingredients for salad:
- 300 grams of boiled veal
- 1 large onion
- 1 black radish
- 30-40 milliliters of olive oil
- 1 spoon of mayonnaise
- salt, pepper, greens to taste
Method of preparation of salad: Boil the meat in one piece with roots and spices (to your taste). In order for it to remain succulent, it should be poured into boiling water. Finely chop the onion in olive oil until light mushroom odor. Grate radish. Cut the meat into small cubes, add the fried onions, grated radish, salt, pepper (pepper should be felt), season with herbs and mayonnaise. With profiteroles, cut off the tops and stuff it with salad, cover with lids, decorate with greens. Note: Mayonnaise is not necessary, because the salad is already high in calories. Black radish can be replaced with radish daikon, it has a more delicate taste, so it can be given more, the salad from this will only benefit.
Profitroles with salad from squid
Ingredients:
- ready-made profiteroles (see above)
- 3 small squid carcasses
- 2 onions
- 4 boiled eggs
- 30 milliliters of olive oil
- 2 spoons of mayonnaise
- salt, pepper, greens
- lemon juice
Cooking method: Prepared carcasses of squid in the boiling water (you can add a teaspoon of lemon juice) and cook for no more than 4 minutes. Otherwise, the squid will become firm. Finely chop the onion in olive oil. Cooled squids cut into small strips, add fried onions, crushed eggs, salt, pepper, season with greens, mayonnaise, lemon juice. With profiteroles, cut off the tops and stuff them with a prepared salad. Note: You can add marinated mushrooms (champignons, honey agarics, chanterelles) to this salad. All these salads can also fill tartlets - baskets from puff pastry or short pastry. You can prepare them yourself, but it's easier to buy ready-made ones. The main thing is to make the right choice. To do this, you will have to try several varieties and decide on the most appropriate option. Tartlets should be fresh, tender (by no means rigid), not to have unpleasant tastes and smells. This is possible in cases where unscrupulous producers use poor-quality or expired fats.
French pie of kish
Ingredients for the dough:
- 300 grams of flour
- 150 grams of butter
- 1 egg + 1 yolk (you can use 2-3 tablespoons of cold water instead of eggs)
- a pinch of salt
Ingredients for filling:
- 150 -200 grams of ham
- 2 onions
- 40 grams of butter
- 150 grams of hard cheese
- 2 eggs
- 150 milliliters of milk or cream
- salt, pepper, nutmeg
Cooking method: Sift flour, mix with salt, add chilled diced oil. Everything must be cut into small crumbs (you can use a blender, a combine or an ordinary knife). Then add the egg (or a spoonful of water), stir, add the yolk (or a spoonful of water). It is necessary to achieve such consistency that the formed mass could be collected in a sphere. Place the dough into a film and put in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes. Ham cut into strips, onions - small cubes, all together fry in butter. Cheese grate. Eggs beat up, gradually adding milk (or cream), salt, pepper, add a pinch of nutmeg and beat again. Dough spread on the surface of the baking dish, oiled, to form the skirts. Then cover the surface of the dough with baking paper, pour a handful of beans or peas on top and send it to the oven for 15 minutes (180 degrees). Get out the form, take off the paper and put on the baked pie base a ham with fried onions, sprinkle with grated cheese and pour the egg-and-milk mixture. Cut the edges with a beaten egg or melted butter. Bake a cake at a temperature of 180 degrees for about half an hour. When serving, cut into small pieces. Of course, those dishes for the buffet table, which we offered to your attention, are only a small part of the extensive buffet menu. Nevertheless, they can easily settle down on your festive table, not necessarily a buffet table. Have a nice appetite for you and your guests! We advise you to read:
