You can organize a small feast on your own for any occasion and quite often (anniversaries, New Year, February 23 (I advise you to look at the ideas), March 8, successful completion of affairs, and so on).
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What to cook for a buffet at work?
I'm not advocating making all these snacks! Choose!
Reason to organize a buffet
There are a lot of reasons for holding a buffet. If you organize it together with colleagues for some holiday, that’s one thing, but for your birthday, that’s completely different. Here you have to rack your brains about how to surprise your colleagues and feed them well.
First, you should remember the rules for this event. A buffet is when there is not enough space to receive guests, so food is eaten while standing. This event is more suitable for friendly communication than for fun with dancing and competitions.
In this case, guests independently choose food and drinks from the common table. The menu for this event must be thought out so that everything on the table can be conveniently picked up with your hands or a fork.
The buffet usually lasts no more than 2 hours. It is important to time the number of snacks so that there is enough for everyone to eat. On average, 1 person has 400-500 g of various snacks and 0.5 liters of drinks. If alcohol can be served, then the calculation is made based on the preferences of the team.
Organizers are invited to host a large event, and you can organize a light feast yourself by preparing the dishes yourself.
Trend 3: Italian retro
The rustic style is still relevant, but has changed direction slightly. This fall, French Provence and cowboy simplicity in table decoration are being replaced by extremely warm and soulful Italian retro. In colors, preference is given to terracotta and dark green in combination with white. Among the materials, wood and linen are in favor.
Add black and white or sepia photographs, jars of olive oil and earthenware jugs, vintage birdcages and herbs in clay pots - and you already have the feeling of a warm evening somewhere in Tuscany. Keep the menu in the appropriate style. The “Classic” buffet set will help you with this.
It includes quiche with chicken and mushrooms, bruschetta with pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and Mozzarella, Olivier in tartlets, profiteroles with salmon, ricotta cheese and arugula, Parma ham with pear and roast beef with baked peppers.
Classic reception rules
Indeed, for a buffet table there are generally accepted and firmly established rules:
- Each table should be 90-100 cm high.
- They should have elegant tablecloths and buffet “skirts”.
- Decorations include a flower arrangement.
The order of dishes and drinks on the table
- Usually, plates are placed at one end of the table; hot and cold appetizers, salads, bread, cutlery, napkins, and drinks poured into glasses or glasses are placed in turn along the perimeter.
- Dessert is placed in the center of the table. Each dish is served with those utensils with which the guest can transfer the contents of the common dish onto his plate.
- Stacks of clean plates (6-10 pieces each), cutlery, and napkins should also be available.
Organizing a buffet at work requires the minimum that is available in the office. Usually several free tables are connected and covered with a tablecloth or oilcloth. A napkin is placed under each plate.
How to set a beautiful buffet table at work, photo
Make sure that guests also have access to tissues, sanitizers, drinks and plain water. To do this, it is better to buy small bottles of water or pour drinks into glasses in advance so that guests do not waste their time, but can immediately wash down their food.
Of course, the atmosphere at the buffet also plays an important role. Smiles, good mood and lively music will help you complement your holiday and celebrate it in the most interesting and fun way.
If the office does not have a kitchen. What to cook?
Most often there is no kitchen at work. How to organize a holiday without a kitchen? For a communal buffet, the preparations need to be made at home, but at work they can simply be assembled according to recipes.
Ham rolls
You will need this recipe: bring boiled eggs, chop them, grate the cheese. Place the filling on layers of ham and roll into rolls.
Caesar on skewers
You can surprise your colleagues with Caesar salad on skewers.
Ingredients:
- 100 g dried wheat bread
- garlic clove, olive oil, dill
- 200 g boiled chicken breast fillet
- 30 g Parmesan cheese
- 150 g romaine lettuce
- 100 g cherry tomatoes
- salt pepper
For the sauce
- 2-3 tbsp. l. olive oil
- 70 g mayonnaise
- 70 g natural yoghurt
- 5-7 capers
- 10 g mustard
- 10 g parmesan
- 20 g anchovies
Preparation:
- Rub the bread with garlic and drizzle with olive oil. At home, fry in a dry, heated frying pan for a minute on each side.
- Sprinkle with finely chopped dill.
- Cut the chicken fillet into 1.5 x 1.5 cm cubes. Lettuce leaves into long strips. Grate the cheese.
- Whip the ingredients for the sauce in a blender.
- Thread tomato, lettuce, chicken fillet square, bread square, lettuce, chicken, tomato onto skewers. Place skewers on a plate and drizzle with dressing.
Cheese balls
Originally made cheese balls are very similar to candy. When you offer them to your colleagues, they will refuse because they haven’t gotten around to candy yet.
And when they try the “candy”, they will be very surprised. This dish can be prepared at home and immediately put in the refrigerator at work. If there are no cheeses listed, then you can take others.
Ingredients
- 100 g blue cheese
- 200 g soft goat cheese
- 200 g soft cream cheese
- 150 g Parmesan cheese
- 100 g roasted hazelnuts.
Preparation:
- In a bowl, mash the blue cheese with a fork, add soft goat cheese and cream cheese, mix until smooth.
- Grate hard cheese and place on a flat plate.
- With wet hands, take 1 tbsp. l. soft cheese mass, roll into a ball, make a hole with your finger, put a nut in it. Close the hole and roll into a tight ball.
- Roll the ball in grated cheese.
Salad with nuts
Prepare a light salad from a jar of red beans, finely chopped dill and walnuts. The number of ingredients is arbitrary. You can season with mayonnaise or olive oil.
Chop the nuts at home, and mix with beans and dill at work. The salad is ready!
Super simple canapés with cervelat, olives and black olives
This appetizer is prepared in a matter of minutes. Products for it can be purchased during lunch break.
Super simple canapés with cervelat, olives and olives look impressive and appetizing
Products:
- 200 g cervelat;
- 100 g of hard cheese (you can take two different types);
- 1/2 can pitted olives;
- 1/2 can of stuffed olives;
- wooden skewers for canapés.
Recipe:
- Cut the cervelat into cubes with sides 1.5–2 cm.
- First cut the cheese into thin slices and then into squares the size of the sausage cubes.
- Assemble the canapés as follows: cervelat, a couple of slices of cheese, an olive or an olive.
- Secure everything with skewers and place on a flat dish.
Buffet on March 8
Women's Day March 8th is celebrated in every team. Even the bosses are not averse to attending such a celebration. The first thing that comes to mind is to prepare more canapés. Indeed, this is the simplest dish. And there are so many canapé recipes that there will be enough for all events of the year.
Let's try to find simple and tasty canapés that the whole team will like. Don't forget to prepare the skewers. The products presented make 4-6 servings.
The simplest, but very original appetizer is herring with potatoes:
Ingredients:
- Rye bread – 300 g
- Herring – 300 g
- Cream cheese - 200 g
- Potatoes - 200 g
- Kiwi - 3 pcs.
- Herbs, spices
How to cook
- Cut the bread into small squares and dry in the oven.
- Spread each slice with cream cheese.
- Boil the potatoes and make a puree. Salt, pepper, spread on top of the cheese or mix two ingredients at once.
- Cut the peeled kiwi into slices and place on top.
- Place the herring on top of the kiwi and sprinkle with herbs.
Conqueror of hearts - canapes with olives
Ingredients:
- Hard cheese – 200 g
- Lemon – 150 g
- Marmalade – 100 g
- Olives - 100 g
How to cook
- Cut the cheese into equal squares. Thread onto skewers.
- Cut the lemon into small pieces, squeeze lightly. Skewer on top of cheese.
- Place pieces of colored marmalade on top of the lemon.
- Olives complete the pyramid.
Birthday cake
Everyone loves pies, even those who are on a diet. To avoid fiddling with the dough, you can buy ready-made squares of frozen dough. For one square you will need 3 fresh apples, 3/4 cups of sugar, 30 g of butter.
How to bake:
- Defrost the dough
- Sprinkle the silicone mold with sugar.
- Arrange the chopped apples, sprinkle with sugar again, and add another layer of apples.
- Place pieces of butter on top.
- Cover with defrosted dough, press the edges tightly, brush the top with sweet water for a beautiful crust.
- Place in preheated oven for 35 minutes. Monitor cooking periodically.
- Turn apples upside down.
Apple marshmallow
To make apple marshmallows you need:
- apple jam - 250 g;
- egg white - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 400 g;
- agar-agar - 4 tbsp. l.;
- water - 150 g;
- vanillin - on the tip of the knife.
Recipe:
- Pour cold water over agar-agar and leave for 1 hour.
- Pour this mixture into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Add vanillin, sugar, boil for 10 minutes.
- Add egg white to apple jam and beat with a mixer until foamy.
- Add the prepared syrup to it without turning off the mixer.
- Place the mixture in a piping bag and then use it to pipe out the marshmallows.
- Leave to harden for several hours.
Snacks from around the world
By preparing dishes from different countries, you can incredibly please your colleagues.
Stuffed bell peppers: cut each pepper into 2 parts, remove seeds. Cut boiled chicken meat, tomatoes, cucumbers, boiled eggs, season with mayonnaise, add pepper. The dish can be served to the table.
Lobio - a dish from Georgia
It is easy to prepare at home and bring to the buffet.
Ingredients:
- Beans - 500 g
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Cilantro
- Garlic - 3-4 cloves
- Salt, adjika, suneli hops, ground coriander
Preparation
- Soak the beans in cold water overnight.
- Coarsely chop the onion, add to the beans, cook with the lid closed until tender.
- Mash all this with a fork to a paste. Some beans can be left whole.
- Chop a bunch of cilantro, chop the garlic.
- Thinly slice the second onion into half rings.
- Stirring constantly, add adjika, coriander, hops-suneli, and add salt.
- Turn off the stove, add garlic, herbs, and onions. Let stand for 15 minutes.
You can make sandwiches or serve with meat.
Onion rings in batter
A very tasty and popular appetizer for any buffet and holiday tables.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 100 g
- Onion – 500 g
- Starch – 5 g
- Hot pepper – 10 g
- Salt
- Breadcrumbs – 50 g
- Vegetable oil for frying.
Preparation:
Mix all the dry ingredients, stir and add water. Mix everything until smooth.
The mixture should be as thick as sour cream. Cut the onion into rings. Now we lower the ring first into the batter, then into the breaded crackers. Fry the rings in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Birthday buffet
In this video you will find 5 great recipes for easy quick appetizers that you can prepare for work on a birthday or for a holiday buffet.
Shish kebab
- thin sausages - 300 g
- small cucumbers - 200 g
- cherry tomatoes - 300 g
- black olives - 50 g
- green olives - 50 g
- mini mozzarella – 150 g
- lettuce leaves
- skewers for kebab - 20 pcs.
Chop everything and put it on a skewer.
Appetizer "Raffaello"
INGREDIENTS:
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs
- cheese - 70 g
- crab sticks - 3 pcs
- garlic - 1-2 cloves
- mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l.
- coconut flakes - 50 g
Tomato appetizer
Prepare:
- medium-sized firm tomatoes - 5 pcs.
- parsley - 1 bunch
- garlic - 2 cloves
- ground black pepper;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.
- apple cider vinegar (you can use 9% table vinegar) - 1 tbsp. l.
- Dijon mustard (French) - 1 tbsp. l.
- salt - 1/2 tsp.
- sugar - 1/2 tsp.
Snack rolls with crab sticks
INGREDIENTS:
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- mayonnaise - 200 g;
- crab sticks - 100 grams;
- starch - 2 tsp;
- sunflower oil for frying.
We bake thin egg pancakes with finely chopped crab sticks. Roll them into a roll and cut into portions.
Tartlets with tuna mousse
A quick and satisfying appetizer is indispensable for a buffet table.
Tartlets with tuna mousse will become a popular appetizer even at the most luxurious feast.
Products:
- 10 ready-made tartlets;
- 1 can of tuna in its own juice;
- 100 g cream cheese;
- 1 tsp. mayonnaise;
- 2 eggs;
- 5 cherry tomatoes;
- some fresh herbs for decoration.
Recipe:
- Beat cream cheese, tuna and mayonnaise in a blender bowl.
- Place mousse into tartlets using a pastry bag or pastry syringe.
- Garnish the appetizer with cherry halves, slices of boiled eggs and fresh herbs.
If you collect the snack right in the office, then prepare the mousse at home and put it in a regular food-grade plastic bag. Then all you have to do is cut off the tip of the bag and figuratively put the mousse into the tartlets, and then decorate them with the prepared ingredients. Of course, you should store the bag of mousse in the refrigerator.
