In our country, we began to celebrate cheerful Halloween relatively recently, but many people liked the holiday for their non-standard. Halloween is celebrated on October 31st. As a rule, traditionally on the holiday table must be dishes from pumpkin and turkey. I present for you 6 recipes of dishes for a festive table on this cheerful, wonderful day.
6-course menu for the Halloween holiday table:
1. Delicate, delicious pumpkin soup.
2. Tender turkey.
3. Lasagna with spicy pumpkin notes.
4. Salad with grapes
5. Dessert “Pears in wine syrup”
6. Halloween Cake
Halloween Cake - dessert for a holiday
Let's start cooking for the festive table with Halloween cake. Baking has yet to be fed, so it is best to cook a cake first thing.
For the test, you need to stock up the following list of products:
• 8 chicken eggs (medium or large);
• 800 g of flour;
• 3 tsp. baking powder;
• 1/3 cup of milk;
• 400 g margarine;
• 300 g of sugar;
• 2 bags of vanilla;
• 2 tbsp. l cocoa;
• salt.
For the filling of the cake, we need:
- 250 g thick jam,
- oblong chocolate chip cookies,
- 3 tbsp. l powdered sugar,
- vanillin,
- 2 tbsp. l carrot juice,
- a few pieces of chocolate,
- 0, 5 l thick cream and frosting.
All foods are there, we can start baking this miracle of cooking.
1. In an enamel bowl, mix the flour with milk, eggs and margarine. Gradually adding vanilla sugar, baking powder and a pinch of salt. When the dough is kneaded, divide it into two halves. The first part is mixed with cocoa. 2. Then, with the resulting chocolate and light dough, bake two round cakes in the oven at 190 gr. It takes about 50 minutes. Cocoa dough should be baked in the form used to cook the headstock to make a round hole.
3. When the cakes cool, they should be carefully cut and smeared with jam. Sour cream with a high degree of fat content is whipped with a mixer with powdered sugar and vanilla sugar until a persistent pattern appears. Lubricate the bright half with thick cream.
4. Place one in turn, first light and then brown cakes. Making baking pumpkin-shaped. The remaining cream is thoroughly mixed with carrot juice and spread the cake on top and sides so that the base does not shine through.
5. We make eyes and a nose from several pieces of black chocolate. From biscuit tail. Using the glaze, draw the mouth and teeth. Send the finished Halloween cake to the fridge to soak in cream.
Cooking Delicious, Delicious Pumpkin Soup
When the cake is ready you can go to the first dish. Pumpkin is the most common symbol of a merry Halloween holiday, so the use of pumpkin in dishes will only emphasize its festive atmosphere.
Ingredients for pumpkin soup. A company of 4 people will need:
• 500 g pumpkin;
• 8 green onion stalks;
• 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
• 750 ml of vegetable broth;
• 200 g low-fat cheese;
• grated zest of 1 lemon;
• 2 tbsp. l pumpkin seeds;
• salt, black ground pepper.
1. Clean the pumpkin from the hard skin and seeds. Cut the flesh into small pieces and set aside. Then we thoroughly wash the green onion and chuck it well. Onion mode with thin rings, some of which are set aside to decorate the dish. 2. When the main ingredients are cut, put the pan with vegetable oil on the gas and fry it green onions. Then add sliced pumpkin into the container and fill it with broth. Leave, cooked for 20 minutes on low heat.
3. We follow the readiness, when the contents of the pan will be ready, grind it to a state of uniform mashed potatoes, gradually adding the crumbled cheese. Season the dish with lemon zest, ground pepper and salt to taste. Pumpkin seeds are fried in a pan without adding any fat.
4. Soup is poured into portions, sprinkled with green onion rings and roasted seeds.
Cooking a tender turkey for Halloween
To present a festive table for Halloween without turkey is impossible. Halloween turkey is almost a ritual, so let's cook some tender turkey meat now.
For 4 servings of this meat delicacy we need the following ingredients:
• 1 kg turkey leg;
• 0, 5 tsp. thyme;
• 2 tbsp. l refined sunflower oil;
• 250 ml of broth:
• 100 ml of white wine;
• 20 g pine nuts;
• 750 g carrots;
• 1 tbsp. l oil drain;
• 1, 5 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 100 ml of cream;
• 125 ml of wine vinegar;
• 1 tbsp. l thickener for sauce;
• salt pepper.
1. Start cooking turkey. Turn on the oven to warm up to 190 degrees, and while it is heated, prepare the meat. Under the skin of a turkey, thyme is put as deeply as possible. Rub the leg with salt and pepper and fry in vegetable oil, so you get a crust that does not allow the spices to dissolve during further cooking.
2. After roasting, lay out the meat on a baking sheet, and send it to the oven for 75 minutes. Regularly pouring wine and broth into it. Carefully to not burnt. 3. While roast the turkey, peel the carrots and simmer them in butter. After a few minutes, add salt, pepper, vinegar and sugar and simmer under the lid for another 10 minutes. Sprinkle with pine nuts at the end.
4. After removing the meat from the oven, it must be placed in heat. The juice obtained during frying is poured into a saucepan, filled with cream and mustard. Then pour thickener and cook for 3 minutes, and season with spices.
5. Serve turkey meat sliced with sauce and carrots.
Lasagna with a spicy pumpkin note for the holiday table
Lasagna will be cooked on the basis of a pumpkin. This dish perfectly combines the concepts of tasty and healthy. A large number of vegetables and beef will allow the body to obtain the necessary vitamins and proteins, while giving unforgettable taste sensations from eating.
To prepare 4 servings, we need the following list of products:
• 500 g minced beef;
• 750 g pumpkin;
• 300 g lasagna plates;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
• 2 leek stalks;
• 1 onion
• 3 tbsp. l tomato paste;
• 125 ml of white wine;
• 3 tbsp. l butter;
• 125 ml sour cream with 30% fat;
• 3 tbsp. l flour;
• 500 ml of milk;
• grated nutmeg;
• 40 g grated cheese.
1. Let's start cooking lasagna with a pumpkin note. Thoroughly wash leek and pumpkin. We clean and cut the pumpkin into cubes, and leek - rings. Onions and garlic finely crumbled and stewed in vegetable oil.
2. Then add the beef there, and fry until crisp. Then add tomato paste, vegetables and wine. We mix everything, and stew for another 5 minutes, at the end we fill with sour cream. 3. Next, prepare the sauce. To do this, pass the flour in butter. Then add the milk and boil for 3 minutes, before turning off add the nutmeg salt and pepper.
4. Lasagna plates (can be replaced with thin pita bread - this is like a tip to simplify cooking).
5. Minced meat and sauce are laid in layers in a ceramic heat-resistant form and we fall asleep with cheese on top. Cover the form with foil and send to the oven for 45 minutes. Once ready, lasagna can be served immediately.
Festive salad with grapes
Add to your holiday table zest, for this we prepare a special, bright to taste salad with grapes.
To make salad, we will need:
• boiled chicken breast;
• 3 tbsp. l walnuts;
• 2 fresh cucumbers;
• 1 large carrot;
• 50 grams of grapes;
• low fat yogurt.
1. Cooking a salad with grapes. Chop the breast and cucumbers cooked in advance into small pieces and place all this in balls in a salad bowl.
2. Boil carrots. Chill the vegetable thoroughly cleaned and three on a large grater. Add to sliced cucumbers and chicken.
3. To prepare the dressing (sauce), we crush walnuts as much as possible. To do this, use the mortar, if it is not, the kernel can be rolled using a rolling pin. Then mix them with low-fat yogurt. Pepper sauce and salt to taste, mix thoroughly and pour the salad.
4. Decorate the salad with a few sliced grapes before serving.
Festive dessert “Pears in wine syrup”
Sweet tooths will definitely appreciate this fragrant and tender dessert on the festive table. For 4 servings of dessert, we need the following products:
• 400 ml of red wine can be homemade;
• 4 large pears;
• 2 cloves;
• 1 tsp. cinnamon or her wand;
• 1 tsp. grated orange peel;
• 100 g of sugar sand;
• 1 tbsp. l liquor;
• 4 tbsp. l currant jam;
• 1 tsp. starch.
1. Cooking dessert “Pears in wine syrup”. We boil red wine, add cloves, grated orange zest and cinnamon.
2. Cut the pears from the bottom for stability in the pot. We spread them on a high frying pan, pour them over with syrup. Approximately 20 minutes pear stew on low heat.
3. Then carefully remove the fruit pears, and boil the liquid another half. Stir in liqueur and jam, dilute starch in water and add everything to the syrup. Give a little boil.
4. Before serving, pour the pears with syrup.
Everyone has a great festive mood and enjoy your meal!
