I just finished a birthday dinner for twenty people, so I wrote this article, which is more suitable for large-scale dinners with more than ten people.

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4-5 days before dinner: design the menu

3 days before dinner: Buy food.

65438+ 0-2 days before dinner: Pretreatment of dishes

Dinner Day: Cooking Order and Skills

4-5 days before dinner-design menu

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First of all, feed everyone!

At the beginning of preparing for the party, after determining the number of participants, the first question I encountered was: How many dishes should I arrange to feed everyone? If two people eat two dishes and one soup, then the number of people multiplied by ten is the number of dishes multiplied by ten?

Second, how to coordinate the ups and downs?

The next question is, how to allocate the taste ratio of dishes? Is it necessary to count what everyone likes to eat?

Third, the dishes should be served at the same time, and they should all be hot!

Finally, since many dishes are expected to be cooked, how can we ensure that all the dishes are hot? Instead of a dish, you can have a quick sweep before serving the second course. After all ..... you can't take photos and send friends when you sweep it! ( ; ? Д`)

-Solutions-

First, the calculation formula of food intake

(10 and below) Total number of dishes = number of people+2; (More than 10 people) Total number of dishes = number of people; Number of cold dishes = number of people/5; Soup quantity = number of people/10 hot pot = 4 dishes; Barbecue = 4 courses.

From this calculation, 20 people should have 20 dishes, including 4 cold dishes and 2 soups. If there are hot pot and barbecue at the same time, the quota of four dishes will be offset respectively, and there are still six fried dishes to be cooked.

Second, food arrangements.

It is unrealistic for many people to consider everyone's taste in detail when eating.

But there are three principles that must be followed:

1, don't ask about taste preferences, but be sure to ask if you have any serious food allergies. For people with food allergies, accidentally eating peanut oil may have fatal consequences. Be sure to tell everyone about allergies before arranging dishes.

2. If it is not a specific area (Sichuan, Fran, etc. ), then in the choice of hard dishes, braise in soy sauce is preferred, followed by sweet and sour/hot and sour, pure sweet/spicy and finally. After all, there are not a few people who like pure sweetness or pure spicy. Sour appetizer, suitable for dinner, easy to eat. Braised pork is a national favorite, and almost no one will say no to them.

3. In addition to cooking, it is recommended to prepare an electric hot pot or an outdoor charcoal grill. The two devices have one thing in common, that is, they can choose their own tastes by choosing dipping and spreading materials, without facing the difficult adjustment situation. You can also be more handy in the preparation of ingredients. It won't be like cooking. If you cook too much, it will become a waste of leftovers.

Third, kitchen utensils layout.

Generally, there are only two places on the domestic stove, and only two dishes can be cooked at a time. Stewed dishes occupy a long time in the kitchen, and their efficient utilization is limited.

At this time, it is necessary to assign cookers and perform multi-threaded tasks at the same time!

Cooking utensils that can be used at the same time:

Wok, steamer, soup pot, rice cooker, electric pressure cooker, microwave oven, oven, electric hot pot, charcoal grill.

Recommended dishes for kitchen utensils: wok: fried beef with Agrocybe aegerita, small fried meat, boiled okra.

Steamer: steamed baby cabbage with pearl balls, steamed fish, garlic vermicelli.

Soup pot: Luo Songtang Dongyin Kung Shrimp Soup.

Rice cooker: clay pot rice, salted chicken, stewed pork ribs with potatoes.

Electric pressure cooker: fragrant braised beef brisket, braised pig's trotters with soybeans and braised pork.

Microwave oven: grilled pasta with cheese, mashed potatoes with milk, and pizza with toast.

Oven: Chicken wings with honey sauce, eggplant baked with tin foil, prawns baked with garlic, and potato horns baked with salt.

Electric hot pot: rinse everything!

Charcoal Grill: Barbecue everything! !

3 days before dinner-buy food

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First, what do you want to buy?

The menu is written, it's time to buy food! But buying food is actually very particular, and it can't be done by going to the vegetable market early in the morning! Some need to be bought in advance, some can't be bought in supermarkets, and some must be bought on the same day to be fresh. In particular, there are many kinds of ingredients for dinner, and how to write a shopping list is also a big problem.

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I. Account Form app

The best way to solve the problem of "I don't know what to buy" is to spread out your menu, write down all the ingredients, seasonings and the weight of each serving, and record them in the excel table!

Take the two dishes I prepared for a dinner party of 20 people, "Winter Yin Kung Shrimp Soup" and "Pearl Ball", for example. The table is as follows:

I used four emoticons:? Existing, paid, not yet purchased. Buy on the same day. Simple and clear labeling, you can easily check the purchase progress of ingredients, and you will not forget to buy.

Seasonings that need to be specially purchased (Dongyingong sauce, citronella, etc.). ), pre-soaked dry things (glutinous rice) and pre-pickled meat (minced meat) can be arranged to buy online. Fish, shrimp, vegetables and other ingredients that are not easy to preserve are more fresh when purchased on the same day.

There are two measurement categories in ingredients: Estimated Quantity and Purchase Quantity. "Estimated Quantity" comes from the proportion in the menu, while "Purchase Quantity" is linked to "Price" to calculate the bill and allocate the purchase expenses.

Due to the inconsistent purchase time, there may be multiple payments. At this time, you need a form app that can synchronize multiple devices for bookkeeping. I am an Apple device, so I edited a digital table directly on the MacBook and synchronized it to my mobile phone through a file, so that I can easily view and edit the list no matter where I buy it.

Second, fresh e-commerce app

In addition to the bookkeeping app, reliable fresh e-commerce is also super needed! If you don't have time to go out for a big purchase that day, you can let the courier deliver it directly to your door, which is particularly convenient. For example, I used Taobao app to get it done in one stop.

Buy in advance: Tmall Supermarket.

Tmall supermarket delivers goods every other day, the cold chain is guaranteed, and the fresh price is still cheap, often with a big reduction of 66 MINUS 30! Ah! Rounding is equivalent to no money!

Same-day purchase: large supermarket/vegetable market/Taoxianda.

The advantage of Taoxianda is that it can be delivered within two hours, and the quality of aquatic vegetables is particularly good. The disadvantage is that it is expensive. _? ; That's really expensive. If the budget is insufficient, go directly to the vegetable market to find your aunt ~

Third, the shopping list app

It's finally time to buy! But I heard that you are also afraid of getting lost in the big supermarket, afraid of missing the purchase, and buying the wrong one again? At this time, the free shopping list app for fried chicken is very necessary!

Recommend a pro-test shopping list: buy me a pie!

This app has two major functions, especially suitable for the public to buy:

1, different from the ordinary to-do list app, it can mark the number of purchased items, and it is obviously separated from the front and back, so it is not easy to miss.

2. It can mark each item with different colors, and in the list, items with the same color will be merged together. In this way, when making a shopping list, you can mark the items that can be purchased in the same area with the same color. Buy salmon and prawns in the aquatic products area, and cucumber, eggplant and potatoes in the vegetable area, so you don't have to run back and forth in various sections of large supermarkets.

In addition, the premium account that needs to be paid can also open the multi-user collaboration function of sharing the shopping list, which is especially suitable for family members to assign different purchasing tasks.

65438+ 0-2 days before dinner-food pretreatment

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1. How did you finish so many dishes that day?

Although he said he would be in charge of dinner, the chef didn't want to stay in the kitchen all day! It would be nice if something could be cooked in advance, and it would be much easier if only the key steps of cooking were done on the same day ~

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First of all, pickled vegetables.

Cure the meat in advance! This is a good idea to kill two birds with one stone!

Many seasoned meats need to be marinated overnight to be more delicious, and at the same time, they can save time and effort at dinner that day, just steaming, frying and roasting.

I prepared two pickles in advance: roast chicken wings with honey sauce and pearl balls.

Cut the chicken wings into small mouths one day in advance, wrap them in spicy and not spicy gravy and put them in the refrigerator; Chop pork into minced meat, add cooking wine powder and minced onion and ginger, stir vigorously, seal and put in the refrigerator.

Wait until the next day, just bite the chicken wings in the oven! Pork is kneaded into balls, covered with glutinous rice and steamed 15 minutes!

It can be said that it is a super super super save trouble Aauto fast food ~

It is recommended to pickle dishes in advance:

Roasted chicken wings with honey sauce, pearl balls, diced chicken with Chili, steamed ribs with lobster sauce and Chili, and cumin mutton are all barbecued.

Second, make desserts and cold dishes in advance

In addition to cooking barbecue meat can be pickled in advance, cold dishes and desserts can actually be prepared in advance! When cooking hot dishes, put cold dishes on the table first, and it can also block the saliva of greedy cats ~

For this birthday party, I made chocolate mousse cake two days in advance and prepared cold shredded chicken one day in advance.

Chocolate mousse cake is not difficult to make, and it is also a dessert that is easy to store and will not go bad quickly.

Cold shredded chicken is an excellent appetizer. Cook the chicken breast one day in advance and tear it apart. The next day, just pour hot oil, add sauce vinegar and three silk decorations.

Prepare cold dishes in advance. Recommended:

Braised beef tendon, garlic-flavored chicken feet, shredded chicken in cold sauce, and bean jelly in northern Sichuan

Prepare dessert in advance. Recommended:

Caramel pudding, ice moon cake, frozen cheesecake, mousse cake.

Dinner of the Day-Cooking Order and Skills

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First, it is hot! We want to eat spicy food!

I have prepared so much! Finally, it's time to cook! Review all the tips and merge them into the operation guide!

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First, mobilize manpower and material resources!

In a room temperature environment that is not very cold, the vegetables covered with the lid can basically be kept warm for one hour.

Then take an hour as the boundary and start to mobilize manpower and material resources!

1 first, clean up the cold dishes! Prepare dessert!

Take out your braised beef tendon and slice it. Chicken feet with garlic can be served directly. Heat a spoonful of hot oil and mix the cold shredded chicken evenly. You can serve three cold dishes. It doesn't matter how long! If you don't cook at home, don't forget to put the dessert and birthday cake from afar in the refrigerator first.

2. Where are the knife cutter and the assistant in selecting vegetables? Let's prepare the dishes together!

Hot pot ingredients should be peeled and cut into pieces, and barbecue ingredients should be signed ~ these little things can't be done by a chef alone. Hurry up and call good friends to the kitchen to help, and get the food ready first! Give the steaming, frying and frying to the chef!

3. One is cooked and one is fried, and the two stoves are used in turn.

After washing the dishes, you can officially fire! Cooking stoves and cooking stoves are the most efficient choices. After cooking one soup, two stir-fried dishes are often enough. For example, my Dongyingong soup, fried beef with Flammulina velutipes and small fried meat are all made in the same batch ~

4, remember to fry oil and water dishes first!

For dishes with heavy oil and water and plenty of soup, oil will seal a layer of film on the ingredients, even if it is the first one out of the pot, it is not afraid of getting cold. And oily and watery dishes are often not afraid to return to the pot. For example, small fried meat, beef slices and other dishes are fried in the pot when they are cold! Instead, it tastes better!

5. fire! All electrical appliances can move!

Roasted wings in oven, rice in rice cooker, potato and beef in electric pressure cooker, and spaghetti baked with cheese in microwave oven. Hot pot and barbecue ingredients will be thrown to friends first, so that these greedy cats can eat first ~

6. Is the oven empty? Insulation depends on it ~

This is a little secret that many people won't tell you: what should I do if the vegetables are easy to cool after they are out of the pot?

It's simple. Turn on your oven, turn the fire to 60 degrees Celsius, seal the dishes with plastic wrap and put them in the oven. As long as the oven is hot, the dishes can keep warm! When you take it out of the oven, it is as hot and delicious as fresh ~

7. Finally! Eat!

Four cold dishes are prepared in advance, 1 soup and 2-3 stir-fried dishes are prepared at the same time, and the oven, rice cooker, electric pressure cooker and microwave oven each contribute 1 dish, and a large table is ready! Come and eat!

Cooking is probably the most enjoyable labor.

More and more dinners are just looking for a restaurant to eat and blow water. Even if you rent a villa, you just order takeout and barbecue.

In this lazy cancer era where you can lie down and sit or stand, when a person says "I like cooking for you", it is equivalent to saying "I like you"!

But I really like to see your smiling faces with surprise, the naughty ones who come in and steal vegetables with a bad smell, the mess with a mouthful of oil that can't be wiped, the praise for each dish with chopsticks, and the sincerity for the drama.