What's a good cheap recipe for a party dish?

Question

Has to serve 15-20 people and not break the bank. And my bank is very fragile so cost has to be like $10 or less if possible.
Would like a appetizer or meat dish if possible but would be ok with a salad as well.
No desserts, have done that too much.
Thanks in advance for help.

Answer 1

Buy a couple of baguettes, slice thin and spread with hummus sprinkle with cheese if you have enough money. Or do a big soup pot of chili. Or steam a lot of rice and make an easy sweet and sour sauce with a few chicken or turkey breast in very small pieces with a frozen package of oriental veg. mix. Or buy a few $1 french bread loaves and broil with pizza stuff on top. Or do a baked potato bar with as much to top as you can afford. Or go to your large size isle at the store and do a big, big can of tropical mixed fruit, drain and serve with biscuits brushed with cinnamon sugar, Do chicken wings with hot sauce? A big taco salad with hamburger browned in taco seasonings and garbanzos or red beans and tortillas..What are you going for besides 50 cents a serving?

Answer 2

I make chilled meatballs and always take home a clean dish when ever I take it to a potluck

1 1/2 to 2 lbs good ground beef ( chuck sirloin or lean )
1 package onion soup mix
1 cup season bread crumbs
2 eggs
1/4 cup BBQ sauce
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 /2 teaspoon pepper

mix all indigents together and shape into 1 inch balls

to make the sauce in a blender mix together
12oz bottle of chill sauce
15oz can jellied cranberry sauce
2 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
blend for 2-3 minutes

pour sauce over meatballs and bake at 350 for 40/45 minutes

these can be made a day ahead and reheat well
my friends always tease me about having the best balls

your might also want to try allrecipes.com

Good Luck

Answer 3

Try chiilli mac!
For the amount of ppl you are feeding i'd say get.........

4 cans of Chilli and 4 packages of Velveeta mac n cheese.
Boil noodles and make macaroni and cheese as directed. Spray non-stick on the inside of a casserole dish and then stir in chilli until we'll maixed.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes and you ahve a cheap delicious and almost effortless dish.

Also, top with sour cream and salsa to make a great dip!

Answer 4

Spagetti! Buy the pasta in a box, I just paid $.59 for one, and use the $1.00 cheap sauce from aldi or shop and save. Buy bread and make garlic bread.You could make a tub of it for $10. You could buy meat balls to put in it. count out 15 meatballs, and cut them in half, it will go farther.
Mostaccoli is cheap, also.
Do a hearty salad, like macaroni. Use the shell pasta, put in whatever you want, frozen peas, tuna salad, ham,celery, peppers, cheese, and use Miracle whip as a dressing. My favorite is ham and cheese and peas.
Make Waldorf salad. Apples with the skin left on, cut in bite size pieces, use at least 2 colors. Grapes cut in half, seedless, of course, pineapple chunks, celery, pecans, and the dressing is Miracle Whip, put it in a jar, and add a little orange juice, and shake it. Make it to pourable consistency, but not so thin that it will not stick to the fruit.

Answer 5

Chili and rice! Cheap and easy; cook rice according to package directions; I'd say about 4 pounds of ground beef, some hot pepper flakes, salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder; I like to have a nice ground round at about 90% lean broken up and tossed into a large pot that has had about a tbsp of olive oil heating up at med. high, brown up beef, toss in spices, add 1 medium onion and 1 green pepper if you like; you could add garlic, tomatoes(the chopped canned ones with basil or garlic is good); just test for taste and adjust spices according to taste...jalapenos or hotter for additional spice!

Answer 6

You're not going to get much for under $10 for meat for 20 people.

A bunch of cheap hamburger and make small meatballs served with toothpicks.

Or just tortilla chips and salsa.

Answer 7

HOT WINGS
Just get a big bag of chicken wings, a bottle of Wish Bone's Italian Dressing and a bottle of hot sauce. Mix the Italian dresing and hot sauce together to taste, marinate the wings and then bake.

Answer 8

2 Little Caesar pepperoni pizzas would be $10. That's 16 slices.

Answer 9

ok from experience this is what i would do. I would do a couple of dipps, my favorite to make on a budget are hummus (chickpeas, tahinni, lemon juice, olive oil, and salt) and black bean corn salsa (1 can black beans, 1 can corn, 1 Tbl. cumin, 1/4 c. cilantro, 1 tomatoes (diced) and salt to taste.) those are may favorites and everyone LOVES them!

Answer 10

you could have an assortment of sanwiches of salads they are cheap or you could make meatballs in coles and other supermarkets you can get ready made meatballs just cook them and add a sauce try tuscn meatballs thats reely good.