Making a festive New Year’s menu is not an easy task, sometimes even for an experienced cook. So many delicious salads, unusual snacks, impressive desserts and spectacular hot dishes! It seems that it is simply impossible to cook them all. But it’s worth trying, the main thing is to approach the issue thoroughly!
In almost all families, a lot of attention is paid to the preparation of festive dishes for the New Year and Christmas feast. Chefs want to show all their skills and serve the best treats to the festive table.
Recipes for the New Year and Christmas table differ from each other. By the New Year’s Eve, you need to flaunt all your culinary talents and surprise guests with fancy and incredibly delicious treats. Aspic with beautifully carved vegetables, French-style meat, homemade pates, delicious snacks of vegetables, meat and fish, salads with products that seem completely incongruous at first glance – preparing a New Year’s table is a great opportunity to show imagination in the culinary field.
It is customary to prepare lean dishes and lemonades for the supper on Christmas Eve. Vegetable broth, buckwheat porridge with mushrooms, cabbage pies, fish dishes, stuffed cabbage rolls with rice filling and many other goodies can be created in any cook’s own kitchen. Be sure to give your household a traditional lemonade (compote made from a mixture of dried fruits and berries) according to old recipes.
How to Make a Homemade New Year’s Menu?
According to experienced chefs, there will be enough for 6-7 guests: 1-2 hot dishes, side dishes, 3-4 types of salads, several types of snacks, hot and cold, dessert and fruit. This average menu can be varied depending on the circumstances, for example, if there are children among the guests.
One of the secrets of a successful New Year’s menu is to cook several new dishes every year. At the same time, you should decide what you would like to make the main bet on: someone prefers to invest time and effort in preparing a complex hot dish, and someone – in a variety of snacks. If, instead of traditional olives and caviar sandwiches, you offer your guests glazed duck with grapes on skewers, your guests will remember for a long time how refined and unusual your festive treat was.
But in fact, there is nothing wrong with having only traditional dishes on the New Year’s menu, without frills.
I have repeatedly confessed my love for this Italian dessert and shared various options here, but this, my friends, is a bomb! Dessert of the restaurant level, I’m not afraid of this word. The combination is excellent! Chocolate and cherries are classics, Yes, but it’s not all that simple…
The simplest chocolate dessert with just two ingredients will appeal to a sweet tooth. Served as ice cream, frozen or just as a chilled dessert. It holds its shape perfectly and has a delicate pudding texture. Perfectly combined with fresh berries or whipped cream!
Duck in this version of cooking will be soft, juicy with a great crispy crust and a wonderful addition inside – these are tender, fragrant honey apples. Honey-flavored apples are perfectly combined with duck meat, giving it an incomparable taste.
Probably, someone already knows this recipe, I recently tried it for the first time. I liked this option very much, the salad turns out to be lighter and fresher than its classic version. I suggest leaving the classics for the new year holidays and try this salad in a lighter, “summer” version. This is very tasty, my friends!
Today I want to invite you to a delicate souffle with a subtle aroma of coffee. It can be crunchy or with juicy pieces of nuts inside. It all depends on your taste and desire. It is not as difficult as it seems.
Cottage cheese is undoubtedly a very useful product, and a simple but delicious dessert made from it will win your heart, and in addition, small freaks who categorically refuse to eat cottage cheese will eat this dessert without suspecting its presence.
It is so delicious that you should definitely cook and try it. A moist, rich chocolate cake, lots of bright, juicy cherries with a slight sourness, a layer of sweet, creamy ganache on white chocolate and all this is covered with chocolate icing!!! To say that it is delicious is not to say anything!!! We really liked this cupcake! I hope you will like it too!