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.
It’s just a drink – if you want, steam the concentrate like mine, and then dilute it with water, or pour it into a thermos. The result is one – excellent health, immunity to viruses, a delicious and warming drink, with the smell of comfort and coziness. It’s so great when you’re lucky outside, drinking warm delicious and fragrant tea!
What can we say about this drink? It performs two important functions – it keeps us in shape and protects us from colds! Especially good in the cool season, in case of frost or dampness… or in the evening, when the hands themselves reach for the refrigerator… In general, help yourself!
A delicate, simple and quick to prepare jelly delicacy. At home, you can make jelly from a ready-made concentrate or independently squeezed fruit juice, milk, cream, cocoa. The consistency of the dessert depends on the amount of gelatin added to the mixture.
Tangerine is perhaps the most important attribute of the New Year. I dare to assume that with the approach of the magical holiday, this fruit is in every house. I propose to cook a wonderful dessert for a change, which will not leave indifferent either adults or children.
This is the favorite drink of the whole family. When brewing, the aroma is amazing for the whole house. It is very pleasant to drink it on Christmas night. And I recommend you to try it – you will like it.
You know, sometimes it is very difficult to imagine and describe in all its glory the “bouquet” of a drink, and even more so a drink that is “alien” to taste. But the taste here is amazing.
Everyone knows the beneficial properties of hibiscus tea, in Arab countries it is considered a cure for all diseases. And by adding no less useful kumquat and ginger, we get an amazing tea, not only useful, but also perfectly refreshing in the heat.