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.
Very fast and incredibly easy to prepare cracker cake. For cooking, I used a rye cracker, with it, the cake turns out to be incredibly delicious. Thanks to a delicious and airy cream of sour cream and condensed milk with the addition of fat cream, the cake is well-soaked and very tender. A layer of strawberries gives the cake a pleasant freshness and sourness.
Fragrant moist sponge cake under the most delicate layer of marshmallows and cream. This light dessert will please with its simplicity of preparation, diversify your daily meal and decorate the festive table. The amount of ingredients is calculated for a form with a diameter of 21 cm.
This snack is sure to become a decoration of Your holiday table. Salted herring with cottage cheese, Korean carrots and herbs. Delicious, bright, beautiful!
“Choco pie” is a famous dessert consisting of two layers of sponge cake, layer of marshmallow, covered with chocolate icing! This dessert is easy to prepare, it turns out to be tender, soft and delicious. This dessert is perfect for coffee or tea.
The rolls are just wonderful-the dough is tender, soft and thin. But I was particularly surprised by the cream. I think that this is the best chocolate filling for this kind of rolls, bagels and puff pies of all that I have tried. It is prepared elementary, does not spread, has a beautiful, rich chocolate taste. Great treat!
I’ll treat you to a poppy-raspberry cake today. I used frozen berries that I prepared last summer. The quarantine supplies came in handy! Hot days have begun and such a chilled cake is very useful. Come visit!
Light, airy and quite already summer! Tender, moist sponge cake with milk impregnation, a lot of vanilla, custard with white chocolate and fresh, fragrant strawberries!! Incredibly delicious and fabulously beautiful!