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.
Lemon pie is a dessert that will appeal to all lovers of original baking. The main feature of lemon pie is a pleasant sourness. A pie with a rich lemon flavor for tea on a winter evening.
Pomegranate Placer salad has three advantages: it is delicious, easy to prepare, and also beautiful. The tart sweetness of pomegranate gives originality to the usual combination of ingredients of meat salad with vegetables. The salad is laid out in layers, and all the products are perfectly combined with each other.
A very tasty casserole turned out, however, a little high in calories, but sometimes you can treat yourself to such a delicious dish. You can safely prepare for any holiday. Your guests will be delighted with such a simple, but very tasty dish.
Where East meets West. A new interpretation of the Middle Eastern classics. Less calories, more flavor! Cooking this hummus is a pleasure. eating is doubly enjoyable. You can prepare this snack for a festive table, it will look great.
Another recipe for a buffet table. Very easy to prepare, and how beautiful it looks on the table. Delicious and exquisite. The taste is creamy, fishy, tender. Your guests will be delighted with this snack. I recommend cooking for a festive table.
Juicy, delicious and very fragrant pie, which terrine could not call it,” where the “dough” is chicken fillet, and the filling is mushrooms and 2 types of pepper. A hearty and at the same time, almost a diet lunch or dinner, at the same time an elegant snack for a festive table.
The recipe for this snack is very simple. You can safely cook this dish for a festive table or for every day. It turns out delicious and satisfying. You will be glad that you have prepared this snack.
The dessert is filled with an airy creamy mousse with lemon notes, covered with a generous layer of citrus fudge, the taste is complemented by caramelized candied fruits. In my family, without exaggeration, even those who are completely indifferent to pancakes are delighted with him. I sincerely hope you enjoy it!
It is prepared cold or hot. I made a pancake terrine with vegetable Coolie sauce in a hot way. As a filling, I chose beotile – finely chopped chicken liver and stomachs (in France it is often used as a filling for pies, in combination with spices served on sandwiches)
A great snack if you have unexpected guests on your doorstep. A very delicate, light snack for a festive table. The taste is creamy, pleasant. Having prepared this snack, your guests will be delighted.
