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.
Each coming year has its own peculiarities. In the New Year, there should be more tender snacks on the table. Terrine is an amazing snack. It can be made from any meat and with the addition of any ingredients. And on the eve of the holidays – it will be a win-win option. Here your imagination is simply limitless! I made it with rabbit and duck meat.
The snack is prepared quickly and easily. Great for a Christmas table. The herring cream turned out to be deliciously tender, melting in the mouth. Well, in combination with Borodino bread… mmm… Try to cook and enjoy this snack.
A typical representative of French cuisine. Elegant, light and very refined, despite its simplicity, it is well suited as an appetizer or main course. Berry sauce creates a bright contrast and helps to set off its delicate rice-fish taste.
I got the impression that banana pies on the site are in demand no less than apple pies, which I love very much. So I add another banana pie. Moist, fragrant, delicious.
A very delicate cottage cheese dessert that will be appreciated by both adults and children. In the summer heat, terrine should be very useful. You can cook it not only with cherries, but also with other seasonal berries and fruits. By the way, this dessert can be offered for breakfast and afternoon tea as a main course.
I offer you a wonderful dessert, very chocolate, very plum, with a light crunch, which is given by a thick sprinkle of granola. Your children will be delighted with this taste. Cook it quickly and put it on tea.
Terrine, or meat bread, is a French dish that will appeal to all meat lovers. In fact, it is minced meat with various additives, baked in a typical deep rectangular dish. I offer a cooked meat and cheese terrine with turkey for a festive feast. It is easy to cook it at home, it always turns out to be amazingly beautiful, you can make it in advance and store it 1-2 days before the celebration. Such a cold snack can feed a large and hungry company.
For me, winter holidays are impossible without spicy and fragrant pastries that create a special mood. I will definitely repeat this terrine for New Year and Christmas. I hope this recipe will be useful to you!
This snack is just great. Its taste is delicate, mushroom and light. Great for black rye bread. I often cook for a festive table, it looks enchanting. Having prepared this snack, your guests will definitely ask you for a recipe.