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 offer a recipe for terrine with vegetables and ham, which turns out to be very tasty, light, tender and juicy. This dish is suitable both for a home feast, as a snack, and for a picnic, as a light snack.
Terrine is a popular cold snack in France. This snack is also often prepared all over the world. I suggest cooking a terrine of fish and chickpeas. The taste of this dish is great and light. Prepare this snack for your family, and she will be happy.
Such appetizers on the menu are served to almost every festive table. Everyone loves them. Both men and women like it. Delicate, spicy, slightly spicy. It is convenient that they are prepared before the holiday, by night they only become tastier. They look festive and bright on the table.
A delicate and delicious dessert with an excellent curd-berry taste and aroma. I am happy to share the recipe. Easy to prepare, this delicious dessert will decorate the morning of your holiday or weekend.
I have been looking at this recipe for a long time and how I managed to withstand the post-New Year break. And finally, I can please you and myself with a delicate, silky curd dessert, in which three types of chocolate intertwine and complement each other with their unique taste.
We are preparing for the 4th anniversary of the eldest granddaughter. The guests were delighted. It looks like mousse, but it’s not mousse… It looks like a pudding, but it’s not a pudding… It’s really delicious… but sooo high in calories.
I dare say that most people love mushrooms in any form. I want to offer you a recipe for mushroom snacks that can be eaten both warm and cold, which is important during the New Year’s feast.
A delicious snack for a festive table or as an everyday dish, instead of store-bought sausage. Very gentle, with notes of piquancy. Cooking is easy and fast. You will be satisfied with the result.
There are so many healthy and delicious vegetables in this casserole! And it turned out to be very elegant. You can safely serve the guests on the table. I recommend trying to cook!
You can cook a lot of delicious and original dishes from minced meat. I bring to your attention one of them – pork terrine. It is suitable for a festive table or if you just decided to pamper your family.
