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.
Prepare a delicious terrine. And always have a snack. He came to us the hard way from beautiful France! Who has ever done this, you know, not in vain. This dish has an interesting taste, complex, unusual! And this is always appropriate in our dynamically developing kitchen. Try to cook and enjoy the fishy taste.
The good thing about such dishes is that you can put everything you have at hand, put it in the oven and do your own thing, and as a result – bam… and the festive dish is ready!!!
I love terrines… I start cooking another terrine when my family needs cutlets. In fact, terrine is a meat casserole. More precisely, a minced meat casserole. In the filling – everything that my family loves. And you… you can experiment with other options! Ideal for hot summers, as it is very tasty when cold.
I found the recipe in a magazine. I’m very interested in him. I prepared myself and was pleasantly surprised. It turned out very tasty. A festive dish.
In fact, it’s something like pate. The name terrine comes from the form in which it is baked. Oblong shape with a lid. So I baked it in the usual oblong shape and covered it with foil. The guests liked the dish!
A very tender, juicy, appetizing dish of salmon and fish milk. It is easy to cook, you can eat hot or cold, as an appetizer or main course. It looks spectacular, you can decorate a festive table with it.
This is a slightly modified classic recipe for stuffed eggs, and the result will surprise your guests. Often, various canned food, crab sticks, fresh herbs, etc. are used as an ingredient for the filling. I have the same filling based on natural cheese. The recipe is taken from the Internet and tested by my family for the New Year.
Tartlets are the most convenient snack for a buffet table! I offer an interesting and delicious version of the filling with avocado sauce and eggs stuffed with shrimp salad!