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.
Salad of fresh vegetables in egg halves is original, delicious and unusual. The food is just great, different from simple eggs. It will look good on a festive New Year’s table.
Do you love pate as much as I do? You can cook a version without butter. The structure of the pate is tender, melting, you can put any greens and every time there will be a new taste!
For a variety of festive table, we offer to cook eggs stuffed with canned sardines. The taste of eggs, fish. Try to cook, your guests will be delighted.
Baskets of eggs with herring pate. Prepare this snack easily and quickly. Very colorful, it will look great on a festive table. Guests will be surprised not only by the appearance, but also by the taste.
This snack is specific, suitable only for big fans of blue cheese with mold, as they say, “not for the masses.” And if you consider yourself such, then help yourself to health!
This snack recipe is designed for men who host the kitchen on March 8 and are extremely puzzled about what to treat their beloved. It was with such a simple and delicious snack that my beloved husband congratulated me on Women’s Day a year ago. Now it’s one of our favorite dishes. As a snack, it is suitable for white wines. Dear men, please your loved ones!
I think I will not be mistaken if I say that stuffed eggs are a world snack!!! It is popular on any table. And at high receptions, quail eggs with caviar are served, and on the most modest table of the most ordinary Russian family we will meet stuffed eggs – canned fish, ham, cheese, herring… and much more than that. As they say, what is enough imagination. My fantasy today suggested this option. A “fun” bright snack of proteins stuffed with beetroot, herring and caviar mousse. Why are they green??? See – the answer is in the recipe!!