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.
Today I will show you how to quickly cook homemade baked ham in a slow cooker. Fast and delicious food. It was a discovery for me that such delicious meat is also baked in my slow cooker.
This is such a delicious baked meat that my husband talks about it and asks me to cook more. I think that says it all. Very tasty, fragrant, tender, juicy.
Not so long ago, I decided to make balls in a hurry, which for some reason I safely threw into the far corners of my memory. This snack is good because it is prepared in a minimum amount of time from a minimum of products that can be bought at the nearest store in case of an unexpected visit of guests. It has a piquant taste and looks very original. However, in the original recipe olives are used as a “surprise”. But since no one in our family likes either, I experimented with the filling.
These cheese balls are a great snack for the New Year’s table. The taste is sharp, thanks to soy sauce, and tender. Delicious, and hot, and cold. Try to cook.
A very simple and delicious snack. These balls always attract attention and are the first to disappear from the table. If you stick a skewer in each, you will get an ideal option for gatherings in the buffet format.
A delicious elegant dish for a festive table. Easy to prepare. The taste of this snack is spicy, with cheese, garlic. I am happy to invite guests to tea.
Express snack for unexpected guests who are not shy about mayonnaise, or just for the soul. Very tasty and tender. I recommend trying to cook, you will not be disappointed.
A very juicy and bright vitamin salad that perfectly harmonizes with sour cream dressing! An indispensable ingredient in the preparation of salads is raisins! I recommend it to everyone without exception! It’s really delicious!
There are a lot of salads with chicken, but the beauty of cooking is that you can experiment and combine different products as much as you want. I offer you another option of a spicy, hearty, rich salad that can be served to guests, and you can easily cook for a family dinner. A very tasty salad, I cook now for all holidays.
The delicate, velvety consistency of the soup is deliberately emphasized by the sharp cheese taste of crispy sticks – this is “bellissimo”. Try to cook and enjoy.
