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.
Very tasty and chocolate! In French cuisine, there are two versions of this cake: “melting chocolate” and “soft chocolate”. The first option is almost completely liquid, covered with a thin crispy crust; inside the second is an airy pulp and only a small liquid core. The boundary of differences between these varieties of cake is very blurred, in one way or another, different proportions of eggs and flour are used, as well as different temperatures and baking times.
Chocolate fudge is a unique French dessert with a liquid filling inside and a hard crispy crust on the outside. This dessert is considered difficult to prepare, because the fudge must be precisely kept in the oven to preserve the liquid core.
Fudge is a classic French cake with a viscous soft chocolate filling. Baking with chocolate is very tasty in itself, and if chocolate with chocolate is something… Try to cook this delicious dessert!
Before that, I tried to cook cheese fondue several times, but apparently everyone came across the wrong recipes…. some kind of tasteless muck. And so – after all, we decided to fulfill an old dream for the old new year – a cheese treat! It would be very tasty.
A divinely delicious French dessert. It’s so delicious that my head is spinning with pleasure))). It’s fast and simple, but there are some subtleties. I would like to share these subtleties with you. Perhaps my advice will be useful to someone.
We bring to your attention a recipe for a classic cheese fondue. According to our own experience, the body spends more calories digesting these dishes than it gets from them! Thus, information about the sharpness of this dish and its negative effect on the figure is greatly exaggerated. “Fondue” is translated from French as “melted” or “melted”. Get ready, and you will melt and melt with pleasure…
Fudge is a popular French dish, which is a muffin or cupcake with a crispy crust on the outside and a soft liquid filling inside. I offer you a dessert option with lemon and white chocolate flavor (black was originally used), a pleasant caramel note to which is given by cane unrefined sugar.