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.
Inexplicably delicious! To a beer for a loved one. The snack turns out to be so delicious that I even like beer. You can cook on an open fire, in nature.
This salad is sure to appeal to seafood lovers, as it includes mussels. The rich fresh taste of the dish is given by green onions, cucumbers and dill. The salad turns out to be extremely light, tasty and nutritious.
Are you having a picnic? Or corporate by nature? And you don’t know what to cook, and there’s no time, and you don’t want to bother. I offer a win-win snack that everyone will like. Surely, you have tried these mussels while vacationing in the Crimea. The cooking time will take no more than 10 minutes. 10 minutes – and you are the lucky owner of the most delicious mussels in the world. Just don’t forget to bring Kikkoman soy sauce with you.
We love spicy dishes. And so I cook cabbage often. And that’s why this salad is absolutely necessary for the New Year! Vitamins, juiciness, bright taste. In addition, according to a budget recipe, you can prepare a salad 2-3 days before the holiday – it will simply taste better!
Canapes are a convenient snack for a festive table. It’s quite easy to cook them, especially on Shrovetide, when the pancakes are ready, and you want to diversify the table. Caviar gives solemnity and beauty. The dish has two options – budget with imitation crab meat and elite – with real.
Canapes are mini cutlets made from assorted fish. Original and delicious. This is done very easily and quickly. The taste is fishy, delicate. Try it and rate it.
A hearty and at the same time fresh salad, which is not a shame to put on the festive table, because it looks very elegant. The number of products is arbitrary, something more, something less, according to your taste. I put it together literally from what I found in the refrigerator. It was amazing.
Canapes on rye bread with avocado, soy sauce, trout and cucumber. New Year’s holidays are long, canapes will help you out, prepare them simply and quickly. They turn out very tasty and healthy. Try!
Take note of this simple recipe. Anyone can handle it. These canapes with chicken fillet and vegetables, which can be dipped in a very tasty sauce, are suitable for an aperitif, a party and any other occasion when you need a light snack.
