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.
It’s very simple, original, delicious and on top of everything useful! It is prepared very quickly, so if you come to visit! Or you wanted to eat quickly and easily!
Fragrant pickled mozzarella with notes of rosemary and lemon combined with juicy cherry tomatoes and cheese is the perfect snack for white wine or champagne.
Everyone loves to receive gifts, especially for the holiday! My gift canapes for the White Tiger. A very easy-to-prepare recipe and very tasty canapes.
Small, miniature sandwiches with delicate pate in the shape of a “bee” – both adults and children were delighted!!! In addition, the filling of such canapes can be varied: cheese with garlic, chopped mushrooms with onions, and any canned food with mayonnaise and egg, and sweet cheese mass, and, like me, chicken liver with egg, herbs and butter!
Guests at the door, I… is something missing from the festive table?! Prepare a quick and delicious snack with cheese and garlic croutons, it will not only decorate your New Year’s table, but also serve as a light snack before serving salads and hot dishes.
Futuristic still life. A Mediterranean-style delicacy, a luxurious spectacle – the dish itself decorates the table. Wine or champagne will emphasize the unique taste of shrimp in combination with grapes. Nothing complicated, the main thing is to make the canapes “stand”. The secret lies in the recipe.
The New Year is coming soon, and it’s time to make a menu for the festive table. This snack must be 100% present on the Christmas table. My guests will be very happy.
Crispy sponge cake, juicy fish, delicate taste of cream cheese is a wonderful combination for a snack that will suit lovely ladies with white wine. Serve it to the festive table and enjoy the taste.
In our vast post-Soviet space, there are dishes that everyone knows from Kaliningrad to Nakhodka, from Franz Josef Land to Kushka. Mimosa salad is one of them. And each hostess prepares it in her own way. I will offer my own version. It seems to be a classic, but with some nuances. And the main nuance is that I don’t use canned fish, I use baked fish!!! And we offer you a presentation option – elegant, festive, in the form of a canape.