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.
I bought a few days ago cone-shaped molds for making cakes in the form of tubes with protein cream and, in fact, was going to cook them, but then I came up with the idea to cook such tubes, but from chicken fillet… And I got a delicious dish. So please join the table.
The dish is very similar to the classic julienne. Only I added rice with quinoa. Festive, beautiful and delicious! You can serve when you have guests or when you want to enjoy a meal.
Chicken breast, in golden breading, baked with fragrant Basmati rice and vegetables is a simple preparation of a dish from the usual products available in the arsenal of every housewife, while not taking much time… it’s simple, fast, and it turns out a delicious dish for the whole family with children or for a group of friends! The rice turns out to be very crumbly and fragrant, the brisket is tender, not dry – try and appreciate the taste!
This exquisite dish with a delicate aroma is so beautiful and delicious that it will certainly become a favorite on any festive table! Imagine golden crumbly rice with red-yellow streaks of carrots, fried golden coconut and sweet raisins.
Chicken with garlic and rice turns out to be very interesting. Cooking is quick and easy. The dish turns out to be very tasty and satisfying. It tastes tender, with garlic and cream.
I cooked this lasagna for the first time, and it turned out very tasty! Be sure to cook it, I’m sure you’ll like it. It is not very difficult to prepare. In my family, this dish is appreciated, I hope that you will not remain indifferent.
I like to cook, allowing maximum variety in the use of ingredients, proportions, etc. Pasta with Bolognese sauce is from this series. The base is minced meat with tomatoes or tomato paste. Then you can dream up, add ingredients, replace them with similar ones.
If you have pork ribs in the refrigerator and you are going on a weekend picnic with friends, then delicious grilled meat is provided for you. In order for you to enjoy the full program, I suggest you do a little preliminary training at home.
I bought fresh chilled ribs three weeks ago, in the morning. By the evening it turned out that no one would eat them that day! He must have been frozen. Today I decided to cook them. I was afraid it would be too harsh, especially since I marinated for only 30 minutes! But it turned out just fabulous!! Soft, tender, juicy! I suggest you try this wonderful recipe!
Very tasty, spicy and flavorful dish. The presence of alcohol gives it a festive taste and appearance. Perfect for a romantic dinner and a festive evening.