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.
Here is a recipe for a delicious cake found on the Internet. I baked this cake yesterday for a festive tea party. In the recipe of the Honey cake, only egg yolks were used in the preparation of the cream. And I would also like to note that the recipe is simple and fast in cooking time.
Now there are so many different variations of pancakes for Maslenitsa that I decided to keep up and share our favorite recipe for baked pancakes with cottage cheese and raisins, with butter and honey. Pancakes according to this recipe are very, very tasty. They are well soaked in creamy honey sauce, they become so sweet, fragrant, juicy and a little high in calories) the main thing is to stop in time and not eat everything at once) In general, we cook and eat these pancakes with great pleasure, I hope that you will like them too. Join us!
This pike is fundamentally different from the traditional Jewish dish “gefilte fish” in two ways. Firstly, the fish is baked in the oven, and not boiled, as it should be according to Jewish tradition. Secondly, and this is the most important thing, there is no matzo or breadcrumbs in minced meat, but lard is added to it. The above, however, does not make the dish any less delicious.
Pancake cake “Red Velvet” is bright, delicious and beautiful. Thin red pancakes and delicate cream just melt in your mouth. If you are against using a dye, you can just skip this step.
Cheese rolls with corn are a great snack. The preparation of such a snack takes very little time, and the result will pleasantly surprise you. The rolls are very tender, soft, with a piquant taste.
I suggest you prepare a delicate and fragrant dessert for your half: raspberries, chocolate, whipped cream… Dessert is portioned, so you can cook it with a margin so that everyone has enough. I am sure that this delicacy will appeal to both adults and children.
If you are a fan of chicken stomachs, then you will definitely like this version of aspic, especially since it is also budget. And in this performance, he will also decorate the festive table.
Homemade pies are always a great idea for a family tea party. Shortbread cookies with jam, jam or other filling are ideal for this. An amazing combination of crumbly, crispy shortbread dough with homemade jam will delight you on cold winter evenings. This pie is prepared very quickly and simply. Prepare and please your loved ones with such a wonderful cake. Enjoy your meal.
This recipe contains several ideas from different traditional dishes (cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers, meatballs). Such a fantasy on the theme of traditions with creativity. It turned out very tasty. The recipe, at first glance, is complicated. In fact, everything is much simpler than it seems. Try to prepare. I’m sure you’ll like it.