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.
Simple, delicious and not expensive dessert recipe. It is prepared very quickly, no need to use the oven. Dessert “Magnolia” conquers with its taste and colorful presentation.
Cheesecake is one of the most delicious and popular desserts with cheese content. By the way, despite the fact that this delicacy came to us from American and European cuisines, its homeland is considered to be Ancient Greece-archaeologists have found a book by the Greek doctor Eigimus about the art of making cheesecakes, dated V century BC! However, recipes for this dish existed in Ancient Rome, so in reality cheesecake is much older than it can be assumed initially. And, of course, there are many different variations of its preparation now. Try to make an amazing low-temperature cheesecake with strawberries and caramel – the most delicate cream based on cottage cheese, cream and sour cream will impress even the most sophisticated gourmets! And strawberries and caramel will make the taste of this dessert even brighter and richer!
In my family, they love fish and the priority salads on our New Year’s table are made from fish. I suggest you prepare a salad from an unusual combination of products that will not leave anyone indifferent! And the sauce for it will be a tomato-cream souffle.
A festive version of fried chicken. In abundance of paprika and black pepper, with sumac and Bavarian mustard. And to garnish the most New Year’s fruits – tangerines with red onions. Festive and beautiful! Delicious and simple! I recommend it.
If you are an opponent of animal proteins and mayonnaise salads, then I think you will like this salad. This salad can also diversify your New Year’s table.
Fish in puff pastry is delicious. And trout or salmon, but with cream cheese-a hundred times tastier, you can safely serve on a holiday. I recommend it.