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.
These original cakes are distinguished by a bright festive appearance and taste, which gives them an amber-peach sprinkle. For those who do not know what topping is, it is an addition to dessert, which gives the dish aesthetic and taste completeness. Translated from English, the word topping means – the top. And indeed – the height of gustatory pleasure!
Tender and soft pancakes combined with hot sauce, vegetable filling and pomegranate jelly will decorate your table. The filling is the simplest and most inexpensive, but you can diversify it according to your taste and desire. You can add pickles, mushrooms, herbs or cheese.
The basis of mini-cakes are honey cakes, and the dessert is unusual for its cream, because it includes chestnut jam, which began to appear on sale in large chain stores. It looks like thick apple jam, but it tastes like nothing.
Juicy pickled lamb, a delicious, fragrant dish. Mutton is an original, healthy meat that is well absorbed by the human body, but the meat should be from a young lamb, up to one and a half years old. I agree that not everyone likes mutton, but for lovers – there is no tastier meat. Of course, it would be great to bake it on coals, but in the oven it will be incomparably tastier. The meat is perfectly served with a side dish of rice, pickled onions, mustard, various sauces. I want to offer a hot salsa sauce, it perfectly emphasizes the meat and gives a decent taste.
Meatloaf, as well as with egg, is a very popular dish, and there are many variations on the site. I think that every second housewife cooked according to such a recipe, and everyone has their own unique recipe for making a roll. So I decided to share my own.
