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.
Great roast. The taste of beer in the finished dish is not felt at all, it evaporates during cooking, leaving only a wonderful aroma of potatoes and chicken. The original taste of this dish will appeal to everyone, especially the stronger sex.
It’s amazing! Soft shortbread dough, then a soft and sweet curd layer, juicy sourness of berries and a thin layer of streusel… It’s hard to stop after one bite, believe me!
I love all kinds of rolls. They look great on a festive table. Today I propose to cook a chicken roll with vegetable filling wrapped with zucchini strips. This roll is delicious both hot and cold.
This delicious, hearty meatloaf is quite easy to prepare, but the result exceeds all expectations! It can be served both hot and cold. This delicious and original snack “Green peas” will undoubtedly become a worthy decoration of any festive table!
A spectacular and original snack that looks beautiful and bright on the table. All the ingredients are perfectly combined and quite budget-friendly: pancakes-beetroot-herring. Everything is prepared very simply, even a novice hostess can cope.
A delicious dish for a festive feast. Chicken stuffed with spicy pumpkin with raisins and garlic-orange flavor. Chicken meat turns out to be very soft, juicy and tender. Cooking such a chicken is not troublesome, a food processor will cope very quickly with the preparatory work (cooking fragrant oil and slicing vegetables for minced meat). The chicken itself is baked in the sleeve. It remains only to wait for the end of cooking, and serve the ruddy chicken with a spicy side dish.
A very delicate curd layer with apple sourness on an unsweetened almond base is an ideal dessert on any day, and even more so on a festive one! The combination of different textures and flavors will allow you to enjoy this cheesecake after a hearty meal.
During the New Year and Christmas holidays, there can be no ordinary dinner! It should be festive, delicious and fervent! This dish is suitable for all these dishes. Cheese with butter makes the chicken juicy inside, stretches pleasantly when sliced or broken. When baking, the presence of cheese under the skin gives a ruddy crispy crust and peels it off. Vegetables are soaked with all the juices… And flavors: garlic, pepper, thyme. What am I telling you? Try this! Urgently!