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.
Puff pastry cakes with cream of sour cream and condensed milk. A quick, simple, but very tasty dessert. It will delight you during a tea party with your family on a normal day and will appeal to your guests at the festive table. Try this!
Potato pie is a favorite of many people. Everyone has their own recipe. But in this case, the important thing is not so much the recipe as the idea of the design.
This buffet snack from ordinary products is diluted with a dressing with the addition of curry, which makes it quite memorable in its taste sensations. Very tasty and quite satisfying.
Turkey thigh roll stuffed with spicy stuffing is a delicious and beautiful snack for any occasion. Meat loaf always looks bright and presentable on any festive table. This roll can be served both hot and cold. Tender, juicy turkey meat, soaked in the aroma of prunes and spicy spices. To complement the turkey roll, you can use a healthy and bright side dish of ginger carrots. In general, the dish turns out to be light (in composition), bright and festive!
Tangerine cookies fit very well into the concept of a New Year’s holiday. This is the aroma of the holiday, the aroma of tangerines. Bright, tender, can be stored for more than a week if you don’t eat it earlier.
The ideal snack on the festive table will be a carrot roll stuffed with cottage cheese, avocado and lightly salted red fish. The taste of carrots in the roll is not felt, and the taste turns out to be delicate, refined.
Traditionally, a dessert made of logs is prepared for the New Year’s table. I suggest you cook a delicious unsweetened log with a very interesting filling.