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.
What to cook for the New Year’s table? Of course, fragrant homemade cakes with tangerines. And you can also diversify cupcakes with dried cranberries. This berry is very healthy and delicious. You can add boiling water with vegetable oil to the dough, it turns out a soft and elastic structure. Soft cupcakes with juicy tangerine filling will appeal to all guests.
A very delicious cake with a bright rich taste of black currant berries, a chocolate cake with the aroma of natural coffee. This exquisite taste will haunt you for a long time. This is being prepared for one, two, three. There are not many products, and if you have a stock of freshly frozen black currant berries, then you will have time to prepare this pie for the New Year. Whisk the liquid ingredients, add the mixed dry ingredients, dilute with freshly brewed natural coffee and put the dough in the oven. It remains to grate the berries, whisk the cream and … the pie is ready.
An interesting snack of crab sticks and squid tentacles on chips. The dish is unique in taste, but easy to prepare. Decorate any festive table and surprise your guests. This will be an excellent replacement for the boring crab salad.
On New Year’s Eve, there should be a lot of cheese and cheese dishes on the festive table to attract good luck. It’s no secret that the symbol of the next year loves this wonderful product so much! I offer you, my friends, a recipe for insanely delicious, very cheesy snack muffins with a marble middle! The snack is prepared easily and unpretentiously, with minimal costs, as they say – everything for the dish is at hand! Even children who don’t like cheese eat such muffins with great pleasure!
A delicate, light and airy sponge roll… what else do you need to complete the festive dinner?.. or just relax over a cup of tea with friends or a book… I invite you …)))
Panettone is an Italian Christmas cake, very similar to ours. But Panettone muffins are smaller versions of the famous cupcake, very tasty, airy, with lots of raisins and candied fruits.
I suggest you cook a very delicate, airy and beautiful sponge cake with creamy cottage cheese cream. I saw the recipe on a foreign website and couldn’t pass it by.
I suggest cooking delicious tartlets with chicken and pepper. They are prepared very simply, because you do not need to knead the dough. My family really likes them.
I saw this recipe on the website of a restaurant. Of course, this is not ravioli in the usual sense for us, but rather a kind of aspic. I liked this idea so much that I decided to bring it to life for the holiday. The snack looks beautiful and unusual on the festive table, but the main thing is that it turns out delicious and without extra calories.