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.
Chicken breast marinated in homemade mayonnaise with bean sauce, Georgian tomato sauce with garlic and lots of onions with mustard. Juicy and delicious, fresh from the oven, warm and cold! A great dish for a New Year’s holiday table.
We have a tradition when relatives gather every January 2 and play Monopoly all day. On this day we prepare buffet snacks, canapes, sandwiches, fish, vegetables, meat, cheese, as well as portioned salads. Traditional chicken aspic is no exception. The dish turns out to be a delicate, dietary, very festive treat for any celebration. It can be cooked in a day or two, and nothing will happen to it. After all, on holidays there is always a lot of trouble with other dishes that need to be served directly on the table, with fervor from the heat.
Sandwiches with cod liver are a healthy and, most importantly, delicious dish that is prepared very quickly. This simple recipe can be useful to you both during the New Year holidays and in your daily diet.
Tender, delicious and very simple puffs with prune filling. Aurel Bronte writes that in the traditional recipe, the dough is quite complicated, so at Christmas most people cook it together with their children from purchased puff pastry.
Amazingly delicious sponge cake with oranges in caramel! Treat yourself and your loved ones with this wonderful cake! No one will remain indifferent for sure!
There is a huge amount of festive pastries, delicious and fragrant. All housewives try to please their loved ones. So, I offer you one of the options. A spicy, citrus-scented and delicious-tasting cupcake with dried apricots, tangerine juice and dates, without preliminary aging, will delight you at a festive tea party (does not contain alcohol – it is possible for children)
