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.
New Year and citrus flavors, especially tangerines, are two inseparable concepts. We will please the guests, bake a cake with kumquat and tangerines, I assure you – it’s festive, fragrant, delicious! Help yourself, Happy New Year!
A delicious and light snack option for the festive table. Processed cheese rolls with mushroom filling are prepared very quickly and simply. They taste tender and satisfying. This portion of snacks will appeal to everyone without exception. It can be prepared in advance and served as needed.
The roll with cucumbers, onions and cheese turns out juicy, tender, with a piquant taste. Cooking is a pleasure when there is little time, but I want to please my loved ones.
Meat rolls are always a welcome snack on the table. The holidays are coming, and we will prepare for them. I have a roll with a simple vegetable filling. Vegetables and pickled cucumber make the roll piquant, juicy and rich in taste, the presence of beetroot attracts attention, beautiful and appetizing. I made several rolls with different fillings, and this one, with beetroot, was eaten first.
A delicious, hearty snack with a bright and unusual taste. The snack can be served as a full-fledged salad or put the salad on a slice of black bread and serve with herring.
This poultry roll is made in the manner of Italian porchetta, which is traditionally made from pork. If you want more roll, take a turkey breast; a smaller chicken will do! The role of the “crust” here will be performed by the bacon covering the roll. Definitely, this roll can become a decoration of the festive table. And, at the same time, in cold form it is suitable as a snack. Pesto sauce makes slicing very attractive and delicious!