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.
Today I want to offer a recipe for meringue roll or as it is called – meringue roll. The cream will be lemon-based cream “Charlotte”. A delicate citrus cream perfectly complements the sweetness of the meringue. They perfectly complement and emphasize each other. Thanks to this cream, the meringue does not get wet and keeps its shape well. It is prepared from the most common products. The recipe will not contain heavy cream and cream cheese. The roll turns out to be very tender, with a crisp crust and a light, moist middle. It really turns out very, very tasty!!!
A wonderful, very tender and juicy snack. It is steamed, which is important, it turns out light and tasty. The filling can be prepared any – to your taste. Everything is very simple, fast, affordable, the result is amazing.
Another cookie from the popular Greek pastry chef Aida Petrecikis, which differs from the previously published version. If you love almonds and the most delicate creamy shortbread dough, then this cookie is just for you! And there are not so many recipes for cooking kurabiedes!
Extremely fragrant, delicious and natural marmalade. The addition of red Rowan gives it a beautiful color. It’s so nice to eat it on the eve of your favorite holiday. And the marmalade will be a great choice for a gift.
I read that it is good to cook vegetable dishes for the upcoming New Year. And corn for next year’s hostess is a real treat! So I decided to make this vegetable roll from pita bread. And if you use vegetarian mayonnaise, then such a roll can be eaten by those who observe fasting.
On a cold winter evening, what could be better than a cup of hot chocolate? I propose to prepare cupcakes and arrange them in the form of cups. Children will like them, and other guests will not remain indifferent.
A fragrant cupcake with a rich truffle flavor, juicy, dense crumb. I recommend cooking during the New Year holidays. It will perfectly brighten up a winter tea party after a walk in the fresh air.
