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.
I offer a cheesecake in the shape of a Christmas tree for a festive table as a snack! It will become a real decoration of the New Year’s table and will not go unnoticed by your guests! It is prepared quickly, which is very convenient in the midst of the New Year’s rush, but it turns out delicious and elegant!
I want to cook unusual dishes for the New Year’s table. Frozen black currant berries can be used for the marinade. Chicken under the influence of acid becomes tender and softened. And you can bake meat in a sleeve with the addition of potatoes and onions.
This recipe is considered a classic of the national Slovak cuisine. Knock on any door on December 24 for Christmas, and you will be invited to the table with a tureen or a large bowl of cabbage in the center. There are recipes that are prepared within two days. I’ll treat you to a hearty cabbage soup. Come in!
This dish can be prepared just before serving as a hot snack. And you can cook in advance, you will get a cold snack or a preparation for sandwiches. In any case, it turns out fragrant and tender. You choose.
I almost never stuff fish whole, but it happens that I come across such interesting recipes that only my hands itch. And then there was something to scratch – they drew a bullet at home (it’s also a pelengas)… why not?)
What’s a New Year without sweets? And if it’s a honey cake, then you will definitely succeed! I diluted the classic combination of honey cakes and sour cream with an orange note in the form of a curd, and I want to say that the cake turned out just magical! Tender honey-orange cakes, sour citrus fruits and sour cream are a holiday! Try it for sure!