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 came to you with the idea of a roll, and not a simple one, but as a snack. And not just a snack, but an egg one. Light and airy, informative and bright, it can not only diversify, but also decorate a festive table.
And yet, in the New Year’s troubles, a simple but spectacular dessert is important! I suggest you quickly bake a chocolate brownie and serve it “not as always”! You can bake brownies at least a week before the holiday, and decorate shortly before the feast – it’s convenient!
I continue to introduce you to the Slovak national cuisine. Today they treat you to honey cakes, which are forbidden at Christmas. Fragrant, ruddy. They pack them in beautiful boxes and give them to friends and relatives. You can bake them in advance, the gingerbread is perfectly stored.
This pork turns out to be very tender and juicy. Moderately salty and with a subtle aroma of Bulgarian pepper. When sliced, it is obtained with a scattering of red sparks from the pepper sauce made from Lecho.
Hummus is an ancient oriental cold snack made from chickpeas and sesame paste, spices and olive oil. Chickpeas are a rich source of vegetable protein, as well as various minerals, vitamins and fiber. I suggest you prepare a version of this snack with broccoli, which will not only give hummus color, but also enrich it with many useful substances. Hummus with broccoli will be a great snack on your New Year’s table!
This wonderful hot dish is a real friend on the New Year’s table! The most delicate, with an appetizing crust and an incomparable aroma! A few years ago I tried it at a friend’s birthday party. It was a cross between a jellied snack cake and a grill.
A wonderful, interesting, bright dish of liver pancakes for a festive table. It is not difficult to cook it at all, and the result will please. The snack turns out to be tender, cheesy.
Cupcakes are great pastries, they are prepared simply, stored for a long time and look beautiful on the table! New Year’s cupcakes are more fragrant, tastier and more beautiful than usual.
