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.
It is customary to prepare sweet dishes for the New Year’s table. Desserts are loved by both adults and children. Cupcakes are a great option for serving portions. The cream can be made from custard chocolate mass and butter. The cream is conveniently applied to cupcakes with a pastry syringe. And you can also decorate the dessert with confectionery sprinkles, which will add magic to New Year’s toys. It turns out a sweet, tender and very tasty New Year’s dessert.
A very tasty, rich and simply incomparable dessert that will delight all lovers of chocolate, prunes and nuts, decorate the festive table and bring unearthly pleasure!
Tender, juicy, soft red fish cutlets stuffed with shrimp and herbs. It’s amazing! This dish will rightfully take pride of place on the New Year’s table. Try this!
There are many recipes for cherry mousse pies on the website. We also really like these pies. But even more my granddaughters like the mousse itself, as a separate, independent dessert. From what only I didn’t cook mousse for them: cranberries, blueberries, apricots, apples… but from cherries – for the first time. It turned out incredibly delicious: very, very cherry, rich, fragrant! An amazing berry-cherry!
A very delicate, refined pate with a hint of caramelized onion and an aftertaste of orange peel. Your guests will certainly be delighted with this snack on the New Year’s table.
Chocolate meringue roll with whipped cream is a delicious delicate dessert that will appeal to both adults and children. The chocolate base is so delicate that it just melts on the lips.
I suggest cooking bagels with plum filling. The cooking process is very simple, and the result is a lot of small delicious products for a New Year’s tea party.
I love liver in different variations. And today my fantasy led me to a liver roll. It was interesting to try how the liver pate would be combined with dried tomatoes. It turned out very well. Such a snack is not a shame to serve on a festive table.
These cookies look elegant and festive – powdered sugar resembles snow, and jam shines like a candy showcase… And it’s also delicious and can be stored for a long time, so you can cook it a few days before the holiday.