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.
This recipe is a variation of Emily Dickinson’s Christmas cake, with my changes according to my tastes and preferences. In my opinion, this is the perfect Christmas cupcake. At the moment. All the previous recipes that I tried were more dense in structure, more often resembled a fragrant honey cake with fruit. And this pie is loose, moist. It is this structure of cupcakes that is loved in our family. But that doesn’t mean I won’t try the oven and other options. There is no limit to perfection. A set of dried fruits can be chosen to taste, but, as a rule, it should be about 400 g.
Meat pudding will be a great dish for lunch, dinner or even for a festive table. It can be served as an independent dish or with a side dish. Instead of a side dish, I have “eggplant saute in Hungarian”. Instead of pork, you can use other meat, such as beef or chicken.
The fragrance familiar from childhood is associated with magic and the New Year. An incredibly simple recipe, you will need tangerines and a little corn flour, the cake will become more crumbly and fragrant.
Turkish samsa “Birds of Happiness” is the thinnest, very delicate dough and a lot of filling. This samsa is small in size, so it can be served as a snack on a festive table.
With a variety of snacks on the festive table, these fragrant sandwiches with a spicy taste also deserve attention. Peanut butter really enhanced the taste of the cheese. I hope you enjoy it.
English dessert, the taste of a winter holiday, simplicity and speed. I have decided for several years not to bake complicated cases for the New Year’s table. It doesn’t always come to dessert, and not everyone is able to appreciate your confectionery feat. And there is always not enough time, especially if you work on the 31st. And serving simple desserts without cooking is a great way out. And it can attract children. Besides, it’s very tasty, no worse than other cakes!
Tartlets with stuffing are an ideal dish for a buffet or a festive table. As a filling, use cheese and garlic paste with the addition of pieces of mussels, crispy cucumbers and fresh dill, serve in sand baskets.
The most delicate rolls with crispy cucumbers, garlic and onions will become a worthy decoration of the table both on weekdays and on holidays. I advise you to make a double portion right away, since it is impossible to stop.
