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 is a delicious dessert that can be prepared for a festive New Year’s table. Your family and friends will certainly like it, and the children will be delighted with it and will ask you to cook it more than once.
A party in the Black Forest is an unusual and delicious dessert! This is something like a hybrid of a Black Forest cake and a cheesecake. In addition, you do not need to bake anything except a biscuit for crumbs, which covers the top and sides, but… this is my personal change of the recipe, where the “pate” was decorated with a crumb of chocolate cookies.
I offer the cook a pie with cranberry cottage cheese and panna cotta. In which a light, sweet and sour kurd is set off by a delicate vanilla panna cotta combined with a sandy base. Mmm… it’s a pleasure!!!
A wonderful recipe for rolls without baking. The roll turns out very tasty and juicy. Such a roll can be served on a festive table. And most importantly, everything is very tasty, simple and fast.
For me, this recipe for quail is the most New Year’s recipe. The aroma of game, citrus and herbs creates a magical mood! Quails cooked according to this recipe are very tender and delicious.
New Year and the famous “herring under a fur coat” for many people are inseparable concepts!!!)) Herring appetizer with pickled cucumbers, spicy carrots and onions can be a good alternative or addition to the festive table!
The idea of serving vegetable snacks in the form of balls of different sizes is not new, but it often disappoints, because basically not everything is as delicious as it looks beautiful: vegetables turn out fresh and dry. I will show you how to avoid the blandness of the ingredients, I will share a lot of “secrets”, in general, I will tell you how to cook not only a beautiful, but also a really delicious snack. In addition, we will put everyone’s favorite herring inside and we will get a variant of herring “under a fur coat”, only ours will be in a “tangerine” crust)