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.
Bright, tender and very tasty pate of herring and baked beetroot. This is a wonderful cold appetizer that can be prepared both for a varied everyday menu and for a festive table. The pate will look especially tempting in baskets of rye bread.
Anyone who cooks marshmallows knows that the basis is applesauce (from antonovka – ideally) from green apples, because they contain more pectin than others, and this is important for marshmallows. There is no pectin in persimmons! Therefore, this fruit will be mixed with applesauce. And there will be nuts! No, no, no… Of course, nuts do not carry any load for the marshmallow base. This is a delicious addition and “unusual” for marshmallows. You eat soft marshmallows and stumble upon pieces of nuts. They also decorate the top of the marshmallow. Such an airy and useful gift can be made to your dear people. And there are still a lot of reasons ahead!
Do you like the combination of berries with poultry or meat? I really) suggest cooking these pockets of turkey fillet with apple and raspberry. You can take another berry with a slight sourness. It turns out fragrant, delicious and juicy.
Chicken with spicy pumpkin sauce, baked in a spicy marinade. A bright, rich, fragrant and very tasty dish. Simple and affordable, it will look good on a festive table and will certainly appeal to your family and guests. Try this!
Canapé “for one bite” on homemade crumbly cookies with mashed green peas and cottage cheese with fragrant shrimp. A wonderful snack for the New Year’s table and for the buffet table. I highly recommend it! It’s amazing!
