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.
In cooking, as in clothing, there is fashion. This is especially clearly seen in confectionery. The tone is set by famous confectioners, presenting recipes in their blogs, which then disperse among users. Raspberry… The taste of this berry has already fallen in love with many sweet tooths a year ago, but the release of a limited series of popular sweets has once again raised it to the crest of a sweet wave. Now there will be a crimson ringing. I offer you a variation of French custard cakes. And to make it quite beautiful – cover them with mirror glaze.
I decided to dilute the classic taste of my favorite dessert with meringue and nuts. It turned out the most winter combination: honey, nuts, spices. This cake was baked for my eldest son’s birthday. There are no indifferent people left, and we have a new version of the cake “Custom-made”.
Soft, sweet, with the aroma of honey and spices – this cake is simply created for winter weather! It’s so nice to have a cup of tea with him after a long walk… And it is very easy to prepare, so involve children in the baking process, they will certainly be interested!
New Year’s holidays are not only a festive table, candles and treats. This also includes gatherings with friends, visits and, of course, breakfast with family. It is for such breakfasts that I suggest you prepare this tender and delicious casserole. Something similar was prepared by my grandmother when I was with her on New Year’s holidays. Of course, there was no cottage cheese then, but there was cottage cheese and sour cream. This option is very similar to the one that was in childhood.
Stuffed eggs can be with a variety of fillings, one of our favorites is with herring, potatoes and apple. The snack turns out very tasty and flies away instantly.
The taste of baking with cinnamon is the most Christmas, wonderful and festive. Spend half an hour and fill the house with this magical, fabulous smell, and drink tea at the same time. To heal.
You can’t do without sandwiches at any meal. Sandwiches with fish or red caviar are especially popular. I made sandwiches with lightly salted, fatty, soft mackerel, salted it myself and added slices of pickled spicy apple to add flavor. Try it, it turns out very tasty.
Fillet marinated in honey-garlic marinade with herbs with seasonal berry sauce, complemented with fresh strawberries and grilled brie cheese – what could be more exquisite…
Meat rolls are very popular on the New Year’s table. They are just a “rescue stick”, they can be eaten both hot and cold, which is very important during a long meal. I offer you a fragrant meatloaf with red sweet pepper and chili pepper.
