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.
Delicious and beautiful, light and hearty – the most suitable salad in the New Year’s menu. Minus the recipe, I must say, in any salad there are basic products – potatoes, rice or vegetables, in this salad couscous is the most profitable and delicious. Mixed with caviar, it is almost unrecognizable, but it goes very well with fish.
A simple salad with tuna, egg and celery root. Very easy to prepare, but at the same time delicious salad. Cooking will take only twenty minutes. And this salad is also good for sandwiches: put a lettuce leaf on toasted bread, a few spoons of lettuce, cover with a lettuce leaf and another piece of toasted bread.
Despite the fact that the salad “Olivier” is perfect in itself. Dedicated to everyone who loves sweet notes in salads, because the pear gives this salad a delicate taste
Imagine a very tasty, light salad! The main thing is to boil the beef and defrost the broccoli.. We cook it for every New Year, and everyone eats this salad with pleasure – even those who don’t like broccoli! Come in, cook with pleasure and treat your family!
My dear ones, I present to you a very hearty and delicious salad with liver. This is one of my family’s favorite salads. He was prepared for the feast many times and always with success.
This salad is an interesting combination of root vegetables and celery stalks with tuna and pickled prunes. Sour cream dressing gives the salad juiciness, but if desired, it can be replaced with mayonnaise or Greek yogurt. The flavor bouquet is complemented by nuts and chopped greens!
A real winter salad! Hearty because of the presence of meat delicacies, juicy and crispy because of cucumbers, and the pear gives piquancy and freshness. Very tasty!
An interesting and bright salad of pieces of smoked chicken breast, tomatoes, eggs, green peas and lettuce leaves with a spicy dressing of mayonnaise and white horseradish!
Such a delicious, rich, creamy and fragrant pie that the hand itself reaches for the next piece)) The crust is delicious, sugary, the crumb is moist. A festive homemade, cozy tea party with this cupcake is guaranteed))