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.
A version of the salmon appetizer, which is not a shame to serve on the holiday table. Bright colors and tropical notes of mango and avocado guarantee a rosy mood for guests and loved ones.
Delicious and hearty pancakes stuffed with salted herring with avocado and herbs are sure to appeal to fans of salted fish. A great combination of overseas avocado with our Russian-style herring. These pancakes can be served for Breakfast, lunch or dinner, you can take them with you on the road, on a picnic, they will diversify any festive table.
A bright, elegant roll will adorn any festive table. The combination of cream cheese, salmon and vegetable sponge cake will not leave anyone indifferent. I assure you that the guests will ask for more.
I recommend that all lovers of classic mulled wine try this version of white wine. The result exceeded all my expectations! Very harmonious, spicy and fruity taste. Such a warming and fascinating!
From children’s feelings of the New year: the smell of citrus, sweets (chocolate) and Christmas trees… This drink contains all the same things, but this drink is not for children. It is supplemented with cognac and orange liqueur. Cocoa warms not only its temperature, but also a small amount of aromatic alcohol. And here comes the holiday! A holiday for adults, but with the same taste sensation.