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.
The options for cooking chicken with potatoes can be listed endlessly. You will spend a minimum of time on this recipe and, while everything is in the oven, you will be able to prepare other dishes, or do household chores, or just relax after a hard day. At the same time, you will get a full lunch or dinner. A wonderful, very simple recipe that will always help you out. And the result will please – an extremely tasty, juicy, tender and fragrant dish. Chicken and potatoes just melt in your mouth. Be sure to try this!
Minced meat is a hit of all time! Of course, cutlets and meatballs may not always be suitable for a festive table, but terrine is a completely different matter. A beautiful, delicious and exquisite dish can really become a hit on the Christmas table!
No New Year’s feast is complete without snacks. One of the simple but spectacular snacks on the festive table is stuffed eggs. Over the years, recipes have been improved and new interesting combinations of products in the filling have been invented. The result is always beautiful.
Marmalade for the New Year will be an excellent alternative to cakes and pastries. Cold, refreshing, it will perfectly fit into the hot atmosphere of a noisy feast. This dish is considered one of the simplest desserts. Showing ingenuity and imagination, even a young hostess will be able to surprise her guests with a festive dessert.
Well, what is a New Year without a cake? On the eve of the holiday, I offer you a recipe for a delicate and very tasty nut cake with currants and caramel cream. Of course, I’ll have to tinker, but it’s worth it…
A very delicious pie on a neutral dough with baked almond cream and cottage cheese-cream glaze. Pomegranate jelly completes it all. It’s an incredible combination of flavors and textures. It’s a very, very new year! I wanted to divide the cooking process into two days, but then I got so carried away that I cooked it when I came home from work. It was the right decision! The pie was stabilized in the refrigerator in the morning, and for breakfast we ate this wonderful pie!
Duck is the queen of the Christmas table! In this version, as for me, the perfect combination of spices, fruits, as a result – excellent taste and amazing aroma!
