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.
Believe me, this is the simplest recipe for beef roast. Even a beginner can handle it. The meat turns out incredibly juicy and tender. The degree of roasting of meat you choose yourself, simply increasing the cooking time. I cooked medium rare roasting (weak roasting), so my family likes it. I do not recommend cooking a casserole above medium (almost fried). The meat will not be so juicy.
Snacks in lavash have long been regular guests on the New Year’s table. This option seems to me the most interesting because of the addition of carrots in Korean.
I suggest cooking wonderful, delicious sandwiches. It looks very beautiful, original, is prepared from simple, affordable products and is very easy and fast. And how delicious it is, mmm! A great option both for every day and for a festive table, for example, for the new year.
It’s not just mors, although the cooking technology is similar. This is a delicious drink enriched with spices, honey, orange juice. I cook this in the autumn-winter cold, so that the whole family will be happy to recharge with vitamins.
