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.
Dear friends, I want to present to your attention a recipe for a very fragrant and no less delicious dish – pork neck baked in a sleeve with French mustard. The neck is the most tender and juicy part of pork, which is ideal for baking in the oven. Especially juicy and fragrant is the pork neck in the sleeve stuffed with marinade. Due to the fact that pork is baked in a sleeve, it is cooked in its own juice and is not over-dried. The meat turns out juicy and incredibly tasty both hot and cold, especially well suited for making sandwiches. Be sure to try in practice the recipe for cooking pork neck in a sleeve in a special marinade based on French mustard — it’s very tasty!
You probably guessed that three nuts for Cinderella are the three nuts that are included in the recipe of these delicious candies? You are absolutely right! Three different nuts were used in the recipe. I invite you, my dear ones, to the recipe page.
I propose to cook a delicious, hearty bean salad for the New Year’s table. And for creativity, I advise you to serve it in tartlets made quickly and simply from toasted bread.
No meal is complete without snacks. I offer an original snack of raw mushrooms with red caviar. It is prepared quickly, and if guests suddenly arrive unexpectedly, then it will take only a few minutes to prepare it. It is also a great option for a banquet.
I want to offer you a very interesting recipe for cooking chicken. During cooking, the house is filled with a stunningly delicious smell. On the eve of the New Year, this dish is suitable for a festive table.
And I’m back to you with a chicken recipe! A very tasty, easy-to-prepare dish made from available ingredients and its ideal pair is tzadziki. Come visit!
Fragrant duck baked with pomegranate sauce is a real Christmas dish! Tender meat with a crispy crust, delicious filling. Pomegranate sauce combined with honey gives not only a magical taste, but also a wonderful glaze.
The last cake that I repeated many times was “Milk Girl” and its variations. I think it’s time to change the favorite. Over here! This is the option that has now taken the palm in my piggy bank of the “Best”! Over time, the pie opens up more and more. I managed to save a piece ahead of time in three days (I was waiting for my son for a tasting) and I can say that after a while the cake became simply magnificent! When I baked, it seemed to me that I got a very small one (16 cm in diameter), and when I tried it, I realized that it turns out very satisfying. A small piece is enough to enjoy it and have fun. One corrective treatment for me, and next time I will reduce the amount of sugar. It seemed very sweet, or the cranberries were so sweet!
I present to your attention one of the favorite salads of our family. In the vegetable season, we cook it almost every week. It is good as an independent dish on weekdays and holidays, and as a snack for barbecue.
