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 most delicious oatmeal cookies I’ve ever tasted. It is soft, crumbly, does not harden for a long time. Great for a family tea party. I give it to the kids so they can take it with them to school for a snack. Instead of prunes, you can take any fruit or dried fruits.
Dessert with coconut jelly, granola and pumpkin puree. I made pumpkin soup, but I baked too much of it. There’s mashed potatoes left. Here I came up with such a dessert so that the pumpkin would not disappear. It turned out very tasty.
I can’t remember where exactly I found such a principle of quail cooking on the Internet. But everything turns out perfectly. Namely, in autumn it can be stuffed with my favorite pink grapes with blue cheese. It’s very tasty, cook and help yourself!
New Year’s holidays, feasts, meetings with friends and family are coming soon. Tables will have to be set more than once, and what to cook – to be delicious, fast and “Oh, how beautiful!”. I think these beetroot snacks will decorate the table, please the guests and will not take up much of your time. Pay attention.
Those whose grandmothers lived in the village know what she is, a real village bloodsucker. And I know and remember this taste. Let’s try to cook something similar in a city apartment from modern products. One of my discoveries in the world of sausage production is dry blood powder. It can be purchased online at an affordable price. It is from him that you can cook almost grandmother’s blood.
You get great pleasure when, after reading the recipe, you internally feel that this recipe will produce the effect of “Wow!”And indeed, expectations do not let you down! Moreover, you experience the thrill of a proven recipe and every successful step. Some incredible cake! I used this cooking technology for the first time. Is anyone familiar with this? Even if someone does not like this whole prefabricated “structure”, its individual components can be used in other preparations. I liked everything!
Who of you has read Alice in Wonderland, he will surely remember the funny Duchess who was removed from morality. One of them read: “Every vegetable has its own time!”It seems logical, but we somehow neglected this and bought a melon in November. Naturally, it was absolutely unsweetened. We decided not to waste the good in vain, and we prepared a very simple, but delicious pie-charlotte on sponge dough. For tea-the very thing!
The basis of this bright, delicious garlic bruschetta is fragrant pumpkin oil, which is very easy to prepare! The rest of the ingredients can be chosen according to your taste, I have pickled and fried chicken breast, feta cheese and herbs!