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 combination of flavors of spicy arugula and tender tuna is perfectly set off by pickled onions and olives. Quail eggs add juiciness to the salad, and cherry tomatoes are good in any dish.
To be honest, I’m not a fan of chocolate desserts, but I couldn’t tear myself away from it. Very chocolate, fragrant, moderately sweet, moist and with a slight rum note. Amazing!!! Chocolate lovers and not only, this recipe will definitely appreciate. It’s also easier to prepare. Join us!!!
The dish is delicious and easy to prepare, it looks very nice both on holidays and on weekdays. I made small adjustments to the recipe of the roll, in my opinion, it turned out delicious. Prepare a roll with vegetables and liver.
Very tasty and tender liver pie casserole. This liver will appeal to all adults and children. It has a completely different taste, and even those who don’t like it will like it. It is very tasty in hot form, but also in cold form – no less delicious, here for an amateur. I’m cooking a double portion, one is never enough for us, start with one. The ingredients are given for one serving.
At the heart of the cake without baking cookies “Savoyardi” with a light custard for pudding and a layer of bananas. Minimum amount of fat and sugar. A worthy option for a children’s holiday or a pleasant and satisfying lunch.
A recipe from the “two in one” series. These Mediterranean dishes complement each other so much that it just didn’t make sense to present them separately! They will fill your home with fragrance and delight you and your loved ones with their appearance and amazing taste!
It has already snowed in our city. As they always say in such cases – “monthly precipitation”. Everyone is happy, but we didn’t have time to feel autumn. For autumn memories, I again climbed into the bins – frozen berries and apples of different varieties for long-term storage. And nature itself inspired me to prepare this dessert.
