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.
Incredibly delicious salad. Hearty, not heavy, may well replace the main course. Meat can be any: pork, chicken, and beef. I highly recommend trying it.
Czech trdelnik is a famous street pastry that can be tasted not only in the Czech Republic. For example, in Hungary, baking is called kurtoskalach. Trdelnik is baked on coals, is considered a festive treat and is sold at fairs or Christmas markets. But what if you can’t get to Prague, but you want to try baking? We offer to cook a trdelnik in the oven, adding a touch of autumn to the dough, pumpkin puree and spices to a traditional pumpkin pie.
Simple, but at the same time very tasty salad in French. It is prepared easily and quickly, from improvised products. Both adults and children like it. From the series “Guests on the threshold”.
This salad is original not only with its piquant taste, but also with a bright color of autumn colors. Tender, juicy, crispy, homely cozy salad gives a good mood and just pleases the eye! It is good both on holidays and on weekdays.
Sausage in our family is relevant at any time of the year, but in autumn, with the onset of cold weather, meat snacks become more popular. And fresh slaughtered pork appears on the market. So my hands are itching to cook homemade sausage. Inclusions of dried barberry berries give the sausage a beautiful pattern and set off its sour meat taste.
Puff pastry cheesecakes. Ricotta with the addition of boiled potatoes. I remember this filling in cheesecakes from childhood. Much tastier than just cottage cheese. Try this!
