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.
I offer you a very delicious fresh salad. This is a wonderful combination of all products, seasoned with a light and delicious sauce, and pickled onions add piquancy to the salad. It looks beautiful and bright on a festive table. But we often cook it on weekdays. It is prepared quickly and from available products.
I love chicken dishes! There are a lot of them on the website and on my page. But… the unusual way of cooking, the taste and richness of this dish is not a reason to share with you this simple, accessible and unpretentious recipe!
In my opinion, pumpkin is the most autumn vegetable. Not everyone, of course, loves it, but I think after trying this dessert, your attitude towards it will change. I offer a bright, beautiful, delicious and healthy jelly dessert made of pumpkin and cottage cheese.
This pie is similar to one of those cases when you ate just one piece, your hand reaches up, and your eyes cling to the next one and only by force of will you give yourself the command, come on, come on, stop! Amazingly delicious cake!
We have wonderful autumn weather now, there are still a lot of raspberries in the garden, beautiful, sweet, alas, already the last. I bring to your attention a recipe for a very tasty and light cake with raspberries. You can use frozen berries. A cake without baking, one might even say, with elements of tiramisu.
Delicious pastries for a family tea party. Cranberry berries create a great contrast with a sweet cream-based cake. I highly recommend making this wonderful pastry for you, my dear.
A very tasty and cute tilapia appetizer on skewers, in a fragrant marinade and with slices of zucchini! It is easy and quick to prepare for the arrival of guests, besides a very healthy dish!
Continuing the topic of baking pita bread, I offer my own version. The pie is good for everyone-it is quickly and easily prepared, hearty and delicious, it is good hot and yesterday’s, for me this wand is a lifesaver for many occasions.
Potatoes, chicken and mushrooms are a classic trio in Russian cuisine. These ingredients complement each other perfectly. I offer a recipe for chicken fried in a frying pan with rosemary, garlic, lemon juice, and then baked until cooked in the oven with potatoes and mushrooms.