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.
There is such a traditional in Spain, strange at first glance, salad of red onions, oranges and olives. But the Mediterranean cuisine is not bad, so – practice! And we get our dose of vitamins, antioxidants and, of course, enjoy the taste.
The salad will surprise chicken lovers with its unusual taste. Pears will add sweetness, and dressing based on soy sauce and balsamic vinegar will give a piquant sourness.
This salad has become a favorite in our family, it is easy and simple to prepare. Tender meat of boiled-smoked chicken ham, perfectly combined in my salad with other vegetables.
I want to offer you a very light, delicate, truly summer cake or dessert “Fruit Opera”. The cakes are soft, airy, and thanks to impregnation juicy and moist. Gluten-free composition. If desired, the biscuit can be replaced with any other. Dessert is moderately sweet. And the combination of strawberries with citrus notes gives just an excellent combination. Despite the layering of this dessert, it is prepared quite easily and simply. I hope you enjoy it!!!
The cake was a success. A delicate, airy cream, a good sponge cake, I like the combination – a little sponge cake + more cream in this cake is just what you need. It looks cute. And the complexity of the execution is quite feasible to work with this cake was fun!
