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.
If you like zucchini as much as I do, then you will also love this recipe! I will tell you more that it was liked very much even by my family, who do not share my love for zucchini. This is a great snack for a festive table!
A great dessert option for the whole family. The pie is very tasty and tender. Shortbread perfectly complements the soft and tender curd-custard filling. This pie just melts in your mouth. It is very satisfying, and at the same time delicious and healthy.
This baked chicken with a delicious and rich filling will be a decoration not only for a home lunch, but also for a festive dinner! The chicken languishes in the oven for quite a long time, the meat turns out tender and juicy! A filling of rice, apples and chestnuts seasoned with sweet thyme, cinnamon and hot pepper will be just the perfect side dish for such a bird.
I suggest you prepare a very delicious dessert: crumbly nut base, tender cream and sweet figs. This is a treat for a sweet tooth! I got the idea for this dessert on the website haseimglueck.de I made some changes of my own and I share the result with you. The proportions are given for a shape with a diameter of 18 cm.
My simpler adaptation of the classic American pie, but no less delicious. Be sure to serve with a scoop of ice cream, so soften the dryness of the cake and add a hint of vanilla.
The drumstick of a Turkey baked with orange slices, onion and garlic in a soy-honey-mustard coating. It is not only festive, looks beautiful on a plate, but also very tasty, tender and flavorful meat with the addition of baked vegetables!
I present you one of my favorite dishes! This is a Riet from a duck. I love duck. A Riet is a type of French pate. And it is prepared quite simply, though relatively long. Well, those who don’t like duck can make a chicken salad like this. And if you got a goose, you can make it out of a goose or any other bird)
Why not cook a bruschetta on a picnic?! Personally, we love sandwiches on a grilled baguette, and different fillings and spreads always change the taste. The main addition will be a grilled Turkey, and vegetables can be added to Your taste. Recommend.
I offer another version of the well-known and much-loved cake with a win – win combination of chocolate and cherry! Mega-chocolate cake, rich, moderately sweet and flavorful!
Nutty sponge cake, with a delicate layer of cream souffle with prunes and dried apricots added to it, will adorn any festive table. The cake is well soaked in syrup and very juicy. This dessert does not use butter, but the taste of this cake is simply delicious.