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.
Broccoli is a rare case when it is tasty and healthy. A salad of raw broccoli cabbage turns out to be very interesting, tasty and looks beautiful on the table.
The apple season has finally arrived. And so I want to cook something new, but not apple pie. Here’s a recipe I found in a German magazine. I like it. I decided to share it with you. You won’t regret it!
Very fragrant and delicious, a real winter pie! For a long time I doubted whether to put it up for a competition, having seen what masterpieces our chefs prepare, but still decided. In our family, the New Year is always accompanied by the purchase of citrus fruits, especially tangerines, and I always bake some kind of pie with them. This cake is one of my favorites. Fruit in the pudding filling and crispy crust on top – I’m sure you’ll like this tandem!
Cake is a confection popular in Western Ukraine and Poland. As a rule, it is baked in a rectangular shape. I suggest making a pie with apples and custard pudding. It is gentle, light enough and unobtrusively sweet. Just what you need on New Year’s Eve! And yet this cake has a wonderful slicing!
I don’t know about you, but I always have egg whites. Grease the pastry with egg yolk, then sauce, then lemon curd… Here’s a great way to fit them to yourself. Muffins should be tender, airy, with a soft core of creamy pudding.
Quite simple, but very tasty, rich and beautiful pie. Crumbly, chocolate dough without a gram of flour with a delicate, well, very tasty cream! This cake will appeal to all lovers of sweets!
Pudding is a classic English dessert. Initially, puddings were prepared on the basis of bread or flour and baked in the oven! We are going to make a very light pudding based on milk, which will cool down and serve as a delicious dessert.
I want to offer a simple and delicious salad, its preparation will take no more than 10 minutes. I’ve never cooked anything from celery before, but after trying this salad at a party, I just fell in love with it. Most importantly, there is no need to cook: sliced, mixed, seasoned – and the salad is ready!
I often cook desserts of this kind – puddings, jellies, mousses, my family members love them very much. Today I want to share a very tasty version of pudding – with bananas, cream, cognac and delicious thick caramel sauce. This pudding will be a perfect end to a family dinner or a treat for unexpected guests.
Girls, this cake is for you as a sign of love for you!!! I kept the recipe of this cake a secret for a long time. Very delicate taste. Be sure to try to cook it and treat yourself and your family.