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.
Prepare a very quick breakfast, aka dessert – envelopes of pita bread with banana and condensed milk. We will need only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes. Pita bread turns out crispy, and the filling remains tender.
In this salad, you can use any pasta. Add fish, vegetables, olives, season with salad sauce, and dinner is ready. This salad will completely replace your main dish in hot weather – quite nutritious, fast and delicious!
These muffins are a godsend for sweet lovers. It is easy to prepare and quickly removed from the table. I recommend cooking and enjoying the delicate taste of baking.
Wonderful, fragrant muffins. Delicate, with a caramel flavor and an oriental hint of dried apricots. A very simple and relaxed recipe, and the result is excellent.
Snow-white cookies on corn starch and condensed milk. Cookies are for an amateur, since the presence of starch gives it a specific taste and white color. It can be prepared both with the addition of flour and without it, but in the first version, the cookie holds its shape better. If you have never cooked cookies with starch, then as an experiment you can reduce the amount of ingredients by half. I liked the cookies, they turned out to be crumbly, not cloying and very tender.
This pancake pie may well replace an ordinary pie: very refined, delicate, beautiful, with an unforgettable taste. Try to cook it on the pancake table – and no one will remain indifferent to this unforgettable dessert.
I’ve read more than one recipe for tuna salads, but I haven’t found one. I found this recipe on the Internet, I did it a little in my own way so that it was not high in calories.
