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.
To publish this recipe, I wanted to after a recently exposed recipe, home-made, good meringue or meringue, it was called French. Therefore, everyone who is interested in how to prepare real French meringues (meringue) is invited to visit! The basis of cooking a recipe from a very famous Greek pastry chef Stelios Pallaresa (French school).
I offer you a creamy souffle based on Japanese green tea matcha. This is a delicate dessert with a very fine structure, an extraordinary color and an incredibly pleasant, amazing taste.
Delicate and very beautiful mousse cake. The cake consists of chocolate sponge cake, raspberry puree and raspberry mousse. It literally melts in your mouth.
Cake for special occasions. To prepare it, you need first of all a refrigerator. I was preparing it for my brother’s wedding anniversary. The original sweet crunchy base and light curd-wine filling with grapes will not leave anyone indifferent.
A beautiful, delicate mousse cake that just melts in your mouth. The cake consists of four layers of different colors. The creamy blueberry flavor of this cake is sure to please you.
All citrus fruits have a rich invigorating aroma and a special taste with a slight sourness. Bright citrus fruits will be an excellent base for a home-made dessert. You can use them to make cupcakes and muffins, souffles and mousses, cakes and sweets. Prepare a delicious grapefruit cake. The flesh of fresh grapefruit fills this dessert with an intense citrus flavor that is simply impossible to resist. Immediately warn, grapefruit not everyone will like, because it combines three flavors: sour, sweet and bitter.
Mini cheesecakes with”Oreo” cookies are easy to prepare, tender and delicious. Due to their small size, they look very cute and are perfect for a festive table, and will also appeal to children. This dessert does not need to be baked, which is important in the summer heat, when you do not want to turn on the oven.