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.
Cold, tender, fragrant, melting in the mouth delicacy – it can be attributed to the highest cuisine. The main thing you need to remember: before cooking, all the ingredients in the dessert must be cooled.
The dessert is simply amazing! The parfait is prepared in two ways: either frozen, then the dessert turns out like ice cream, or just very well chilled, and the dessert looks like a thick cream. A delicious combination of creamy sweetness and sourness of currants!!!
Parfait: one of the ice cream options that came to us from French cuisine. The most delicate dessert of sweet whipped cream is beautiful and perfect! These words describe the dessert in the best way! You can diversify the parfait with various additives, for example, seasonal berries. Blueberry puree will perfectly complement the airy parfait and emphasize its juiciness and freshness. For the full effect of bombassaro, you can prepare crispy baskets of chocolate cookies and nuts for serving parfait.
A cold dessert with a warm caramel flavor – what could be more beautiful? Except for the nuts in caramel. And the combination of sweet ice cream with sweet and salted caramel is simply divine.
Cakes “Cherry fantasy”. This unusual pie combines a delicate, melting in the mouth parfait with pieces of juicy cherries, a delicate aroma of honey and cinnamon with a slight sourness of fragrant cherry jelly.
Ah, beautiful France, the country of culinary masterpieces and exquisite desserts… A delicate sponge cake, a parfait melting in your mouth, the famous snow-white meringue, and all this combined makes an amazing French dessert that tastes like cool ice cream. Try the delicacy that I want to present to your attention, it will not leave anyone indifferent – a thin sponge cake base that has absorbed the aroma and moisture of coffee parfait and meringue cream, which gives the dessert an extraordinary tenderness and dazzling whiteness!
Very simple, just as it is, but what a delicious dessert according to the recipe of the Greek pastry chef Stelios Pallares, and for a hot summer! You can use any fruits and berries, we really liked it, and you try it!
Light, airy, exciting, cool and gentle! Just like spring itself! As soon as you see this dessert, it’s as if the sun’s rays have peeked into your house! Immediately you will feel a light breeze of fresh spring breeze, the elusive aroma of fruits and flowers with a hint of caramel, inexplicable excitement, love and tenderness! Create your own spring at home!!!
A great popsicle with toasted crumbs. Which will turn anyone’s head! It’s some kind of bomb!! The family said it was the best ice cream I’ve ever made! If you don’t have canned mango, you can safely replace it with peaches.
Not a gram of flour, crispy meringue between frozen parfait- from your favorite berries and compote – from garden strawberries in creamy foam! If you like this combination, like me, come visit!