Hot for the New Year
As a hot dish for the New Year, you can choose a basic course option with the most affordable and quickest meat to prepare. For example, make a chicken breast under a fur coat in the oven or bake chicken (again in the oven) with mushrooms under the cover. And an elegant and spectacular ducal baked potato will be an addition to this hot dish. Guests will like these potatoes and will retain their shape if they are warmed up the day after the festive feast.
New Year Salads
There are three salads associated with the New Year holiday. They are prepared year after year – Olivier, herring under a fur coat and mimosa.
Herring under a fur coat
This main salad will not only be a delicious addition to the festive table, but also one of its most effective decorations thanks to its New Year’s decor, which is very easy to depict. More details here.
Olivier
Olivier is a salad familiar to many since childhood. The most common composition of the dish includes six ingredients: boiled potatoes, eggs, boiled sausage or chicken, pickled, fresh or pickled cucumbers, green peas, mayonnaise. RBC Life has found a delicious recipe that has already been appreciated by thousands of Internet users. An important nuance is to cook vegetables in the evening, but not cook, but bake in the oven. They are bright in taste and more beautiful when cut.
Mimosa
Along with herring under a fur coat and Olivier, this dish is often prepared as a New Year’s treat. Canned salmon, tuna or saury can be used for it. Mimosa is a relatively inexpensive dish in terms of its ingredients, and at the same time quite satisfying. If you boil the vegetables in advance, the cooking process will take no more than 20 minutes.
“New Year” salad
You can cook it if you want to try something new and diversify the festive table. The salad is a bit like the well-known Caesar. But there are differences. In addition to chicken, vegetables and seasonings, cheese and croutons are needed. Decorate the snack with tangerine slices.
Santa Claus salad
He will have to work hard on the design, but the result will delight you with its New Year’s festive look. You need the most common ingredients for this salad (potatoes, cucumbers, eggs, sausage, onions, mayonnaise and seasonings), and cheese, beets, tomatoes, cabbage and some dill will be used for decoration.
Seafood salad “Miracle Wonderful”
Cooking will take just 10-15 minutes, and seafood lovers will appreciate the taste of the dish. There are few ingredients in this salad: a seafood cocktail in brine, cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers, onions and mayonnaise. Onions will need to be marinated in boiling water with vinegar, sugar and salt, this can also be done fairly quickly.
Salads without eggs
At the end of this year, eggs surprised many with a rapid rise in prices, and preparing a holiday was already expensive. To save a little, you can prepare salads without adding eggs: “General” with boiled beef and pomegranate, regular vinaigrette and crab vinaigrette with white cabbage.
Other snacks: sandwiches and canapés
From hot dishes and salads, we move on to the rest of the appetizers — and here, too, imagination is not limited to anything. For example, you can make light and effective holiday sandwiches with red caviar. Boiled eggs, cream cheese, dill and fresh cucumbers can shade their taste. Guests will appreciate these sandwiches and their elegant presentation.
A variety of canapés always look good on the table, and their advantage is also their speed of preparation. Here are three options for such snacks:
Salami canapes with french fries
Canapes with herring and olives
Cucumber and sausage canapes
How to pickle red fish and caviar yourself
This is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, especially if you follow the step-by-step instructions prepared by the editors.
How to pickle red caviar at home
This can be done in 20 minutes. If you are lucky enough to buy trout or pink salmon for the New Year’s table with the bonus of caviar, you should carefully cut the abdomen of the carcass so as not to damage the caviar bags. Then carefully remove the caviar from the carcass. For pickling, you will need water, salt, some vegetable oil and caviar itself.
How to pickle trout at home
You can salt not only caviar, but also the red fish itself. This is a delicacy loved by many Russians and takes its rightful place on the New Year’s table. For pickling trout, the simplest set is optimal: salt, sugar, black pepper.
How to pickle pink salmon at home
Salmon is one of the most popular fish in Russia. After cutting, rinse the carcass under running water and dry it with a paper towel. Then you can follow the classic recipe, it will take several days, and in order to be in time for the New Year, there is also an express pickling option. Both methods are listed here.
DIY New Year’s desserts
When the New Year’s cooking marathon does not leave the energy to prepare complex recipes, you can use the options without baking. RBC Life has found three festive sweet treats for kids and adults that are quick and easy to prepare:
“Spruce cones” dessert
Orange dessert
“Mandarins in white chocolate” dessert.
New Year cake
The pinnacle and the most festive and highlight of the New Year’s feast can be the serving of a themed cake. The Year of the Dragon is coming, so you can decorate the cake in the form of this fairy-tale character, or you can choose a simpler, but also winter design in the form of a Christmas tree or a snow slide. In any case, if you intend to please your family, guests and yourself with a New Year’s cake, you have to be prepared for additional hassle, be patient, have the right ingredients and baking forms.
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