Birthdays, February 23, March 8. May 1, New Year, family holidays are a reason to set the table. All self-respecting housewives try to please their loved ones and friends with a variety of dishes. Of course, every cook has his own signature recipes. But sometimes you want to cook something new and unusual. In this article, I publish an approximate holiday menu of 14 simple, but tasty and original dishes, which may give you your own ideas. And for dessert you can bake something extraordinary.

Salads and snacks without eggs

Puff salad with pineapples

Products:
– 6 pieces of boiled potatoes;
– a can of pineapples approximately 560 grams;
– 3-4 cloves of garlic;
– hard cheese about 300 grams;
- mayonnaise.

Preparation:
Mix mayonnaise with garlic squeezed through a press. Grate the boiled potatoes on a coarse grater and add salt. Place the layer on a flat dish. Spread with mayonnaise-garlic sauce. Place sliced ​​pineapples on top. Lubricate with sauce too. Sprinkle grated cheese on top. A simple but very tasty salad is ready. You can arrange it as in the picture.

For a simple salad that even a beginner in cooking can handle, see.

Black bread croutons with herring mousse.

The mousse itself can be prepared in advance, but the croutons (croutons) will have to be made immediately before serving.

Ingredients for 4 slices of Borodino bread:
– 1 herring fillet or half a whole herring:
– 2-3 pieces of green onions;
– processed cheese;
– 2 boiled carrots;
– ground black pepper;
– 4 slices of black bread.

Preparation:
Cut off the crusts from the bread and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees to dry. This will take 5 – 7 minutes.

Cut the herring and onion into small pieces. Grate the carrots and processed cheese on a coarse grater. Place everything in a blender, add pepper and mix well. Don't have a blender? Use a meat grinder, just insert a fine mesh. Was the mousse a bit dry? It depends on the herring. Add a tablespoon of mayonnaise or vegetable oil and mix well.

Using two spoons, carefully form the mousse and place on the croutons. You can garnish with dill and leeks or as you wish.

Pancakes with salmon.

Products:
For pancakes.

– flour 400 gr;
– eggs 2 pcs.;
– milk 1 liter;
– vegetable oil 2 tablespoons;
– a pinch of salt;
– vanillin.

For filling.
– lightly salted salmon about 100 g;
– hard cheese, also about 100 g;
– pickled cucumbers 2 pieces;
– mayonnaise 2 tbsp. spoons;
– ground black pepper;
– green onion feathers.

Preparation:
If you know how to bake pancakes, you can make them according to your own recipe. And for the rest I will continue. If you have a blender, place all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly. If not, use a whisk or fork. First mix the eggs, then add milk and all other products except flour, mix well. Then add flour little by little, mixing the dough thoroughly so that no lumps form.

Don't forget to heat the pan well and grease it with oil.

I think that for the holiday it is better to bake intricate pancakes in the shape of snowflakes. This is done quite simply. Pour the bulk of the pancake into the middle of the frying pan, and, turning it slightly, let the dough spread a little.

Then you scoop some dough into a spoon and draw patterns around it. You can put the dough in a small plastic bottle and draw from it. This is somewhat more convenient, but more dough is consumed.

When all the pancakes are ready, cover them with a plate or cling film to soften them.

In the meantime, let's start with the filling. Cut the salmon into small squares. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Finely chop the pickles too. Pepper, add mayonnaise and mix everything.

Divide the onion into feathers and steam with boiling water to make them more elastic.

Place a tablespoon of filling in the middle of each pancake, form a bag and carefully tie with onion feathers. During this procedure, it is better to involve your children or husband, let them also take part in the preparations for the holiday.

These bags are served cold, but if you are making them on the eve of the holiday, it is better to heat them in the microwave for a few seconds so that the pancakes are not too hard.

Meat rolls with cucumber and mustard.

Products:
– pork 400 grams;
– pickled cucumbers 2 pcs.;
– red onion 1 pc.;
– mustard beans 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt pepper;
– flour for breading.

Preparation:
Cut the meat into thin slices, cover with film and beat well, add salt and pepper. Cut the cucumbers and red onion into strips. Place grain mustard, slices of cucumber and onion on each piece of meat.

Roll into rolls and secure with toothpicks to prevent them from unraveling. Gently roll in flour. First place seam side down in a well-heated frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry on all sides until golden brown.

Cut the finished rolls in half at an angle of 45 degrees. Drizzle with Lazy Tartar Sauce.

Lazy Tartar Sauce

Products:
– pickled cucumbers 2-3 pcs.;
– a head of red onion;
– garlic 2-3 cloves;
– half a bunch of parsley;
- salt pepper;
– mayonnaise 2 tablespoons;
– grainy mustard.

This sauce is prepared very simply, and most importantly, quickly, but it requires a blender. Chop all the ingredients, place everything except the mustard in a blender and blend until smooth. Now add mustard to taste and mix with a spoon. You can, of course, chop everything finely, but this will take time, and during the New Year's troubles, this is precisely what is missing.

Herring under a fur coat in a roll

Products:

– herring – 1 pc.;
– potatoes – 4 pcs.;
– carrots – 1 pc.;
– beets – 1 pc.;
– mayonnaise – 200 g;
– onion – 1 pc.;
– vinegar for pickling onions.

Preparation:
Pre-cut the onion randomly and marinate in vinegar for 2-3 hours. But you can put it raw, at your discretion.

Boil potatoes, carrots and beets, cool, peel and grate or cut into small cubes.

Peel the herring, separate from the bones, cut into small pieces.

It is better to squeeze the beets through cheesecloth to remove excess moisture. If your carrots are also juicy, then it is better to squeeze them.

To make a roll, spread cling film, a cut plastic bag or foil on the table, whoever has what. Mix beets with mayonnaise and spread evenly onto film. Cover again with film and compact the layer thoroughly. Remove this top film. You can salt the beets a little. Try to make each subsequent layer slightly narrower in width than the previous one. We do the same with carrots, only now we spread them on the beets. The third layer is potatoes with mayonnaise, spread on the carrots. Don't forget to salt it. Next we put the onion, if you pickled it, you need to let it drain so that it is not too wet. And the last layer is herring. It is better to lay it not over the entire surface of the roll, but as a long log in the middle. We compact all layers in the same way using cling film.

Carefully roll the roll around the herring log. We compact the edges well. Wrap it in the same film. We put the appetizer in the refrigerator until guests arrive. Before serving, remove the film and cut into portions.

Snack “Callies”

Products:
– 100-200 gr. ham or any boiled sausage;
– 100 gr. any cheese or fatty cottage cheese, it must be salted;
– 1 carrot;
– 2 cloves of garlic;
-mayonnaise.

Preparation:
Grate the cheese and carrots on a fine grater. Squeeze the garlic through a press. Mix everything and season with mayonnaise. If you use cottage cheese, the taste will be different. I usually make half with cottage cheese, half with cheese.
Cut the sausage or ham into thin slices. Roll up into a ball and secure with toothpicks to prevent them from unrolling. Fill with salad. Garnish with herbs, pieces of red bell pepper, olives or just ketchup.

Stuffed Peaches

The appetizer has an interesting taste due to the sweet peaches and salty filling.
Products:
– small, 200 grams, piece of turkey meat;
– a can of canned peaches in halves;
– a can of canned corn;
– any spicy cheese, 200 grams;
– mayonnaise or homemade sauce;
– salt, pepper to taste.

For the sauce:
– a jar of yogurt;
– lemon;
– mustard.

Preparation:
Boil the meat in salted water, cool.

While we prepare the sauce. Add a teaspoon of mustard, a tablespoon of lemon juice to the yogurt and add a little salt. Mix all ingredients well.

We take the peaches out of the jar and place them on a towel. They need to be dried well. To do this, you can place them bottoms up to drain excess juice, or blot each piece with a napkin.

Then the bottoms must be cut off for stability, but be careful not to make a hole.

Now cut the turkey into small pieces, grate the cheese on a coarse grater and add 3-4 tablespoons of corn without juice. Carefully add the sauce or prepared mayonnaise. The salad should not turn out wet. Soy or mayonnaise is used here simply to bind the products together. Add salt and pepper if necessary.
Stuff the peach halves and place them on a flat plate.

See also in another article.

Salads and snacks with eggs.

Stuffed crab sticks.

I want to warn you right away, the appetizer is a big hit, so make more.
Ingredients for 10 pieces of chilled (do not use frozen) crab sticks:

Grate the cheese on a fine grater, set aside a third for sprinkling. Leave the yolk of one egg too. Grate or crush the eggs with a fork. Squeeze the garlic through a press. Finely chop the greens. Add sour cream and mayonnaise. Mix everything. If you like pepper, you can add it too.

Carefully unwrap the crab sticks and place the filling on the edge. Now the sticks need to be rolled up just as carefully. Place 4 sticks on a plate, 3 on top, then two and place the last one on top. We ended up with some kind of hut. Sprinkle it with “snow” - cheese and egg yolk or white, as you like. The appetizer is ready.

Cheese balls

Products:

• boiled potatoes 4 pcs.;
• boiled eggs 4 pcs.;
• crab sticks 10 pcs.;
• hard cheese 200 gr.;
• mayonnaise 2 tbsp. spoons;
• pepper.

Preparation:
Grate the cheese on a fine grater and set aside for now. Cut potatoes, eggs, crab sticks as finely as possible, season with mayonnaise and pepper. In principle, you don’t need to add salt, but if you really want to, you can. Mix everything well. With clean hands, roll into balls slightly smaller than a chicken egg. Roll them in cheese. Insert skewers or toothpicks.

Method number 2

Products:

• processed cheese 2 pcs.;
• hard cheese 100 gr.;
• a bunch of dill;
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 boiled eggs;
• paprika;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation:
Wash the dill in advance and dry well.
Grate the eggs and cheese on a fine grater, squeeze the garlic through a press and add a little mayonnaise so that the mass is not too wet. Mix everything thoroughly.
Finely chop the dry dill. We leave. Three also have cheese on a fine grater. And we also leave it aside. Pour paprika into a plate. As in the previous recipe, we form balls and roll one at a time in seasonings. We got funny colorful balls.

Method No. 3

Products:

• large package of crab sticks;
• 150-200 grams of cheese;
• 5-6 cloves of garlic;
• 4 boiled eggs;
• 3 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise.

Preparation:
Grate the crab sticks on a fine grater and set aside - this is our topping. We also grate the cheese and eggs on a fine grater, pass the garlic through a press. Add mayonnaise, mix everything well. We make balls as in previous recipes. Roll each ball in shavings of crab sticks.

As a decoration for all three methods of preparing cheese “Rafaelok”, you can use marinated champignons, pinned with skewers or toothpicks.

Recipes for hot holiday dishes

Pork meat and potatoes in the sleeve.

Products:

• pork meat, preferably neck, 1 kg;
• pitted prunes 200 gr. It can be replaced with dried apricots, cherries, any berries or mushrooms. For the marinade:
• one and a half teaspoons of wig:
• mustard beans 2 teaspoons;
• regular mustard one and a half teaspoons;
• garlic 3-5 cloves;
• vegetable oil 4 tablespoons;
• non-bitter honey 1 teaspoon;
• salt 1 teaspoon;
• ground black pepper to taste.

For potatoes.

• medium size potatoes 1 kg;
• vegetable or olive oil 3-4 tablespoons;
• salt about half a teaspoon;
• any dry to your taste half a teaspoon.

Preparation:

Steam the prunes with boiling water. Dry.

Wash the meat and dry with a napkin. Make deep cuts not completely at a distance of 1-1.5 cm.

Mix all the ingredients for the marinade well, squeeze the garlic through a press.

It is good to coat the meat with marinade, not forgetting about the pockets.

Place all the prunes in each pocket. Carefully transfer the meat into a roasting bag. The sleeve should be 2 times longer than the piece. Secure the sleeve on both sides and put it in the refrigerator for a day or a little less.

When you need to cook, take the potatoes and cut off the bottom on one side.

Mix the oil, salt and seasoning well and pour the potatoes on top, not forgetting to get into the holes. Now place the finished potatoes along with the mold into a baking sleeve and secure it on both sides.

Remove rack from oven to keep cool. Preheat the oven itself to 200 degrees. Now place the form with potatoes and the form with meat on the grill. Bake for an hour.

When the finished potatoes and meat have cooled a little, transfer them to a dish, first tearing the sleeve and cutting the meat into portions.

Cut the meat into large pieces, add salt and pepper and fry in a hot frying pan on both sides until golden brown. Place in a saucepan.

Cut the onion into half rings and fry until golden brown in the oil that remains after frying the meat. Place the prepared onion in the pan on top of the meat.

Add hot water until it slightly covers the meat. Simmer for an hour on low heat.

Fry the walnuts in a frying pan or in the oven for about 3 minutes.

Add to the stew tomato paste, diluted in a glass of warm water, seasoned with salt - a level tablespoon and sugar - a heaped tablespoon, and pepper to taste. Add bay leaves, prunes and nuts. Close the lid and cook the meat until cooked, about half an hour. Don’t forget to taste the dressing to adjust the taste in time if something is not to your liking. Serve with any side dish.

Bon appetit! I hope you have a lot of fun this holiday!

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The culinary efforts to organize the New Year's feast will begin soon. In the meantime, it’s worth picking up recipes and finding out what products are needed to prepare these dishes. So, what does the hostess of the coming year, the yellow earthen pig, prefer for lunch and eat for dinner? In fact, this animal is not as omnivorous as it is “painted” to be. The pig loves a variety of food and is not without a craving for beauty, so the table will need to be decorated beautifully. Astrologers traditionally advise not to serve meat on the New Year's table that is associated with the mistress of the year, and in this case it is pork. This is a great opportunity to treat yourself to rabbit, lamb, and seafood, which Russians do not eat very often. The pig loves greens, so there should be a lot of parsley, onions, and lettuce leaves. So we will help you make the menu for the New Year 2019 interesting and new, since you make ordinary salads and main courses year after year, so let’s go for something new and tasty.

Main dishes

We have collected 7 of the most delicious recipes for main meat dishes that will decorate your table for the New Year 2019.

Perhaps everyone loves chicken, even adherents of the strictest diets. That's why we offer you a great option for the holiday - chicken baked with apples.

So for this you will need the following ingredients:

• Chicken (gutted), you can use broiler chicken;
• Apples – 700 grams. It is better to choose sweet and sour;
• Vegetable oil – 2 tablespoons;
• Honey – 1 teaspoon;
• Ground black pepper - to taste;
• Salt;
• Dry thyme - half a teaspoon.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the chicken thoroughly under running water.
2. Mix vegetable oil, salt, pepper, thyme and honey in a plate.
3. Rub the resulting mixture thoroughly over the chicken and place it on a baking sheet or baking dish.
4. We wash the apples and divide them into two groups: 400 and 300 grams, respectively.
5. We take 400 grams of them and cut them into quarters, remove the core and cut the quarters in half.
6. Stuff the chicken carcass with chopped pieces.
7. Then sew up the hole using a needle and thread.
8. Now we bring the chicken legs together and wrap them in foil.
9. Wrap the tips of the wings in foil.
10. Place the chicken in an oven preheated to 220 degrees.
11. After 30 minutes, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and bake for another 30-40 minutes. To prevent the chicken from burning, you can cover the top with foil.
12. Important point! About 10 minutes before the end of baking, you need to remove the foil from the legs and wings so that they also brown.
13. Cut our remaining apples into slices, place them in molds and bake for 20 minutes.
14. All that's left to do is serve our dish!

Rabbit stewed in sour cream with mushrooms and prunes

Rabbit meat is a dietary and incredibly tasty dish, perfect for the 2019 New Year's table.

We will need:

• Rabbit (whole or already filleted)
• Mushrooms - 300 g
• Sour cream - 200 g
• Lemon - 1 piece
• Glass of wine
• spoon of vinegar

Cooking method:

• Mushrooms and prunes will give it a unique taste. For softness and flavor, pre-marinate the rabbit meat in a marinade with lemon juice, white or red wine, and vinegar.
• Leave it for 2-3 hours. Rabbit stewed in sour cream is the most common and best way to prepare it.
• Fry the meat in a deep saucepan, pour in a little water, add fried onions and carrots, steamed prunes, cut into pieces.
• Mix everything, add sour cream and simmer in the oven until done.

Beef with dried apricots

An excellent option for a New Year's dish, the aroma of meat, dried fruits and spices will fill your entire home, and this dish is easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

• Beef meat 500 g
• Dried fruits 200 g
• Nuts 50 g
• Salt, pepper to taste

How to cook:

It is necessary to fry the meat, add onions, peppers and Provençal herbs, add dried fruits and walnuts. Simmer until done. Ideally served with rice.

Stuffed pike

This dish is perfect for 2019, as it looks very presentable and elegant. This dish is also very tasty. It takes a little fiddling to prepare, but it's worth it. Your efforts will be appreciated by the admiring glances of your family, friends and guests.

Products:

• Whole pike 1 piece
• Mushrooms 200 g
• Milk 200 ml
• Onion 1 head
• Egg - 1
• Butter - 50 gr

How to cook pike:

1. In order to cook, you need to cut off the fins and tail.
2. Completely wash and clean the fish.
3. Then carefully remove the skin from all the fish, this is done from the head, as in the video
4. Then separate the meat from the skin and head, after which we carefully remove the bones so that we get a fish fillet.
5. Then soak 3 pieces of bread or loaf in milk.
6. Chop the mushrooms and onions into medium pieces, then pour it all into a blender and chop.
7. After we chop the fish fillet with the addition of oil and add it to a bowl with chopped onions and mushrooms, add the egg and soaked bread, salt and pepper to taste.
8. Mix it all, check the salt and pepper and start stuffing our pike.
9. After we have stuffed the pike, grease with vegetable oil (fat) and place in a baking dish
10. And finally, heat the oven to 200 degrees and send our pike for 40-50 minutes, after it’s ready, decorate with herbs and serve.

For more convenience, watch the video!

Tender salmon with cream

On New Year's Eve, this dish is perfect for your already full stomach. Tender, juicy fish will be a wonderful decoration for the table, and will certainly delight the most picky guests with its flavor combinations. It is very quick to prepare; you can put the dish in the oven literally half an hour before the New Year. And before putting the workpiece in the oven, you need the following ingredients in a mold greased with butter and then with vegetable oil on top:

• Salmon steaks – 1 kg. (You can buy fresh fish, clean, gut and cut it yourself. Or buy pieces of fish already prepared for baking.)
• 300 ml cream 10%, hard cheese 100 g, one onion, Provençal herbs in the amount of 2 teaspoons, salt, pepper.

Preparing this dish will not take much effort from you:

1. Simply place the fish pieces in a single layer in the prepared baking dish and top them with cream mixed with herbes de Provence, salt and pepper.
2. Cut the onion into half rings and place on top of the fish.
3. And sprinkle grated cheese on a coarse grater over the onions.
4. In the oven, inside which the temperature has reached 180 0, the fish simmers for 20-25 minutes under a thin layer of metal foil.
5. The finished dish can be served with a side dish of vegetables.

Duck stuffed with apples and cranberries

Before preparing this dish, one cannot help but take into account the fact that the meat of this bird is quite fatty. Before we start cooking the duck, it needs to be marinated. It is recommended to make the marinade from vinegar, lemon or orange juice, or wine. When baking, it is advisable to add apples, which are used to stuff the duck. There are many recipes for this dish, but now I will share the most delicious one.

Ingredients:

For 5-6 servings we need:

• one duck
• 6 medium sized apples
• cranberries 250–300 grams
• sugar 2 tsp. spoons
• wine vinegar 2 tbsp. spoons
• vegetable oil 3 tbsp. spoons
• ground black pepper

Cooking method:

1. To begin with, the inside of the carcass must be rubbed with pepper and salt.
2. We remove the cores from the apples, but it is necessary to keep them whole so that they do not fall apart.
3. Next, stuff the apples with cranberries, sprinkle with sugar and sprinkle with vinegar.
4. Afterwards, we stuff the carcass with these apples.
5. Prepare a baking tray, which we grease with oil.
6. Place the duck on a baking sheet and bake until done.
7. During the cooking process, it is very important to turn the duck in different directions and pour fat over it.

Tip - before serving, decorate your culinary creation with herbs.

Duck with apples in beer

Ingredients:

• One duck
• bottle of beer 0.5l
• 4 apples (sour preferably)
• hot pepper
• ground black pepper
• salt and Provencal herbs

Cooking method:

1. We are definitely looking for a duckling.
2. Rub the carcass with a mixture of spices and salt, outside and inside.
3. Cut the apples into slices, having previously peeled them from the core.
4. We sew up the edges with a regular needle and thread.
5. We place the other part of the apples on the bottom of the duckling pan.
6. Place the duck on top and fill it with beer.
7. Cover with a lid and bake in the oven for an hour, then remove the lid, turn the duck to the other side and bake for another 40 minutes without a lid.
8. The alcohol should evaporate, giving the bird a golden hue.

Snacks

Appetizers on the festive table are a kind of “relatives” of aperitifs that warm up the appetite of guests, preparing them for the main meal. Therefore, the main thing here is design. So we have found several delicious and beautiful recipes for snacks for the New Year's table that will make 2019 unforgettable.

Ingredients:

• cutting any red fish;
• White bread;
• liquid cheese;
• squid;
• skewers;
• green pea.

Cooking method:

• bread is cut into small pieces;
• spread with liquid cheese;
• squids are boiled and cut into small rectangles;
• the fish is cut into thin plastics;
• fish are placed on bread;
• a skewer is placed on the pieces of squid, a pea is pricked on top;
• The finished skewers-sails are pinned to the bread.

Tartlets with fillings are an excellent appetizer for any feast. But on the New Year's table you can additionally decorate the dish.

Ingredients:

• chicken liver – 300 g;
• butter - a pack;
• tartlets – 10 pcs;
• olives;
• large carrots - 1 piece;

Cooking method:

• the liver is fried with carrots and cooled;
• scroll with oil;
• fill the tartlets with pate;
• Place a green olive in each tartlet.

An original economy class snack that will definitely not go unnoticed by guests and will not go to Kamchatka in early January.

Ingredients:

• medium-sized oval tomatoes - 10 pieces;
• hard cheese – 150 g;
• mayonnaise;
• green onions - ten bunches;
• garlic - head.

Cooking method:

• grate the cheese on a fine grater;
• add garlic and combine with mayonnaise;
• Peel the tomatoes from the pulp and cut in the middle;
• Fill the tomatoes with garlic and arrange them in the form of tulips. Place onions in the form of stems to the “flower heads” of tomatoes.

Second courses

We continue to compile our New Year's menu for 2019, so where can we go without the main courses and our favorite mashed potatoes. But every housewife knows how to make it, and I will skip these recipes and share unique ones.

Meatballs are pleasant to eat only from time to time; the rest of the time they can get boring. What if you cook meatballs with a side dish of mashed potatoes, and not regular, but green? This dish is sure to please not only picky adults, but also capricious children.

To make meatballs with green mashed potatoes, you will need the following ingredients:

• minced meat mixed from pork and beef (620 g);
• freshly ground black pepper;
• one egg;
• salt;
• medium-sized onion;
• olive oil;
• peeled garlic clove;
• fresh parsley (small bunch).

To prepare the meatball sauce you will need the following ingredients:

• freshly ground black pepper;
• pureed tomatoes (620 g);
• olive oil;
• onion head (one piece);
• peeled garlic (two cloves);
• dried basil (one teaspoon).

To prepare green mashed potatoes you will need the following ingredients:

• olive oil (three tablespoons);
• potato tubers (1.3 kg);
• peeled garlic (one clove);
• natural yogurt (160 g);
• assorted fresh greens (one large bunch).

Preparation:

1. Wash the potato tubers very thoroughly, peel and remove all dark spots and “eyes”.
2. Cut the peeled potatoes into large slices, transfer to boiling salted water, and bring to full readiness.
3. While the potatoes are boiling, you need to prepare the sauce for the meatballs.
4. To do this, peel the garlic and onions, finely chop and fry both components for seven minutes until soft in well-heated olive oil.
5. After seven minutes, add dried basil and grated tomatoes to the onion-garlic mixture, season with ground pepper and salt.
6. Simmer the tomato sauce until the meatballs are cooked.
7. Chop the peeled garlic and onions very finely.
8. Chop the parsley leaves very finely.
9. Mix the minced meat with a chicken egg, chopped garlic, onion, chopped parsley, salt and mix well.
10. Roll this mixture into small meatballs.
11. Heat olive oil and fry the meatballs on all sides until nicely browned.
12. Next, you need to reduce the heat to low, add a little water or meat broth and simmer the meatballs for at least seven minutes under the lid.
13. Drain all the water from the container in which the potato slices were boiled and prepare a fluffy puree.
14. Finely chop the peeled garlic, add chopped fresh herbs, olive oil and natural yogurt.
15. Add this mixture to the mashed potatoes and beat with a blender until the mashed potatoes acquire a uniform green color.
16. Place green mashed potatoes on portioned plates, place a few meatballs next to them, and pour tomato sauce over them.

For more convenience, watch the video!

An interesting dish will give you unusual taste sensations and make the New Year 2018 menu memorable.

Products:

• Egg noodles 300 gr
• red sweet pepper 2 pcs
• 3 fresh squid carcasses
• one head of red onion
• shrimp 150 gr
• cilantro – 3 tbsp. spoons
• sesame oil 1 tbsp. spoon
• 2 tbsp. spoons of soy sauce and vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. Prepare the noodles in the usual way.
2. Boil the shrimp in advance.
3. Pour a little vegetable oil into a heated frying pan and fry the squid, cut into strips, for a couple of minutes.
4. Then place the entire contents of the frying pan on a separate plate, and put chopped peppers and onions into it.
5. When the vegetables are ready, add noodles, squid, shrimp, pour sesame oil, soy sauce over everything and add cilantro.
6. Mix the ingredients well and leave to simmer over low heat for a couple more minutes.

A super tasty dish for the New Year's table, but if you want a quick hot dish, try making potato casserole with mushrooms and sausage cheese.

Ingredients:

• 5 large potatoes (half a kilo)
• 5 large champignons
• 1 red onion
• 200 ml 20% sour cream
• 150 gr. sausage cheese

Cooking method:

1. Cut 1 red onion into half rings and fry it.
2. This type of onion is not as spicy as onions, so it is often used in salads.
3. Cut mushrooms (5 pieces) in half and then into thin slices.
4. Champignons are best for this recipe because they cook very quickly and add amazing flavor to the dish.
5. Also fry the mushrooms in a frying pan, add salt without stirring and after 2 minutes start stirring. You need to cook until a golden crust forms.
6. Cut 5 boiled potatoes into slices.
7. Place it carefully on the bottom of the baking dish and reserve some for the next layer.
8. Then lay out the mushrooms with onions and pour all 200 ml of 20% sour cream.
9. You can add your favorite spices to the sour cream and place the next layer of potatoes on top.
10. 150 gr. Grate the sausage cheese.
11. This ingredient has a slightly smoky flavor, so when it melts, it will give the dish a pleasant aroma and golden color.
12. Spread the cheese evenly. It should completely cover the casserole.
13. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Baking time 10 minutes.
14. This dish will save your time and surprise your guests with its unforgettable taste. Bon appetit!

For more convenience, watch the video!

Delicious salads

Of course, we haven’t forgotten to add new and delicious salads to our menu that will make your holiday table beautiful and unique. Special attention should also be paid to the original design of the dish. The most delicious and traditional Olivier salad can be decorated in the shape of a pig’s head using the same products that are included in its composition. To do this, the finished dish is given the desired shape on a flat plate, and all the elements are carefully laid out on top. But we will share more original salad recipes for 2019, which is the year of the pig.

This is a wonderful recipe inherited from the Soviet past. Very simple and easy to make, with a delicate taste.

For cooking we need the following products:

• Canned saury -1 jar;
• Boiled rice – 150 grams or 3 tablespoons;
• Onions – 1;
• Eggs – 3 pieces;
• Cucumber (fresh or salted) – 1 large or two small;
• Mayonnaise;
• Cheese and parsley - for decoration.

Preparation:

1. Boil rice in the amount of three tablespoons.
2. Chop the onion and pour boiling water over it for 5 minutes, then strain through a sieve. This is necessary to remove bitterness.
3. Cut the cucumber into thin strips or cubes.
4. Open the saury and mash it with a fork right in the jar, after draining the liquid.
5. Boil the eggs hard, cool, peel and cut into cubes.
6. Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Add 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise and mix.
7. Place in salad bowls, sprinkle with grated cheese and garnish with parsley leaves.
8. Our salad for the New Year 2018 is ready!

"New Year's Tree"

A bright festive salad will decorate your table for the New Year 2019. It is absolutely simple to prepare; the main task is to lay out the Christmas tree in an original way.

Main ingredients: kiwi, potatoes, carrots, eggs, boiled sausage, apples, mayonnaise, corn, bell pepper, which is used for decoration.

Preparation:

1. All finished products are cut and laid out in layers, pre-lubricated with mayonnaise.
2. The top layer is made from thinly sliced ​​kiwi slices; the star and toys are made from bell peppers.

"New Year's Clock"

You can use almost any salad as a basis, the main thing is to decorate it beautifully.

• Main ingredients: carrots, eggs, potatoes, sardines, mayonnaise, onions.
• We cut the finished products, mix and decorate the top with protein grated on a coarse grater.
• We beautifully lay out the numbers of the Roman dial and two hands with strips of carrots.

"Shine Christmas tree"

Ingredients:

• Canned salmon - 1 can
• Low-fat soft cheese - 250 grams
• A small bunch of chives
• Lemon-pepper seasoning - teaspoon
• Paprika - teaspoon
• Fresh lemon juice
• Crackers
• Tomato - 1 piece
• Dill greens - a bunch
• Pomegranate seeds

Preparation:

Finely chop the salmon and chives, grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add lemon-pepper seasoning, paprika and lemon juice. Mix everything thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous sticky mass from which you form a cone with your hands. Using a sharp knife, cut a star out of the tomato and attach it to the salad, then decorate with dill sprigs and pomegranate seeds. Serve the Herringbone salad with crackers, which you can use to eat the salad.

"Snow Maiden"

Ingredients:

For the salad base:

• Potatoes (medium) – 3 pcs.;
• Canned pink salmon - 2 jars;
• Eggs – 6 pcs.;
• Cheese – 230 g;
• Apple (large) – 1 pc.;
• Garlic – several cloves;
• Mayonnaise.

To decorate the base:

• Suluguni cheese (pigtail);
• Peppercorns;
• Tomato paste;
• Sprigs of greenery;
• Red cabbage.

Preparation:

1. Boil eggs and potatoes.
2. Prepare the sauce: grind the yolks with mayonnaise, adding crushed garlic.
3. Grate apple, boiled potato, egg white, cheese.
4. Color the egg white (5 pcs.) with red cabbage juice (it will turn purple).
5. Lay out the salad in the shape of the Snow Maiden in layers: potatoes, mashed fish, apple, cheese. Spread all layers with mayonnaise sauce to taste.
6. We decorate the salad Snow Maiden: eyes - peppercorns; draw the mouth with tomato paste; braid and bangs - suluguni cheese; fur coat and kokoshnik - dyed egg white; fur on the coat – undyed egg white; nose and eyebrows are green twigs.
7. Let the salad soak. And voila, a delicious and original salad for the New Year 2019 is ready!

"Watch"

Ingredients:

• 5 potato tubers,
• 2 carrots,
• 1 apple,
• 6 chicken eggs,
• 2 pickled cucumbers,
• 1 onion,
• Green pea,
• 1 pickled red bell pepper,
• Salt, mayonnaise.

Preparation:

• Peel the carrots and potatoes. Boil the vegetables in a double boiler or in a small amount of salted water in a saucepan with a lid.
• Place the cooked vegetables on a plate to cool at room temperature.
• Remove the pickles from the jar and cut them into cubes. Next, chop the carrots and potatoes in the same way.
• Place all the chopped vegetables in a salad bowl and add green peas without brine. Peel the apple, remove the core and grate on a coarse grater. Add to salad bowl.
• Add a little salt, season with mayonnaise and level the surface with a spoon. It is important that the salad bowl in which you will put the salad has a flat bottom and a cylindrical shape.
• Now turn the salad bowl with the tightly packed lettuce onto a flat plate.
  Cook the eggs. After the water has boiled, the eggs need to be boiled for 10 minutes, then they will be hard-boiled. Boiled eggs should be cooled under running cold water and shelled.
• Cut each egg in half lengthwise and remove the yolks. Grind the yolks on a fine grater or rub through a sieve. Place the whites in a circle so that the convex side is at the top. Pour chopped yolks into the center of the salad.
  We cut out the hands of our clock from red pepper. A large hour and a long thin minute.
• We also cut out strips of Roman numerals from the pepper. To prevent all your beauty from falling off, first lubricate the surface of the eggs with mayonnaise, it will act as glue.
• Place the hands on the clock so that it is five minutes to twelve.

"New Year's cracker"

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 5-6 pcs.
• Eggs - 3 pcs + 5 pcs for decoration
• Chicken fillet - 1 piece
• Onion - 1 piece
• Walnuts - 1/2 tbsp (shelled)
• Pomegranate - to taste
• Mayonnaise
• Vinegar

For decoration:

• Dill
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Beetroot - 1 piece
• Radish
• Leek

Note:

You can decorate this salad as you wish using any vegetables and products.

Preparation:

1. Place boiled potatoes in their jackets and grated on a 1 cm thick cling film in the form of a rectangle. Tamp well, add salt and grease with mayonnaise.
2. On top, stepping back from one edge, place boiled chicken fillet cut into small pieces and pour mayonnaise over it.
3. Then a layer of finely chopped onion marinated in vinegar.
4. The next layer is finely grated eggs and grease with mayonnaise.
5. Then chopped nuts and grease with mayonnaise.
6. Pomegranate seeds on top.
7. Carefully roll and wrap in one layer of cling film. Place in the refrigerator.
8. Remove, remove from film, place seam side down on a plate and brush with mayonnaise on all sides.
9. Separate the remaining eggs from the yolks and whites. Grate the whites and pour half of them with beet juice to color them pink. Let stand for 15 minutes and place in a sieve to drain the liquid. Sprinkle the other half of the whites onto the sides of the cracker.
10. Place strips of colored egg white on both sides of the cracker at an angle.
11. Then sprinkle with finely chopped herbs in the form of two strips. Then 2 strips of grated yolk.
12. Next strips of leek leaves cut into small cubes. And in the middle is a colored shabby protein.
13. From eggs, pomegranate seeds and any vegetables, such as radishes, carrots, cucumbers, etc. cut out circles or triangles and decorate the salad in the form of scattered confetti.

Salad "Santa Claus"

Ingredients:

• Raw sweet carrots - 1 piece
• Cheese – 100 grams
• Chicken boiled eggs – 2 pcs.
• Crab sticks – 200 gram package
• Boiled long grain rice – 1 cup + some for decoration
• Fresh dill
• Bell pepper for decoration
• Paprika and black peppercorns
• Mayonnaise

Cooking method:

1. You need to peel fresh carrots and grate them on the finest grater. After boiling the eggs, peel them and leave one white to garnish the salad. Grind the yolks and whites.
2. Cut off the red parts of the crab sticks after unwrapping them, and cut the white part finely.
3. Chop the dill and mix all ingredients.
4. Place the salad on a flat plate in the shape of a Santa Claus figure.
5. Cover it with the red parts of crab sticks where the fur coat and hat are.
6. Make the fur on the fur coat and headdress from rice, and the beard from protein.
7. Black pepper – eyes, bell pepper – red nose and mouth.
8. Let a couple of whole sprigs of dill represent a Christmas tree.

Caesar salad is perfect, but not with the usual chicken, but with shrimp and quail eggs. In addition to seafood, we will replace regular tomatoes with cherry tomatoes, otherwise we will stick to the classic recipe.

Ingredients:

• raw shrimp – 20-30 pieces;
• lemon, honey, olive oil;
• hard cheese;
• salad – 2-3 bunches;
• cherry tomatoes – 10 pieces;
• quail eggs – 12 pieces;
• white homemade crackers;
• Caesar sauce.

Preparation procedure:

• The shrimp are washed, peeled and marinated in a deep bowl. Why squeeze a few tablespoons of lemon juice into seafood, sprinkle it with salt and pepper, add a spoonful of olive oil and a tablespoon of honey. Leave the shrimp in this mixture for 30-40 minutes;
• Now it’s the turn of lettuce leaves, they are washed and dried. Next, they tear it into pieces with their hands and place it on a platter where the Caesar will be placed. Before placing the salad, rub the plate with half a clove of garlic and pour the dressing over the leaves. You can prepare it yourself, or you can use a store-bought one.
• Take out the marinated seafood and place it on a hot frying pan. The frying process takes no more than five minutes until the shrimp appear pink;
• white croutons and hot shrimp are placed on lettuce leaves;
• quail eggs and cherry tomatoes are cut into two halves and sent to breadcrumbs and seafood;
• grate the cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle the food on the plate. The final chord is dressing.

Prince Salad

Of course, Olivier is the king on the New Year's table. But there is a salad that is almost no different in composition, but has something new. “Prince” is quite simple to prepare; you just need to boil a piece of veal or turkey in advance. Ideally, decorate the dish in the form of a cake, but if such a shape is not available in the kitchen, any other option will do. Including the classic salad bowl.

Ingredients:

• turkey or veal meat - 500-550 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs;
• pickled cucumbers – 250 g jar;
• walnuts – 200 gr;
• head of garlic;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation procedure:

• boiled and cooled meat is cut into thin slices;
• eggs are boiled, peeled and cut into cubes;
• chop the cucumbers into small pieces;
• the first layer is half the meat and a spoonful of mayonnaise or salad sauce;
• second layer – half of cucumbers and mayonnaise;
• third layer – half eggs and mayonnaise;
• the fourth, fifth and sixth layers duplicate the previous ones in a similar order.

The salad is sprinkled with chopped or ground nuts in a blender and left in the refrigerator for a couple of hours for complete soaking. As a decoration, you can make a Christmas tree from dill and lingonberries.

Dessert

Now we’ve reached the sweet spot, rarely does anyone eat desserts on New Year’s Eve, but the next day feeding the brain with carbohydrates is just what you need. And when else will he allow himself to gain so many extra calories, if not during the New Year holidays? Therefore, we have collected several delicious dessert recipes for the New Year 2019 that will decorate your holiday table.

Banana Layer Cake

Ingredients:

• puff pastry – packaging;
• bananas – 4 pcs;
• chocolate - bar;
• sugar – 3 tablespoons;
• butter – 50 g;
• walnuts.

Cooking method:

• bananas are cut into slices and placed in a frying pan;
• grated chocolate and chopped nuts are added to the fruit;
• The dough is rolled out into a circle equal to the diameter of the frying pan;
• cover fried bananas and nuts with dough, make punctures with a fork;
• put the pan in the oven for half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees;
• turn the finished cake into a dish so that the bananas are on top;

It is necessary to turn the cake over very quickly and carefully so that the caramel does not leak out and the banana ensemble does not fall apart.

Pancakes with ice cream

A simple and very tasty delicacy that does not require special expenses or time to prepare the dish.

Ingredients:

• pancakes;
• ice cream;
• frozen strawberries or raspberries.

Cooking method:

• You can bake pancakes yourself or buy ready-made ones if you have very little time left to prepare dessert;
• pancakes are heated to room temperature;
• Next, take a pancake and coat it with ice cream, then a layer of berries;
• the procedure is repeated depending on the number of pancakes;
• the last layer of ice cream should be slightly thicker than the previous ones;
• lay out 2019 from berries or the inscription “Happy New Year!”

The good old cake that we know from childhood will be an excellent dessert. It is very tasty and very easy to prepare.

For this we will need the following products:

• Flour – half a kilogram;
• Egg – 2 pieces;
• Margarine – 250 grams;
• Salt;
• Soda;
• Butter – 200 grams;
• Condensed milk – 1 jar (you can buy boiled condensed milk).

Cooking process:

1. Cook condensed milk in a saucepan with water for one hour.
2. Beat the eggs thoroughly.
3. Take margarine at room temperature and knead it with sugar until smooth.
4. Pour the beaten eggs with soda and salt into the resulting mixture.
5. Pour flour into the mixture in small portions and knead the dough.
6. Place the dough in the refrigerator for one hour.
7. Turn on the oven at 160 degrees.
8. At this time, we take out our dough and grind it using a meat grinder (you can use a grater).
9. Grease the baking sheet and spread the rolled dough in an even layer.
10. Bake for 20 minutes.
11. Beat the butter, gradually adding condensed milk.
12. Mix our cream with the baked dough ropes, crushing them.
13. All that remains is to place the dough in a mound in the shape of an anthill on a beautiful dish and send the cake to the refrigerator for soaking.

Cones under the snow

A delicious baking recipe for the New Year 2019, which is perfect to please even gourmets.

To prepare it you need: butter, condensed milk, chopped nuts, flour, sugar, baking powder.

Cooking method:

1. You need to knead shortbread dough from butter, flour, eggs and put it in the freezer for half an hour, then bake until golden brown.
2. The dough must be turned into crumbs.
3. Add nuts, condensed milk and stir.
4. Grease a glass with butter and place the dough in it, then carefully turn the glass over onto a plate.
5. It turns out to be a lump.
6. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and place in the refrigerator or on the balcony to harden completely.

Blueberry ice cream

On New Year's Eve, you especially want to treat yourself to ice cream :-), especially when it is very easy to prepare at home and decorate it with fresh fruit.

Ingredients:

All you need is frozen blueberries, milk, sugar or powdered sugar.

How to cook:

1. To prepare, pour blueberries into the bowl of our food processor, add a little milk, sugar or powder and beat well.
2. If the mass turns out to be thick, add more milk to the desired consistency.
3. We decorate beautifully, and our New Year's dessert is ready.

Video instructions for making ice cream at home

Cake pigeon's milk"

Well, if you want a cake, then be sure to prepare such an original dessert for 2019. In order to prepare it, you need to work hard, but your efforts will be appreciated by the enthusiastic exclamations of the guests of the holiday.

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 7 pcs.
• Sugar 500 g
• Vanilla sugar - 50 g
• Butter - 300 g
• Cream - 200 ml
• Chocolate - 150-200 g
• Gelating - 50 g
• Citric acid - 1 teaspoon

Preparation of the dough:

1. Separate the yolk from the white, put the whites in the refrigerator, add 125 g of sugar to the yolk and beat until white, then add 100 g of butter
2. Then add 1 cup of flour and a teaspoon of baking powder and mix it all by hand until it forms a dough.
3. Then we put everything in our baking dish and level it out.
4. Leave to bake for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
5. While the cake is baking, pour 20 g of gelatin with half a glass of boiled water at room temperature.
6. We check the readiness of the cake with a wooden stick; if the cake is already ready, place it on a stand and leave to cool.

Preparation of cream soufflé:

1. Take 170 g of butter and beat until white, without ceasing to beat, add 250 g of condensed milk at room temperature.
2. We add 2 tablespoons of cream to the decoration, and leave the rest on the table, do not put it in the refrigerator.
3. Pour the swollen gelatin into a saucepan and add 150 g of sugar and constantly stir until the temperature reaches 60 degrees and leave to cool.
4. We take our 7 proteins out of the refrigerator and beat them together with 150 g of sugar and a quarter teaspoon of citric acid, without stopping pouring in our gelatin.
5. Then add our butter cream to the same container and continue beating, but at a reduced speed, until smooth.

Preparation step 3:

1. We cut our cake in half into 2 parts, lower and upper.
2. We put the bottom part of the cake in our baking container and fill in half of our cream, then do the same with the top half of the cake.
3. We carefully align everything and put it in the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours.
4. After 90 minutes, prepare the chocolate glaze; to do this, pour 180 ml of cream into a container and add 30 g of sugar and put on fire, heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.
5. Then put 150 g of dark chocolate into a separate bowl and pour in our cream until smooth.
6. Then add 50 g of butter and again bring to a homogeneous mass.
7. We put our cake on a tray or a large plate and pour it with our glaze, then we put it on a beautiful cake stand and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
8. And finally, we decorate our dessert for the New Year 2018 with whatever you like :) Bon appetit!

Video instructions on how to prepare Bird's Milk cake

Banoffee - a sweet treat

To prepare this delicious delicacy we will need the following products:

• For shortbread dough: flour 500 gr., powdered sugar 100 gr., zest of one lemon, 1 stick of butter, 2 eggs, a small amount of milk.
• For filling: a glass of peeled almonds, powdered sugar 280 gr., boiled condensed milk 400 gr., 6 bananas, half a liter of high-fat cream, vanilla seeds (use one vanilla pod), 1 spoon of instant coffee.

Cooking process:

First, prepare the dough. Modern technologies come to the aid of cooks and housewives. You can knead the dough for our dessert very simply and quickly in a food processor. However, if you have not yet acquired such a benefit, we will tell you how to make shortcrust pastry with your own hands.

• Sift flour and powdered sugar through a sieve and mix.
• With cooled hands (under running cold water), cut the chilled butter into cubes and add to the flour.
• Mix the ingredients until the mixture begins to crumble.
• Now gradually add lemon zest, milk and eggs into the dough.
• Mix the ingredients carefully to avoid a rubber band effect.
• The finished dough should be wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Preparing the filling

1. First, fry the almonds in powdered sugar: in the oven, preheated to 180 0, put the nuts, previously rolled in the powder.
2. They will need to be turned over every three minutes until they turn into golden slices.
3. The total time for “drying” almonds is no more than 15 minutes, otherwise they will give a bitter taste. For further work, the nuts must cool.
4. Prepare a baking dish - grease it with oil and lay out the rolled out dough without filling.
5. In about 15 minutes the dough should brown, after which it will need to be taken out and left to cool slightly.
6. Grease the inside of the future dessert with condensed milk, and place slices of chopped bananas on top.
7. Whip the cream and add coffee to it. The amount of coffee can be changed depending on personal preferences.
8. Add vanilla seeds to the same mixture and spoon it onto the bananas. Everything is ready to serve :)

Adult guests will certainly appreciate this fabulously delicious dessert, which will be appreciated, especially if you serve it to the table in beautifully decorated bowls.

Ingredients:

Any fruits and berries, fresh or frozen, are suitable.

Preparation:

1. We put them in a blender, add sugar to taste, and fill with champagne.
2. The amount of champagne should be slightly less than the total volume of berries.
3. Beat the contents of the blender and place in bowls.
4. For dessert, serve dessert or teaspoons.

Finally

New Year is a fabulous and magical holiday, which this time will be held under the auspices of the yellow pig, and we have prepared for you more than 30 ideas of what you can cook for the New Year of the Pig 2019, so choose what suits your taste and pocket and you will be happy. This must be taken into account when drawing up the New Year's menu so that next year good luck will accompany you in all areas. Any housewife strives to beautifully decorate the New Year's table, prepare the most delicious dishes, and create a pleasant and mysterious atmosphere. The most important requirements for the New Year's table are brightness, simplicity, variety and richness.

Are you completely confused about what to cook for the New Year of the Pig? Don't like making meal lists? No time left to select suitable recipes among millions of offers on the Internet? Don't despair, your New Year's menu is already ready. All that remains is to choose the appropriate option from those proposed, depending on the composition, age of the company and the location of the New Year's Eve.

New Year has always been considered a family holiday. And many try to adhere to the tradition of celebrating the birth of the New Year with the chimes in the family circle.

But even if no friends are expected to come to the festive table, the hostess of the house tries to prepare as many delicious dishes as possible so that there is enough for both the family and possible guests. In addition, many people prefer not to cook for a couple of days after the New Year, finishing off New Year's snacks and salads.

To create a New Year's menu, you can get together with the whole family and write down everyone's ideas. And for those who are looking for a ready-made menu, we have prepared the perfect 8-course option.

Beef stew with carrots, onions and prunes will appeal to both adults and children. If you simmer such a dish for about an hour over medium heat, the meat will be saturated with the aromas of vegetables and dried fruits and will acquire an incredible aroma.

Potato halves stuffed with pieces of tomatoes and ham turn into magical boats after baking in the oven.

All that remains is to sprinkle with cheese and you can serve it to the New Year's family table.

In the original, the Caprice appetizer is prepared in the form of a salad.

But we suggest changing traditions a little and stringing mozzarella balls, olives and cherry tomatoes onto skewers.

If you can’t find fresh basil in winter, replace it with parsley sprigs.

We suggest filling the finished tartlets with double filling. After greasing the molds with softened butter, fill them halfway with mushrooms, fried with onions and mixed with chopped boiled eggs.

The second layer of filling is a delicate chicken liver pate with carrots, onions and butter.

Prepare a classic Olivier salad with sausage or chicken breast.

And if you wish, you can prepare a traditional New Year's salad with unusual ingredients.

Recipes for variations of Olivier salad can be found in the article.

Mix strips of boiled veal tongue with slices of fried onions and carrots. All that remains is to add pickles and a little mayonnaise.

Sprinkle green onions on top of the salad. Men's New Year's salad is ready.

Another childhood memory is the delicious Napoleon layer cake.

Of course, you will have to tinker with it, but this is the only complex dish on the menu that requires preliminary preparation.

A traditional birthday cake recipe can be found in the section.

By adding lemons, honey and mint to boiled water, you can get lemonade without a drop of preservatives and harmful chemicals.

A refreshing aromatic drink will ideally complement the New Year's table and will appeal to all family members.

Festive menu for the New Year 2019 of the Pig for two

When it comes to a menu for two, a romantic dinner immediately comes to mind.

But not only couples in love can celebrate the New Year together, for whom New Year’s Eve is a fairy tale that unites hearts.

Couples who have lived together for more than one year, and girlfriends who have decided to step away from the whole world and devote New Year's Eve to watching programs and quiet conversation, raise their glasses to the chiming clock.

Elderly people who are forced to celebrate the holiday alone also gather around the same table.

We offer a unique menu that is suitable for a romantic dinner or for celebrating the New Year with a friend or soulmate.

A quick and tasty dish that is ideal for New Year's celebrations.

Take lean portions of meat and bake in the oven with spices. Be sure to place a pineapple slice on each piece and sprinkle grated cheese on top.

Tender rice with a mushroom aroma perfectly complements the meat. The side dish is prepared immediately before serving.

Mushrooms can be used both wild and ordinary champignons.

A light appetizer of torn lettuce leaves, which ideally complements grainy salted cottage cheese and king prawns. If desired, you can add cherry tomatoes to the appetizer.

A snack in which you can use ready-made meat products or prepared yourself.

Make chicken pasta, pork boiled pork, lard loaded with spices, and boil beef tongue.

Thanks to just one dish, a woman can show herself as a skilled housewife.

There is no desire or time to tinker with handmade delights; lay out store-bought sausages and ham.

Buy ready-made snack tartlets or bake your own from puff pastry. Fill the molds with red caviar and garnish with parsley sprigs.

The dessert, which alternates layers of chocolate and strawberry-sour cream, is ideal for a romantic dinner or for treating a friend.

In winter, you can safely use frozen strawberries for cooking.

The sweet snack will sparkle with new colors if the apples are stuffed with cottage cheese, raisins and nuts.

When serving, add ice cream slices and top with vanilla sauce.

Make an invigorating drink with red wine and citrus fruits. Don't forget to add a little sugar and mint leaves to the cocktail.

If desired, you can add pieces of apples and cinnamon sticks to the sangria.

To make a non-alcoholic version, replace the wine with grape juice.

Menu for the New Year of the Pig for a company of 8-10 people

Feeding a large company is a responsible and difficult task.

The menu will have to include at least 8 standard dishes from the family version, doubling their volume. Or expand the menu and prepare several options for hot dishes, appetizers and salads.

It will be difficult for one housewife to cope with the preparation of such a banquet. Therefore, you will have to involve your relatives and friends for help.

Or, as an option, distribute the dishes from the list among all participants, and prepare only hot dishes for the holiday hosts.

Pork ham baked in the oven is a hearty and tasty dish.

First, we stuff the meat with garlic, coat it with mustard and spices, and send it to the oven in foil or a baking sleeve.

The meat can be served with pieces of potato, which will become an additional side dish.

The second hot dish can be chicken, which we will also bake in the oven.

The highlight of this dish is its unusual method of preparation.

Place the bird on a layer of salt sprinkled on a leaf. Don't worry - the chicken will take as much salt as it needs, and the meat will be tender and juicy.

Choose potatoes of the same size, wash them well and cut them into pieces. After drying the pieces on a towel, sprinkle them generously with rosemary and, after sprinkling with vegetable oil, put them in the oven.

At the end of cooking, do not forget to salt the dish.

Leave the potatoes in the broiler until golden brown.

Classic jellied meat

Such a cold appetizer will always be relevant. In addition, meat frozen in broth is a hearty, tasty appetizer for strong alcoholic drinks.

You can serve the jellied meat with horseradish sauce or mustard dressing.

There are many options for stuffing half boiled eggs.

We offer several options this year.

Stuff eggs with pieces of sausage, corn and garnish with slices of fresh cucumber. Or chicken liver pate with boiled yolk.

Grated processed cheese with garlic and yolk is also a great recipe. Go ahead and make herring mass with beets.

Lavash roll and cod liver

Lavash rolls look original and festive. It's also a delicious snack.

Spread salted grainy cottage cheese and mashed cod liver onto a sheet of lavash, and place torn lettuce leaves on top. All that remains is to roll the pita bread and cut into portions.

Meat, vegetable and cheese slices

For the New Year's table, where a large company will gather, it is better to prepare several options for cutting.

Guests will be able to create their own snack sandwiches from pieces of sausage, ham, tongue, various cheeses, and vegetables.

In fact, this salad is a variation of the classic Olivier. Only instead of the usual boiled sausage we will use smoked chicken meat.

Boil the squid for no more than a minute and cool quickly in cold water. Cut the carcasses into strips and add chopped eggs and canned corn. Z

Season the salad with homemade mayonnaise and garnish with fresh cucumber and parsley.

Classic Mimosa will sparkle with new colors and taste if you replace ordinary canned food with pieces of noble salmon.

The fish can be lightly salted or baked in the oven. Find more Mimosa salad recipes.

A birthday cake for a large company should be delicious and easy to prepare.

The ideal option would be the Smetannik cake.

Using a minimum of ingredients and preparation time, you can create a real confectionery masterpiece.

If you are planning walks in the fresh air or setting off fireworks, sledding on New Year's Eve, tea with spices will become an indispensable drink. It can be prepared with milk, cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom, cloves.

You can take this drink with you in a thermos on a walk or give your guests tea when they come home.

When choosing the right menu, listen to your desires. You should not strictly adhere to all recommendations and advice, or cook strictly according to the proposed menu and recipes. New Year is a holiday of fairy tales, homely, touching and family. Therefore, feel free to prepare according to the list, which takes into account the wishes of each guest. And even if the dishes do not complement each other, everyone will find on the table what they really wanted.

So the eccentric Rooster crowed, bringing good luck to some, disappointment to others. The table was, as always, plentiful and satisfying, then I often remembered the interesting finds of the party chef, but it’s time to think about how to come up with a New Year’s menu for 2018, because our most faithful and kind friend Dog, and also Earthy and Yellow - this is what we will start from. Feeding a Friend with a Capital “F” is what you need to do on this New Year’s Eve, feed him so deliciously that he always has sugar bones in stock for you, so that the whole year becomes one wonderful holiday, let’s together develop a menu for 2018 for the Year of the Dog.

Let there be unusual snacks on the table. The dog eats one-time handouts with pleasure; do not load the table with vases filled with salads; prepare original pieces that can be put into the mouth at one time.
You can buy tartlets in any store, the price is affordable, the taste is neutral, you can put any salad, sour, sweet, meat and fish, in such mini dishes. You can serve berries and a sweet snack in tartlets, but let’s start with the classic salty one.

Vinaigrette with boiled sausage

It will only take you a quarter of an hour to prepare a delicious vinaigrette, and you shouldn’t think that this is too everyday a dish. No one has ever tried such a miracle with sausage!

• Boiled sausage, thick consistency 200 g
• Boiled potatoes, boil in their jackets - 3 pieces
• Boiled carrots, not large, 1 piece
• Pickled or pickled cucumbers - 3 pieces
• Canned green peas - 100 g
• Onions - 1 piece
• Boiled beets 1 piece
• Mayonnaise Provencal

While the vegetables are cooking, you can have time to chop the sausage, cucumbers, and onions. Cut into small cubes. Peel the boiled vegetables, drain and cut into small cubes. Mix the ingredients and taste - you can add another cucumber if desired. Season with mayonnaise and let stand for about an hour. Place in tartlets before serving, garnish with parsley and dill, look at the New Year's menu for 2018 with photos.

Royal salad with oranges

The New Year should definitely be celebrated in a royal way; this does not require royal chambers and golden dishes, but the salad can be made unusual, tender and original.

Ingredients for preparing salad:

• One orange (can be replaced with tangerines, they are always bought for the New Year)
• One chicken egg, but it is advisable to use five quail eggs
• Garlic clove
• Crab meat - it tastes better than sticks, but you can get by with sticks - only 150 g
• Canned sweet corn 100 g
• Sour cream or mayonnaise to taste - three tablespoons

Preparing the salad will take 15 minutes, while you peel and cut the orange (tangerines) and crab meat into cubes, boil the eggs. Open the corn and drain the liquid; it is better to crush the garlic with a knife or garlic press. Peel the eggs and finely chop them. Place all the products in a bowl in layers, the first layer is crab meat, then corn, oranges and eggs, pour in sour cream, to which crushed garlic has already been added. Decorating the dish depends only on your imagination.
A dish that will take you at least two hours to prepare, but the result will be delicious, is also suitable for a festive table! So this salad will be the highlight of your appetizers, believe me.

Salad "Unification"

Ingredients for preparing salad:

• Veal tongue 300 g
• One big carrot
• White onions, not bitter, 2 pieces
• Olive or refined vegetable oil
• Pickled or pickled cucumbers - 4 pieces
• Mayonnaise
• Green onions - four feathers

The tongue will cook for about an hour; check readiness with a skewer. Peel off the film and chop into strips. We prepare carrots and onions as if we were frying borscht, but cut the onion into half rings rather than crumble them.
Chop the cucumbers finely and place them on veal tongue strips. Place the fried vegetables on parchment paper to prevent oil from getting into the salad. Place fried vegetables on top of the cucumbers, pour mayonnaise over everything, and decorate with onion feathers. Try to make Christmas tree branches from onions - it’s a New Year’s salad!

Sliced ​​chicken meat - very beautiful and tasty

A beautiful tasty cut - chicken roll, in which you can put cheese, mushrooms, ham - according to your taste, such a dish should be included in the menu for the 2018 New Year.

Chicken roll with filling

Ingredients for preparing the roll:

• Chicken breasts - 300 g (2 pieces)
• Cheese 150 g
• Gelatin 1 tablespoon
• Spicy herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro, oregano)
• For the filling - to taste (a spoonful of corn, chopped ham, mushrooms)

The process of preparing the snack itself will take 20 minutes. Cut the breast along the fibers and beat it to form a smooth surface. Mix the filling, you can make different fillings, for example, brisket with herbs, mushrooms with cheese. Form a cylinder from the prepared mass and place it on the brisket, roll it into a roll. The finished semi-finished product is placed on foil and transferred to a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake for about 40 minutes - half an hour. For those who like something bright and unusual, place several pieces of prunes parallel to the filling; the dark, sweet filling will look beautiful on the cut. A chic snack for the 2018 New Year, thinly sliced ​​​​slices of delicious meat with a bright filling.
The roll is cut into beautiful slices and placed on a plate, decorated with parsley or dill, and you can sprinkle crushed nuts or sesame seeds on top.

Julienne buns - delicious and appetizing!

Appetizing julienne buns, that’s what you need to put on the New Year’s table 2018.
What could be nicer than a small bun filled with delicious mushrooms and cheese. Absolutely everyone will like this julienne, and the crispy crust of the bun will complement the taste of the holiday snack.

Products for preparing snacks:

• Mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms or chanterelles harvested from the summer, fried in oil) - 500 g
• Onions, not bitter, 2 pieces
• Premium wheat flour - 40 g (heaped tablespoon)
• Olive or refined vegetable oil for frying
• Cheese - Dutch, Russian - hard for grating
• Sour cream 300 g
• Buns with crispy crust - 8 pieces

Cut the onion into strips and lightly fry, add chopped mushrooms and fry until tender, sprinkle with flour and then slowly add sour cream. It turns out to be a delicious julienne. If you use chanterelles harvested from the summer, then you just need to fry the onions, the mushrooms are already ready.
The “cap” is removed from the buns, the crumb is taken out, the void is filled with julienne, cheese is sprinkled on top, and the cap is covered.
The finished buns are laid out on a baking sheet, and the workpiece is sent to the oven, baking temperature is 200 degrees, keep it in the oven for no longer than 5-7 minutes, the cheese will have time to melt, the snack is ready!

"Salty" cake

A “salty” cake is the pride of any housewife, why not include it in the menu of the New Year’s table 2018. What kind of salty cakes craftsmen come up with - made from black and white bread, with meat and fish filling. We offer an original version of shrimp cake. It only takes you an hour to prepare this dish, but the result is perfection!
Prepare the dough and ingredients for making the cake:

• Chicken eggs - 4 pieces
• Premium wheat flour - 500 g
• Butter 50 g
• Granulated sugar - 30 g
• Baking powder
• Salt - a quarter teaspoon

Filling:

• Shrimp – 150 g
• Cream - 100 g
• Salt - a quarter teaspoon
• Lemon juice or citric acid half a teaspoon
• Curd cheese - 100 g
• Sour cream – 120 g
• Lightly salted trout
• Leaf lettuce
• Sesame for sprinkling

Divide the eggs into whites and yolks, beat the whites into a stiff foam, mix the yolks with sugar and butter, grind until white. Add half of the whipped whites to the yolk mixture, add flour, add the remaining whites, and mix gently. Place the dough in a mold pre-wrapped on the inside with foil or baking paper. Place in the oven, preheated to 170 degrees, bake for about half an hour. Place the finished biscuit on a large plate, remove the paper, and let cool.
Prepare the filling: boil the shrimp for 5 minutes, cool, remove the shell, take out the meat. Grind the shrimp meat in a blender, add cream, lemon juice and salt to taste. Beat until fluffy. We prepare the curd mass from cottage cheese, sour cream, and salt. We spread the shrimp mixture onto the sponge cake, the finished curd cream is applied as a decoration, for this it is best to use a pastry syringe. Decorate the center of the cake with pieces of trout, lettuce leaves, and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Hot dishes for the holiday table

Hot dishes should match what you have already served to your guests as an appetizer. We will use both fish, which the Yellow Dog greatly respects, and poultry, which was not recommended to be served on the table last year.

Rösti (potato pancakes) - this dish is rarely prepared

The ingredients for preparing the dish can be very simple; think how interesting a delicious dish of potatoes and herring will look on the New Year’s table.
We offer rare recipes for the New Year's menu 2018 that are not prepared daily

• Potatoes - preferably white, only one kg
• Chicken egg - 1 piece
• Premium wheat flour - 60 g
• Salt - 10 g
• Lightly salted herring - two pieces
• Onion, not bitter - 1 piece
• Refined vegetable oil
• Sour cream

The herring is taken down to the bones, cut into thin slices, and coated with oil.
Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater, squeeze out the juice, beat the egg into the mixture, add flour, make potato dough. Place the mixture in a frying pan in which the butter has been melted, fry the cakes on both sides - place the finished rösti on a plate. This delicious dish is served with herring and sour cream. You can also sprinkle with onions - green or onions, finely chopped.

Oven-baked potatoes with smoked or fresh brisket

The second aromatic dish takes about an hour to prepare and is served hot, so just time it when you put the baking sheet in the oven to serve it hot.

• Potatoes - according to the number of guests, this recipe is for 8 people
• Vegetable oil, refined – 50 ml
• Smoked or fresh brisket - 100 g
• Spices to taste - salt, pepper, seasonings.

The remaining ingredients are for the sauce:

• Sour cream – 150 g
• Green onions
• Garlic - clove
• Vegetable oil - 30 ml

Peel the potatoes and carefully cut out the eyes to create beautiful round tubers. Brush each potato with vegetable oil. Cut the prepared potatoes into slices up to 5 mm thick. Spread foil on a baking sheet, arrange in layers with the brisket, pour in the remaining oil. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake for half an hour.
While the potatoes are baking, prepare the sauce - add finely chopped onion to the sour cream, add squeezed garlic, add vegetable oil, spices to taste. Pour sauce over the finished dish and serve.

Spicy pork - baked ham

Ingredients for cooking:

• It is better to buy pork carbonate with the skin - cut it into beautiful diamond shapes - 1-15 kg
• Mayonnaise - a couple of tablespoons
• Dijon mustard, sad - 1 tablespoon
• Two cloves of garlic
• Ground ginger
• Ground rosemary
• Spices
• Vegetable oil - 30 ml

Wash the pork, dry it, cut the skin into neat diamonds. Sprinkle with seasonings, coat the pork with garlic and mayonnaise. Leave for an hour in a cool place to marinate. Place the pork in a refractory dish, add 100-200 ml of water and bake in the oven for about an hour, regularly basting it with the released juice. Pierce with a skewer; if there is no red liquid on the puncture, the meat is ready. Cut into even slices and serve. Serve boiled potatoes, stewed sauerkraut and lingonberry jam as a side dish.

Baked duck - a delicacy for the New Year's table

Serve the game - baked duck. The poultry is served with red wine, but to cook this duck you will need sweet white wine.
Ingredients for cooking:

• Duck, preferably domestic
• Small, sour apples - about five
• Onions - 4 pieces
• Potatoes - 8 pieces
• Spices and seasonings to taste
• White sweet wine – 100 ml
• Pepper and salt to taste
• Rosemary, ginger

Use soy sauce only if your guests like this seasoning.
Duck meat still smells a little muddy, even if the duck is domesticated, so spices should help reduce the specific smell.
Tie the duck with kitchen twine, pull the wings to the barrels, and pull the legs together. Stuff the apples into the duck, place the duck on a baking sheet, and arrange the potatoes nicely around it. Now decide what you will use to cook the duck. If you have a duck roast, you won't need foil, but you should wrap the duck in foil on the baking sheet, otherwise it will turn out dry.
Cover the whole carcass with herbs, pour wine into the duckling so that it stews in this sauce. Cooking the duck takes more than an hour at 200 degrees. But this is still a fully prepared dish, turn the duck over and put it in the oven for another half an hour. Before putting the duck in the cupboard for the second time, you can already remove the potatoes - they are completely ready. Another little secret - before putting the duck in the cupboard a second time, remove the foil and let the crust fry too.

Chicken legs with garlic - aromatic and very tasty

To prepare such a fragrant second course, you will need portioned legs and thighs; you can buy chicken and cut it into portions. Place portioned pieces on a baking sheet, top with pieces of garlic, add peppercorns, bay leaf, and salt on top. Fill with water so that the chicken is half in the water. The chicken takes about forty minutes to cook; regularly baste with the juice that forms on the baking sheet so that the chicken does not dry out.
Ingredients for cooking:

• Legs or thighs in portions - one per person
• Garlic - head
• Black peppercorns
• Bay leaf

And sweets are a must!

The apotheosis of any holiday is sweets. You can buy a ready-made cake so as not to bother with flour and the oven, you can prepare several dessert dishes - they are made in portions, it all depends on the skill and diligence of the housewife. Make a light dessert, it will fit perfectly into the 2018 New Year's menu, sweet dishes are a must, it will only take you half an hour to prepare the dessert.

Light dessert

Ingredients for making dessert:

• Shortbread cookies 200 g
• Butter 100 g
• Bananas - 2 pieces
• Condensed milk - 4 tablespoons
• Instant gelatin - pack
• Curd mass without fillers - 200 g
• Sweet yogurt - 0.5 liters
• Kiwi or passion fruit - 1 piece
• Puffed rice balls – 400 g
• Cocoa

Crumble the cookies, mix with softened butter, place on the bottom of the springform pan. Pour condensed milk, put slices or halves of bananas on top. Dilute gelatin, pour it into yogurt, add pieces of kiwi or passion fruit. Carefully move everything, combine with the whipped curd mass and carefully add rice balloons to the sweet dish. Before the liquid hardens, pour it into molds or pour into a single springform pan. Now put the finished sweet light dish in the refrigerator, after hardening, sprinkle with cocoa.

Sweet banana liqueur for New Year

The preparation time for a luxurious New Year's drink is only 15 minutes.
Ingredients for cooking:

• Ripe bananas - 3 pieces
• Diluted medical alcohol or vodka - 300 ml
• Milk – 150 ml
• Condensed milk - 100 g
• Chicken eggs - 2 pieces

Peel the bananas and cut off all the brown spots and chop. Separate the egg yolks from the whites (do this carefully, we only need the whites). Using a blender or mixer, beat the egg whites, banana pieces and condensed milk. Gradually pour alcohol into the resulting mass. We put it in a cold place to “ripen” and filter it after half an hour. Then we pour the finished liqueur into chocolate glasses - it’s so easy to make them yourself!

1. Peel the bananas and cut them into small pieces.
2. Separate the whites from the yolks in the eggs (we will only use whites).
3. In a mixer, beat fresh and condensed milk, bananas and egg whites until smooth.
4. While mixing the ingredients, gradually add alcohol.
5. Place the resulting mass in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
6. Next, filter the drink through cheesecloth.

The Year of the Rooster is coming to an end and very soon the Dog will take over its legal rights. She will become the “hostess” of 2018. Preparations for the New Year always begin in advance, because you need to think through every detail: choose a festive outfit, come up with congratulations, buy gifts and think about treats. Every housewife is racking her brains over what to cook for New Year 2018 and is looking for extraordinary recipes with photos, so we decided to prepare an article that will help create an appetizing and original New Year's menu.

The dog is an active, cheerful and voracious animal. Therefore, it is better to celebrate the 2018 year of the dog with a full festive table, then you will be lucky for the next 365 days. Efforts must be made to ensure that no one is left hungry, so that everyone present can taste their favorite dish.

Mandatory foods on the table in the year of the yellow earthen dog

1. Beef, veal, lamb or rabbit should be included first when compiling your grocery list. It is recommended not to fry the meat, but to boil or bake it. In this form, the meat will be easier to digest, then everyone will feel light and active, which is what is needed. But the choice, of course, is yours! :)
2. Poultry meat can also be present in holiday dishes. You can use not only chicken, but also goose, turkey, duck and other types of birds.
3. Fish, seafood and mushrooms can diversify the abundance of meat.
4. The year 2018 is the year under the rule of the yellow dog, so take into account dishes that include vegetables, fruits, legumes and grains that are brown or yellow in color. You can use potatoes, pumpkin, peppers, yellow tomatoes, corn, beets, pineapples and other ingredients.

How to please and appease a yellow dog?

The basis of New Year's dishes should be meat dishes. They can be anything, it all depends on your personal taste preferences. You can also enjoy aspic, pork knuckle, boiled pork, grilled steaks, chops, cutlets, kebabs, jellied meat, baked duck, grilled chicken, pates, juliennes and much more. Salads based on boiled meat can diversify the menu. Any cuts of meat would also be appropriate, which could include any sausage, balyk, ham, jamon, basturma, dried chicken, etc. Each ingredient must be thinly sliced ​​so that the slices can be formed into a voluminous composition. Classic sandwiches with red caviar or salted red fish will also come in handy. Pickled mushrooms, olives, etc. can complement the gastronomic variety.

The New Year 2018 will undoubtedly be remembered by the representatives of the stronger half who love meat dishes. But even for fragile girls there are many interesting recipes that will not affect their figure.

What should not be present on the holiday table

The future housewife of the year will not appreciate fish dishes that have a lot of small bones, so you should exclude pike, carp and other river fish from the holiday menu. The animal will also not like the “herring under a fur coat”, beloved by many. When preparing cold cuts, make sure that they do not contain horse sausage. It is known that dogs do not like to eat these animals. Fans of Korean cuisine should give up exotic dishes and not cook food from dog meat. If you believe Feng Shui experts, you should remove broken noodles from the menu, since it turns out that their length affects longevity. You should not tease your dog with fast food dishes (hot dogs, burgers).

It is not advisable to serve overly carbonated drinks - kvass, lemonade, beer. An earthy dog ​​will not be delighted with strong drinks.

New Year's menu for the New Year's festive table 2018

So, as cold appetizers you can serve “Christmas balls”, small sandwiches with boiled pork and cucumbers, meat rolls with cheese, eggs stuffed with red caviar, profiteroles with crab, mushroom or cheese filling, meat fingers with lard or cheese, boiled pork, etc.

French meat, pork rolls with pineapple, julienne with chicken, mushrooms and cheese, Provençal meat, rabbit baked with herbs, pork with berry sauce, marinated chicken breast, etc. can be served hot.

For the main course you can prepare chicken fricassee, baked duck, roast pork, beef in pots, baked salmon, baked squid with tomatoes, stewed lamb with vegetables, chicken tobacco, chicken with oranges or vegetables, etc.

Choose desserts for your holiday table to suit your taste. The yellow dog does not limit your choice of sweets. Therefore, you can “roam” here :) You can bake cookies and cakes yourself or order a small one, decorated in accordance with the main symbol of the year. Don't forget to use jellies and creams to complement desserts. Decorate finished products with fruits and nuts.

You can serve vegetables and fruits on the table in any quantity and in any form. An earth dog willingly eats vegetables and will not refuse to enjoy fruits. So you can safely include any vegetable and fruit snacks in your menu. For a large company, you can prepare fruit salads. The ingredients, cut into large pieces and arranged in small transparent salad bowls for each guest individually, will look very stylish and beautiful.

New Year's Recipes

In addition to various holiday menus, we have prepared a selection of the best recipes with photos for meeting a yellow earthen dog. These recipes are suitable for every zodiac sign, whether you are Libra, Scorpio, Pisces or another sign. After all, it doesn’t matter whether the menu is compiled according to the horoscope or not when a huge company gathers at the table.

Salad “Dog's Joy”

- 1 avocado,

- 150 grams of peeled shrimp,

- 2 chicken eggs,

- canned pineapple,

- 150 grams of hard cheese,

- mayonnaise,

- spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Dip the peeled shrimp in boiling salted water for 5-7 minutes. Then drain them in a colander and let cool.
2. Peel the avocado, remove the pit and cut into small cubes.
3. Grate the hard-boiled eggs on a coarse grater.
4. Grate some of the cheese on a coarse grater, and leave some for decoration.
5. Drain the liquid from the canned pineapple and cut it into small cubes.
6. Mix all ingredients in a bowl, add spices to taste and season with mayonnaise.
7. Place the salad with shrimp and avocado in the form of a pit on a flat dish, as shown in the photo above. Sprinkle the bone with grated cheese or egg white on all sides. That's it, the original salad is ready!

Salad with heart and green peas

- pork heart 500 gr.,

- canned green peas 1 b.,

- chicken eggs 4 pcs.,

— carrots 1 pc.,

— onion 1 pc.,

- vinegar 2 tbsp,

- 2 cloves garlic,

- greenery,

- vegetable oil 1 tbsp.,

- mayonnaise,

- spices (sugar, salt, black pepper, bay leaf).

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the pork heart thoroughly under running water and clean it, removing all veins and vessels. Cut into small pieces and cook in salted water.
2. Boil the eggs hard.
3. During the process of boiling the heart, the first cloudy water will need to be drained, and instead, pour the same volume of clean water and cook the offal for 30 minutes.
4. Cut the onion into half rings and marinate.
5. When the heart has been boiled for half an hour, drain the water again and add new water, continue cooking for another hour until it becomes soft. 30 minutes before the end of the process, add 4-5 black peppercorns and a few bay leaves to the water.
6. Peel the carrots, grate them on a coarse grater, and saute in vegetable oil.
7. Cut the cooled heart into neat cubes, dice the eggs, chop the greens with a knife, finely chop the garlic.
8. Open the can of peas and drain the excess liquid.
9. Place all the chopped ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise and set aside for 1-1.5 hours. That's all, the delicious meat salad is ready for the New Year's table!

Meat salad with champignons and ripe pomegranate seeds

- beef or veal 200 gr.,

— pomegranate 1 pc.,

- champignons 150 gr.,

- walnuts 50 gr.,

— lettuce leaves 3 pcs.,

– purple onion 1 pc.,

- mayonnaise,

- 1 clove garlic,

- vegetable oil for frying,

- spices.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the meat well, dry and chop coarsely. Then place it in a heated frying pan, greased with vegetable oil, fry on both sides until cooked.
2. In another pan, fry the champignons.
3. Place the finished fried ingredients on a paper napkin so that all excess fat is absorbed.
4. Peel the onion, cut into half rings and pour over boiling water.
5. Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands.
6. Chop the walnut kernels with a knife.
7. Prepare the dressing: add chopped garlic and ground black pepper to the mayonnaise.
8. Peel the pomegranate and select whole seeds.
9. Lay out the lettuce leaves, then the meat, mushrooms, sprinkle everything with nuts and onions, make a few large drops of sauce and add pomegranate seeds.

Meat salad with beef and pomegranate is ready! The yellow earthen dog will certainly be delighted with such a dish and the bright presentation of the dish. Take note and experiment! J

Buns “Funny Dogs”

- flour 450 gr. + 100 gr. for adding,

- milk 150 ml,

- dry yeast 8 gr.,

- eggs 2 pcs.,

- butter 70 gr.,

- sugar 2 tbsp,

- salt 1 tsp,

- yolk 1,

— sausages 2-3 pcs.,

- raisins 50 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Sift the flour and pour warm milk into it, add yeast, sugar, salt, eggs, melted butter. Knead the dough and leave it for an hour in a warm place.
2. When the time is up, divide the dough into 15 small pieces, round them and leave for 15 minutes.
3. Cut the sausages diagonally.
4. Roll each ball into an oval cake, make a small cut on top, place a piece of sausage on the bottom and roll the dough so that the top cut is on the sausage. Make cuts on the sides and move them slightly apart - these will be the “ears”.
5. Use raisins as eyes and spouts. Brush the yeast buns with egg. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

So all the yeast buns are ready for the New Year 2018.

Stuffed chicken drumsticks

- chicken drumsticks 5 pcs.,

— tomatoes 2 pcs.,

- hard cheese 5 slices,

- mayonnaise,

- vegetable oil,

- mustard 1 tsp,

- fresh parsley,

- 1 clove garlic,

- salt, pepper, tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the drumsticks, remove any remaining feathers, place on a paper towel and dry. Using a knife, cut the skin and meat into a “pocket”, being careful not to damage the skin. Chop the meat that is left without skin with the bone.
2. In a bowl, mix chopped garlic, mayonnaise, mustard and spices. Rub the resulting mixture onto the shins on all sides.
3. Cut the meat into small pieces; we don't need bones.
4. Add chopped tomatoes, cheese, herbs and 1 tsp to the meat. mayonnaise.
5. Stuff the drumsticks with the filling.
6. Fry the resulting legs until golden brown.
7. Transfer the drumsticks to a baking dish and place in the oven for 15 minutes at 180-190 degrees.

Pork medallions in oranges

- pork 500 gr.,

- vegetable oil,

– large orange 1 pc.,

- shallot,

- purified water,

- turmeric,

- salt, pepper, tsp.,

Cooking process:

1. Cut the pork into medallions 0.5 cm thick, season with salt and pepper and place in a preheated frying pan greased with vegetable oil.
2. Fry the pork on both sides until golden brown.
3. Add the juice squeezed from one orange and a little chopped zest. Also add shallots cut into half rings, a couple of spoons of honey, a little water and sprinkle everything with turmeric.
4. Cover the pan with a lid and leave the meat to simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. Look under the lid from time to time and stir the medallions.

That's all! Delicious, soft and aromatic pork is ready!

“Dog” salad with smoked chicken breast and champignons

— 1 smoked chicken breast,

— marinated champignons 150 gr.,

- potatoes 5-6 pcs.,

— carrots 4 pcs.,

- eggs 3-4 pcs.,

— processed cheese 1 pc.,

- mayonnaise,

- spices,

- cloves, dill and a small piece of meat or sausage for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs until fully cooked. Clean.
2. Finely chop the smoked chicken breast and mushrooms. Leave a couple of whole mushrooms for decoration.
3. Grate potatoes, carrots, egg whites and yolks on a fine grater.
4. Take a flat plate and lay out the first layer of grated potatoes, form the ears and future face of the dog. Lubricate the layer with mayonnaise.
5. Place chopped breast, egg whites, a layer of champignons, processed cheese on top and spread mayonnaise on top.
6. Now it's time to lay out the carrots.
7. Start laying the potatoes on top, so that all previous layers are hidden under them. As a result, you should get a white muzzle of a dog, which still needs to be coated with mayonnaise on top.
8. Use grated yolk to mark the dog’s face, leaving the ears white.
9. Cover the dog's nose and cheeks with egg white.
10. Cut out the eyes and nose from mushroom caps, the mustache from cloves, and the tongue from a piece of meat or sausage.
11. You can put a sprig of dill around the muzzle. Carefully wrap the salad in cling film and place in the refrigerator to soak.

This New Year’s salad “Dog” will appeal not only to adults, but also to little guests.

Festive table decoration

If you want to decorate your holiday table in accordance with the preferences of the main symbol of the year, then you should pay special attention to detail. Each element should be festive, evoke pleasant emotions and create a New Year's mood.