Children's dishes for the new year. Christmas tree for garnish - cauliflower and broccoli with bechamel sauce
New Year's recipes: children's table, fast and tasty
If you always have a lot of people on New Year's Eve, it makes sense to separate some of them separately. For the children's table. But then it’s worth serving differently, is it logical?
It is not so important for children to eat at a feast of hot potatoes and fatty meat or cold cuts - after all, they do not have to fight alcohol. Children want non-everyday, bright, fun and to be able to eat with their hands. So we have collected for you 5 recipes that will not tire you and will become hits on the children's New Year's table.
Christmas tree made from pita bread or pancakes
What is New Year's without a tree? One already, probably, is dressed up in the corner, and the second itself will serve as an ornament. Stola. Find (or make, if you're a craftswoman) a long, narrow dish. The longer, the higher our Christmas tree will be.
You will need: a few fresh thin pita breads or pancakes, ingredients for the filling. For example, cottage cheese or regular cheese, salted red fish, cold unleavened cold cuts, homemade marshmallows. In general, anything that will not spread at the slightest movement of a pancake or pita bread.
How to do: cut the pita bread into quarters, and take the pancake whole. Lay the filling, fold it into a triangle, put the triangles on top of each other on a dish to look like a Christmas tree. Decorate on a dish with "balls" - grapes, olives, halves of quail eggs, candied cherries, raspberries and blackberries from the freezer.
canape
Bright, small, varied in taste and appearance, canapes are generally a constant hit at children's parties. You can cut bread and cheese under a canape with a glass of vodka, a curly cookie cutter, or just a knife into squares. It is best to make canapes of all kinds.
You will need: many thin slices of fresh white bread and ingredients for different types of toppings. For example, cheese, feta cheese, ham, cold beef, boiled egg white, lightly salted fish, cucumber, marmalade, chocolate or nut paste, banana, in general, as long as it is not very spicy or salty and stays on a skewer. If you know how, you can bake tiny (very, very tiny) plump pancakes instead of bread.
How to do: we think you already know. And you can put it on a dish in a hundred different ways. Completely mixed. Circles, according to the types of filling. Squares, like in boxes with sushi. If you don’t decorate canapes with anything at the top, you can mark canapes with different fillings with a drop of syrup or sauce with patterns.
stuffed apples
The best type of cabbage rolls, from the point of view of children. Easy to prepare, disappears from the table quickly.
You will need: apples, boiled cold rice, not crumbly, walnuts, berries from jam, oranges or lemons, powdered sugar.
How to do: cut off the “lids” of the apples from the side of the handle, cut out the pulp, throw out the films and seeds. Chop or grate the remaining pulp after cleaning from the chaff, mix with rice and crushed walnuts. Now this mass is divided into two parts. Mix one with jam berries, the other with chopped citrus slices. That is, we will get a sweeter and more sour versions of the dish. Stuff apples with these fillings, close with “lids”, wrap in foil and bake in the oven. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
Tartlets
Ready-made baskets for cold tartlets can be bought at the store. It remains only to fill them with a sweet or salad filling. Here, as with canapes, variety rules, both external and taste.
You will need: ready-made baskets for tartlets, ingredients for toppings. For example, for sweets - whipped cream, banana puree (just take and crush a banana, adding a little ordinary cream to the resulting mass), soft cheese like mascarpone, pieces of apples and pears, seedless grapes, halves of mandarin slices or cherry berries with peeled pits, shelled sunflower seeds, crushed walnuts, cashews, jam.
How to do: mix in different combinations, to taste and eye. Salads can be put in tartlets the same as you put on an adult table. By the way, in addition to tartlets, small portions of salads for children can be put into halves of cucumbers instead of the removed pulp, into halves of tomatoes and eggs.
baked vegetables
Assorted sliced \u200b\u200bpotatoes, carrots, zucchini, cut into cubes and baked in the oven or microwave, go with a bang, because they remind children of food from an unnamed restaurant. Here, it seems, both the recipe and the ingredients are clear from the description. One has only to add that potato sticks are baked with the addition of butter and salt, only salt is added to the zucchini. The assortment is laid out in a single, well-mixed heap on a large dish and several containers with sauces for different tastes are placed next to it. Children themselves will not notice how they crunch everything, dipping vegetable pieces first in one sauce, then in another.
Text: Lilith Mazikina
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New Year's Eve is one of the main holidays of the year, which is usually celebrated by the whole family. Children of all ages are especially looking forward to New Year's Eve - they help decorate the Christmas tree, decorate the room, prepare a festive dinner and set the table. If you plan to celebrate the New Year with your family, there is no need to set a separate table for children. Include snacks, hot dishes and desserts in the New Year's menu that will appeal to both children and adults, paying special attention to table setting and decoration of festive dishes.
In the case when several families with children will meet the coming year, it is better for the younger generation to set a separate table. To decorate a children's corner in a special way, to make it truly festive, New Year's chair covers will help,
decoration of the walls around the table, set a separate table for desserts.
Decorate the main table with New Year's attributes and cover with elegant appetizers, vitamin salads, light desserts and healthy drinks.
At the same time, do not forget that children cannot spend the whole evening at the table - make an entertainment program for all participants in the New Year's party, where there is a place for fun contests, concert numbers, funny skits and dances to incendiary New Year's melodies.
Children's New Year's menu
When laying a children's New Year's table, you need to adhere to certain principles:
1. All dishes for children for the new year should be freshly prepared, from fresh and healthy products with a minimum content of dyes and chemical flavors. For dressing salads, use homemade mayonnaise, natural yogurt, low-fat sour cream, or a mixture of vegetable oil and lemon juice. Do not give young children seafood, smoked sausage and other foods high in salt and artificial preservatives that can cause allergies.
Prepare a homemade chicken breast roll or turkey fillet, aspic in portion molds, serve light baked vegetables as a side dish.
Instead of factory-made lemonades and Coca-Cola, put healthy drinks for children on the children's holiday table - natural fruit drink, homemade juice, fresh, dried or frozen fruit compote, smoothies or fruit juice.
Children's desserts - instead of a multi-layered cake with rich cream, prepare fruit and milk jellies, homemade ice cream, fruit salad with sour cream and nuts, a fruit plate, dessert sandwiches on skewers of fruit cubes and grapes with mild cheese.
2. The second important rule is that all New Year's dishes for children should be beautifully decorated. Show your imagination when setting the table and serving dishes - lay a bright tablecloth with New Year's drawings, use plates with a beautiful pattern, complement the table decor with colorful napkins and New Year's figurines.
Decorate the salad in the form of a symbol of the coming year - a Rooster, New Year's clock, a gift or a Christmas ball. You can simply arrange the salad in tartlets or portioned baskets. Make a dish of "snack snowmen" from the cheese mass (grated crab sticks, melted or grated hard cheese, sour cream, greens). Instead of the usual sandwiches, make a fruit snack on skewers.
As decorations, you can use figuratively chopped vegetables, pomegranate and cranberries, sprigs of fresh herbs and other ingredients that are part of New Year's salads and snacks.
3. When planning a children's New Year's menu, you should not chase quantity. For the company of children, two or three snacks, one hot dish and dessert are enough. Set the table in such a way that children can refresh themselves in between games and entertainment. Prepare drinks, pastries, fruits and desserts with a margin - small gourmets simply “sweep” portioned sweets from the table and empty an incredible number of glasses with refreshing drinks.
Useful advice - do not take the whole process of preparing for the New Year on yourself, actively involve children in New Year's chores. Joint preparation at home for the New Year, setting up a Christmas tree, setting the table, cooking and decorating dishes will bring a huge amount of positive emotions to all participants in the New Year's feast, regardless of age.
Children's menu for the new year
This is a sample menu for school children.
1.Snacks for children
2. Hot meals for children
For hot children, beautiful or will do. You can cook an original dish -. Children can take part in the preparation of these dishes.
Another option for hot meals for children is or. For a side dish - suitable for all ages, for older children you can cook.
3. Drinks for children for the new year
Drinks for children of any age are better natural -
Future adults love to imitate their parents, and this is an important quality for development, but it is a pity that parents do not imitate their heirs much - in the ability to genuinely enjoy the holidays. Let's correct the annoying mistake and start enjoying life even at the stage of culinary preparation, for which we will decorate the children's New Year's table generously, beautifully and creatively! You are waiting for the triumph of spectacular ideas, fabulous motifs of the glorious days of the calendar, delicious food combinations and ample opportunities for kids to imitate their parents.
When thinking about a children's holiday, immediately direct your imagination towards the buffet table. We have already written about children's birthdays more than once, and the convenience of a buffet service - with a lot of recipes and photos! leaves no room for doubt. Children will love the buffet for the new year!
For those who want to learn interesting thematic ideas for the festive table, we suggest reading them in the following articles.
New Year's snack buffet: what can you make a Christmas tree from
You can’t do without Christmas trees on the New Year’s table, so even at the stage of snacks you can build a lot of elegant options. Here are just a few photos that make it easy to understand the principle of growing festive beauties - from a variety of products.
There are cheese and sausage cuts, and slices of cucumbers, and cucumber skin plates, and grapes, and, of course, citrus fruits, so beloved by the Monkey-2016.
New Year's "recipes" of Christmas trees for children
A snowman and Christmas balls look interesting, which can be made from several snack masses. You will find three recipes for them in the story about New Year's snacks.
On the basis of inexpensive, but tasty New Year's salads, which we talked about in the article of the same name, you can make cones.
It can be several large cones that will have to be divided with a spoon, or many portions - on a plate for each child.
You can bribe the hearts of parents who care about the diet of their children by choosing a highly valuable product for a traditional recipe. For example, quail eggs are for stuffed eggs.
We need
- Quail eggs, hard boiled - 10 pcs.;
- Soft cheese (creamy or cottage cheese) - 2-3 tbsp. (can be replaced with cottage cheese mass with herbs
or melted cheese) - Salted salmon - 50 g;
- Dill - 3-4 sprigs;
- Pepper - 1 pinch.
How to cook
- Cut the boiled eggs crosswise and take out the yolks.
- Salted salmon cut into small cubes
- Chop the dill very finely.
- We combine the yolks, cheese, salmon and dill and mix thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass.
- We stuff the halves of the eggs with this mass, covering the top with the second empty half.
- We dress each stuffed egg on a skewer or toothpick.
Serving - on lettuce leaves or surrounded by cheese and sausage slices.
"Egg" children's New Year's table (photo)
When preparing the menu for the New Year's holiday, you don't want to go beyond the already inflated budget. On the other hand, you really want to please your guests with something original!
We invite you to consider the ideas of hot with apples, bananas and frozen cherries, because these are the most affordable fruits on the winter shelves.
And in general, it makes sense to look through the options for hot dishes for a children's birthday, because December 31 is also a birthday for the new 2016 year.
And if you decide not to limit the New Year's menu to snacks and sweets, then look for hot recipes on our website - on the request "children's birthday".
For dessert, gingerbread cookies are especially good - as a variant of a portioned New Year's dish, which is convenient to eat with your hands, including with free buffet serving. And again it is worth focusing on the form.
A few photos of traditional options.
Children's "photo-recipes" of gingerbread for the New Year
How to work with glaze is the topic of a separate detailed conversation. And today we will describe for you a delicious dough recipe and a simple way for a charming decor for children - WITHOUT GLAZE.
New Year's gingerbread cookies "Bear wants to be friends!"
We need
- Flour - 250 g;
- Butter (already softened) - 70 g;
- Sugar - 80 g;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. l.;
- Ginger (dried, powdered) - 1 tsp;
- Fresh ginger, grated - 1 tsp;
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- Cloves (ground) - ½ tsp;
- Soda - ½ tsp;
- Almonds (whole nuts) - according to the number of cookies.
How to make Christmas cookies
- Cut the butter into cubes, combine with sugar and egg and beat in a blender until smooth.
- Add flour, spices, soda, grated fresh ginger, cocoa powder to the mass. We twist again in a blender. We form a test lump, wrap it in a film and send it to the refrigerator - for 30-40 minutes.
- Divide the dough in half. We take one part to work, and we can return the second to the refrigerator.
- We roll out the dough between two layers of baking paper: put a lump on the paper, press it lightly, on top of the second piece of paper - and slowly work with a rolling pin. Our goal is an even test pancake up to 7 mm thick.
- Using a teddy bear cutter, cut out cookies. With any colored pencil (or confectionery stick) we outline the eyes, mouth, ears and nails on the legs. We put a nut in the middle of each cookie and wrap the upper paws that hold the nut.
Cook's Advice
You can cut out cookies with other cutters. The main thing is that it should be an animated character with distinct hands.
- We heat the oven to 180 * C. Lay baking paper on a baking sheet. And lay out our figures.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes. If the dough is thicker than 7 mm, an additional 4-5 minutes will be required.
- While baking the first batch, repeat all the steps to create cookies from the second half of the dough.
Of course, when preparing a children's New Year's table, one cannot do without a wide variety of sweets and pastries. Interesting ideas for recipes - without wasting time and effort! - have long been described on our website, where we invite you to look.
Pay special attention to no-bake cheesecakes, which are easy to prepare even for a novice housewife. Among the proposed options are convenient recipes - with ingredients that are easily available in winter.
For these easy cakes, we have in store an equally simple but spectacular decor - in a red and white New Year's style.
Approaching the end of the article, let's not pass by the apogee of adult attributes in the new year's menu. This is a necessary drink not only for the upcoming 2016, but for all the past and future. Yes, you guessed it right, we mean CHAMPAGNE!
In order to fully please the children, we will serve a refreshing children's drink in bottles of champagne or wine. Or we will buy apple juice with gas, which is called “Children's Champagne”, and, armed with simple techniques, we decorate bottles especially for children.
Such a drinking accompaniment is perfect for a sweet table, because, you see, tea is served to children at home - on ordinary days. And the New Year's menu is a place for surprise and delight!
New Year's bottle decor options
Method number 1
Santa Claus is easy to make, for which you will need red, white, gold and black fabric, some cardboard, cotton wool, ribbons and buttons.
Fleece, felt, thick chintz will help you out. But even if these materials are not available, you can create a decoration from glossy colored paper, it is only important to glue it well (a thick layer of PVA or Moment glue).
Method number 2
With acrylic paints, a piece of sponge, brushes, and minimal art skills, you can make other great Christmas drink bottle recipes for your kid's table.
Leaving your home after the New Year's celebration, each of the young guests can take with them a sweet memory of a fun holiday and a delicious, originally laid table.
Option number 1
If you're a good baker and enjoy baking, this might be the easiest gingerbread icing recipe ever. It is important that the gingerbread have a ribbon by which it can be hung from the Christmas tree.
And do not forget to make a bright label where the wish for the child is written - always with his name (!)
Option number 2
Take a closer look at the candy Christmas trees - based on the bottle. Please note that you can always choose a bottle smaller than champagne. At your service kefir, from juice or milk. The main thing is that they are made of glass.
For a smaller bottle and candy, you can choose a smaller one. However, the well-known craft will not lose its relevance, because it is beautiful, stable and curious for children in the very process of obtaining sweets - they need to be cut off or cut off.
Option number 3
For older children who are already beginning to be interested in all sorts of tests and horoscopes, you can beat the meeting of the new 2016 year - as the time under the Monkey symbol. And then the best decor for the bottle will be round sweets in gold foil. What beauty can be built - can be clearly seen in the photo.
Such a pineapple does not have to be decorated with expensive sweets. There is another budget recipe: take any round sweets and wrap them in gold foil. Pineapple leaves - double-sided green paper:
Option number 4
The abundance of interesting New Year's dishes and entertainment for children is very elegantly emphasized by handing out candy wreaths at parting. They can be the same for everyone, but they are executed not in a circle, but in the form of a heart.
The universal symbol of love emphasizes the friendliness of your home and the desire of the child to make friends with all the guests.
The recipe for making wreaths is as easy as shelling pears! Just one photo immediately makes the manufacturing process clear:
You will need cardboard, candies, scotch tape (or strong thread) and a ribbon - for a loop on which you can hang the wreath. Note! It is easy to involve your child in this craft - starting from 4 years old. Let the kid know that friendship is a troublesome business that requires work and dedication. And only in this way a person has the right to count on the reciprocity and reliability of friends.
Always remember that the children's New Year's table, as well as a holiday for children in general, is primarily a creative approach and an optimistic vision of the world. All its joys, beauty and crazyness open up for you the forgotten scope for expressing affection, friendship, love, faith in your own strength and in everything good!
1. Salad Carrot
Ingredients: 200 g turkey (or chicken) fillet, 300 g potatoes, 300 g mushrooms, 300 g carrots, 2 eggs, 150 g onions, mayonnaise, salt, dill, vegetable oil
Cooking: Boil potatoes and carrots until tender. Cool, clean. Boil the fillet until tender (cook the turkey for about 20-25 minutes after boiling). Cool down. Finely chop the onion. Finely chop the mushrooms. Fry the onion in vegetable oil. Add mushrooms, salt, fry until tender (about 15 minutes).
Grate potatoes, eggs and carrots on a fine grater. Finely chop the fillet. Arrange potatoes on a plate in the form of a carrot. Salt a little, grease with mayonnaise. Put the mushrooms on the potatoes, then the fillet. Salt a little, grease with mayonnaise. Put the eggs on the fillet and grease with mayonnaise. Place carrots over eggs. Decorate the salad with dill. You can make grooves on the carrot with the help of a knife.
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2. Salad Nemo
Ingredients: m ora cabbage - 200 g, krill meat - 1 can, tuna in its own juice (you can take boiled white fish) - 1 can, eggs - 5 pcs, crab sticks - 6 pcs, boiled carrots (medium) - 2-3 pcs, mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp. l., parsley - 1 bunch., milk - 3 tbsp. l.
Cooking: Boil carrots and 4 eggs, lay 1 egg raw, it is useful for batter. Remove the yolk from the eggs, set aside the whites. Chop the yolks. Cut crab sticks. Grate carrots and protein on a fine grater into different plates. Leave a piece of carrot for the fins.
Combine seaweed, krill meat, tuna, yolks, crab sticks and season with mayonnaise. Put the salad in the form of a fish on a dish.
Spread the fish with grated carrots with a teaspoon, leaving room for white stripes. Then lay out the squirrels, make eyes from olives, cut fins from carrots. Pave white stripes with seaweed. Make a mouth with a knife and lay seaweed.
Make a batter: beat 1 egg with 3 tablespoons of milk, 2 tablespoons of flour. Heat the oil in a small iron bowl. Break the parsley into small bunches. Dip a small bunch of parsley into the batter and deep fry. Carefully lower the parsley into the boiling oil. Put the finished corals on a napkin to drain excess fat. Spread the corals around the fish.
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3. Salad New Year's mask
Ingredients: 1 boiled chicken breast (finely chopped), 100 g cheese (finely grated), 1 boiled medium carrot (finely grated), 1 boiled medium beetroot (finely grated, 200 g thick mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts, 2 cloves garlic (pass through a press), salt, pepper (to taste), pomegranate seeds, parsley, dill.
Cooking: Put 2 glasses on an oval dish and spread salad in layers around them in the form of a masquerade mask:
1 layer: chicken pieces
2 layer: ½ dressing
3 layer: cheese
4 layer: ½ dressing:
5 layer: top - carrots, bottom - beets.
Don't forget to take out the glasses from the salad. Decorate the salad with pomegranate seeds, parsley leaves and dill sprigs: Let the salad brew well and you can put it on the New Year's table.
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4. Salad Herring under a fur coat
Ingredients: herring 1 pc. or 200 gr. fillet, onion - 1 pc., vinegar - 1 tbsp., egg - 3 pcs., beets - 1 pc. large, carrots 1 pc., potatoes - 1 pc., apple 1 pc., mayonnaise - 250-350 gr.
Cooking: Boil potatoes in their skins, cool, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Put the grated potatoes on the bottom of the herring box or dish.
Separate the herring from the bones and the ridge, cut into small cubes. Lay the herring on the potatoes. Peel the apple, remove the core and grate on a coarse grater.
Peel the onion, cut into small cubes, pour vinegar and half a glass of hot water. Add some salt and marinate for 20-30 minutes. Then drain the water and put on the herring. Drizzle with mayonnaise.
Boil the carrots, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Boil the beets until cooked, cool and grate on a coarse grater. Drizzle with mayonnaise. Hard-boil the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks, grate the whites on a coarse grater. Decorate the salad as in the picture.
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