How to make a New Year's menu. Miniature pastries on the festive table

There is very little left, and many housewives are racking their brains over compiling a festive menu. Here you will find rules and recipes for decorating the New Year's table.

New 2017 according to the eastern calendar is considered the year, which is considered the most sociable, and fire symbolizes vitality, which strives for growth and success. That is why, when preparing the celebration of the New Year, you need to approach with enthusiasm and bright ideas.

When setting the table, use red and gold colors, and to dilute the bright colors, white and silver are perfect. And of course, don't forget the candles!

How to make a New Year's menu

Believing in signs is a purely personal matter, but you must definitely know how to attract the luck of the Fire Rooster and be able to appease him, because New Year's Eve is a night of magic. To do this, you must take into account the addictions and tastes of a wonderful and bright bird.

The rooster is an economical, but not a greedy animal. The festive table should show your wealth, but at the same time not burst from the abundance of food and dishes. Dishes can be as simple as possible, not overly complex and exotic.

Often on the festive table you can see fried chicken, duck or other poultry. But not on New Year's Eve. You need to stop eating such foods. The presence of poultry meat can only be in salads and in small quantities. Therefore, you should give preference to pork, veal, beef and fish dishes. Also, do not put stuffed eggs on the table.

On the table in the year of the Fire Rooster should be vegetables and fruits, both in salads and sliced. Don't forget about dessert. It is best to make a pie or cake.

Recipes for main dishes for the New Year 2017

For this dish you will need the following products: 1 kg of salmon fillet, 300 ml of cream no more than 10% fat, 150 g of cheese, 1 onion, salt and seasonings to your taste.

The first step is to make the sauce. Cream should be poured into a small bowl. Add salt and seasonings to them. Seasonings can be anything. If you add a little lemon juice to the cream, the sauce will thicken and resemble liquid sour cream in consistency.

Cut the salmon fillet into small pieces and put on a baking sheet previously greased with vegetable oil. Pour the sauce over the fillet and let stand for 20 minutes. After that, sprinkle the salmon pieces with grated cheese. Now you need to send the baking sheet to the oven, heated to 180 degrees. Fish should be baked for 30-35 minutes.

For the garnish you will need: 10 large or 15 medium potatoes, 2 egg whites, seasonings and olive oil.

First you need to make a light batter in which the potatoes will be cooked. To do this, beat the egg whites well. Potatoes must be cut into slices and mixed in whipped proteins. Then add all the seasonings to your taste. A small amount of olive oil is added to a baking sheet, and put the potato wedges. If desired, you can sprinkle herbs on top. Bake potatoes at 220 degrees for about 40 minutes. while the potatoes should be stirred every 10-15 minutes.

Pork rolls with prunes and cheese

Ingredients: 1 kg of pork neck, 200 g of cheese, 200 g of prunes, 250 g of sour cream, no more than 25% fat, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 4 tablespoons of mustard with grains, 2 teaspoons of dried basil, salt and pepper to taste.

The first step is to prepare the prunes. To do this, it must be soaked in warm water to swell. Rinse the pork well and cut into longitudinal strips 2 centimeters thick (meat should be cut across the fibers) and beat well.

Mix sour cream with butter, mustard, basil and spices. With this sauce, you need to grease each piece of meat on both sides. Let the meat brew for 10-15 minutes. Now you need to dry the prunes well and cut them into small pieces, also cut the cheese.

Now the cheese and prunes need to be laid out on ¼ of the pork and carefully twist the roll. Rolls are laid out on a baking sheet and baked at 180 degrees for about an hour.

And here are a few more recipes for second courses for the New Year's table

Salad recipes for the New Year 2017

For the salad you need: 1 can of canned salmon, 250 g of cheese, 1 small tomato, 1-2 teaspoons of lemon juice, greens - dill and parsley, 1 pack of crackers.

This salad is very easy to prepare. Put the fish in a bowl and chop well with a fork, then add the grated cheese and lemon juice. Form a cone from the resulting mixture. Now let's start decorating the Christmas tree. To create the effect of fluffy paws, you need to use greens. From a tomato we cut out a star and toys. Toys can also be made from pomegranate and olives.

Crackers are needed to make it convenient to eat salad.

Note that you can not sculpt a cone, but put the mixture on a plate and shape it, as in the photo below.

Required products: 200 g chicken fillet, 3 medium-sized potatoes, ½ can of corn, 150 g Korean carrots, 1 bunch of parsley, 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 1 bunch of lettuce, salt to taste.

Boil chicken fillet and finely chop. Add corn, carrots, finely chopped parsley, salt and mayonnaise to the chicken. To stir thoroughly.

Cut the potatoes into thin strips and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown and add to the bowl with the chicken. Mix again. Now you need to find a dish, put lettuce leaves on it and put lettuce on top. If desired, you can decorate the top with herbs, tomatoes or radishes.

Snacks on the New Year's table

Snack "Herringbone"

For a snack you need: 1 thin pita bread, 250 g of curd cheese, 100 g of parmesan cheese, 2 pieces of red bell pepper, 20 pieces of olives, 1 bunch of lettuce leaves. If desired, it is fashionable to take fresh basil.

First you need to prepare the filling.

Put the curd cheese in a deep bowl and add the parmesan, grated on a fine grater, finely chopped olives and peppers.

Lay cling film on the table and lay out lettuce leaves, and put pita bread on top. Carefully cut into 4 even pieces. Put the filling on each part and carefully roll the rolls. Form a triangular shape with your fingers. Now the rolls must be put in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Take out, remove cling film and cut into small pieces. Prick each piece onto a skewer. Place half an olive at the base of the Christmas tree.

Products: 300 g cod (you can use fresh or canned), 7 potatoes, 3 eggs, 2 cucumbers, 1 bunch of green onions, 400 g of cheese, 1 red and 1 yellow pepper, 1 pack of mayonnaise and seasonings to taste.

Boil the cod, separate from the bones and finely chop. If you took cod in a jar or other fish, then just knead it. Potatoes need to be mashed. Eggs finely chop or rub on a fine grater. Now you need to mix all the ingredients, seasonings and add mayonnaise so that you can roll up small balls.

Now you need to color the balls. To do this, on different plates you need to very finely chop the pepper, cucumber, green onion. Roll each ball well in one of the plates and put on a dish.

For coloring balls, you can use any products, it all depends on your taste preferences.

Ideas for cutting on the New Year's table

Without fail, on the festive table there should be vegetable, meat and fruit cuts. Chopped products can simply be laid out on a dish, but you can also show creativity and imagination.

Video: "Menu for the New Year 2017"

Happy New Year!

If a magnificent New Year's feast is not the goal, if you want an active holiday with a light snack or there is no time for complex and lengthy preparations, then a buffet table is a way out. Easy to prepare and beautifully decorated appetizers will create a festive mood and decorate the table. But the most important thing is that the cook will not get too tired on the eve of New Year's Eve, and will be able to take an active part in the holiday, and not sit tired and unnoticed in the corner, waiting for the end of the festive fun to wash the dishes faster and, finally, have a real rest.

The main principles of snacks on the festive table

As taught in culinary guides, textbooks on nutrition technology and encyclopedias, an appetizer is served with an aperitif, before the main courses. She, like alcoholic beverages, should excite the appetite. But this is a classic idea of ​​appetizers, and it is acceptable for a banquet that includes first and second courses, as well as dessert. If we are talking about a buffet table, then the role of cold appetizers increases significantly, and they must be satisfying, since there are no other dishes on the menu.

The conclusion suggests itself: if the hostess plans to serve jelly and aspic, Olivier and fur coats, as well as other goodies, then the snack table can be completely limited to sandwiches with caviar, sausage, cheese, fish and vegetable cuts.

Salads, cocktails, sandwiches, canapes, bruschettas and other types of snacks are intended for a buffet table. This way of treating is convenient when there is not enough space for tables and chairs in the room intended for receiving guests, or, for example, the festive program consists of dances, games, competitions, and a banquet with long sitting at the table does not fit into this framework.

In this case, the buffet menu should not only consist of light, sour or salty snacks, but also be more satisfying.

Of course, all gastronomic compositions must be very beautifully designed: aesthetics in cooking is half the success, and its importance cannot be underestimated. Creative fantasy is appropriate here, creating a New Year's mood: decorating dishes in the form of Christmas trees, toys and other invariable attributes for the New Year.

Simple rules for preparing snacks are much easier to follow when there are already well-established ideas. Therefore, in addition to what has been said, we are attaching simple recipes that will help you quickly “build” a chic table.

New Year's snack: beetroot soufflé - a new "fur coat" for herring

If you are very worried that the New Year will not come without this dish, but on the other hand, you want something new and spectacular, then try an unusual option. Old in a new way is always interesting.

Ingredients:

• Rye bread (slices) 450 gr.
• Green onion 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise 120 gr.
• Boiled beets 250 gr.
• Herring fillet 450 gr.
• Ground coriander 2 gr.
• Allspice 0.005 gr.
• Warm water 125 ml.
• Lemon 1 pc.
• Gelatin 20 gr.

Recipe:

1. Cut the cleaned herring fillet into small cubes. Chop green onions. Put the ingredients in one container, season with ground coriander and allspice. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Set the herring aside
2. Soak gelatin in water, dissolve in a water bath.
3. While the gelatin is dissolving, cut the peeled beetroot randomly, put it in a blender bowl, adding mayonnaise and a few drops of lemon. Beat the mass to a creamy consistency.
4. Cut out slices of bread using cookie cutters or other suitable shapes. Put them on a tray, set round shapes that fit in size so that the pieces of bread are inside, at the bottom. It can be ordinary plastic cups without a bottom.
5. In each form, on bread, put pieces of herring, 50-70 grams each.
6. Pour the melted gelatin into the beet mass. Whisk until it starts to thicken. Fill the molds with the finished cream, covering the herring with the cooked soufflé.
7. Put the snack in the refrigerator until completely solidified. You can serve on a banquet dish or in portions, decorating with a sprig of greens, a slice of lemon.

Think about what other favorite salads can be arranged in this way. By the way, gelatin prolongs their shelf life well.

This appetizer will not only surprise guests, but also enjoy it. There are also options here. For example, you can add carrots, red bell peppers to biscuit dough or cheese cream, and put a piece of meat on top, any.

Ingredients:

• Eggs 4 pcs.
• Flour 120 gr.
• Sour cream 150 gr.
• Refined oil 70 ml.
• Greens (onion, parsley, spinach) 50 gr.
• Sugar 30 gr.
• Salt ½ tsp
• Curd cheese (or cream) 300 gr.
• Baking powder 8 gr.
• Red fish (sliced) 250 gr.

Recipe:

1. Cut the washed greens, arbitrarily. Put it in a blender bowl, beat until creamy.
2. Separate the whites from the yolks. Cool the whites. Add the yolks to the green pasta, along with sour cream and vegetable oil. Beat until the volume increases by 2-2.5 times.
3. Sift flour, combine with baking powder. Combine dry ingredients with green mass.
4. Add salt and sugar to the chilled proteins, beat until a stable foam.
5. Gradually add whipped egg whites to the green dough, gently knead the dough, trying not to precipitate the whites.
6. Cover a baking sheet with parchment greased with vegetable fat. Pour the dough on it, smooth it, put it in a preheated oven.
7. Bake a biscuit at 180 0 C, 10-15 minutes. Cool the finished biscuit, cut in half.
8. Cover half of the biscuit with a layer of soft cream or cottage cheese, put the second part of the semi-finished product on top.
9. Cut snack cakes into squares, triangles, or rectangles. Place a plate of red fish on each product, rolling it into a roll.

To save time on the eve of the celebration, prepare the cakes in advance, seal them in a film and put them in the refrigerator. A biscuit without creams and impregnation can easily be stored for a week.

Appetizer "Christmas toys" - three options

In addition to the proposed options, of course, craftsmen have already come up with many other ways to quickly “dress up” the table with beautiful balls, chickens, mushrooms, and so on. You just need to choose any product, add cheese, a little mayonnaise to it so that the balls stick together, and the cheese suits the taste of meat, fish, and vegetables. In the end, the range of cheeses is so large that there is sure to be one that will perfectly meet even the most demanding taste.

First option: appetizer, with fish, crab sticks and cheese

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks 250 gr.
• Hard cheese 150 gr.
• Adyghe cheese 250 gr.
• Eggs 4 pcs.
• Shrimps, boiled 100 gr.
• Trout or salmon 350 gr.
• Dill 75 gr.
• Lemon juice 50 ml
• Onion 150 gr.
• White pepper, ground - to taste
• Mayonnaise
• Olives or olives, small (pitted) 1 can
• Fresh cucumbers 2 pcs.

Recipe:

1. Grate cheese, crab sticks and boiled eggs. Combine in a large bowl.
2. Grind boiled shrimp, salted red fish, onion and dill. Mix the mass by sprinkling with lemon juice. Combine with the first part and add mayonnaise so that the mass sticks together well.
3. Cut the cucumbers into thin slices, along the fruit. Cut half of the cooked amount of red fish into cubes.
4. Form balls from the salad mass, putting an olive or olive in each of them.
5. Put a piece of fish on a skewer, string a slice of cucumber in waves. The slices should be very thin, until translucent. Insert the skewers into the prepared balls.

Second option: cheese balls with olives and pistachios

Ingredients:

• Cream cheese 400 gr.
• Pistachios 100 gr.
• Seedless grapes 300 gr.
• Mayonnaise, salt, white pepper - to taste
• White bread toasts, round - by number of servings
• lettuce leaves

Recipe:

1. Add some mayonnaise, salt and pepper to the cheese. Make sure the cheese doesn't melt.
2. Stir in the cheese mixture. For a change, you can add 2-3 types of cheese, herbs, hot peppers, garlic to it.
3. Form balls as described in the first option, roll them in chopped nuts. Put a grape berry inside the cheese mass.
4. On skewers, prick one grape, a cheese ball, a piece of lettuce and toast.

Third option: chicken breast balls with cherry tomatoes and cheese

Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken breast 450 gr.
• Hard cheese 300 gr.
• Mayonnaise 150 gr.
• Garlic and ground pepper - to taste
• Pine nuts 100 gr.
• Lettuce and cherry tomatoes - for garnish

Recipe:

1. Cut the breast, cheese and chop in a blender, adding mayonnaise and garlic.
2. Add toasted pine nuts to the cooked pasta. Mix thoroughly and form into balls.
3. On skewers, prick one cherry, a piece of lettuce, a ball.

You can serve an appetizer directly on a dish, on a lettuce leaf, a piece of cheese or bread - choose your option. From any of the proposed salad masses, you can form balls, assemble a "snowman", "penguin" or "Santa Claus".

Ingredients:

• Flour 240 gr.
• Chilled butter 125 gr.
• Sour cream 70 gr.
• Fried sesame 120 gr.
• Chicken mince 700 gr.
• Onion 100 gr.
• Walnuts 75 gr.
• White pepper - to taste
• Egg 1 pc.
• baking powder ½ tsp
• Salt, sugar - to taste
• Straws - by the number of servings

Recipe:

1. Combine the dry ingredients for the dough by sifting the flour. Pour it on the table, chop the butter in it.
2. Collect the crumbled butter in a bowl, make a well in the mixture and pour in the sour cream. Divide the dough into small balls, weighing 50-60 grams, put them in the refrigerator.
3. Chop the onion, saute with the addition of butter until transparent. Salt and pepper minced chicken, beat off. Add chopped walnut kernels to the minced meat, after frying them.
4. Roll out the dough into small round cakes. Put the cooked minced meat in them, one tablespoon at a time, in the center. Gather the edges of the dough towards the center, "skirt". Insert a straw into each semi-finished product, into the hole.
5. Beat the egg, dip the fashioned “legs” into it, then sprinkle with sesame seeds and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
6. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 0 C.

"Quail legs" can also be deep fried.

Quick snack - stuffed eggs

Another versatile product, “for one bite” is a half of an egg, in which you can conveniently put any filling.

Ingredients:

• Boiled eggs, chicken 10 pcs.
• Mackerel in oil 250 gr.
• Ground pepper 1/4 tsp.
• Mayonnaise 50 gr.
• Green onion 70 gr.
• Lemon juice 1 tbsp. l.
• Lettuce, carrots, cherry tomatoes, corn, caviar - for decoration

Cooking method:

1. Cut the eggs in half, remove the yolks and put them in a bowl. Add fried mackerel in oil. You can use regular canned food.
2. Chop the onion, add it to the yolks and fish, Mash the minced meat with a fork to a paste-like consistency, add spices, lemon juice and mayonnaise.
3. Fill the halves of the proteins. Transfer the eggs to a dish covered with lettuce, garnish with tomatoes, carrots, chopped straws, put red caviar on top.

Many options for fillings for eggs have already been invented, but be sure to try this recipe - guests will like an inexpensive, light and satisfying snack.

Dishes that can be eaten, saving the hostess from washing it, are a real find for large and noisy parties. Stock up on sand or puff baskets on the eve of the holiday. Ready-made wafer rolls and cups are also suitable for conveniently placing salads and pates in them for every taste.

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry 45 gr.
• Canned squids (in own juice) 250 gr.
• Shrimps
• Lemon 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise 150 gr.
• Cherry 2 pcs.
• Fresh cucumber 1 pc.
• Olives 10 pcs.
• Capers 50 gr.
• Salad (leaves) - for decoration
• Salt - to taste

Recipe:

1. Roll out the chilled dough, cut out circles, and place them in the molds. Bake the baskets at a temperature of 200 0 C for 7-8 minutes.
2. Cut the squid meat into thin strips, sprinkle with the juice of half a lemon, season with spices.
3. In the baskets, when cool, put lettuce leaves, and chopped squid on them.
4. Decorate the baskets with chopped tomato slices, cucumber slices and boiled eggs, capers, shrimp or olives.

Original appetizer - figs stuffed with cheese

Let's just say, without unnecessary text: this appetizer is for real gourmets, especially in combination with dry red wine.

Ingredients:

• Dried figs 500 gr.
• Cream cheese 250 gr.
• Lemon liqueur 50 ml.
• Sesame seeds 50 gr.
• Mint 20 gr.

Recipe:

1. From the washed and steamed fruits, carefully, with a teaspoon, select the pulp. Mash it with a fork along with the cream cheese. You can use a blender.
2. Add liqueur, finely chopped fresh mint leaves to the cheese mass. Stir and stuff the berries.
3. When serving, sprinkle with sesame seeds, garnish with a mint leaf.

If desired, inside the berries, when stuffing, you can put any nuts.

Salad - a cocktail of meat and oranges

Ingredients:

• Beef, fried 400 gr.
• Oranges 6 pcs.
• Apples (winter variety, with hard pulp) 2 pcs.
• Parsley for decoration 30 gr.
• Lemon ½ pc.
• Mayonnaise 80 gr.

Recipe:

1. Cut the peeled apples into cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice so as not to darken.
2. Cut the oranges into large cubes, removing the membrane film. Can be simply divided into slices
3. Lightly beat off the beef tenderloin, cut into long strips and fry over high heat, adding oil to the pan. Poultry meat is also perfectly combined with fruits: chicken or duck breast. Act at your own discretion, based on the products available.
4. Fill glass bowls, half oranges or large whiskey glasses with orange slices. Top with beef and applesauce. Decorate the slide with a spoonful of thick mayonnaise and a parsley leaf. You can also come up with your own decoration options, but everyone will definitely like meat with a sweet and sour taste of fruits or berries.

There is a second design option: serve the salad in an orange peel. Cut the fruit crosswise in a zigzag line. It is desirable that the oranges are large. Next, carefully remove the pulp with a spoon and peel it. Glassware can be used for other purposes, and orange peels can be thrown away immediately after use.

Ingredients:

• Wheat bread 400 gr.
• Butter 150 gr.
• Liver, chicken 300 gr.
• Onion 120 gr.
• Culinary cream 100 gr.
• Quail eggs, boiled 12 pcs.
• Small olives, pitted 10 pcs.
• Orange (fresh zest) 1 pc.
• Muscat and pepper, salt - to taste
• Parsley 20 gr.

Recipe:

1. Fry the prepared liver and chopped onion, adding some butter to the pan. Season with spices
2. Transfer the cooled liver mass to a blender, add half of the remaining butter, cream. Whip until fluffy, creamy.
3. Cut the bread into slices, fry until golden brown in the remaining oil and let cool.
4. Transfer the liver cream to a piping bag fitted with a notched tip and pipe onto the toast. Top with olive slices, egg halves, sprinkle with orange zest, and put a parsley leaf each.

There are still a lot of ideas on the topic of appetizers for a buffet table in the New Year direction, but you can’t tell about everything right away. There is still a meeting of Christmas and many other bright and joyful holidays ahead. So, we do not say goodbye, but only wish you the best holiday mood. Let everything work out as planned.

The New Year is certainly a special holiday for everyone. He is loved, both adults and children are waiting for him, they are preparing for him, as they are not preparing for any holiday. But how could it be otherwise, because the holiday is special - bright, colorful, very cheerful and joyful. It even has its own unforgettable smell - the smell of pine needles and delicious-smelling tangerines!

Everyone decorates the Christmas tree, prepares gifts. And all the housewives, long before the holiday, begin to share recipes for the New Year's menu with each other, and in the evenings sit down at the computer for a long time to find delicious and festive treats!

And we on the pages of our blogs try to help them with this. with many options for appetizers, salads, main courses, desserts and drinks, we have already compiled. There are so many delicious and relatively simple recipes that everyone can find a recipe to their liking. In addition, each of them takes into account all the features in order to please and please the Yellow Dog that is replacing the same Yellow Pig!

Also, we have already compiled a very large and varied menu and photos. Although the New Year is still far away, this large and very informative article has already received a lot of positive feedback.

And today I bring to your attention an equally interesting selection of festive New Year's snacks. I think that this article will also be a good helper for you when choosing a menu for the most important Holiday of the Year!

After all, it presents different recipes - these are very simple recipes, in haste. It will be possible to prepare a cold dish on them in just 10 - 15 minutes. These are snacks that you need to spend a little more time on - they will be especially good for a festive table. This and small canapes, which are perfect for a buffet table.

Read, look, I think you will find a lot of interesting things.

As you know, snacks can be cold and hot. Therefore, for convenience, we divide them into these two categories. And today let's look at original and delicious cold dishes for the festive table. All recipes are very simple and interesting at the same time. Without any doubt, they will decorate any table, and most importantly, they are always eaten without a trace!

For many of them, it will not take much time to cook. If there are pre-prepared products, then it will be possible to “collect” a treat in just 10-15 minutes.

Today there will be cold dishes with cream and melted cheese, options with crab sticks and krill, treats with fish, meat and chicken, many vegetable and mushroom snacks. You can also choose your favorite filling for tartlets, which are also presented in large volumes.

Delicious ham mousse with melted cheese "New Year's fantasy"

We will need:

• ham - 200 gr
• melted cheese - 200 gr
• pickled cucumber - 2-3 pieces (small)
• ground hot pepper
• mayonnaise - to taste
• greens - to taste
• loaf, tartinki, baskets or biscuits

Cooking:

1. Cut ham and cheese. Put in a blender, add a little mayonnaise and grind everything until a homogeneous mass.

2. Add cucumbers and herbs, leave a little for decoration. Blend again until smooth.

3. Add a little mayonnaise so that the mass can be squeezed out using a pastry syringe or bag.

4. Squeeze onto a piece of loaf, or tart, or biscuits, or into baskets.

Tartlets with cream cheese "Snow mood"

We will need:

• creamy curd cheese
• tartlets
• bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, grapes, greens for decoration

Cooking:

1. Fill a pastry syringe or bag with curd cheese. Squeeze into tartlets.

2. Decorate to your liking and arrange beautifully on a dish.

And you can place shrimp on tartlets or slices of red fish folded in the form of a rose. It will also be very nice.

In general, tartlets are simply an indispensable edible attribute on the festive table. They always add that missing zest that invariably decorates the table, making it truly beautiful!

Stuffing for tartlets

And what kind of filling is not placed in tartlets. I want to offer just some ideas for this:

• crab sticks, melted cheese, egg, mayonnaise
• mini juliennes - boiled chicken breast (and in the Year of the Pig you can also have meat, but not pork of course), fried onions and mushrooms, cheese, sour cream. How to cook julienne and julienne in tartlets, you can see a detailed recipe
• soft cheese, salmon, dill and butter - cream filling
• cod liver, egg, pickled cucumber, green peas or corn
• parmesan, eggs, squid, cucumber
• Salad "Olivier"

• cottage cheese with herbs
• Red caviar
• shrimps. egg and mozzarella cheese
• avocado cream

You can list a lot and for a long time. Put in tartlets whatever you see fit. And I'm sure it will be delicious!

Original "Snowballs" with crab sticks

This recipe does not have certain proportions, everything is put on the eye.

We will need:

• boiled rice
• sprat pate
• butter
• crab sticks

Cooking:

1. Boil and cool the rice. Fry and cool the chopped onion.

2. Mix all the ingredients and roll them into balls.

3. Grind the crab sticks and roll the balls in them. Put on a plate. Decorate with greens.

Snack salad for the New Year's table "Krill on chips"

This dish will become a real decoration of the festive table, and will certainly excite the appetite of all those present. It looks beautiful, original and it turns out very tasty!

We will need:

• potato chips - 1 small pack
• krill meat - 1 can (small)
• eggs -1-2 pcs
• hard cheese - 100 gr
• mayonnaise - to taste
• salt - to taste
• greenery
• lettuce leaves - for decoration

Cooking:

1. Purchase chips in advance. You will need Pringles brand chips in a small package.

2. Boil eggs and cut into small cubes.

3. Rub the cheese on a fine grater. Chop greens.

4. Mix all ingredients with krill meat and mayonnaise. Salt to taste.

5. Gently spread the mixture over the chips.

6. Line the bottom of the plate with lettuce leaves and beautifully place the appetizer on it.

Delicious appetizer "Chamomile" with potato chips

And here is a slightly different filling, but also laid out on chips. It is no less tasty and original than the first.

We will need:

• potato chips - 1 pack (small)
• hard cheese - 100 gr
• tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• garlic - 2 cloves
• greenery
• mayonnaise
• olives and olives - for decoration

Cooking:

1. Grate cheese on a fine grater.

2. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes. Let sit to drain excess juice.

3. Finely chop the greens.

4. Mix all the ingredients, add chopped garlic.

5. Mix with mayonnaise.

6. Gently put the resulting mass on the chips, and they, in turn, on a plate.

7. Beautifully decorate with olives.

Appetizer with fish and red caviar "Wonderful"

We will need:

• boiled shrimp
• salted red fish
• salted white fish
• Red caviar
• cream or curd cheese (you can also soft processed)
• biscuits
• greenery

Cooking:

1. Grease beautifully shaped biscuits with cheese.

2. Put on a dish in a circle. Decorate each of them with a small rose of red fish and greenery.

3. Carefully lay out the caviar.

4. Place a rosette of salted red fish in the center and decorate with slices of chopped white fish.

A delicious meal is ready! Just worthy of the New Year's table.

The original recipe - "Tulips" from tomatoes

Stuffed tomatoes always take pride of place among snacks. I want to offer an original performance of such an appetizer.

We will need:

• tomatoes - 7 pieces
• Mozzarella cheese - 300 gr
• egg - 2 pcs
• shrimp - 150 gr
• fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• garlic - 1 clove
• green onion - bunch

Cooking:

1. For the preparation of "tulips" you need strong, elongated tomatoes. Cut them on top crosswise, but not completely, so that a teaspoon can pass.

2. Remove seeds and partitions.

3. Boiled eggs, cheese and fresh cucumber cut into very small cubes.

4. Pass the garlic through a garlic press, preferably twice.

5. Boil shrimp, cool and cut into 4 parts.

6. Mix all ingredients, adding cheese.

7. Fill the tomatoes with the mixture.

5. Put on a plate, decorate with green onions so that the appetizer looks like tulips.

Another detailed step-by-step recipe for Tulips appetizer with a different filling along with a video, just like you can see on the blog pages.

And since we started the topic of tomatoes, let's look at another delicious and beautiful appetizer from them.

Appetizer with mushrooms and cheese "Aspen mushrooms"

Such a mushroom clearing will not leave anyone indifferent and will certainly become an adornment of any holiday table.

The number of ingredients can be taken in any order, depending on how many mushrooms you want to cook. But something like this:

We will need:

• hard cheese - 150-200 gr
• cucumber - 1 pc (medium)
• boiled egg - 1 pc.
• garlic - 1 clove
• poppy - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
• mayonnaise - to taste
• cherry tomatoes - 5-6 pcs
• salt - to taste
• greenery - for decoration

Cooking:

1. Rub cheese and egg on a fine grater.

2. Cucumber cut into very small cubes. Do not rub it on a grater, otherwise it will release juice and it will be more difficult to form the legs.

3. Mix the ingredients, add chopped garlic and a little mayonnaise.

4. Form legs for mushrooms and dip them in poppy seeds.

5. Put the legs on the dish. As a stand for each "boletus" you can cut off a circle of cucumber.

6. Make mushroom caps from cherry tomatoes, for this you need to cut off the top and remove the seeds and partitions.

7. Decorate the dish with lettuce.

Isn't it a very beautiful dish.

Rolls of salmon with cucumber "Creamy pleasure"

We will need:

• Philadelphia cheese (small package) - 175 gr
• slightly salted salmon - 150-200 gr
• cucumber - 2 pcs
• white bread toast

Cooking:

1. Cut off the crusts from the bread and give all the pieces the same shape. Lightly fry it in a minimum amount of oil. You just need to grease the pan with oil. Don't overcook the toast.

2. Cut the cucumber and salmon into equal long thin slices.

3. Put the cucumber, put a slice of salmon on it. Spread some cheese.

4. Roll up.

5. Put on a piece of toast and chop with a skewer or toothpick. Decorate with lettuce leaves.

This is how original and beautiful the rolls look. They will look quite worthy on the festive table.

The original recipe for the New Year's table "Cucumber Canape"

Do you like cucumber and tomato dishes and salads? Then prepare a delicious and tender appetizer that never sits on the table for very long. Therefore, prepare the products for its preparation with a margin! You will certainly be asked for more!

We will need:

• cucumber - 1-2 pieces
• cherry tomatoes - 5-6 pcs
• Philadelphia cream cheese - 175 gr
• watercress
• salt - to taste

Cooking:

1. Cut the cucumber into 2 cm high cubes. Remove the center with a teaspoon. Lightly salt the cucumber.

2. Fill the center with cream cheese. Put half a cherry tomato on top, and if there are sun-dried tomatoes, then you can use them.

3. Decorate with watercress leaves. Serve and eat right away. Such an appetizer should not be allowed to lie down!

Festive appetizer of eggplant and tomatoes with cheese

We will need:

• eggplant - 1 pc.
• tomatoes -1-2 pcs
• cheese - 100 gr
• salt, pepper - to taste
• greenery
• olives or black olives for garnish
• oil - for frying

Cooking:

1. Cut the eggplant into slices, salt and leave for 15-20 minutes to remove the bitterness.

2. Lightly squeeze the eggplants and fry them in hot oil. Cool down.

3. Grind greens and mix with cheese, which is pre-crushed with a fork.

4. Cut the tomatoes into slices.

5. Assemble the appetizer by laying down an eggplant circle, a layer of cheese with herbs, a tomato, and so on.

6. Garnish with herbs and olives.

Chopped garlic can be added to the cheese if desired.

A simple recipe for an appetizer with cheese and eggs - "Delightful bees"

Such a beautiful appetizer will create the same delicious mood as the sight of the bees themselves. Cooking it is easy and simple.

We will need:

• eggs -5 pcs
• hard cheese - 150 gr
• garlic - 1-2 cloves
• greenery
• sour cream or mayonnaise - to taste
• olives, black olives - 0.5 jars each
• cucumber - 0.5 pcs

Cooking:

1. Boil and cool the eggs, then cut into two halves. Take out the yolk and crumble it with a fork.

2. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and mix with the yolk.

3. Squeeze the garlic through a press, chop the greens, add to the mixture. Mix.

4. Gradually add sour cream or mayonnaise, mix, bring to the desired consistency.

5. Fill the egg halves with the mixture.

6. Cut olives and black olives into circles. Lay on the egg, alternating colors.

7. Cut out the wings from the cucumber and decorate with herbs.

Agree that no one will refuse to have such bees on their holiday table.

Canape with red caviar "Paradise Delight"

There are a lot of recipes for canapés. In this article we will consider one of the simplest and most refined - with red caviar. And other recipes for a festive canape.

We will need:

• red caviar - 1 jar
• puff pastry
• butter
• dill greens

Cooking:

1. Cut puff pastry circles of the same size and bake them in the oven. You should get fluffy tarts.

2. Coat them with butter and roll in chopped dill.

3. Put caviar on top.

And you can cook such tarts in the form of hearts. And then the snack will take on a completely different look.

Snack pancakes for the holiday "Surprise Bags"

This is truly a royal treat, because in bags - pancakes with poppy seeds, there is nothing more than red caviar. Most likely, few people will refuse such a treat. And when it is also made in such a design, such an appetizer will become a real decoration of any holiday table.

We will need:

For pancakes:

• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
• milk - 100 ml
• egg - 1 pc.
• sugar - 0.5 tbsp. spoons
• vegetable oil - 1 teaspoon
• soda - on the tip of a knife
• salt - a pinch
• poppy - 1-2 tbsp. spoons

For filling:

• Red caviar

Cooking:

1. Knead the dough for pancakes. Bake pancakes in a small skillet.

2. Cool pancakes and put caviar in them, form a bag. Wrap with a thin strip cut off from an orange and chop with a piece of toothpick.

Put on a dish and eat with pleasure.

Lavash rolls with different fillings

Another type of tasty and quick snack is pita rolls. And if the appearance is similar, then the fillings may be different.

• with crab sticks
• with red fish
• with herring
• with ham and cheese
• with chicken and vegetables
• with beans
• with cheese and herbs
• with green onion and egg
• with sprats
• with cheese and carrots in Korean
• with salad

In general, you know, it will take a very long time to list. You can wrap absolutely any food in pita bread, and it will always be delicious! Therefore, do not be afraid to experiment, especially since the Boar or Pig is very fond of all kinds of such experiments.

Cheese balls with pistachios and grapes "Oriental Surprise"

We will need:

• Philadelphia cheese - 250 gr
• seedless grapes
• pistachios - 1 cup

Cooking:

1. Peel and chop pistachios.

2. Chill the cheese in the refrigerator.

3. Wash and dry the grapes. Form a ball of cheese around each grape.

4. Roll the finished balls in pistachio crumbs.

5. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Such balls can be prepared not only with grapes, any fruit will do. And you can sprinkle them with walnut or hazelnut crumbs.

Herring dishes occupy a special place on the festive table. Herring fillets are simply cut into pieces, drizzled with oil and served with onions. And you can use it to cook delicious and original snacks.

Herring with cucumber and cheese "Holiday roll"

We will need:

• slightly salted herring - 1 pc.
• cucumber - 1 pc.
• soft cream cheese - 100 gr.

Cooking:

1. Peel the herring, remove the insides, skin and bones. Separate the head. You should get two fillets.

2. Place the fillet on cling film, cover with a piece of another cling film and lightly beat off with a kitchen knife.

3. Grease with cheese. Cucumber cut into thin strips and spread on top.

4. Roll the stuffed herring into a roll, and put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours so that the cheese freezes.

5. After a while, take out the herring roll and cut it with a very thin knife. Put on a plate and decorate as you wish.

This dish is prepared simply and quickly, but it looks very original and tastes just great!

Snack roll "Herring under a fur coat"

Everyone's favorite herring under a fur coat can be prepared not only as a salad, but also as an appetizer. It will certainly become a real decoration of the festive table.

We will need:

• herring fillet - 100-150 gr
• potatoes - 300 gr
• carrots - 100 gr
• beets - 150 gr
• egg - 2 pcs
• green onion
• mayonnaise -2 tbsp. spoons

Cooking:

1. Boil vegetables and eggs. Cool them and grind the vegetables in a puree, all separately.

2. Add a little mayonnaise to each puree.

3. Grate eggs and also mix with a small amount of mayonnaise.

4. Cut the herring into small pieces.

5. Green onions, two feathers are enough to cut smaller.

6. Line the roll mat with cling film. Spread the "carpet" green onions, then herring, potatoes, carrots, beets and eggs.

7. Wrap in a roll, wrap in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours to cool.

8. Remove the finished roll and cut with a sharp knife into pieces of the same size.

Jelly snack with herring and vegetables "Kalleidoscope"

We will need (for 6 servings):

• slightly salted herring - 2 fillets
• boiled egg - 1 pc.
• bell pepper - 0.5 pcs
• boiled carrots - 1 pc.
• bulb onions. red is better - 1 pc.
• dill - 2-3 sprigs
• pickled cucumber - 1 pc.
• sour cream - 200 gr, lemon juice - 1 teaspoon
• salt, pepper - to taste
• gelatin - 15 gr
• water - 40 ml.

Cooking:

1. Pour gelatin with cold water and let it stand for a while so that it swells. Then dissolve in a water bath until completely dissolved.

2. Dice boiled carrots and bell peppers. Onion cut into small cubes.

3. Mix gelatin with sour cream, add pepper, carrot, onion and chopped egg to the mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add lemon juice and chopped dill.

4. Lay a cling film on the table and put one part of the herring fillet on it, inside up.

5. Put half of the sour cream on top.

6. Cut the cucumber into long thin plates and “cover” the fish in the sour cream mixture like a blanket, placing the plates across.

7. Top with the remaining layer of sour cream mixture and lay out the second half of the fillet. We should get a “plump” fish with a fillet below and above.

8. Roll the herring tightly into a roll with a film and refrigerate overnight.

9. Cut the frozen roll into pieces with a sharp knife. Put on a plate, decorate as fantasy tells.

Rollmops in German

We will need:

• slightly salted herring - 2 pcs (fillet - 4 pcs)
• pickled gherkins - 5 pcs
• bell pepper (red) -1 pc
• onion - 1 pc.
• mustard - 2 tbsp. spoons
• white wine vinegar - 100 ml.
• mustard seeds - 2 teaspoons
• cloves - 3-4 buds
• sugar, salt - 1 teaspoon each
• ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp

Cooking:

1. Prepare the marinade. To boil water. Add sugar, salt, pepper and clove buds. Boil everything together for 2-3 minutes. Cool the broth a little.

2. Add mustard and wine vinegar. Let cool completely.

3. Cut the onion, bell pepper and gherkins into long thin strips.

4. Lightly beat off each layer of fillet and grease with mustard. If the herring is very large, then it can be carefully cut into two equal halves.

5. Put onions, peppers and gherkins across the herring layer.

6. Roll into a roll, fasten with a toothpick.

7. Put the rollmops in a bowl and pour over the marinade. Leave to marinate for at least a day.

But the most delicious rollmops are obtained on the 3rd day. Therefore, prepare them in advance so that by the New Year they will appear before you in their “full” taste!

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Well, that's probably all for today! Many recipes have been written, and of course there are plenty to choose from. All recipes are good, each is good in its own way!

And I will be glad if you like the recipes, and you decide to cook one or more of them! I tried to find recipes for different tastes. And how I managed it, you be the judge!

Bon appetit! And Happy New Year!

If your home or office at the time of the New Year's Eve turns into an "assembly point" for a large number of guests who, as a rule, will bring their other friends with them, then the best solution for your New Year's party will be table "a la buffet"- it is covered for receptions with a large number of guests.

Initially, the reception a la buffet was invented in France. This method of organizing a ceremonial table has a number of advantages. A buffet table is a way of receiving guests, which eliminates the need to purchase additional pieces of furniture, since the main purpose of the reception is communication, not a feast.

In most cases, the buffet table is associated with the need to organize the reception of guests in a short time. The name itself can literally be translated from French as “on a fork”, which characterizes the whole process of eating.

The advantage of a buffet table is that the number of guests is not related to the amount of furniture in the house. An additional plus for the hostess is that she does not need to worry about the serving of dishes, the degree of their warmth and the filling of guests' plates.

Guests move freely around the room, gather according to interest groups, communicate freely, choosing those snacks on the table that are more to their taste. Snacks should be quite diverse: variety is the key to a good buffet!

Several useful recipes

Buffets always offer up to three options for dishes. Eg, side dishes: boiled potatoes with parsley, dill and onion, vegetables, rice with saffron; meat and fish dishes: kebabs, red fish steaks, chicken breast in sauce. And as for salads, tartlets, puff sandwiches and canapes - they can be prepared innumerable.

Don't forget the cheese platter. Cheese- high-calorie and very tasty product. And now there are so many types of cheese for sale that you can easily lay out several plates of hard and soft varieties. And to top it off, cater to your vegetarian guests. Cheese is cut into pieces of 25-40 gr. Varieties are not too close to one another in a clockwise direction, for example: first savory blue cheese, then soft Camembert-type cheese with a penicillin crust, then hard, mild and sliced ​​​​spicy. The classic addition to cheese is grapes. Pear and melon slices are combined with cheese.

Even the hostess should not forget about pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, corn cobs, champignons, bell peppers, cauliflower, as well as spicy salted olives and herring.

Appetizers, several types of sliced ​​bread, salads are placed closer to the edge. The second tier in the depth is sweet dishes, pastries, fruits. Each dish with food should have an appropriate device with which you can put a portion on your plate.

Buffet serving depends, among other things, on the position of the table: if you can approach it from all sides, then you need to serve the buffet table in a circle.

Spices are traditional - salt and pepper. If sauces are required for dishes, they are placed next to the corresponding dishes.

Soft drinks when serving are poured into glasses or served in jugs. Alcoholic drinks are placed in open bottles in groups at different ends of the table, next to the glasses. For used dishes, an additional, small table is placed next to the main table, on which guests will put the empty dishes.

There are no restrictions for the buffet menu. The only requirement concerns the convenience of the dishes. For the most part, these are a variety of snacks that are easy to put on a plate and eat.

Since the same devices are used for table setting as for a regular feast, the dishes can be varied. The only requirement is that the dishes for the buffet should be served already cut and divided into portions - they should be in such a way that it is most convenient for guests to put them on an individual plate and treat themselves, as they say, "on the go." If it is a fish, then in the form of a fillet, if it is chicken pieces, then without bones.

Volovans - snack bars (baskets) from purchased puff pastry

Tartlets

Tartlets are small cups made from dough prepared according to a specific recipe, which are filled with various fillings - meat, fish, mushroom, vegetable. In some recipes, stuffed tartlets are filled with sauce and then left in the oven for a short time to thicken the sauce. For tartlets, shortbread dough with the addition of an egg or yolk is optimal.

Tartlets with caviar. Delicious, beautiful, fast.

The recipe for an unsurpassed evening dessert - glamorous tartlets made from caviar, rice, avocado and cream cheese.

Products :

Rice - better milk or rice for sushi
Ripe avocado
Salmon caviar
Cream cheese

Salt
Pepper
Lemon juice

Cooking :

Boil rice, cool it. Peel the avocado, remove the pit, mash the flesh with a fork, season with salt, pepper, add a little lemon juice to keep the color.

With wet hands form balls of rice, press them down. On top, in the next layer, lay out the avocado mass, then a layer of cheese mass, so that the dish looks like puff cakes. Put the red caviar in the last layer.

If possible, the layers should be equal in volume. The size can be any. Small cakes can be eaten like canapés, large ones can be eaten with a knife and fork. You can decorate with greenery.

In principle, dough baskets can be stuffed with any salads. The only requirement is that salads should not be too liquid so that the dough does not get wet. For this reason, vegetable salads that give juice are not put in tartlets.

• You can make a salad of boiled shrimp, green peas and fresh cucumber with mayonnaise dressing. Top the salad with grated cheese and garnish with sprigs of parsley or dill.

• Another option is fresh pineapple salad with smoked chicken fillet, seedless grapes and grated cheese. As a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sweet yogurt. Depending on the sauce chosen, the taste of the salad will be different.

canape

Of the snacks, canapes are the easiest to prepare and the most effective. They are prepared in the same way: a loaf or black bread is peeled and cut lengthwise into strips about 5-6 mm thick, then the bread is cut into small pieces (pieces can be round, square, rectangular, triangular, etc.) . Then each piece of bread is smeared with a thin layer of butter or mayonnaise (with the exception of canapes prepared with fatty foods), a leaf of lettuce is placed, garnished and decorated to taste.

Canape with bacon and tomatoes

biscuits - 1 piece
bacon - 20 gr.
tomato - 1 pc.
sauce to taste
green onion

Cooking method:

For the filling: cut the bacon and tomato into small pieces, mix with the sauce.
Cut the pancake into three pieces. Put the filling in the center of one of the parts, gather the edges and secure with green onions. The canape is ready.

Lavash roll

A thin layer of pita bread is smeared with mayonnaise, string cheese and Korean carrots are laid out on top of it on one edge. The roll is wrapped tightly and cut across into portioned rolls of the desired size. The filling can be varied - rolls with smoked fish and fresh cucumbers or with ham and mushrooms are no less tasty.

You will need:
Avocado
Tomato
Fresh cucumbers
Bell pepper
Lavash or thin pancakes
Curd cream or cheese
lettuce leaves
Salt spices

Salmon roll

For its preparation, wide thin layers of salmon are needed, which are folded cone-shaped and laid out on a dish with a wide part upwards. Inside each cone is placed a small piece of butter and a slice of lemon. To make it easier to cut the butter, it must first be cooled in the freezer.

Avocado mousse with caviar

1 avocado
- 1 egg /* chicken, a couple of quails can be boiled hard boiled */
- 1 tbsp. l. sour cream
- dill
- salt, pepper to taste, I added decently both of them, avocado somehow absorbs all the spices very much
- caviar

Grind avocado and egg in a blender. Mix, add sour cream, salt, pepper and finely chopped dill, grind until smooth.

Dry the slices of bread until golden brown in a frying pan without oil. On bread - mousse, caviar on top.

Trout rolls

It's generally very simple.
Lightly salted fish, pepper curd cheese, serve on slices of cucumber. You can use cream cheese instead of cottage cheese, and you can also add a little blue cheese to the filling, and sprinkle with lemon before serving. In general, room for imagination.
Simple, but very, very tasty.

Curd mousse with red fish and caviar

200 g low-fat cottage cheese
- 5 g gelatin
- 60 ml milk or cream
- 100 g salted red fish
- 0.5 tsp each salt and sugar
- a pinch of black pepper
- dill
- caviar

Soak gelatin in milk, after swelling, heat in the microwave or on the stove, dissolve.
Beat cottage cheese, adding salt, sugar, pepper and finely chopped dill.
Gently combine cottage cheese with gelatin. Stir in finely chopped fish and caviar (I didn’t add caviar to the mousse, I just decorated it on top).
Divide the curd mass into molds. I put it in silicone molds for cupcakes, then everything came out perfectly. Place in the refrigerator for several hours to harden.
Garnish with caviar and herbs when serving.

E t h e R e c e p t s

Greek canapes.

Cut the mozzarella into 1.5 x 1.5 cm cubes. String cherry tomatoes and mozzarella cubes alternately on skewers, wrapping them on both sides with basil leaves. You can add pitted black olives, and the canape is ready.

Salmon Canape.

For the recipe you will need: wheat bread - 100g, butter - 20g, salmon - 50g, caviar - 20g, greens. A piece of salmon is placed on an oval slice of bread, one end of which is folded over, decorated with butter, black caviar, and parsley leaves.

Canape with cheese and grapes is a real delicacy.

Any cheese is suitable for making canapés with cheese and grapes, but it is best to use blue cheese. Cut blue cheese into cubes. On decorative skewers or toothpicks, put on a grape and a cube of blue cheese

Canape with red caviar

Long loaf, soft cheese, butter, red caviar Cut out even circles from white bread with a glass. Spread with cheese. Soft butter is squeezed out of a pastry syringe onto bread in the form of a side. Put red caviar on top with a spoon.

Closed canape "Snowflakes" with red fish

The base is made from white bread using confectionery molds, a small pattern is drawn on the outside with mayonnaise, which is the main idea for serving this snack.

Appetizer "Kiss"

Boil the eggs, finely chop, finely chop the onion too.

Mix eggs, onion, cheese and mayonnaise.

Cover the cups with cling film, place red fish slices in them and fill half with the resulting mixture, put the tomato in the middle and fill to the brim with the remaining mixture.

Wrap the edges of cling film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

Then unfold the edges of the cling film and carefully turn the cup onto a plate, remove the cup and the film. Top can be decorated with caviar.

The beginning of any festive feast is, without a doubt, the serving of appetizers. New Year's Eve is no exception. Appetizers for the New Year are an obligatory and important part of the menu, no matter what format of serving treats you choose, whether it is the traditional Russian feast that is familiar to us or the buffet table that is fashionable today. With their design, their aroma and taste, snacks are designed to excite our appetite and set us up for a festive New Year's mood.

When compiling your New Year's menu, keep in mind that there should be much more snacks on the festive table than on the everyday table. When choosing a snack for the New Year, try to take into account the tastes of your guests and compatibility with other dishes on your New Year's table. Traditionally, the most popular snacks are sliced ​​sausages, smoked meats and ham, fish delicacies and seafood, cheeses, pates, various types of aspic, pickles and marinades, and we should not forget about such convenient and tasty snacks as small sandwiches and canapes.

An important role in serving snacks for the New Year is played by the decoration of the snacks themselves and the dishes on which the snacks will be served. For decoration, you can use fresh herbs, figurines of fresh and boiled vegetables, olives, berries, and whatever your imagination tells you. Even serving a simple and, seemingly trivial cold cuts, you can beat this dish in such a way that it will be a stunning success with your guests. Just pick up a beautiful wide shallow dish, lay it out with fresh lettuce and sprigs of greens, beautifully place several well-matched types of cold cuts on top, and put two or three vases with various sauces in the center of the dish.

But, of course, the New Year's table cannot do without a simple set of sausages, smoked meats and cheeses. It is to the New Year's table that you want to certainly submit something special, something that can cause surprise and admiration. I would like to please guests with unusual and tasty snacks, which in themselves are small culinary masterpieces. Today "Culinary Eden" has prepared for you a selection of recipes for mouth-watering snacks that will certainly decorate your New Year's table and delight your guests.

1. Stuffed eggs are always popular. Slightly change the recipe, and your unusual snack will be remembered with pleasure throughout the next year. Hard boil 12 eggs, cool and peel. Cut each egg into two halves and remove the yolks. Fry four slices of bacon until golden brown and chop in a blender. To chopped bacon, add yolks, ½ cup mayonnaise, 2 tbsp. tablespoons grated cheddar cheese and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of mustard. Blend everything together in a blender until smooth. Fill the egg halves with the finished mass and refrigerate. Serve on a long, narrow platter garnished with lettuce.

2. Another extremely popular snack for the holiday table are stuffed tomatoes. Show a little patience and care, and you can surprise your guests with unusual and extremely tender stuffed cherry tomatoes. Wash thoroughly with 500 gr. cherry tomatoes. Carefully cut off the top and remove the pulp with a coffee spoon or teaspoon handle. Turn the tomatoes cut side down on a paper towel to drain excess juice. For the filling, combine together 3 tbsp. spoons of whipping cream, 150 gr. mozzarella cheese, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of finely chopped basil leaves and 1 clove of garlic. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Fill a piping bag or plastic bag with the corner cut off with the mixture. Lightly drizzle the inside of each tomato with white wine vinegar and fill with cheese mixture from a pastry bag. Arrange your tomatoes on a wide platter and garnish with basil and mint leaves.

3. It is very easy to prepare small snack sandwiches with salted salmon or trout. From a loaf of rye bread cut three slices no more than 1 cm thick. Cut each slice of bread into 4 parts and lightly fry on both sides in a small amount of vegetable oil. To make the sauce, place in a blender ½ cup mayonnaise, 1 garlic clove, 1 teaspoon fresh or dried tarragon (tarragon), ½ teaspoon dry mustard, 1 teaspoon capers, 1 hard-boiled egg, and 1 teaspoon parsley. . Whisk everything together until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Put 1 teaspoon of sauce on each toast, place a piece of salted salmon rolled into a ring on top and sprinkle everything with a small amount of finely chopped green onions.

4. Very tasty are canapes with salted trout rolls. Cut a small cucumber into thin slices. From slices of toast bread, use a glass to cut circles approximately the same diameter as cucumber slices. 100 gr. melted cream cheese mixed with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of finely chopped dill. 200 gr. lightly salted trout cut into thin slices. Brush each slice of trout with dill cheese and roll up. Put a slice of cucumber on a slice of bread, place a trout roll on top and fasten everything with a wooden skewer or a toothpick.

5. Another option for extremely tasty and easy-to-prepare holiday canapes. Canape with shrimp. 150 gr. boil medium-sized shrimp in salted water with dill, cool and peel. Cut two slices of toast bread into small pieces and lightly dry in a frying pan without oil so that a thin crispy crust forms, but the bread remains soft in the middle. Lightly rub each toast with garlic and brush with cream cheese. Place a thin slice of fresh cucumber on top, boiled shrimp on top of the cucumber, and place half an olive in the center of the shrimp. Secure your canape with a skewer.

6. Pancake rolls are an unusual and delicate appetizer that will surely surprise and delight your guests. Mix 1 liter of milk, 1 egg, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt and sugar to taste. From the resulting dough, bake thin pancakes and cool them. Lubricate each pancake with a thin layer of melted cream cheese, put thin slices of salted salmon (or other fish), long strips of pickled cucumbers and avocados on top, sprinkle with finely chopped dill. Gently roll the pancake into a roll, wrap tightly with cling film and refrigerate for half an hour. Release the finished roll from the film and cut into 6 rolls.

7. A refreshing, delicate appetizer of cucumbers and fruits is sure to please all lovers of unusual flavor combinations. Cut into small cubes 1 red apple and 200 gr. canned pineapples. Lightly toast a quarter cup of shelled walnuts in a dry frying pan and chop. In a small saucepan, combine fruits, nuts, add ¼ cup low-fat sour cream, salt to taste. Mix everything thoroughly and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut three small cucumbers into 1 cm thick circles. Put 1 teaspoon of a mixture of fruits and nuts on each circle and garnish with a small mint leaf on top.

8. Delicious little omelette rolls will decorate any table. To make an omelet, combine 6 eggs, 2 cups milk, 1 cup cream, ½ cup flour, salt and white pepper to taste. Line a baking sheet with baking paper, pour in the egg mixture and bake in the oven at 200 degrees. until ready. For the filling, mix 1 cup sour cream, 150 gr. finely chopped herring fillet, 1 finely chopped red onion and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped dill. Lubricate the finished omelet with the filling, carefully roll up the roll and cut into circles.

9. The surprise and delight of your guests can cause snack cookies with seafood. For its preparation, you can use it like a natural crab meat, and its substitutes, you can also take any other seafood to your taste. In a deep saucepan, combine 1 1/3 cups thinly sliced ​​crab meat, 1 ¼ cups white bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1/3 cup light mayonnaise, 1/3 cup finely chopped green onion, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of finely chopped parsley. Add ½ teaspoon salt, 1 ½ tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice and ¼ teaspoon of black pepper, ground thyme and paprika. Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Form small cookies from the resulting dough and place them on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven until golden brown. Serve on a wide platter, garnish with lemon and lime slices and place a bowl of hot sauce in the center of the dish.

10. Unusual warm bacon rolls with prunes will surely please your guests. Prunes (20 pieces) soak in sherry for 3 hours. Drain the remaining sherry, place one hazelnut in each prune, and wrap a thin strip of bacon over the prunes. Fasten the rolls with wooden skewers, fold into a baking dish and bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 gr. Serve warm!

We sincerely hope that today's selection of recipes will help you decorate your New Year's table and surprise your guests with new unusual snacks. You can always find even more different recipes for snacks for your New Year's table on the pages of Culinary Eden.