New Year's menu for one person. Holiday table decoration

Birthdays, February 23, March 8. May 1, New Year, family holidays - an occasion to set the table. All self-respecting housewives try to please relatives and friends with a variety of dishes. Of course, every chef has his own signature recipes. But sometimes you want to cook something new, unusual. In this article, I am publishing a sample holiday menu of 14 simple, but tasty and original dishes that can give you your own ideas. And for dessert, you can bake an unusual one.

Salads and snacks without eggs

Puff salad with pineapples

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

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

A simple salad that even a novice in cooking can handle, see.

Black bread croutons with herring mousse.

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

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

Cooking:
Cut off the crusts from the bread and send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees to dry. This will take 5 - 7 minutes.

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

Gently form a mousse with two spoons and place on the croutons. Garnish with dill and leek, 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.
- slightly salted salmon about 100 gr.;
- hard cheese is also about 100 gr.;
- pickled cucumbers 2 pieces;
- mayonnaise 2 tbsp. spoons;
- ground black pepper;
- green onion feathers.

Cooking:
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, put all the 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 a little flour, mixing the dough thoroughly so that no lumps form.

Be sure 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 form of snowflakes. This is done quite simply. Pour the bulk of the pancake into the middle of the pan, and, turning it slightly, let the dough spread a little.

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

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

For now, let's get on with the filling. Cut salmon into small squares. Cheese grate 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.

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

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

Meat rolls with cucumber and mustard.

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

Cooking:
Cut the meat into thin plates, cover with a film and beat well, salt and pepper. Cucumbers and red onion cut into strips. Put grain mustard, pieces of cucumbers and onions on each piece of meat.

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

Cut the rolls in half at a 45 degree angle. Drizzle with lazy tartar sauce.

Sauce “Lazy tartare”

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

This sauce is prepared very simply, and most importantly, quickly, but this requires a blender. Cut all the ingredients, put everything except mustard in a blender, and beat until smooth. Now add mustard to taste and stir with a spoon. You can, of course, chop everything finely, but it will take time, and during the New Year's troubles, it is just not enough.

Herring under a fur coat in a roll

Products:

- herring - 1 pc.;
- potatoes - 4 pcs.;
- carrot - 1 pc.;
- beets - 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise - 200 g;
- bow - 1 pc.;
- vinegar for pickling onions.

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

Boil potatoes, carrots and beets, cool, peel and grate on a fine grater or cut into small cubes.

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

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

To make a roll, we spread cling film on the table, a cut plastic bag or foil, whoever has what. Mix the beets with mayonnaise and spread evenly on the film. Cover again with clingfilm and tamp the layer well. 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 smear them on beets. The third layer - potatoes with mayonnaise, is smeared on carrots, respectively. Don't forget to salt it. Next, put the onion, if you pickled it, then 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 with a long log in the middle. We tamp all layers in the same way with the help of cling film.

Gently roll the roll around the herring log. We tamp the edges well. We wrap in the same film. We put the snack in the refrigerator, until the arrival of guests. Before serving, remove the film and cut into portions.

Snack "Calla"

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.

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

stuffed peaches

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

For sauce:
- a jar of yogurt;
- lemon;
- mustard.

Cooking:
Boil the meat in salted water, cool.

While preparing the sauce. In yogurt, add a teaspoon of mustard, a tablespoon of lemon juice and add a little. Mix all ingredients well.

We take out the peaches from the jar, lay them on a towel. They need to be dried well. To do this, you can put them upside down to drain excess juice, or blot each piece with a napkin.

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

Now we cut the turkey into small pieces, three cheese on a coarse grater and add 3-4 tablespoons of corn without juice. Carefully put the sauce or ready-made mayonnaise. Salad should not be wet. Sauce or mayonnaise is used here simply to bind products. Salt, pepper, if necessary.
We stuff the halves of peaches and lay them out on a flat dish.

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Salads and appetizers with eggs.

Stuffed crab sticks.

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

Grate the cheese on a fine grater, set aside a third for sprinkling. Leave the yolk of one egg, too. Grate eggs or crush 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 also add.

Gently unfold the crab sticks and put the filling on the edge. Now the sticks must also be carefully rolled up. Put 4 sticks on a plate, 3 on top, then two and put the last one on the very top. We got some kind of hut. Sprinkle it with "snow" - cheese and egg yolk or protein, as you like. The snack 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.

Cooking:
Grate cheese on a fine grater and set aside. Cut potatoes, eggs, crab sticks as small as possible, season with mayonnaise and pepper. Salt, in principle, is not necessary, but if you really want, you can. Mix everything well. With clean hands, roll into balls slightly smaller than an 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 garlic cloves
• 2 boiled eggs;
• paprika;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking:
Wash the dill and dry well.
We rub the eggs and cheese on a fine grater, squeeze the garlic through the press and add a little mayonnaise so that the mass is not too wet. We mix everything thoroughly.
Finely chop dry dill. We set aside. Three, too, on a fine grater cheese. And we leave too. Pour paprika into a bowl. As in the previous recipe, we form balls and roll one at a time in seasonings. We got funny multi-colored balls.

Method number 3

Products:

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

Cooking:
We rub the crab sticks on a fine grater and set aside - this is our sprinkling. Cheese and eggs are also three on a fine grater, garlic is passed 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 cooking Rafaelok cheese, you can use pickled champignons, pinned with skewers or toothpicks.

Recipes for hot holiday meals

Pork meat and potatoes in the sleeve.

Products:

• pork meat, neck is better, 1 kg;
• pitted prunes 200 gr. It can be replaced with dried apricots, cherries, any berries or mushrooms. For the marinade:
• a wig and a half teaspoon:
• mustard seeds 2 teaspoons;
• ordinary mustard one and a half teaspoons;
• garlic 3-5 cloves;
• vegetable oil 4 tablespoons;
• honey not bitter 1 teaspoon;
• salt 1 teaspoon;
• ground black pepper to taste.

For potatoes.

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

Cooking:

Steam prunes with boiling water. Dry.

Wash the meat and pat dry with a paper towel. Make deep incisions 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 the pockets.

Put all the prunes in each pocket. Carefully transfer the meat to the roasting sleeve. The sleeve should be 2 times longer than the piece. Fasten the sleeve on both sides and refrigerate for a day or a little less.

When you need to cook, take a potato, 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 we place the finished potatoes together with the form in the baking sleeve and fix it on both sides.

Remove the rack from the oven so that it is cold. Preheat the oven itself to 200 degrees. Now put the mold with potatoes and the mold with meat on the grate. Bake for an hour.

When the potatoes and meat are ready, when they cool down a little, put them on a dish, after tearing the sleeve and cutting the meat into portions.

Cut the meat into large pieces, salt, pepper and fry in a hot 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. Put the cooked onion in the pan on top of the meat.

Add hot water so that it does not slightly cover the meat. Simmer for an hour on low heat.

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

In the stew, add tomato paste, diluted in a glass of warm water, seasoned with salt - a tablespoon without a slide and sugar - a tablespoon with a slide, and pepper to taste. We put lavrushka, prunes and nuts. Close the lid and bring the meat to readiness, this is about half an hour. Do not forget to try the dressing in order to correct the taste in time if something does not suit you. Serve with any side dish.

Bon appetit! Wish you have a good holiday!

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The information contained in this article will be of interest to a real hostess who does not want to miss a single detail in the process of preparing the New Year's table. Here are the basic rules and recipes for preparing for the new year 2017.

How to make a festive menu for the New Year: subtleties and rules

Undoubtedly, among the Orthodox world, the most beloved holiday is the New Year. On this magical night, when one year follows another, many people cherish hope for a new and happy life.

Everyone believes that the old year will take away old problems and worries, and the new year will allow you to start a lot in life from scratch. It is logical that there is a special approach to such a holiday. On New Year's Eve, they usually put on the best appliances, put on the most fashionable outfits, and prepare delicious dishes.

Therefore, the preparation of the New Year's menu requires a special approach and compliance with a number of rules.

Symbol of 2017

According to the eastern calendar, the upcoming 2017 is considered the year of the Rooster. The process of transferring the championship from the Fire Monkey to the Rooster will take place on January 28, 2017. It is believed that the Rooster is one of the most interesting animals among the symbols of the Eastern calendar.

Among the other signs, he is the most expressive and incredibly sociable. In order to correctly understand what this symbol carries in itself, you should also know what color and element will symbolize the year of the Rooster 2017. The element of 2017 is fire, which symbolizes a special vital energy, which consists in striving for career and personal growth.

The color of the Rooster is red, which is a symbol of good luck and confidence.

As you can see, the coming year is a year of special confidence, so you should approach the design of the festive table accordingly.

How to make a New Year's menu

Any hostess approaches with special care the preparation of the New Year's table. After all, I want to take into account all the nuances in order to feel the magic of what is happening to the maximum on New Year's Eve.

To properly prepare the menu, you need to take into account the tastes of the Fire Rooster, in order to appease the animal in every possible way. Indeed, not only children, but also all adults believe in magic, especially on New Year's Eve.

How to Appease a Rooster

To satisfy such an animal as the Rooster, one must take into account that this creature is not greedy, maybe somewhere moderately economical, but by no means greedy. But this does not mean that the table should be bursting with excesses. There should be plenty of everything on the table, but the dishes should be prepared quite simple.

In order for the Rooster to be satisfied, there must be fruits and vegetables on the table in any of their variations. It will also be useful to find a place on the table for a container with grain. As you know, this is his favorite delicacy.

The rooster will be happy if there is a place for sweets in the New Year's menu. It could be a cake or a pie.

Naturally, the Rooster will not forgive if there are any chicken dishes on the New Year's table. Therefore, menu planning must be approached very carefully.

When decorating the table, you can focus on rustic dishes - pots or maybe wooden spoons.

Dish plan for the new year

On the New Year's table there should be a wide selection of dishes and drinks. These must be appetizers, hot dishes, salads, vegetable and meat cuts, as well as a dessert. As for drinks, here you need to choose only natural juices, or fruit drinks.

When choosing hot dishes for the table, it is worth recalling once again that any chicken dishes can seriously upset the feathered symbol of 2017. It is best to choose fish or seafood dishes. For example, you can cook salmon - a rather tender and tasty fish that will not disappoint even the most fastidious guest.

If we talk about a side dish, then the option of vegetables will look best here. It can be stewed or fresh vegetables. Like a true villager, the rooster will be happy if the hostess prefers potatoes as a side dish.

The choice of salads that can be prepared for the New Year is quite rich. To emphasize the solemnity of the moment, you can choose a creative salad in the form of a Christmas tree.

Since the rooster is a rather bright character, then you need to pick up something bright and expressive as snacks.

It would be useful to please the feathered one with some yummy. As a villager, he will like a cottage cheese cake.

New Year's menu recipes

Recipe for salmon with cream

Before cooking, you should prepare a baking sheet on which the fish will be baked. The baking sheet will need to be greased with butter - butter or vegetable. The next step is to prepare the sauce.

To do this, you need cream, in which the hostess can add any fish seasoning or pepper, in a word, everything that is in preference. Carefully lay the sliced ​​\u200b\u200bpieces of fillet on a baking sheet, and pour the resulting sauce.

The composition should be completed with cheese grated on a coarse grater and onion cut into half rings. The best option would be to cover the resulting work with foil. The first and main stage of preparation is completed.

The only thing left is to send the salmon to the oven. To do this, it is better to prepare the required temperature in advance by heating the oven to 180 degrees. Salmon will cook in about 25 minutes. Hot meal is ready!

Potato garnish

To prepare a fairly simple festive second course, you will need the following ingredients:

• Potato - 10 pcs;
• Egg white - 2 pcs;
• Olive oil;
• Seasonings.

First, cut the peeled potatoes into slices. Then the sauce is prepared in which the potatoes will be baked. This will require egg whites, which are whipped to a foamy mass. Add chopped potatoes to this mass and mix everything, adding the necessary spices and seasonings.

The baking sheet on which the potatoes will be baked should be thoroughly greased with olive oil. After that, put all the beauty on a baking sheet and send it to the oven preheated to 220 degrees. It is enough to bake the potatoes for about half an hour, not forgetting to stir occasionally.

Yolochka salad recipe

To prepare this masterpiece you will need:

• Canned salmon - 1 can;
• Cheese - 250 g;
• Lemon juice;
• crackers;
• Tomato;
• Dill.

The salad is pretty simple. You should chop the salmon and add grated cheese to it in advance. Add a little lemon juice and seasoning to the resulting mixture. All this must be thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained, from which you can easily fashion something like a cone - this is the Christmas tree in the future.

To give the Christmas tree a real and festive flavor, you need to decorate it with parsley sprigs in the way that a real Christmas tree could look like. You can cut a star out of a tomato and use it as a Christmas tree top.
Pomegranate seeds can be used as New Year's toys. You will need crackers to eat this dish.

Recipe for a bright appetizer 2017 "Colorful balls"

To prepare this culinary masterpiece you will need:

• Cod - 300 g;
• Potato - 500 g;
• Fresh cucumber - 2 pcs;
• Cheese - 400 g;
• Pepper red and yellow;
• Mayonnaise;
• Seasonings.

Thawed and boiled cod should be separated from the bones and cut. Potatoes should be made into mashed potatoes. Now you need to make a total mass of all the ingredients. This should include mashed potatoes, fish mass, chopped eggs and cucumbers. You need to glue the resulting mass with mayonnaise, because it is from this mass that the balls will be made.

Now you need to prepare the coloring for the balls. Put chopped red pepper on one plate, chopped yellow pepper on the second plate, finely chopped green onions on the third plate.

At the final stage, you should dip each ball in a separate plate to get multi-colored and funny rounds.

cottage cheese cake recipe

To make a cottage cheese cake you will need:

• Cottage cheese - 500 g;
• Sugar - 250 g;
• Egg yolk - 2 pcs;
• Butter - 150 g;
• Milk - 250 ml;
• Gelatin - 30 g;
• Raisin;
• Fruits to choose from.

This cake does not require an oven. It will be necessary to beat two egg yolks with butter, then add the chopped curd mass to the resulting foam. Gelatin must be poured with hot milk and be sure to cool.

After the gelatin has cooled, it is worth mixing all the ingredients. From the resulting mass, you can make a cake of any shape and put it in the refrigerator for 2.5 hours. After freezing, the cake should be decorated with any fruit that is more to your taste. Here's the dessert!

Selection tips and recipes for making drinks for the New Year's table menu

As a drink, the Rooster will prefer juices, only natural ones. You can cook and cool berry juice.

If we talk about alcoholic drinks, then here you can do the cooking yourself to add sophistication to the New Year's table. If you don’t want to bother with cooking, you can get by with standard wines or champagne. Strong drinks will not be entirely appropriate.

cream liqueur recipe

To make liqueur you will need:

• Whiskey - 2/3 cup;
• Condensed milk - 400 g;
• Fat cream - 100 g;
• Chocolate syrup - 2 tbsp. l;
• Instant coffee - 1 tsp.

All of the above ingredients must be mixed in succession. It will take no more than 5 minutes to prepare it.

Cooking mulled wine

To prepare mulled wine, mix:

• Red dry wine - 750 ml;
• Brown sugar - 60 g;
• Cinnamon - 2 sticks;
• Carnation - 3 pcs;
• Allspice - 5 pcs;
• lemon - ¼ part.

Mix all ingredients and cook for 20-25 minutes.

cherry crunch recipe

To get such a drink, you should mix the following ingredients:

• Cherry juice - 500 ml;
• Red dry wine - 750 ml;
• Champagne - 750 ml;
• Cognac - 40 ml;
• Sugar - 20 g;
• Cherry - 1 kg.

Fat Burning Green Smoothie Recipe

To prepare one serving of such a healthy cocktail, you will need to mix the following ingredients:

• Kiwi - 1 pc;
• Lemon - 2 slices;
• sprigs of parsley;
• Sprigs of mint;
• Water without gases - 100 ml;
• Honey - 1-2 tsp;

Tangerine smoothie

To make a tangerine smoothie, you need to mix the following ingredients:

• Tangerines - 2 pcs;
• Frozen banana - 1 pc;
• Milk - 1 glass;
• Yogurt - 1/3 cup;
• Honey - 1 tsp

Table setting for the New Year 2017

First of all, you need to remember about simplicity. Simplicity and naturalness should lead the New Year's table setting. Since this is a rustic animal, you need to focus on this, using clay pots, linen tablecloths.

Putting a samovar with bagels on the table would be the height of relevance. The rooster will be immensely pleased with this approach to the holiday.

Dishes

The rooster will never forgive if there are fake dishes on the table. In no case should you experiment with plastic utensils. Dishes on the New Year's table should be as bright and colorful as possible. You can choose painted pottery, wooden spoons or ladles.

Colors of the New Year

The symbol of the coming year is the red rooster. That is why he will be incredibly happy if all shades of red are used when setting the table. It is best to use red toys as Christmas decorations.

There are always candles on the New Year's table, therefore, they must be red. As a decor, you can decorate Christmas tree branches with the same red balls or small stars. You can make out of these branches a kind of container in which to put your favorite fruits.

As for the choice of tablecloths, here you can beat red and white colors. For example, if the tablecloth is red, then white tones should prevail in the dishes. If the tablecloth is white, then the dishes should be mostly red. On the table itself, if there is the necessary space, you can place any New Year figurines: snowmen, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, or rooster figurines.

What to remember when setting the New Year's table

• You should not attach special importance to tablecloths, this is not the main component of the New Year's table. The tablecloth should be well ironed and distributed on the table so that its edges do not hang down by more than 30 cm;
• You need to start serving with the arrangement of dishes, and only then cutlery;
• The colors of the napkins should play against the background of the tablecloth;
• Glasses should be placed to the right of the plate;
• When using additional decor elements, when setting the table, it is worth considering and adhering to the overall composition.

Happy New Year!

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

The dog belongs to the active, cheerful and gluttonous animals. Therefore, it is better to meet the year of the dog in 2018 with a full festive table, then the next 365 days you will be lucky. Efforts must be made so that no one remains hungry, so that everyone present can taste their favorite dish.

Mandatory products on the table in the year of the yellow earth dog

1. Beef, veal, lamb or rabbit should be included first when listing foods. 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 you need. But the choice, of course, is yours! :)
2. Poultry meat can also be present in the festive dishes. You can use not only chicken, but also the meat of goose, turkey, duck and other types of birds.
3. Fish, seafood and mushrooms can diversify meat abundance.
4. 2018 is the year of the yellow dog, so look for meals that include vegetables, fruits, legumes, and grains that are brown or yellow. 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 treat with aspic, pork knuckle, boiled pork, grilled steaks, chops, meatballs, kebabs, jellied meat, baked duck, grilled chicken, pates, julienne and many others. Salads based on boiled meat can diversify the menu. Any meat cuts, which may include any sausage, balyk, ham, jamon, basturma, dried chicken, and so on, will also be appropriate. Each ingredient must be thinly sliced ​​so that a three-dimensional composition can be formed from the slices. Classic sandwiches with red caviar or salted red fish will also be useful. Pickled mushrooms, olives, etc. can complement the gastronomic variety.

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

What should not be on the holiday table

The future hostess of the year will not appreciate fish dishes, in which there are a lot of small bones, so pike, carp and other river fish should be excluded from the festive menu. The animal will not like the “herring under a fur coat”, beloved by many. When preparing cold cuts, make sure that it does not contain horse sausage. It is known that dogs do not like to eat these animals. Admirers of Korean cuisine should give up exotic dishes and do not cook dishes from dog meat. According to Feng Shui experts, it is worth removing broken noodles from the menu, as it turns out that its length affects longevity. Do not tease the dog with fast food dishes (hot dogs, burgers).

It is not advisable to serve too carbonated drinks on the table - kvass, lemonade, beer. An earthen dog will not be delighted with strong drinks either.

New Year's menu for the New Year's holiday 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 bacon or cheese, boiled pork and more.

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

For the main one, you can cook 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, and more.

Desserts for the holiday table choose to your taste. The yellow dog does not limit you in the choice of sweets. Therefore, you can “walk around” here 🙂 You can bake cookies and cakes on your own 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 your desserts. Decorate finished products with fruits and nuts.

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

Recipes for New Year's Eve

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 any other 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 Joy”

- 1 avocado,

- 150 g of peeled shrimp,

- 2 chicken eggs,

- canned pineapple

- 150 gr hard cheese,

- mayonnaise,

- spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Dip the peeled shrimp in boiling salted water for 5-7 minutes. Then put them in a colander and let cool.
2. Peel the avocado, remove the pit and cut into small cubes.
3. Grate 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 the ingredients in a bowl, add spices to taste and season with mayonnaise.
7. On a flat dish, lay out the salad with shrimp and avocado in the form of a bone, as shown in the photo above. Sprinkle the bone on all sides with grated cheese or egg white. That's all 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 tablespoons,

- garlic 2 cloves,

- 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, removing all veins and vessels. Cut into small pieces and put to boil in salted water.
2. Hard boil the eggs.
3. In the process of cooking 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 is boiled for half an hour, drain the water again and add a new one, continue to cook 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 on a coarse grater, sauté in vegetable oil.
7. Cut the cooled heart into neat cubes, eggs into cubes, chop the greens with a knife, finely chop the garlic.
8. Open a jar of peas, drain off excess liquid.
9. Put all the chopped ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise and set aside for 1-1.5 hours. That's all the tasty meat salad for the New Year's table is ready!

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,

- garlic 1 clove,

- vegetable oil for frying

- spices.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the meat well, dry and chop coarsely. Then put it on a preheated pan, greased with vegetable oil, fry on both sides until cooked.
2. Fry the mushrooms in another pan.
3. Place the cooked ingredients on a paper towel to absorb any excess oil.
4. Peel the onion, cut into half rings and pour over with boiling water.
5. Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands.
6. Chop the walnut kernels with a knife.
7. Prepare dressing: add chopped garlic and ground black pepper to mayonnaise.
8. Peel the pomegranate and take out the whole seeds.
9. Put lettuce leaves, then meat, mushrooms, sprinkle everything with nuts and onions, make a few large drops of sauce and add everything with pomegranate seeds.

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

Buns “Funny dogs”

- flour 450 gr. + 100 gr. for bedding

- milk 150 ml,

- dry yeast 8 gr.,

- eggs 2 pcs.,

- butter 70 gr.,

- sugar 2 tablespoons,

- 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. After the time has elapsed, 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, and put a piece of sausage on the bottom part and roll the dough so that the top cut is on the sausage. Make incisions on the side and slightly push them apart - these will be the “ears”.
5. Use raisins as eyes and spouts. Lubricate yeast buns with egg. Put the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

That's 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

- garlic 1 clove,

- salt, pepper h. they say.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the shins, remove the remaining feathers, put on a paper towel and dry. With a knife, cut the skin and meat with a “pocket”, try not to damage the skin. The meat that is left without the skin, chop off the bone.
2. In a bowl, mix chopped garlic, mayonnaise, mustard and spices. With the resulting mixture, rub the shins on all sides.
3. Cut the meat into small pieces, we do not need the bones.
4. Add chopped tomatoes, cheese, herbs and 1 tsp to the meat. mayonnaise.
5. Stuff the drumsticks with stuffing.
6. Fry the resulting legs until golden brown.
7. Transfer the drumsticks to a baking dish, put 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 h.mol.,

Cooking process:

1. Cut the pork into medallions 0.5 cm thick, salt, pepper and place in a preheated pan, greased with vegetable oil.
2. Fry pork on both sides until golden brown.
3. Add juice squeezed from one orange and some crushed zest. Add also chopped shallots, a couple of tablespoons of honey, a little water and sprinkle everything with turmeric.
4. Cover the pan with a lid and let the meat 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 fragrant pork is ready!

Salad “Doggy” with smoked chicken breast and champignons

- 1 smoked chicken breast,

- pickled 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. Clear.
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 muzzle of the dog. Lubricate the layer with mayonnaise.
5. Put the chopped breast, squirrels, a layer of champignons, processed cheese on top and grease everything with mayonnaise on top.
6. Now it's time to lay out the carrots.
7. From above, start laying out the potatoes, so that all the previous layers are hidden under it. As a result, you should get a white muzzle of a dog, which still needs to be smeared with mayonnaise on top.
8. With grated yolk, mark the muzzle of the dog, leave the ears white.
9. Line the dog's nose and cheeks with egg white.
10. Cut out eyes and nose from mushroom caps, mustaches - cloves, tongue - 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 refrigerate to soak.

Such a New Year's salad "Doggy" will appeal not only to adults, but also to small guests.

Festive table decoration

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

Each housewife, when thinking over the menu for the new year 2017, will plan what to cook, make a shopping list and decide in a panic when to do it all. I decided to put together for you several options for the New Year's menu with a shopping list and a clear plan for when and what to cook and how to make your life easier. And as a bonus - how to calculate the amount of food for 1 person for the New Year's table.

Perhaps you can change some menus a little to your taste. However, I tried to observe two main points: on New Year's Eve, no one should overeat and the hostess should not kill herself at the stove. Therefore, we will do most of the work on the preparation and in the kitchen during the week, and on December 31 we will pay attention to hair, manicure, rollercoaster rides, and a trip to the main Christmas tree of the city. And only an hour before setting the table, you will spend in the kitchen. Each menu and shopping list can be downloaded as a separate printable file so you don't forget to take it with you to the store. In addition, the list is divided into 2 parts. The first is products that you can buy in advance, a week before the holiday. After all, these days there will be no crowds in stores. The second part is what you need to buy the day before the holiday. This part includes perishable products. I specifically do not include side dishes in the menu, because. they make the night sky much heavier. If you think you can't do without them, add them yourself. Also, I do not indicate fruit, vegetable, meat and cheese cuts. I also advise you to avoid fruit and vegetable salads, which will quickly flow and lose their appearance. Whether or not to add them is your decision. In the meantime, choose what you like and have a merry New Year 2017!

Festive menu options:

In addition to the list that you can download for purchase, I recommend checking if you have at home those products that tend to run out at the most inopportune moment:

• Salt and sugar
• Tea coffee
• Napkins
• I also strongly advise you to buy disposable cups, my guests love to run out after 12 to launch fireworks with a bottle of champagne.

Romantic New Year's Eve menu for two

The main feature of compiling such a menu for the new year is to remember that dishes are only a small fraction of your romance. Focus on creating a romantic atmosphere, your appearance and good mood. You can safely go to the salon on December 31, do your hair, manicure, walk and enjoy the expectation of the upcoming holiday. After all, who knows, maybe today they will make an offer to you?

Cooking plan:

I tried to plan the time as much as possible so that you would not worry that you would miss something and not be distracted from the New Year's mood.

1. One week before: We buy everything we need on the first part of the shopping list. We allocate the evening and make sweets. You can safely store them in the refrigerator. Put the candies in a plastic or glass container so that they don't absorb the smell of other foods.
2. December 30th:
   • We prepare cheese cream for canapes, dry the bread. Swap the bread for a salted cracker if you like. Cooking 1/4 of the ingredients of the cream cheese recipe. 8 crackers are enough.
   • Cut the turkey fillet (chicken if desired) into two portions and beat off. Salt, pepper. We put it in a container or wrap it in cling film and send it to the refrigerator.
   • If you are using frozen shrimp, transfer them from the freezer to the refrigerator so that they thaw properly.
3. 31th of December:
   • Cooking turkey fillet with sauce. To serve the fillet we burn, we do this. While frying the fillet, turn on the oven and heat to 180 degrees. We shift the fillet into a ceramic or glass baking dish, cover with foil and send the oven. After 5 minutes, turn off the oven and the fillet will come to readiness by itself. There it can be 20-30 minutes. If there is no oven, cook according to the recipe, but cover the finished fillet on a plate with a hot pan lid. If the fillet is cold before serving, use the microwave. And then pour the sauce over it.
   • Preparing the shrimp sauce, pour the shrimp. We cut the tomatoes. Cooking canapes. All together it will take 20 minutes.
   • Preparing the sauce for the turkey. 10 minutes.
   • Mix the salad right before serving. 2 minutes.
   • We get candy.
   • Set the table, straighten your hair, celebrate the new year!

Cooking plan:

For such a menu, it is better to allocate 2 hours for cooking on December 30th. In fact, there is not much to cook, and cutting Olivier will take you the most time.

1. December 30th.
   • Boil potatoes, eggs, breast for Olivier and eggs for fish pate.
   • Cooking a cake. We put the cake to cool, decorate and pour yogurt tomorrow.
   • Cut olive oil. We don't run Olivier!
   • Cooking fish paste.
   • We skip the meat through a meat grinder for minced meat. Saute onion and mushrooms for meatloaf. Do not mix, put separately in the refrigerator.

   The total time is 2 hours. I recommend involving children in peeling eggs and potatoes. And perhaps a husband for slicing Olivier. You will need about half of the fish pate, so you can safely use the second half for breakfast the next day (spread on sandwiches).

2. 31th of December.
   • Let's start with the preparation of meatloaf. We will form a meat loaf, but we will not send it to the oven, but set it aside. I recommend sending it to bake an hour before the start of the feast, so that it is hot. 20 minutes.
   • We take out the cake, decorate with yogurt. I buy ready-made sugar figures in the form of snowflakes or decorate as in the recipe. 15 minutes.
   • Drain the liquid from the olives, mozzarella, make a snack on skewers. I recommend entrusting this part to the children, then you will spend 5 minutes.
   • Spread the fish paste on the crackers. We decorate. 10 minutes.
   • Cooking mayonnaise, season Olivier. 10 minutes.

As you can see, it will take you only an hour to prepare on December 31st. If you want, you can form a meatloaf in the morning, refrigerate. This will further reduce the preparation time before the holiday.

Shopping list, recipes for printing.

If you have a little more time - you can bake truffle cake. He is truly amazing. Cakes for him can be prepared 3-5 days before the holiday. If you have 1-2 more guests, pick up some more New Year's salads.

Menu for a company of 8 people

If you are going to celebrate with a large company, you want to surprise the guests and not inflate the budget. So I made a relatively budget menu. The main thing with this option is not to cook a lot of dishes, but simply increase the amount of each. You can also ask for help with the preparation of one of the guests. Or ask to bring some of the salads or a cake with you. The main emphasis in this menu is made not only on its budget, but also on the fact that on the 31st you only need to put the finishing touches. And you still spend only an hour cooking. I quite boldly suggest that you include a salad with barley instead of the usual Olivier in the New Year's menu for the company. And for those who do not recognize salads with mayonnaise - potato salad. It can also serve as a kind of garnish. The number of ingredients for the salad can not be increased, each guest will get it. but make boiled pork from a piece of meat at the rate of approximately 150 grams per person. For a sweet end to the evening, I suggest buying tangerines and sweets for the cake. According to the recipe, you will get a cake for about 8 people.

Cooking plan:

1. For 3-4 days. We bake cake layers for Pincher cake. I draw your attention to the fact that for such a large company you need to take a double portion of the ingredients according to the recipe. We are also engaged in cakes for snack mushroom cake.
2. December 30th.
   • Boil vegetables for appetizers with anchovies and salads.
   • We cut salads, but do not put onions in them and do not season them.
   • We clean the anchovy (anchovy) and put it in a glass container with a lid. Lightly drizzle the hamsa with oil so that it does not dry out.
   • We marinate the ham.
   • We make cream for the cake and prepare the Pincher cake.
   • We collect snack cake with mushrooms.

   On this day, you will spend about 4 hours cooking. Therefore, I once again recommend that you invite assistants or entrust the preparation of part of the dishes to guests.

3. 31th of December. We'll be ready in less than an hour!
   • 2-3 hours before the feast, put the boiled pork in the oven. She will have time to cook and reach and cool a little in the oven. 10 minutes of pure time. Don't forget to set a timer on your oven or phone to turn off the oven.
   • We prepare an appetizer with anchovies / anchovies and cut bread for it. 20 minutes
   • Cut onions into salads, season. 15 minutes.
   • Cut the boiled pork and snack cake before serving.

Print the shopping list and recipes for the New Year's menu.

What else can be cooked? I think enough. You may want to make more appetizers or other salads. Make changes to the menu to your liking.

Menu for fasting and vegetarians

I combined these two menu options into one. Those who fast may not celebrate the New Year at all. But still, many celebrate it symbolically. Vegetable cabbage rolls can be prepared a couple of weeks before the holiday.

Cooking plan:

1. A week before. Cooking vegetable cabbage rolls. We stand 3-4 days at room temperature and put in the refrigerator. Stuffed cabbage rolls are prepared in general for about an hour or two, depending on your ability to twist cabbage rolls.
2. For 3-4 days. Cooking lean cookies with marmalade. Let the finished cookies cool and put them in an airtight box. The total cooking time is about 1.5 hours.
3. 31th of December.
   • Let's start with the salad. If you use the attachments for a meat grinder, food processor or blender to grate vegetables, it will take about 15 minutes. If there are no nozzles, to speed up the process, ask your children or husband to help grate the vegetables.
   • We're making risotto. About 40 minutes. Do not forget that this is a dish that needs to be constantly stirred.

If you like, replace the cookies with a lean cinnamon and almond roll. If you can eat fish on this day or you want to replace some of the recipes, take a look at the recipes for Fasting. In the Advent Post 2014-2015, on December 31, you can eat fish, but on January 1, only hot dishes with vegetable oil. Many believe that in addition to fish, you can eat all kinds of seafood, so perhaps you can include salads with them in the New Year's menu for fasting. And shrimp salad recipes come in handy, almost anyone can be seasoned with vegetable oil.

What to buy, printable recipes.

What will I cook for the New Year's table

Everything is simple with my New Year's menu. I will celebrate the New Year with my family - my husband, daughter, parents and our godfather. I really hope that this year he will not come by himself. As a basis for the menu, I will take the above menu for the new year for a family of 4. Just calculate the amount of meatloaf so that would be left for breakfast. For each person, I will count 200 grams of pork (raw, before processing) for New Year's Eve. + 200g*3 for brunch or rather lunch on January 1st for me, husband and daughter. Plus, I will add another salad, because. adults will be 5-6 people + 12 year old daughter. What's left of the salads will be the same for brunch the next day.

If unexpected guests run in, I will have fruits, sweets, something for meat and cheese cuts, pickled plums, cucumbers, tomatoes - in general, something that can be put on the table very quickly as a light snack. Because from experience - after 12 at night, guests come already from the table and don’t eat much. And I don't want to cook too much.

If you will be making changes to the New Year's menu or you need your own version of the menu for the new year, I have prepared a video on how to properly list dishes and plan a budget and action plan:

Table for calculating the amount of food for the New Year's menu

This is the approximate amount of food that one person at the New Year's table will eat. If you don’t want to calculate for each type of dish separately, focus on an average of 500 grams of food per man and 350-400 grams per woman. If there is alcohol, then we increase the number of cold snacks (I have already increased). Remember that it is night, heavy dishes will create a feeling of heaviness. And instead of New Year's fun, you run the risk of sitting in a corner on an armchair, dreaming about mezim. Dessert and fruit count separately.

Cold snacks - 100-200 gr. (cheeses, vegetable and meat cuts, fish, mushrooms)
Salads - 200 gr.
Hot dishes - 200-250 gr.
Fruit plate - 200 gr. or cake - 150-200 gr.

Are you completely confused in the recommendations of what to cook for the New Year of the Pig? Don't like making food lists? Don't have time to find the right recipes among the millions of offers on the web? Don't despair, your New Year's menu is ready. It remains only to choose the appropriate option from those offered, depending on the composition, age of the company and the venue 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 under the chimes in the family circle.

But even if friends are not expected to come to the festive table, the hostess of the house tries to cook as many delicious dishes as possible so that there is enough for both the family and potential guests. In addition, many people prefer not to cook for a couple of days after the New Year, eating New Year's snacks and salads.

To compile the New Year's menu, you can get together with the whole family and write down the ideas of each. 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 stew such a dish for about an hour over medium heat, the meat will be saturated with the aromas of vegetables and dried fruits and acquire an incredible aroma.

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

It remains only to sprinkle with cheese and can be served at the New Year's family table.

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

But we suggest changing the traditions a little and string mozzarella balls, olives and cherry tomatoes on skewers.

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

We suggest filling ready tartlets with double filling. After greasing the molds with softened butter, fill them up to half with mushrooms fried with onions and mixed with chopped boiled egg.

The second layer of filling is the most 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 cook 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 circles of fried onions and carrots. It remains to add pickles, a little mayonnaise.

Sprinkle the salad with green onions on top. Male New Year's salad is ready.

Another childhood memory is a delicious puff Napoleon cake.

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

The traditional recipe for a birthday cake 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 perfectly complement the New Year's table and will appeal to all family members.

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

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

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

Raising glasses to the chiming clock and couples who have lived together for more than one year, and friends who have decided to step back from the whole world and devote New Year's Eve to watching programs and quiet conversation.

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

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

A quick and tasty dish that is perfect for celebrating the New Year.

Take low-fat portioned pieces of meat and bake in the oven with spices. Be sure to put a circle of pineapple on each piece and sprinkle grated cheese on top.

Delicate rice with mushroom flavor is the perfect complement to the meat. The side dish is prepared just before serving.

Mushrooms can be used both forest and ordinary champignons.

A light appetizer of hand-torn lettuce leaves, which is the perfect accompaniment to grainy salted cottage cheese and king prawns. Cherry tomatoes can be added if desired.

An appetizer in which you can use ready-made meat products or cooked with your own hands.

Make chicken pastorma, pork ham, lard stuffed with spices, boil beef tongue.

Thanks to just one dish, a woman can show herself to be a skilled hostess.

There is no desire or time to mess around with handmade delights, lay out purchased sausages, 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, in which layers of chocolate and strawberry-sour cream alternate, is ideal for a romantic dinner or for treating a friend.

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

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

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

Prepare an invigorating drink of red wine and citrus fruits. Do not forget to add some sugar and mint leaves to the cocktail.

If desired, apple slices and cinnamon sticks can be added to the sangria.

For 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 option, doubling their volume. Or expand the menu and prepare several options for hot dishes, snacks and salads.

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

Or, as an option, distribute dishes from the list among all participants, and cook only hot dishes for the hosts of the holidays.

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

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

Meat can be overlaid with slices of potatoes, 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 an unusual way of cooking.

We spread 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.

We choose potatoes of the same size, wash well and cut into pieces. After drying the pieces on a towel, sprinkle them generously with rosemary and, sprinkling with vegetable oil, send them to the oven.

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

Leave the potatoes in the oven until golden brown.

Classic aspic

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

You can serve jelly with horseradish sauce or mustard dressing.

There are many options for stuffing halves of boiled eggs.

We offer several options this year.

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

Grated processed cheese with garlic and yolk is also a great recipe. Come on, herring mass with beets.

Lavash roll and cod liver

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

Spread salted granular cottage cheese and mashed cod liver on a sheet of pita bread, spread torn lettuce leaves on top. It remains to roll the pita bread roll and cut into portioned pieces.

Meat, vegetable and cheese cuts

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

From pieces of sausages, ham, tongue, various cheeses, vegetables, guests will be able to form snack sandwiches themselves.

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 squids for no more than a minute and quickly cool in cold water. We cut the carcasses into strips and add chopped eggs and canned corn. W

dress the salad with homemade mayonnaise and decorate with fresh cucumber and parsley.

The classic Mimosa will sparkle with new colors and taste if ordinary canned food is replaced with pieces of noble salmon.

Fish can be taken lightly salted or baked in the oven. Find more Mimosa salad recipes.

A festive cake for a large company should be tasty and easy to prepare.

The ideal option would be Smetannik cake.

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

If you are planning outdoor walks or launching fireworks, sledding on New Year's Eve, spiced tea will become an indispensable drink. It can be prepared with milk, cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom, cloves.

You can take such a drink in a thermos with you for a walk or give tea to guests upon arrival home.

When choosing a suitable menu, listen to your desires. You should not strictly adhere to all the recommendations and advice, cook strictly according to the proposed menu and recipes. New Year is a holiday of a fairy tale, homely, touching and family. Therefore, feel free to cook according to the list, which takes into account the desires of each guest. And let the dishes do not complement each other, but everyone will find on the table what he wanted.