Recipes for children's dishes for the new year. New Year's bottle decor options

New Year is a holiday of childhood. In search of ideas on how to celebrate this night, what interesting gifts to give and how to make a menu, we somehow return in our thoughts to those times when we were children, with bated breath we waited for gifts under the Christmas tree, believed in Santa Claus and miracles ...

Let's not forget about it in the hustle and bustle of New Year's Eve. When inviting guests, think about the children - with whom will they celebrate this holiday? Thinking through the scenario of New Year's Eve, do not forget about the kids - what games do you organize for them? When deciding what to cook for the festive table, try for the small participants in the celebration - the New Year's menu for children should be such that they are happy and know for sure: there is a fairy tale!

Holiday ideas for a children's table are as abundant as a child's fantasy. This is just the smallest part of our collection.

Children's salad "Joyful dog"

Any holiday is an occasion to prepare not only the desired dishes for guests, but also to please your own children with something tasty. It is easy to achieve your goal by preparing a very light and unusually tasty winter salad.

Required Ingredients:

800 gr fresh or frozen mushrooms;
300 gr boiled sausage;
8 chicken eggs;
8 potatoes;
4 carrots;
1 can of canned peas or corn;
a couple of tablespoons of low-fat mayonnaise or sour cream;
salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking steps

1. Boil vegetables in their skins, rinse with cold water, peel and finely dice.
2. Eggs are also hard-boiled, after which the yolks are separated from the proteins. The yellow part crumbles into a salad.
3. Chopped greens, peas or corn are added to the total mass.
4. A few tablespoons of sour cream or mayonnaise and salt also come here. Now all the ingredients are mixed together.
5. A sleeping dog is formed from the finished base. Boiled sausage and egg white are used to "wool" the dog, "painting" it in a spotted suit. Before that, of course, both ingredients will have to be grated on a fine grater.
6. Olives are used as the eyes and nose, while a small piece of sausage would be the ideal tongue.

Salad "Grapes"

An excellent meat dish that has become a favorite New Year's Eve delicacy for many guests.

Required Ingredients:

300 gr ham;
300 gr grapes;
200 gr of hard cheese;
100 gr rye crackers;
3 chicken eggs;
a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise;
salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking steps

1. Ham is chopped into strips, and cheese and hard-boiled eggs are rubbed on a coarse grater.
2. Crackers, mayonnaise, salt and pepper are added to the total mass.
3. The finished base is laid out on a beautiful plate and decorated with halves of grapes on top.

The salad is served to the table immediately after its preparation, until the crackers have had time to soak. By the way, instead of grapes, you can use olives or olives, lay out the ingredients themselves in layers and coat them with homemade sauce.

Snack from pita bread on the children's New Year's table "Yolochki"

In the center of the children's New Year's table, let there be ... Christmas trees! Many, many Christmas trees - shaggy and prickly, cold and hot, bright and fragrant. No ideas? Start with the simplest: fold pita leaves into triangles, fill them with something tasty and healthy - and voila!, Christmas trees have grown and are asking for your mouth.

Ingredients:

• 5 round sheets of pita bread;
• 150 g cream cheese;
• 10 slices of slightly salted salmon;
• a few leaves of green lettuce;
• bunch of dill.

We cut the sheets of pita bread in half - you will get 10 semicircles.

Lubricate each piece with cream cheese, put a leaf of lettuce and a slice of fish on top. Visually determine the center of the straight line along which the pita bread was divided, and begin to add triangles, the apex of which is this central point. As a rule, 4-5 bends are obtained.

Put the finished triangles on a dish (an oblong plate on which the “forest” grows looks good), put a small layer of cream cheese on top of the pita bread, sprinkle with finely chopped dill-needles.

If desired, "Christmas trees" can be decorated with pomegranate seeds, sweet peas or milk corn.

Christmas tree decoration option: cream cheese + avocado, turned into a paste, and pieces of bright sweet pepper.

Lavash does not have to be bought, it can be made at home - see Armenian lavash recipe.

Christmas tree sandwiches for the little ones

Often, children perceive the world through pictures - and the brighter they are, the more fun and meaningful for the child, the better information about the world around them will fit in small blond and dark-haired heads. Are you planning to cook profiteroles with salmon mousse for the New Year's table? Adults will surely appreciate it, but what about kids? I propose to make funny Christmas tree sandwiches for them: the same mousse will be the basis, however, the overall picture will compare favorably with the “adult” version.

Ingredients for 3 sandwiches:

• 6 slices of white bread;
• 1 boiled carrot;
• a piece of bell pepper for decoration;
• 5 st. l. soft cottage cheese or cream cheese;
• 50 g boiled salmon;
• salt to taste;
• small piece of celery stalk

Mash the fish with a fork until smooth, add half the cottage cheese or cheese, salt and stir again.

We cut off the crusts of bread, give each slice the shape of a triangle. Make sure that all cut pieces are the same size.

We spread fish cream on three slices of bread, close with the remaining three.

We cut out decorations from carrots and peppers - Christmas balls, a star, garlands. We “dress up” the Christmas tree, do not forget to install a “trunk” from a piece of celery at the base of the tree.

Christmas tree for garnish - cauliflower and broccoli with bechamel sauce

Traditionally and out of habit, we cook potatoes for a side dish, which no one traditionally eats on New Year's Eve. Shall we try to break the rules? Healthy vegetables wrapped in a delicate milk sauce, laid out in the shape of a shaggy spruce - in my opinion, such a dish will not only decorate the festive table, but also perfectly diversify the menu, creating the necessary balance between heavy appetizers and solid dishes.

Children enthusiastically perceive everything unusual - and even the hated cabbage, which they refuse to eat on ordinary days, will become a holiday and a reason for joy for them if the vegetables are served in an original and non-standard way.

Ingredients:

• 400 g of cauliflower;
• 400 g broccoli;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 1 st. l. flour;
• 1 glass of milk;
• 50 g butter;
• nutmeg, salt to taste;
• cherry tomatoes for serving.

Boil broccoli and cauliflower alternately in salted water. Lubricate the baking dish with a small piece of butter, put the rest of the butter on a well-heated frying pan (the fire is minimal), sprinkle with flour, mix until smooth and pour a little milk, each time stirring the sauce to an even, smooth texture. Add a pinch of nutmeg, add cheese, stir. We turn off the fire.

In the center of the form lay out the broccoli, giving the inflorescences the shape of a Christmas tree. Let's not forget the stem. The remaining space is filled with cauliflower. Pour the sauce over the vegetables and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. Garnish with cherry tomatoes when serving.

Snacks with fruit on skewers

I have a suggestion - let's decorate the Christmas tree! Well, that's just not necessary to chuckle maliciously, listen to the end.

In flower shops, you can buy an inexpensive cone-shaped foam base. If there is no time to look for something ready, roll up a sheet of drawing paper with a cone, cut off the excess along the base, blow mounting foam inward. After drying, again remove the unnecessary - and you will get the same wonderful base that you can decorate! Cover it with a clean sheet of green paper (a good substitute is foil: simple and elegant) and get creative.

Stringing pieces of fruit, cubes of delicious cheeses, shrimp and olives, grapes and ham on skewers, insert the skewers with a sharp end into the prepared cone base, forming “Christmas tree needles”. This table decoration will attract a lot of admiring glances, no doubt!

One side of the “Christmas tree” can be made for children (pieces of banana and apples, tangerine and mango slices, cheese like “Russian” and cubes of homemade boiled pork), the other side can be decorated for adults (dor blue and brie, smoked ham and thin slices of salami, pickled olives and stuffed chili peppers).

Salad "Santa Claus"

You will need:

• 3 eggs;
• hard cheese - 200 grams;
• carrots - 1 piece;
• crab sticks - 1 pack;
• long boiled rice - half a glass;
• sweet Bulgarian pepper (red) - 2 pieces;
• salt, red and black pepper, peppercorns - to taste;
• dill, parsley;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking method:

1. Eggs, boil carrots, peel.
2. Grate carrots on a fine grater, eggs and cheese on a coarse grater. Leave one protein to decorate the salad.
3. Prepare crab sticks. Cut off their red edges, cut the white part into small cubes.
4. Wash greens, cut.
5. Mix all the ingredients, add salt, pepper, seasonings to taste, season with mayonnaise.
6. Arrange salad on a large plate. Sculpt a figure of Santa Claus out of it.
7. Make a "fur coat" from crab sticks (the red parts that you cut off).
8. Sprinkle the beard, the edges of the “fur coat” with grated protein, boiled rice.
9. Cut the pepper into small pieces, use them to make rosy cheeks and frost nose.
10. Peppercorns will be needed in order to make eyes.

Salad "Cockerel"

Ingredients:

• smoked meat (pork) - 400 grams;
• Bulgarian pepper (different colors - for decoration) - 3 pieces;
• 1 small onion;
• cheese - 200 grams;
• olives (pitted) - 1 can;
• egg (yolk) - for decoration;
• salt, pepper, mayonnaise.

How to cook:

1. Meat, onion and pepper (one part) cut into medium-sized cubes, olives - into thin strips.
2. Cheese grate on a coarse grater.
3. Cut the second part of the pepper into rings and set aside - they will be needed in order to decorate the plumage.
4. Mix the ingredients (meat, cheese, onion, pepper), season with mayonnaise.
5. Draw the figure of a cockerel. It all depends on your imagination, you can watch a video where they clearly show how to do it.
6. Decorate the tail, beard, scallop of the bird with pepper, grated yolk. Eyes and beak - olives. Wonderful New Year's salad "Rooster" for the meeting of 2019 is ready!

Salad with beef "New Year's Wreath"

A hearty salad that is not only very tasty, but also beautifully decorated in the form of a real Christmas wreath. The dish is harmoniously saturated with the tastes of boiled meat, boiled potatoes, pickled cucumbers and green olives.

Ingredients:

• beef (tenderloin) - 300 tons;
• onions - 1 pc.;
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
• chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
• dill - 1 bunch;
• potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - 5-6 tablespoons;
• granulated sugar - ½ tsp;
• apple cider vinegar - ½ tsp;
• pomegranate - 1 pc.;
• canned corn - 1 tbsp;
• hard cheese - 50 g;
• olives - 6 pcs.
• salt, freshly ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking method

1. Boil a piece of beef in salted water. Cool and cut the meat into small cubes. Prepare a dish with a flat bottom. Place the glass in its central part. Arrange the meat around the glass.
2. Boil potatoes in their skins, grate with a medium grater. Spread out with a second layer. Salt, season with pepper, grease the layer with mayonnaise.
3. Peel the onion. Cut into thin half rings, put in a bowl, pour ½ cup of boiling water. Leave for 5 minutes, drain the water, hold the onion under a stream of cold water, squeeze a little. Pour vinegar, sprinkle with sugar, mix and let it brew for 15 minutes. Spread the onion in the third layer.
4. Grate pickled cucumbers, squeeze a little, spread on top of the onion. Spread with mayonnaise. Rinse the dill greens, divide into small sprigs, put on the salad. Take out the glass.

Cut the cheese into thin slices, cut out the stars. Cut olives into thin slices. Spread olive mugs, corn, pomegranate seeds and cheese stars on top of the wreath. Place the salad in the refrigerator for an hour.

Salad "Hedgehog"

To prepare it you will need:

• chicken fillet - 300 gr.;
• pickled champignons - 1 can;
• cheese - 200 gr.;
• egg - 5 pcs.;
• Korean carrots - 300 gr.;
• pitted black olives - jar;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• mayonnaise - 200 gr.
• greenery;
• salt and spices.

Cooking:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into strips and form the first layer on the dish.
2. We cover it with mayonnaise.
3. Three cheese on a fine grater and lay the second layer, which is also greased with mayonnaise;
4. The mode is very fine mushrooms, mix with chopped herbs and form the next layer, which is again covered with mayonnaise.
5. Three eggs on a fine grater and form the next layer, which is also greased with mayonnaise.
6. The last layer is made from Korean carrots.
7. With the help of olive rings we create spines for our “hedgehog”.
8. We compare the finished dish with the picture and serve it on the table.

New Year's table is also impossible to imagine without snacks. It can be very different and consist of all kinds of products.

Cheese cones

This appetizer is made in minutes and is perfect for the New Year for two.

For its preparation you will need:

• almond flakes - 300 gr.;
• hard cheese -200 gr.;
• soft cheese - 500 gr.;
• mustard;
• garlic;
• greenery;
• spices and salt.

Cooking:

1. Place the soft cheese in the refrigerator to harden.
2. We rub two types of cheese on a grater and mix.
3. Grind the garlic and herbs.
4. Mix all the ingredients and form them into balls.
5. Roll them in almonds and make like cones.
6. The finished dish can be laid out on a large plate and served on the table.

There must be a hot dish on the festive table. It can be a stuffed bird, a baked piece of meat, with the exception of pork. All kinds of fish will be appropriate on the table. It can be river, for example - pike or sea. We offer you a win-win option:

Cake "Gentle" with savoiardi biscuits

Airy cookies, canned pineapples and delicate sour cream make it possible to prepare an exquisite dessert that is not only tasty, but also very simple, because it does not need to be baked at all!

Ingredients:

• savoiardi cookies - 220 g;
• sour cream (fatty) - 550 g;
• canned pineapple circles - 320 g;
• granulated sugar - 175 g.

Cooking method

• Place sour cream in a bowl, add granulated sugar and mix the ingredients thoroughly with a blender or mixer.
• Arrange ½ of the savoiardi biscuits on the bottom of a springform pan. Fill with cream.
• Open a jar of pineapple, cut the circles into cubes. Put on cookies. Arrange the remaining cookies on top and pour over the cream.
• Place the mold in the refrigerator overnight to soak. The cake is ready!
• Before serving, you can decorate the dessert with pineapple slices and cookie crumbs.

Sand baskets with apples and meringues

Delicate cakes, the aroma of which is reminiscent of summer, and fragile meringues are wonderfully harmoniously set off by berry flavor.

Ingredients

For test:

• wheat flour - 155 g;
• butter - 85 g;
• powdered sugar - 35 g;
• egg yolks - 3 pcs.;
• vanilla sugar - 1 tsp

For filling:

• sweet apples - 450 g;
• butter - 25 g;
• granulated sugar - 25 g;
• freshly squeezed lemon juice - 2 tablespoons;
• lemon zest - 1 tbsp;
• currant berries, raspberries - 11 pcs.

For the meringue:

• proteins from chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
• powdered sugar - 125 g;
• corn starch - 11 g;
• freshly squeezed lemon juice - 1 tbsp.

Cooking method

To prepare the dough, sift the wheat flour, crumble the butter, pour in the icing sugar, add the vanilla sugar, mix until crumbs form. Pour in the yolks of three eggs, mix. Roll the dough into a ball and refrigerate for 25 minutes.

Wash the apples, peel the skin, cut and clean the seeds. Cut into small cubes. To prepare the filling, put the apples in a saucepan with a thick bottom, add butter, granulated sugar and lemon zest. Stir with a wooden spatula and place on the stove over high heat. Hold for 2-3 minutes, then cover, reduce heat to a minimum and simmer until the apples are soft. Remove from fire.

Take the dough out of the refrigerator. Divide into pieces, roll out into thin cakes and place in cupcake molds, pressing against the bottom and sides. Remove to freezer for 20 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 195 degrees. Put the forms with the dough on a baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes. Take out of the oven. Put a layer of apples in the form, pressing a little. Arrange a few currants and raspberries.

To prepare the meringue, place the proteins in the refrigerator for 25 minutes, then beat with a blender, adding powdered sugar. Add freshly squeezed lemon juice and beat again until a dense mass is formed, introducing corn starch at the end. Put the resulting mass in a pastry bag and form a curl on the basket.

Preheat the oven to 140 degrees. Place the baskets for 55 minutes until the meringue is dry. Remove the baskets from the oven and molds.

New Year's Eve is one of the main holidays of the year, which is usually celebrated by the whole family. Children of all ages are especially looking forward to New Year's Eve - they help decorate the Christmas tree, decorate the room, prepare a festive dinner and set the table. If you plan to celebrate the New Year with your family, there is no need to set a separate table for children. Include snacks, hot dishes and desserts in the New Year's menu that will appeal to both children and adults, paying special attention to table setting and decoration of festive dishes.

In the case when several families with children will meet the coming year, it is better for the younger generation to set a separate table. To decorate a children's corner in a special way, to make it truly festive, New Year's chair covers will help,

decoration of the walls around the table, set a separate table for desserts.

Decorate the main table with New Year's attributes and cover with elegant appetizers, vitamin salads, light desserts and healthy drinks.

At the same time, do not forget that children cannot spend the whole evening at the table - make an entertainment program for all participants in the New Year's party, where there is a place for fun contests, concert numbers, funny skits and dances to incendiary New Year's melodies.

Children's New Year's menu

When laying a children's New Year's table, you need to adhere to certain principles:

1. All dishes for children for the new year should be freshly prepared, from fresh and healthy products with a minimum content of dyes and chemical flavors. For dressing salads, use homemade mayonnaise, natural yogurt, low-fat sour cream, or a mixture of vegetable oil and lemon juice. Do not give young children seafood, smoked sausage and other foods high in salt and artificial preservatives that can cause allergies.

Prepare a homemade chicken breast roll or turkey fillet, aspic in portion molds, serve light baked vegetables as a side dish.

Instead of factory-made lemonades and Coca-Cola, put healthy drinks for children on the children's holiday table - natural fruit drink, homemade juice, fresh, dried or frozen fruit compote, smoothies or fruit juice.

Children's desserts - instead of a multi-layered cake with rich cream, prepare fruit and milk jellies, homemade ice cream, fruit salad with sour cream and nuts, a fruit plate, dessert sandwiches on skewers of fruit cubes and grapes with mild cheese.

2. The second important rule is that all New Year's dishes for children should be beautifully decorated. Show your imagination when setting the table and serving dishes - lay a bright tablecloth with New Year's drawings, use plates with a beautiful pattern, complement the table decor with colorful napkins and New Year's figurines.

Decorate the salad in the form of a symbol of the coming year - a Rooster, New Year's clock, a gift or a Christmas ball. You can simply arrange the salad in tartlets or portioned baskets. Make a dish of "snack snowmen" from the cheese mass (grated crab sticks, melted or grated hard cheese, sour cream, greens). Instead of the usual sandwiches, make a fruit snack on skewers.

As decorations, you can use figuratively chopped vegetables, pomegranate and cranberries, sprigs of fresh herbs and other ingredients that are part of New Year's salads and snacks.

3. When planning a children's New Year's menu, you should not chase quantity. For the company of children, two or three snacks, one hot dish and dessert are enough. Set the table in such a way that children can refresh themselves in between games and entertainment. Prepare drinks, pastries, fruits and desserts with a margin - small gourmets simply “sweep” portioned sweets from the table and empty an incredible number of glasses with refreshing drinks.

Useful advice - do not take the whole process of preparing for the New Year on yourself, actively involve children in New Year's chores. Joint preparation at home for the New Year, setting up a Christmas tree, setting the table, cooking and decorating dishes will bring a huge amount of positive emotions to all participants in the New Year's feast, regardless of age.

Children's menu for the new year

This is a sample menu for school children.

1.Snacks for children

2. Hot meals for children

For hot children, beautiful or will do. You can cook an original dish -. Children can take part in the preparation of these dishes.

Another option for hot meals for children is or. For a side dish - suitable for all ages, for older children you can cook.

3. Drinks for children for the new year

Drinks for children of any age are better natural -

New Year is a holiday loved by both adults and children. And, of course, if you are celebrating with the whole family with small children, then the question arises of what to cook for New Year's dinner so that the kids can eat it. We present you some ideas for a children's New Year's table.

The main rule when preparing a New Year's table for young children is, of course, to use only natural and fresh ingredients and products. The recipes you choose should not include hot spices and sauces, and should not be too spicy. In addition, fatty and heavy dishes, smoked meats and other foods that would be difficult for the child's body to digest should not be present on the children's holiday table. For children's menus, try to choose recipes that are easy to chew and don't need to be cut. If there are fish dishes on the menu, be sure to remove everything, even the smallest and softest bones. As drinks, it is better to prepare fruit drinks, sweet compote or jelly. Leave packaged juices, soda, as well as chips, crackers and other junk food for adults, or better not buy at all.

As for snacks, cooked according to special "children's" recipes, they will look perfect on the children's table. Older children will be delighted with or cheese balls. Well, if you really want to have chips on the table, then try to cook them yourself according to one of the dozens of recipes that can be found on our website.

Let's move on to the main dishes. As a hot dish, you can cook delicious and tender meatballs, which are loved by children around the world. They can be eaten by even the smallest children as they are soft and difficult to choke on, so you can safely put them on the children's table. You can cook according to a special recipe, but in fact, any one that does not include hot spices and seasonings will do. Alternatively, you can make cutlets, for example, from chicken or beef, but make them slightly smaller than the standard portion so that the children can definitely finish them.

What can be served as a side dish? The most ordinary puree comes to mind first. Yes, perhaps such a side dish does not look too festive, but it is easy to cook and, most importantly, it will definitely not harm the children's body. Also, let's not forget that almost all children love french fries, and they will be delighted to see them on the children's table. However, in order for the french fries to be useful, they must not be deep-fried or fried in a large amount of vegetable oil, but baked in the oven, for example, according to. Or opt for buckwheat porridge, because one of the important rules for a children's table is to use products familiar to kids. You don’t have to cook gourmet dishes according to unusual recipes to impress the kids: children are unlikely to appreciate it, but they can easily start acting up. Therefore, do not overdo it with originality!

We can't do without desserts! Older children can be offered. Do not forget about pastries: pies with apples or cherries can also be offered to children for tea. But for younger children it is better to prepare a separate dessert. For example, fruit mousse can be served at the children's table. Homemade, this dessert will turn out not only healthy, but also very tasty, and it will be easy for small children to chew it. Another good dessert is with jam. Well, for very young children, you can always prepare fruit puree or cottage cheese yogurt, so as not to worry about whether the child will like it or not.

Thus, when compiling a children's menu for the New Year's table, follow several rules. Use fresh and healthy foods that are familiar to children and that they definitely will not refuse. Don't try to impress the kids with your culinary skills using unusual ingredients, sauces and seasonings, but to show your imagination, it's better to come up with an original serving for classic dishes. Upcoming holidays!

• December 12, 2018, 11:20

The New Year for children is a particularly long-awaited magical holiday, the children believe in New Year's miracles and are eagerly preparing for the table with treats. Making a children's New Year's table is a special chore for parents, because here you need to show a special imagination in order to give the kids a truly fabulous evening.

Consider the basic rules and ideas of how you can set the table for the smallest, so that it is beautiful and safe, and how to decorate it on New Year's Eve.

New Year's children's table: serving rules

Little guests need not only to be attracted by the original design, but also to be protected as much as possible. It is better to adhere to a number of certain rules that will help not to worry about the kids.

1. General design style

To begin with, you should come up with the main theme of the decor for the children's winter holiday. You can take an idea from some popular New Year's fairy tale or cartoon, or use the main characters of a fabulous night: Santa Claus, deer, snowmen.

Choose a tablecloth, napkins, chair covers in accordance with the main concept. Try not to use too many dark or bright colors in your design.

The length of the tablecloth should not hang too much so that the kids do not pull, fidgeting in the chairs.

Paper napkins are always better. And so that the kids use napkins with interest, make unusual Christmas trees out of them. How to do this, we told in 3 articles on our website.

2. New Year's children's table: serving rules

If most of the children who gather at the table are not yet 10 years old, then use plastic or disposable plates. Firstly, among such dishes you will find a lot of colorful options. Secondly, it will protect the little guests as much as possible, who often drop plates on the floor.

Never use thin glass serving glasses. You can buy plastic wine glasses - nice and safe. There should be no knives among the cutlery, and take special children's forks, with not too sharp ends.

You should not use serving with a lot of plates, children will get confused in them, soil everything and clutter the table with them. It is better to change the plates for clean ones several times during the dinner.

3. Decorations for the children's New Year's table

To decorate adult tables, glass vases with Christmas toys, candles, and fir branches are often used. None of this should be on the children's table, since all such items are unsafe for kids.

Instead of candles, you can arrange plastic figures with battery-operated flashlights. Large vases and durable glass can be used, but it is better to fill them not with fragile Christmas toys, but with sweets. Any figurines of snowmen, Santa Clauses, etc. must be made of safe unbreakable materials.

4. Dishes for the children's table

Try to serve dishes on the children's New Year's table that do not need to be cut with a knife. Of course, children will love it if you prepare snacks, salads and other dishes in an unusual design.

For example, it can be pizza in the form of Christmas trees, funny snowmen made from curd paste, dessert in the form of deer faces and other options that are not so difficult to cook on your own.

Do not use spicy and overly spicy seasonings, hot vegetables and other foods that can cause allergies or irritation for children's dishes.

About the rules for preparing children's dishes, as well as simple examples of children's menus, you can find in our separate articles.

A few tricks for decorating children's New Year's dishes

It’s not difficult to create something original and unusual with the help of handy products and make your little guests appetize if you know some tricks.

• Each child will feel like a personal and welcome guest if the places are signed. To do this, you can use cards or signs on chairs. In addition, this option will deprive children of confusion and competition in taking places at the table.
• Kids will happily gobble up all the mashed potatoes as a side dish if they are dyed in rainbow colors. To do this, you can use natural dyes: beet juice, carrots, greens.
• Simple sandwiches can easily be turned into funny emoticons and faces with the help of ketchup, mayonnaise and pieces of vegetables and fruits.

• Children will eat fruits faster if they are peeled, cut and beautiful compositions are made from pieces.

• Diet cutlets, meatballs and other mediocre dishes will be perceived differently by children if they are molded into funny figures.
• Be sure to insert straws into glasses with drinks, kids drink from them with much more pleasure.

Take the time to search for and select special children's tableware, which plays an important role in the design of the children's New Year's table, and pay special attention to the dishes. Young participants of the New Year's holiday will definitely appreciate your efforts. Children's smiles and laughter are the best gift that you can receive on this wonderful night.

Each mother has already tried many recipes, trying to pamper the kids on holidays and birthdays. And it's probably hard to come up with something completely new. But you can try to find and adapt original culinary ideas for yourself and your children!

Today we offer several recipes, using which you can cook delicious and, of course, healthy holiday dishes for the children's New Year's table without spending too much time. We will not talk about cakes (although we, of course, also have their recipes), but we will collect recipes for healthy desserts.

Desserts with cottage cheese

Sweets "Raffaello" from cottage cheese

Ingredients: 200 g cottage cheese, 150 g sugar, 200 g coconut, almonds.

Cooking method: imitation of Raffaello sweets. Mix everything thoroughly, make balls the size of a teaspoon, put a roasted almond in the middle and roll in coconut flakes. Place in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

To make the almond skin come off well, pour boiling water over it and let it stand for a while, and the skin will come off very easily.

Strawberries with cottage cheese

Ingredients: 500 g strawberries, 1 orange, 1 packet of vanilla sugar, 3 tbsp. sugar, 4-5 tbsp. milk, 200 g cottage cheese, 150 ml cream.

Cooking method: Wash the strawberries, dry them, set aside four berries for decoration. Peel the rest and cut into two or four pieces. Wash the orange thoroughly with hot water and dry it, remove the peel from it and cut it into thin strips. Squeeze juice from the pulp. Stir orange juice and sugar until sugar dissolves. Pour the mixture over the strawberries and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Whip cream with vanilla sugar into stiff peaks. Mix cottage cheese with milk and add to cream. Arrange the strawberries in 4 dessert bowls, put the curd mass on top. Garnish with sliced ​​berries and orange peel strips.

Cottage cheese with apricots

Ingredients:(based on four people): 400 grams of canned apricots, 100 grams of butter cookies, ten tablespoons of sugar syrup, 80 grams of chocolate, 500 grams of 20% cottage cheese, 200 grams of cream.

Cooking method: Drain the apricots in a colander and then cut into pieces. We place the cookies in a freezer bag or any tight bag, and crush it with a rolling pin or bottle. Heat sugar syrup (6 tablespoons) in a frying pan, add apricots and lightly caramelize them. Cool down. Chop the chocolate into large pieces with a kitchen knife and mix with cottage cheese and four tablespoons of sugar syrup. Whip the cream and fold into the curd mixture. Take transparent glasses and lay out layers of butter crumbs (i.e. cookies), curd mass with cream, apricots and cottage cheese again, you can decorate with lemon balm sprigs. Serve well chilled.

Curd tower

Ingredients: per kilogram of cottage cheese - 120 grams of butter, 8 yolks, 300 grams of granulated sugar, nuts, candied fruits or dried fruits (cherries, raisins, dried apricots), a package of colored powder.

Cooking method: Dried fruits are poured with boiling water, washed well and dried. We wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve. Butter rubbed with granulated sugar and yolks. Then add one tablespoon of cottage cheese, constantly whisking. Put the finished mass, mixed with dried fruits, into a mold and put in the refrigerator for the whole night. Before serving, the curd tower can be decorated with colored powder.

Fruit desserts

Of the fruits for the children's New Year's table, apples, bananas, oranges and their combinations are most often used.

Apples

Very tasty baked apples. But on a holiday, we can do something more original:

Ingredients: 3 green apples, 6 dates, 2 tbsp. raisins, 2 tbsp. butter, 4 tbsp. brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon.

Cooking method: Preheat oven to 180°C. Wash and dry apples, remove seeds. Wash dates with raisins and put them in apples. Rub butter with sugar and cinnamon. Spread the apples in the oven, fill with a mixture of butter and sugar, put in the oven. Served warm or cold.

Crumble is a traditional British dessert, which is baked fruit topped with shortcrust pastry crumbs.

Ingredients: Filling: 4 apples, 1 tbsp. oils, 1 tbsp. sugar (you can take more), 1 tsp. cinnamon.
Sand crumb: 65 g flour, 100 g oatmeal, 3 tbsp sugar, 100 g butter.

Cooking method: Heat the oven to 170-200 degrees. Peel apples and cut into slices. Lubricate the mold with oil. Melt the butter, add sugar and cinnamon and lay out the apple slices. Mix everything and fry everything in syrup for 3-4 minutes.

For sand crumbs, mix flour, butter, flakes, sugar. Put the apples into the mold, crumble on top and put in the oven for 35-45 minutes or until a golden crust appears at a temperature of 175 degrees. Although the dessert turns out to be very tasty and without any additions, it is very often eaten with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

Ingredients: oranges, apples, coconut flakes, chopped walnuts, sugar, if for adults - wine.

Cooking method: Cut oranges into slices, remove the skin. Cut the core of the apples, Peel them from the skin and cut into circles. Chop nuts. Put a circle of orange (or apple) on a saucer and sprinkle it with sugar, nuts and coconut flakes. Next, put the apple, the same procedure for sprinkling, etc. - in layers. Usually make 3 layers of apples, 3 - oranges. Let it brew for 2 hours.

Before serving - for adults - pour wine over this structure (the recipe speaks of dry white wine, but red is also possible), for children - with sugar syrup. You can decorate this dessert with whipped cream with grated chocolate or serve with a scoop of ice cream.

Bananas

Fairy tale

Cool a large banana in the refrigerator, peel, cut a deep wedge-shaped groove in it and fill it with ice cream ice cream taken directly from the freezer. Cover ice cream with melted (but not hot) chocolate and garnish with whipped cream (factory-made). You will get a surprisingly tasty, original and healthy dessert. Ice cream from such a boat cannot be swallowed very quickly, so even babies with sensitive throats will not be hurt.

banana clouds

You will need 4 bananas, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, nuts, whipped cream. Mix sugar and cocoa. Roll peeled bananas in cocoa mass. Top with crushed nuts and top with whipped cream.

Or bananas, cut into wide slices, roll in a mixture of sugar and cocoa, put on a dish, sprinkle with pistachios and decorate with whipped cream.

Dried fruits

Prunes with a secret

(also known as "Parisian").

Soak prunes in cold boiled water and remove the seeds, inserting walnut kernels instead. Arrange the stuffed prunes on plates, covering it with whipped cream on top.

You can fill the prunes with chocolate: melt the chocolate, add 1 tbsp. butter. Fill the molds halfway with chocolate, lay the prunes, pour over the chocolate. Put in the refrigerator until completely solidified.

sweet balls

Ingredients: 100 grams of dried apricots, 100 grams of dates, 100 grams of prunes, 20 grams of walnuts, 20 grams of almonds, 2 - 3 teaspoons of honey, coconut flakes, 10 - 15 mint leaves.

Cooking method: Grind dried fruits and nuts by passing them through a meat grinder or in a blender. Add honey to the nut-fruit mass and mix thoroughly. We collect the mixture with a tablespoon and form small balls. Roll each ball in coconut flakes and spread on a mint leaf.

Sea buckthorn jelly

It is necessary to grind fresh sea buckthorn berries, heat the berry mass to 70 degrees, add sugar and, stirring constantly, bring the sea buckthorn to a boil. For 1 liter of sea buckthorn mass, you will need 800 grams of sugar. When the puree boils, you can let the sea buckthorn boil and pour into molds. The most important thing in such a dessert is that you do not need to add gelatin! Everything will harden by itself and it will turn out even tastier.

For those who don't mind to tinker a little more and take different fruits:

You will need two large ripe pears, 200 g of dark chocolate, a glass of warm boiled water, 100 g of ice cream, four slices of fresh pineapple, four peaches.

Pears wash, dry, cut into two parts, remove the seeds from them. Pour 1 glass of water into a 3.5 liter double boiler, put cut pears into it, cover with a lid and cook for 10 minutes. To melt the chocolate, cut it into small pieces, put it in a metal bowl and place it over a saucepan of boiling water. Wash the peaches and cut in half, remove the pits. Cool the steamed pears, put on plates. Place a scoop of ice cream into the chilled pear halves and drizzle with melted chocolate. Garnish with peach halves and fresh pineapple wedges.

Dessert "Tutti-frutti"

You will need frozen strawberries, an apple, a Chinese pear, a banana, canned pineapple slices, walnuts. Peel the pear and apple, cut all the fruits and strawberries into pieces, leaving 2-3 berries to decorate the dessert. Break the nut kernels into pieces. Mix everything, pour sweet yogurt or whipped cream. Decorate with strawberries. The amount and ratio of fruits is up to your taste. Bananas add sweetness, Chinese pears add juiciness, strawberries and pineapple add aroma, apples add a pleasant sourness, and nuts add a savory taste.

There are other versions of the dessert with the same name.

Creamy Marshmallow Dessert

Ingredients: 1 kilogram of marshmallows, 2 oranges, 3-4 kiwis, 2 bananas, 1 incomplete glass of ground nuts, any jam of your choice, 2 packs of vanilla cream, grated chocolate or ground coffee or cocoa (for dessert decoration).

Cooking method: Pour the cream into a deep bowl (bowl or saucepan) and beat using a mixer or whisk for whipping. A dense thick mass is formed. Peel and cut into thin slices oranges, bananas and kiwi. Marshmallow cut neatly lengthwise. We spread part of the marshmallows on a tray or a large flat plate, on top - bananas, pour cream. Now again marshmallows, oranges and cream. And the third layer is also marshmallow, now kiwi and cream.

Then on top of the marshmallow and spread the jam that you have already prepared on it. And, finally, decorate the last layer of marshmallows with any chopped nuts and pour the remaining cream. Grate a little chocolate on a fine grater (you can replace it with cocoa powder or ground coffee). Now our dessert is ready, you need to hide it in the refrigerator for a day so that it is well soaked. The cream in this dessert can be replaced to your taste, for example: sour cream or yogurt (low fat). But then you will need to add some granulated sugar there.

Ingredients: 2 oranges, 1 apple, 50 g biscuits (shortbread), 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 egg.

Cooking method: Cut oranges in half. Carefully remove the core without damaging the skin. Better to do it with a spoon. Cut the pulp of an orange. Cut the apple into cubes. Break the cookies into pieces. Mix everything and fill the orange peel with this mass. Separate the protein from the yolk. Beat the yolk with sugar. Whip the protein into a stable foam. Gently mixing, combine the protein with the yolk. Spread the mixture on top of the fruit.

Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees until the egg mass seizes and slightly golden.

We turn traditional porridge into a delicious dessert.

Rice balls with cherries in lingonberry sauce

Ingredients: 1 cup long-grain rice, 100 g lingonberries, 100 g dried cherries, 4 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 0.5 tsp starch.

Cooking method: Boil rice, leave for 15 minutes. Dissolve sugar and lemon juice in 50 ml of hot water.
Pour into rice, stir. With wet hands, form small cakes, put a cherry on each and form balls.

Rub cranberries through a sieve. Add 2 tbsp. sugar, 150 ml of water, bring to a boil. Dissolve starch in a small amount of water, pour into syrup, bring to a boil again. Serve the balls with lingonberry sauce.

Berry risotto

(may be made using strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, or blueberries).

Ingredients: half a kilo of strawberries or other berries, 200 - 250 g of sugar, 200 g of round-grain rice, 6 - 7 glasses of milk, two tablespoons of melted butter, a teaspoon of odorless refined vegetable oil, cinnamon or vanilla to your taste.

Cooking method: Wash and dry strawberries or other berries. We set aside 2 - 3 things for decoration. Grind the rest of the berries in a blender. Add sugar to the berries, mix and put on a quiet fire (for about 10 - 15 minutes). We stir constantly. Milk should be heated, but not boiled. Add vanilla or cinnamon to it. Heat vegetable oil and ghee in a saucepan. Add rice and fry until rice becomes translucent. Pour rice with about 1 - 2 halves of warm milk, it should only slightly cover the cereal.

Stirring, cook over low heat until the rice has absorbed all the milk. Repeat the operation again until the milk runs out. When the risotto is almost ready, add the berry puree to it and mix well. Serve the berry risotto, garnished with whole berries.