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What to meet, what to cook on the table, how to decorate the house.

From childhood, a proverb familiar to all of us advises to prepare a sleigh in the summer, and a cart in the winter, that is, to take care of everything ahead of time. To make the New Year holidays a success, it is also worth thinking about how to celebrate them, what to serve on the table and what outfit to choose.

New Year 2017, the year of which animal

According to the Chinese Xia calendar, the New Year 2017 is Yin feminine, ruled by the Fire element and the zodiac animal Rooster. Thus, the new year 2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (Yin), and its characteristics are determined by the symbols under which it is controlled.

The rooster in Chinese mythology is a sign that is characterized by insight, organization, pedantry, responsibility, vigilance and exactingness. One of the most characteristic features of the Rooster is his conservatism and love of order. Therefore, in the year of the Fire Rooster, one should not expect revolutionary breakthroughs or global transformations. The Rooster will try to put things in order where the restless Monkey, the hostess of the previous year, made a mess.

For all its virtues, the Fire Rooster can be arrogant and arrogant, stubborn, picky, conceited and has a penchant for bravado. Therefore, the year 2017 of the Fire Rooster can be very successful for ambitious show projects and successful undertakings in the entertainment industry. But significant breakthroughs in the scientific field this year should not be expected, for this the conservative and arrogant Rooster does not have enough courage or patience.

The element of Fire in the new year 2017 will be softened by the nature of Yin, so all international contradictions of the previous period will have to be softened: the opposing forces will finally begin to seek compromises and try to reach an agreement. World systems (financial, economic, social and religious) will begin to order, strive for balance and balance.

The year 2017 of the Fire Rooster promises favorable conditions for the development of industries that are patronized by the element of Fire: the production of metal, electrical goods, show business, catering and the gas industry. Oil prices are forecast to rise and stabilize. But for the industries associated with the tree, the year will be unfavorable, since the Fire destroys the Tree. Problems may arise in the furniture industry, the paper industry, publishing and bookselling, crop production and construction.

The Fire Rooster does not promise in the new year 2017 disasters related to land or water: earthquakes, tsunamis, floods. But everything that is connected with fire can happen: volcanic eruptions, explosions or large fires.

In general, the new year 2017 is expected as a time of stabilization and ordering in the world, a time of attempts to reach an agreement, a time for people to realize responsibility for what they do both at the level of their personal destiny and at the level of their countries and continents.

New Year 2017, what to meet

It has already become a tradition in our country to choose an outfit for a New Year's party in accordance with the tastes of the zodiac animal - the owner of the coming year. And since the tradition has developed, then let's find out what is better to dress up in order to welcome the 2017 Year of the Fire Rooster.

The element of the new year 2017 is Fire, and this means that all shades of fiery color will be held in high esteem in holiday dresses, it is he who will set the tone for your image. In order to please the Rooster, it is not at all necessary to purchase or sew a bright scarlet dress. After all, if we look at the fire, we will see there a whole palette of colors from deep red to flashes of orange and yellow. So your party outfit can be made in any shade of red, yellow or orange, depending on which color suits you best. Red shades can be combined with emerald green, deep blue, rich brown or white.

At the New Year's party, any lady wants to shine, but do not forget about the pragmatism and vanity of the Rooster. Consider these features when choosing an outfit for the New Year 2017, and do not spend too much on new clothes - the prudent Rooster will not like it. It’s still not worth putting on, as the famous song says, “all the best at once”, it will be too much - they can start laughing at you, and the conceited Rooster does not like ridicule. What can be considered too much in a festive way? There will be a bust if you wear jewelry with a red dress, especially large ones. After all, a red dress in itself is an object that attracts everyone's attention, and jewelry will only make your image cheap and vulgar. A dress with too many decorative details, and even worn with shoes with a twelve-centimeter stiletto heel, also looks tasteless. Remember also that complex, high hairstyles instantly turn your look into "a la bust", in addition, they grow up a lot. Keep from excesses, try to dress in such a way that the outfit does not overshadow you, but only favorably emphasizes your dignity.

Astrologers advise in the new year 2017 of the Fire Rooster to avoid clothes with "cat" prints: spotted leopard and striped tiger, as the Rooster does not like the Cat too much. And do not wear silver for the holiday, gold or pearls would be the best choice. Well, and most importantly: in order not to look ridiculous, and this, as we remember, the Rooster does not like very much, choose a festive outfit in accordance with the venue of the party, the circle of guests and the degree of formality of the event. Agree, you will look funny at the festive table in the country dressed in a long silk dress on the floor! And a deep neckline or an extreme mini will be completely inappropriate in the company of colleagues or in a circle where representatives of the older generation are present, for example, the parents of your boyfriend or husband.

Men can also please the Fire Rooster by wearing a bright brown-red tie, gold cufflinks or a red-brown pullover for the holiday.

New Year 2017: what to cook? What should be on the table?

New Year's dinner is not just a feast, it should be special, because it is not for nothing that they say: "As you meet the year, so you will spend it." What to serve to the festive table for the New Year 2017?

When choosing a menu for a New Year's dinner, we will remember that the year of the Fire Rooster is coming, and the Rooster symbolizes housekeeping and prosperity in Chinese mythology - which means that a festive dinner should be hearty, but without frills and excessive frills. Preference should be given to simple dishes, it is best if it is traditional national cuisine. In order not to upset the Rooster, it is better to exclude chicken dishes from the festive menu, as well as refuse to use semi-finished products and not serve canned foods for dinner.

As appetizers, you can offer guests traditional salads for the Russian holiday table. If you want something original, then try serving a familiar traditional dish in a new form, for example, cook herring “under a fur coat” not in layers, but in the form of a roll. How decorate the salad for the new year 2017 see. In addition to salads, serve veal jelly or aspic fish on the table. Rolls of pancake dough with salmon or caviar, potato nests with meat or mushroom filling, tomatoes with mustard dressing, marinated fish or battered fish will perfectly complement the festive dinner. On the eve of the year of the Fire Rooster, it is better to serve grain bread to the table, and those housewives who would like to especially please the proud bird can prepare a salad with sprouted wheat, rye or lentils for a festive dinner.

For hot, you can cook fish, pork, beef or lamb. If you dream of surprising your guests and are ready to spend at least two hours just preparing the main course, then you can aim for a whole suckling pig baked in the oven with potatoes and cabbage, lamb with green beans or stuffed pike. And if you want to cook a delicious main course without spending too much time on it, then serve spicy veal with dried fruits, pork ribs in honey sauce, pike perch baked with vegetables or salmon in mustard sauce for a festive dinner. As a side dish for meat, you can serve baked potatoes, cabbage in tomato or sour cream sauce, stewed green beans or grilled vegetables. Fresh, baked or steamed vegetables, boiled or fried potatoes seasoned with parsley and celery, crumbly rice are good for fish as a side dish.

A festive dinner in honor of the advent of the 2017 Fire Rooster must certainly end with a homemade dessert. It can be fragrant homemade cookies cut out in the shape of stars, the most delicate chocolate roll with nuts or yogurt cake. If you want to serve a fruit dessert on the table, then keep it simple and unpretentious. It can be fruit salad, pears baked in wine, creme brulee from fresh strawberries or apples baked with honey in lingonberry sauce. As for drinks, the Rooster will highly appreciate the homemade fruit drinks and liqueurs served at the table.

New Year 2017 how to decorate the house

Interior design has a serious impact on the self-awareness and emotional state of a person, which is why, in order to create a festive mood, we strive to decorate our home, to add variety to the familiar environment.

The owner of the new 2017 Fire Rooster is a lover of order, he is pedantic and accurate in everything, therefore, before proceeding to decorate the interior, you should arrange a general cleaning in the house. Sort out things in closets and pantries - throw away the trash, and neatly arrange the remaining items using modern storage systems. Move the furniture away and remove the dust where it has been accumulating for months and until the “hands didn’t reach” - and only then get down to the festive interior design.

New Year 2017 of the Fire Rooster is best met with family and friends in a house decorated with rustic elements. Do you have an embroidered pillow, a patchwork quilt and towels trimmed with crocheted lace gathering dust somewhere in your closet? Great, that's what you need. Get out a linen tablecloth and napkins, wicker baskets, earthenware pots, a bag of scraps of fabric and a box of buttons - and start creating.

It is best to decorate the Christmas tree for the New Year 2017 in an eco-style - for this, we hang beautifully decorated fresh and candied fruits on the branches, cookies baked in the form of various figures, gingerbread, sweets, cinnamon sticks tied with red ribbons, gilded cones and nuts. And under the Christmas tree next to Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden we put a figurine of a rooster and a clay pot with germinated grain.

You can also decorate the Christmas tree for the celebration of the New Year 2017 with handmade toys. A Christmas tree decorated with figures cut out of felt will look great: it can be snowflakes, boots and mittens, snowmen, carnival masks, angels and much more, which is enough for your imagination. Well, if you are not ready for such experiments and want to decorate the Christmas tree quite traditionally, then give preference to toys and balls of red and golden hues, and make sure that there are no figures of predatory animals on the Christmas tree.

Complement the festive design with compositions of spruce paws and originally decorated bouquets of deadwood branches, and build a decorative nest in a conspicuous place. Put red apples, chocolate eggs wrapped in gold foil and coins to bring prosperity and good luck to your house in the coming year.

A table for a festive dinner can also be served using elements of rural life. This does not mean that guests should put wooden spoons and earthenware bowls. The rooster will be quite pleased if you lay a beautiful linen tablecloth, place candles in ceramic or wooden candlesticks on the table, and place the guests' utensils in original thin burlap envelopes.

Children born in the year of the Fire Rooster

According to Chinese astrologers, the character and fate of each person is initially predetermined by the time of his birth, and in order to know the fate, you need to calculate your personal binomial. This task is only possible for specialists in horoscopes, however, only one year of birth can already predict what personality traits a person will have, what abilities he will be gifted with and in what types of activities he will be most successful. What awaits children born in the year of the Fire Rooster?

The Rooster is perhaps the most controversial and extraordinary zodiac character in the Chinese horoscope. On the one hand, he demonstrates authority, straightforwardness, practicality and conservatism, a high degree of responsibility and organization up to pedantry. On the other hand, demonstrativeness, vanity, boastfulness and pickiness. Although Chinese astrologers find a fairly simple explanation for this: any positive quality in an exaggerated form begins to appear as a negative one. So, excessive organization and love for order lead to captiousness towards others, and the reverse side of authority is despotism and vanity.

Children born in the year of the Fire Rooster, depending on the month, day and hour of birth, can manifest themselves either as calm, somewhat closed, sedate, reasonable and prudent individuals, or as sociable, easy-going with well-developed intuition, but somewhat windy people . The former will be able to prove themselves and succeed in such professions that are associated with technology, as well as where perseverance, accuracy and scrupulousness are required. These are engineers, designers, IT-specialists, programmers and architects. The latter need to be given the opportunity to show their demonstrative nature and satisfy their need to be in the spotlight. Such children in the future will be best able to realize themselves in creative professions or sports. These are future talented actors, dancers, singers and directors, journalists and radio hosts, preachers, showmen and athletes. These children should be given the opportunity as early as possible to realize their desire to be the object of everyone's attention - depending on their inclinations, take them to a dance or sports school, to a circus or to a theater studio.

Children born in the year of the Fire Rooster really need praise in order to feel comfortable and confident. Parents of children born under the sign of the Rooster need to remember that their children are very touchy, hypersensitive to criticism, especially expressed in a tactless form, and it is very difficult for them to manage their anger. Therefore, adults should choose their words very carefully, criticizing the behavior of a baby born under the sign of the Rooster, not be afraid of violent manifestations of rage and teach the child to properly discharge his anger so as not to harm others.

Characteristics of the new year 2017 according to the Chinese horoscope

The Chinese horoscope, which determines each year "belongs" to a particular animal, was created more than four centuries ago. In China, the horoscope, based on the division of time into cycles and the attribution of certain characteristics to each cycle, was taken very seriously. So, the Chinese emperor did not make a single more or less major decision without checking the calendar and horoscope, and before marriage, with the help of personal horoscopes, it was found out whether the newlyweds would be compatible, and only then the decision was made about the wedding.

Already on the eve of the New Year, which means that many housewives are in for a painful preparation for the holiday, which both children and adults love so much. Why painful? Take, for example, the moment of inventing gifts for each family member, moreover, the gifts should be not only good, but also useful, so that they give joy for more than one day, or even a year.

Or - a myriad of time spent thinking over the New Year's menu. If you are also puzzled over the question " What to cook for the New Year 2017?”- our site will help you with this and the torment will turn into pleasure in the blink of an eye.

A special and always long-awaited winter holiday begins long before the magical night of December 31-January 1. Inspiring, touching and exciting preparation for the New Year is in itself the beginning of a real miracle, which in a special way brings together all family members. And one of the main tasks of preparing for the holiday, which falls on the fragile shoulders of the hostess, is preparing dishes for the New Year's table.

The rooster, the master of the coming year, loves everything bright and catchy, so dishes should be colorful. By nature, the Fire Rooster is a vegetarian, but you can’t do without meat dishes at all in the New Year, the main thing is that vegetables prevail on the table.

Pork mini-rolls with cheese and prunes

These amazing rolls will be distributed on the guests' plates in no time. Prunes give the meat amazing softness, and notes of salty cheese extraordinarily enliven the taste.

Required Ingredients:

• Pork neck - 1 kg
• Cheese - 200 g
• Prunes - 200 g
• Sour cream 25% - 250 g
• Olive oil - 1 tbsp. spoon
• Mustard with grains - 4 tbsp. spoons
• Dried basil - 2 teaspoons
• Salt pepper

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prunes should be soaked in warm water and left to swell.

Step 2 The meat should be washed and cut across the fibers (pieces should be 2 cm thick) and beat off with a kitchen hammer.

Step 3 Olive oil, mustard and sour cream must be mixed with salt, pepper and basil. This sauce should be smeared on each piece of meat on both sides.

Step 4 Dry the prunes with a paper towel and cut into small pieces.

Step 5 Cheese must be cut into medium-sized cubes.

Step 6 Chopped prunes and feta cheese should be laid out on ¼ piece of beaten meat and twisted into a roll. This should be done with all pieces of meat.

Step 7 All rolls should be laid out on a baking sheet and baked in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 40-60 minutes.

Salmon in white sauce with vegetables

This is a very light, low-calorie holiday that will appeal to everyone who follows the figure, but is not going to give up delicious food.

Required Ingredients:

• Salmon steak - 6 pcs.
• Cream - 100 g
• Natural white yogurt - 200 g
• Seasoning for fish - 1 tbsp. spoon
• Assorted vegetables (for example, peas, broccoli, carrots) - 300 g
• Lemon ¼ pc.
• Olive oil

Cooking process:

Step 1. Fish steaks should be washed and dried with paper towels, after which it is necessary to grease the fish with lemon juice and seasoning.

Step 2 Cream should be mixed with white yogurt.

Step 3 Line a baking sheet with foil and brush with olive oil. The steaks should be laid out on foil and poured with white sauce, and the mixed vegetables should be spread between the pieces of fish. Cover the top of the baking sheet with foil so that there are no gaps for air.

Step 4 Salmon steaks with vegetables should be baked in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes, and then you need to open the dish (remove the top layer of foil) and leave in the oven to bake for 10 minutes.

Eggplant stuffed with vegetables

Vegetables will look great on the New Year's table, and such a dish will definitely please the demanding Fire Rooster.

Required Ingredients:

• Eggplant - 3 pcs.
• Onion - 2 pcs.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves
• Grated hard cheese - for sprinkling
• Salt pepper
• Mayonnaise - for greasing
• Vegetable oil - for frying

Cooking process:

Step 1. Eggplants should be thoroughly washed, dried, cut off the stalks and cut each eggplant in half lengthwise. From each half, you need to remove the pulp with a spoon so that rather thick walls remain. Then the eggplant "plates" need to be lightly salted.

Step 2 Carrots and bell peppers should be cut into strips, onions - into half rings, and eggplant pulp - into pieces.

Step 3 All chopped vegetables must be fried in a pan with vegetable oil. Tomatoes should be cut into pieces and added to the vegetables in a pan and simmered all together to evaporate excess liquid. As soon as the vegetables are cooked, you should add the garlic, finely chopped or passed through the garlic, as well as salt and pepper.

Step 4 Vegetable filling should be filled with hollow eggplant halves, sprinkled with grated cheese and smeared with mayonnaise.

Step 5 Eggplants need to be laid on a greased baking sheet and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for half an hour.

New Year's Salad "Cracker"

"Hlopushka" will delight guests not only with its colorfulness, but also with an unforgettable taste.

Required Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 400-500 g
• White meat (chicken or turkey) - 200 g
• Fresh mushrooms - 200 g
• Walnuts - 100 g
• Eggs - 7 pcs.
• Pomegranate - 1 pc.
• Onion - 1 pc. medium size
• Mayonnaise - 250-300 g
• dill greens - for decoration
• canned corn - for decoration
• Beet juice - for garnish

Cooking process:

Step 1. Potatoes must be boiled in uniforms, then cooled and peeled. Peeled potatoes need to be grated on a fine grater, and then take a cling film and put the potatoes on it in a rectangle, tamp well, salt and grease with mayonnaise.

Step 2 Eggs should be hard-boiled, cooled, peeled and grated on a fine grater on top of the potatoes, slightly retreating from the edges so that the potatoes are slightly visible. A little grated yolk and, separately, protein should be left to decorate the salad.

Step 3 The meat must be boiled in salted water, cool and cut into small pieces.

Step 4 Mushrooms need to be cleaned and cut into small pieces and fried in a pan with finely chopped onions in a small amount of vegetable oil. After five minutes of frying, meat should be added to the mushrooms and kept on fire for another five minutes, salt and pepper to taste. The cooled meat-mushroom mass should be laid out on eggs and greased with mayonnaise.

Step 5 Nuts should be crushed to a state of large crumbs in a blender and sprinkled on meat with mushrooms, greased with mayonnaise.

Step 6 The pomegranate needs to be peeled and half of all the grains of the fruit sprinkled on top of the nuts.

Step 7 Then, carefully holding the edges of the film, it is necessary to roll the roll so that the cling film is not inside the cracker. Having rolled up the roll, you need to wrap it with foil and send the salad to the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours.

Step 8 After the set time has elapsed, the roll must be taken out and greased with mayonnaise on top.

Step 9 Part of the grated proteins should be set aside, and the rest of the proteins should be colored with beetroot juice. Then you can decorate the cracker as you wish, using pink and white squirrels, yolks, pomegranate seeds, corn, herbs, etc.

Salad "Crystal"

Salad "Crystal" looks so impressive that at the first glance at it, the guests can take away the gift of speech! But in the next minute they will vying to admire the skills of the hostess, and admire the beauty of the New Year's salad.

Required Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 5 pcs.
• Bulb onions
• Potatoes - 2-3 pcs. medium size
• Pickled cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise

For jelly:

• Gelatin - 3 packs of 10 g each (total - 30 g of gelatin)
• Broth in which chicken fillet was boiled
• peppercorns
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Bay leaf

Cooking process:

Step 1. First you need to cook the fillet in salted water with the addition of bay leaf, pepper and finely chopped garlic. When the chicken is cooked, you need to get it out of the broth, and strain the liquid itself.

Step 2 Pour gelatin into a saucepan or ladle, and then pour 150 ml of broth into it, mix thoroughly and leave for 10 minutes to swell. Then you need to put the container on the fire and heat it so that the gelatin is completely dissolved (you cannot bring it to a boil).

Step 3 Next, the gelatin must be filtered through a strainer and pour another 700 ml of chicken broth into it. After mixing thoroughly, you need to pour the jelly into cups or into wide dishes. The height of the jelly should be 1-1.2 cm. While the jelly is cooling in the refrigerator, you need to do the salad itself.

Step 4 The bottom of the salad bowl should be covered with cling film, and put the pre-cooked and diced potatoes in the first layer, grease with mayonnaise.

Step 5 Diced pickled cucumbers should be laid out in a second layer.

Step 6 Chicken fillet should be cut into cubes, put in a third layer and smeared with mayonnaise.

Step 7 Cooked and diced eggs should be laid out in the last layer and smeared with mayonnaise. The salad needs to be put in the refrigerator for a while.

Step 8 The mold with the already frozen jelly must be taken out and cut into squares of jelly.

Step 9 Now you need to carefully, using cling film, overturn the salad on a flat dish, remove the film and coat the top and edges with mayonnaise.

Step 10 Carefully, one at a time, you need to get the squares of jelly and spread them around the salad, starting from the bottom. You can decorate the finished salad to your taste.

Snack "Christmas Trees"

An appetizer in the form of green Christmas trees will look spectacular on the New Year's table. And to prepare such a dish is not difficult at all.

Required Ingredients:

• Curd cheese - 220 g
• Lavash - 1 pc.
• Bulgarian red pepper - 1-2 pcs.
• lettuce leaves
• Olives, chopped - ¼ cup (plus a few olives for garnish)
• Fresh basil, chopped - ¼ cup
• Parmesan cheese - ¼ cup

Cooking process:

Step 1. A cling film should be placed on the table, and washed and dried lettuce leaves should be placed on it.

Step 2. Lavash should be put on a green salad and cut into 4 equal parts along the length of the pita bread.

Step 3 Parmesan should be grated on a fine grater, finely chopped olives, and chop the basil and bell pepper.

Step 4 All chopped ingredients must be mixed with curd cheese, divided into 4 equal parts and laid out in an even layer on prepared pita bread.

Step 5 Now you need to carefully twist the rolls, but so that the cling film does not wrap inside. The resulting rolls should be squeezed with your fingers so that a triangular shape is obtained. Next, you need to place the rolls in the refrigerator to cool for 2 hours.

Step 6 After the allotted time, the rolls must be freed from the film, cut into not too wide portioned pieces and each pricked on a skewer at the base of the triangle, not forgetting to place a piece of olive at the base of each Christmas tree.

A variety of canapes look wonderful on the festive table. Moreover, you can make them absolutely for every taste - with fish, with meat, with ham, with sausage, vegetarian and fruit canapes, with cheese and salmon, with olives and boiled pork, etc.

With the approach of the holiday, the housewives are covered by a string of pleasant troubles. There is so much to do: clean up, decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the house, come up with outfits for New Year's parties, buy gifts and choose recipes and decide what to cook. All these matters are important and require maximum attention. To facilitate the preparation for the upcoming holiday, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the home menu for the New Year 2017. All recipes are carefully selected and the dishes prepared according to them will appeal to most people.

Menu for the New Year 2017: new and interesting recipes

“As you meet the New Year, so you will spend it” - this is how the folk saying goes, so I set the New Year's table generously and richly. The hosts strive to please the guests and feed them heartily, or if the holiday is held in the family circle, then traditional family treats are complemented by delicacies and gourmet dishes.

Fortunately, television and the Internet on the eve of the New Year and Christmas give a lot of useful tips and advice on preparing for the celebration. Hostesses can only choose what to cook from the proposed delicious options. The main selection criterion is new and interesting. It was on this principle that the proposed menu for the New Year 2017 was compiled. The coming year will be held under the auspices of the Red Fire Rooster. Given the nature of this character of the eastern calendar, more fresh vegetables and fruits, herbs, and cereals should be served on the table. These general recommendations do not answer the question of what to cook for the holiday, but the proposed menu for the New Year 2017 does.

Salad "Laura"

Complete your New Year's Eve 2017 menu with this simple and delicious salad made from fresh green produce and golden corn kernels, which will also become a colorful table decoration. This option is useful if you have not decided what to cook until the last moment.

Ingredients:

• fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.
• canned corn - 50 g
• lettuce leaves - 1 bunch
• any greens - 1 bunch
• mayonnaise and salt - to taste

Cooking:

Cut the cucumbers into strips, chop the greens and lettuce with your hands. Add the rest of the products and mix. Put in a salad bowl and decorate with bunches of herbs.

Salad "Beloved".

"Mimosa", "Herring under a fur coat" and "Olivier" are recipes loved by many. We offer to try the salad "Favorite". The combination of products is interesting and harmonious. The salad will fit perfectly into the main menu for the New Year 2017.

Products:

• tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.
• crab sticks or crab meat - 200 g
• hard cheese -50 g
• boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
• greens, mayonnaise, salt - to taste

Dice tomatoes and crab sticks or crab meat. Grate cheese and boiled eggs or also cut into cubes. Season everything with mayonnaise and salt, put in a salad bowl and garnish with herbs. Serve chilled.

Salad with chicken "Diana".

A chicken from Diana salad will make a couple of the Rooster - the symbol of the coming year. Chicken salad recipes make it easy to choose what to cook for a New Year's feast.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 200 g
• bell pepper, onion - 1 pc.
• fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• greens, lettuce - to taste
• dressing: vegetable oil and salt - to taste

Lightly beat off the fillet and salt, fry in vegetable oil. Cut it and vegetables into cubes, chop the greens with your hands. Mix everything, seasoning to taste with oil and salt.

Salad with mushrooms "Sytny".

Photo: Salad "Sytny" for the New Year 2017

Be sure to include hearty salad recipes in the menu for the New Year 2017! An interesting combination of ingredients, if they do not create a new dish, then at least make it really satisfying and tasty.

Products:

• boiled meat - 200 g
• champignons - 200 g
• Chinese cabbage - 100 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• egg - 2-3 pcs.
• mayonnaise or sour cream - 4 tbsp. l.
• water - 1 tbsp.
• curry seasoning - 1 tbsp. l.
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• salt - to taste

Onion and mushrooms cut into slices are fried in vegetable oil. An omelet is prepared with eggs, water and spices. It needs to be browned on both sides. You can divide the portion of the mixture into several pancakes. The cooled omelet is cut into noodles. Any boiled or smoked meat, or ham is cut into cubes. The cabbage is finely chopped. All products are dressed with sauce with sour cream or mayonnaise and salt.

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Salad "Shopsky".

Photo: Salad "Shopsky" for the New Year 2017

The menu for the New Year 2017 can be varied with a Bulgarian salad or another dish of this cuisine, the recipes of which are simple and original.

Ingredients:

• fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• tomato - 1 pc.
• bell pepper - 1 pc.
• onion - 1 pc.
• olives - 10 pcs.
• cheese - 100 g
• lemon juice and wine vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
• olive oil - 3 tbsp. l.
• greens - 1 bunch
• salt - to taste

Cut vegetables into cubes, onions into half rings. Grate the cheese. Mix all the vegetables, half of the grated cheese and chopped herbs, season with olive oil, wine vinegar or lemon juice, salt. Mix and put on a dish. Decorate the finished salad with olives and the rest of the grated cheese.

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Fruit salad "Exotic".

A fruit salad will fit well into the festive menu for the New Year 2017. A beautifully decorated dish has every chance of becoming a full-fledged replacement for traditional fruit cuts.

Products:

• apple - 1 pc.
• banana - 1 pc.
• mango - 1 pc.
• cold mint - 1 bunch
• fruit yogurt - to taste
• lemon juice - to taste

In an apple, remove the core, do not peel the peel. Cut it into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice so that it does not darken. The rest of the fruit is also cut into cubes. Top with your favorite yogurt. This salad looks beautiful in transparent bowls and vases, or you can arrange it in small portions in glasses or glasses. Serve chilled and garnished with sprigs or cold mint leaves.

Photo: Vegetarian Caesar salad.

A new and interesting addition to traditional holiday dishes is the vegetarian version of the popular Caesar salad.

Ingredients:

• iceberg lettuce - 1 bunch
• tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.
• Adyghe cheese - 100g
• crackers - 1 handful
• ground coriander - half a teaspoon

For sauce:

• heavy cream - 100 g
• olive oil - 4 tbsp. l.
• starch - 1 tsp. l.
• juice of half a lemon
• nori sheets - 2 pcs.
• spices 1 tsp each:
• ground shamballa,
• rosemary,
• Provencal herbs,
• asafoetida.
• salt and pepper - to taste

Heat cream, olive oil and starch in a saucepan, add all the spices. When the mixture begins to thicken, add the juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper and finely chopped nori sheets. Mix all products thoroughly with a blender.

Cut white bread into cubes and dry in a dry frying pan. Cut the Adyghe cheese into cubes and fry until browned in butter, sprinkle with coriander.

Tear lettuce leaves with your hands. Cut the tomatoes into cubes or in half if using cherry tomatoes. Vegetables and fried cheese are seasoned with sauce and everything is mixed. Before serving, croutons are added and the salad is sprinkled with grated parmesan.

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The new performance of "Olivier" will definitely surprise the guests. And when, if not in the New Year, try something interesting and unusual?!

Products:

• zucchini - half 1 pc.
• avocado - 1 pc.
• cucumber - 1 pc.
• carrots - 1 pc.
• onion - 1 pc.
• frozen green peas - 1 handful
• greens - 1 bunch
• salt - to taste

For sauce:

• cashew - 1 tbsp.
• garlic - half a clove
• lemon juice - 1 tsp
• ground ginger - half tsp
• salt - to taste
• water - half a glass + as needed

Soak cashew nuts overnight. Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a container and beat with a blender. If necessary, the mixture can be diluted to the desired consistency by adding more water.

Only raw vegetables are used. Cut them all into cubes, salt, season with raw mayonnaise and mix.

New and interesting snacks for the New Year 2017: Recipes.

Photo: Cucumber rolls "Philadelphia"

The rooster is a symbol of the Eastern calendar. Therefore, in the menu for the New Year 2017, you can include a dish in an oriental style. For example, a culinary variation on the roll theme.

Ingredients:

• fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• salted trout - 200 g
• Philadelphia cheese - 1 pack
• red caviar - for decoration

Cucumbers cut into longitudinal thin plates. Also share the fish. Put a piece of trout on a slice of cucumber, spread with cheese. Roll the prepared products into rolls and secure with skewers. Decorate the dish with red caviar.

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Snack "Scorched Eggplant".

Recipes for blue appetizers are very diverse and dishes according to them are appropriate on the festive table. All guests will want to try eggplant cooked in an unusual way!

Products:

• fresh blue ones - 4 pcs.
• tomatoes - 4 pcs.
• garlic - 4 cloves
• onion - 1 pc.
• cilantro - 1 bunch
• vinegar - 3 tbsp. l.
• olive oil - 4 tbsp. l.
• salt and pepper - to taste

Roast whole eggplant over an open fire until the skin turns black. It is convenient to do this on a gas burner by placing a grill grate on it. When the blue ones have cooled, cut them lengthwise and take out the pulp with a spoon. Remove the skin from the tomato, then chop the crayons. Mix them with eggplant pulp and thinly sliced ​​onion, add chopped garlic and cilantro. Season everything with vinegar and oil, salt and pepper. Let the snack marinate for about an hour. Serve in tartlets, on toast or just in a salad bowl.

A simple tasty snack according to a simple recipe will make it easier for a young hostess to choose what to cook for the New Year's table.

Products:

• onions - 2 pcs.
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• sour cream - 100 g
• flour - 100 g
• salt - to taste

Cut the onion into rings half a centimeter wide. Pour boiling water over and dry. Prepare a batter from eggs, sour cream and flour, salt it. The mixture should be the consistency of pancake batter. Dip onion rings in batter and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Lay out on paper towels to remove excess oil.

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Chickpea meatballs "Falafel".

A new and interesting dish "Falafel" is prepared from non-traditional, but affordable products for our country.

Ingredients:

• chickpeas - 250 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2-3 cloves
• bulgur - 3 tbsp. l.
• flour - 3 tbsp. l.
• parsley - 1 bunch
• ground spices to taste: zira, coriander, cardamom, curry, red and black pepper, salt

Soak chickpeas for 12 hours, bulgur for 10 minutes. Blend chickpeas, bulgur, chopped onion and garlic, greens. Salt the mixture and add seasonings. Make balls from it and fry them in vegetable oil for 3-4 minutes until brown. Place meatballs on paper towels to remove excess oil.

Photo: Georgian appetizer "Mushrooms with tarragon".

Recipes of Georgian cuisine attract with spicy seasonings and spicy dressings - this is what you need in the year of the Fire Rooster.

Products:

• fresh champignons - 300 g
• onion - 100 g
• tarragon - 60 g
• cilantro - 30 g
• parsley - 30 g
• vegetable and butter 15 g each
• salt, zira, cumin, ground black pepper - to taste

Blanch mushrooms in boiling water with salt, bay leaf, peppercorns and tarragon stalks. Cut the cooled champignons in half and fry in vegetable oil. Fry the diced onion in butter. Add mushrooms, all finely chopped greens to the browned onions: parsley, cilantro, tarragon leaves. Salt and season the mixture with spices, simmer for 10-15 minutes.

Vegetarian pizza.

A snack cake or pie is one of the main dishes for any holiday, and especially on the menu for the New Year 2017. Prepare a vegetable pizza that even meat lovers will enjoy!

Ingredients:

for the base:

• wheat flour - 2.5 tbsp.
• baking powder - 1 tsp.
• vegetable oil - 50 g
• soy milk or water 0.7 tbsp.

for the sauce:

• tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
• tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• paprika - 1 tsp

for the filling, take all the products to taste:

• mushrooms
• tomatoes
• olives

To prepare the base for pizza, you need to knead the elastic dough and roll it out. The cake is placed for 5 minutes in the oven, heated to 200 degrees.

In a blender, mix the skinless tomatoes, tomato paste and paprika. Spread the dried base with this sauce and put the filling on it. Bake pizza for 20 minutes.

Raw barbecue.

Vegetable kebab with colorful products is a table decoration and a new dish in the family diet. Experiment on New Year's Eve of the Rooster.

Ingredients:

• zucchini
• Champignon
• bell pepper
• tomatoes

Raw barbecue marinade ingredients:

• half a lemon
• half an onion
• half a bunch of basil
• 2 cloves of garlic
• vegetable oil - 70 g
• water - 50 ml
• salt - to taste

Grind half a lemon, peeled and pitted, with the addition of oil and water with a blender. Add to this mixture finely chopped onion, garlic and herbs, salt. Let it brew for half an hour.

Cut vegetables into circles, cubes or in another way. Dip each piece in the marinade and put on a skewer. Dry the strung kebab for 3 hours in a dryer at a temperature of 40 degrees. Before serving, you can additionally sprinkle the vegetables with the remaining marinade.

New and interesting hot dishes for the New Year 2017: Recipes.

Hot dishes:

Azu in Tatar.

Any new dish in the festive meal most often comes from the national cuisines of other countries. For example, Tatar cuisine is very similar to the cuisines of the Slavic peoples, but has an oriental flavor.

Ingredients:

• beef - 0.5 kg
• potatoes - 1 kg
• onion - 5 pcs.
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• broth - 1 tbsp.
• tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
• garlic - 3 cloves

Cut the meat into strips and fry in vegetable oil in a cauldron. Add the onion, cut into half rings, to the meat and fry it. Finely chop or grate the cucumbers and add to the meat and onions together with the tomato paste. Pour the broth and water into the cauldron and simmer under a closed lid until the meat is cooked. Cut the potatoes into strips and fry in a separate pan in vegetable oil. Add almost ready potatoes to the rest of the products and bring them all to readiness. Salt everything, season with pepper and bay leaf, chopped garlic.

Photo: Chicken "Picasso" for the New Year 2017.

Picasso chicken and other poultry recipes keep the theme of the coming Year of the Red Rooster on the New Year's Day 2017 menu.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 4 pcs.
• tomatoes - 4 pcs.
• sweet pepper - 3 pcs.
• onion - 2 pcs.
• cheese - 100 g
• garlic - a couple of cloves
• bouillon cube - 1 pc.
• water - 0.5 tbsp.
• cream - 0.5 tbsp.
• olive oil and butter - 2 tbsp. l.
• Italian herbs - 1 tsp
• salt, pepper - to taste

Salt the fillet, pepper and fry until golden brown in a mixture of olive oil and butter. Transfer the breasts to a baking dish. Fry the onion in half rings in the same oil and add to the meat. Fry the pepper cut into rings and also shift into a mold. Prepare sauce with tomato, garlic, water, cream and seasonings. Boil it for 5 minutes, ready to pour meat with vegetables. Close the mold with foil and bake for half an hour at a temperature of 200 degrees. Then remove the foil and sprinkle with grated cheese. Put the dish back in the oven for 15 minutes to melt the cheese.

Chinese rice for New Year 2017.

If you have not yet decided what to cook from side dishes for a festive feast, then we suggest trying an interesting delicate combination of rice and eggs with herbs. Perhaps this new dish will complement your menu for the New Year 2017.

Products:

• long grain rice - 150 g
• green peas - 125 g
• eggs - 3 pcs.
• green onions - 1 bunch
• garlic - 2 cloves
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.
• salt - to taste

Cook the rice until half cooked for 12 minutes, then rinse it with cold water. Heat oil in a large frying pan. Boil the peas. Fry garlic, onion, peas. Pour rice into the pan, add eggs, soy sauce and salt. Bring the eggs to readiness and serve, decorating with herbs.

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Pasta with salmon.

Can't decide what to cook: traditional mashed potatoes or baked potatoes? We offer to surprise everyone with a simple dish of Italian cuisine. A new and interesting combination of products will appeal to gourmet guests.

Ingredients:

• salmon - 200 g
• pasta - 200 g
• heavy cream - 150 ml
• olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
• butter - 40 g
• garlic - 3 cloves
• greens - 1 bunch

Boil pasta, add olive oil. Cut the salmon into large pieces and fry in butter for 10 minutes. Pour the cream over the fish, bring to a boil and cook for a few minutes. Add chopped garlic and herbs to this mixture. Combine pasta and sauce. Serve warm, topped with grated cheese.

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Vegetable stew with cauliflower.

Vegetable stew recipes are considered everyday, but we still recommend preparing this dish for the holiday. This option will greatly facilitate the choice for young housewives of what to cook for the New Year's feast.

Products:

• cauliflower - 1 kg
• zucchini - 1 pc.
• sweet pepper - 700 g
• tomatoes - 500 g
• onions and carrots - 200 g each
• herbs, spices, salt - to taste

Fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots in vegetable oil. Zucchini cut into cubes, pepper strips and cabbage sorted into inflorescences, add to the fried onions and carrots. Simmer all vegetables for about 10 minutes under the lid. Then add chopped peeled tomatoes, spices and salt. Continue simmering until done. Decorate with herbs before serving.

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Buffalo wings.

Meeting the year of the Fire Rooster, you can serve a themed hot dish - wings in a spicy sauce. It can become the main one in your menu option for the New Year 2017. Many people will like an interesting combination of hot sauce and tender cheese.

Ingredients:

• chicken wings - 12 pcs.
• peanut butter - 1 l
• margarine - 100 g
• blue cheese - 100 g
• mayonnaise - 200 g
• celery - 2 stalks
• Tabasco sauce and salt to taste

Fry the wings in vegetable oil until cooked and a beautiful brown color. Re-fry the meat in margarine and hot sauce for a minute. Grate cheese and mix with mayonnaise. Serve wings with cheese-mayonnaise sauce and celery sticks.

Vegetarian sauté with green beans and mushrooms.

Vegetarian recipes offer many variations on traditional dishes. The menu for the New Year 2017 can be supplemented with one of them, especially if you have not yet decided what to cook and what interesting and new dish to choose.

Products:

• frozen green beans - 500 g
• mushrooms - 400 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• vegetable broth - 0.5 tbsp.

Simmer bean pods in vegetable broth over high heat for 5 minutes. Reduce the heat and add onions in half rings and mushrooms in slices, oil and salt and spices to taste. Bring all ingredients to readiness.

Conclusion.

In the menu for the New Year 2017, you can beat the image of the main symbol of the upcoming holiday - the Red Rooster. Fresh vegetables and fruits, grains and chicken will be appropriate. Traditional recipes can be adapted for the holiday, for example, by decorating themed dishes.

A festive table on New Year's Eve can be an occasion to start healthy gastronomic habits. For example, a few vegetarian or raw food dishes will bring a new twist to the family's usual diet. Guests will also appreciate these recipes.

Let the New Year bring you happiness and joy, and let the souvenirs symbolizing the Rooster bring good luck!

Reasonable and, under whose patronage 2017 will pass, prefers simple and natural food, but saturated with bright colors and taste. Therefore, approaching the issue of what to cook for the New Year 2017, housewives must take into account the tastes of the feathered one in order to win his favor and bring happiness to the house.

The editors will help you create the “correct” menu for the New Year 2017 in order to appease and bribe the Fire Rooster, and tell you what you can and cannot cook on the New Year’s table so as not to anger the sacred creature with a quick temper.

What to cook in the Year of the Rooster?

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New Year's traditions dictate their own rules from year to year, the invariable of which is that the table should burst with gourmet dishes in combination with the "main attributes" of the holiday - Olivier salad, herring under a fur coat and aspic. But the New Year's table for the New Year 2017 has its own exceptional features. As it turned out, the Fire Rooster does not welcome the "classics", but loves everything new, extraordinary and original, and in portions.

What to cook for the New Year 2017 to satisfy the tastes and preferences of the Fire Rooster? Experts recommend, first of all, to study in detail what cannot be cooked for the New Year 2017.

Taboos in the New Year's menu are:

• Chicken in all its manifestations. You can easily replace the chicken, for example, with a turkey.
• Whole chicken eggs - the Rooster will “peck” for such a treat. In this case, use the eggs in a "hidden" form. in salads and pastries, it is permissible.
• Exotic products - the owner of the New Year 2017 loves exclusively natural and simple food, so he will not be happy with "overseas" delicacies.
• Strong alcohol - do not forget, the Red Fire Rooster is a violent and quick-tempered creature, therefore, from “adult” drinks, it is better for him to serve light and original cocktails, rather than whiskey and brandy.

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What can you cook for the New Year 2017? Don't worry, there will be no difficulties with the correct menu for the Fire Rooster. On the New Year's table on the night of December 31 to January 1, the following must be present:

• Lots of fresh vegetables and fruits.
• Fish and seafood.
• Grains and legumes.
• Sweet and salty pastries, delicate desserts.
• Meat products - it can be hot dishes, cuts, and hearty salads.

Original recipes for the New Year 2017

Recipes for the New Year 2017

Solving the problem of what to cook for the New Year 2017 will help salads and snacks, which will become the main "decoration" of the New Year's table, as they can be decorated in bright and rich colors that the feathered one loves. Leading chefs recommend showing all your imagination and creativity in these dishes. The Rooster is especially fond of a variety of canapes, snacks in tartlets and salad cocktails.

Snack "Motley Rooster"

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These original balls will take their rightful place in the menu for the New Year-2017, as they do not contain "forbidden" products and shimmer with bright colors, which impresses the Rooster very much.

Ingredients:

• 300 g cod fillet
• 300 g potatoes
• 300 g hard cheese
• 2 fresh cucumbers
• 2 bell peppers (red and yellow)
• mayonnaise
• dill and green onions

Cooking: Boil the cod until tender in salted water and mash with a fork. Prepare mashed potatoes. Hard cheese and cucumber - grate. Combine all components into a homogeneous mass and roll balls of the same size out of it. After that, finely chop the greens and bell pepper, which will become a bright “clothing” for the snack. Roll each fish ball in the prepared ingredients, beautifully put on a dish and serve to the festive table.

Salad "Fiery Cockerel" in cheese baskets

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Such a salad is quite easy to prepare for the New Year of the Fire Rooster. It will become a real decoration of the table due to its unusual presentation. It will be highly appreciated even by the most demanding gourmets, including the economical Rooster - the dish combines simplicity and "budget", but it tastes like a culinary masterpiece.

Ingredients:

• 500 g hard cheese
• 200 g ham
• 200 g fresh mushrooms
• 2 cucumbers
• 2 bell peppers
• olives
• mayonnaise

Cooking: grate hard cheese and fry blanks for baskets from it in a dry frying pan - to do this, lay out a small amount of cheese, give the mass a rounded shape and wait until it melts. Transfer the slightly cooled shortbread to a glass upside down and form beautiful shuttlecocks out of it, then remove the basket and set aside until it cools completely. Spread the salad in cheese baskets in layers - fried mushrooms, chopped ham, chopped cucumber, mayonnaise. Put bell pepper and greens cut into beautiful plates on top of it.

"Fish Feast"

Juicy salmon with a crispy nut crust will be a real find for housewives when compiling the New Year's menu, thinking about what to cook for the New Year 2017. The “favorite” product of the Fire Rooster in this recipe is prepared to the point of banality, but the result is incredibly tasty.

Ingredients:

• 500 g salmon fillet
• butter - 100g
• honey, mustard 1 tbsp.
• nuts (cashews are best)
• breadcrumbs
• greenery
• lemon

Cooking: Divide the fish into portions and place on a greased baking sheet. Top with sauce, for which melted butter should be combined with honey and mustard. Then sprinkle each piece of fish generously with breadcrumbs and chopped nuts. Bake in the oven for about half an hour at medium temperature (~190 degrees). Garnish with lemon wedges when serving.

"Magic" dessert for the New Year-2017

New Year's menu in the year of the Fire Rooster must include a variety of desserts and sweet treats. And although a quiet tea party is not combined with the New Year's scenario, one cannot do without "sweets" on the festive table. The proposed "magic" dessert will be an excellent addition to exquisite New Year's dishes, but at the same time it will not cause unnecessary trouble for the hostess.

Ingredients:

• baked milk biscuits - 200g
• tangerines
• canned peaches
• sour cream - 200 g
• cream thickener
• powdered sugar
• coconut flakes

Cooking: first you need to prepare sour cream - for this you need to beat sour cream with powdered sugar and cream thickener. After that, put crushed cookies on the bottom in large dessert glasses and cover it with a plentiful layer of sour cream. The next layer in the New Year's dessert is tangerine divided into slices, then sour cream. The delicacy is decorated with canned peach and coconut flakes cut into beautiful slices. Before serving, the dessert should be cooled for half an hour.

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Still in doubt about what to cook for the New Year 2017, and confused in the endless choice of New Year's recipes? There is only one way out - boldly depart from traditions, stock up on imagination and inspiration, and then proceed to the culinary process. And then your New Year's table will become truly magical and memorable.

Happy New Year to you!

As everyone already knows, the upcoming 2019 will be held under the sign of the Yellow Earth Pig. And therefore, according to the already established tradition, we began to take this fact into account when preparing for the solemn day.

We are trying to find out better what to expect from the coming period. We read horoscopes, we try to figure out how the Symbol of the next 365 days can affect our lives. And of course, we are first of all preparing for the celebration, taking into account what the Master of the Year loves! To appease him, and to help him make the next segment of life successful for us in every way!

And for this we select for ourselves the appropriate festive attire. We buy necessary and beautiful gifts for friends and relatives, and of course we set a beautiful festive table.

And there is not a single hostess or host who would not ask himself the question “What to cook for the festive table?” After all, this question is by no means rhetorical. All of us on December 30, 31 will put on aprons and settle down in our kitchen for a long time. After all, you need to have time to cook appetizers, and salads, and main dishes, and desserts.

And in order not to forget anything, and not to cook anything superfluous, you need to make a menu in advance. It will help you plan what you need to buy. What can be stored for a long time, buy in advance, and buy perishable products the day before.

When compiling the menu for the Year of the Yellow Pig, some features must be taken into account. Let's look at the wishes for the holiday menu.

• Firstly, Pig is omnivorous, which means we will cook completely different and delicious dishes.
• secondly, the Boar is not against different types of meat, and he will be happy with beef, lamb, chicken, fish and seafood. Do not forget that pork in any form is not served this evening.
• thirdly, the image of the Master of the Year in the design of dishes will be very useful.
• fourthly, the bright, colorful design of the dishes will please Piggy. Who will refuse when such a holiday is arranged in his honor.
• fifthly, dishes should be homemade, tasty and cooked with love. It is always more pleasant to deal with a domestic calm Boar than with a hungry furious boar.
• sixth, do not abuse strong drinks. And then by chance you can fall asleep at the table, burying your face in a salad. And then everyone will not be the best way to compare you with a Pig !!!

However, you can spend the outgoing year with dignity. To say thank you to the owner of the passed segment of life is to thank the Yellow Dog for all the good that she has done for us. Therefore, you can spend it by making a small salad with her image.

Here are the main wishes for the menu. If you manage to comply with them, then it will be just great! The Boar and the Pig will not leave this unattended. They will understand that this respect and respect we render to them.

Well, it's good for us too. We also want our festive table to be beautiful, and tasty "home-style" is covered. Therefore, in this our desires coincide with him!

Let me offer you options for dishes from which you can create an excellent menu for your table without much hassle and long searches.

The menu, as expected, includes snacks, salads (moreover, pay attention to the link that will lead you to the most beloved and most sought after - there are a lot of them!).

The main dishes are presented with recipes of tasty and beautiful meat, fish, duck.

I also paid a lot of attention to desserts and drinks. After all, we are preparing for a real big holiday. Therefore, you need to think about everything!

On the festive table, we usually prepare several different options for snacks, put out meat, fish and vegetable plates, prepare two or three salads, one main hot dish and dessert, it can be a cake, mousse, jelly, soufflé. Pies are often baked, dumplings are molded and boiled. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, strong drinks are also served on the table.

Of course, all the dishes in one article cannot be covered, but let's look at at least some of them, the most delicious and beautiful.

Profiteroles with cream cheese and salmon

We will need:

• creamy curd cheese - 300 gr
• cream 35% -50 ml
• slightly salted salmon - 300 gr
• red caviar - for decoration
• dill - bunch
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Profiteroles can be baked in advance, or you can buy ready-made ones.

2. Cream cheese can be used with Hohland or Almette brands. Beat cheese with curd. Add chopped dill, leave a little for decoration, salt and pepper to taste. Beat until smooth.

3. Cut off the tops of the profiteroles. Using a pastry bag, fill them with the resulting mixture.

4. Slice the salmon thinly (you can also use salmon) and roll into a rose shape.

5. Decorate the appetizer with red fish, red caviar and herbs.

It turns out a beautiful, tasty and quick appetizer that will certainly appeal to your guests.

The same appetizer can be prepared using tartlets. And instead of red fish, they can be decorated with boiled shrimp.

Shells with red and black caviar

We will need:

• black caviar - 0.5 cans
• red caviar - 0.5 cans
• large shells - 100-150 gr
• cucumbers, tomatoes, greens - for decoration

Caviar is always welcome on any festive table. And therefore it is desirable to have it in some dishes. And here is one of the options. But instead of the usual laying it out on a piece of loaf, you can improvise a little and serve caviar in this form.

Since everything is clear here and without words, we will not describe the whole process. Well, it’s clear to everyone that the shells must first be boiled and then cooled.

Julienne with meat and mushrooms

Well, what is a winter holiday without julienne. The classic version involves cooking it with chicken fillet, but we can also cook it with meat.

We will need:

• boiled meat - 500-700 gr.
• fresh mushrooms - 250 gr. (or other mushrooms)
  
• onion - 2-3 pcs.
• hard cheese - 150-200 gr.
• butter - 2 tbsp. l.
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. spoon

You can choose any of the recipes to your taste. Both of them are tasty and beautiful, so you can safely cook one and the other. The recipes are proven and they will not let you down.

Cottage cheese and cheese paste "Snowman"

How can December and January be complete without your favorite winter characters? Therefore, we are preparing a delicious snack "Snowman". This option will not leave indifferent neither adults nor children!

We will need:

• cottage cheese - 150 gr
• processed cheese - 1 pc.
• boiled eggs - 3 pcs
• butter - 50 gr (2.5 tablespoons)
• mayonnaise - 2 teaspoons
• walnuts - 1 tbsp. spoon
• french fries, black bread, dry biscuits and bell peppers - for decoration
• garlic - 1 pc.
• dill - for decoration
• salt - to taste

Cooking:

1. Boil eggs and cool. Separate whites from yolks.

2. Grate the yolks and one third of the processed cheese chilled in the freezer on a fine grater. Grind the nuts with a mixer. Add mayonnaise and mix.

3. Moisten your hands in water and form balls from the yolk mass.

4. Grind the cottage cheese and the remaining cheese through a sieve, add chopped garlic, butter. Salt to taste and stir.

5. Cover the yolks with curd mass and form a snowman.

6. Rub the squirrels on a fine grater. They can additionally stick around a snowman, or you can put it on a plate, making impromptu snow out of it.

7. Cut out hats from black bread. From vegetables - eyes and mouth. Fry french fries and make pens. Decorate. Put on a circle of cookies.

You can also decorate a snowman with boiled carrots. A bucket hat can be cut out of it, as well as a nose. From dill you can make twigs.

How to decorate meat, fish and vegetable plates beautifully

The next topic is the design of meat, fish and vegetable plates. Of course, every housewife has experience in decorating such plates. But you can peep some ideas from others.

Here's an example of how you can arrange a fish plate.

What do you think of meat plates?

A vegetable platter would also come in handy. With it, the table always becomes especially bright and festive, as well as creating a festive mood.

Okay, this is what we did. Let's move on to salads.

But not all fish bake. Many people like to cook fried fish for the festive table.

Fish in batter "Delightful"

This fish can be served both hot and cold. And believe me, despite the abundance of dishes and snacks, such a fish will fly apart just once or twice.

We will need:

• fish (any) - 1 kg
• lemon - 1 pc.
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - for frying

For test:

• light beer - 1 glass
• egg - 1 pc.
• sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon

Cooking:

1. Separate the fish from the bones or use a ready-made fish fillet. Drizzle with lemon juice, salt and pepper. Leave to marinate for 30 minutes.

2. Prepare the dough. Mix beer, egg, sour cream. Slowly add flour, stirring the contents. The dough should be quite thick and should not drip when you dip the fish in it.

3. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the fish in batter.

The dish has its name for a reason. The fish is truly amazing. And it's really easy to prepare!

This batter recipe is based on beer, but is on separately whipped whites and yolks. There is also a video on how to make it.

Well, a lot of recipes have already been written, it's time to move on to desserts. Throughout the year, we collected various desserts on the pages of the blog, cooked according to them, and ate with great pleasure. Let's repeat some of them, especially since they are world famous and loved.

Fruit and berry jelly cake without baking "Winter Snowdrift"

A delicious cake, which, despite the abundance of delicious food on a magical winter night, will not go unnoticed.

Berries and fruits can be used according to the season, whatever you want!

We will need:

• banana - 1 pc
• kiwi - 1 pc.
• peaches - 2 pcs
• apricots - 5-6 pcs
• strawberries - 0.5 tbsp
• raspberries - 0.5 tbsp
• sour cream - 0.5 l
• gelatin - 3 tbsp. spoons (30 gr)
• sugar - 1 cup
• biscuit -250-300 gr

The preparation of such a cake can not be called difficult. It is prepared with great pleasure, however, as it is eaten. That is why you want to cook such a cake again and again.

The only difficulty is that you have to wait all night for it to freeze. And when he stands in the refrigerator and teases with his appearance, it is simply impossible to endure! So I want to try it as soon as possible. The difficulty of preparing such a cake before the holiday may lie in the fact that it may simply not lie before the magical winter night. Especially in those families who have already prepared it.

The cake is delicious and light at the same time. White and just right for a winter holiday. That is why he received such a name - "Winter Snowdrift". We put a big bold checkmark next to this recipe. And those who want to put such a tick, go to the page with the recipe, it's called

Dessert Eaton Mess with berries and cream

We will need (for 6 servings):

• cream (33%) - 750 ml.
• raspberries or strawberries - 300-400 gr
• soufflé (or meringue) 200 gr
• mint for decoration
• redcurrant - for decoration

This dessert will take the most worthy place on your holiday table!

Dessert "Sweet tree"

We will need:

• butter - 250 gr
• powdered sugar - 500 gr
• milk - 5-8 tbsp. spoons
• vanilla - on the tip of a knife
• salt - a pinch
• green food coloring

For cupcakes (22-24 pieces):

• flour - 3 cups
• water - 2 glasses
• sugar - 1.5-2 cups
• cocoa - 6 tbsp. spoons
• vegetable oil -3-4 tbsp. spoons
• vinegar - 1.5-2 tbsp. spoons
• soda -2 tsp
• salt - 1 teaspoon
• vanilla sugar - 2 teaspoons

Stuffing, decoration:

• strawberry
• M&Mdens dragee packaging

Cooking:

1. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes soft. Beat it with a mixer into a thick white mass. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, food coloring and beat everything until smooth.

2. Add milk, first 5 tablespoons, beat, and gradually add more to achieve the desired cream consistency. Beat the finished mass for 5 - 7 minutes.

3. For cupcakes, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, soda, salt and vanilla sugar. Sift through a sieve, preferably twice.

4. Pour in the vinegar, mix with a fork. Then butter, and mix again with a fork. No need to beat!

5. Pour in water and continue whisking with a fork until smooth. Don't whip!

6. Put the dough into molds and bake for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

7. Now let's decorate. Lubricate the cupcake with cream and place a berry in the center so that it stands steadily.

8. Put the cream in a pastry bag with the smallest star-shaped nozzle.

9. Starting from the bottom, we form spruce branches from the cream. To do this, you need to attach the end of the nozzle to the berry and squeeze out the cream about 1 cm. After we stop pressing, we take our hand away. And we do the same for the next branch.

We arrange the branches in a checkerboard pattern in relation to the bottom row.

10. We decorate Christmas trees with dragees and asterisks-cookies.

Such a dessert is enjoyed by both adults and children. It is very tasty and, without a doubt, festive! Prepare it and please yourself and your loved ones.

Well, the last topic is drinks! What a holiday without them!

Cocktail "Homemade Baileys"

We will need:

• egg yolks - 5 pieces
• sugar - 1 cup
• sweetened condensed milk - 1 can
• vodka - 200 ml
• instant coffee - 1 tbsp. spoon

Cooking:

1. Only fresh eggs are needed to make a cocktail. Wash them with soap and dry with a paper towel. Separate the yolks from the whites.

2. Grind the yolks with sugar. Blend with condensed milk.

3. Dilute instant coffee in vodka.

4. Combine two mixtures into one using a mixer. Pour into a bottle. Home Baileys is ready! You can't tell from the real one! Yes, and it is made only from natural ingredients!

Cocktail "Royal Delight"

We will need:

• blackcurrant liqueur - 10 ml
• dry champagne - 100 ml

In the absence of blackcurrant liqueur, it can be replaced with any other berry liqueur.

Cooking:

Pour liqueur into a champagne glass. Then pour champagne. Garnish the rim of the glass with a strawberry or orange slice. You can add ice cubes.

Cocktail "Azure Blues"

We will need:

• white rum - 1 part
• orange juice - 2 parts
• pineapple juice - 2 parts
• juice of half a lime
• fresh mint
• crushed ice

Cooking:

Mix all ingredients with a shaker. Pour into a tall glass, add crushed ice, garnish with mint leaves.

We all had adult cocktails. But you also need to prepare a delicious children's cocktail. And I have one in mind.

Children's cocktail "Morozko"

We will need:

• three different types of ice cream
• cream
• mineral water
• sugar
• lemon juice

Cooking:

1. Dip the edge of the glass in lemon juice. Dip in sugar so that the edge of the glass turns out to be slightly “snowy”.

2. Gently put 1 full tablespoon of different ice cream into a glass. You can use vanilla, strawberry, pineapple, pistachio. The main thing is that each of them has its own taste.

3. Pour up to half a glass of cream. Mix gently with a spoon.

4. Add mineral water, but so that the glass is only 3/4 full. A foam should form.

Children love this cocktail. So be prepared for them to ask for extras too!

As you can see, there are quite a few ideas for the holiday menu! But after all, a lot is not a little! It's always good to have a choice. And in today's material you can choose a recipe for every taste. There are appetizers, salads, main courses, desserts, and even cocktails.

All recipes are tested and should not let you down! And it remains for me to wish you good mood!

Happy New Year! And may your holiday table be the best!