New Year's menu for vegetarians. New Year's salads and snacks

Vegetarian recipes from our selection will help you set the table for the New Year, while remaining true to your gastronomic principles. The dishes are also suitable for those who are fasting until Christmas, but do not want to postpone festive feast before the New Year according to the old style. Their spectacular design, balanced composition and bright taste will delight household members and guests.

Vegetarian Olivier

You can meet various variations on the theme of the main New Year's salad, however, this vegetarian Olivier is extremely reminiscent of the traditional one in its taste, consistency and appearance.

Egg whites can be perfectly replaced with soft tofu, you can make your own mayonnaise and use it for other salads as well.

Products:

potatoes - 4 pcs.,
carrots - 2 pcs.,
green peas - 200 g,
pickled cucumber - 3-4 pcs.,
soft tofu - 200 g,
soy mayonnaise (recipe below), salt, spices - to taste.

Additional components at will and taste:

vegetarian sausage,
soy meat,
porcini mushrooms,
beans.

Products for soy mayonnaise:

vegetable oil ( room temperature) - 200 ml,
soy milk (room temperature) - 100 ml,
lemon juice/ table vinegar - 2 tsp / 1 tsp,
mustard, salt, spices, herbs - to taste.

Preparing mayonnaise

Beat the butter and soy milk in a blender until slightly thickened, then add salt and vinegar or lemon juice and continue blending. When the consistency approaches mayonnaise, add spices and mustard and mix.

Preparing the salad

Boil carrots and potatoes, cool and peel. Cut into cubes one by one and place all the ingredients except the peas in a bowl in layers. The order is: carrots, potatoes, cucumbers, tofu. Then, sausage, meat or mushrooms, if using. Lubricate the top generously with mayonnaise and lay out a Christmas tree made of green peas. Or, put one aside boiled carrots, place the mixed salad in cubes on a dish and decorate such a gift with a ribbon of carrot strips.

For big company It is convenient to serve the salad in portions, in glasses, tartlets or baskets of bell peppers.

Bright and appetizing hot snack from baked vegetables perfect for a festive feast.

Filling for three to four zucchini or eggplants:

boiled quinoa - 1 tbsp,
mozzarella or tofu - 2 tbsp,
tomato pulp - 0.5 tbsp,
salt, soy sauce, spices, garlic/onion - to taste.

Filling for four to five large potatoes or tomatoes:

boiled carrots - 1 pc.,
marinated champignons - 250 g,
sauteed onion - 100 g,

Stuffed beets:

apple - 1 pc.,
boiled rice - 2 tbsp.,
raisins, steamed in boiling water - 2 tbsp.,
olive oil - 1 tsp,
ground cinnamon/sugar/honey/other spices - to taste.

You will also need:

Sour cream, soy mayonnaise or cheese and herbs for decoration.

Preparation

Mix ingredients for fillings according to recipes. Fry mushroom filling in vegetable oil. Cut potatoes, eggplant and zucchini lengthwise. Cut off the tops of tomatoes, beets and peppers and remove the cores. Press the filling tightly with a spoon into a small heaped boat; it will decrease in volume when baked. Sprinkle grated cheese on top, brush with sour cream or soy mayonnaise.

When baking an assortment of vegetables on one baking sheet, create several baking compartments with foil to prevent the flavors from mixing. Peppers and tomatoes will be ready in 15-25 minutes. Potatoes need 20-30 minutes in the oven, and eggplants need to be baked for at least 45 minutes.

Nourishing colorful dumplings stuffed with kale and edamame beans will be fireworks bright flavors for the main night of the year.

Products:

Edamame beans/lentils - 300 g,
Kale/chinese cabbage - 150 g,
Garlic - 2-3 cloves,
Tahini - 1 tbsp. l.,
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.,
Tamari - 50 g,
Maple syrup - 50 ml,
Chipotle powder - 20 g,
Rice vinegar - 30 ml,
Spinach puree, beetroot juice and turmeric powder to color the dough.
Dumpling dough.

Preparation

Lightly boil the cabbage and the beans until tender. Mix them with tahini, garlic and lemon juice and puree.

Divide the dough into three parts, add to one beet juice, in the second - turmeric, in the third - pureed spinach. Roll out the dough thinly and make dumplings using your favorite method.

Dumplings can be made in advance, frozen and served not only on December 31, but also on New Year's weekend.

For the sauce, mix tamari, maple syrup, chipotle and vinegar.

Brownie Herringbone

Vegetarian desserts are varied. Chocolate Christmas trees according to these recipes with a bright design are not inferior in taste to the traditional American dessert.

Ingredients for vegan (meatless brownie):

Wheat flour - 1.5 tbsp,
Cocoa powder or carob - 5 tbsp. l.,
Honey or syrup (sweet and not very thick) - 200 g,
Refined vegetable oil - 50 ml,
Water - 200 ml,
Crushed nuts - 50 g,
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.,
Flavoring - 2 tsp.

For the vegan brownie (no eggs):

Butter - 100 g,
Bitter chocolate (70-99%) - 150 g,
Wheat flour - 400 g,
Starch - 30 g,
Sugar or melted honey - 200 g,
Flavoring - 2 tsp.

Making vegan dough

Mix thoroughly with a mixer warm water, butter, flavoring and lemon juice with syrup or melted honey. Continuing to beat, gradually add cocoa, sifted flour, then nuts.

Vegetarian dough

In a water bath or in microwave oven On low power, melt the butter and chocolate, pour in the flavoring. Gradually add sugar or honey to the mixture, stirring. Then add flour and starch, sifting through a sieve. Beat the dough with a mixer or whisk until the lumps dissolve.

You can add citrus zest, cinnamon, vanilla and other favorite spices to the brownies for a more multi-faceted flavor.

According to any of the two recipes, spread the dough in a layer of 2-2.5 cm. It will practically not increase during baking. You can cook on a lined baking paper baking tray in the oven, preheated to 180 ℃ for about 25-30 minutes. Or in a slow cooker, pre-lubricate the bowl with oil. The required mode depends on the device model (baking, frying, etc.) and the cooking time can vary from 50 to 90 minutes.

Cool the baked brownies, cut them into triangles and secure them with lollipops, cracker straws or ice cream sticks. Decorate the Christmas trees with icing, melted chocolate, dragees, candied fruits, candies or nuts. Before serving, place brownies in an airtight container or wrap carefully in cling film. This will help keep the cakes from drying out.

Spicy grapefruit lemonade

This refreshing drink is suitable as an aperitif and to quench your thirst. Grapefruit juice will make it easier to get rid of extra calories festive feast.

Products:

Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice - 1 l,
Water - 200 ml,
Linden honey - 70 g,
Fennel, rosemary, thyme - to taste.

Preparation

Boil water with spices for 10 minutes, cool, add grapefruit juice and sugar or honey. Serve the drink over ice, garnishing the glasses with grapefruit slices and sprigs of rosemary or spruce.

If desired, you can add 200-300 ml of any strong alcohol to the lemonade.

Masala on hibiscus

Prepare sweet tea masala on hibiscus, this will give it an original red tint and a light refreshing sourness. This spicy drink will help you warm up on winter evenings, it improves digestion and is perfect for finishing a holiday feast.

Products:

Water - 1 l,
Hibiscus - 10 tsp,
Cane sugar - 8 tbsp. l.,
Cinnamon, fresh ginger, cloves, cardamom, orange or grapefruit.

Preparation

Bring the water to a boil, add tea and grated ginger, cook for 3-5 minutes. Then add the rest of the spices, strain the drink and serve hot, adding a slice of citrus. Serve sugar separately. Perhaps not all guests like sweet tea.

In the New Year's articles of this series, we have already written a lot about what dishes to cook on festive table. But the main focus has always been on meat, poultry and fish in all forms. But at the same time, we forgot that there is a certain percentage of people who do not eat such food in principle, and it is difficult to hope that they will make an exception for the New Year.

Respecting their tastes and traditions, today we have prepared vegetarian menu for the New Year. And don’t let meat-eaters imagine a meager meal consisting of a pile of cabbage and a few pieces of boiled carrots. Vegetarian dishes for the New Year, prepared without the use of animal products, can be even tastier and more varied, the main thing is to show your imagination.

Let’s immediately agree that we are talking about vegetarianism, in which not all animal products are prohibited, but only flesh. That is, we can easily use milk, eggs, sour cream, etc.

Snacks

The vegetarian New Year's table will begin, as always, with appetizers. Nobody canceled the small ones sandwiches for one bite. As a basis, you can take already proven recipes: avocado mousse with lime juice and hot pepper, beet puree with garlic and natural yoghurt, diverse vegetable caviar(zucchini, eggplant and any other to taste).

In the same way, vegetarians will not give up deviled eggs, in which many of it are suitable as a filling traditional types: mushrooms fried with onions, grated raw carrots with garlic and melted cheese and so on.

Also, there is no need to bypass a variety of traditional vegetarian recipes for the New Year of Russian cuisine: sauerkraut, a variety of vegetables, soaked apples and so on. They will not only add variety to the table, but will also make all guests remember their roots.

Even traditional herring under a fur coat can, after a little modernization, take its place on vegetarian table. For it you will need potatoes, carrots, beets, processed (or Adyghe) cheese, seaweed, walnuts and mayonnaise. The salad is laid out in layers as usual, with each layer coated with mayonnaise. But, taking into account the absence of herring, the sequence looks like this: potatoes, seaweed, cheese, carrots, beets, mixed with crushed nuts. The layers can be repeated, then the salad will become even more interesting.

Main course

As a main dish on a vegetarian New Year's table, you can prepare vegetable skewers in batter . For them, you need to prepare the batter in advance according to your favorite recipe (for example, water, kefir, flour, salt and spices) and cut vegetables into small portions: zucchini, eggplant, bell pepper, tomatoes and Adyghe cheese. Everything except cheese and tomatoes must be mixed, sprinkled with spices and salt and left for half an hour to soak. You need to string all the ingredients onto bamboo sticks, dip in batter on all sides and fry in olive oil or sunflower oil(there should be quite a lot of it, a layer of 2-3 centimeters). Fry the kebab on both sides under closed lid, 6-8 minutes. When it is cooked, you need to place it on a layer of napkins or paper towels so that they absorb excess oil.

Dessert

In principle, most desserts already comply with the principles vegetarian cooking(it’s very difficult to imagine a pie with meat). The only exception is food gelatin, which is made from animal cartilage tissue, which means it is prohibited. But if you still want to pamper yourself and your guests with such a dish, then you can use agar-agar, for the production of which special algae is used.

But as an example of beauty New Year's dessert, which will appeal to both vegetarians and meat-eaters, can be cited baked apples. To prepare them, you need to select several beautiful red apples of the same size, cut out the middle of them and fill the free space with a mixture of butter, sugar and cinnamon. Then each apple must be wrapped in foil or special film and steamed or in the oven until soft. The dessert can be decorated with a cinnamon stick and caramel.

This fairly simple menu does not contain anything forbidden for a vegetarian, but it will suit everyone else’s tastes. Perhaps after such a dinner they will even think about changing their culinary orientation.

In the culinary world there are many different modes nutrition, among which vegetarianism is especially popular. Both on weekdays and on holidays, a dietary approach to nutrition has a place, you can verify this by preparing delicious vegetarian dishes for New Year 2017.

In today's article we will present many interesting Lenten recipes to celebrate the Year of the Rooster, from appetizers to dessert treats.

What should a vegetarian New Year's table look like?

Picking up New Year's recipes For vegetarians, you must first of all correctly understand what vegetarianism is? This is an unauthorized refusal to eat meat. However, vegetarianism comes in different forms and it is worth distinguishing between these forms.

So, most adherents of this diet simply refuse meat and fish, but eat dairy products, in particular cheese, sour cream, and also eat eggs - these people are called lacto-ovo vegetarians. The majority of such vegetarians, however, there are other, less common forms of this diet, which are briefly summarized below.

However, please note that the list of permitted foods may change.

Lacto-vegetarians They can eat dairy products, but do not accept eggs in their food.
Ovo-vegetarians on the contrary, they eat eggs, but refuse any form of dairy products.
Vegans– they eat absolutely no animal food and sometimes even refuse honey.
Raw foodists- This is another form of vegetarianism, in which it is forbidden to eat foods marinated in vinegar and foods that have undergone heat treatment.

Vegetarian New Year's recipes for 2017

In our article, we tried to select the best, most delicious, simple and quick-to-prepare dishes for all adherents of a vegetarian lifestyle. Let's not ignore the traditional Olivier for vegans and raw foodists.

Tofu snack

These snack rolls are no different from the classic garlic cheese snack. They are also prepared simply and quickly, and will easily become a great addition for the New Year's menu.

Grate tofu cheese (200 g).
Finely chop a bunch of dill with a knife, and pass 2-3 cloves of garlic through a garlic press.
Mix cheese with herbs and garlic, season with 2 tbsp. lean mayonnaise and mix.

This cheese snack You can spread it on pita bread, roll it up and cut it into rolls. Also like this delicious filling you can fill tartlets or decorate mugs fresh tomato(about 1 tsp of aromatic mass for each circle).

Snack cigarettes made from lettuce leaves with cheese and garlic filling will look original.

Vegetable balls “Alu-kofta”

Original New Year's hot dishes for vegetarians can be found by studying Vedic Indian recipes. For example, fragrant vegetable balls deep-fried are guaranteed to become the “highlight” of a vegetarian culinary program.

Ingredients

Potatoes – 3 tubers;
Cauliflower – 300-500 g;
Wheat flour – 250 g;
Coarse salt – 1.5 tsp;
Turmeric (powder) – 1 tsp;
Curry – ½ tsp;
Pepper mixture – ½ tsp;
Fresh cilantro (greens) – 1 bunch;
Vegetable oil (odorless) – 0.5 l.

How to make vegetarian balls

We peel the potatoes and wash the cabbage under running water.
Then vegetables in fresh grate on a fine grater.
Pour flour, salt, all the spices and finely chopped cilantro into the resulting mass. Mix everything to a sticky dense mass.
Roll small balls (2.5 cm in diameter) from the resulting vegetable “dough”.
Pour the oil into a dry saucepan and bring it to a boil over medium heat.
Place several balls at a time into hot fat and fry them for 4-5 minutes until golden brown.
We catch the finished aloo koftas with a slotted spoon and place them on a paper towel so that they are not too oily.

You can prepare your favorite vegetarian sauce for this appetizer.

New Year's salad with pineapple

Ingredients

Pineapple rings— 1 bank + -
— 2 pcs. + -
— 1 bank + -
Chinese cabbage— 1 forks + -
Crackers - 1 pack + -
— 120 g + -

How to make vegetarian pineapple salad

The ideal salad should be simple so that you can easily prepare it yourself from available ingredients, and quick so that it can be done just minutes before guests arrive. Our next step by step recipe- exactly like that.

We wash the Chinese cabbage, shake off the water and chop it into thin strips.
Remove the corn from the brine and add to the cabbage.
Cut the pineapples into small pieces and mix with the rest of the ingredients.
Wash the bell pepper, remove seeds and chop into strips. Then, together with breadcrumbs and mayonnaise, put it in the salad and mix everything.

If someone lacks salt and spicy taste, then you can add a pinch fine salt and spices to taste.

On our website you can also choose simple vegetarian salad recipes for the New Year 2017. Here are just a few of them for your consideration.

Potato roll with mushrooms

You can’t do without something hot for the New Year, so we suggest you prepare this amazing one at home. potato roll with mushroom filling.

In general, you don’t have to use mushrooms for the filling. They can easily be replaced with tofu cheese or sautéed vegetables, nuts with herbs and lentil paste.

Ingredients

Champignons – 600 g;
Potatoes – 6 tubers;
Onion – 2 heads;
Premium white flour – 80 g;
Pepper mixture – ½ tsp;
Salt - to taste;
Tofu cheese (soft or hard - at your discretion) - 100 g.

How to cook vegetarian mushroom roll

Boil potatoes

Peel the potatoes and boil in salted water for 30 minutes. Then drain the water, mash the potatoes into a thick mass (puree), mix with flour and leave to cool.

Preparing the filling for the roll

Chop the onion into small cubes, cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
Over high heat, fry the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown, then add the mushrooms and fry everything together for another 5 minutes. After frying, add salt and pepper to taste and leave to cool.
We spread parchment on the table and additionally grease it with vegetable oil. Then put the cooled potato mass on it, roll it out into an even rectangular layer, 1-1.5 cm thick.
Spread the mushroom filling on top, then place it on top grated cheese and carefully wrap everything in a roll.
Place the potato roll, seam side down, on a baking sheet lined with parchment and place it in the oven to bake for 30 minutes at 200°C.

If your diet allows the consumption of eggs, then you can add 2 eggs to the potato mixture, and you can also place boiled eggs (as a filling) in the middle of the roll.

This roll can also be baked in dough. To do this, the finished roll should be placed on a sheet of dough (puff pastry or regular yeast dough) rolled out in a baking sheet and covered with dough cut into ribbons, like a kulebyaku. Cooking time and temperature are the same.

We would like to offer you some more excellent vegetarian dishes for the New Year 2017.

Vegetarian ice cream

Well, how can you do without dessert on a holiday? Of course, no way, that’s why we suggest you make delicious vegan ice cream from the most affordable ingredients. Even raw foodists can enjoy themselves here.

Soak 1 cup of raw almonds in cool water overnight. The next morning, drain the water and peel the nuts.
Then load the almonds into a blender, add 50 ml of water and grind the products until a soft mass is obtained.
Now we add to almond cream two large bananas, broken into pieces, and again beat everything with a blender until homogeneous mass.
Pour the resulting composition into a container and put it in the freezer. Every 15-20 minutes the ice cream needs to be stirred so that it does not turn into ice.

You can serve almond-banana ice cream with any fruit syrup, or in its pure form.

And for those who prefer hot dessert to cold dessert fragrant pastries or healthy “live” candies - we suggest preparing dessert vegetarian dishes for the New Year 2017 using the following step-by-step recipes.

We have collected for you the best recipes for vegetarian dishes for the New Year. We are sure that from the proposed selection you will definitely find an appetizer, main course and dessert to your liking. We wish you that homemade treats will bring joy to you and your family, and will be not only healthy, but also festively delicious.

Have a great holiday!

Our traditions New Year's holidays It’s hard to imagine without a feast, which is often both unhealthy and non-ecological. Most people cannot imagine a New Year's table without meat and fish dishes. But do vegetarians really not celebrate the New Year or do it with a modest “ordinary” menu? Of course not! From our selection you will learn about wonderful dishes that will make your table healthy and at the same time surprise your guests.

Many recipes are taken from the diet of lacto- and ovo-vegetarians, but some are also suitable for vegans.

1. Vegetarian “meat”

This is a seitan dish - vegetable substitute meat that tastes very similar to the “original”. Seitan is made from flour. The dough is thoroughly washed to remove the starch from it, and the remaining gluten is boiled in broth. The result is a mass with high content protein and tastes like meat.

Ingredients: 3.5 cups flour, 1.5 cups water. The dough is made from this. And for the broth you need 1 liter of water and spices to taste.

The resulting “meat” can be used in any recipes as a substitute for natural meat. In particular, you can cook fried meat. To do this, seitan cut into pieces is fried in a frying pan in butter with the addition of spices: turmeric, coriander, bay leaf, pepper and soy sauce. First, spices are added to the oil. Followed by soy sauce and only then “meat”. You need to fry it for 5-7 minutes on all sides.

2. Fish

A vegetarian fish substitute is made from cheese, for example, Adyghe cheese.

Ingredients: 150 grams of cheese (Adyghe, paneer or tofu), 100 ml of water, 3 tablespoons of flour, half a teaspoon of each type of spice: salt, black pepper and turmeric, vegetable oil and a few sheets of nori seaweed.

Cut the cheese into rectangular pieces. Prepare a sklar from water, flour and spices. Soften the nori in water and wrap it around the cheese, and then dip the resulting “rolls” into the sklar. Next, fry the fish on both sides.

3. Aspic

It’s hard to imagine a New Year’s table without this dish. It is also available for vegetarians. Of course, without tongue and other animal products. They are replaced by cheese. And again, nori seaweed turns out to be very appropriate.

Ingredients: 1 large carrot, 1 potato, 500 ml water, 1 teaspoon ghee ghee (can be replaced with melted butter), 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream, 2 teaspoons of agar-agar, 50 grams of Adyghe cheese and a set of spices, which may vary depending on your tastes. For example, this set: allspice, red pepper, coriander, cloves, bay leaf and such exotic spices as suneli hops and asafoetida, which will be very difficult to find here. But you can do without them, because spices are added to taste; you don’t always need to strictly follow the recipe.

Boil vegetables in water, adding spices, and a little later - nori sheet and ghee. Soak agar-agar in a small amount of water. Remove vegetables from the prepared broth and strain the broth. Pour the swollen agar-agar into the broth and bring to a boil, stirring. Cool. Stir a third of the broth with chilled sour cream until smooth. Chop the vegetables and place them on top of the frozen sour cream mixture. After this, carefully pour the remaining broth on top and wait until the dish hardens.

4. Cheese lasagna

Ingredients: pack of lasagne sheets, 50 grams of mozzarella, 300 grams of Almette cheese, 300 grams of Parmesan (or any hard cheese), 250 grams of cream cheese, cream (20% fat), nutmeg and salt.

Cook the lasagne sheets for 3 minutes. Then grease a baking dish with butter and place the chopped soft cheese. Next, layer your ingredients in the following order: lasagna sheets, cream cheese, lasagne sheets, curd cheese and half the mozzarella, lasagna sheets, cream cheese, lasagna sheets, the rest of the mozzarella and more lasagne sheets. Top it all with cream and sprinkle with nutmeg and Parmesan.

Bake in foil for 30-40 minutes. Temperature – 180 degrees. Then you need to remove the foil and bake for another 10 minutes. And that's it - one more thing delicious dish ready for your New Year's table!

5. Vegetarian “herring” under a fur coat

This dish is simply classic for our holiday tables. What is included in its vegetarian option?

Ingredients: 800 grams of potatoes, beets and carrots, 350 grams of seaweed, 300 grams of Adyghe or processed cheese, 5 walnuts, 250 ml of sour cream and 400 ml of mayonnaise, salt and spices (coriander, nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper and asafoetida).

Boil vegetables in their uniforms. Then peel and grate. Also grate the cheese. What will replace herring, you ask? Sea kale, which needs to be finely chopped. Add two tablespoons of sour cream to carrots and beets, and 3-4 tablespoons to potatoes. Then add spices to taste. And pour crushed walnuts into the beets.

After this, lay out the layers “under the fur coat” in the following order: potatoes, seaweed, cheese, carrots, beets. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise and repeat the entire set of layers one more time. The dish is ready!

6. Olivier salad

It’s almost impossible to imagine a New Year’s layer without Olivier. Actually, the vegetarian version of this salad is distinguished only by the absence of sausage.

Ingredients: 1 kilogram of potatoes, half a kilogram of carrots, a can canned peas, 100-150 grams of cheese, several cucumbers, a glass of mayonnaise and a glass of sour cream, turmeric, asafoetida, black pepper and salt, olives and seaweed.

Boil the vegetables in their jackets, peel and cut into cubes. Chop the remaining ingredients. Mix everything and add mayonnaise and spices.

7. Baked Potatoes

About the place of potatoes New Year's table Belarusians are hardly worth talking about. But you don’t have to limit yourself to stewed or boiled potatoes. Its baked version will be much tastier and healthier.

Ingredients: kilogram of potatoes, 400 ml of sour cream, 400 grams of cheese, 50 ml of vegetable oil, salt and spices (turmeric, black pepper and coriander).

Cut the peeled potatoes into slices, mix sour cream with 1 teaspoon of turmeric. Place a third of the potatoes on a greased baking sheet and sprinkle with spices. Place a layer of cheese on top (also a third of the total amount) and top with sour cream and butter. Make two more similar layers of potatoes, cheese and sour cream.

Bake for 15 minutes in the oven, covered, at 250 degrees, then another 40 minutes at 200 degrees. 10 minutes before cooking, remove the lid. This will give golden brown crust on top of the dish.

8. Shah-pilaf

This dish will stand out on your table, and it's safe to say that your guests will be delighted with it. Shah-pilaf is a traditional Azerbaijani dish that is served only on major holidays.

Ingredients: half a kilogram of basmati rice, 150 grams of raisins, dried apricots and cherry plums (or other sour dried fruit), 250 grams of walnuts, 3 carrots, a pack of butter and a package of thin pita bread.

The most important nuance in preparing this dish concerns the type of rice. The main thing is that it is long-grain (basmati - best variety) and properly cooked. To begin with, the rice is soaked for half an hour in cold water. Next, rinse thoroughly. Cook rice in water with a ratio of 1 to 3 for 3-5 minutes. During cooking, add salt to taste. As a result, the rice should acquire a uniform color, but remain slightly undercooked. Place it in a shallow colander and pour boiling water over it.

Fry the chopped dried fruits in a frying pan using a third of the oil. After a few minutes of frying, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and a little salt to the dried fruits. This will coat the fruit with a layer of sugar, reminiscent of caramel.

Sauté diced carrots in vegetable oil. Also fry the walnuts, broken into pieces, in a frying pan. Cut the pita bread into 5-centimeter strips and melt the rest of the butter.

It is necessary to cook pilaf in a deep bowl. It is greased from the inside with oil and covered with strips of pita bread in 2 layers so that they cover the entire surface of the dish “overlapping” and so that their ends hang down from the dish. Next, rice is laid in a 1 centimeter layer, followed by dried fruits and a layer of ghee. Next again rice, carrots, nuts and butter. Everything ends with the last layer of rice and is wrapped in “tails” of pita bread, which are once again greased with oil on top.

Shah pilaf is prepared in the oven at 200 degrees for 20-30 minutes. The pita bread should be covered with a golden crust.

9. Cake “Bird's milk”

We all know this cake from childhood, but few people cook it at home. But in vain, because the recipe is quite simple.

Ingredients: half a liter heavy cream(33%), 400 grams of 25% sour cream, half a liter of milk, 450 grams of sugar, 4.5 teaspoons of agar-agar.

To prepare the glaze separately, you need to take 100 ml of water, 2 tablespoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of agar-agar, 3 teaspoons of cocoa.

Cream, sour cream, 400 grams of sugar and vanillin must be mixed and stirred with a mixer for 10 minutes until thick and homogeneous. The container with the resulting mass must be placed in a plate or pan with hot water so that the mixture warms up well.

Next, grease the glass form with vegetable oil. Agar-agar should be mixed with milk and the rest of the sugar (50 grams or 3 tablespoons). Over low heat, bring the resulting mixture to a boil, stirring it constantly. The agar-agar should dissolve, after which you need to turn it off and let the mixture stand for 3 minutes. Then beat the mixture of sour cream and cream with a mixer and in the process add a mixture of milk and agar-agar. We put everything in a glass form, level it and put it in the refrigerator.

Mix the glaze ingredients and bring to a boil. Next, after cooling to 50 degrees, pour them on top of the main mass of the cake and wait until the glaze hardens. In an hour, the cake will be ready to slice and eat.

10. Baklava

There are variations of this dish huge amount, and each of them is good in its own way. Here is one recipe for making baklava at home.

Ingredients: a glass of milk, 50 ml of sour cream, 60 grams of butter, a quarter spoon of soda and four glasses of flour, some roasted walnuts and half a liter refined oil. For the syrup you will need half a kilo of sugar and 200 ml of water.

You need to pour the melted milk into it butter, add sour cream and soda and knead the dough, adding flour gradually so that it becomes thicker. Leave the covered dough for 10 minutes. Divide it into small pieces or balls, which you then roll out one at a time as thinly as possible on the table, allowing the resulting sheets to dry on each side for 5-10 minutes. Place the sheets one on top of the other, roll them into a roll and cut at an angle of 45 degrees. The edges of the dough should not stick together.

Pour vegetable oil into a deep frying pan and fry the rolls in it until golden crust. Place them on a plate lined with napkins and let cool.

Mix sugar with water and bring to a boil (after this you can add honey to taste). Dip the cooled baklava into the hot syrup for 1 minute. Place on plates and sprinkle with crushed nuts.

As you can see, a vegetarian holiday table will not only be nourishing and tasty, but also original. At the same time, fans of the “classic” New Year's dishes won't be disappointed. Of course, some recipes require certain culinary skills, but in our TOP there are also very easy-to-prepare dishes. Bon appetit!