New Year. What to meet, what to cook on the table, how to decorate the house What kind of meat to eat for the new year

23.12.2016 20.01.2018 by cook

New Year's table should be full of a variety of delicious dishes. A properly composed menu for the New Year 2017 is the key to a successful holiday. New Year for Russians is the most beloved and long-awaited holiday. This holiday for many is a kind of hope for a happy life in the future.

We are trying to get a better idea of ​​what to expect next year. We read horoscopes, we try to figure out how the Symbol of the next Year can affect our lives. And of course, we are first of all preparing for the New Year, considering what the Master of the Year loves! Based on this, we 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.

When compiling the menu for the Year of the Fire Rooster, the following features should be taken into account:

1) Rooster against the use of chicken meat on the festive table. Yes, this is understandable, we will not argue. In addition, we cooked chicken often and a lot during the year. Let's give her a break.

2) It is not advisable to put stuffed eggs on the table or prepare snacks from whole eggs, this is also not welcome. But the use of eggs in dishes is not prohibited.

3) The image of the Host of the Year in the design of dishes will be very useful.

4) Bright, colorful design of dishes will delight Petushka. The colors that the Symbol of the Year loves are red, yellow, green, and all their shades. Therefore, decorate dishes as brightly as possible. Beets, tomatoes, bell peppers, pomegranate seeds, cranberries, red caviar, corn, herbs and lettuce - all this is welcome when decorating dishes.

5) Use those products that our Cockerel loves. And these are seafood, fish, meat, fresh vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts.

6) Dishes should be beautiful and refined, but relatively simple. The rooster does not like frills. In addition, he does not like too fatty foods.

Here are the main wishes for the menu. If you manage to comply with them, then it will be just great! The Fire Rooster will not leave this unattended. He will understand that we are paying this respect and respect to him.

Well, it's good for us too. We also want the New Year's festive table to be beautifully, brightly and deliciously laid. Therefore, in this our desires coincide with him!

Let me offer you options for dishes from which you can create a New Year's menu for your table without much hassle and long searches.

The menu, as expected, includes appetizers and salads. We also pay great attention to desserts and drinks. After all, we are preparing for a real big holiday. Therefore, you need to think about everything!

Profiteroles with cream cheese and salmon

We will need:

• creamy curd cheese - 300 gr
• cream 35% -50ml
• 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 profiteroles 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

As it turned out, Cockerel is a big fan of caviar. And therefore it is desirable to have it on the festive table. 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.

Cottage cheese - cheese paste "Snowman"

What is the New Year without winter characters. Therefore, we are preparing a delicious snack "Snowman". Such an appetizer 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. a 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 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?

The vegetable plate is a special topic. Vegetables are especially welcomed by the Host of the Year. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare such a plate for him.

Salads for the New Year 2017 - the best New Year's salad recipes

No holiday table is complete without such an important dish as a salad! And even more so, such a festive table as New Year's! And if sometimes it is quite easy to decide on the choice of the main dish, then there is always a special attitude and attention to the preparation of the salad. You always want to cook it in such a way that it meets a number of requirements.

It is desirable that it be new. But since you don’t always want to experiment with new salads for such a big holiday, you need to find a new look for the old, already tested.

• It should be relatively simple.
• It should look bright and colorful.
• It needs to be delicious.
• It must correspond to the Symbol of the coming Year!

Salad Olivier - a recipe for the New Year

It is hard to imagine the New Year holiday without the traditional Olivier salad. Every year we want to find a replacement for him, but someone from the family will certainly ask: “Will there be Olivier?” And no matter how much you want to replace it with something else, it doesn’t work. And all because it is impossible to replace it with anything!

This salad is as simple as it is delicious. Everything is balanced in it, nothing to subtract, nothing to add.

Everyone knows the classic set of ingredients, these are:

• boiled meat - 300 gr
• egg - 4 pcs
• potatoes - 3 pcs
• carrots - 1 pc.
• cucumber (fresh or canned) -2-3 pieces (depending on size)
• green onion - bunch
• green peas (canned) - 0.5 cans
• mayonnaise - to taste
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Boil carrots, potatoes and eggs, cool, peel and cut into small cubes. Try not to overcook vegetables so that when cut into cubes they have a shape, and do not fall apart.

2. Boil the meat in salted water, cool and cut also into small cubes.

3. Salad cucumbers can be used both fresh and canned. Cucumbers are also cut into cubes.

We try to cut all the salad ingredients to approximately the same size and shape. This way it will look more attractive.

4. Put all the chopped ingredients in a large bowl. You don't need to mix anything.

5. Add chopped green onions to the salad.

6. Add green peas, from which we carefully drain all the water.

7. Add salt and pepper to taste, mix.

8. Before serving, add mayonnaise and mix gently, trying to keep the “cubes” whole.

If you make mayonnaise with your own hands, then the taste of the salad will be just perfect!

9. Beautifully spread in a salad bowl, or on a flat plate. There are many ways to decorate the New Year's Olivier. Exactly as much as the flight of our imagination extends.

I like the option when the salad is laid out in the form of a Christmas wreath, so we will decorate the salad « » (it will be discussed below). It's easy enough to set it up this way.

Place a glass in the center of the dish. Put the salad mixed with mayonnaise around the glass. Lightly press it with a spoon, and give the desired shape. Remove the glass and decorate the salad as you wish. You can put a thick layer of dill on it, on which put melted cheese cut in the shape of stars. Garnish with pomegranate seeds, canned corn and grated hard cheese.

Or cut bells out of cheese, ribbons out of pickles. Form the salad into a cake shape and decorate it as you like.

And here is a beautifully decorated salad, which, as it were, reminds us that after a long winter, summer will certainly come. And the ladybugs that ran out into the meadow will please everyone with their bright appearance.

This is what the salad dressing is about. But the content is also subject to change! We do not use chicken this year, but adding a little smoked meat will not be superfluous. Along with boiled meat, you can use smoked sausage and brisket. And if you want, you can use boiled tongue instead of meat.

There are Olivier recipes where shrimp, squid or salmon or trout fillets are used instead of meat. The Fire Rooster will only be happy with such changes. And the salad will turn out with an original taste. And no one will even understand that you cooked it on the basis of Olivier.

Salad "Herring under a fur coat" - with a new fur coat in the New Year

The next salad is just as popular for preparing it for the festive New Year's table as the first one! If you try to compare them, which one is more popular, it will not work! Neither one nor the other will yield the palm.

The classic version of the salad provides for such a composition of products.

• herring - 2 pieces
• potatoes - 5 pcs. (medium)
• carrots - 2 pcs. (large)
• beets - 2 pcs. (large)
• egg - 4 pcs.
• mayonnaise - 250 ml. (about)
• salt - to taste

Cooking:

Preparing "Herring under a fur coat" is also quite simple.

1. Grate vegetables and eggs.

2. Peel the herring from bones and skin, and cut into cubes.

3. Spread in layers - beets, carrots, eggs, potatoes - herring - potatoes, eggs, carrots, beets.

4. Salt each layer to taste and layer with mayonnaise.

We decorate as fantasy tells.

"Herring under a fur coat" in gelatin

We will need:

• herring - 1 pc.
• salmon - 150 gr
• egg - 5 pcs
• beets -2 pcs
• carrots - 2 pcs
• gelatin - 20 gr
• water -0.5 cup
• sour cream - 1 cup

Cooking:

1. Dissolve gelatin in water. Let stand until the gelatin swells, about 30 minutes.

2. Boil beets, carrots and eggs. Cool down. And rub on a coarse grater.

3. Clean the herring from bones and skin. Cut into small cubes. Lightly salted salmon cut a little larger so that the pieces are more noticeable. You can, of course, take two herrings instead of salmon. But after all, we have a New Year, so we do not skimp, and we are preparing a truly festive salad.

4. Put gelatin in a water bath and heat it well. You should get a homogeneous mixture without lumps. In no case do not bring the mixture to a boil, you just need to warm it up.

5. Mix gelatin with sour cream. They say that you can use mayonnaise instead of sour cream. But to be honest, I haven't tried it. The recipe with sour cream also turns out delicious, and not so high-calorie.

And the Master of the Year, the Rooster, is just not a fan of fatty foods, so sour cream will be just right.

6. Let's prepare a suitable form, it is better to take a silicone one. It will be easy to get a chilled salad out of it. If you don’t have such a form, then cover the salad bowl with cling film. We begin to form our salad. Put a layer of salmon on the bottom, then herring. Layer with sour cream and gelatin.

7. Then the next layers are eggs, carrots and beets. Salt each layer and layer well with a mixture of sour cream and gelatin.

8. We cover the top layer with cling film and send it to the refrigerator until it cools completely.

9. Cover the finished salad with a large flat plate and turn over. If there was a film below, we remove it and serve “Herring under a fur coat” in all its glory.

10. Decorate with dill sprigs, pomegranate and corn seeds.

Isn't it true, such a salad will be a real decoration of the festive table.

"Herring under a fur coat" in a roll

This is a very festive and beautiful dish that will not leave anyone indifferent.

We will need:

• herring - 1-2 pieces
• boiled beets - 3-4 pieces
• boiled carrots - 3-4 pieces
• boiled potatoes - 3-4 pieces
• boiled eggs - 4 pcs
• onion - 1 pc (optional)
• mayonnaise -100-120 gr
• salt - to taste

Cooking:

1. Peel the herring from bones and skin, cut into small cubes.

2. Grate chilled vegetables and eggs on a fine grater, all in a separate bowl.

3. Add the onion at will, someone loves it in this salad, but for someone it is superfluous. If you use it, then cut it into cubes, as small as possible.

4. Put the right size cling film on the table.

5. Lightly squeeze the beets and drain off the excess juice. Put it on the first layer. Cover with another piece of cling film and press with your palms. Salt a little.

6. Put carrots in the next layer. Step back from the edge with beets by two centimeters, and lay out in a separate square. Salt this layer again and spread it with mayonnaise. At the same time, do not grab the edges with beets.

7. Next comes a layer of potatoes. It should also be smaller than the carrot layer. Each time the square gets smaller. Seal this layer through a film, salt and spread with mayonnaise.

8. The next layer is egg, it should also be smaller than potato. Press it lightly again, then salt and spread with mayonnaise.

9. Put a wide and high strip of chopped herring in the very center. In terms of volume, it should take up about 1/3 of the size of all the laid out layers.

10. Roll everything into a roll with a film.

11. Refrigerate overnight.

12. Remove the film, put the roll on a large dish, decorate. as your fantasy tells you!

This salad is very beautiful and tasty. And we love our guests!

Salad "Grenadier"

This salad looks very similar to the "Herring under a fur coat." And guests are often deceived about him. It seems that they put a familiar salad on their plate, but it tasted completely different. But in the end, the Grenadier doesn't disappoint any of them. The salad turns out to be the most delicious, and it also deserves to show off on the festive table!

In addition, its color is quite consistent with the requirements that the Fire Rooster dictates to us for the next year.

This salad is as simple as the previous ones. Unfortunately, he does not prepare so often, but in vain. Salad is worth it. It's just that not everyone knows about it. And when they get to know him better, they are already preparing him for the holidays more and more often.

We will need:

• meat - boiled beef 150 gr.
• potatoes 250 gr.
• carrots - 150 gr.
• pitted prunes - 100 gr.
• walnuts - 100 gr.
• raisins - 50 gr.
• mayonnaise - 150 gr.
• greenery for decoration
• salt - to taste

Cooking:

Boil the meat, salt the broth for half an hour until cooked. Cool down. Cut into straws.
Boil vegetables.
Vegetables can be grated on a coarse grater, or cut into small cubes (optional)
Arrange in layers either in a clear salad bowl or on a large platter lined with green lettuce.
The layers are laid out in this order. We spread the potatoes down, then the carrots, then the meat. Lightly salt the layer with potatoes and grease with mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise can be lubricated with each layer, or even through the layer. Who loves.
Cut prunes into strips, leaving a few whole, for decoration. Put it on the meat.
Chop the nuts, also leave a few pieces for decoration. Sprinkle on top of prunes. Then we sprinkle some raisins, leave some for decoration.
Lay beets on top. Salt a little.
As mentioned above, you can coat as many layers as you want with mayonnaise. You can apply a beautiful mesh on the top layer, and decorate with the remaining prunes or nuts.
Also, the top of the salad can be smeared with mayonnaise, sprinkled with raisins and chopped nuts on the top and sides.
Remove the salad for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator so that it is better soaked and infused.
Lay on plates in layers.

This salad will definitely not let you down. Moreover, in its composition. everything that our Symbol of the Year loves so much - the Cockerel!

Salad "Mimosa" with saury - a classic of the genre

The Mimosa salad, which appeared in the distant 70s, still beats all records in popularity to this day. This salad is so simple and delicious that it is cooked, as they say in the feast, and in the world.

And "Mimosa" never stagnates on the table. Even when there are an abundance of other salads on it, this one is eaten first!

Such a salad will be good at the New Year's holiday. And don't let its spring name fool you. Having given it a New Year's look, and decorating it with impromptu Christmas tree decorations, it will not go unnoticed on the festive table.

We will need:

• canned saury - 1 can
• potatoes - 3 pcs.
• carrots - 2 pcs.
• eggs - 4 pcs.
• mayonnaise - to taste
• salt - to taste

As you can see, the composition of the ingredients couldn't be simpler. Everyone in the kitchen will always have everything you need. Boiled vegetables and eggs, and the rest of the preparation will take no more than 10 minutes.

Cooking:

Boil potatoes, carrots, eggs. Prepare a jar of canned food, drain the liquid from it and lightly top it with a fork. Today we use saury.
When the food has cooled, grate potatoes, carrots and egg white on a coarse grater.
Grate the egg yolk on a fine grater.
Put half of the potatoes in the prepared salad bowl. Next - a layer of fish, then pour a little fish juice evenly over the entire area.
Cover the fish with the remaining half of the potatoes.
Grease a layer of potatoes with mayonnaise.
Now it's the turn of the carrots. Made a layer, lightly salt.
Then protein, and again lightly salt.
Another layer of mayonnaise.
Now it's time for the decoration. In the simplest version, a layer of yolk is placed on top.
But if you want to decorate the salad in an original way, turn on your imagination. For example, you can decorate it with Christmas decorations from vegetables of different colors, pomegranate seeds and fresh herbs.

Salad with canned tuna and french fries

Unfortunately, this salad does not have its own brand name, but it is definitely worth cooking. Because it meets all the high requirements of cooking for the New Year!

It is beautiful in design, it is delicious, and the Fire Rooster will definitely like it! Of this I assure you.

We will need:

• canned tuna - 2 cans
• eggs - 2 pcs
• potatoes - 4-5 pieces
• carrots - 1 pc (large)
• onion - 1 pc (small)
• canned peas - 0.5 cans
• lemon - 0.5 pcs
• lettuce leaves or greens - for decoration
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil for frying
• vinegar - 1-1.5 tsp each

As you can see, this composition of products is as simple as two or two. You don't even need to buy anything special. All products are quite affordable, and almost everyone has them in the refrigerator. Is that not everyone can have tuna, well, it doesn’t matter. You can buy it without any problems in any store.

Preparing such a salad is also easy, simple and fast enough. Even those who have never cooked anything will cope with its preparation.

Cooking:

1. Grate carrots for Korean carrots. And salt it a little. Try. Carrots should be salty, but not oversalted. Mix and squeeze a little. Pepper on top. Leave for 1 hour so that the carrots are well salted.

2. Cut the onion into half rings.

In 0.5 cups of cold boiled water, add a little vinegar to taste. You can add 1 teaspoon, or 1.5.

If sour foods are contraindicated for you, then just cut the onion into small cubes and fill it with water to release the bitterness.

Leave the onion to marinate for 1 hour.

3. During this time, let's cook potatoes. It must be cleaned, then cut into two halves. Cut each half into elongated triangles - slices, preferably of the same size and thickness. Cut it in such a way that it looks beautiful. When everything is beautifully prepared, then the salad as a whole will look beautiful and appetizing.

4. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, and preferably into a cauldron. Warm it up to a bluish haze. And fry the potatoes in it in small portions. Each serving will fry for 10-15 minutes, depending on how thick the potatoes you cut.

In the process of frying, the potatoes should be periodically stirred with a slotted spoon. This is necessary so that it is fried evenly and covered on all sides with a beautiful fried crust.

If desired, peeled potatoes can be boiled first, and then cut and fried.

But I prefer the first option. I find these potatoes to be delicious!

5. In both cases, the fried potatoes must be removed with a slotted spoon, allowed to drain a little oil and then put on paper towels. To prevent excess oil from getting into the salad.

6. Allow the potatoes to cool.

7. Boil eggs, let cool and cut into cubes.

8. Taste carrots. It should be moderately salty. If you suddenly over-salted, then rinse it under cold water, and then fold it into a colander so that the water is glass. In this case, you will need to add a little pepper.

9. Throw the onion in a colander, let the water drain. Cut it into small cubes.

10. Now we begin to collect the salad in a dish or a large flat plate. Namely, in such dishes we will form our beauty! To keep everything in sight!

11. Put lettuce leaves on a plate. If you decorate the salad with dill and parsley, then you can first form it, and then decorate it.

12. From jars with tuna, it is necessary to drain the liquid component into a separate bowl. It will be useful to us later. Put the tuna on a separate plate and lightly crush with a fork.

13. From the jar of canned peas, you must also drain all the liquid.

14. Start putting all the ingredients on the plate in layers, but in a kind of chaotic mess.

15. Our task is to lay out all the products in such a way as to form a slide, and so that all the ingredients are clearly visible.

16. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon into the juice from the fish. Mix. Drizzle the resulting sauce over the salad.

You can also add mayonnaise to the sauce if you like it. The quantity can be varied. But I'm not a big fan of mayonnaise. Salad without mayonnaise is less high-calorie and very tender, with a pleasant slightly sour taste.

17. Decorate as fantasy tells.

18. Put in the refrigerator. Let stand for 30-40 minutes so that all the ingredients are soaked in the sauce and cool slightly.

19. Eat with pleasure.

Salad "Capercaillie's Nest"

Very beautiful and very tasty holiday option! Will not leave anyone indifferent! I think that no one would refuse such a warm and cozy nest. Here you immediately have a nest and a composition of products corresponding to the coming Year.

We will need:

• boiled beef or veal - 350-400 gr
• raw potatoes - 2-3 pcs
• eggs - 7 pcs
• pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs
• champignon mushrooms, or any other, marinated - 200 gr
• green peas - 100 gr
• cheese - 70 gr
• mayonnaise -6-7 tbsp. spoons
• garlic - 1 clove
• salt - to taste
• sunflower oil - for frying potatoes
• lettuce, dill, parsley - for decoration
• ground black pepper - optional and to taste
• cherry tomatoes -3-4 pieces for decoration

The recipe also uses pancakes. They will need to bake 2-3 pieces.

For pancakes:

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

As you can see, no chicken. But there are pickled mushrooms, salted cucumbers. And we even baked pancakes especially for the coming Year of the Rooster!

Training:

1. Get the dough for pancakes. Let it stand for 30 minutes so that all the ingredients are combined.

2. Fry 2-3 thin pancakes.

3. Cool the hot pancakes a little, fold in half and roll into a tube. Then cool completely. How cool to cut, how to cut the roll, thin circles. Then the pancake will roll out and you will get long narrow strips.

4. Cucumbers cut into thin strips.

5. You will also need to boil the meat in advance. Boil it over low heat. It is not necessary to salt throughout the entire cooking, so that the salt does not draw out all the delicious juice from the meat. Salt for 10 minutes before the end of cooking. Cool the cooked meat and cut into thin strips.

We try to cut all the ingredients approximately the same in thickness and length. Since we will build a nest from them, it is better to cut them in the form of twigs, that is, straws.

6. Eggs should be boiled and also cooled. Then separate the whites from the yolks. Squirrels cut into thin strips.

7. We also need mushrooms. We use pickled mushrooms. Usually everyone uses champignons, and they are no worse in a salad than the rest. So, we also cut the mushrooms into strips, to match other products.

8. Another important step in preparation is to prepare a blank for the nest itself. And we'll build a nest out of fried french fries.

To do this, cut raw potatoes into very thin strips. Sometimes it is recommended to grate potatoes for Korean carrots.

9. When the potatoes are cut, they must be fried. To do this, heat the oil in a cauldron or frying pan, and placing the potatoes there in small portions, fry, stirring constantly.

10. In a large bowl, combine the chopped cucumbers, meat, mushrooms, egg whites and pancakes. There also add canned green peas, from which the brine was carefully drained.

11. Add mayonnaise. If you don’t really like mayonnaise, then add sour cream, or sour cream and mayonnaise 50 to 50%.

12. Mix everything gently. Try to see if there is enough salt. We have pickles, mushrooms, meat, green peas and mayonnaise. Therefore, I no longer salt anything. You can add one or two pinches of black ground pepper for piquancy.

13. Now we need to make eggs for the nest. Let's make them beautiful and appetizing.

14. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater, I use Russian. Chop garlic and mix with mayonnaise. Put some mayonnaise in a small bowl. Dip the yolk in mayonnaise and roll in the cheese-garlic mixture.

Put on a separate plate and put for the time being, until the time in the refrigerator. Now that we have prepared everything, we can begin to create our culinary masterpiece.

Salad "Capercaillie's Nest" - how to decorate and decorate

To make the salad look most impressive, it is better to spread it on a large flat dish. Then it will look exactly like a nest. Only prettier and brighter. If the real nest is discreet, disguised as tree branches. That is our "nest" - bright, flashy, just right for any holiday!

1. Put lettuce leaves on a large flat dish or plate.

2. Put the ingredients mixed with mayonnaise on the leaves in the form of a small hill. We make a small depression in the center where we will put the eggs.

3. We cover the entire surface of the laid out ingredients with french fries. Do not forget the edges, laying them on them, lightly press the potatoes so that they do not fall.

Here is what a beautiful and cozy "nest" we got.

4. In the center where we formed the bowl, carefully place the eggs. Spread sprigs of dill or parsley around them. Or both together. We also decorate the gaps between lettuce leaves with sprigs.

5. Now you need to let the salad brew so that all the ingredients are saturated with each other's juice and aroma and mayonnaise. To do this, put the salad in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

6. Remove the finished salad from the refrigerator, decorate with halves of cherry tomatoes and put on the festive table. Be sure to let you enjoy the view of our beautiful culinary masterpiece. And eat healthy!

Salad "Roses for a Beloved"

Do not look that the name of the salad is not New Year's at all. It is always a pleasure to receive roses from a loved one, even in winter, even in summer! And even more so beautiful!

This salad is similar to the previous one in that we prepare the same roses from freshly baked pancakes. To make roses red, cut pancakes will need to be dyed red with beet juice.

This salad has one feature that will not be forgotten if you decide to cook it. In the original, it is prepared from chicken fillet. Therefore, we will cook it unconventionally, we will replace chicken with meat, or smoked sausage, or brisket. You can use boiled tongue, or even take a little bit of everything.

We will need:

• boiled breast 300-400 gr. (unconditionally replace with boiled or smoked meat)
• boiled potatoes 3-4 pieces
• boiled carrots 2 pieces (medium)
• 2 pickled cucumbers
• half a can of green peas
• a bunch of green onions
• bunch of greenery
• mayonnaise to taste

For pancakes:

We will need:

• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• salt on the tip of a knife
• 1/3 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 100 ml. milk
• 1 clove of garlic

As you can see, the composition of the products is also quite simple. And what a beauty! So take note of this salad, especially if you have never cooked it!

Cooking

Pancakes for Roses:

1. Mix eggs with sugar.

2. Add salt and soda to the flour, mix.

3. Combine flour with a mixture of eggs and sugar.

4. Slowly stir in the milk.

5. Let stand for a while to disperse the lumps.

6. Bake 4 thin pancakes.

7. While the pancakes are warm, grease them on one side with mayonnaise, adding finely chopped garlic to it in advance.

8. Tightly roll the pancakes with a roll, greased side inward.

9. Let cool, then cut into pieces of about 1 cm. Small, rolled rolls are obtained.

Cooking salad "Roses for a loved one"

Now let's start laying out the salad. We take a salad bowl with high sides and line it with cling film.

1. We spread the cut rolls - “roses” on the bottom and on the sides.

2. Finely chop the potatoes into cubes and mix with mayonnaise.

3. We take 2/3 of the potatoes and put them on top of the "roses". We crush a little with our hands and coat with mayonnaise.

4. Cut carrots, pickled cucumbers, chicken into small cubes. Cut green onions as usual for salad.

5. Lay out everything in layers in this sequence - chicken breast, cucumbers, green peas, carrots, green onions and the remaining potatoes.

6. Salt each layer as needed and to taste, coat with mayonnaise as much as you like, but it’s better not to overdo it, otherwise sometimes they put so much mayonnaise in the salad that the taste of other products is not even felt.

7. Cover with cling film on top and put in the refrigerator for 12 hours. Let it now insist and gain strength.

When you serve the salad on the table, take a large flat plate or dish. Peel off the top film. Place a flat plate on a salad bowl and simply turn over. Remove the film from the "roses" and decorate the edge of the plate with finely chopped greens and the remaining onion. That's it, your salad "Roses for a Beloved" is ready! Beautiful and delicious! May your loved one be happy.

The next few salads are based on chicken fillet. But do not be tempted, resolutely change it for meat.

Salad "Pomegranate bracelet" with walnut

This is another favorite salad for the holiday. And of course, it is very often cooked on the New Year's table! And this year they will cook it all the more, because it contains pomegranates. Which, both in color and in taste, strongly recommends the upcoming Year of the Rooster!

What do we need for this:

• chicken fillet - 350 gr. (change to boiled meat)
• carrots - 3 pieces
• potatoes - 3 pieces
• beets - 3 pieces
• onion - 1 piece
• egg - 2-3 pieces
• pomegranate - 1 piece
• walnuts - 100 gr.
• mayonnaise - to taste
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon

Cooking.

1. Pour eggs with cold water, if they are from the refrigerator, let stand for 20-30 minutes. Then add half a tablespoon of salt and boil for 8 minutes. Drain hot water, put under the tap under cold water, let the water run a little. Then pour cold water, and leave the eggs in the water for a while so that they are better cleaned.

2. Boil potatoes and carrots. Potatoes will cook for 30 minutes, carrots a little faster.

3. Beets can also be boiled, but to make it faster, I boiled the beets in the microwave. To do this, pour a glass of water into a special glass container for the microwave. Wash the beets thoroughly, pierce in several places with a fork, put in a container with water, cover with a lid. Put on the "Vegetables" mode for 8-10 minutes. Then turn the beets on the other side, and repeat the procedure.

4. Wash chicken fillet, put in water and boil in salted water for 25-30 minutes. Then take it out, put it on a plate so that the liquid is glassed, and the chicken dries. It will be necessary to remove the skin from the fillet and cut it into thin strips, or you can also cubes. Who likes it better.

5. Finely chop the onion, pour a spoonful of oil into the pan and fry it until golden brown. Then pour half a glass of boiled water, and without reducing the heat, let the water boil, stirring the onion occasionally. Once all the water has boiled off and you see the onions begin to fry again, turn off the gas, cover the onion with a lid, and leave it like that. Water and then a closed lid will help our onions not crunch on our teeth when we eat salad.

6. Pour the nuts into a deep bowl and crush with a crush. You can also grind in a blender, but it will take longer to wash and clean it. The pusher can be used to quickly crush the ceiling, and the size of the resulting crumb can be better controlled. The crumb should not be very small, so that it would be nice to nibble on a nut when it hits your tooth in a salad.

7. When the vegetables have cooled, they must be rubbed on a coarse grater. All in separate bowls. Peel the pomegranate and sort into grains.

8. We do all of the above actions in parallel, and after 50-60 minutes, we have all the ingredients ready. Now we prepare mayonnaise, salt and pepper. As well as a large flat plate and a glass. Everything, now we are ready for creativity, we will create our salad and put into it the most basic component - our Soul!

9. Place an inverted glass in the center of a flat plate. We spread the first layer around it in a circle - chicken (meat). On top of this layer we make a thin mayonnaise mesh. In order for the mesh to be thin, you must first remove the mayonnaise from the refrigerator, it will warm up a little, and will be squeezed out in a thin stream. It is necessary that all layers are saturated with mayonnaise.

10. On top of the meat (chicken) is the next layer - carrots. When you put it out, salt and pepper to taste.

11. Now it's time for nuts. They need to lay out only half, the rest will still be useful to us. Now another layer of mayonnaise. Yes, a mesh would be just right here.

12. Mayonnaise is done. Now lay out the potatoes. It must be salted and peppered to taste. and of course, also grease with mayonnaise.

13. Next, lay out a little less than half of the beets, lightly salt.

14. Put the fried onion on top of the beets, slowly evenly shifting it down. And the rest of the nuts. Again, you will have to suffer and smear mayonnaise on naughty nuts. But you be more careful, take out the mayonnaise in advance, then you will just draw a mesh and that's it.

15. So what else do we have left - eggs! We spread them, do not forget to salt. Good thing you don't need mayonnaise.

16. Spread the remaining beets, distribute them well throughout the circle. Now lay out the last layer of mayonnaise. It should not be too much and too little. If there is too much of it, then the most important decoration in the form of pomegranate seeds will sink in it, and if it is not enough, then they will not hold and fall off. Therefore, grease a little first, put a few grains, if it holds well, then mayonnaise is enough.

17. Well, as you already understood, the last layer is pomegranate seeds. If there is time, then they can be laid out in even rows, grain to grain. And if not, then just take a little grains in the palm of your hand and distribute over the entire surface of the salad.

18. When finished, carefully remove the glass. You can leave the inner circle in such a way that the layers can be seen. But in the correct version, this part must also be greased with mayonnaise and covered with pomegranate seeds. A bracelet is a bracelet.

19. Now that our salad is assembled and stands in all its splendor, the temptation is great to eat it right away. But there is no need to hurry. The salad should still be infused for at least 8 hours. He needs to be well nourished. Therefore, we put it in the refrigerator for this time. We spent two hours preparing it, we will wait another 8 for it to reach its readiness!

The "Garnet Bracelet" is quite worthy of our attention, and we put a big thick checkmark in front of this recipe!

Salad "Mushroom glade"

This salad is like in a fairy tale about 12 months. It is as if it is winter outside, but then the month of August hit the ground with his staff, and a family of mushrooms grew on a lawn covered with green grass.

This is such a small hello from the summer. For its preparation we use whole pickled mushrooms. For this we take either champignons or mushrooms.

We will need:

• chicken breast - 1 pc (replace with meat)
• potatoes - 3 pcs
• carrots - 1 pc.
• hard cheese - 150 gr
• eggs - 2 pcs
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs
• fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• marinated champignons - 1 bank
• pickled mushrooms - 150 gr
• mayonnaise - to taste
• dill - bunch
• salt - to taste
• vegetable oil - for greasing the salad bowl

Food preparation:

1. Boil the meat. Then take it out and put it on a plate so that all the juice drains from it.

2. Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs.

3. When the vegetables have cooled, grate potatoes and carrots on a coarse grater.

4. Either grate the eggs too, or cut them into small cubes on an egg cutter.

5. Grate pickled cucumbers for Korean carrots, or cut into very small strips.

6. Cheese also rub on a grater.

7. Cut the meat into medium-sized strips.

8. Finely chop the dill.

9. Put the champignons out of the jar into a colander so that all the water is glassed from them.

10. Prepare a deep salad bowl, grease it with vegetable oil and line the inside with cling film so that long edges remain. We cover our salad with them.

Cooking:

Now that everything is ready, and we have not forgotten anything, we begin to create our masterpiece.

1. We choose champignons and form mushrooms directly in the clearing. We spread them with their hats down directly on the film, you can put larger mushrooms in the center, and smaller ones towards the edges. In general, as your fantasy tells you.

2. The next layer we have is greenery, this is the same mushroom clearing.

3. Then cheese, eggs. Salt the eggs lightly and grease this layer with mayonnaise. Who loves more mayonnaise, someone less, so add it to your liking.

4. Now we will go carrots, and then meat. We also grease this layer with mayonnaise.

5. Then add pickled cucumbers and potatoes, which we also salt and grease with mayonnaise.

As you have noticed, we grease the ingredients with mayonnaise through the layer. I do this so that the salad is not too oily. But if you want, you can lubricate each layer with it!

This is the classic version so to speak. But I also add one layer between the carrots and the meat. I make this layer from canned mushrooms, which I collected in the summer in the forest and marinated.

6. If you also have such a cherished jar, then do not regret it, add finely chopped mushrooms to the salad. The taste of the salad will be just amazing. Any mushrooms will do - both porcini, and boletus, and honey mushrooms, and mushrooms. Today I add mushrooms to the salad.

Well, if there is no such jar, it doesn’t matter ... add the remaining champignons, or just skip this layer. In principle, it will be so delicious!

One more nuance. If you are not a fan of mayonnaise, then the layers can be smeared with sour cream. And I like to mix sour cream with mayonnaise in a ratio of 50% to 50%, and grease the layers with such a mixture.

7. We cover the last layer with a film. And put in the refrigerator. Salad should be infused for at least 10 hours.

Instead of champignons, you can use mushrooms and the salad will then acquire a new beautiful look and a completely different taste. But I must tell you that this taste is not worse than the previous one.

Innings:

Before serving, prepare a large flat dish. Beautifully lay out green lettuce leaves on it.
Holding them with your hand, cover the salad bowl and turn over.
We cut slices of fresh cucumber and decorate the salad with it on the sides. You can add a little more dill or other herbs.
If you made a salad with mushrooms, then you can decorate the salad like that. Or as fantasy dictates.

Well, how do you like such a wonderful mushroom meadow ?! Beautiful, try it soon ... very tasty!

Salad "Sunflower" with chips and mushrooms

Another hello from summer! And this summer guest is also welcome and frequent on the New Year's table! He is loved for the original performance, the most delicate and refined taste. Just everything that the Red Rooster loves!

Also, as you know, the Rooster greatly appreciates simplicity and does not spend money in vain. In the composition of the products, everything is the simplest. But this doesn't hurt the salad at all. Ingredients are selected in strict accordance, they are balanced. Everything is perfectly combined, and "Sunflower" is obtained like no other!

We will need:

• chicken breast - 300 gr (replace with boiled meat)
• mushrooms - 300 gr
• onion - 1 pc.
• eggs - 5 pcs
• cheese - 150 gr
• olives - 0.5 cans
• chips - 0.5 cans
• mayonnaise - to taste
• sour cream - to taste
• vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste

Training:

1. Boil chicken breast (meat) in lightly salted water. Cool, remove the skin if you are using an unfinished fillet, and cut into small cubes or small strips. Whoever wants.

2. The second main component is mushrooms. Today I have forest fresh mushrooms. These salads are the most delicious. In addition, such mushrooms also have a wonderful forest aroma, which is also important.

3. Mushrooms must be cleaned of forest debris. And also clean the leg by scraping it and removing the dark layer. Cut into large pieces. Then fill them with water and put to boil.

As the water boils, note the time and boil lightly with salt for 10 minutes. During this time, remove the foam.

4. Then we throw the mushrooms into a colander and let the water drain.

5. Onion - a small head, also cut into smaller cubes and fry in oil. Pour a couple of tablespoons of oil into the pan first, if not enough, then add another spoon.

6. Fry the onion until slightly golden, do not overcook. And immediately add the mushrooms. Reduce the heat and sauté the onion and mushrooms for 10 more minutes. Place on a flat plate to cool quickly. Then cut into small cubes.

7. Boil eggs until tender. Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the whites on a coarse grater, and the yolks on the smallest. Try to choose eggs with a bright yolk for salad. Then the salad will look like a real sunflower - bright and colorful!

8. Grate cheese on a coarse or medium grater.

9. Olives cut into two halves. This will be the "seeds" of our sunflower.

10. Prepare mayonnaise and sour cream. You can make a salad only with mayonnaise. I will do 50 to 50, mixing sour cream and mayonnaise. So, the salad will turn out to be less high-calorie and more tasty, because two dressings are always better than one.

11. And finally, chips! The product is not very useful - but art requires sacrifice! To create such a culinary masterpiece - chips are needed. In the end, if you are completely against them, then when you eat, just put them aside. It's easy to make, the chips are not mixed with the salad. We will have such a decor, namely, sunflower petals.

Well, everything is ready, it remains to prepare only a large flat plate or dish. A salad does not fit on a small plate, I warn you right away, pay attention to this!

Cooking:

1. The first bottom layer we have is chicken fillet or meat. But before we put it on a dish, mix it with mayonnaise and sour cream in the bowl in which we have it.

This will allow each piece to soak in the sauce when the salad is infused. If you stir immediately on a dish, it will be ugly, smeared and smeared.

Therefore, we interfere with the meat with sauces on a separate plate, and then carefully lay it out in the dish on which we will serve. Pepper this layer a little to give the salad extra flavor and some piquancy.

2. Put the cooled mushrooms with onions in the next layer. We will not lubricate this layer with anything, it is already lubricated with us - with oil. If there is oil left in the plate on which the mushrooms lay, then it is not necessary to pour it out. Mushrooms and onions have already taken as much oil as they needed.

It is not necessary to press the layers. We spread the ingredients freely, as they fall. The layers will compact themselves while they are soaked, as they need to!

3. Then lay out the grated egg whites. We also grease this layer with sour cream and mayonnaise in equal proportions. Or just mayonnaise, if you are a fan of it.

By the way, you can prepare a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream in advance by mixing everything in a separate bowl. Stir not too much so that there is no leftover. It's always better to mix in extra.

And it is also very important not to abuse the lubrication. We have salad with mayonnaise, not mayonnaise with salad. Sometimes they put so much mayonnaise in the salad that the taste of nothing else is no longer felt. And the salad almost floats in it. Everything is good when everything is in moderation.

4. Put a layer of grated cheese on the proteins. It will also need to be slightly flavored with dressing.

5. Now, carefully, so as not to wrinkle, lay out the top layer of the egg yolk. Sometimes pickled corn is laid out with this last layer. But in this case, another layer of mayonnaise is applied to the corn.

I prefer the egg yolk, because in this case, additional lubrication can be dispensed with.

We try to distribute the egg yolk so that it covers not only the upper part, but also the side walls.

6. Spread the olives cut into halves in a circle. These are our "seeds" of a sunflower, so we arrange them in the appropriate order. Press down on each half to make sure it stays in place.

And this is our last layer. We will include chips in the salad just before serving. Otherwise, they will soften ahead of time and will not be crispy.

I do not salt any of the lettuce layers. Chicken breast and mushrooms were boiled in salt water. Salt is present in mayonnaise and chips. And in chips it is even more than it should be. I only slightly peppered the layer with chicken meat and that's it.

But I advise you to try the mushroom layer and the layer with chicken meat. If boiled, and there is not enough salt, then the layers should be salted to taste.

7. Put the salad in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, but 4 hours is better. During this time, the layers will be well saturated with dressing, infuse and cool slightly.

Since we did not press the layers, the salad will turn out tender and airy. Since we did not use a lot of mayonnaise, it will not be fatty and high in calories for us.

It would seem that all these are trifles, but the taste of the dish just depends on these trifles. That is exactly what we are trying so hard for! After all, we are preparing a salad for our most beloved and close people. Therefore, do not neglect the details, they are very important!

8. Before serving the salad on the table, make petals from chips. The salad immediately changed, became so beautiful and inviting! That's all ... We serve it on the table, put the chips on portioned plates, and salad on them. It is best to cut the salad into triangles, as we cut the cake. And we also serve it like a cake. To keep all layers saved.

New Year's salad "Santa Claus"

Everyone - both adults and children are waiting for miracles from the New Year. And who can perform these miracles. Of course Santa Claus! Therefore, we will prepare a salad in the form of its image! He will please everyone without exception.

We will need:

• crab sticks - 200 gr
• red fish (salted or smoked) - 200 gr
• rice - 1 cup
• hard cheese - 100 gr
• tomatoes - 1 pc.
• Bulgarian pepper (red) - 1 pc.
• carrots, peppercorns, dill - for decoration
• mayonnaise - to taste

Cooking:

1. Boil rice in salted water and cool it.

2. Finely chop the crab sticks. Leave a little for decoration.

3. Cut the tomatoes and red bell pepper into cubes.

4. Forming a figure of Santa Claus on a large flat plate, lay out the first layer of rice. Press lightly with your hands. Leave some rice to decorate the coat.

Spread the layer with mayonnaise.

5. The second layer will be crab meat. Put it on top of the first layer and also lightly press with your hands.

This layer must also be smeared with mayonnaise.

6. Put the tomatoes and bell peppers in the next layer. Where the face of Santa Claus will be, leave a free space.

Spread this layer with mayonnaise too.

7. Cut a small square out of the cheese. It will be an impromptu gift bag. Rub the rest of the cheese on a fine grater.

8. Put a piece of cheese where we left a place for the face.

9. Salted or smoked red fish (trout, salmon, pink salmon) cut into long thin plates. Put on top of all layers, forming a fur coat and Santa Claus hat.

10. Decorate the figure of Santa Claus and the salad. Lay out the edge of the fur coat and hat with rice. Make a beard out of cheese. Make eyes out of black peppercorns. Cut out the nose and mouth from a piece of carrot. Cheeks can be made by smearing them with beetroot juice.

11. Decorate a bag with gifts with ribbons of crab sticks. Staff to make using them.

12. In the background, arrange a forest of dill sprigs.

By the way, the same salad can be arranged in another beautiful way, in the form of a starfish. It also looks very nice. And to put this on the festive table is quite appropriate!

Here he is so handsome!

Seafood salad "Sea caprice"

We will need:

• shrimp (tiger) - 10 pcs
• squid - 200 gr
• mussels without shells - 200 gr
• sea ​​scallops - 200 gr
• olive oil - 100 gr
• garlic - 1 clove
• rosemary - 1-2 sprigs
• thyme - 1 sprig
• dill - 3 sprigs
• lettuce leaves -150-200 gr

For sauce:

• balsamic vinegar -120 ml.
• sugar - 2.5 tbsp. spoons
• olive oil - 60 ml.

Cooking:

1. Let's start by making the sauce. Evaporate the balsamic vinegar in a pan until it reduces in volume by 4 times. Add sugar. Let cool. Add olive oil.

3. In a separate pan, fry seafood in oil along with garlic, rosemary, thyme and dill. Fry for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly.

4. Let cool.

5. Put lettuce leaves on a large flat dish. Put seafood on them and pour over the sauce.

That's all! The salad is prepared quickly, but it turns out tasty and low-calorie. In addition, it is also quite consistent with the wishes of the menu.

Well, it's time to move on to the main dishes.

Duck with apples and prunes "New Year's Tale"

We will need:

• duck - 1.5 kg
• sweet and sour apples - 3-4 pcs
• prunes - 250 gr
• sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• thyme - 1 sprig
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste

For gravy:

• chicken broth - 2 cups
• flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• vodka - 15 ml.
• red currant jelly - 1 tbsp. a spoon

Cooking:

1. Rinse the duck, drain and pat dry with a paper towel. Rub it with salt and pepper. Let stand 1 hour.

2. Rinse prunes with water and scald with boiling water, then drain the water. Cut apples into small pieces. Combine with prunes. Add sugar and thyme.

3. Fill duck with stuffing. Fasten with toothpicks. Pierce the skin in several places.

4. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Lay the duck breast side down on a baking sheet. Bake for 1-1.5 hours, depending on the size of the duck and the characteristics of the oven.

5. Get the duck. Drain the evaporated fat from the pan. Pour it into a pan, put on fire. Add flour, mix, fry until lightly thickened. Add vodka, stir. Then add broth and jelly.

6. Simmer the gravy over low heat until it thickens.

7. Divide the duck into portions. Arrange nicely on a platter and top with gravy.

8. Decorate with fresh herbs, tomatoes and apples.

According to the same recipe, duck can be cooked without gravy. In this case, when ready, just take it out, put it on a dish and decorate it, as fantasy tells.

But I will say right away that with gravy the duck turns out much tastier. And what is important, she does not have her specific smell at all. The dish itself is chic and truly festive.

By the way, you can also cook duck for Christmas!

Beef Wellington is a classic English dish.

This amazing recipe caught my eye recently. This is the recipe of the famous British chef of the world scale Gordon Ramsay.And for the New Year, this dish will be just a real culinary masterpiece!

This dish is not prepared quickly. It will take 2 hours to cook it.

We will need (for 8 servings):

• fresh beef tenderloin - 700 gr
• champignons - 400 gr
• dry porcini mushrooms -50 gr
• onion - 1 head (small)
• puff pastry - 250 gr
• thyme - 1 sprig
• salt, pepper - to taste
• egg yolk - for brushing

Cooking:

1. Rinse and dry the meat thoroughly. Cut films.

2. Fry in a hot pan until a crust forms.

3. Pour boiling water over dry porcini mushrooms and soak for 15 minutes. Cut mushrooms into small pieces. Drain water from porcini mushrooms and chop them as well.

4. Cut the onion into small cubes. Fry mushrooms with onions in a pan, adding a sprig of thyme. Fry until done.

5. Then we transfer to a blender and grind, but so that the mushrooms are not in a puree state.

6. Roll out the dough with a thickness of 3-4 mm. Put some mushrooms on it. Salt and pepper the meat and put it on top of the mushrooms. Spread the mushrooms and onions in an even layer around the meat.

7. Seal the edges of the dough very carefully so that the juice does not leak out. It should soak the meat during the cooking process. Place on a baking sheet seam side down. Lubricate with egg yolk.

8. Bake until the dough is golden. Approximately 35-45 minutes. To determine the readiness of meat, professionals use a thermometer to measure the temperature of meat, it should be 50 degrees (degree of readiness - "medium rear" - with blood).

• veal - 800 gr
• bacon - 300 gr
• sausages - 150 gr
• bell pepper - 2 pcs
• meat broth - 1 cup
• dry white wine - 1 glass
• pickled cucumbers - 5-6 pcs
• mustard - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• greens - bunch
• spices - thyme, rosemary, paprika
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Cut the meat so that a rectangular flat layer is obtained. Beat it, salt, season with spices. Rub everything over the surface. Pour the oil into your hands and spread it over the meat.

2. Cut the bacon as thin as possible. Lay it on top of the meat and brush with mustard. Leave for 30 minutes.

3. Boil sausages until tender, cool.

4. Cut cucumbers and peppers into long strips.

5. Put sausages and chopped cucumbers with pepper on the meat.

6. Roll up the meat. Tie with kitchen string.

7. Grease a deep baking dish with oil. Put a roll in it. Top with meat broth and dry white wine.

8. Cover the form with foil. Bake at 180 degrees for 1 hour 10 minutes. Water the roll with juice every 15 minutes.

9. Remove the foil and bake for another 20 minutes. The roll should be covered with a beautiful golden brown.

The roll turns out very tasty and looks festive. Therefore, it will be very good on the New Year's table!

Pork - accordion "New Year's accordion"

This dish is very popular to prepare for the holidays, because it is not difficult to prepare it. And it turns out very tasty, and no less beautiful. Therefore, it will decorate any table.

We will need:

• pork (loin or shoulder) -500 gr
• hard cheese - 200 gr
• tomatoes - 2 pcs
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons
• mustard - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Wash the meat, drain and pat dry with a paper towel.

2. Mix mayonnaise and mustard, salt and pepper.

3. Coat the pork, put in a container, close the lid and refrigerate for 5-6 hours.

4. Cut the cheese into slices. Slices of tomatoes.

5. In the pork, make transverse cuts every centimeter. We don’t cut it to the end, we leave the meat in such a way that it resembles an accordion.

6. Insert a piece of cheese and a circle of tomato into each cut. Wrap meat in foil.

7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Lay the meat in foil on a baking sheet. Bake 1 hour.

8. Remove the foil and bake for another 15-20 minutes until the meat is browned.

For decoration, we make potato mushrooms.

Wash small potatoes thoroughly with a brush. Let dry. Make a deep cut in the middle of the potato.

The upper part will be our hat, and we will cut out the leg from the lower part. Lubricate the "mushrooms" with oil and roll the lower part of the leg with some dry herbs.

Bake in the oven until done.

Sturgeon baked in the New Year's oven

If you managed to buy a sturgeon, then your New Year's table will be truly royal. After all, sturgeons used to be served only at royal feasts. Baking sturgeon is not difficult at all, at least not more difficult than any other fish.

We will need:

• sturgeon - 3-4 kg
• cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs
• cucumbers -2-3 pieces
• olives - 10-15 pcs
• cranberries - 0.5 cups
• lemon - 2 pcs
• lettuce leaves - 400 gr
• dry white wine - 150 ml
• vegetable oil - for lubrication
• salt, pepper to taste

Cooking:

1. Peel the sturgeon from the insides and rinse thoroughly. Dry with paper towels.

2. Rub with salt and pepper inside and out. Then sprinkle with lemon juice inside and out. Lubricate with vegetable oil and let lie down for 20-30 minutes.

3. Line a baking sheet with foil so that hanging edges remain. We will wrap the fish with them. It is best to make 2-3 layers of foil, so it will definitely not tear and all the juice will remain inside.

Lubricate the sturgeon with oil.

4. Put the fish on foil, pour wine on top and carefully seal. We send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees.

5. Bake for 20 minutes. Then open the foil and bake for another 15-20 minutes until a beautiful golden crust forms.

6. Carefully lay out the finished sturgeon on a large flat dish, and decorate with tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, olives, cranberries and lemon. And also decorate the head and tail with mayonnaise or sour cream.

Such a baked fish served at the festive table will amaze the imagination of all those present, and certainly will not leave anyone indifferent.

But if it was not possible to buy a sturgeon, then it does not matter. There are many other delicious fish that can also be baked in the oven.

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 piece
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - for frying

For test:

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

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!

Well, a lot of recipes have already been written, it's time to move on to desserts.

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, New Year's Eve! Prepare it and please yourself and your loved ones.

Well, the last topic is drinks! What is the New Year without drinks. But we remember from the article about the characteristics of the Fire Sign of the Coming Year that one must be very careful with alcohol! The rooster is still a bully and a bully, if he goes over it, then he might start bullying everyone! Therefore, it is desirable to have Champagne and wine on the table, but you need to be more careful with stronger drinks.

But cocktails are quite welcome. Moreover, the word "cocktail" in French means "cock's tail." So the cocktail will just be on topic!

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:

• 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 lot of ideas for the New Year's 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!

A good hostess who loves to surprise her loved ones with original and delicious dishes for any feast should now think about what to cook for the most important holiday of the year - the New Year 2017. You can start a selection of the best recipes right now. There is still a lot of time before the New Year 2017, so some culinary masterpieces need to be tried now to get used to them. And on December 31, in order to avoid unnecessary turmoil, the prudent hostess will turn out all the culinary delights to glory.

In this article, we will answer the question - What to cook for the New Year of the Rooster 2017?

What to cook for the holiday 2017: delicious recipes

According to a long-established tradition, many choose recipes for New Year's feast, depending on the symbol of the coming year. The patron saint of the new year 2017 is the Fire Rooster. The first association that arises about this poultry as a pedantic, bright and domineering figure is that the symbol of the new year 2017 is unlikely to like it if there are chicken and chicken eggs on the table. And then any hostess, of course, will wonder what to cook to please the capricious feathered one?

But it doesn’t matter, because a great many recipes for various salads, hot dishes and snacks have been invented in our time. Chicken baked in the oven can always be replaced with duck, goose or turkey, especially since it has long been proven that turkey meat is much healthier and more nutritious than chicken. For lovers of primordially Russian cuisine, poultry meat on the farewell of the old year and the meeting of the new year 2017 can be represented, for example, by baked quails, which is unlikely to anger the domineering Fire Rooster.

Another nuance that His Majesty the Rooster may not like is the presence of chicken eggs on the New Year's table. Of course, if you stick to the tradition of choosing recipes for the New Year 2017 for the sake of its symbol, then you should not prepare snacks with the obvious use of these same eggs, for example, snacks in the form of chicken eggs stuffed with a mixture of yolks and mayonnaise with garlic. However, it is unlikely that the Fire Rooster will be against adding them to ordinary salads, for example, in everyone's favorite and adored Olivier salads. Because, well, what is the new year without Olivier? And the new year 2017 under the banner of the rooster should not be an exception. Particularly strict followers of the compilation of the New Year's menu for the sake of the symbol of the coming year will always be able to replace chicken eggs with quail eggs.

As you know, the rooster itself is a beautiful bird, with bright plumage, and even more so its fiery form suggests that the symbol of 2017 loves everything colorful and colorful. Therefore, serving and decorating the New Year's table must also be given sufficient attention. A lot of greenery, a lot of juicy, bright vegetables and fruits of different colors will certainly please the fastidious handsome man and surprise the guests with a riot of colors.

With what to cook for the New Year's table for the meeting of the Year of the Fire Rooster, it is already becoming a little clear, then what about the appropriate alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks? What drinks will appeal to the feathered handsome man? Most likely, a pedantic cock will appreciate something classic, strong and masculine. Expensive cognac, whiskey, rum - this is what you should make from drinks for the new year 2017. And for women who prefer something less strong, traditional red semi-sweet wine is quite suitable, but no one has canceled the same traditional splashes of champagne to the sound of chimes .

What salads to cook for the New Year 2017? Recipes.

Of all the types of salads, vegetable or rustic types of salads will be the most suitable for the symbol of 2017, since the rooster is a domestic bird and immediately evokes associations of the countryside and the household. For example, the Mazurka salad turns out to be as bright and colorful as the patron saint of the coming year, and it also contains corn grains and red beans.

Ingredients:

• one can each of canned corn and red beans
• medium-sized grinder - 1 piece
• fresh cucumbers (can be replaced with canned ones) - 2 pieces
• 100 g walnuts
• 2 garlic cloves
• salt, pepper to taste
• dressing oil (preferably olive oil)

Cooking:

1. Mix canned corn and beans in a deep wide cup, first drain unnecessary water from cans.
2. Add diced cucumbers to the cup, and it is best to chop the grinder into thin strips.
3. To quickly crush nuts, it is very convenient to place them in a tight bag and roll a dough wheel over them. Chopped walnuts are also added to the salad bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
4. Squeeze garlic cloves in a garlic press, salt and pepper to taste and add oil.
5. What can be prepared for exotic lovers for the New Year's table? For them, a salad of tomatoes and avocado with beetroot leaves is quite suitable.

Salad preparation video.

Tomato and avocado salad with beetroot leaves.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 large or whole medium sized avocado
• medium sized tomatoes - 3 pieces
• half a large or one small bell pepper
• onion - 1 piece
• beet tops - 3-4 leaves
• lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
• green cilantro, parsley or dill
• olive oil for dressing
• salt and freshly ground pepper

Cooking:

1. Peeled avocado pulp, cut into cubes or strips, while you need to pour the cooked slices with lemon juice so that they do not darken.
2. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices, cut the grinder and onion into quarters of rings, while if there is a lot of onion and it is too bitter, its amount must be reduced so as not to drown out the delicate flavor of the avocado.
3. Cut the leaves of beet tops into thin curly strips and also sprinkle with lemon juice. Finely chop the greens of cilantro, parsley or dill (optional).
4. Mix all these ingredients in a salad bowl, salt to taste and sprinkle with freshly ground pepper, season with olive oil and move. Salad ready!
5. Not only amazingly tasty, but also healthy, green bean salads and soft Feta cheese are obtained.

Video.

Salad of bean pods and Feta cheese with the addition of croutons.

Ingredients:

• green beans - 250 g
• Feta cheese - 90 g
• black olives - 10 pieces
• almonds - 20 g
• white baguette - 200 g
• lemon juice - 3-4 tablespoons
• 3-4 garlic cloves
• dill
• salt, red pepper
• olive oil

Cooking:

1. Cut the white bread into cubes and fry in a frying pan with the addition of olive oil to make the croutons more crispy, you can dry them a little more in the oven. Grate the finished crackers with garlic cloves.
2. Defrost bean pods and cook in boiling water for 7 minutes with the addition of a tablespoon of lemon juice, drain excess water and put in a salad bowl.
3. Cut the feta into small cubes, cut the almonds into quarters. Chop greens.
4. In a salad bowl, mix cooked toast cubes, boiled young beans, cheese cubes, black olives and chopped almonds.
5. Prepare salad dressing in a separate container by mixing 2 or 3 tablespoons of lemon juice with a little olive oil, salt and red pepper can also be added there. Pour over the salad and mix well. Bon appetit to you and your guests!
6. A New Year's feast in almost every family is unlikely to do without traditional Olivier salads and herring under a fur coat. But, fortunately, the New Year holidays are long enough, there will be many holidays. And what is better to cook from the proposed options for each holiday is up to you to choose.

What snacks to cook for the New Year 2017? Recipes.

What would be something to cook from snacks that would correspond to the year of the Rooster, be tasty and remember for a long time? Homemade rolls, this is what is very important now, many people love them very much, besides, they are quite simple to prepare.

Classic rolls with salmon, cucumber and cheese. Recipe.

Ingredients:

• 200 g salmon
• 150 g hard cheese
• fresh cucumbers - 2 pieces
• long grain rice - 200 g
• pressed kelp sheets for rolls
• wasabi sauce
• special mat for rolling rolls

For the sauce with which it is customary to serve rolls to the table:

• juice of half a lemon
• a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
• soy sauce
• a pinch of sugar

Cooking:

1. Rinse rice several times and boil over low heat in a volume of water that is exactly twice the volume of rice. When cooking rice, do not salt or stir, and then cool at room temperature.
2. Cut cucumbers, cheese and salmon into thin long strips.
3. On a roll mat, pre-wrapped with foil, put a sheet of kelp in the center. Put a thin layer of rice on the sheet, leaving free space on top of the sheet and moisten it with water. This is done so that the empty part of the wet sheet holds the roll together and it does not fall apart.
4. Next, draw a thin strip of wasabi sauce over the rice, the strip should not pass in the middle of the laid out rice, but closer to the lower end of the seaweed sheet. Arrange the cucumber, cheese, and fish strips evenly along the wasabi strip.
5. Roll up the roll with a mat. Cut the resulting roll with a very sharp knife into rolls of the thickness that seems most familiar.
6. For a sauce often served with these snacks in Japanese restaurants, combine a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, the juice of half a lemon, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, and a pinch of sugar.

Now there are a huge variety of varieties of these popular snacks. If you don't like salmon, you can replace it with eel or herring. Rolls or sushi, cold or baked, the choice is really very large, and what exactly to cook from these trendy snacks is up to you. Perhaps you want to make several types of rolls that your family members love so much.

On the New Year's table for the meeting of 2017, it will be very appropriate, unusual and original to look at salads, appetizers from germinated wheat. Sprouts of germinated wheat grains are simply extremely useful, they contain a storehouse of vitamins and microelements, and besides, they are very tasty. At first glance, it may seem that it is impossible to cook something for the festive table from such a common ingredient as germinated wheat. However, it is not. Here, for example, is a salad appetizer recipe that will definitely not leave your guests indifferent and emphasize your exquisite taste.

Appetizer-salad of wheat germ "Original".

Ingredients:

• kiwi and banana one each
• 150 g hard cheese
• wheat germ - 3 tablespoons
• 2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds
• 1.5 tablespoons liquid honey
• juice of ½ part lemon

Cooking:

1. Banana and kiwi cut into large cubes, mix with chopped wheat germ. Season the resulting mixture with lemon juice and honey, mix. Sprinkle finely grated cheese on top and garnish with pomegranate seeds.
2. Such an appetizer is not only healthy and tasty, but also completely in the spirit of the symbol of 2017.
3. In order to somehow diversify the vegetable component of New Year's dishes, you can offer another appetizer, which is becoming more and more popular year by year, because many have already appreciated its juiciness and unique taste. These are baked stuffed champignons.

Baked stuffed champignons for the New Year 2017.

Ingredients:

• champignons - the number of pieces is approximately 15 (for the number of guests), it is better to choose an average size, while they should all be about the same size
• white part of a leek or green onion
• hard cheese - 300 g
• breadcrumbs - 2 tablespoons
• garlic clove
• salt pepper

Cooking:

1. Prepare mushrooms - cut off their legs at the very base, only hats should remain, which need to be slightly salted and set aside while the filling is being prepared. Don't throw out your legs!
2. Filling: cut the onion into rings and fry until golden brown, then add finely chopped mushroom stalks, chop the garlic clove, add salt and pepper, fry it all for 7 minutes. At the end of the frying, add breadcrumbs. When the filling has cooled, for juiciness, add some of the cheese grated on a fine grater, but not all.
3. Put the finished filling into mushroom caps and cover each with a layer of grated cheese on top. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 10 minutes.

What hot dishes to cook for the New Year 2017? Recipes.

As mentioned earlier, of all the recipes for hot dishes for the New Year's holiday 2017, hot chicken dishes should be avoided. Therefore, this New Year's feast will have to do without grilled chicken.

But there are other varieties of poultry meat, hot dishes from which will become real decorations of the New Year's table, for example, turkey meat dishes.

Turkey baked with bacon.

Ingredients:

• turkey (it is better to take a medium-sized bird weighing about 4 kg)
• bacon slices
• 2 citrus fruits (separately a lemon and plus a mandarin or orange to it)
• olive oil - 20 ml
• fragrant herbs (sprigs of sage, cilantro, rosemary, thyme)
• salt, freshly ground black pepper

To prepare aromatic oil you will need:

• 250 g thawed butter
• 3-4 garlic cloves
• one small lemon
• salt, black pepper
• one tablespoon of fresh, finely chopped herbs (parsley, rosemary or sage)

Cooking:

1. First, the turkey should be salted, peppered inside and out, anointed with olive oil and refrigerated until the next day.
2. The next day, start preparing butter with fragrant herbs: mix butter that has melted at room temperature (not liquid!) With various chopped fresh herbs with the addition of lemon juice from a whole citrus and zest.
3. On the brisket of the soaked bird, make a small incision, free the area under the skin and place the cooked oil with aromatic herbs in this space. In this case, you need to try to gently smooth the oil under the skin of the turkey with your fingers, and rub the carcass well on the outside with the rest. Next, place the turkey in the refrigerator to solidify the oil.
4. After that, inside the turkey, you need to insert a whole lemon, onion and half an orange, some fragrant herbs in the form of twigs. At the same time, empty spaces must remain inside the turkey. The bird should be baked in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for the first half an hour open, and then pulled out and covered with foil on top of the turkey, bake for another half an hour.
5. After these 30 minutes, you need to put bacon slices in a row on the turkey breast and bake again without foil for 15 minutes.
6. Remove the finished hot dish from the oven and stand for another 25 minutes under the foil.

Video.

Meat in French

Recently, French-style meat recipes have appeared in all cookbooks, and for good reason, because this hot dish is very popular and is suitable not only for a festive table, but also for an ordinary day. In fact, this popular and tasty hot dish is quite simple to prepare, and guests invited to the festive table will remember it for a long time and ask for recipes.

Required Ingredients:

• meat - 400-500 g (better boneless pork, fillet)
• onion - 3 small onions
• mayonnaise - 200 g
• hard cheese (Dutch, Gouda or Russian) - 250 g
• salt and pepper
• butter for greasing the pan

Cooking:

1. Cut the meat into small flat pieces, 1 cm thick. You need to cut across the fibers with a very sharp knife. Beat the slices on both sides and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste each of them.
2. Lubricate the heated baking sheet with butter and put the chops of meat close to each other on it. Put a layer of onion thin half rings on top of the meat layer so that the onion tightly covers the meat. Top both layers with mayonnaise.
3. We load the baking sheet into the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 30 minutes. While the meat is baking, grate the cheese on a fine grater. Sprinkle the meat with this cheese and place the baking sheet in the oven for another 20 minutes.
4. A very tasty hot dish for the New Year's holiday is ready, it remains when serving, sprinkle the meat with finely chopped herbs.
5. Of course, each housewife will decide what to cook for the New Year's feast depending on the taste preferences of her family members, and these will not necessarily be the dishes offered, because each family has their own favorite salads, snacks and other dishes.

Video.

Having naughty and grimacing at us enough, the naughty Monkey is about to leave us, giving up its place of honor to the Fire Rooster - the owner of 2017, a passionate, emotional, active nature and adoring adventure and adventure. But at the same time, according to the stars, the Rooster values ​​family and traditions.

Before we have time to look back, the New Year 2017 will come. We are all already wondering what to cook for the New Year? There are so many things ahead! It's time to draw up an action plan and menu, think about decorating the house, table and gifts for loved ones. But for this, you will agree, it is necessary to get to know the owner of the next year better, to study his habits and taste preferences.

Let's start, perhaps, with the fact that the Rooster, although he is Fiery, is a village bird. He gets up early, keeps order with a keen eye, treats all his household with care. But frugal does not mean greedy. The owner of the year is hospitable, loves abundance, hearty treats, but without frills. Well, this is in our favor! When planning a menu for the New Year 2017 and thinking about what to cook for the New Year, you should not reinvent the wheel. , salads for the New Year, New Year's main dishes and desserts for the New Year, will appeal to any company.

New Year's table 2017 should be unpretentious, but certainly bright and beautiful. The rooster is a bright bird, who knows a lot about beauty. This bird will like beautifully and unusually cut multi-colored vegetables (tomatoes, bell peppers, fresh cucumbers, carrots) and greens laid out on large flat dishes. You will be pleased with appetizers in the form of canapes and tartlets, sandwiches, pita rolls with various fillings, as well as various meat, sausage and cheese cuts, laid on lettuce leaves and decorated with herbs and vegetables. They say that the Rooster really likes cheese, so you can experiment with making appetizers and salads with cheese.

Our Fiery guest is not at all against the presence of homemade preparations on the table: cucumbers, tomatoes, pickled mushrooms. Therefore, feel free to get supplies from the treasured cellars and put them on the festive table. The rooster is generally a supporter of everything natural, he does not respect chemical seasonings and overly spicy and fatty dishes.

Salads on the festive table, as some culinary horoscopes advise us, must be prepared completely without eggs and chicken meat. An incredible demand in our Russian realities, don't you think? How to do in the New Year 2017 without the traditional "Olivier", "Herring under a fur coat", "Mimosa", salads with boiled or smoked chicken and many others? No way! By the way, the Chinese New Year will come only on January 28th. And yet, chicken is the most affordable meat in Russia, and we cannot do without it. So the Rooster is unlikely to be offended by you if you use chicken or eggs in cooking. And we all understand that a rooster is not a hen, and a hen is not a rooster.

Be sure to lay out one of your favorite salads in the form of a cockerel, make a tail in the form of colorful and bright vegetable strips, or, generously sprinkling chopped greens on the salad, place a cockerel made from a chicken egg in the center of the salad. Make a beak, wings and tail from multi-colored bell pepper, a scallop from fresh carrots, and eyes from black peppercorns. Well, can our Cockerel resist such beauty?! By the way, both snacks and New Year's salads can also be served on the festive table in boats made of vegetables, fruits or in dough molds.

New Year's second days, now let's talk about them. What to cook for the New Year? Pork, lamb, and beef can be served on the table. In a word, anything, the main thing is not to be too fat. Those who are wary of upsetting the symbol of the year are unlikely to cook their favorite baked chicken for the New Year's table. But in vain! Firstly, the year of the Rooster will really come almost at the end of January. And secondly, here you can also make a compromise: you can’t serve the chicken, so to speak, “in its pure form”, but we will serve it with an intricate vegetable side dish or bake it in the oven with potatoes, bell peppers and eggplant. It looks like a chicken, but no - this is a different dish. Decided not to risk it? There are many options for cooking poultry for the New Year: cook a duck with apples or a stuffed turkey. Our feathered guest will love delicious vegetable casseroles with mushrooms, stew.

Don't forget about fish dishes. Fish can be baked separately, along with vegetables, to make delicious fish cakes from it. Moreover, if it is not possible to buy salmon or trout, cook mackerel baked in the oven with vegetables and lemon. It turns out incredibly tasty, fragrant and will surely appeal to relatives and guests.

Do you remember the saying: “A hen pecks grain by grain”? So, throughout the New Year's Eve, you should adhere to one simple rule: do not eat to satiety, but eat a little so that you have the strength to have fun, because the Rooster loves fun.
What can really surprise the Fire Rooster is New Year's baking. It can be any number. Pies and pies with various fillings, original cakes decorated with cream, and various cookies in the form of Christmas trees, snowflakes, snowmen, stars are not prohibited. Desserts for the New Year can also include fruit salads, ice cream, chocolate-coated fruits, meringue Christmas trees and much more. The flight of your imagination in the preparation and decoration of desserts is not limited. There should be a lot of sweet foods. That's why this magical holiday exists.

A few words about drinks. Traditional champagne and this time will take its place of honor on the festive table. In addition to it, you can also afford something stronger: vodka, cognac, good wine, original cocktails (by the way, the word cocktail in translation means “cock's tail”), but this does not mean that all this should be drunk in huge quantities, here, as in food, you need a measure. Children can prepare delicious milkshakes.

You also need to set the table to please the Fire Rooster. For this occasion, a red tablecloth is perfect. If you have blue or green, that's fine too. Serving utensils, if possible, also take a bright one. The Rooster will appreciate such a serving. To please him completely, set the table in a rustic style: canvas tablecloths, napkins. Do not use plastic, give preference to glass, wood, ceramic or porcelain dishes. Wooden candlesticks, wicker vases and baskets will give a magical evening a feeling of home warmth and comfort. Put wooden spoons in salads - both beautiful and original. Hot dishes can be served directly in clay pots.

And most importantly, when setting the table, do not forget to put a plate with germinated grain or just some cereal in the center. This is a treat for the symbol of the year. You can put the same plate under the Christmas tree and seat a cockerel next to it - a soft toy, ceramic or wooden - so that the Fire Rooster sees that he is welcome and eagerly awaited in this house. Then he, in turn, will do everything possible to make your holiday bright and unforgettable, and the New Year 2017 the happiest in your life.

Larisa Shuftaykina

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 2020. All recipes are carefully selected and the dishes prepared according to them will appeal to most people.

2020 is the year of the White Metal Rat. The rat is an omnivore, so you can cook any dishes to your taste on the festive table.

Menu for the New Year 2020: 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 well, 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 2020 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 2020 does.

New and interesting salads 2020: Recipes

Salads are one of the most important components of the New Year's table. We tried for you to collect new, interesting and most delicious recipes for holiday salads in this collection:

The main salad of any New Year's table is, of course, Olivier. This is a traditional recipe that was prepared by our parents. We propose to give it a very original look in 2020. Since 2020 is the year of the White Metal Rat, why not make Olivier in the form of a Rat.

In general, the cooking process is no different from the classic Olivier (only instead of sausage we will add mushrooms), we just need to beautifully arrange and give the salad the shape of the symbol of the year 2020 - the Rat.

Cooking Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 200 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
• Mushrooms - 200 gr.
• Green peas - 200 gr.
• Carrots - 100 gr.
• Pickled cucumbers - 100 gr.
• Onion - half a head.
• Mayonnaise - 4 tbsp.
• Salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:

Olivier salad is ready. It remains only to make it interesting:

Rat-shaped Olivier salad is ready, bon appetit!

Salad "Laura"

Complete your New Year's Eve 2020 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:

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

Salad "Favorite"

"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 2020.

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

Cooking:

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

Serve chilled.

Salad with chicken "Diana"

Delicious holiday salad. Guests will definitely appreciate it.

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

Cooking:

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

Enjoy your meal!

Salad with mushrooms "Sytny"

Be sure to include hearty salad recipes in the New Year's menu 2020! 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

Cooking:

1. Onion and mushrooms cut into slices are fried in vegetable oil.
2. 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.
3. The cooled omelet is cut into noodles.
4. Any boiled or smoked meat, or ham is cut into cubes.
5. The cabbage is finely chopped.
6. All products are dressed with sauce with sour cream or mayonnaise and salt.

The salad is ready, bon appetit!

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Salad "Shopsky".

The New Year's menu 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

Cooking:

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

Enjoy your meal!

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Fruit salad "Exotic"

A fruit salad will fit well into the festive menu for the New Year 2020. 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

Cooking:

1. 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.
2. The rest of the fruit is also cut into cubes.
3. Top with your favorite yogurt.
4. 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.

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

Cooking:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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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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 2020: Recipes

Snacks on the New Year's table are served as additional dishes. They can be served to guests before serving the main course.

The rat is a symbol of the Eastern calendar. Therefore, in the menu for the New Year 2020, 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

Cooking:

1. Cucumbers cut into longitudinal thin plates. Also share the fish.
2. Put a piece of trout on a slice of cucumber, spread with cheese.
3. Roll the prepared products into rolls and secure with skewers.
4. 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

Cooking:

1. Roast whole eggplant over an open fire until the skin turns black.
2. 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.
3. Remove the skin from the tomato, then chop the crayons.
4. Mix them with eggplant pulp and thinly sliced ​​onion, add chopped garlic and cilantro.
5. Season everything with vinegar and oil, salt and pepper.
6. 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

Cooking:

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

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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

Cooking:

1. Soak chickpeas for 12 hours, bulgur for 10 minutes.
2. Blend chickpeas, bulgur, chopped onion and garlic, greens. Salt the mixture and add seasonings.
3. 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.

Georgian appetizer "Mushrooms with tarragon"

Georgian cuisine recipes attract with spicy seasonings and spicy dressings - this is what you need in the year of the Metal Rat.

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

Cooking:

1. Blanch mushrooms in boiling water with salt, bay leaf, peppercorns and tarragon stalks.
2. Cut the cooled champignons in half and fry in vegetable oil.
3. Fry the diced onion in butter.
4. Add mushrooms, all finely chopped greens to the browned onions: parsley, cilantro, tarragon leaves.
5. 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 2020. 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

Cooking:

1. 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.
2. 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.

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Raw kebab

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
• champignons
• 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

Cooking:

1. 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.
2. 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 2020: Recipes

Hot meals are served as main dishes. They must be tasty and satisfying.

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

Cooking:

1. Cut the meat into strips and fry in vegetable oil in a cauldron.
2. Add the onion, cut into half rings, to the meat and fry it.
3. Finely chop or grate the cucumbers and add to the meat and onions together with the tomato paste.
4. Pour the broth and water into the cauldron and simmer under a closed lid until the meat is cooked.
5. Cut the potatoes into strips and fry in a separate pan in vegetable oil.
6. 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.

Enjoy your meal!

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Chicken "Picasso"

Chicken "Picasso" is a very interesting, tasty and satisfying recipe. Guests will definitely appreciate it.

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

Cooking:

1. Salt the fillet, pepper and fry until golden brown in a mixture of olive oil and butter.
2. Transfer the breasts to a baking dish. Fry the onion in half rings in the same oil and add to the meat.
3. Fry the pepper cut into rings and also shift into a mold.
4. Prepare sauce with tomato, garlic, water, cream and seasonings. Boil it for 5 minutes, ready to pour meat with vegetables.
5. 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.
6. Put the dish back in the oven for 15 minutes to melt the cheese.

Enjoy your meal!

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Chinese Rice for New Year 2020

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 2020.

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

Cooking:

1. Cook the rice until half cooked for 12 minutes, then rinse it with cold water.
2. Heat oil in a large frying pan.
3. Boil the peas.
4. Fry garlic, onion, peas.
5. Pour rice into the pan, add eggs, soy sauce and salt.
6. 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

Cooking:

1. Boil pasta, add olive oil.
2. Cut the salmon into large pieces and fry in butter for 10 minutes.
3. Pour the cream over the fish, bring to a boil and cook for a few minutes.
4. Add chopped garlic and herbs to this mixture.
5. 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

Cooking:

1. Fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots in vegetable oil.
2. Zucchini cut into cubes, pepper strips and cabbage sorted into inflorescences, add to the fried onions and carrots.
3. Simmer all vegetables for about 10 minutes under the lid.
4. Then add chopped peeled tomatoes, spices and salt.
5. 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 2020. Many people will like an interesting combination of hot sauce and tender cheese.

Themed New Year's table is always great. And in the year of the Rooster, this is doubly great! After all, New Year's dishes in the year of the Rooster are so bright and magnificent that it is the right time to invite Chinese emperors. What dishes to cook for the New Year of the Rooster? Everything is simple here - cook whatever you want (unless you really think that a huge fiery rooster will ruin your life for violating the rules for compiling a New Year's menu in the year of the Rooster). The main thing is to try to make the New Year's table in the year of the Rooster as colorful as possible, and what ingredients will be used (chicken, eggs or millet) is not so important. Be guided, first of all, by your own vision of the holiday. And leave the traditions to the Chinese, who, in fact, invented the year of the Rooster.

In this collection, our chefs share thematic recipes for preparing New Year's dishes in the Year of the Rooster with step-by-step photos and instructions. Do not know what dishes you can cook for the New Year of the Rooster? Our recipes will help you!