Saving dishes for the New Year. Eggplant in red sauce

New Year is everyone's favorite holiday and celebrated everywhere. This holiday is celebrated with special chic and scope. Baked sturgeon, caviar, boiled pork, expensive wines, cheeses and fruits.

But what about those whose finances do not allow them to celebrate the New Year on such a grand scale? Unfortunately, not all people have good income and opportunities, but this is not a reason to forget about the magical New Year's evening.

The culinary portal What to Prepare.ru and I have selected a whole menu of inexpensive, budget dishes especially for this occasion. You'll love it! Budget New Year's Menu - read on.

New Year's table / Budget menu

If you don’t have enough money, this does not mean serving scrambled eggs or oatmeal on the holiday table. Available, inexpensive and completely simple products We will prepare a real festive table with you.

Let's make it clear right away that it is impossible to cook something from one egg and a pinch of salt. So let's go in advance shopping, we find inexpensive products and stock up. Believe me, if you try really hard, you can put together a gorgeous New Year's table possible within 1,000-2,000 rubles. It all depends on the number of products and your desire to visit several retail outlets.

So, we will need:

• potato
• carrot
• onions
• sugar
• vegetable oil
• ground pepper
• canned fish in oil
• canned chopped champignons, 300 gr. fresh
• mayonnaise
• sausages, not necessarily super expensive
• processed cheese
• pitted olives
• pack of chips
• thin lavash
• 1 salted herring
• 2-3 pickled cucumbers
• chicken legs, not very large
• pollock
• puff pastry
• 500 gr. plain cookies, "Jubilee" will do
• 1 b. boiled condensed milk
• 150-200 gr. butter
• 3 lemons
• a few spoons of tomato paste
• some flour
• green peas
• 100 gr. carrots in Korean
• greens according to taste, desire and possibilities

Now let's start cooking!

Menu 2014 - only proven, original and inexpensive recipes!

Recipe for New Year's Appetizer

Ingredients:

• 0.5 herring fillet
• carrots in Korean
• 2 eggs
• 3-4 olives
• onions
• processed cheese
• pita

Cooking method:

1. Boil the eggs, peel and grate.
2. Pass herring fillets through a meat grinder with onion and carrots. Add eggs, melted cheese and mayonnaise.
3. Finely chop the olives and mix with the fish mixture.
4. Unwrap the pita bread, spread it with the mixture and roll it into a roll. Place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
5. Before serving, cut into slices. This appetizer can be prepared with sausage, chicken fillet, cod liver, or with sausages instead of herring.

Recipe for Snack "Leaf of Happiness"

Ingredients:

• carrot
• cucumber
• mayonnaise
• chips
• half herring fillet

Cooking method:

1. Boil the carrots, cool and grate on the finest grater. Cut the cucumber into small cubes.
2. Boil the eggs and chop with a fork.
3. Mix eggs, cucumber and carrots. Season with mayonnaise.
4. Cut boneless herring fillet into thin strips.
5. Place 1-2 tsp on large sheets of chips. lettuce, place a few herring strips on top.

Recipe Salad "Monastery" with canned fish

Ingredients:

• canned fish in oil
• mushrooms
• onions
• mayonnaise
• vegetable or butter

Cooking method:

1. Cut the onion into half rings and fry in oil until golden brown.
2. Canned or fresh mushrooms, cut into slices and fry separately.
3. Drain the oil from the canned food and lightly mash the fish with a fork.
4. Place the fish on a flat plate, brush with mayonnaise, place a layer of fried onions, and a layer of mushrooms on it.
5. Coat well with mayonnaise and shape into a low mound.
6. Place in the refrigerator to soak for 3-4 hours, or preferably overnight. Decorate the salad with herbs if desired.

Recipe Salad "Awesome"

Ingredients:

• chicken leg
• 3 eggs
• onions
• potato
• carrots in Korean
• green peas
• pickled cucumber
• mayonnaise
• olives for decoration
• vegetable oil

Cooking method:

1. Boil the chicken leg, cool and separate the meat from the bones. Cut the meat into strips.
2. Boil potatoes and eggs. Cut the potatoes into cubes, grate the eggs.
3. Cut the pickled cucumber into strips.
4. Chop the carrots.
5. Onions cut into half rings and fry on vegetable oil.
6. The salad can be mixed in a salad bowl, salted and seasoned with mayonnaise. Or you can lay it out in beautiful layers, coat it with mayonnaise and garnish with olives.

Recipe for Mini Pizza "Festive"

Ingredients:

• puff pastry
• sausages
• processed cheese
• tomato paste
• vegetable oil

Cooking method:

1. Remove casings from sausages and cut into thin slices.
2. Defrost the dough, unwrap it and cut out circles with a glass.
3. Grease the circles with tomato paste, place the sausage circles and 0.5 tsp. processed cheese.
4. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, place mini pizzas and bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees. You can add olive slices to the mini pizza, fried onions, greens.

Recipe for Sausages in Potato Coats

Ingredients:

• 7-10 sausages
• potato
• pepper
• vegetable oil

Cooking method:

1. Boil sausages without casing.
2. Peel the potatoes and boil in salted water.
3. Drain the water and mash into a puree. Rub through a sieve or mince.
4. Add to warm puree raw egg, salt and 2-3 tbsp. l. flour. Knead potato dough.
5. Divide the dough into balls according to the number of sausages.
6. Mash each ball into a flat cake, lay out the sausage and seal the edges.
7. Dip potato pies with sausages in flour, fry in vegetable oil for 2-4 minutes on each side.

Recipe Chicken legs "Banquet"

Ingredients:

• chicken legs
• mayonnaise
• pepper
• 2-3 tbsp. l. processed cheese
• 0.5 b. olives
• lemon
• vegetable oil

Cooking method:

1. Cut the legs into several pieces. Mix mayonnaise, processed cheese, a pinch of salt and pepper. Lubricate the pieces of legs with the resulting sauce and leave to marinate for 2-3 hours. cool place.
2. Cut the olives into slices.
3. Cut the lemon into thin slices, then in half.
4. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and place the chicken legs.
5. Place olive and lemon slices on top.
6. Bake at 180-200 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Serve with potatoes.

Pollock recipe in Crimean style

Ingredients:

• pollock
• 2-3 tbsp. l. tomato paste
• 2 tbsp. l. flour
• onion
• pepper
• 0.5 tsp. Sahara
• vegetable oil

Cooking method:

1. Peel the pollock and cut into portions. Season with salt and pepper, roll in flour and fry in vegetable oil. Remove the fish to a plate.
2. Cut the onion into small cubes and fry in the same oil until golden brown.
3. Add tomato paste and stir. Pour in a little hot water and boil until thick sauce.
4. Add more boiling water, salt and pepper.
5. Add sugar and place the fish in the boiling sauce. The fish should be covered with sauce.
6. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Close the lid and let cool.
7. Serve cold. Boiled potatoes or rice are perfect as a side dish.

Anthill Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 gr. cookies
• 1 b. boiled condensed milk
• 0.5 sticks of butter
• 3-4 tbsp. l. hot water

Cooking method:

1. Break the cookies with your hands.
2. Open a can of condensed milk and place the contents in a bowl, add softened butter and hot water. Beat with a whisk or blender until smooth.
3. Leave a few cookie crumbs for decoration, mix the rest of the cookies with the cream.
4. Place the mixture on a flat plate in the form of a slide. Sprinkle cookie crumbs on top.
5. Place the cake in the refrigerator to soak for 2-3 hours. If you have poppy or sesame seeds in the house, you can add them to the cream before assembling the cake. The poppy seeds must first be scalded with boiling water, and the sesame seeds must be fried in a dry frying pan.

Recipe Lemon drink "Fresh"

Ingredients:

• 2 lemons
• 3 liters of water
• 1 tbsp. Sahara

Cooking method:

1. Cut the lemons into circles, then crosswise.
2. Boil water, add sugar and add lemons. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
3. Strain and pour into a jug. You can add a few mint leaves or ice to this drink.

As you can see from the menu, the dishes are inexpensive, but quite interesting and appetizing. Surely many will take note of them and prepare them this New Year.

Have a nice New Year's Eve and a delicious holiday table!

Dear readers!

I really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for existing, for reading my articles and visiting What to Prepare.ru. Thank you!

In the coming year, I want to wish you comfort, warmth and harmony in your families, health and joyful happy days!

Don’t forget to give your loved ones your smiles and good mood!

Happy New Year!

Always yours Alena Tereshina.

Your favorite holiday is approaching - New Year! I want to cook a lot of different New Year's dishes, but... holiday menu does not always correspond to our imagination, and most often directly depends on the family budget.

A real New Year's miracle happens when housewives prepare original dishes from products available to everyone. How to celebrate the New Year on a budget, surprisingly tasty and festive read on.

How to celebrate the New Year on a budget / Inexpensive New Year: recipes for the festive table

Everyone loves to celebrate the New Year budget meals for him were invented by our mothers and grandmothers.

Traditionally, the budget New Year's table includes:

• one or two hot dishes, usually meat and fish;
• two salads - “Olivier” and “Herring under a fur coat”;
• snacks, these include sandwiches or tartlets with filling, cheese/sausage/fish slices;
• desserts - sweets, cookies, cake;
• fruits;
• drinks.

Many will probably note that this menu is quite ordinary. That's why culinary portal What to cook.ru offers its readers a unique selection of New Year's budget recipes with a real taste of the holiday.

Recipe Sandwiches “Tales of Scandinavia”

Ingredients:

• 100 gr. herring fillet or any other lightly salted fish
• 5-6 pieces rye bread without crusts
• cream cheese or pasty cottage cheese
• 1 tooth garlic
• dill greens
• lemon

Cooking method:

1. Finely chop the dill with garlic and combine with cheese or cottage cheese.
2. Add salt to taste.
3. Cut the pieces of bread into convenient portions and dry in a dry frying pan.
4. Spread cheese spread on cooled toast.
5. Cut the fish into thin slices and sprinkle lemon juice.
6. Arrange the fish beautifully on the bread.
7. Garnish with dill and a lemon half-circle.

Recipe Salad “Lucky Streak”

Ingredients:

• 3 boiled eggs
• onions
• boiled carrots
• 100 gr. cheese
• 1 pack crab sticks
• 200 gr. mayonnaise
• vegetable oil
• green

Cooking method:

1. Peel the eggs and chop finely.
2. Grate the carrots.
3. Cut the onion into cubes and fry in vegetable oil.
4. Grate the cheese.
5. Chop the crab sticks into thin strips or grate them.
6. Place in a transparent salad bowl in layers: onions, crab sticks, eggs, carrots, onions, cheese, crab sticks.
7. Grease each layer generously with mayonnaise.
8. Decorate the salad with greens.

Recipe: Chicken Chops with Sweet Peppers

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg chicken breast or fillet
• onions
• red bell pepper
• 100 gr. cheese
• 1 tbsp. l. sour cream
• pepper
• 1 tbsp. mayonnaise
• 100 g cheese
• vegetable oil

Cooking method:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into portions and beat with a hammer.
2. Then add salt and pepper.
3. Cut the onion into half rings and fry until golden brown in vegetable oil.
4. Grate the cheese.
5. Cut the pepper into strips.
6. Grease a baking tray with oil.
7. Place chops on a baking sheet.
8. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise.
9. Apply sauce to chops.
10. Place pepper strips and fried onions on top.
11. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
12. Bake the chops at 160 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Recipe for hot pot “Goldfish”

Ingredients:

• 1-1.5 kg fish fillet
• 5 tomatoes
• 3 carrots
• 2 pcs. onions
• vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp. lemon juice
• pepper

Cooking method:

1. Cut the fish fillet into cubes, salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice.
2. Peel the tomatoes and cut into slices.
3. Grate the carrots.
4. Cut the onion into rings and fry in vegetable oil.
5. Layer fish, onions, tomatoes, onions and carrots in pots.
6. Pour 3-5 tbsp into pots. l. water.
7. Add salt and pepper to taste.
8. Cover the pots with lids and place in the oven.
9. Bake in a hot oven for about 40 minutes.

Recipe Garnish balls, potato

Ingredients:

• 5-6 pcs. potatoes
• 1 tbsp. flour
• 0.5 tbsp. milk
• 3 tbsp. l. butter
• vegetable oil
• pepper
• breadcrumbs or bread crumbs
• spices

Cooking method:

1. Peel and boil the potatoes.
2. Prepare mashed potatoes with milk, butter and spices.
3. Cool the puree a little.
4. Add egg and flour to the puree. Knead the potato dough.
5. Mix breadcrumbs or bread crumbs with a large number spices
6. Take portions with a spoon potato dough, form into balls and roll in breadcrumbs.
7. Fry the balls in hot oil for 3-5 minutes.
8. Serve as a side dish.

Video recipe New Year's Cake "Candle"

My dear readers!
I hope you will like our budget selection of recipes and you will prepare something from it for this New Year’s table.
What budget and inexpensive dishes do you prepare for the holiday table?
Write about them in the comments to the article below.
Happy New Year 2016!
Happiness and good luck to all of you!

Have fun cooking and be healthy!

Always yours Alena Tereshina.

Before we even had time to blink an eye, our favorite holiday – New Year – is already very soon. And, as usual, you want to come up with something so that the guests are simply amazed by your culinary masterpieces prepared for the holiday. But I want even more not to spend too much on a purchase. necessary products to prepare these masterpieces. After all, the New Year means serious financial expenses: for, for new outfits and decorations, for and, for. So today we'll talk about recipes inexpensive dishes that can decorate your New Year's table.

In fact, there are a lot of such recipes. They can be easily found in cookbooks and on the pages of numerous culinary websites. But New Year is a special holiday. And it has already become a tradition to prepare for its celebration in accordance with one or another symbol of the coming year according to the Chinese calendar. Some decorate their home, select outfits and prepare dishes, strictly following the recommendations of astrologers, some try not to break traditions, and some do everything their own way.

According to astrologers and orientalists, 2019 - the year of the Yellow Earth Pig, which will replace the peace-loving and cheerful Dog - will be special and promises to be marked by family happiness, financial success and prosperity. But on one condition, that you yourself will persistently and conscientiously, with optimism and faith, achieve your goals. The Yellow Pig, although a kind person, really does not like lazy people, cunning people and deceivers.

According to the eastern calendar, the year of the Yellow Earth Pig begins on February 5, 2019 and will last until January 24, 2020.

The new symbol of the year, due to his temperament and cheerful character, loves everything tasty, bright and memorable. And when choosing New Year's dishes, we will focus on the tastes and preferences of the hardworking, active, optimistic and cheerful Yellow Pig, in order to please the patron of 2019 to the best of our ability.

The Yellow Pig simply loves all sorts of goodies and variety, so our festive dinner should not only be hearty with a lot of tasty dishes, but also perfectly suit the tastes of the symbol of 2019. The pig will be very “happy” if your holiday table is decorated with a large number of dishes from vegetables, cheese, fruits, and fish. But what definitely shouldn’t be on the holiday table is this meat dishes from pork (so as not to offend the symbol of the year).

The 2019 New Year's menu welcomes winter salads, cold appetizers, and hot fish dishes that can be prepared quickly and inexpensively. You can use any natural products, vegetables, tropical fruits, root vegetables with the addition of game meat and olive oil. And don't forget about greens. After all, Pigs occasionally nibble grass with pleasure and very willingly.

The hostess of the year will be pleased with the abundance of oranges, tangerines and other fruits, natural juices, nut treats. A dish with truffles can be a real gift that fully suits the Pig’s taste. But it is clear that preparing such culinary delight could seriously undermine family budget, set aside for New Year's celebrations. As a budget alternative to truffles, you can use any other mushrooms.

In general, food should be healthy, not too heavy on the stomach and not too difficult to prepare. Here are a few recipes for dishes whose presence on this year’s New Year’s menu can truly please the future mistress of the year, the Yellow Pig.

Salad “Confusion in Florence”

It will take a little time to prepare this simple but delicious holiday salad with a strange but memorable name:

• Place 2-3 lettuce leaves on a plate, covering its entire surface with them.
• Prepare a mixture of pickled champignons cut into small pieces (150-200 g), red tomatoes (3 pcs.), yellow and red peppers (2 pcs. each), diced, and grated 3 hard-boiled eggs.
• Salt all the ingredients, season with vegetable oil, mix and place on lettuce leaves.
• Sprinkle lemon juice (1 tsp) on top and sprinkle with grated hard cheese (100 g).

All! The salad, which will become a real decoration of the festive table, is ready.

Polish salad

It is very easy to implement and does not require large quantity salad products. To prepare it you will need fresh white cabbage (500 g), fresh cucumbers(100 g), ham (100 g), herbs (parsley, dill, green onions), salt, mayonnaise or sour cream.

The cabbage needs to be finely chopped, salted, mashed, add cucumbers cut into strips, ham and chopped herbs. Mix everything and season with mayonnaise or sour cream. The salad is ready!

Salad "New Year's Nocturne"

Cabbage salad called “New Year's Nocturne” can be prepared much faster if you use household appliances.

Take chicken (200 grams), which we grind in a blender. 200 g white cabbage chop, 200 g fresh cucumbers cut in a food processor. Then mix everything, add salt, add herbs and olive oil, and decorate with pear slices. Cooking time is literally a few minutes.

Tangerine salad with cheese and persimmon

This fruit salad with cheese will appeal to gourmets who are tired of the monotonous and traditional set of dishes on the New Year's table. The highlight of this dish that makes it a great addition for a festive dinner - red onion.

To prepare you will need:

• 1 large ripe persimmon;
• 2 juicy tangerines;
• 1 red onion;
• soft or hard cheese (65 g);
• a small bunch of lettuce leaves;
• salt, black pepper - to taste.

We cut the washed and peeled persimmons (peel them in a thin layer, remove the seeds and stalks) into small cubes and put them in a deep salad bowl. There we also add slices of peeled, white fibers and seeds of tangerines, finely chopped red onion, pre-washed and dried lettuce leaves torn into medium-sized pieces, spices, olive oil. Mix everything and sprinkle grated cheese on top.

Everything is ready!

Nostalgic vinaigrette

Vegetables can be used to prepare very healthy and undeservedly forgotten classic vinaigrette. Maybe it’s not so exotic, but it’s tasty and inexpensive.

Everyone probably knows how to cook it. But just in case, let me remind you. You can boil the vegetables in advance. Cut carrots, beets and potatoes into cubes, mix with pickled cucumber, sauerkraut, onions, green peas, season with vegetable oil, sprinkle with dill and mix everything.

Hot meals and snacks

On the New Year's table in 2019, a worthy place will be taken by dishes prepared from rabbit meat, beef, lamb, poultry, delicious fish dishes from pike perch, perch, trout, salmon, salmon or exotic seafood, seasoned delicious sauces made from cheese, sour cream and herbs.

Snacks are very helpful in the pre-New Year bustle; they are prepared extremely quickly and simply and leave a lot of time for other pre-holiday activities.

To prepare this dish you will need potatoes, which need to be wrapped in foil and baked in the oven at 180 degrees. Cut the potatoes on top, put in a slice of smoked salmon, pepper and finish the composition with a spoonful of sour cream.

Approximate cooking time is 40 minutes.

Chicken fillet pieces should be salted, peppered, seasoned with paprika and fried for 15 minutes in hot fat. Cool and cut into cubes.

Fill the tartlets with cottage cheese, put chicken on top and decorate with lemon balm leaves.

Mini rolls

For mini rolls (you can call them Russian rolls), lavash or pancakes are suitable. And for the filling - anything you like: salmon, ham and cheese, cod liver and eggs, greens, crab sticks, lettuce and mayonnaise

Stuffed snacks

Another way to decorate the New Year's table with inexpensive but tasty dishes is to cook stuffed snacks. You can stuff boiled potatoes, eggs, sweet peppers, eggplants and tomatoes.

For example, you can prepare bell peppers of different colors (red, yellow and green), stuffed with stewed vegetables or mushrooms with rice and grated cheese. Or cook eggs stuffed with red caviar with a sauce of yolks and mayonnaise.

Red tomatoes stuffed with any filling (cheese mass with garlic and mayonnaise, seasoned with mayonnaise) are very decorative for the festive table fried mushrooms with onions, cod liver with boiled egg and mayonnaise), laid out on a dish and decorated with herbs.

Suitable as a snack traditional jellied meat. A very tasty and cheap dish.

And stuffed eggplants are not a treat for the New Year? This is how a dish called “karniyarik” is prepared in Turkey.

Eggplants (you need to take about six medium eggplants) are cut lengthwise, the core is removed (but not completely), rubbed with salt outside and inside, fried on sunflower oil on both sides, constantly turning over.

For the filling, cut tomatoes (4 pieces): two into cubes and two into slices, one onion, a little hot pepper. Onions and peppers are fried in olive oil. Then they add it there minced meat. Everything needs to be salted, peppered and simmered over low heat. When the meat is browned, add the tomatoes. Ready minced meat Place with vegetables in eggplants and garnish with herbs.

Snacks from home supplies

Pickled and pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. are always in demand on the holiday table. sauerkraut and mushrooms, that is, everything that is prepared with your own hands from inexpensive seasonal products.

New Year's desserts

It’s hard to imagine a festive New Year’s table without an abundance of delicacies, sweets, all kinds of cakes, pies, pastries and delicious cookies. The Yellow Pig loves everything sweet. Therefore, nuts homemade baked goods, sweets and baked goods with New Year's symbols will become good addition to the festive table. And your imagination will tell you what to cook.

Delicious honey gingerbread cookies in the shape of small Christmas trees, decorated snow-white glaze, star-shaped macaroons, vanilla crescents and ginger balls, chocolate, nut, fruit pastries- all this is suitable for a fun holiday. The main thing is that per year Yellow Pig it was all juicy, bright and appetizing.

If you have time left in the pre-New Year bustle, you can offer your guests delicious and fluffy chocolate muffins for dessert. Even a cook with no experience can prepare them. And it won’t take much time.

• Melt 100 g butter and 100 g chocolate. If we use milk chocolate, then exclude sugar from the recipe. If we take dark chocolate, then beat eggs (3 pieces) with 40 g of sugar until it is completely dissolved.
• Add a teaspoon of baking powder and flour (2 tablespoons) there. Mix. You can also add to taste: ground nuts, cinnamon, ground coffee.
• Pour melted butter and chocolate into the prepared mixture and mix everything quickly.

The muffins turn out more tender the less flour they contain, so even if it seems like this ingredient is missing, you shouldn’t add more than in the recipe. Chocolate acts as a thickener in this recipe.

• Fill in ready-made dough silicone or paper molds and dip pieces of white chocolate into the dough (the total mass will require from 50 to 100 g).
• Bake for 15-20 minutes at 190 degrees.
• Remove the dessert from the oven and serve warm (you can sprinkle with powdered sugar).

A simple recipe for delicious jelly

To prepare this delicious delicacy, we use any berry compotes, fruit juices and gelatin (at the rate of 15 g of gelatin per 400 ml of juice).

Pre-dissolve gelatin in 50 ml of hot water until thickened. homogeneous mass which we pour into the juice. After mixing everything, pour into molds and put in the refrigerator. The jelly hardens in about 5 hours (the time depends on the quality of the gelatin).

If you cook multilayer jelly, then the next layer can be poured only after the previous one has completely hardened. Before serving, the dessert can be decorated with mint leaves or grated chocolate.

You can decorate your holiday table by creating delicious compositions of fruits: oranges, tangerines, grapes, kiwi, pears and apples. Especially if you use the carving technique. This will help make the dish appetizing and memorable.

What drinks should you serve your guests?

In the Year of the Yellow Pig, the festive New Year's table can be decorated with any drinks. Although abundance strong alcohol may not be to the liking of the symbol of the year. It is enough to limit yourself to one or two of its types. In all other respects, rely on your choice and the preferences of the guests. These can be light wines, sweet liqueurs, delicious cocktails and, of course, sparkling champagne.

Natural juices will not be superfluous on the New Year’s table in 2019. berry fruit drinks, fruit compotes and mineral water.

Making product lists

As you know, the degree of success of any business is determined by the degree of preparation. And even more so when it comes to celebrating the New Year. In order not to waste too much (this applies to both time and money), you need to draw up a menu in advance and a detailed list of all the products that may be needed to prepare New Year's dinner.

It is better to make two lists: for perishable products and products that can be stored for a long time. First of all, we buy products long-term storage, long before the New Year. In this way, we save money (because food prices tend to rise closer to the New Year) and time, which is always in short supply on the eve of the holiday.

We use proven recipes

Each family usually has its own favorite New Year's dishes, recipes for which are passed down from generation to generation. Many of us year after year, despite huge amount As new recipes emerge, Olivier salad or herring “under a fur coat” are traditionally prepared for the festive New Year’s table.

In general, there is nothing wrong with this. And if you really can’t part with the traditional New Year's dishes, then you can try to modify them a little by adding some new products instead of the generally accepted ones. For example, instead of boiled sausage, you can try adding lightly salted salmon to the Olivier salad.

You should not experiment for the New Year with complex and exotic dishes that you have never tried or cooked before. It may simply not work out, or the dish will turn out to be not at all as tasty as you expected. Therefore, it is better to take proven recipes for your favorite dishes or try in advance to make what you plan to cook for the New Year's holiday table.

To please the symbol of the New Year, experts advise this year to decorate and serve the festive table in accordance with the general style holiday decoration Houses. Unlike the noble Dog, the predecessor of the Pig, who prefers modesty over excessive pomp, the symbol of 2019 adores luxury and splendor, has a keen sense of beauty and has a somewhat pretentious taste.

But the main thing here is not to overdo it and not to overload the interior with sparkling attributes. New Year's holiday. The festive table should look rich, varied and elegant: beautifully decorated salads, decorated with fruit and vegetable slices Golden candles, crystal, dinnerware and snow-white napkins will harmoniously complement. Rely on your intuition. The main thing is to create an atmosphere of a real holiday. Try it, experiment.

Happy New Year holidays to you!

Budget New Year's Snacks

Lavash roll with crab sticks

You can experiment endlessly with the fillings for such a roll, choosing them to your liking, however, if you are looking for a holiday recipe, focus on bright options - they will look especially elegant on the table.

Ingredients:

• 2 rectangular sheets of thin Armenian lavash;
• 1 package of crab sticks;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 bunch of lettuce;
• 150 g hard cheese;
• 1 cucumber;
• mayonnaise, salt to taste.

1. Place a small amount of mayonnaise on the first sheet of lavash and spread it in a thin layer over the entire surface. Grate the hard-boiled eggs and distribute evenly over the pita bread. Finely chop the cucumber and scatter between the eggs. Roll into a tight roll.
2. Grease the second sheet of lavash with mayonnaise in the same way.
3. Cut the crab sticks into thin strips and distribute over the pita bread. Grate the cheese and sprinkle on top of the crab sticks. Place washed and dried lettuce leaves on top of the cheese.
4. Place the first roll on the edge of the pita bread, tightly roll it together into one big roll. We hide it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Before serving, cut into portions.

Cheese pie

Everyone who tries this pie unanimously claims that it contains incredibly tasty and noble mushrooms. Meanwhile, there is no hint of white or butter in the recipe! Enough budget option snacks for the New Year's table, which, rest assured, will take root and will be regularly prepared for other holidays.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 100 g butter margarine (butter);
• 1 and 1/4 cups flour;
• 1/2 tsp. salt;
• 3 tbsp. l. ice water.

Ing ingredients for filling:

• 4 large onions;
• 3 processed cheese;
• 1 egg;
• vegetable oil for frying onions;
• salt and pepper to taste.

1. Place margarine, salt and flour in the bowl of a food processor with a knife attachment, grind into crumbs, then add water and collect everything into a ball. Ready dough distribute along the bottom of the mold, making low sides. We put it in the refrigerator.
2. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Fry in vegetable oil until light golden brown. After cooling, mix with grated processed cheese and egg, add salt and pepper to the filling to taste.
3. Roll out the dough into a layer, line the bottom and sides of the springform pan with it, trim off the excess dough. We spread the filling. From the leftover dough you can make decorations - stars, Christmas trees or just lattice polka dots.
4. Bake the pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. Serve cold.

Appetizer “Herring under a fur coat”

Herring under a “fur coat” is familiar and ordinary. Try preparing a variation of this salad as an appetizer for the New Year's table - it will look more impressive and elegant.

Ingredients:

• 300 g herring fillet;
• 4 large potatoes, boiled in their jackets;
• 1 beet;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 apple;
• 1 processed cheese;
• 3 eggs;

1. Peel the potatoes, grate them on a fine grater, add salt, a little pepper, and just a little mayonnaise. Mix the mixture and form round (square) cakes from the resulting mixture. Place on a plate.
2. Grate the peeled apple and mix with grated processed cheese. Distribute evenly over potato bases. Place a piece of herring fillet on each flatbread.
3. Grate the hard-boiled eggs and mix with mayonnaise. Cover the herring.
4. Grate the beets on a fine grater, mix with salt, pepper, and a small amount of mayonnaise. Cover half of the “cakes” with the resulting mixture.
5. Cover the second half with the carrot mixture prepared in a similar way.

Budget New Year's salads

Mimosa salad

The old Soviet classic, by the way, is not a cheap pleasure: the real, “correct” recipe includes a lot of butter and canned pink salmon. Let's make it cheaper - not make it worse, but simply adapt it to certain financial capabilities.

Ingredients:

• 5 hard-boiled eggs;
• 2 potatoes, boiled “in their uniforms”;
• 1 large boiled carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 processed cheese;
• 1 can of canned fish (such as sardines, saury);
• salt, pepper, mayonnaise to taste.

Rub onto the bottom of a salad bowl or large plate egg whites. Place fish on top, previously mashed with a fork. Grate the carrots. Sprinkle with finely chopped onion. Rub the next layer processed cheese, then potatoes. If desired, lightly salt each layer, do not forget about pepper. Grease the potato layer with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated yolks.

A beautiful presentation of a salad is the key to a wow effect, which will more than cover all the disadvantages of a budget table. Try laying it out and decorating it in the shape of a New Year tree (dill as pine needles and pomegranate seeds for balls will help you) - and this dish will create a real sensation.

Korean carrot and chicken salad

The salad is wonderful, and if you cook Korean carrots at home, the recipe will become even more accessible. And the result is even tastier!

Ingredients:

• 200 g smoked chicken fillet;
• 300 g Korean carrots;
• 4 eggs;
• 100 g hard cheese;
• mayonnaise, salt, pepper to taste.

The salad is assembled in layers. First, the eggs are rubbed, the layer is lightly greased with mayonnaise. Next is chicken, then Korean carrots. Mayonnaise, cheese grated on top. Ready.

To make the salad look more festive, try serving it in regular waffle tartlets– in this case, simply mix all the ingredients and place in portioned “cups”.

Budget "Olivier"

The most expensive component of the familiar Olivier is high-quality boiled sausage. It can be replaced with boiled chicken fillet - it will not only be cheaper, but also healthier. If you need an even more budget option, this will do pork tongue. Or you can even get by with vegetarian Olivier!

Ingredients:

• 5 potatoes, boiled in “uniforms”;
• 1 boiled carrot;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 3 pickled cucumbers;
• 1 apple;
• 1 onion;
• 1 jar of canned peas;
• lean mayonnaise, salt, pepper, herbs to taste.

Peel the boiled vegetables and cut them into cubes of approximately the same size. We also chop apples, fresh and pickled cucumbers. Drain the water from the peas and place in a salad bowl. There are also finely chopped onions, lean mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Mix and serve.

Olivier salad will look more beautiful and elegant if served in small portioned glasses.

Budget-friendly hot dish for the New Year

Chicken baked in the oven

A simple but always impressive dish, it is not as expensive as other types of meat, so feel free to fit it into New Year's menu.
Ingredients:

• 1 chicken carcass;
• 1 lemon;
• salt, pepper, thyme sprigs, honey, mustard to taste.

Wash the chicken carcass, trim off all excess, and dry it. Place in a deep bowl and rub thoroughly with a mixture of salt, honey, mustard and pepper. We put a lemon inside, often previously pricked with a thick needle or toothpick. Leave in the refrigerator for 3-10 hours, after which we place it on a baking sheet on a “cushion” of thyme and bake until done - about an hour and a half at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Cod fillet in the oven

Many people underestimate fresh-frozen cod fillets, considering this fish tasteless due to its relatively low price. Meanwhile, properly cooked, it comes out juicy and interesting.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg cod fillet;
• 2 lemons;
• parsley, salt, pepper, olive oil to taste.

Place the washed and dried cod fillets in a baking dish, the bottom of which is first lined with a layer of parsley. Salt the fish, sprinkle with pepper, sprinkle lightly olive oil. Place thin lemon slices evenly on top. Bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes, when serving, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley, additionally sprinkle with lemon juice and olive oil.

Pot Roast Beef

Dishes in pots always look impressive. Moreover, in terms of budget menu This is an easy way to save on meat by using less of it than stated in the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 400 g beef fillet;
• 2 tbsp. l. flour;
• 500 g champignons;
• 3 onions;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 sprigs of thyme;
• 1 tsp. caraway;
• 10 peas of allspice;
• 500 ml beer;
• 3 bay leaves;
• vegetable oil, salt, pepper.

1. Wash the meat, remove excess films, cut in portioned pieces, salt and sprinkle with pepper, then roll thoroughly in flour.
2. Fry the prepared meat in vegetable oil over medium heat until golden crust, put them in pots, on the bottom of which are already laid out bay leaf, allspice, sprigs of thyme. Sprinkle with caraway seeds.
3. On top of the meat we place sliced ​​onions, carrots and champignons into slices. Let's pour beer. Cover with lids and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 2.5-3 hours.

Budget desserts for the New Year

Meringue “Christmas trees”

A completely simple delicacy, but beautiful and festive. And - what is important - it is not at all burdensome on the wallet.
Ingredients:

• 3 squirrels;
• 1 glass of sugar;
• 1/3 tsp. salt;
• green food coloring.

1. Place the egg whites in a mixer bowl, start beating for a couple of minutes at low speed, then increase it to maximum, gradually adding salt and sugar. When the mass increases in volume, becomes smooth, shiny and visually elastic, add dye and mix.
2. Filling piping bag with a shaped nozzle, place the Christmas trees on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. If desired, decorate the products with multi-colored sprinkles.
3. Bake in the oven at 110 degrees for about 2 hours. Ready meringues should be light, not sticky.

Christmas log made from puff pastry

Ready puff pastry- the thing is affordable and convenient. By purchasing just a standard pack, you can easily prepare an excellent New Year’s cake, saving on products and your own time.

Ingredients:

• 450 g puff pastry;
• 250 g butter;
• 1/2 can of condensed milk;
• 2 tbsp. cognac

1. Cut the puff pastry into strips about 1 cm wide. Bake at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes until puffy and light golden brown.
2. Beat softened butter with condensed milk until fluffy and smooth, and add cognac at the end.
3. Place several puff pastry sticks on a layer of cling film and cover them with cream. We put a few more sticks on top, again cream. We alternate until the cream runs out, roll the cake into a log using cling film, and put it in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
4. Grind the remaining sticks into crumbs and sprinkle with it ready cake before serving. If desired, the dessert can be decorated with pomegranate seeds and tinted green coconut flakes.

Grind prunes and nuts through a meat grinder and mix with oatmeal. Spread the resulting mass in a thin layer on the bottom of the springform pan.

2. To create the illusion of abundance and treat yourself, try not to limit yourself to one appetizer and one salad. Let these be small portions, but varied: the more plates and salad bowls you put on the table, the brighter and more beautiful it will look. Yes, it will take a little more time to prepare, but it's worth it.

3. One of the basic rules of a budget table is replacing ingredients. If you want to make Niçoise salad, you don’t have to buy an expensive one. canned tuna, you can get by with sardines or horse mackerel own juice. Salmon caviar is replaced with pike caviar, instead of cutting with jerky getting ready homemade boiled pork, and the usual jellied meat can be cooked from chicken fillet by adding regular gelatin to the broth.

4. Homemade preparations are a delicious component of any holiday table. Don't neglect jars of canned salads, pickled cucumbers, salted tomatoes.

5. If you need to save money, invite your friends... to celebrate the New Year together. As strange as it may sound, if you share the troubles of preparing a festive dinner with a close friend, it will turn out easier and cheaper.

Temporary financial restrictions are not a reason to deprive yourself and your family of a beautifully laid holiday table. It is quite possible to create a New Year’s mood with minimal investment, the main thing is to abstract from difficulties, approach the issue creatively and with the desire to find a solution. “Magic Food” wishes you delicious appetizers, elegant salads, delicious meat and wonderful desserts and, of course, wonderful holidays!

What could be more awaited than the New Year holidays? This holiday with its paraphernalia, gifts, and meetings has been loved by everyone since childhood. In addition to joys, December 31 is associated with certain worries and troubles. Probably, any housewife wondered how to inexpensively set the table for the New Year, choosing optimal menu, suitable holiday recipes and unusual ideas dishes. At proper preparation, non-standard presentation and decoration, many budget dishes for the New Year will become delicious decoration festive table.

Ideas for the New Year's table

The symbol of the coming year is a yellow Dog. To win her favor, it is recommended to use bright accessories in the decoration of the festive table. These could be gilded candlesticks, a colored set, a tablecloth with an orange or red pattern. When creating a menu, you don’t have to follow the rule: for the New Year – all the best and most expensive. You can plan a budget table option and cook unusually delicious dishes, snacks made from inexpensive products.

When purchasing products that can be stored for a long time, it is better to purchase them 1-2 months in advance. This way, you can not only save money, but also avoid the need to hustle in stores on New Year’s Eve in search of the necessary goods. Correct calculation of the amount of food will help you avoid unnecessary expenses. Often dishes and salads remain not only until the first of January, but also for several days in advance. Food spoils and has to be thrown away. To prevent this from happening, you should correctly calculate how many salads, snacks, and baked goods to prepare.

Children's menu for the New Year

To set a festive table for children, you will need imagination, desire and a little time. You can prepare nuggets as a snack, stuffed vegetables. An excellent solution would be turkey sandwiches or chicken meat, fresh vegetables and iceberg lettuce. Children will love unusual balls made from boiled rice, which are dipped in hot cheese, rolled in breadcrumbs, and then fried. The table must be supplemented with salads, for example, crab, vegetable with croutons, vitamin.

The reason for your imagination will be the preparation of dessert. Children of all ages will appreciate oatmeal cookies with chocolate slices, made in the shape of animated characters. You can offer them round chocolate-covered sponge cakes on a stick, and to drink tea with the children in the morning on January 1st, you can supplement the menu with a light pie. butter cream and frozen berries, marmalade, fresh fruit.

In order not to spend large sums on carbonated drinks and juices, you can prepare compote or cold fruit tea. This option is not only budget-friendly, but also more useful. Compote of dried fruits charges the children's body with energy, vigor, saturates it with vitamins and strengthens the immune system, and fruit tea will be in great demand among children.

Round sponge cakes on a stick

If you have time, you can decorate a table for the New Year inexpensively and very beautifully. This does not require expensive products. For example, great solution will be baked in orange sauce chicken. The salad can be prepared from tomatoes, cucumbers, fried potato straws, peas, iceberg leaves, seasoned with lemon juice. An unusual Italian mini-pizza with pear slices is suitable as a snack.

Proper presentation of dishes will make New Year's feast more festive and cheerful. Cold cuts You can roll it up and prick it with an olive. Before serving, garnish with fresh herbs. Unusual way serving vegetable or meat snacks- on skewers. Decorate the table with several plates of tartlets filled with cheese, mushrooms or chicken. Salads can be laid out in the shape of a Christmas tree, pine cones or other New Year's attributes. Cut the pies into portions, decorate with slices of fruit.

Chicken baked in orange sauce

You can decorate your New Year's table inexpensively using unusual recipes. Original dishes will make the holiday unforgettable, and the feast will be tasty and fun. You can serve fried as a snack. Adyghe cheese breaded with pistachio crumbs. The table will be decorated with rolls made from pear slices with soft cheese dressed in dry-cured meat. You can offer your guests a potato roll stuffed with pumpkin, zucchini and parsley. For main course, chicken baked with grapes would be an excellent choice. It can be decorated with fruits, herbs, and served with mustard.

Potato roll stuffed with pumpkin, zucchini and parsley

To make the dessert not only delicious, but also thematic, you can bake gingerbread snowmen with ginger and icing. Preparing a pie with oranges and tangerines will save time and money. This simple dessert is served with berry sauce. In Italy, traditional struffoli is prepared for Christmas. This original dessert consists of many fried dough balls soaked in honey.

Cottage cheese snowmen with olives

To create a budget New Year's menu, you don't need a lot of products. Avoiding expensive goods and using the correct approach to calculations will help you save. Great new year's dinner can be prepared based on the following list of products:

chicken, beef;
vegetables, fruits, herbs;
mayonnaise, ingredients for sauces;
dried fruits;
pickled cucumbers, squash, tomatoes;
canned fish;
nuts;
cheese, ham, sausage;
eggs;
flour, sugar, baking powder, sour cream;
oil;
crab sticks;
canned corn, peas.
Vegetables and greens

In the office

To celebrate the New Year at work inexpensively, you will need a competent approach. Each employee can take on the responsibility of preparing a specific dish. For example, the New Year's table may consist of the following dishes:

Appetizer: sandwiches with boiled pork and cheese, slices of fish with herbs, stuffed eggplant;
Salads: Olivier salad, herring under a fur coat, vinaigrette, warm salad with veal, Greek, relish;
Hot: salmon fried in cream cheese sauce;
Dessert: ginger cookies, cake with a layer of cream and fruit.

Salad Shuba

The New Year's table in the family circle should take into account the preferences of all household members. The menu should consist of 3-6 budget salads, 3-4 types delicious snack, hot and baked goods. You can take as a basis:

Olivier salad, with beans and cheese, vegetables and croutons, classic mimosa salad;
Stuffed onions, eggplant rolls with parsley and nuts, assorted pickles, sandwiches with smoked cheese and dried meat, tartlets with cheese filling and cilantro;
Steaks or stuffed goose;
Bananas and apples in chocolate, cookies with icing, made in the form of the symbol of this new year - the Yellow Dog, cakes with berry jelly.
Ready mimosa salad on a platter

Simple recipes for the New Year

In order to form delicious table, it is not necessary to spend large sums of money. Unusual cheap dishes for the New Year will make your holiday dinner original and satisfying. The main thing is to choose the right combination simple ingredients and think about decorating the holiday table. The decoration of dishes plays an important role in creating the New Year's mood.

Cold appetizers

A good idea for the New Year's table would be ham rolls with garlic and cheese. This cold appetizer is very popular during the holidays, as it goes well with any type of drink, such as traditional champagne or red wine. To prepare, you can use the suggested recipe or supplement it with ingredients of your own preference.

Ingredients:

ham – 200 g;
hard cheese – 150 g;
garlic – 3 teeth;
mayonnaise – 40 ml;
Cooking method:

Pass the garlic through a press. Grate the cheese using a grater.
Combine cheese with garlic, season with mayonnaise.
Slice the ham and roll the cheese filling into each slice.
Drizzle before serving cream cheese sauce, decorate with fresh herbs.
You can offer guests traditional New Year's tartlets stuffed with cheese and crab sticks. Ingredient prices are not high, so this hearty dish can be considered budget. In addition to the proposed type of filling, you can use baked vegetables, seafood, eggs with herbs. Tartlets with mushrooms, onions and cream are very tasty.

Ingredients:

ready-made tartlets – 15-20 pcs.;
eggs – 5 pcs.;
crab sticks – 250 g;
pickled cucumbers – 1 pc.;
cheese – 250 g;
garlic – 1-2 cloves;
mayonnaise – 4 tbsp;
greens - several branches;
spices - to taste.
Cooking method:

Cut into small cubes boiled eggs, crab sticks, cucumber. Grate hard cheese. Finely chop the greens.
Combine the garlic passed through a press with mayonnaise, herbs and ground pepper.
Season the prepared chopped ingredients with the resulting sauce.
Fill the tartlets.

Ham rolls with curd and garlic filling

Probably, many people associate New Year with many festive salads. When thinking about how to inexpensively set a festive table for the New Year, housewives are sure to decide what salads will decorate the feast. The salad with apples and chicken slices is very tasty. This dish can be supplemented with iceberg lettuce leaves, which will make the salad not only incredibly tasty, but also more healthy.

Ingredients:

boiled chicken fillet – 250 g;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
boiled rice – 150 g;
onion – 1 pc.;
apple – 1 pc.;
sour cream – 100 ml.
Cooking method:

Cut fillet, boiled eggs, apples into cubes. Finely chop the onion and pour boiling water over it to remove excess bitterness.
Boil fluffy rice, add to salad.
Season with sour cream and add spices.

Variation of Caesar with apples and chicken

The hot dish presented below goes perfectly with New Year's salads. Not only will all guests enjoy it, but it will also become a decoration for the New Year’s table. To make the dish not only tasty, but also aromatic, you should not skimp on spices. In addition to the spices suggested in the recipe, you can add rosemary, oregano, allspice, dried garlic or curry.

Ingredients:

pork fillet – 800-1000 g;
garlic – 5-6 cloves;
homemade mustard – 2 tbsp;
black ground pepper, salt, paprika, basil, ginger - to taste.
Pork fillet

Cooking method:

Wash the meat and dry it. Mix spices. Cut 2 cloves of garlic into slices, pass the rest through a press.
Place boiled pork on the board. Make shallow cuts. Roll chopped pieces of garlic in spices and press into the cuts in the meat.
Make a marinade from mustard and remaining garlic.
Coat the pork with spices, then with marinade. Leave for 2-3 hours.
Bake at 180 degrees for one and a half hours.

Choosing a budget dessert for the New Year is complicated by the huge variety of recipes. These can be cakes, soufflés, muffins, cookies. To surprise your guests, you can prepare a dessert with cream and berries. This delicacy will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. Delicate texture, sweet taste and the berry aroma of the dessert will add a special charm to New Year's Eve.

Ingredients:

cream – 250 ml;
frozen raspberries or strawberries – 200 g;
powdered sugar – 100 g.
Cooking method:

Beat the chilled cream thoroughly using a mixer.
Place pre-thawed raspberries or strawberries into the creamy mixture (you can use a berry mix if desired). Add powder.
Beat the dessert until smooth and pour into glasses.
Curd and berry dessert in glasses

Since the New Year's table will be bursting with salads, hot dishes and snacks, birthday cake It’s better not to make it nutritious and filling. The optimal solution would be light airy a dessert that will not only decorate a budget New Year's table, but will also delight your delicate structure. The preparation of this cake is made easier by the fact that it does not need to be baked in the oven.

Ingredients:

butter – 200 g;
cookies – 400 g;
cocoa – 3-4 tbsp;
sugar – 300 g;
sour cream – 800 ml;
jelly – 3 packs;
white chocolate – 100 g;
gelatin – 40 g;
orange – 1 pc.;
banana – 2 pcs.;
vanillin - to taste.
Cooking method:

Pour jelly hot water, put in the refrigerator after cooling. Grind the cookies with a blender.
Heat the oil over low heat, add sugar and cocoa.
Prepare the cake pan. To do this, place a baking dish without a bottom on a wide plate.
Combine some of the crushed cookies with the butter mixture. Place in a small layer on a plate. Place in the refrigerator to harden.
Pour gelatin with water, stir, remove to infuse.
Remove the colored prepared jelly from the refrigerator and cut into medium cubes. Cut bananas and orange into slices or cubes.
Mix sour cream, sugar, beat. Add vanillin, the rest of the crushed cookies, fruit, jelly.
Heat the gelatin in a water bath, and after cooling, pour it into the sour cream mixture.
Transfer the resulting mixture into the prepared pan with a layer of cookies, which have set in the refrigerator.
Place the cake in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
You can decorate with jelly, grated chocolate, and slices of fruit. Before serving, carefully remove the pan from the cake.

New Year's table setting

The decoration of the festive table deserves special attention. It is better to prepare decorative elements in advance, choose a suitable tablecloth and service. Since it is believed that the yellow Dog - the symbol of the coming year - loves brightness in everything, this must be taken into account when setting the table. The table can be decorated with painted fir cones, golden ribbons around the cutlery, small Christmas tree branches with marzipan. In the center of the table you can place several candles in homemade candlesticks made from jars and bark