It is not enough to pick up good recipes for the new year 2017, you also need to deal with them. Of course, each housewife has her own delicious and proven recipes, but if you use new recipes for the New Year's table, then I recommend trying the dishes to understand how long it will take you to cook them.

Try to accommodate the tastes of all guests. My mother always prepared a large table, and it seemed to me that the same dish was on the table several times - as a child, I thought that it was just for beauty, but in fact my mother repeated her best recipes in several readings.

For example, the same salad could be with mayonnaise, or it could be unseasoned - among our guests, not everyone eats mayonnaise. There were also options without meat, fish and other allergens. Take an interest in the tastes of your guests before compiling a menu.

It is also worth including simple recipes in the New Year's menu - after all, it takes five minutes to cook ordinary beets with prunes, and they eat it pretty quickly.

If you have any difficulties with serving a dish, photography will help you - study the pictures and try to repeat the serving as close to the original as possible.

Snacks

It is better to choose New Year's snack recipes for the year of the rooster in such a way that it is easy to cook them - guests sweep away snacks first.

fried avocados

Ingredients:

• 3 ripe avocados;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 g of breading mix;
• Deodorized oil.

How to cook

1. Beat the eggs, salt the mixture, pour into a convenient plate. Next to put two plates - one with flour, one with a mixture for breading.
2. Peel the avocados, cut lengthwise into 6-10 slices.
3. Pour oil into a frying pan with high sides and heat up, the degree of heating of the oil can be determined by a small slice of bread - it should fry quickly.
4. Roll each piece of avocado in flour, dip in egg and breadcrumb mixture, and then put in oil.
5. Remove all pieces and put on a plate, previously covered with absorbent napkins, allow excess fat to drain.
6. Serve with a sprig of greens.

A very simple appetizer to prepare, but very effective and tasty.

Ingredients

• 1 sheet of ready-made puff pastry;
• 10 sun-dried tomatoes;
• 20 olives;
• 1 egg for lubrication;
• Provence herb blend.

How to cook

1. Roll out two large sheets of dough thinly.
2. Arrange sun-dried tomatoes and olives on one layer of dough.
3. Lubricate the place free from the filling with a beaten egg, grease the edges well.
4. Cover with a second layer of dough, roll out slightly and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
5. Remove the semi-finished product from the refrigerator, and cut into strips.
6. Put strips of dough on parchment, coat with beaten egg, and then sprinkle with Provence herbs and put in the oven for 20 minutes.

Hot meat dishes

We choose recipes for hot dishes for the new year 2017. New Year's dishes prepared for the new year 2017 can be almost anything, but it is better to use original recipes - this way you can emphasize the importance of the holiday.

Turkey breast chops

Ingredients:

• a small jar of mozzarella;
• turkey breast;
• 8 pcs. small tomatoes;
• 4 strips of lard with a meat layer;
• 1 Bulgarian pepper;
• extra virgin olive oil;
• salt and pepper;
• Provencal herbs;
• a few leaves of rosemary.

How to cook:

1. Put the oven to heat up and take care of the meat - the turkey breast must be cut into 4 pieces, rinsed with cool water, dried and beaten off.
2. Bulgarian pepper must be cleaned, and then cut into thin strips along. Divide the chopped peppers according to the number of chops, and wrap each part with a strip of bacon.
3. On the beaten turkey meat you need to put crumbled mozzarella.
4. Put on chops pepper with a piece of lard and form a roll.
5. Put each roll on a separate sheet of baking paper, add 2 cherry tomatoes to each parchment, drizzle with olive oil, and add salt, spices, and then decorate with rosemary.
6. Pack each roll in parchment (roll up like a candy), tie the edges with a harsh thread.
7. Put the bundles in a mold, and bake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes, then cut the parchment and bake for another 10 minutes - to get a beautiful crust.
8. Serve with fresh tomatoes and any side dish.

When compiling the New Year's menu for the holiday of 2017, select recipes with photos. It can be New Year's proven recipes for the holiday in the year of the rooster or just unusual recipes for Christmas and New Year 2017 with a video or photo - this way you will simplify the task of preparing the table in advance.

Ginger Christmas ham

Ingredients

• pork weighing about 2.5 kg.
• 1 tbsp dry ground ginger root;
• 6 garlic heads;
• salt;
• a mixture of peppers;
• a little cayenne pepper;
• ginger - about 10 centimeters;
• a couple of limes.

Cooking:

1. Cut off some fat from the ham, the meat should have no more than one and a half centimeters of fat.
2. Peel and finely chop the ginger (you can use a grater). You need to remove the zest from citruses - with a vegetable peeler or the same grater, and also squeeze the juice from them separately.
3. Part of the lime zest is mixed with grated ginger root, a little less than a teaspoon of salt and lime juice should be put in this mixture.
4. Mix ginger powder with pepper, zest and salt.
5. The meat should be put on the table with fat up and stuffed with a mixture of salt and ginger. In several places you need to stick a knife, then turn it and put the ginger-lime mixture into the resulting hole, gently tamp and close the hole by removing the knife.
6. After the ham is stuffed, you need to cut the fat on it diagonally and rub it with a mixture of ginger powder, salt and pepper zest.
7. Make foil envelopes - put a head of garlic in each, from which remove the top dry layer, and a piece of fat cut from the ham, roll each envelope.
8. Take a frying pan that can be cooked without oil and "seal" the notched part of the ham (where the fat is) for a few minutes.
9. Place the ham on the wire rack and in a baking sheet, which put in a very hot oven for 25 minutes.
10. It is necessary to reduce the heat, pour 1-1.5 cups of water into a baking sheet, put garlic heads on the grate in a baking sheet.
11. Bake at the rate of 20 minutes for every pound of weight. A ham weighing 2 kilos will take 80 minutes to cook, if the weight of raw meat is 2.5 kg, then it will take 100 minutes to cook - that is, 1 hour and 40 minutes.
12. Remove the ham, cover with a sheet of foil for 20 minutes and then you can serve.

When choosing recipes for New Year's meat dishes, do not forget to also resolve the issue with sauces - will you cook them yourself or just buy ready-made ones? In any case, this point needs to be thought through and taken into account.

Unusual fish dishes

If you rarely cook fish, then it’s better to watch New Year’s 2017 recipes with a photo - so you can quickly figure out how to cook a particular dish, and most importantly, how the final result should look like.

Fish mousse on black bread

Ingredients

• Mascarpone or soft curd cheese without a bright taste - 150 g;
• 3 bunches of green onions;
• 150 g salmon;
• 3 tbsp lemon juice;
• Provencal herbs;
• sliced ​​Borodino bread.

Cooking like this:

1. Grind mascarpone, salmon and lemon juice in a blender to a paste-like state.
2. Finely chop the green onion and stir into the fish mixture.
3. Using a pastry bag, drop the mousse on pieces of Borodino bread, sprinkle with Provence herbs.

Tuna carpaccio on a pillow

Ingredients:

• 400 g tuna fillet (necessarily fresh);
• 3 tbsp olive oil;
• 1 tsp chopped fresh oregano;
• 1 large handful of arugula;
• juice and zest of 1 lemon;
• half a head of lettuce;
• salt to taste.

How to cook

1. Rinse the tuna, separate from the skin, dry it with paper towels and wrap in foil, then put it in the freezer for half an hour.
2. Tear the arugula and lettuce into large pieces with your hands, mix well.
3. Mix olive oil and lemon juice, add salt and oregano.
4. Remove the tuna from the freezer, cut into very thin slices (using a sharp knife or a special shredder).
5. Form a lush pillow of greens on a plate (leave a little for decoration).
6. Lay out the tuna so that the slices overlap each other and decorate a little with lettuce leaves on top.
7. Fill the salad.

New Year's side dishes

Agree, is it stupid to put ordinary pasta on the New Year's table 2017 as a side dish? A couple of interesting side dishes will help diversify the menu for the new year 2017.

Cauliflower with cheese

Ingredients:

• 1 medium head of cauliflower;
• 3 tbsp refined oil;
• 1 tsp ground paprika;
• garlic to taste;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• salt to taste.

How to cook

1. Set the oven to heat up, you need about 180 ° C.
2. Wash the cabbage, remove the stems and leaves, cut so that it lies flat.
3. Place cabbage in a baking dish.
4. Grate garlic on a fine grater, mix with vegetable oil, paprika and salt.
5. Coat cabbage with garlic butter.
6. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater and sprinkle with cabbage.
7. Place the baking dish in the oven and cook for about 1 hour.
8. Check readiness with a sharp knife in the middle of the head - the knife should go in easily, without a crunch.
9. A whole cabbage looks very impressive, so it’s better to cut it in front of guests, on the table.

Ingredients:

• half a kilo of green peas (frozen);
• 3-4 stalks of celery;
• 1.5 tbsp butter
• 2-4 cloves of garlic;
• fresh thyme;
• 2 tbsp dry white wine;
• 1 st. cream (fat content over 30%);
• 1 tsp lemon peel;
• 1 tsp mustard (preferably with grains);
• 1 tsp flour or starch;
• pepper and salt to taste;
• parsley for decoration.

How to cook

1. Cut the garlic into thin slices.
2. Cut the celery into diagonal slices.
3. Pour boiling water over the peas (without defrosting).
4. Put butter in a frying pan, add thyme and garlic.
5. After the butter has melted, add the peas and celery, salt and pepper.
6. Sprinkle with flour and add cream, bring to a boil, stirring lightly.
7. Season with lemon zest, mustard, garnish with parsley when serving.

New Year's desserts

New Year's recipes with photos will help you prepare amazing and simple desserts.

banana cheesecake

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg low-fat cottage cheese;
• 6 ripe bananas;
• 2 tbsp starch;
• 1 egg.

How to cook

1. Beat the egg, cottage cheese and starch.
2. Grind peeled bananas in a blender.
3. Thoroughly knead the dough and put in a mold.
4. Bake until golden brown.

carrot muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 st. Sahara;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar;
• 0.5 st. odorless vegetable oil;
• zest of 1 orange;
• 1 large carrot;
• 1 st. flour;
• 1 sachet of baking powder;
• nutmeg and cinnamon to taste.

How to cook

1. Beat eggs with sugar, add vanilla sugar to the mixture and beat again.
2. Grate carrots.
3. Mix flour with baking powder and sift.
4. Pour flour and carrots into the egg mixture, pour in vegetable oil, mix cinnamon and nutmeg into the dough.
5. Divide batter between muffin tins and bake for 20 minutes.

You should not include too many desserts in the menu for the new year 2017, 1-2 will be enough, but let them be delicious recipes. You can make an ordinary cake, or you can include something truly unique in the menu for the celebration of 2017.

Bonus: delicious drink

Usually, as drinks, many simply buy alcohol and soda, but you can make unusual drinks - especially since it is quite easy.

Christmas tea

Add some herbs to your tea (did you dry mint when it was summer? If not, you can buy it in the spice department), and add some rum to the tea and make a special syrup for Christmas tea - oranges, zest, cloves and ginger. By the way, from the smell of this syrup, not only the kitchen, but the whole house will be filled with a wonderful New Year's aroma.

Now you know what to cook for the new year 2017 and you can make a detailed menu. Think carefully about each dish, study other people's New Year's menus and you will have an excellent festive table for the new year or Christmas!

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As a rule, we all prepare for the New Year what we are used to. But sometimes you really want to get off the beaten path and do something new without spending a lot of time and effort.

Especially for this occasion website found 13 interesting and simple, and most importantly - new New Year's recipes!

mexican salsa

Salsa is a spicy sauce that is very similar to lettuce. The spicy dressing makes this tomato sauce a great accompaniment to meats.

Italian pasta salad

Cold pasta salad is a classic banquet dish, popular all over the world - from the USA to Italy. It is best to choose medium-sized pasta for this salad: fusilli (spirals), farfalle (bows) or perline (small shells). Great for pasta in different colors.

Salmon and lavash appetizer

Red fish and winter holidays seem to be made for each other! Delicious salmon appetizer is a great substitute for sandwiches.

From the indicated amount, approximately 49 pieces are obtained.

For spread:

• 250 g cream cheese
• 1/2 cup sour cream or yogurt for salads
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• zest of 1 large lemon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup dill

Other ingredients:

• 3 thin pita breads or tortillas (about 23 cm in diameter)
• 350 g smoked or salted salmon
• a little butter

1. Mix the ingredients for the spread. Spread half on pita bread, considering that our sandwich will end up being square and the edges of the pita bread will be cut off.
2. Place half of the salmon on top.
3. Take another pita bread and grease it with a thin layer of oil - this will help the salmon "fix" on the pita bread. Cover salmon layer with oil side down. Spread spread on top, put salmon and another pita bread, buttered (butter inside).
4. Wrap everything in a film, press down with a flat heavy object, refrigerate for 4 hours, or overnight.
5. Use a serrated knife to cut off the excess pita bread and square the resulting one.
6. Cut the resulting square into 6-7 strips, make squares of them. Before serving, pierce each mini sandwich with a toothpick, garnish with dill.

Unusual serving of sausage

Sliced ​​​​salami or other sausages are a familiar part of the New Year's table. You can beat this appetizer differently if you make rolls or tartlets out of it.

Delicate mushrooms in sour cream

Mushrooms are perfect for this recipe. Mushrooms are tender and juicy.

potato gratin

Potatoes are a frequent guest on the New Year's table. Gratin is a great way to present it in a new way.

Easy ham recipe

This ham is very good both hot and cold. Serve cut into thin slices.

Turkey roll with sun-dried tomatoes

Turkey is a great substitute for chicken. Turkey meat is perfectly digestible, it has little cholesterol and a lot of vitamins.

Goose with apples and dried fruits

A ruddy goose with a crispy crust - you can’t imagine a “New Year's” dish! Contrary to popular belief, cooking a goose is not difficult at all.

Ingredients (for 8 servings):

• 1 goose
• 1 kg sour apples
• 200 g apricot
• 200 g pitted prunes
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• about 150–250 g apricot jam
• 2 tbsp. l. honey
• 700 g dry red wine

1. Apricot-Honey Glaze: Blend apricot jam and honey in a blender until smooth.
2. Place the goose in a large pot of boiling water and boil for half an hour with any spices and a little salt. This will soften the goose and speed up the browning process.
3. Pat the goose dry with paper towels. It is advisable to place it in the refrigerator to dry overnight. But not necessarily - you can fry right away.
4. Rub the bird with salt and pepper inside and out.
5. Push dried fruits and small sour apples into the abdomen (leave the remaining apples and dried fruits at the end of frying).
6. Place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
7. Pour half a bottle of red wine over and roast the goose, basting with juice from time to time.
8. After about an hour, put the rest of the fruit in a baking dish and add more wine.
9. 15 minutes before the end of frying, grease the goose with apricot-honey glaze.

Fried Chicken by Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver is one of the most famous chefs and TV presenters in the world. He offered his recipe for oven-baked chicken.

Ingredients (for 8 servings):

• 2 chickens
• sea ​​salt and ground black pepper
• 4 kg potatoes
• 2 lemons or 3 limes
• 2 heads of garlic
• thyme, rosemary
• olive oil

1. Season the chicken with salt and black pepper, wrap in cling film and refrigerate.
2. Cut potatoes into 4 parts. Disassemble the garlic into cloves.
3. Preheat oven to 190 degrees.
4. Place potatoes, lemon and garlic in a pot of boiling salted water and cook for 12 minutes.
5. Drain the water and let the potatoes dry for 1 minute on the fire, shaking the pan. Remove lemon and garlic. Close the pot to keep the potatoes hot.
6. While the lemon is hot, pierce it about 10 times. Remove chicken from refrigerator, pat dry with paper towels and rub with olive oil.
7. Put the lemon, garlic and thyme into the chicken, then place it in a deep pan and cook in the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
8. Transfer the chicken to a plate. Place potatoes with rosemary leaves on a baking sheet and toss to combine. Make a well in the center and mark the chicken there. Cook for another 45 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and potatoes are browned.
9. When the chicken is ready, remove the lemon and garlic. Peel the garlic, mash and rub the chicken with it, remove the rosemary leaves.

Ham with honey and mustard

Pork prepared in this way is a real homemade ham that can be served cold as an appetizer or hot with a side dish of vegetables and mustard sauce.

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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 pretentiousness. 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” intact.

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 delight 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 do not 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 delicious. 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 portion 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 lightly 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 spread 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!

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

Anton Smekhov

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The year of the White Metal Rat will be financial, successful, family. In 2020, astrologers advise you to remain optimistic, set clear goals, be honest and conscientious.

Success awaits those involved in agriculture, investments will also be successful, and business ties will be strengthened. The symbol of the year patronizes family values, the birth of children, so many prospects open up to the lonely.

The patron of 2020 does not like idleness, so the path to achieving goals involves hard work. At the same time, 2020 is suitable for travel and new acquaintances. If you have been planning a vacation abroad for a long time, the time has come.

Scenario for the New Year of the Metal Rat for home and family

There are many ways to spend the New Year holidays, but I suggest celebrating the New Year with your family. To make the festive night a success, decorate your house in advance, buy costumes and attributes for games, prepare some interesting contests and invite your loved ones. Now pay attention to the script that will help in organizing the New Year's holiday.

• Traditionally, guests gather to celebrate the New Year in the evening. Well before midnight, organize a short toast feast to see off the old year and show gratitude to its patron. Just do not delay with the "wires", otherwise there will be no strength left for the main fun.
• Contact the representatives of the company that deals with New Year's greetings in advance. As a result, at the appointed hour, Grandfather Frost, accompanied by the Snow Maiden, will come to the holiday. Children will be delighted with such a surprise.
• Arrange for each guest to receive a festive gift and hear a few congratulatory words before the chiming clock. Start drinking sparkling wines and voicing congratulations and toasts.
• After the festive feast, switch to contests and games. Choose the ones that are suitable for both children and adults. So it will be more interesting and more fun. It will help in maintaining a festive mood and karaoke. You will find great contests and games in this article.
• As a friendly company, go to the fresh air, walk along the snow-covered streets, play snowballs or start the festive fireworks. Don't forget your camera to capture the highlights of the procession.

You have at your disposal an approximate version of the New Year's scenario. It will serve as a good basis for creating a holiday program that is suitable for each participant.

Original ways to celebrate the New Year

The Rat loves communication, appreciates friendship, she is an incredible esthete, very generous and cheerful. Given these facts, I will consider the points that need to be considered when organizing a New Year's celebration.

1. You can create a themed social event. Let the guests be in dresses and tuxedos, the atmosphere of luxury reigns around: jewelry, perfume aromas, gourmet dishes, expensive gifts, live music.
2. A party with an emphasis on humor would be no less appropriate. You can organize a lottery in which there are no losers, arrange interesting and fun contests, and present surprises. Bright outfits, garlands and fireworks will be a great addition.
3. A mysterious masquerade party will appeal to both adults and children. On New Year's Eve, performances of magicians, pleasant surprises are appropriate.
4. The New Year's celebration refers to mysterious and mysterious events, so you can create a holiday shrouded in an atmosphere of unusual stories, beneficial rituals, divination and predictions.
5. The evening, during which Santa Claus turned into a biker, Baba Yaga distributes gifts to everyone, and the Snow Maiden became Leshy's best friend, will amuse everyone present at your holiday from the bottom of their hearts. Think over the original scenario and the party will be remembered.

A holiday is unthinkable without the main decoration of any home - a Christmas tree. The rat loves bright, luxurious, expensive, therefore, when decorating a New Year tree, focus on golden colors. You can add golden toys with red ones. Decorate your house and New Year's table with red and gold candles, use garlands in the same color, let the spruce wreaths also harmonize with the rest of the decorations. Create an artistic scattering of citruses, cinnamon, bright beads. All this will please the symbol of the year.

Pay special attention to gifts. The White Rat will appreciate practical and expensive things. As a symbolic present, you can present figurines and piggy banks in the form of a white mouse and other items depicting the symbol of the year.

Jewelry with an original design, household appliances, antiques are relevant as gifts. To make the surprise a success, consider the preferences of loved ones, their occupation, hobbies and tastes.

How to celebrate New Year 2020

The Metal Rat is a cautious, intelligent and conservative animal. Unlike the Fire Rooster, under whose auspices 2017 passed, she does not require luxury and frills from a festive outfit. How to celebrate the holiday?

1. The White Rat likes natural colors associated with nature. For the hostess of 2020 to provide support and show sympathy, opt for a white or silver outfit.
2. If you think the white-silver range is banal, take a closer look at the bright shades. The patroness of the year will not be upset if you come to the holiday in raspberry, orange, mustard or pink.
3. Appropriate and outfits from the black and white range. If you want to become the queen of the party, stock up on a luxurious golden dress. Stylists remind that acid shades are not suitable for New Year's Eve.
4. If you don’t like outfits made in the same color scheme, don’t be discouraged. Dresses made of several contrasting fabrics or models with patterns are also in trend. The list of current ornaments is represented by floral, geometric and oriental prints, drawings depicting the jungle or wild animals.
5. For New Year's Eve, leopard patterns, fur vests, products with fur decor, clothes with the image of cats are not suitable.
6. In the style of the New Year's dress, bet on comfort and elegance. I advise you to forget about deep necklines, puffy skirts and seductive cuts for a while. The unwanted category also includes models with rhinestones and sparkles.
7. The most suitable dress style is A-line or sheath. It is important that he emphasizes the figure and hides flaws. Efficiency comes second. A light texture is suitable for the fabric - chiffon, silk or lace. A velvet dress will make you look like an aristocrat.
8. Without a good accessory it is impossible to create a harmonious image. Since brown and yellow shades are in trend, jewelry made of platinum, gold, amber will best complement the evening look. Create an understated look. Do not put all rings on your fingers. This is vulgar.
9. To bring the final touch to the image, use a stylish belt or an original handbag. For brave girls, I advise you to wear a choker in the form of a collar around your neck. Cover open areas of the body with a thin layer of golden powder or sparkles. This will provide a shimmery effect.
10. Complete the look with hair and makeup. A make-up with an emphasis on the eyes and a highlighter for skin radiance is a great choice for the New Year's holiday. Manicure do what you like, but let it not stand out from the general range. You can pick up your hair in an elegant bun, create beautiful curls or change their color and make a haircut. The Rat loves experiments, so follow your inner desire. You can decorate curls with bright hairpins, rhinestones, beads, a hoop.

By following these simple guidelines, you can easily make your holiday look trendy, fashionable and fresh. Additionally, the patroness will like the appearance, who will thank you with happiness and good luck. The dress code according to the horoscope is also very appropriate for those who believe in astrologers.

What to wear for different zodiac signs

Everyone tries to be beautiful and attractive. As for the New Year's dinner, this is not enough here, because people with an irresistible appearance become the kings and queens of the ball.

Stylists argue that the right clothing for the holiday has a significant impact on the development of events in the coming year. Astrologers agree with this opinion. And if the horoscope plays an important role in your life, listen to their advice, which I have outlined in the table.

Zodiac sign	Tips for women
Aries	Aries are characterized by brightness and eccentricity. They will suit a long evening dress with several slits, a wide skirt, bare shoulders and a shawl.
Taurus	Taurus will suit an elegant look. An elegant green or blue dress with a flowing hem in combination with various accessories will help in its creation.
Twins	High intelligence and flirtatiousness are the essence of Gemini. For a fantastic look, use a bright dress or a long skirt. Green accessories combined with curly hair complete the look.
Crayfish	Cancers are advised by astrologers to opt for elegant outfits. An evening dress combined with shoes, a belt, gloves and jewelry will take the look to a new level.
a lion	Leos are known for their love of bright and unusual things. On New Year's Eve, they will look irresistible if they dress in a tight-fitting tunic and put on stilettos. Just do not overdo it with decorations.
Virgo	New Year's holidays for Virgos is the best time to change the image. They will suit a flirty dress of a rich shade, complemented by a wide belt, a hat and a scarf. Stylish handbags and bright accessories are also relevant.
Scales	When creating an image, Libra is recommended to let an extraordinary fantasy off the leash. It is better to take a silk dress as a basis. It will make a good company with massive accessories.
Scorpion	Scorpios are the strongest and most extraordinary personalities. Of all the abundance of clothes for the New Year 2019, an outfit with a high slit and bare shoulders or a trouser suit will suit them. A feather bag or a light scarf will fit the role of an accessory.
Sagittarius	The best solution for a Sagittarius girl on New Year's Eve is a blue suit or dress. The main thing is that the outfit is made of light flowing material.
Capricorn	Saturn astrologers prescribe a serious image. There are two options here: a strict festive dress with accessories or a sexy outfit with a high slit and a bold neckline.
Aquarius	Aquarians are a reflection of sophistication. When choosing clothes, it is recommended to focus on the details. Sophisticated costumes with numerous decorations will make the look extraordinary and elegant.
Fish	Pisces will suit green and blue outfits. The main thing is not to overdo it with the brightness of accessories. A one-color dress of any style is the best solution. Not to restrain fantasy is allowed only in the choice of shoes and jewelry.

For men, choosing a New Year's outfit is a little easier. Here are the main recommendations.

1. Opt for a yellow, brown, amber, or black suit.
2. If you don’t like the jacket, a stylish shirt with a vest or a jumper will make a good company for trousers.
3. Among the accessories: a scarf or scarf with an original pattern instead of a tie, a classic belt, cufflinks, gold bracelets and chains.
4. From shoes it is better to choose black or brown shoes. If a carnival is planned, go as a cowboy. You won't guess right.
5. If the party is with friends and involves a casual style of clothing, you can set the accents with bright shoes and a belt.

Perhaps you did not find a specific answer to the question posed in the table, but this is not required. Material - a collection of useful recommendations that will help in creating a festive image. Everyone has their own tastes and preferences.

What to cook for the New Year 2020 - step by step cooking recipes

Let's talk about the holiday menu. It should be plentiful and consist of simple but satisfying dishes. Be sure to make sure that there are meat dishes on the table - roast, sliced ​​\u200b\u200band appetizers.

Meat is combined with vegetables, so salads are indispensable. I advise you to dilute all this variety with several dishes of sea fish. At the end of your dinner, please your guests with fruit desserts or sweet pastries based on shortcrust, unleavened or puff pastry.

I will consider several step-by-step recipes that have long taken a firm place in my holiday menu. They are painfully simple, making it easy to prepare delicious holiday meals at home.

The patroness of the coming year is not picky, so any ingredients are suitable for preparing festive salads. The main thing is that among them there was meat or seafood. And if you want to surprise your guests, ditch traditional salads like Olivier and Mimosa.

"Paradise"

Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup.
• Squid - 3 pcs.
• Shrimps - 250 g.
• Mussels - 250 g.
• Crab meat - 250 g.
• Red caviar - 200 g.
• Mayonnaise.
• Favorite condiments.

Cooking:

1. Boil rice. Any variety will do, but with a long salad looks spectacular.
2. Clean and boil squid carcasses. Boil for no more than 3 minutes, otherwise, instead of tender pulp, you will get pieces of rubber. Cut into rings.
3. Boil the mussels with shrimp in salted water for 2 minutes. You can lightly fry the mussels after cooking. Chop crab meat.
4. Put the prepared ingredients in a spacious salad bowl, mix, season with mayonnaise.
5. Arrange the resulting salad mass on portioned plates, season with your favorite spices, garnish with red caviar.

"Cornucopia"

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 300 g.
• Potatoes - 3 pcs.
• Sweet and sour apple - 1 pc.
• Onions - 2 heads.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 150 g.
• Carrot in Korean - 200 g.
• Apple cider vinegar - 1 teaspoon.
• Vegetable oil, mayonnaise.
• Walnuts.
• Salt, spices.

Cooking:

1. Boil meat, potatoes, eggs. Diced fillet after cooking, fry in oil with one chopped onion. Peel potatoes and eggs.
2. Cut the peeled apple and cheese into small cubes. Pickle the second onion after cleaning in vinegar with sugar.
3. Take a large flat dish and shape the lettuce into horn-shaped layers. First put the meat with onion, then make a layer of pickled onion mixed with apple.
4. Next, use grated eggs, then Korean carrots, potatoes and cheese. Spread each layer well with mayonnaise sauce. Decorate the formed salad with chopped walnuts, sprinkle with spices.

Video recipe

"Sesame"

Ingredients:

• Salmon fillet - 900 g.
• Feta - 200 g.
• Beijing cabbage - 4 leaves.
• Lemon - 1 quarter.
• Soybean oil.
• Sesame.
• white pepper
• Leaves and stalk of celery.

Cooking:

1. Rinse salmon with water and pour marinade consisting of soybean oil, white pepper and salt. Send to the refrigerator for 2 hours, then hold in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. Cut the cooled baked fish into slices.
2. Cut the apples and leaves into slices, feta into cubes, and the celery stalk into strips. Rinse the Chinese cabbage leaves.
3. Put the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, pour over lemon juice, sprinkle with sesame seeds. To make the dish spectacular, I advise you to decorate with olives and celery leaves.

Salad with beef tongue

Boil the beef tongue with the addition of peppercorns, carrots, bay leaves, onions. We add the listed ingredients 40 minutes before the expected readiness. The total cooking time is 2.5-3 hours.

1. When the tongue is cooked, place it in cold water, and then remove the top film from it.
2. Cut the tongue into thin slices, put on a dish, garnish with fresh herbs, boiled egg slices and cherry tomatoes.

In the center of the dish, place diced potatoes, carrots, celery, pickles. As a dressing, use balsamic vinegar in combination with olive oil. You can add a few tablespoons of low-fat sour cream to our sauce. After 15 minutes, serve this bright salad on the table.

Salad with tuna

It's easy to prepare.

1. We start with spinach leaves and lettuce, which we tear with our hands and throw into a bowl, add canned beans and tuna. I recommend putting fish with juice.
2. Then we peel the cucumbers from the skin, chop them into cubes. Cherry tomatoes are also better to chop a little. The only exceptions are very small varieties: their fruits can be thrown whole.
3. Put finely chopped onion.

The salad does not need a dressing, but if it turns out dry, add olive oil and a little balsamic vinegar.

Calamari and shrimp with vegetables

We clean the squid carcass from the insides and boil in salted water for 3 minutes.

1. Place the squid after cooking in cold water, then cut into thin strips.
2. To it we add 250 g of boiled shrimp, two tomatoes and avocado, chopped into strips.
3. Remove the juicy part from the tomato.
4. Dress the salad with a mixture of cream, mustard, lemon juice, salt and black pepper.
5. Garnish with basil leaves. Add sweet corn if desired.

These New Year's salads are enough to diversify the table and surprise guests with culinary skills. If you have other salad options for the New Year 2020, use it. This will make dinner multifaceted.

Recipes for delicious snacks

Delicious, original, beautiful appetizers are just as appropriate on the festive table as salads. From the variety available in the arsenal, I have chosen several excellent options that are guaranteed not to disappoint.

"Father Frost"

Ingredients:

• Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Red caviar - 50 g.
• Mayonnaise - 1 tablespoon.
• Green onions, pepper, salt.

Cooking:

1. Using a vegetable peeler, chop the cucumber into thin slices.
2. In a small bowl, stir eggs, add salt. Send the resulting egg mixture to the pan, fry on both sides. Cut egg pancakes into small cubes, mix with mayonnaise.
3. Form edible bowls from cucumber slices. Fill each blank with minced egg and fasten with green onion feathers. Use caviar to decorate snacks.

"Christmas wreath"

Ingredients:

• Hard cheese - 250 g.
• Cherry tomatoes - 150 g.
• Lettuce leaves.
• Skewers.
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• Mayonnaise, salt, pepper.

Cooking:

1. Cut ⅔ hard cheese into small cubes and cut the tomatoes in half.
2. Thread half a tomato, a cheese cube, a piece of lettuce onto each skewer.
3. Prepare the sauce. In a blender, grind the remaining cheese along with garlic and mayonnaise. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. Place a small bowl with sauce in the center of a wide dish, put skewers with strung ingredients around.

Videos cooking

"Meat Rolls"

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 2 pcs.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Cheese - 100 g.
• Flour - 2 tablespoons.
• Olives - 1 bank.
• Greens of parsley and dill.

Cooking:

1. Cut each chicken breast into a booklet. The result is a wide, flat fillet. Gently beat the meat preparations with a hammer, salt, pepper, marinate in mayonnaise.
2. Beat the eggs, add the flour and some chopped olives, mix. Divide the resulting mixture into two parts. Fry two pancakes.
3. Put the finished omelette on top of the chicken fillet, put a thin cheese stick on the edge, form a roll, secure with toothpicks.
4. Dip the meat rolls in flour, fry in a frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil under the lid over low heat. After 15 minutes, turn over to the other side.
5. Cut the finished appetizer into 3 cm thick slices. Use vegetables for decoration.

mini sandwiches

Cook with your favorite ingredients. For example, cover a toast of black bread or a baguette with cream cheese and put caviar on it. Complement this perfect blowing sprig of greenery. You can replace the caviar with a slice of red fish.

Snack rolls

Enjoy popular love and snacks-rolls. They are prepared using pita bread. Place the filling in the sheet pita bread, for example, ham with cheese and herbs or red fish with melted cheese and herbs. In the first version with ham, it is better to fry the rolls in batter so that the hard cheese melts.

Snacks in an omelet

Very attractive and tasty. For cooking, fry an omelette, in which we add starch for elasticity. Put any filling in an omelette pancake, and I recommend brushing it with cream cheese, adding a little garlic and herbs, and wrap it. Cut the roll into portions.

One of the appetizers discussed above is sure to take its rightful place on my holiday menu. I hope you enjoy these options too. If you have other interesting recipes, leave them in the comments. I would appreciate that.

hot food recipes

Meeting the year of the White Metal Rat, one cannot do without meat. The question arises of choosing the optimal hot dishes for the festive table. It is easy to get confused in the variety of options available, but if you cook lamb leg, baked potatoes and duck in wine sauce for the holiday, you are guaranteed not to lose and appease the patroness of the year.

"Leg of lamb with greens"

Ingredients:

• Lamb leg - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 6 cloves.
• Lemon - 1 pc.
• Wine - 200 ml.
• Thyme - 3 branches.
• Olive oil - 100 ml.
• Rosemary, spices.
• Parsley greens.

Cooking:

1. Prepare the lamb. Make a neat incision along the entire length of the bone, cut the flesh, cut the joint of the bones at the joint, remove the bones.
2. In a small bowl, combine olive oil, zest, lemon juice, pepper. Stir. Process the lamb with the resulting composition, wrap in a film, put in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours.
3. Peel and mince the garlic. Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan, add garlic, fry until golden brown, and then transfer the contents to a clean container.
4. Finely chop parsley and rosemary leaves, mix with garlic oil, add your favorite spices.
5. Put the lamb on the table with the cut up, fill with a mass of herbs, form a roll. Fix the workpiece with kitchen twine, coat with oil.
6. Pour the wine diluted with water in a ratio of 1 to 1 into a deep baking dish, put the grate on top of the leg of lamb.
7. Send the meat to an oven preheated to 250 degrees. After ten minutes, lower the temperature to 150 degrees. After two hours, remove the dish, wrap with foil and keep in the oven for another 15 minutes. Ready!

Video recipe

"Baked potato"

Ingredients:

• Potato - 8 tubers.
• Proteins - 2 pcs.
• Spice mix - 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil.

Cooking:

1. Peel potatoes. Rinse each tuber thoroughly with water and cut into small slices.
2. Whisk the egg whites into foam. Mix the protein mass with potatoes, add spices, mix.
3. Put the spicy potatoes in a greased form, put in the oven for half an hour. Bake at 220 degrees. Once every 5 minutes, open and stir the treat.

"Duck with wine sauce"

Ingredients:

• Duck - 1 pc.
• Large apples - 3 pcs.
• Onions - 4 heads.
• Wine - 100 ml.
• Rosemary, ginger.
• Mix of spices, salt.

Cooking:

1. Tie the duck with culinary twine so that the wings lie against the sides and the legs come together.
2. Fill the carcass with sliced ​​apples. Put the stuffed duck in the goose, spread the spices around, pour in the wine.
3. Send to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 60 minutes, then turn over and cook for another half an hour.

ADVICE! When cooking duck in wine sauce, do not spare spices, as the meat smells like mud. Only herbs and spices can dull this specific aroma.

Rolls with crab meat

The combination of ingredients is unusual, and the taste is amazing!

Ingredients:

• 300 g spinach;
• 300 g broccoli;
• 4 things. chicken fillet;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 170 g crab meat;
• 100 g cream;
• 5 g ginger;
• Olive oil.

Cooking:

1. Cut the spinach leaves into strips, put in a blender bowl, add water, mix into a homogeneous mass. Spread the mixture on cheesecloth and separate the liquid.
2. Crab meat carefully grind, salt, pepper, mix.
3. My broccoli, divide into inflorescences, sweet pepper cut into strips.
4. We turn to the chicken: we clean the fillet from fat and films, cut into slices.
5. We combine pepper, spinach, broccoli with crab meat.
6. We beat off the pieces of chicken fillet, season with spices, spread the filling in a thin layer on each. Roll up and secure with a toothpick.
7. We put our rolls in a saucepan, pour olive oil, cream, add spices and simmer under the lid for no more than 25 minutes.

Veal with nuts and vegetables

Another great dish that is appropriate on the New Year's table.

Ingredients:

• Veal - 900 g.
• Salo - 110 g.
• Onion - 2 pcs.
• Oil - 30 g.
• Cheese - 170 g.
• Carrot - 2 pcs.
• Butter - 60 g.
• Nuts - 160 g.
• A bunch of parsley.

Cooking:

1. My veal, dry a little, cut lengthwise, but so that you can open and close like a book. Beat lightly, season evenly with spices, roll into a roll.
2. Melt butter in a saucepan, then remove from heat to cool to room temperature.
3. Wash and finely chop the parsley, peel the carrots and place in a saucepan. Fill with water, cook for 20 minutes, cut into strips.
4. We clean the onion, wash it, finely chop it.
5. Pour the nuts into a frying pan and heat until a seductive aroma and a ruddy hue appear. Let cool, chop, mix with parsley, onion, carrot, oil. Salt the resulting mixture.
6. Cut bacon and cheese into small pieces. We unfold the veal and put cheese and lard on it in a checkerboard pattern. Put a lot of vegetables and nuts on top. We wrap, fixing tightly with threads.
7. Pour oil into a frying pan and heat it up. Sprinkle the roll with spices, place in a pan, fry until golden brown and transfer to a mold. Until fully cooked, bake the meat for 1.5 hours at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Couscous with vegetables

Ingredients:

• 1 bulb.
• Carrot.
• Olive oil.
• 150 g couscous.
• 1 sweet pepper.
• 100 g of champignons.
• 1 clove of garlic.

Cooking:

1. Bring the water in a saucepan to a boil, meanwhile chop the onion finely, chop the pepper into strips, chop the garlic, and rub the carrots on a fine grater.
2. We turn to the champignons: clean and cut into slices.
3. Pour couscous into a bowl, salt, pour boiling water, cover with a lid. Let it brew for about 15 minutes, then remove the lid and break it to make a crumbly mass.
4. Add 15 ml of olive oil to the porridge, mix.
5. Pour the remaining oil into a frying pan, pour carrots, peppers, onions there. After a few minutes, add mushrooms and garlic, mix everything thoroughly.
6. Simmer the vegetable mixture over low heat until the mushrooms are ready, then put the couscous. After 5 minutes, you can serve the dish on the table.

Imagine what the New Year's table will look like if you serve these dishes to guests in combination with the considered salads and snacks. It remains only to choose the right drink, and wine in this case is beyond competition.

Best Dessert Recipes

New Year is a favorite family holiday. Each hostess has in her arsenal several excellent dishes for the festive table. All kinds of meat treats, snacks, salads are always appropriate. But with the greatest responsibility, culinary specialists approach the choice of dessert, because adults and children like sweets. Here are some good recipes.

"Stuffed prunes"

Ingredients:

• Prunes - 400 g.
• Walnuts - 200 g.
• Sour cream - 250 ml.
• Sugar - 150 g.
• Chocolate.

Cooking:

1. If the prunes are pitted, this greatly simplifies the task. Otherwise, pour dried fruits with hot water, wait for softening, remove the seeds.
2. Finely chop the walnut kernels. In some cases, I skip this procedure and use whole kernels. Fill prunes with nuts, place on a plate.
3. In a separate bowl, beat sour cream with sugar. If sour cream is liquid, add a little starch. Pour the stuffed prunes with the resulting sour cream sauce and sprinkle with grated chocolate.

"Chocolate Bananas"

Ingredients:

• Bananas - 3 pcs.
• Chocolate - 100 g.
• Coconut shavings.
• Confectionery topping.
• Nuts.

Vegetable oil - 150 ml.

Baking powder - 1 teaspoon.

Candied fruits, walnuts, raisins - 150 g each.

Cooking:

1. Combine the listed ingredients, with the exception of glaze and dried fruits, in a deep bowl and mix. Add candied fruits, ground nuts and raisins, mix until smooth.
2. Grease a rectangular oblong shape with oil, pour the dough. Send the workpiece to the oven. Bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
3. Remove the finished cake from the oven, pour over the chocolate icing. Sprinkle with Christmas spices, ginger and cinnamon, if desired.

fruit skewers

In the year of the Rat, everything should be bright and juicy, so fruit skewers will be a wonderful dessert to treat relatives and friends on New Year's Eve. The recipe is very simple.

1. Take some bananas, apples, kiwi. Cut fruits into pieces: bananas - in circles, kiwi and apples - in cubes
2. String them alternately on skewers, pour over with liquid honey, sprinkle with coconut flakes.

Fruits may be different, such as pears and pineapples.

Jelly

Delicious delicacy will please everyone present at the holiday. To prepare a dessert, you will need fruit juices, berry compotes, gelatin. Of course, you can use ready-made packaged jelly mixes, but if there are children at the holiday, it is better to stay on the natural version. For 400 ml of juice or compote you will need 15 g of gelatin.

1. Dissolve gelatin in hot water until a homogeneous stretching liquid mass. For 15 g of gelatin, 50 g of water is enough.
2. Pour liquid gelatin into juice and mix.
3. Pour the blank into molds and put in the refrigerator.

If you want to make jelly from several layers, then each must harden in turn. It will take about 5 hours to completely solidify, a lot depends on the quality of the gelatin. You can decorate the jelly with grated chocolate and mint leaves.

The recipe is incredibly simple, and the cookies will turn out delicious.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup flour;
• 50 g of sugar;
• 2 proteins;
• vanillin.

Cooking:

1. Beat egg whites with sugar, add vanilla and flour. The end result should be a pancake-like dough. We put it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Take a baking sheet, cover with parchment. Pour the mixture on a baking sheet by a teaspoon and level with a spatula. Each pancake should be about 8 cm in diameter. I recommend not to make more than 4 pieces on a baking sheet. Bake cookies no longer than 5 minutes until browned. Prepare leaflets with predictions in advance.
3. We take out the baking sheet, wait 10 seconds and turn the cookies over with a spatula. We put a prediction in each blank and fold it in half, pinching the ends.
4. We hang cookies on a cup to acquire the desired shape.

ADVICE! If you want to give the cookies a special festive look, you can dip them in chocolate and sprinkle with crushed nuts or coconut.

50 g of powdered sugar;

50 ml of Baileys;

12 pcs. savoiardi cookies;

2 egg whites;

2 tbsp. l. cocoa;

Mint.

Cooking:

1. Cooking a cake without baking - tiramisu. Brew coffee, add liqueur and sugar to it, mix well.
2. Beat egg whites until foamy, beat mascarpone cheese separately.
3. Gradually add the yolks to the cheese, while whisking with a blender until smooth.
4. Gradually add the protein mass, mixing with a spatula.
5. We spread the cheese cream on the bottom of the glass form, dip the cookies in coffee syrup and spread them on the cream layer. There should be three alternating layers. The top, final, should be creamy, which we decorate with cocoa powder. If desired, add fruit to the tiramisu, for example, pineapple.
6. Place the cake tin in the refrigerator overnight.

"Pancho with cherries"

For cream:

• 650 ml cream 35%;
• 500 g of condensed milk.

For ganache:

• 40 ml cream 20%;
• 60 g dark chocolate.

Cooking:

1. We divide the eggs into yolks and whites, beat the whites until a weak foam appears, gradually add sugar. When the proteins form a stable foam, we can introduce the yolks one at a time, while whisking.
2. Gradually add flour, mix. You should get a fluffy dough that needs to be laid out in a mold. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper first.
3. We bake a biscuit at 170 degrees for 40 minutes. The optimal diameter is 21 cm.
4. As soon as the biscuit is cooked, wait until it cools, then take it out of the mold and cut it into two parts. The lower part should be no more than 1.5 cm in height. Cut the other half into small cubes.
5. Let's move on to cream. Whip cream, add condensed milk, beat again. In the resulting cream, put the biscuit cubes, mix.
6. We take a bowl, cover it with cling film, spread half of the cream-biscuit mixture. The second layer should consist of cherry berries, the next - biscuit cubes with cream, and so on until our delicious mixture is over.
7. “Cover” the bowl with the bottom of the biscuit, press it with your hand. We put it in the refrigerator for the whole night.
8. Before serving, prepare the ganache. We heat the chocolate and cream, but do not boil, mix thoroughly so that the chocolate melts completely, let it cool to room temperature.
9. In the meantime, chop the nuts, but the pieces should be quite large. We take out the cake from the refrigerator, remove the film, sprinkle with nuts, pour over with ganache. Our cherry pancho is ready!

The dessert recipes that I reviewed in this part of the article are easy to prepare and do not require much time. Despite this, they are ideal for completing a New Year's dinner.

• Dishes for the New Year should not be too complicated and heavy, so astrologers advise paying attention to recipes with vegetables and dietary meats.
• Do not forget that the symbol of the year loves everything bright, so tomatoes, fresh herbs and unusual bright fruit desserts are appropriate.
• The Metal Rat will like the rustic style of table decoration, because he is from the countryside. Beige, yellow, gold, brown and gray colors are suitable for table decoration. Let the tablecloth be made of natural material and in natural colors, wicker napkins and plain ceramic dishes will be an excellent addition. Do not forget about the festive decor: fir cones, snowflakes, branches, nuts, acorns. Candle-lanterns will add originality and create a cozy atmosphere.
• A rat is a pet that needs no frills, so while preparing for the New Year holidays, make sure that a warm and cozy atmosphere prevails in the house. When creating a New Year's interior, opt for natural colors.

Eco-style is gaining popularity, which is ideal for the New Year holiday. Cotton or linen tablecloths and napkins, combined with decorative stones and straw products, will fill the house with hints of nature. And for table setting, use earthenware. In it, the considered dishes will look chic. This is enough to enlist the patronage of the Metal Rat for the whole of 2020.