Interesting dishes for the new year. Hot dishes for the new year. Outfits with meaning

What is the New Year associated with? With a Christmas tree, of course, fireworks and sparklers, gifts and, of course, delicious food. And recommendations for preparing a festive table will help make the grand celebration of the year memorable and not too burdensome for the stomach.

As you already understood, in today's issue of our women's magazine we will talk about setting a festive New Year's table. Below you will find many photos, recipes, tips and advice on how and what dishes should be prepared for the New Year 2017.

Rooster salad

What is a New Year's table without salads?

Since it has already become a tradition to cook a hundred with an orientation to the eastern calendar, the 2017 year of the Fire Rooster will not be an exception. The rooster is a zealous owner. He likes natural and simple dishes. It is very good to decorate the table with abundant pastries, for example, pies.

Herring under a Fur Coat

Greens with vegetables - special attention. And for a snack - small sandwiches with vegetables and meat ingredients. For drinks - wine, liqueurs or cocktails. And it is advisable to add liqueurs or fruit wines to all dishes with alcoholic dressing.

If there is a small plate with grain on the table, then such a move will make the festive composition more interesting, and the owner of the year will like it. To create the appropriate atmosphere from the very beginning of the meal - a salad cocktail.

After all, the holidays are not complete without salads. And in addition to the usual options for the New Year 2017, you can prepare new, not yet tried recipes.

So, an airy salad is both hearty and uncommon. Fry half a kilogram of mushrooms in hot oil with finely chopped onions, add pepper and salt to taste.

A dozen crab sticks are cut into cubes. Rub six boiled eggs on a fine grater and mix the ingredients. For dressing - mayonnaise. The salad is spread on a large platter and garnished with soft cheese on top.

A spicy Korean salad will appeal to those who prefer dishes with character. Consistency is important in cooking. Start with one hundred grams of green beans. It is fried in hot oil until golden brown. Putting it on a paper towel, cool, remove excess oil.

Meanwhile, six mushrooms are fried and spread on a paper towel to cool. Combine and add one hundred grams of Korean carrots and eight olives. Salt and pepper the salad as needed, and leave for about an hour in the refrigerator before serving. The finished dish is decorated with pine nuts and herbs.

Snowman made of eggs and vegetables

For a salad with garlic-cheese sauce, three boiled eggs are cut into strips. To them add as many de tomatoes and one hundred and fifty grams of crab sticks, cut into strips. The list of ingredients is completed by hard cheese, you will need to rub one hundred grams.

For a fragrant sauce, salad raisins, push a couple of garlic cloves, mix with cheese. Lay out the finished dish with rings or figures. Decorate with lettuce leaves, herbs or pine nuts.

Delight salad

It is advisable to refuse chicken on the table: the Rooster does not like eating his relatives! And in the usual form, chicken eggs should not be on the table. But in salads they are not forbidden, and in the form of snowmen with skewers (see photo) are quite appropriate. To really please the Rooster completely, you can replace chicken eggs with quail eggs. And for the main course, it is better to take less fat and oil. Snacks with vegetables, herbs and lean meats look great. And you should not overdo it with sharpness.

The best foods for a festive meal are olives, spices, cheeses and fish. Baked fish, salmon or trout are very good. And for a side dish - potatoes.

Cocktails - Host of the Year 2017

Cocktail, rooster tail - the drink is more relevant than ever. Therefore, it should be on the table! To prepare the Mood cocktail, ice the bottom of an elegant tall glass, mix three parts of cherry wine and one dark rum. Coca-Cola is added to the mixture.

Various vegetables

The drink will be decorated with a slice of lemon or a berry. A straw will also overcame. And the cooking time will take a little.

It takes longer to prepare the Champagne cocktail. Vermouth, champagne and sugar are mixed for him equally. Add lemon juice to the mixture and mix. The drink is cooled in the refrigerator and poured into glasses. Decorate each with umbrellas and lemon wedges. It is advisable to pour the drink into wine glasses with a New Year's theme, you can even draw snowflakes by hand, and do not forget about ice.

Originality and simplicity - the trend of 2017

Pedantry is what distinguishes the owner of the upcoming 2017. He likes the classic, he loves simplicity and appreciates elegance. But no, no, and something extravagant will flash in the usual course of events. So there must be a "zest" on the table!

Quail eggs instead of chicken eggs!

Side dishes, vegetables, cuts, fruits - there should be as many of them on the festive table as possible. And salads are the place! The Rooster does not like heavy meals. Not for him, and fried with salty, and strong alcohol. A good idea for a feast is sushi. No meat is needed, so the owner of the year is happy. He likes rice and fish dishes. It is wonderful to decorate the table with shrimp and other seafood dishes. And stews, casseroles, and fresh vegetables wonderfully harmonize with them in taste. And the jellied fish will not be superfluous.

And for the traditional "Herring under a fur coat" you can make homemade mayonnaise. And to give originality to the dish by serving in the form of a roll or a Christmas tree, put in portions on plates and decorate with herbs.

If you can't do without meat, for example, you are planning a celebration outside the city, in nature, then pots with lamb and vegetables are perfect. Beef and pork are not prohibited. Why not cook Viennese schnitzel instead of your usual duck or chicken? The rooster may not be too shocked and angry with chicken dishes, but it's better not to risk it.

And there are no prescriptions for desserts. It is only important to take into account that heavy food, like strong degrees, interfere with concentration, and this will not be tolerated by the future owner of the year.

And there are requirements for serving. A dull and plain tablecloth, golden, pink, and best of all, white. Matching tablecloths and napkins. Dishes - ceramic, wooden or glass. It is very nice to focus on the rustic flavor. No plastic! Don't forget about water glasses. A lot of red, golden candles will decorate the table. The atmosphere will receive a magical mystery and elegance.

According to popular beliefs, the New Year 2017 takes away all the troubles and hardships, allowing you to start a new life from a blank page. Therefore, it is important to prepare for such a celebration in advance. And it's worth starting with the menu. The table should not break from the abundance of dishes: the Rooster reasonably loves to save. But there is no point in saving either: the golden mean is always optimal.

Hot dishes, salads, snacks, cold cuts, desserts, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks should be on the festive table. Preference is given to bright and original appetizers. Meat and fish dishes are required. A side dish is better than a vegetable one. Potato is very good.

Festive drinks are special. This is the best place. Cedar liqueur is perfect. For him, two hundred grams of pine nuts and a third of a glass of sugar are put in a clean jar. Add half a liter of vodka and put the container in a dark place for a month. The finished drink is topped up with vodka and served.

Pies with various fillings

What's on the hot dish?

Hot dishes are prepared in the colors of the holiday: red and yellow vegetables, golden brown crust ... Recipes with fish and potatoes are best suited for the role of light food. For baked pink salmon, fish is cut into fillets. It is cut into several pieces. Put a fish on a greased baking sheet and add seasonings, pour over with lemon juice. Having generously greased with mayonnaise, pink salmon are set aside to soak.

Meanwhile, cut onions in half rings, grate carrots and lightly fry vegetables in a pan. Fry is placed on each piece of fish, sprinkled with seasoning for fish. Tomatoes are cut in half rings and the fish is covered on top. Everything is put in the oven for three quarters of an hour and baked at 180 degrees. The dish is served hot.

An excellent hot option is potatoes with sour cream and cheese. Thanks to the cheese, piquancy is felt, and sour cream gives tenderness. An excellent side dish is obtained with fish or meat. A kilogram of potatoes is peeled, washed and cut into thin circles. Coarsely rub 200 grams of cheese.

The mold is generously greased with butter and the potatoes are spread in a thin layer. Watering abundantly with sour cream, the whole dish needs about 450 grams, pepper, salt and spices are added. Next is a layer of grated cheese. Then all layers are repeated again. The filled form is baked at two hundred degrees for twenty-five minutes.

The finished dish is laid out on plates, used as a side dish for meat. And for cooking potatoes with champignons, no special skills or knowledge are required. But beginner housewives will also make an excellent festive dish. Begin by cutting the onion into thin half rings and frying it until soft in thirty grams of butter.

Then two hundred and fifty grams of champignons are cut into thin slices, added to the onion and fried, salted and pepper, for ten minutes. Add half a teaspoon of paprika, a couple of garlic cloves and herbs to the pan. Mix everything, add two hundred and fifty milliliters of sour cream, milk, mix again, salt and stew for four to five minutes on low heat.

Half of the peeled and sliced \u200b\u200bpotatoes are laid out in a greased form, salted, poured with the resulting sauce, covered with foil and stewed in the oven for three quarters of an hour at two hundred degrees. The foil is removed and the dish is left in the oven for another third of an hour.

Original salad recipes for the New Year 2017

A special place in the upcoming 2017 is occupied by New Year's salads. The emphasis is on interesting and non-standard recipes. For the "Delight" salad, peel, cut into strips and fry 450 grams of mushrooms in vegetable oil. Cut a couple of onions into thin half rings and add to the mushrooms, frying until golden.

300 grams of chicken fillet is washed, boiled and cut into small pieces. Three cucumbers are rubbed coarsely. Grease the bottom of the dish with mayonnaise. Onion with mushrooms is spread on it. Next, after smearing with mayonnaise, fillet comes. This is followed by 250 grams of Korean carrots, then cucumbers, and finally, herbs.

The "Sweet Cockerel" salad looks very interesting. For cooking, boil and peel 350 grams of potatoes. 200 grams of smoked sausages are cut into strips. Finely chop 250 grams of champignons and add 200 grams of apples, cut into strips. Everything is mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise. On a platter, they give the salad the shape of a cockerel, decorate with slices of pepper, herbs, olives.

Snacks require satiety. But they should not kill your appetite between main courses. Fried stuffed pita bread is a great idea. Finely chop and fry the onion, 100 grams of sausage, Bulgarian pepper. Add a tomato to the ingredients and stew for ten minutes. Chopped garlic at the very end.

Super Snacks 2017

Lavash is cut into rectangles. Spread the filling on the edge with a spoon, sprinkle with mayonnaise and close the roll. Stuffed pita bread is fried until golden brown in vegetable oil. They are eaten hot.

For New Year's canapes, small squares of loaf are fried until golden brown. Cool and grease with a thin layer of processed cheese. Cut red fish to the size of a piece of bread and put on a loaf. On top of the fish - a circle of fresh or salted, pickled cucumber and olive oil. It is not recommended to store such a snack. That is why they prepare it before serving, not in advance.

Very tasty zucchini appetizer with tomatoes. For her, three zucchini, cut into circles, pray, pepper, roll in flour and give until golden brown in oil. While the vegetables are cooling, prepare a sauce of mayonnaise, three cloves of garlic and dill, if desired. Tomatoes are cut into circles, greased with sauce and each circle is placed between the courgette rings. You can serve.

And nowhere without desserts ...

Cottage cheese blancmange is a great option for a New Year's dessert! You don't need to bake it. In half a glass of milk, dilute a bag of gelatin for a third of an hour until it swells. Mix a quarter kilogram of cottage cheese with half a glass of sour cream until smooth, with the same amount of powdered sugar and bags of vanilla sugar. A couple of pineapple rings are cut into small pieces.

Milk with gelatin is heated, not to a boil. The mass is poured into the curd and mixed. Add pineapple pieces and leave to freeze, pouring into a beautiful shape, for 4-5 hours in the refrigerator.

It is very good if the dishes of national cuisine are presented on the table. You should not serve semi-finished products and canned foods. Pancake rolls, potato nests with mushroom or meat filling, jellied meat, tomatoes in mustard dressing, fish in batter are good to diversify the festive table. And the most responsible housewives, in order to please the Cockerel, prepare a salad with sprouted grains.

To amaze guests, you will have to spend a lot of time preparing a masterpiece. But the effort is worth it: whole baked suckling pig with cabbage and potatoes, or stuffed pike will be highly appreciated.

If there is no desire and time to mess around in the kitchen all day, then you can serve spicy veal with dried fruits, pork ribs in honey or salmon in mustard sauce. And for a side dish - grilled vegetables or stewed beans, if the potatoes are too common. Rice with herbs is very good.

And at the end of the festive feast - homemade cakes. Homemade flavored cookies, chocolate roll, and yoghurt cakes are perfect for New Year's table 2017. If you are planning a fruit dessert, it is better to keep it simple. Fruit salads baked in wine pears, strawberry crème brulee and apples in honey - delicious and quick. And homemade liqueurs and fruit drinks will be highly appreciated by the owner of the coming year.

It is great if the table is full of tasty and light dishes. But the meeting of the New Year is not one continuous feast. So you shouldn't focus on food alone. There should be time for dancing, competitions, and a walk around the New Year's city. Then the meeting will go well, and you won't have to remember the festive night as a series of dishes replacing each other.

So let's summarize!

What must be on the table in the New Year 2017?

Top 10 holiday dishes:

1. A small plate / saucer with grain or cereals
2. Of course, salad "Olivier"!
3. Many different greens, vegetables and salads
4. Canapes with red caviar and herbs
5. Meat - pork or beef
6. Dishes from fish, shrimp or other seafood
7. All kinds of meat and cheese cuts
8. Potatoes baked with sour cream and cheese (+ mushrooms)
9. Various pastries
10. Fruit

Another little tip! Try to avoid using chicken meat and chicken eggs whenever possible. Having shown a little ingenuity, you can easily replace, for example, chicken meat with turkey (or fish), and chicken eggs with quail. We wish everyone a great festive table and a wonderful New 2017 Year!

23.12.2016 20.01.2018 by Scull

The New Year's table should be full of a variety of delicious dishes. A correctly 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 find out better what to expect from next year. We read horoscopes, trying to find out how the Symbol of the Next Year can affect our lives. And of course, we first of all prepare for the New Year, considering what the Master of the Year loves! Based on this, we will help you compose the "correct" menu for the New Year 2017 in order to appease and bribe the Fiery Rooster, and will tell you what you can and cannot cook for the New Year's table, so as not to anger the sacred creature with a hot-tempered character.

When compiling a 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 a lot of chicken throughout the year. Let's give her a break.

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

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

4) The 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 the dishes as brightly as possible. Beets, tomatoes, bell peppers, pomegranate grains, cranberries, red caviar, corn, greens and lettuce are all welcome when decorating dishes.

5) Use the products that our Rooster loves. And this is seafood, fish, meat, fresh vegetables, fruits, grain, nuts.

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

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

Well, it's good for us too. We also want our New Year's festive table to be beautifully, brightly and deliciously set. 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 it should be, includes snacks 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 need:

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

Preparation:

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

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

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

4. Thinly chop the salmon (you can also use the salmon), and roll up in the form of a rose.

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

It turns out a beautiful, tasty and quick snack that will certainly please your guests.

The same appetizer can be prepared using tartlets. And instead of red fish, you can decorate them with boiled shrimps.

Shells with red and black caviar

We need:

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

As it turned out, Cockerel is a big lover of caviar. And therefore it is desirable to have it on the festive table. But instead of the usual spreading it on a piece of loaf, you can improvise a little and serve the caviar like this.

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

Cottage cheese and cheese paste "Snowman"

What about the New Year without winter characters. Therefore, we are preparing a delicious snack "Snowman". such a snack will not leave indifferent either adults or children!

We need:

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

Preparation:

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

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

3. Wet 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. Season with salt and stir.

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

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

7. Cut the caps out of black bread. From vegetables - eyes and mouth. Saute fries and make handles. Decorate. Put on the cookie circle.

You can also decorate a snowman with boiled carrots. The bucket hat can be cut out of it, as well as the nose. You can make twig handles from dill.

How to beautifully arrange meat, fish and vegetable plates

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.

For example, here's how you can arrange a fish plate.

And how do you like meat plates ?!

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

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

No festive table is complete without such an important dish as salad! And even more so a festive table like 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 one, already tested.

• It should be relatively simple.
• It should look bright and colorful.
• It is necessary that it must be tasty.
• It must correspond to the Symbol of the coming Year!

Olivier salad - recipe for the New Year

It's hard to imagine a New Year's holiday without the traditional Olivier salad. Every year we want to find a replacement for him, but certainly 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 can be subtracted or added.

Everyone knows the classic set of ingredients, these are:

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

Preparation:

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

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

3. Cucumbers for salad can be used both fresh and canned. We also cut cucumbers into cubes.

We try to cut all the ingredients for the salad to about the same size and shape. This will make it look more attractive.

4. Put all the cut ingredients in a large bowl. You don't need to stir 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 stir gently, trying to keep the "cubes" intact.

If you make mayonnaise with your own hands, then the taste of the salad will turn out to be simply impeccable!

9. Nicely put in a salad bowl, or on a flat plate. There are many ways to decorate New Year's Olivier. Exactly as long 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 is quite easy to arrange it this way.

Place a glass in the center of the dish. Put the salad mixed with mayonnaise around the glass. Press it down lightly with a spoon and shape. Remove the glass and decorate the salad as you like. You can put a thick layer of dill on top of it, on which you can put melted cheese carved in the shape of stars. Garnish with pomegranate seeds, canned corn and grated hard cheese.

Or, cut bells from cheese, ribbons from pickled cucumber. Form the salad in the form of a cake, and decorate it the way you want.

And here is a beautifully decorated salad that reminds us that summer will come after a long winter. And the ladybugs running out onto the meadow will delight everyone with their bright appearance.

This is about the design of the salad. But the content can also change! We do not use chicken this year, but adding some smoked meats 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 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, you will not succeed! Neither one nor the other will concede 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

Preparation:

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

1. Grate vegetables and eggs on a coarse grater.

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

3. Lay out in layers - beets, carrots, eggs, potatoes - herring - potatoes, eggs, carrots, beets.

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

We decorate as fantasy tells.

"Herring under a fur coat" in gelatin

We need:

• herring - 1 piece
• salmon - 150 gr
• egg - 5 pieces
• beets -2 pcs
• carrots - 2 pieces
• gelatin - 20 gr
• water -0.5 cups
• sour cream - 1 glass

Preparation:

1. Dissolve gelatin in water. Let stand to swell the gelatin, about 30 minutes.

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

3. Remove bones and skin from herring. Cut into small cubes. Cut the slightly salted salmon a little larger so that the pieces are more palpable. You can, of course, take two herrings instead of salmon. But we have a New Year, so we are not stingy and we are preparing a truly festive salad.

4. Put the gelatin in a water bath and heat it well. You should get a homogeneous mixture without lumps. In no case 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 sour cream recipe also turns out to be tasty, and not so high in calories.

And the Rooster of the Year 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 from it. If you do not have such a form, then cover the salad bowl with cling film. We begin to shape our salad. Put a layer of salmon on the bottom, then herring. Layering with sour cream with gelatin.

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

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

9. Cover the prepared salad with a large flat plate and turn over. If there was a film at the bottom, remove it and serve "Herring under a fur coat" in all its glory.

10. Decorate with dill sprigs, pomegranate and corn.

Isn't it true that 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 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 piece (optional)
• mayonnaise -100-120 gr
• salt to taste

Preparation:

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 onions as desired, 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. Place the correct size cling film on the table.

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

6. Put the carrots in the next layer. Step back two centimeters from the edge with the beets, and lay out in a separate square. Salt this layer again and coat it with mayonnaise. Do not grab the edges with beets.

7. Next comes the potato layer. It should also be smaller than the carrot layer. Each time the square decreases. Seal this layer through a film, salt and coat with mayonnaise.

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

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

10. Roll everything into a roll with plastic foil.

11. Refrigerate overnight.

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

This salad is very beautiful and tasty. And we are always loved by our guests!

Grenadier salad

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

In addition, its color fully meets the requirements that the Fire Rooster dictates to us for the next year.

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

We 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.
• greens for decoration
• salt to taste

Preparation:

Boil the meat, salt the broth for half an hour until tender. Cool down. Cut into strips.
Boil vegetables.
Vegetables can be grated on a coarse grater, or cut into small cubes (optional)
Arrange in layers either in a transparent salad bowl or on a large platter lined with green lettuce.
Lay out the layers in the following sequence. Put potatoes down, then carrots, then meat. Lightly salt the potato layer and brush with mayonnaise.
You can lubricate each layer with mayonnaise, or through a layer. Who likes it.
Cut the prunes into strips, leaving a few pieces intact, for decoration. We spread it on the meat.
Chop the nuts, also leave a few pieces for decoration. Sprinkle on top of the prunes. Then sprinkle some raisins, leave some for decoration.
Put the beets on top. Salt a little.
As mentioned above, you can coat with mayonnaise as many layers as you want. You can apply a beautiful mesh to the top layer and decorate with the remaining prunes or nuts.
Also, the top of the salad can be greased with mayonnaise, sprinkling the top and sides with raisins and chopped nuts.
Remove the salad for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator so that it is better saturated and infused.
Place 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!

Mimosa salad with saury - a classic of the genre

The Mimosa salad, which appeared in the distant 70s, still breaks all records in popularity. This salad is so simple and tasty that it is prepared, as they say, both at the feast and in the world.

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

Such a salad will also be good on the New Year's holiday. And don't be confused by its spring name. Having given it a New Year's look, and having decorated it with improvised Christmas tree decorations, it will not go unnoticed on the festive table.

We 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 easier. Everyone has everything they need in the kitchen. We boiled vegetables and eggs, and the rest of the preparation will take no more than 10 minutes.

Preparation:

Boil potatoes, carrots, eggs. Prepare a jar of canned food, drain the liquid from it and lightly heat it with a fork. Today we use saury.
When the food is cool, grate the potatoes, carrots and egg white on a coarse grater.
Rub the egg yolk on a fine grater.
Put half of the potatoes in a prepared salad bowl. Followed by a layer of fish, then pour the 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 the protein, and lightly salt again.
Again a layer of mayonnaise.
Now it's the turn of 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 made from vegetables of different colors, pomegranate seeds and fresh herbs.

Canned Tuna Salad with French Fries

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

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

We 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 or herbs - for decoration
• salt, 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 on purpose. All products are quite affordable, and almost everyone has in the refrigerator. Unless everyone has tuna, but 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 someone who has never cooked anything can handle it.

Preparation:

1. Grate carrots for Korean carrots. And salt it a little. Try it. Carrots should be salted, but not salted. Stir and squeeze a little. Top with pepper. 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 acidic foods are contraindicated for you, then just cut the onion into small cubes and fill it with water to release the bitterness.

Leave the onions to marinate for 1 hour.

3. During this time, let's start cooking 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, preferably into a cauldron. Warm it up to a gray haze. And fry the potatoes in small portions. Each portion will be fried for 10-15 minutes, depending on how thick you cut the potatoes.

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

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

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

5. In either case, remove the fried potatoes with a slotted spoon, allow the oil to drain a little and then put them on paper towels. To prevent excess oil from getting into the salad.

6. Allow the potatoes to cool.

7. Boil the eggs, leave to cool and cut into cubes.

8. Taste the carrots. It should be moderately salty. If you suddenly oversalt, then rinse it under cold water, and then discard it in a colander so that the water glass. In this case, you will need to add some 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. And it is in such a dish that we will shape our beauty! So that everything is in sight!

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

12. From the jars of tuna, pour the liquid component into a separate bowl. It will be useful to us later. Put the tuna in a separate plate and crush lightly with a fork.

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

14. Start putting all the ingredients on a 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 crust, and so that all the ingredients are clearly visible.

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

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

17. Decorate as your fantasy tells you.

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

19. Eat with pleasure.

Capercaillie's Nest salad

A very beautiful and delicious festive option! Will not leave anyone indifferent! I think that no one would refuse such a warm and cozy nest. Here you will immediately find a nest and a composition of products corresponding to the coming Year.

We need:

• boiled beef or veal - 350-400 gr
• raw potatoes - 2-3 pieces
• eggs - 7 pcs
• pickled cucumbers - 2 pieces
• mushrooms, champignons, or any other, pickled - 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 piece
• sugar - 0.5 tbsp. spoons
• vegetable oil - 1 tsp
• soda - on the tip of a knife
• salt - a pinch

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

Training:

1. Make pancake dough. Let it stand for 30 minutes to combine all the ingredients.

2. Fry 2-3 thin pancakes.

3. Cool hot pancakes a little, roll in half and roll into a tube. Then cool completely. Cut as cool as we cut the roll, into thin circles. Then the pancake will roll out and get long narrow strips.

4. Cut the cucumbers into thin strips.

5. You will also need to boil the meat in advance. Simmer it over low heat. There is no need to salt throughout the entire cooking process so that the salt does not draw out all the tasty juice from the meat. Salt 10 minutes before the end of cooking. Cool the finished meat and cut into thin strips.

We try to cut all ingredients to approximately the same 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. Cut the proteins into thin strips.

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

8. Another important stage in preparation is to prepare a blank for the nest itself. And we’ll build the nest from fried potatoes.

To do this, cut the 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 place potatoes there in small portions, fry, stirring constantly.

10. In a large bowl, combine chopped cucumbers, meat, mushrooms, egg whites and pancakes. Add canned green peas there, from which the brine has been carefully drained.

11. Add mayonnaise. If you do not really like mayonnaise, then add sour cream, or sour cream and mayonnaise 50-50%.

12. Gently mix everything. Is there enough salt to try. We have pickles, mushrooms, meat, green peas and mayonnaise. Therefore, I no longer salt anything. You can add one or two pinches of black pepper for piquancy.

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

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

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

Capercaillie's Nest salad - how to decorate and decorate

To make the salad look the most impressive, it is best to lay it out on a large flat dish. Then it will look exactly like a nest. Only more beautiful and brighter. If the real nest is discreet, disguised as tree branches. That our "nest" is bright, screaming, just to match any holiday!

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

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

3. Cover the entire surface of the laid out ingredients with French fries. Do not forget the edges, spreading on them, slightly press down the potatoes so that they do not fall.

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

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

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

6. Remove the prepared salad from the refrigerator, decorate with halves of cherry tomatoes and put on the festive table. A must-see for our beautiful culinary masterpiece. And eat to your health!

Salad "Roses for a loved one"

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

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

This salad has one feature that you will not be able to forget about if you decide to cook it. Originally, it is made from chicken fillet. Therefore, we will cook it in an unconventional way, replace chicken with meat, or smoked sausage, or brisket. You can use boiled tongue, or even take a little of everything.

We need:

• boiled breast 300-400 gr. (unconditionally replaceable 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
• a bunch of greens
• mayonnaise to taste

For pancakes:

We 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 it turns out! So take note of this salad, especially if you have never cooked it!

Preparation

Pancakes for Roses:

1. Mix eggs with sugar.

2. Add salt and soda to flour, mix.

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

4. 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. Roll the pancakes tightly into a roll with the greased side inward.

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

Cooking salad "Roses for a loved one"

Now we start laying out the salad. We take a salad bowl with high sides and cover it all with cling film.

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

2. Finely dice the potatoes and mix with mayonnaise.

3. Take 2/3 of the potatoes and put them on top of the "roses". Crush a little with your hand and coat with mayonnaise.

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

5. We spread everything in layers in this order - 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 is better not to overdo it, otherwise sometimes so much mayonnaise is put in the salad that the taste of other products is not even felt.

7. Cover the top with cling film and refrigerate for 12 hours. Now let it insist and gain strength.

When serving the salad, use a large flat plate or platter. Peel off the top of the film. Place a flat plate on a salad bowl and simply turn over. Remove the film from the "roses" and garnish around the edge of the plate with finely chopped herbs and the remaining onions. That's it, your "Roses for a loved one" salad is ready! Nice and tasty! Let your loved one be happy.

The next few salads are based on chicken fillet. But don't be tempted, change it decisively for meat.

Pomegranate bracelet salad with walnuts

This is another favorite salad for the holiday. And of course it is very often prepared for the New Year's table! And this year they will cook it even more, because it contains pomegranates. Which both in color and taste strongly recommends the coming 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. the 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 the hot water, put it 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 to cleanse them better

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

3. Beets can also be boiled, but to make it faster, I boiled beets in the microwave. To do this, pour a glass of water into a special glass container for the microwave. Wash the beets thoroughly, prick 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 onto the other side and repeat the procedure.

4. Wash the 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 glass, and the chicken dries. You will need to remove the skin from the fillet and cut it into thin strips, or even cubes. Whoever likes it more.

5. Finely chop the onion, pour a spoonful of oil into a frying pan and fry it until golden brown. Then pour half a glass of boiled water, and without diminishing the heat, let the water boil, stirring occasionally onions. Once all the water has boiled off and you see the onions start to fry again, turn off the gas, cover the onions and leave them as they are. 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 grind it in a blender, but then you will wash and clean it longer. You can quickly use a crumb crumb and you can better control the size of the resulting crumb. The crumb should not be very small so that it would be pleasant to nibble on the nut when it hits your teeth in the salad.

7. When the vegetables have cooled down, rub them on a coarse grater. All in separate plates. Peel and disassemble the pomegranate into grains.

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

11. Now is the time for nuts. Only half of them need to be laid out, the rest will still be useful to us. Now a layer of mayonnaise again. Yes, a mesh would just be appropriate here.

12. We did it with mayonnaise. Now we spread the potatoes. It must be seasoned with salt and pepper 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 onions on top of the beets, gradually moving them evenly downward. And the remaining nuts. Again, you will have to suffer and smear mayonnaise on the naughty nuts. But you be more careful, get the mayonnaise in advance, then you will just draw the mesh and all the things.

15. So, we still have eggs! We spread them, do not forget to salt. It's good that you don't need mayonnaise.

16. Lay out the remaining beets, distribute them well throughout the circle. Now we 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 drown in it, and if there is not enough, then they will not hold on and will fall off. Therefore, grease a little at first, put a few grains, if it holds well, then there is enough mayonnaise.

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 by grain. And if not, then just take a little bit of grains in your palm and distribute over the entire surface of the salad.

18. When finished, carefully remove the glass. You can also leave the inner circle in such a way that the layers are visible. But in the correct version, this part should 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, it is tempting to eat it right away. But there is no need to rush. The salad should still be infused for at least 8 hours. He needs to be well saturated. Therefore, we will 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!

"Pomegranate bracelet" is quite worthy of our attention, and we put a big thick tick in front of this recipe!

"Mushroom meadow" salad

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

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

We need:

• chicken breast - 1 pc (replace with meat)
• potatoes - 3 pieces
• carrots - 1 pc
• hard cheese - 150 gr
• eggs - 2 pcs
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pieces
• fresh cucumber - 1 piece
• pickled champignons - 1 can
• 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 to drain all the juice from it.

2. Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs.

3. When vegetables are cool, grate potatoes and carrots on a coarse grater.

4. Eggs are either also grated or cut into small cubes in an egg cutter.

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

6. Cheese also grate.

7. Cut the meat into small strips.

8. Finely chop the dill.

9. Put the champignons from the jar into a colander so that all the water will drain 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 use them to cover our salad.

Preparation:

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

1. Select the champignons and form the mushrooms directly in the meadow. We spread them with their caps down directly on the film, you can place larger mushrooms in the center, and smaller ones to the edges. In general, as your fantasy tells you.

2. The next layer is green, this is the same mushroom meadow.

3. Then cheese, eggs. Lightly add some salt to the eggs and grease this layer with mayonnaise. Someone who loves mayonnaise more, someone less, so we add it to our liking.

4. Now we will have 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 can see, we grease the ingredients with mayonnaise through a layer. I do this so that the salad is not too greasy. But if you want, then you can lubricate each layer with it!

Let's say this is a classic version. 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 pickled.

6. If you also have such a treasured jar, then do not regret adding finely chopped mushrooms to the salad. The taste of the salad will be simply amazing. Any mushrooms will do - both porcini, aspen mushrooms, 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 mushrooms, 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 greased with sour cream. And I like to mix sour cream with mayonnaise in a proportion of 50% to 50%, and grease the layers with this mixture.

7. Cover the last layer with foil. And put it in the refrigerator. The salad should be infused for at least 10 hours.

Instead of champignons, honey mushrooms can be used and the salad will then take on 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. Put green lettuce leaves on it.
Holding them with your hand, cover the salad bowl and turn over.
Cut the fresh cucumber into slices 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 honey agarics, then you can decorate the salad and so on. Or as fantasy tells.

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

"Sunflower" salad with chips and mushrooms

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

Also, as you know, the Rooster values \u200b\u200bsimplicity very much and does not waste money. The ingredients are very simple. But the salad does not suffer from this. The ingredients are carefully selected and balanced. Everything is perfectly combined, and "Sunflower" turns out like no other!

We need:

• chicken breast - 300 gr (replace with boiled meat)
• mushrooms - 300 gr
• onion - 1 piece
• 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 the chicken breast (meat) in slightly salted water. Cool, remove the skin if you are using not ready-made fillets, and cut into small cubes or small strips. Whoever wants to.

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

3. Mushrooms must be cleaned from 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 cook.

As the water boils, we time it and boil with light salt for 10 minutes. During all this time, we remove the foam.

4. Then put the mushrooms in a colander and let the water drain.

5. Onions - 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, add another spoonful.

6. Fry onions until slightly golden brown, do not overcook. And add the mushrooms immediately. Reduce heat and fry the onion and mushrooms for another 10 minutes. Place in a flat plate to cool down 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 finest. Try to choose eggs with a bright yolk for your salad. Then the salad will look like a real sunflower - bright and colorful!

8. Grate the cheese on a coarse or medium grater.

9. Cut the olives into two halves. We will have the "seeds" of our sunflower.

10. Prepare mayonnaise and sour cream. You can only make a salad with mayonnaise. I will do 50/50 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. Finally, chips! The product is not very useful - but art requires sacrifice! To create such a culinary masterpiece, chips are essential. In the end, if completely against them, then when you eat, just put them aside. It's easy to do, 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 small plate of salad cannot fit, I warn you right away, pay attention to this!

Preparation:

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

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

Therefore, we mix the meat with sauces on a separate plate, and then carefully put it in the dish on which we will serve. Pepper this layer a little to give the salad an extra flavor and some spice.

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

You don't need to press the layers. We spread the ingredients loosely as they lay down. The layers themselves will be compacted while they are soaked, as they will need!

3. Then spread 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.

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 not left. It is always best to add extra.

And it's also very important not to overdo it. We have salad with mayonnaise, not mayonnaise with salad. Sometimes they put so much mayonnaise in a salad that nothing else is tasted. And the salad almost floats in it. Everything is good when everything is in moderation.

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

5. Now carefully, so as not to crease, spread 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 egg yolk because it doesn't require additional lubrication.

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

6. Put the olives cut into halves in a circle. These are the "seeds" of a sunflower, so we place them in the appropriate order. We lightly press each half so that it holds well.

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 layers of salad. Chicken breast and mushrooms were boiled in salted water. There is salt in mayonnaise and chips. And there is even more of it in chips than it should be. I only slightly pepper the chicken layer and that's it.

But I advise you to try the mushroom layer and the chicken layer. 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 better for 4 hours. During this time, the layers are well saturated with the dressing, infused and slightly cooled.

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

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 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 the portioned plates, and on them the salad. It is best to cut the salad into triangles, like cutting a cake. And also serve like a cake. To keep all layers intact.

New Year's salad "Santa Claus"

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

We need:

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

Preparation:

1. Boil rice in salted water and chill it.

2. Finely chop the crab sticks. Leave some for decoration.

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

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

Spread mayonnaise on the layer.

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

This layer should also be coated with mayonnaise.

6. The next layer is to spread the tomatoes and bell peppers. Leave free space where Santa Claus will have a face.

Spread this layer with mayonnaise too.

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

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

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

10. Decorate the Santa Claus figurine and salad. Put the edge of the fur coat and hat with rice. Make a beard out of cheese. Make eyes from black peppercorns. Cut 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 from crab sticks. Make a staff using them.

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

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

Here he is how beautiful it turned out!

Seafood salad "Sea caprice"

We need:

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

For the sauce:

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

Preparation:

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

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

4. Allow to cool.

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

That's all! The salad is prepared quickly, but it turns out delicious 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 courses.

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

We need:

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

For gravy:

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

Preparation:

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

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

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

4. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Place 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. Pour off the evaporated fat from the baking sheet. Pour it into a frying pan, put on fire. Add flour, stir, fry until lightly thickened. Add vodka, stir. Then add broth and jelly.

6. Boil the gravy over low heat until thickened.

7. Divide the duck into portions. Place on a platter and pour over the gravy.

8. Decorate with fresh herbs, tomatoes and apples.

Duck can be cooked using the same recipe without gravy. In this case, when ready, just take it out, put it on a dish and decorate, as your imagination tells you.

But I'll tell you right away, duck with gravy turns out to be much tastier. And what is important, she does not have her specific smell at all. The dish itself turns out to be chic and truly festive.

By the way, duck can be cooked for Christmas too!

Wellington beef is a classic English dish

This gorgeous recipe caught my eye quite recently. This is a recipe by the famous British world-class chef Gordon Ramsay.And for the New Year this dish will be just a real culinary masterpiece!

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

We 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 lubrication

Preparation:

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

2. Fry on a hot skillet until crusty.

3. Pour boiling water over dry porcini mushrooms and stand for 15 minutes. Cut the champignons into small pieces. Drain the water from the porcini mushrooms and also cut them.

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

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 3-4 mm thick. Put some of the mushrooms on it. Season the meat with salt and pepper and put it on top of the mushrooms. Put mushrooms and onions in an even layer around all the meat.

7. Close the edges of the dough very carefully so that the juice does not flow out. It must saturate the meat during the cooking process. Place on a baking sheet, seam side down. Brush with egg yolk.

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

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

Preparation:

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

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

3. Boil the sausages until tender, cool.

4. Cut the cucumbers and peppers into long strips.

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

6. Roll up the meat. Tie with culinary thread.

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

8. Cover the tin 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 crust.

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

Pork - accordion "New Year's accordion"

They love to cook this dish for the holidays, because it is not difficult to prepare it. And it turns out to be very tasty, and no less beautiful. Therefore, it will decorate any table.

We need:

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

Preparation:

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

2. Mix mayonnaise and mustard, season with salt and pepper.

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

4. Cut the cheese into slices. Sliced \u200b\u200btomatoes.

5. In pork, make transverse cuts every centimeter. We do not cut it to the end, we leave the meat in such a form that it resembles an accordion.

6. Insert a slice of cheese and a slice of tomato into each cut. Wrap the meat in foil.

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

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

We make potato mushrooms for decoration.

Rinse small potatoes thoroughly with a brush. Allow to dry. Make a deep cut in the middle of the potato.

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

Bake in the oven until tender.

Sturgeon baked in the oven "New Year"

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

We need:

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

Preparation:

1. Peel the sturgeon from the entrails and rinse thoroughly. Pat dry with paper towels.

2. Rub with salt and pepper on the outside and inside. Then sprinkle with lemon juice outside and inside. Grease with vegetable oil and let sit for 20-30 minutes.

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

Lubricate the sturgeon with oil.

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

5. We bake for 20 minutes. Then we open the foil and bake for another 15 - 20 minutes until a beautiful golden brown crust is formed.

6. Gently spread the finished sturgeon on a large flat dish and decorate with tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, olives, cranberries and lemon. We 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 everyone present, and certainly will not leave anyone indifferent.

But if you didn't manage to buy a sturgeon, then it doesn't matter. There are tons of other delicious fish that you can also bake 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 simply fly apart once or twice.

We need:

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

For the test:

• light beer - 1 glass
• egg - 1 piece
• sour cream - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• flour

Preparation:

1. Separate the fish from the bones or use ready-made fish fillets. Sprinkle it 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 fairly 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 really delicious. And getting ready is not difficult at all!

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 festive table!

Dessert "Sweet Christmas tree"

We need:

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

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 tsp
• vanilla sugar - 2 tsp

Filling, decoration:

• strawberry
• packing of pills M & Mdens

Preparation:

1. Take the oil out of the refrigerator beforehand so that it becomes soft. Beat it with a mixer into a thick white mass. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, food coloring and beat 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 muffins, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt and vanilla sugar. Sift through a sieve, preferably twice.

4. Pour in vinegar, stir with a fork. Then oil, and stir again with a fork. No need to whip!

5. Pour in water and continue to beat with a fork until smooth. Do not whisk!

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

7. Now let's start decorating. Grease the cake with cream and place the berry in the center so that it stands firmly.

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

9. Starting from the bottom, 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 stopped pressing, we take our hand away. And we do the same the next branch.

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

10. Decorate Christmas trees with dragees and asterisks-cookies.

Both adults and children enjoy this dessert. It's delicious and no doubt New Year's! Prepare it and please yourself and your loved ones.

Well, the last topic is drinks! What a 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 overboard, he can start bullying to everyone! Therefore, it is desirable to have Champagne and wine on the table, but you need to be careful with stronger drinks.

But cocktails are even welcome. Moreover, the word "cocktail" in translation from French means "cock's tail". So the cocktail will be just right!

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

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

3. Dilute instant coffee in vodka.

4. Combine the two mixtures into one using a mixer. Pour into a bottle. Homemade baileys is ready! Can't tell from the present! And it is made only from some natural ingredients!

Cocktail "Royal Delight"

We need:

• We need:

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

  
  

  Preparation:

  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 need:

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

  Preparation:

  1. Dip the edge of the glass in lemon juice. Dip it in sugar to make the edge of the glass slightly "snowy".

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

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

  4. Top up with mineral water, but so that the glass is only 3/4 full. Foam should form.

  
  

  Children love this cocktail very much. So be prepared for them to ask for more!

  As you can see, there are quite a few ideas for the New Year's menu! But 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. Here you can find appetizers, salads, main dishes, desserts, and even cocktails.

  All recipes have been tested and should not let you down! And I can only wish you a good mood!

  Happy New Year! And let your festive table be the best!

The main distinguishing feature of the owner of 2017, the Rooster, is pedantry. The Fire Rooster adores classics, simplicity and elegance. And his tastes should be taken into account when preparing dishes for the New Year's table.

What to cook dishes for the New Year 2017

In order to clearly understand what dishes (salads, snacks, etc.) to cook for the New Year's table in 2017, and what to make new year menu 2017, you should decide what should not be there. The rooster will not tolerate his relatives being eaten at a festive meal, therefore, he will have to give up chicken for this New Year 2017. Another forbidden dish on the New Year's menu is chicken eggs. But you should not be afraid of this, because, firstly, you do not need to use them only explicitly (stuffed, in the form of snowmen on skewers, etc.), and secondly, they can be replaced with quail. It is not prohibited to add eggs to New Year's dishes.

What should be on the 2017 New Year's table

According to the symbol of 2017, the Red Rooster, vegetables in all possible forms should be present on the festive table: salads, side dishes, fresh cuts. Do not forget about fruit either. And the more there are, the more appetizing your table will become. Fire Rooster does not like heavy cuisine. Do not overdo it with fried and very salty, strong alcohol.

New Year's menu 2017 for the year of the Fire Rooster

Sushi will be a great dish for the New Year's table 2017. In order to cook them, you don't need meat, which will definitely please your taste. He will also unequivocally approve of fish dishes and rice, which are the main Asian cuisine.

A wonderful option for the New Year's table 2017 will be festive new year dishes from shrimp or other seafood. Vegetable casseroles, stews, fresh vegetables go well with them.

From the dishes of Russian cuisine, in the festive menu, you can include baked or jellied fish. If you want to pamper your homemade classic for festive tables dish "Herring under a fur coat", it is recommended to use homemade mayonnaise instead of purchased mayonnaise. prepare for New 2017 - independently. It is done very simply, but it is much more useful than its store counterparts. To make a classic dish a little more original, you can approach its preparation creatively: give the salad the shape of a roll, a Christmas tree, or put it in portions on separate plates, decorating with herbs.

European cuisine offers us with lamb baked in pots with vegetables. You can also include in the menu and cook dishes from pork, beef, for example, Viennese schnitzel. You don't need to resort too much to poultry dishes: turkey, so beloved in the USA as a classic Christmas dish, or Russian baked duck, of course, cannot greatly affect the attitude of the Fire Rooster to a festive meal, but it is preferable to do without poultry dishes this year.

Beverages

From alcohol, the Fire Rooster prefers wine, champagne, cocktails. Very strong alcohol will not be to the liking of those who love concentration.

New Year's desserts

When it comes to desserts, fantasy can allow you to do just about anything. One has only to take into account that very heavy food or one to which strong alcohol is added will not please the Fire Rooster.

How to properly serve New Year's table 2017

• Tablecloth. It should be monochromatic in dull tones. The best option is white, but you can also use gold or pink.
• Service. Naturalness is the motto of 2017. No plastic. Only glass, wood and clay.
• Napkins. Match the tablecloths. If paper napkins are used, they should be placed on a plate. Linen or cotton are placed under the plate.
• Glasses. Set the table depending on what kind of alcohol you will provide. Don't forget a glass for water.
• Decorations. It will be appropriate to put a small plate with sprouted grains in the center of the table - this will please the symbol of 2017. Let the table be decorated with a large number of candles in red or gold tones, this will perfectly complement the New Year's interior and give the overall atmosphere of elegance and mystery.

New Year is the favorite holiday of the Slavs of all ages. In order for it to go well and be remembered for a long time, you should think over all the details in advance - from an outfit to gifts for loved ones. Let's figure out how to celebrate the New Year 2017 and what menu should be on your table in order to please a proud bird and gain its favor.

The New Year's feast is not an ordinary dinner, but an occasion to bring the whole family together, to show hospitality to both invited friends and the patron of the year - the Fire Rooster. And he, as you know, is a willful and extraordinary bird, and the festive menu should correspond to his tastes in order to attract good luck and prosperity to the house.

Basic principles of table preparation

Thinking over the holiday menu, it should be remembered that the Rooster prefers prosperity combined with simplicity. So, the New Year's table in 2017 should be varied, satisfying, but without unnecessary frills and delicacies. It is best to take traditional Russian cuisine as a basis. All kinds of vegetables and herbs should prevail on the menu. However, this does not mean that you need to give up meat - choose any meat except poultry. Snacks and salads should be light, no mayonnaise added.

The rooster also loves sweets, so dessert dishes must be present on the table, preferably portioned ones. Light cocktails are suitable as an aperitif. For the main course, serve liqueurs, liqueurs, liqueurs and wines.

Festive snacks and salads for the New Year 2017

Of course, you should not give up the preparation of the beloved salad by all family members "Olivier" or ". Puff salads can be served both in traditional form and in the form of rolls. But heavy, hearty salads should be on the table as little as possible. The best salad dressing is vegetable oil (sunflower or olive). If you cannot imagine life without sauces, it is better to cook them yourself from natural products, because the Rooster does not tolerate artificiality, and there will be less harm to the body from such food. To prepare mayonnaise, beat 2 eggs thoroughly, 3 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tsp. mustard, a little salt and pepper and 1 tbsp. olive oil.

We must not forget about the appropriate design of the festive table for the new year 2017, the year of the fiery Rooster. The presence of red elements is required, be it a tablecloth, napkins or dishes. Place beautiful candles on the table, because fire will be the element of the coming year. At the end of the serving, add red fruits - tangerines, oranges, apples.

Don't be afraid to experiment with your dishes! And bon appetit on New Year's Eve!

The main distinguishing feature of the Red Rooster, the owner of 2017, is pedantry. He loves classics, elegance and simplicity. Therefore, in the process of preparing New Year's dishes, it is necessary to take into account its tastes.
Recipe content:

The most favorite Orthodox holiday is New Year. As one year turns into another, many people cherish the hope that a magical night will bring a new and happy life. It is believed that the past year will take away old worries and problems, and the new one will allow a lot to start from scratch. Therefore, there is a special approach to the holiday: they wear the most fashionable outfits, put the best appliances on the table, prepare the most exquisite dishes. For this reason, drawing up a New Year's menu requires a special approach and adherence to a certain number of rules.

To correctly compose the menu, one should take into account the tastes of the Red Rooster in order to appease him in every possible way. Indeed, both children and adults believe in a magical New Year's Eve that works wonders. To satisfy the animal, one should take into account that the creature is not greedy, but moderately economical. However, this does not mean that the feast should burst with abundance. Everything should be present on the table in abundance, but simple dishes should be prepared.

All New Year's food should be variegated and bright, like the Rooster himself. The bright ingredients involved in the recipe will help to achieve this effect. The animal will be quite a presence on the table of fruits and vegetables. A container with grain will be useful in the center of the feast, because this is the bird's favorite treat. The owner of the year will be glad to have a sweet: cake or pie. The animal on the New Year's table will not forgive chicken dishes. Another forbidden product of the New Year's menu is chicken eggs. However, adding them to New Year's dishes is not prohibited. In addition, they can be replaced with quail. Do not just use them explicitly - stuffed or in the form of snowmen on skewers.

The New Year's table should be filled with a wide selection of food and drinks. Necessarily hot dishes, snacks, salads, desserts and drinks. The rooster, as a native of the village, is accustomed to simple food, so you shouldn't "bother" with complex recipes from chefs. However, this does not mean that it will be possible to get by with the duty officers "Olivier" and "Fur coat". Without them, of course, nowhere, but you need to cook a dish without exotic ingredients.

• Hot... Recall that the feathered symbol will upset if they eat its congeners - a chicken. It is better to choose fish and seafood dishes.
• Garnish... Stews and fresh vegetables will look good. And as a true villager, the rooster will be delighted with potatoes.
• Salads... Their circle is quite rich. A salad in the form of a Christmas tree or a New Year's toy will help to emphasize the solemnity of the moment.
• Snacks... Since the rooster is a very bright character, you need to choose bright and expressive snacks. It can be vegetable and meat cuts, canapes, mini-sandwiches ...
• Beverages... Life-giving moisture is only natural: juices, fruit drinks.
• Dessert... Here, fantasy allows you to do whatever you want.

How to set the table?

• Tablecloth - monochromatic dull tones. The best option is white, pink, gold, made of linen or cotton.
• Service - natural: glass, wood, clay, and no plastic. It will be beneficial to set off bright dishes with porcelain dishes.
• Napkins - to match the tablecloth, but they can also be bright red - after all, the Fiery Rooster. Place paper napkins on the plate, linen and cotton under the plate.
• Goblets - depending on the type of alcohol provided. Don't forget the water glasses.

There should be more accessories made from natural materials on the table - a wicker basket for bread, a wooden tray or a salt shaker. You can greet the Fire Rooster by placing candles in red candlesticks on the table. This will perfectly complement the New Year's interior, add an atmosphere of mystery and elegance. Feel free to get out the candles and candlesticks left over from last year, because the fiery theme remains relevant. Last year's red decorations are suitable: figurines, compositions ... Decorate dishes: The rooster loves elegance and beauty. It is advisable to decorate the treat with something red - tomatoes, red caviar, pomegranate. A small bowl with sprouted grains will be appropriate in the center of the table.

What delicious and beautiful to cook - recipes for the New 2017

Gretin is a great side dish for the main course. This is the oldest dish in French cuisine. Bright, festive, easy to prepare, and given the rustic theme of 2017, it can be made in clay pots.

• Caloric content per 100 g - 143 kcal.
• Servings - 6
• Cooking time - 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 8 pcs.
• Sour cream 20% fat - 150 g
• Cream 25% fat - 300 ml
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Champignons - 5 pcs.
• Nutmeg - 1/3 tsp
• Cheese - 200 g
• Greens (parsley, cilantro) - bunch
• Bacon - 100 g
• Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
• Provencal herbs - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
• Ground black pepper - pinch or to taste

Step by step cooking:

1. Peel the potatoes, cut into 1.5 cm circles.
2. Freeze the bacon slightly so that you can cut it into thin slices.
3. Wash the mushrooms and cut into thin strips along the legs.
4. For the sauce, whisk the sour cream with cream until smooth, add the nutmeg, salt, pepper, spices, chopped garlic cloves.
5. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
6. Grease 6 clay pots or special disposable holiday tin foil molds with oil.
7. Place ingredients in tins in layers. Alternate layers as follows: potatoes, bacon, mushrooms.
8. Pour sauce over all products and sprinkle with cheese.
9. Bake the gratin in a preheated oven to 200 degrees for 45 minutes, until golden brown. Serve hot and garnish with herbs.

Pork and prunes are a great combination of products. Aromatic, juicy, tender, tasty ... The dish will appeal to both guests and the host of 2017.

Ingredients:

• Pork rump - 1.5 kg
• Pitted prunes - 20 pcs.
• Garlic - 5 cloves
• Dry red wine - 1 tbsp.
• Mustard seeds - 4 tablespoons
• Thyme - 1 tsp
• Salt - a couple of pinches or to taste
• Black pepper - pinch or to taste

Step by step cooking:

1. Wash the meat and pat dry with a towel. Make cross cuts every 1.5 cm, not cutting to the end of 3 cm.
2. Pour wine into a deep and wide container and heat it to a temperature close to boiling, but do not let it boil.
3. Remove the wine from the stove and dip the chopped prunes into it. Leave to marinate for half an hour.
4. Coarsely chop the garlic and mix with the prunes that you extract from the wine.
5. Thoroughly salt and pepper the meat, grate with thyme and sprinkle with mustard seeds.
6. Fill each cut with prunes and leave the meat in the refrigerator for 1.5 hours.
7. Wrap the pork in food foil and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Leave to cook for 30 minutes. Then turn the roll over and continue baking for another 30 minutes. Then gently unfold the foil to brown the meat for 10 minutes.

Salmon is a delicacy that each of us loves. It can be present on the table in the form of slicing, used for salads, but the most delicious option is baked in the oven.

Ingredients:

• Salmon fillet - 1 kg
• Bread crumbs - 5 tbsp.
• Butter - 30 g
• Mustard - 5 tablespoons
• Honey - 2 tablespoons
• Walnuts - 10 pcs.
• Parsley greens - half a bunch
• Salt - pinch or to taste
• Ground black pepper - pinch or to taste
• Refined vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.
• Lemon - 1 pc.

Step by step cooking:

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.
2. Add honey, add mustard, add washed and dried finely chopped greens. Stir.
3. For breading, combine crushed walnuts and breadcrumbs.
4. Cut the fish into portions, removing the vertebral bones. Place it in a greased mold. Pour over the prepared sauce and sprinkle with breading.
5. Place the mold in a preheated oven to 190 degrees and cook the fish for 30 minutes. Serve garnished with thin lemon wedges.

Dessert! How to do without it on New Year's Eve? And since in the coming year the host of the celebration is Cockerel, and not a simple one, but a Fiery one, the dessert will be flaming.

Ingredients:

• Bitter chocolate - 200 g
• Cream, 30% fat - 200 ml
• Cognac - 30 ml
• Honey - 1 tablespoon
• Chopped walnuts and almonds - 1 tablespoon each
• Any fresh fruit - 100 g
• Diced biscuit - 100 g

Step by step cooking:

1. Prepare the fondue bowl by placing the bowl in a water bath.
2. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt.
3. Mix the chocolate mass with cream, honey, nuts and cognac until smooth.
4. Move the bowl to the stand and light the candle.
5. Put the cooked fruit and biscuit on skewers, dip them in the aromatic warm mass and enjoy the delicious delicacy!

Only natural drinks! Remember? Even an alcoholic drink can be made from healthy and tasty foods. Mary Christmas - just in harmony with the New Year's table in 2017 and fits all the requirements of the Fiery Rooster: red-fiery, bright, natural.

Ingredients:

• Vodka - 1 part
• Tomato juice - 3 parts
• Lemon - 1 wedge
• Salt - a pinch

Step by step cooking:

1. In this cocktail, the main thing is to observe the order of the components. First, pour the thick tomato juice into a small glass in a ratio of 1: 3 (the juice should be three times more vodka). The juice should be thick so that it can hold vodka on its surface and prevent it from “sinking into its depths”.
2. Then add a pinch of salt to the tomato juice, squeeze out the lemon juice and carefully pour the vodka along the blade of a knife. The amount of vodka should be three times less than the amount of juice. It is desirable that the vodka is ice cold. Since the cocktail is prepared immediately before drinking, otherwise all the ingredients will mix.

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