New year is always troublesome. Hostesses need to have time to do so many things at once - to decorate the house, to choose an outfit for the celebration, to make a New Year's menu. And how much headache occurs when choosing gifts to relatives and friends?
Especially for you, dear readers, we have prepared comprehensive information on what to cook for the New Year 2018, which will help to cover the most delicious and original table that will delight and surprise your guests.
What to cook for the New Year 2018
The favorites of the New Year's table 2018 are meat dishes that can be cooked in any way convenient for you. Serve meat can be in the form of aspic, pork, pork shank, steaks, kebab, aspic, etc.
As a side dish, prepare baked potatoes, stuffed dishes.
The place of honor on our table should be taken by sausage and ham cuts, which can be laid out in an original and unusual way.
New Year's table 2018 is considered the most abundant and satisfying, because the patron of the coming year is the Yellow Earth Dog, and, as you know, the earth gives us a lot of useful products.
Therefore, in addition to veal, pork, lamb, rabbit or horse meat on the table should be present vegetables and fruits. Prefer yellow vegetables - pumpkin, potatoes, corn.
Among the fruits are pineapple, figs, yellow apples, etc.
To create a lighter and non-calorie menu, you can use poultry meat - chicken, goose, turkey, duck, etc.
Serve fish dishes, seafood and mushrooms as appetizers.
Salads for the New Year 2018
Festive table 2018 should consist mainly of meat salads.
The best of them are “New Year's ball”, “Caesar”, “Men's caprice”, “My general” and others.
Recipe for salad "Tenderness"
For the preparation of this nourishing meat salad, we need:
- 3-4 potatoes
- 300 g pork liver
- 2 eggs
- 200 g cheese
- 1 carrot
- mayonnaise
All ingredients boil until fully cooked. Peel and chop finely.
Layer out in a deep wide plate:
- liver
- potatoes
- carrot
- eggs
- cheese
Spread each layer with a small amount of mayonnaise and sprinkle with fine salt.
Seafood salad
We will need:
- 1 can of canned peas
- 500 g squid
- 1 pack of crab sticks
- 8-10 small potatoes
- 5 eggs
- salted cucumbers
- sturgeon caviar
- mayonnaise
The main ingredient of the salad is squid. They must be boiled in slightly salted water, cut and put in a deep plate.
Add green peas to squid, boiled and finely chopped potatoes, eggs and strips of cucumbers. Mix the mixture with mayonnaise and place on a flat plate in the shape of a dog, garnish with sturgeon caviar on top.
Snacks for New Year's table 2018
The festive table is always full of hot dishes and salads, but snacks are no less important for the Dog, the presence of which will undoubtedly decorate and diversify the celebration.
Snacks are always something interesting, unusual and extravagant. Such dishes are striking not only the content, but also the unusual forms and ways of serving.
Most often, snacks are made in the form of rolls, canapés, toasts, sandwiches, kebabs or balls.
They are served more often in ice-cream bowls, cups or small salad bowls, they are always small in size and consist of a wide variety of ingredients.
We offer you several recipes for original snacks that will surely come to the taste of your guests.
Santa Claus Snack
First of all, children will be delighted with such a dish, because an unusual snack in the form of Santa Claus made of tomato looks very original.
The process of creating this dish takes only 15 minutes.
We will need:
- tomatoes by the number of guests or at your discretion
- soft cheese
- garlic
- 2-3 eggs
- mayonnaise
Boil eggs and grate on a coarse grater, cheese is also crushed using a fine grater.
Prepare the tomatoes. To do this, cut off the top and remove all the flesh from the inside. Season with mayonnaise the stuffing of our “Santa Claus” - eggs and cheese. Fill the cavity of the tomato with the filling and cover it with a “lid”.
Using a pastry bag, draw Santa Claus a mustache and beard. As a peephole, use two peas of pepper.
Fruit canape
A bright juicy fruit appetizer must be present on the New Year's table in 2018. This appetizer diversifies the "heavy" dishes and will appeal to everyone without exception.
We will need:
- camembert cheese
- 1 pear
- seedless grapes
- skewers
Prepare the fruit - wash and dry, cut the pear into thin slices, remove the grapes from the twigs. Alternately string cheese, pears and grapes on skewers.
Sweet table for the New Year 2018
Desserts are the apotheosis of the New Year's celebration, that is why it is so important to think through this long-awaited moment and prepare the most unusual and most importantly tasty sweet dish.
Of course, you can buy ready-made cake or cakes in the pastry shop and treat guests to them.However, the real mistress will not miss the opportunity to show her culinary skills and will prepare the dessert on her own.
Sweet table 2018 should be prepared using fruits and berries. In winter, you want to enjoy the taste of apples, bananas, raspberries, strawberries, grapes. They can be used fresh or dried.
Nuts, candied fruits, seeds will complement the delicious taste of fruit and make the dish more fragrant and beautiful.
Fruit Ice Cream Cake
This dessert is so easy to prepare that you can use it not only for the New Year's celebration, but also on ordinary days.
We will need:
- ice cream - white and chocolate
- cream 35% - 50 ml
- powdered sugar
- fruits at will.
In deep form, lay a plastic wrap in such a way that its edges hang out. So ready dessert will be much easier to take out of it.
Lay out the walls and bottom of the form with a white ice cream and place it in the freezer to set for 30 minutes.
Put chocolate on top of white ice cream, leaving space in the middle of the cake, and also place the mold in the freezer.
Mix the cream with powdered sugar and whip with a mixer in a thick foam. Fruit wash and cut into cubes. Mix the cream with the fruit and place the mixture on top of the ice cream in the middle of the mold.
Put the cake in the freezer to set the cream.
Remove the ice cream cake from the mold by pulling on the edges of the plastic film. When serving, decorate the dish with fruit or syrup.
The drinks
No New Year is complete without champagne, under the click of the bubbles of which the most intimate desires are made up. Therefore, be sure to stock up on a few bottles of excellent champagne for yourself and your guests.
No less popular drinks for the New Year are punch and mulled wine. The latter, thanks to serving hot, will surely please your guests, because on a cold New Year's eve, you want to warm up with this pleasant spicy drink.
Cooked meals you need to serve beautifully. The aesthetic appearance of the dish is also very important, especially for the most important holiday of the year.
With all the variety of dishes do not forget about the most important thing - a sincere smile and joy, without which no New Year can do.
We wish the coming year to be successful, happy and rich for you at amazing meetings and events!
