Every day is approaching everyone's favorite holiday - New Year. Soon the cities will be decorated with New Year's garlands, New Year trees will flaunt in front of all buildings, shimmering with their festive decorations. Families will start to fuss about decorating the house for the holiday. New Year is the expectation of the fulfillment of desires, the hope for something new, better. On this magical night, everyone gathers at a festive table, the smell of tangerines is in the air, and champagne sparkles in the glasses.

There is very little time left until the New Year 2017. And it would be high time to start compiling a festive New Year's menu for the meeting of the Year of the Fiery Rooster. It is known that chicken meat and whole eggs should not be present on the table. And in order for happiness, prosperity and good luck to always remain in the home and family, you need to please the owner of the coming year, starting with table setting and ending with dessert. And that's not even considering the decoration of the house. And this is not so easy to do, because the Rooster is a serious and important bird. Therefore, you need to approach everything extremely responsibly.

New Year's table setting 2017

The best and most optimal solution for meeting the Year of the Rooster would be a rustic table setting. Linen tablecloths, assorted fruits and vegetables, a variety of wooden wicker baskets, some painted earthenware, compositions made of ears of wheat or wildflowers, pine or spruce cones decorated with needles, a variety of handicrafts made of wood or cardboard - all this will be very harmoniously combined on the festive table. Everything should be simple and straightforward. This design will greatly delight the Rooster.
Since the coming year is the year of the Fire Rooster, a good decision
will use red tones in home decoration and table setting. Red tablecloths with white napkins or vice versa, the use of white dishes with red or pink borders, white, red or gold candles, figures of Santa Claus or a Snowman in red caps are a great combination that will give a wonderful mood, a feeling of coziness and comfort.

Menu for the New Year's table 2017 - what to cook

And now let's look at dishes, snacks, salads and drinks for the New Year 2017 - what to cook so that it is tasty and simple to please guests, relatives, friends and the owner of the coming year.

Hot dishes on the festive table

You can cook anything on hot, except chicken. It can be any meat - fried or baked in the oven, with or without a side dish. A variety of vegetable or meat stews. Fried, steamed, boiled - as your heart desires. It would be nice to make pilaf, as the Cockerel will appreciate it. If you wish, you can cook a barbecue on the grill, if the area allows, and if you live in a storey, then the grill can be replaced with an oven. It's great to bake a whole suckling pig in the oven. The piglet turns out to be very tasty and festively beautiful. So, let's look at everything that has been listed, and what to cook for the New Year 2017 you will choose yourself.

The choice of this dish will please the Fire Rooster. The dish is simple, and besides, it is also the most rustic for a festive table in a rustic style. It can be used as a side dish and as an independent dish. It takes little time to cook, and the result is wonderful, especially since he spends most of the time in the oven and you can calmly cook other dishes.

What you need:

• Potatoes - 1 kg.
• Vegetable oil - 2-3 tablespoons
• Paprika
• Garlic
• Ground pepper
• Spices to taste

Preparation:

Cut the washed potatoes into slices. Sprinkle with spices. Salt. Add oil and mix thoroughly. Place the potatoes on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 180 degrees until tender. Decorate with herbs if desired. For a more detailed recipe for cooking with a photo, you can previously published on this blog.

Dolma made from grape leaves, cabbage leaves, tomato and peppers

It will take a little longer to cook dolma than with potatoes, but it's worth it. It is quite possible to use some of the main ingredients. That is, if there are no grape leaves, then it does not matter - you can do without them. This dish is very satisfying and tasty - an excellent choice for the New Year's table.

Ingredients:

For minced meat:

• Beef pulp - 2 kg.
• Lamb fat (beef can be used) - 0.8 kg.
• Onions - 1000 gr.
• Rice - 0.6 kg.
• Basil (Reyhan) - bunch
• Cilantro - bunch
• Black pepper
• Vodka - 3 tablespoons
• Water - 3 tablespoons

For "wrapping":

• Grape leaves (pickled) - 1 jar
• Tomatoes - 1.5 kg.
• Bulgarian pepper - 0.5 kg.
• Cabbage - 1 fork

For gravy:

• Butter - 300 gr.
• Tomato pulp
• Onions - 300 gr.
• Garlic

Preparation:

To cook dolma you need to be patient. It is much faster and more interesting to cook this dish with a large company. There are several secrets in the cooking process that are important to keep in mind.

First, prepare the minced meat. Lash them with tomatoes and bell peppers. Wrap the part in grape and cabbage leaves. Prepare the tomato and onion gravy. Put dolma in a cauldron in turn and put on steam over low heat. If you are interested in this dish, then you can see the step-by-step preparation with photos. This recipe was also previously posted on this blog.

Rabbit with rosemary on the New Year's table

Rabbit meat according to this recipe turns out to be very juicy and soft. A good and festive dish that will decorate any festive table.

What you need:

• Rabbit meat - 0.5 kg (for 2 servings)
• Rosemary
• Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
• Light beer - 1 glass
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Salt (to taste)
• Pepper

How to cook:

As you can see, there is nothing complicated, but the taste is just great.

New Year's pork fingers

Ingredients:

• Pork tenderloin - 500 grams
• Mushrooms (any) - 250 grams
• Onions - 1 pc. (medium size)
• Sour cream - 2 tablespoons

How to cook:

New Year's pork fingers with mushrooms are ready. Place on a plate and decorate as desired.

Pork pork in the oven

On the festive table, you can include a boiled pork cooked with your own hands. The recipe is pretty simple and doesn't take long. In addition, boiled pork can be served both as slicing and as a main course.

Ingredients:

• Pig neck - 1 kg.
• Salt - 3 tsp
• Ground pepper (black)
• Garlic
• Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
• Water - 1 liter.
• Medium carrots - 1 pc.
• Spices
• Sleeve for baking

How to cook:

1. Prepare the brine: add salt, spices, lavrushka and pepper to boiling water. Boil for 2 minutes.
2. Cool the brine and dip the meat into it. Leave in a cool place for a day.
3. Dry the meat, grate with spices and seasonings.
4. Make cuts in the meat and stuff with garlic and carrots.
5. We put the meat in the sleeve and send it to the oven for 190 C to bake until tender.

If you are interested in the recipe for making boiled pork, then it is described in more detail

Suckling pig in the oven - New Year's recipe

The highlight of the program will be a do-it-yourself piglet cooked in the oven. Having prepared it, you will surprise your guests with your culinary skills. A very gentle, soft and tasty piglet will delight you and your loved ones. Moreover, it is not at all difficult to cook the whole pig in the oven.

Ingredients:

• Piglet
• Dry white wine - 2 glasses
• Soy sauce - 1 glass
• Carnation
• Badian
• Allspice peas
• Pepper
• Paprika
• Honey - 1 tablespoon

For filling:

• Buckwheat
• Mushrooms
• Butter
• Olive oil

For decoration:

• Potatoes
• Rosemary
• Thyme
• Pitted olives

Preparation:

We marinate the suckling pig

1. First of all, you need to marinate the piglet. We place it in a container of a suitable size. Fill with water so that the piglet is completely immersed in water. Pour in 2 glasses of wine, 1 glass of soy sauce, star anise, a few cloves and a handful of allspice. Leave to marinate in a cool, dark place for 1.5 days.
   
2. After the required amount of time, we take out and dry the piglet inside and outside with paper napkins or towels.
3. Pour olive oil onto the carcass. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika. Paprika will give a very beautiful color to the future dish.
   We rub the pigs well inside and out so that no part is left intact.
   

   Carcass filling

4. Now let's prepare the filling. Boil buckwheat until half cooked. It will reach the end already inside the carcass in the oven.
5. While the buckwheat is being cooked, let's take care of the onions and mushrooms. Chop one large onion and mushrooms. You can use any mushrooms you like. In this case, these are champignons.
   
6. In a frying pan, fry the onions in butter until golden brown. Add mushrooms and cook until tender. You can not regret the oil, as the mushrooms absorb it well.
   
7. Mix ready-made mushrooms with onions with buckwheat.
   
8. Now you need to fill the piglet with the resulting filling. Please note that it is not worth tamping the carcass with the filling until the end, since buckwheat will increase in volume when it comes to readiness. And in this way it can simply reveal your piglet.
   
9. Then comes the moment of sewing up the stuffed pig. The easiest way to do this is to use skewers. We pierce the carcass with them at a distance of about 3-4 cm from each other. Break off the excess ends. Then, using a rope, we make a kind of seam. We carry it crosswise around each skewer. At the very end, we tie the ends of the rope.
   

   How to bake a piglet in the oven

10. We put the carcass on a baking sheet and send it to an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
    
11. Do not forget to wrap foil around the ears and piglet, otherwise they will burn and spoil the whole look of the dish. If you plan to insert something into the pig's mouth after cooking, then you must first insert a foil ball into its mouth, otherwise it will be very difficult to do it after baking.
    
12. After half an hour, take out the carcass and very carefully coat with sauce with a brush. And the sauce is prepared like this: 1 tablespoon of honey is well mixed with 1 spoon of soy sauce until smooth. It is the sauce that will give the piglet a beautiful golden crust. Put it back in the oven for about 1 hour.
13. While the pig is cooking, we need to prepare a side dish for it. We will use potatoes. Peel the potatoes and fry in butter until half cooked to form a golden crust. Season the potatoes with salt and rosemary.
    
14. When the pig has stood in the oven for another half hour, we take it out and put our half-finished potatoes next to it. Grease it with sauce again and put it in the oven for another half hour.
    
15. We take out the finished dish and decorate with herbs and tomatoes. Insert olives instead of eyes. I will not describe how to do this. I think you can figure it out. You can put lemon, apple or tangerine (whatever) in your mouth.

The result is such a beautiful, delicious dish for the holiday. In my opinion, such a suckling pig with potatoes will look very nice on the New Year's table.

If you are interested in kebab or pilaf recipes, then you can follow these links and see a detailed description of these dishes, which can also be safely included in the New Year's menu: and.

Salads for the New Year 2017 - new and interesting salads for the holiday

Salads are an integral part of any meal, not to mention such a big holiday as the New Year. There is a huge variety of salads that you don't even know which one is better. Earlier on this blog was published an article on. I advise you to look, it is quite possible that you will find something new for yourself. It describes in detail 10 recipes for salads, ranging from the irreplaceable Olivier, right up to themed salads, decorated in the form

Well, now let's look at other salads, the same delicious and festively beautiful.

New Year's salad with oranges

Ingredients:

• Salad - 1 bunch
• Turkey breast - 1 pc.
• Red onion - 1 pc.
• Parsley - 1 bunch
• Orange - 1 pc.
• Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
• Pepper
• Mozzarella cheese - 1 pc.
• Pine nuts

Preparation:

Very simple and delicious. This is how the New Year's salad with oranges turned out.

Thai salad

What do you need:

• Funchoza - 500 gr.
• Light salted salmon - 300 gr.
• Beans - 200 gr.
• Red pepper - 1 pc.
• Green onions - 1 bunch
• Parsley - 1 bunch
• Cilantro - 1 bunch
• Ginger (grated) - 4 tablespoons
• Soy sauce - 4 tablespoons
• Sesame oil - 4 tablespoons
• Wine vinegar - 2 tablespoons
• Chili sauce (sweet) - 1 tablespoon
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Sweet soy sauce - 0.5 cups

How to cook:

Fast, tasty, inexpensive. This salad is perfect for any dish and looks great on the festive table.

Christmas wreath salad

What you need:

• Turkey fillet - 600 gr.
• One onion
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - 200 gr.
• Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
• Salt to taste

How to cook:

1. On a large dish, you need to put the sides from the detachable baking dish. It is necessary to put some kind of container in the center.
2. Boil the fillet. Cut into cubes and put on a dish in a circle. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
3. Rinse the pepper, peel and bake in the oven over high heat. Then remove the skin, cut into cubes and spread on the meat.
4. Cut the onion into cubes and fry until golden brown. Cool and spread with the next layer. Lubricate with mayonnaise, pre-salting.
5. Rub the boiled eggs on a coarse grater.
6. We remove the sides and the internal container. Grease well with mayonnaise on all sides.
7. Dill leaves are carefully laid over the entire surface of the "wreath".
8. Peel the carrots and cut into thin strips. We put strips of carrots on top of the salad in the form of ribbons.
9. Cut out circles from the pepper and randomly spread them over the entire surface.
10. You can also use olives. They fit well into the overall composition.

Great, isn't it? Do you have a similar recipe? If so, I will be glad to know about it in the comments below the article.

"Salsa" - bright colorful salad

What you need:

• Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
• One red onion
• Green chili
• Clove of garlic
• 3 sprigs of green onions
• Cilantro
• Olive oil for salad dressing
• Lime half juice
• Black pepper

Preparation:

That's all! Vegetable salad "Salsa" - delicious, beautiful, healthy.

"Motley" salad for the Year of the Rooster

Bright, beautiful, new salad like the host's tail of 2017. Easy to prepare and easy to use.

Ingredients:

• Rye bread - 200 grams
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Olive oil - 40 ml.
• Red and green bell peppers - 2 pcs. of each
• Maasdam cheese - 200 grams
• Canned corn - 250 grams

Preparation:

With salads, we will probably round off on this and move on to appetizers that can be included in the 2017 New Year's menu. If you have any suggestions for salads, we can discuss in the comments. It is important for me to know your opinion on this matter.

New Year's table snacks - new and interesting snacks for celebrating the New Year 2017

So we come to the appetizers. Not a single feast is complete without them. After all, before serving the main courses, you need a small snack, and they will also come in handy with strong drinks. On this topic, two informative articles with detailed recipes for appetizers have also been previously published. The choice is very large, but this is only a small part of the entire set that exists in the cooking for the preparation of snacks. I still advise you to read these articles and. The photo below shows only a part. The rest can be viewed by clicking on the links above.

And now I present to your judgment a couple more options and I hope that you will choose something suitable for yourself.

Pancake appetizer stuffed with turkey liver

Ingredients:

• Turkey liver - 400 grams
• Butter - 70 grams
• Cognac - 25 ml.
• Pancakes - 6 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Nutmeg

For the sauce:

• Red currant - 200 grams
• Cherries - 50 grams
• Sugar - 30 grams
• Wine vinegar - 35 ml.

Preparation:

1. Finely chop the onion and fry in a pan with some oil.
2. Add the liver and fry for 10 minutes with the lid closed. Salt. Add cognac and nutmeg.
3. Bring the resulting mixture to a puree with a blender, adding the second part of the oil. Place in a bowl and cool completely.
4. Cooking the sauce. Put berries in a saucepan, add vinegar and sugar. Cook until thick.
5. Stuff the pancakes with turkey liver according to the envelope wrapping principle. Fastened with onion feathers or toothpicks.
6. Serve with berry sauce next to it.

How to make delicious pancakes you can see

Mushrooms on skewers

What you need:

• Quail eggs - 10 pieces
• Cherry tomatoes - 10 pieces
• Parsley
• Mayonnaise

How to cook:

It's that simple!

Dessert for New Year 2017

As a dessert, you can use anything, from sweets to all kinds of cakes. You can buy it in stores, or you can cook it yourself. Often there is practically no time to tinker with desserts, and the result does not always exceed expectations. Well, if you still decide to cook yourself, then I can advise you the following.

Candies. You can buy it, or you can cook it yourself. Recently they made candy from fruits. It turns out very well. Any fruit can be used. We made from kiwi. The result is such a "Rafaelki".

Preparing them is not difficult and fast. If you're interested, here's the recipe.

Any pastry will suit your taste. It can be both cookies and cakes. I bring to your attention this holiday cake.

Festive charlotte with apples

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 4 pieces
• Sugar - 1 glass
• Vanillin - 5 grams
• Flour 1.5 cups
• Lingonberry - 1 glass
• Apples - 5 pieces (medium size)
• Sugar - 100 grams
• Cream (fat) - 1 glass
• Cowberry
• Mint leaf

Preparation:

Beat eggs with sugar in a bowl, add vanillin and flour. Add lingonberries and mix. Put apple slices on a greased form. Pour the dough and put it in the oven for 40 minutes. At this time, whisk the sugar and cream. We take out the finished pie, grease with cream, decorate with lingonberries and mint leaves.

Drinks on the table for the 2017 meeting

In addition to spirits, cocktails are desirable. After all, the word cocktail, translated from English, means a cock's tail. In general, everyone will deal with alcoholic beverages at their own discretion. A variety of fruit smoothies can be prepared for children. They are much better and healthier than various soda. Under the heading "Drinks" you will find a large number of smoothie recipes, both fruit and vegetable.

I would be very grateful if you could express your opinion on the article: did the recommendations come in handy, did you find it useful, etc. I will wait for your comments under the article.

Well, that's all for me. All with the Coming! Bye!

16:50 16.11.2016

As you celebrate the New Year, you will spend it. No matter how you decide to celebrate it, in any case, let it be tasty and with pleasure. Here are some recipes for the New Year 2017 festive table that will surely delight you and your guests.

Delicious snacks on the New Year's table 2017

Decorate traditional snacks beautifully. Plates of meat, cheese and vegetables can be served in the form of a Christmas tree or a Christmas tree wreath.

Santa's boot

Prepare a fun dish that kids will definitely love. This one is very easy to make - you'll need skewers, sausages, some cream cheese and herbs to garnish.

Snowmen and Penguins

These New Year's snacks are also very simple, but they will cheer up both adults and children.

Use carrots, olives, cream cheese.

For New Year's snowmen you will need:

• hard-boiled eggs (chicken - large and small or chicken and quail);
• carrot;
• greens,
• peppercorns for decoration
• several pieces. dry spaghetti - for the base.

Christmas trees and Santa Claus

This simple but very funny New Year's snack of tomato, cucumber and cream cheese (you can replace it with a curd-garlic mixture) will add a festive mood for the whole evening.

Salad recipes for the New Year

The next stage in the preparation of dishes for the New Year 2017 is salads. We offer to diversify traditional "Olivier" and "fur coat" with more unusual recipes.

Broccoli and cranberry salad

Ingredients:

• 450 g broccoli, cut into pieces;
• 450 g bacon - fried and chopped;
• 1 small red onion, finely chopped
• ½ cup cranberries (dried);
• ¾ glasses of sunflower seeds;
• 1 cup low-calorie mayonnaise
• ½ cup sugar (can be substituted with natural stevia sweetener);
• 2 teaspoons of vinegar
• salt to taste.

Toss broccoli with bacon, onions, cranberries, and seeds. Whip up mayonnaise, sugar, vinegar. Stir the salad with the sauce 1-2 hours before serving and refrigerate it.

Salad with nuts and pomegranate

Ingredients:

• 2 cups raw walnuts
• 1 glass of cranberries (can be dried);
• and 230 g of crumbly goat cheese (can be replaced with cottage cheese, feta);
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• a pinch of chopped red pepper;
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 6 cups of greens (you can mix cabbage, spinach, lettuce - whatever you have in stock);
• 2 cups arugula
• peel from one pomegranate.

· Sauce:

• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1 tablespoon chopped figs (or fig jam, which can also be dates or prunes)
• salt and pepper to taste.

Roast peeled walnuts with honey, cinnamon, pepper and salt in a 180 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes, stirring several times until they turn golden brown. In a large salad bowl, add herbs, pomegranate, cranberries. Add chilled walnuts and gently stir the salad, then add the cheese.

Make a sauce by whisking olive oil, balsamic vinegar, figs and salt. But season the salad just before serving by sprinkling it lightly and stirring gently.

Diet salad with beetroot and feta

We propose to compose a New Year's menu not only satisfying and beautiful, but also for the benefit of the figure. During the New Year holidays, you will say "thank you" to yourself more than once for this.

Ingredients:

• 4 medium beets;
• 60 grams of feta cheese;
• 2 tbsp. l. Coarsely chopped parsley, cilantro, or mint

For refueling:

• 3 tbsp. l. lemon juice
• 3 tbsp. l. olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ½ tsp tablespoons of salt (or to taste)
• You can have some honey (to taste)

Mix ingredients, season with sauce. Important: there should be 2-2.5 tablespoons of chopped greens in the dressing.

Make New Year's Pizza

You can use ready-made dough for it or prepare one of the ones we have proposed.

Ingredients for the filling:

• 1/2 cup pesto sauce (chop a bunch of basil in a blender, 50 g of Parmesan or any other hard cheese, 3 cloves of garlic, 100-150 g of olive oil),
• a few cups of spinach (or any other greens)
• a few handfuls of chopped mozzarella or pizza cheese mix
• 6 - 8 dried tomatoes,
• 1 piece of red onion,
• salt.

Preheat the oven to 260 degrees, and prepare the filling: finely chop the spinach, and chop the red onion in half rings, crush and cut the dried tomatoes in half.

Then roll out the dough in the form of a triangle, from the scraps you can make a tree trunk. Transfer it carefully to the baking sheet.

Make a quick pizza: lightly moisten the dough with pesto sauce, then sprinkle with cheese, then spinach, and finish off with red onions and tomatoes. And salt everything a little. Bake for 5-7 minutes, until the crust is browned.

Fruits and desserts on the New Year's table in 2017

What a festive table can be without desserts! Decorate your fruit plate in New Year's style and prepare delicious yet simple sweets.

Christmas tree cake

Cut the pie (you can cook one of them) into triangles, insert wooden sticks or multi-colored cocktail tubes, fields with purchased green icing (or homemade) and decorate with sprinkles.

Green icing recipe for New Year's cake:

• 100 ml of water,
• 250 g sugar
• 4 tbsp. tablespoons of spinach juice (you can use food coloring).

Pour sugar with water and put on fire. Cook, stirring for about 5 minutes until thickened, remove the foam. Pour the syrup onto a plate, add the juice and stir. Colored glaze hardens over time. To use it, you need to melt it in a water bath.

Christmas jelly

Prepare multi-layered jelly - red, green and white (according to package directions). To do this, fill each layer separately, after the previous one has hardened.

Cut into portions, garnish with whipped cream and fruit.

Melted snowmen

Decorate your favorite cookies (you can) with icing, marshmallows and colored dragees. You can use the above glaze recipe, just don't add any dye to it. Draw the face with melted chocolate.

A cheerful and noisy holiday New Year is that fabulous time of magic and miracles, when you want to surprise, delight and make everyone around you happy! And the New Year also implies a gorgeous festive table - an integral part of the New Year and Christmas holidays.

Each hostess, wife, mother and grandmother is doing her best these days to please her loved ones in a special way and to prepare a truly festive menu. A well-laid New Year's table is the key to a successful holiday!

The year of the Fire Rooster, an oriental sign that loves everything bright and extraordinary, is coming. That's why New Year's dishes for 2017 must be carefully thought out, beautiful and, just as important, delicious. Our site will help you in drawing up the very New Year's menu, the dishes of which will make your guests eat every last crumb.

Wellington Beef Meat Dish

Required Ingredients:

• Beef tenderloin - 750 g;
• Ham - 7 slices;
• Fresh mushrooms (champignons) - 400 g;
• Puff pastry - 500 g;
• Egg yolk - 2 pcs.;
• English mustard - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• Flour - 10 g;
• Sea salt - 2 pinches;
• Olive oil - 2 tablespoons spoons;
• Freshly ground pepper - 5 g.

Cooking process:

Step 1. The mushrooms should be washed, dried, and put into a food processor, where they should be mashed to a puree. The resulting mass must be laid out on a frying pan hot on a fire and the excess water evaporated from the mushrooms by frying them over high heat, stirring constantly, for about ten minutes. Next, put the mushrooms on a plate and set aside for now.

Step 2. Meanwhile, in a frying pan, heat a little olive oil and fry the beef seasoned with pepper and salt on each side for 30 seconds. After that, the meat must be removed from the heat and, having allowed it to cool slightly, coat with mustard.

Step 3. On the cling film laid out on the table, it is necessary to lay out slices of ham with an overlap, grease with mushroom mass, and on top, in the center, put a piece of meat coated with mustard.

Step 4. The cling film with the ham should be wrapped tightly around the beef, making a roll, which should be refrigerated for 15-20 minutes.

Step 5. The surface of the table must be sprinkled with flour and rolled out in the form of a rectangle no more than 3-4 mm thick.

Step 6. It is required to remove the film from the roll and put it in the very middle of the puff pastry rectangle. Grease the remaining dough around the roll with egg yolk and wrap the roll in the dough. Cut off the excess dough, and then put the dough roll on a baking sheet with the "seam" down, grease with egg yolk and put in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes.

Step 7. The oven must be preheated to 200 degrees, take the roll out of the refrigerator, make small cuts on it, certainly lubricating them with egg yolk, and send the roll into the oven. After 20 minutes, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and continue baking for another 15 minutes.

Step 8. After the allotted time, the meat of the oven must be taken out and allowed to "rest" for about 10-15 minutes. After that, the dish can be cut into portions and served.

Fish dish "Pollock fillet in the oven"

Required Ingredients:

• Pollock fillet - 500 g;
• Lemon - ½ pc.;
• Sour cream - ½ cup;
• Natural yogurt - ½ cup;
• Butter;
• Salt pepper;
• Dill.

Cooking process:

Step 1. The fish should be washed, dried, seasoned with salt and pepper, and then marinated in the juice of half a lemon for 30 minutes.

Step 2. Grease the baking dish with butter and lay out the marinated fillets. You can put a few pieces of oil on top of the fish, so the pollock will be even more tender. It takes about 20 minutes to bake fish fillets at 200 degrees.

Step 3. Until the fish reaches the desired condition, mix sour cream and natural yogurt in a bowl, not forgetting to add finely chopped dill. After mixing everything until smooth, pour over the already cooked fish with this sauce, and then send the dish back to the oven for about 15 minutes.

Pomegranate bracelet salad for the New Year's table

Required Ingredients:

• Pomegranate - 1 pc.;
• Smoked chicken - 300 g;
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
• Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• Carrots - 2 pcs.;
• Onions - 1 pc.;
• Walnuts - 100 g;
• Apples - 2 pcs.;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp spoon;
• Mayonnaise - 50-70 g.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Eggs must be hard-boiled, peeled and grated.

Step 2. Boil the potatoes in their uniforms, peel and grate.

Step 3. Grate apples and raw carrots. Sprinkle the grated apple mass with lemon juice so that the apples do not turn black.

Step 4. Cut the onion into small cubes and then fry in oil in a skillet.

Step 5. Walnuts need to be ground in a blender or minced.

Step 6. The smoked chicken must be removed from the bones and cut into medium-sized slices.

Step 7. Now you can start "assembling" the salad in layers. You need to lay out the layers around the glass:

1. smoked chicken (make a net of mayonnaise on top);
2. fried onion;
3. eggs (make a mayonnaise mesh);
4. carrots (mayonnaise mesh);
5. garlic;
6. walnuts (mayonnaise mesh).

Step 8. At the end of the preparation of the "Pomegranate bracelet", the surface of ours should be covered with pomegranate grains.

New Year's Chamomile salad with pink salmon

Required Ingredients:

• Pink salmon - 300 g;
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
• Cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
• Rice - ½ cup;
• Carrots - 3 pcs.;
• Iceberg salad - 100 g;
• Onions - 3 pcs.;
• Dill - ½ bunch;
• Vegetable oil
• Vegetable oil - 10 ml;
• Salt.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rice should be boiled in salted water until tender, and then cooled.

Step 2. Eggs need to be hard-boiled, cooled and peeled.

Step 3. Put the pink salmon in a saucepan, pour boiling water over and add carrots cut into medium-thick slices, as well as one small onion cut into slices. The fish in the broth should be salted, seasoned with pepper, brought to a boil and boiled after boiling for 5 minutes.

Step 4. It is necessary to remove the skin from the cooled pink salmon, and knead the fillet with a fork, after removing all the bones from the fish.

Step 5. The two remaining carrots need to be peeled and grated on a coarse grater. Then the carrots should be lightly fried in a skillet with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil.

Step 6. Cut the cucumbers into thin strips, and tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces with your hands.

Step 7. The remaining onions must be peeled and then chopped and mixed with a tablespoon of mayonnaise.

Step 8. Boiled and already cooled rice should also be mixed with a tablespoon of mayonnaise.

Step 9. You can start assembling in layers:

1. lettuce leaves;
2. a fish;
3. carrots (lightly grease the layer with mayonnaise);
4. cucumbers.

Step 10. Finally, sprinkle the salad with finely chopped dill and decorate with "chamomile flowers" from chicken eggs: cut the white into strips and put the petals on the salad, and form the center of the yolk.

New Year's snack "Caprese"

Required Ingredients:

• Mozzarella cheese - 300 g;
• Cherry tomatoes - 20 pcs.;
• Fresh basil - 1 cup;
• Olive oil;
• Balsamic vinegar;
• Pepper.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Cherry tomatoes must be washed, dried and each fruit cut in half.

Step 2. Cut the cheese into small pieces.

Step 3. Basil needs to be washed and torn into leaves;

Step 4. It remains only to string all the ingredients in this order:

1. half a cherry tomato;
2. mozzarella cheese;
3. basil;
4. half a cherry tomato.

Step 5. All that remains is to put Caprese on a beautiful dish and sprinkle with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

Dessert "Sweet festive buns"

Required Ingredients:

• Flour - 3 cups;
• Sugar - 1/3 cup;
• Salt - ½ tsp;
• Dry yeast - 1.5 tsp;
• Dry cinnamon - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Milk - 1 glass;
• Butter - 60 g;
• Egg - 1 pc.;

For the top layer:

• Flour - 1 glass;
• Powdered sugar - ½ cup;
• Butter - 120 g;
• Turmeric, cocoa, food colors.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Dissolve the yeast in warm milk and add the remaining ingredients while kneading the dough.

Step 2. Now you need to form 16 identical balls from the dough and put them on a sheet. From above, the dough must be covered with a cloth and placed in a warm place so that the buns rise. And the distance between the donuts cannot be less than 4 cm.

Step 3. Mix all the ingredients for the sweet top layer of the buns separately. You should get a tender and soft dough, which must be divided into several parts, in each of which add the color that you like best.

Step 4. The sweet dough also needs to be divided into 16 equal parts and, making cakes with your hands, put on top of each bun. The dough should be left for another 35-40 minutes.

Step 5. Put buns in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 15 minutes.

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, first of all, we are preparing 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 quick-tempered character.

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

1) The rooster is 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 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, that'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 compose a New Year's menu for your table without much hassle and long searches.

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

Profiteroles with cream cheese and salmon

We 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 with 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 resulting 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.

Seashells 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 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 the 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. Chop the nuts with a mixer. Add mayonnaise and stir.

3. Wet hands in water and form into 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. Stick the yolks with the curd mass 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. Fry French fries and make handles. Decorate. Put on the cookie circle.

You can also decorate a snowman with boiled carrots. A bucket hat can be cut out of it, as well as a 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.

How do you like the 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 surely 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 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 chopped 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 mix 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 far 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 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, which reminds us that summer will certainly come after a long winter. And 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, it will not work! 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. Peel the herring from bones and skin. Cut into small cubes. Cut lightly 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 and 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 pc (optional)
• mayonnaise -100-120 gr
• salt to taste

Preparation:

1. Peel the herring of 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 at will, someone loves it in this salad, but for someone it is superfluous. If you use it, then cut it into cubes as small as possible.

4. 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 down 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 a layer of potatoes. 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 less than potato. Press it lightly again, then salt and coat with mayonnaise.

9. In the very center, place a wide and tall strip of chopped herring. 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 foil, 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 him. It seems like 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 is fully consistent with the requirements that the Fire Rooster dictates to us for the next year.

This salad is as simple as the previous ones. Unfortunately, he 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. Whoever loves.
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 as many layers as you like with mayonnaise. 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. Giving it a New Year's look, and decorating 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 simpler. 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 whites 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 piece (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. Give it a try. 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 also for 1 hour.

3. During this time, let's start cooking potatoes. It must be peeled, 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 nice. When everything is beautifully prepared, then the salad as a whole will look beautiful and appetizing.

4. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, and preferably into a cauldron. Warm it up to a 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 must 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 slightly and then put on paper towels. To prevent excess oil from getting into the salad.

6. Allow the potatoes to cool.

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

8. Taste 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 is glass. In this case, you will need to add a little pepper.

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

10. Now we begin to collect the salad in a dish or a large flat plate. And it is in such a dish that we will shape our beauty! So that everything is in plain 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 jars of tuna it is necessary to drain 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 also need to 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 of the 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. 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 holiday 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 pc
• 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!

Preparation:

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

2. Fry 2-3 thin pancakes.

3. Cool hot pancakes a little, fold in half and roll into a tube. Then cool completely. As it cools, cut it, how we cut it into a roll, into thin circles. Then the pancake will roll out and you will 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 others. 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 will 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 the potatoes there in small portions, fry, stirring constantly.

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

11. Add mayonnaise. If you don't 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 ground black pepper for piquancy.

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

14. On a fine grater, rub hard cheese, 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 begin to create 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 is our "nest" - 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 in the form of a small pea. 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, laying out on them, slightly press down the potatoes so that they do not fall.

This 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, 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 wonderful 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.

There is one peculiarity in this salad that cannot be forgotten if you decide to cook it. In the original, it is made from chicken fillet. Therefore, we will cook it unconventionally, 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
• 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 so that the lumps disperse.

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 line 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 the green onions as usual for the 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 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 along the edge of the plate with finely chopped herbs and the remaining onions. That's it, your "Roses for your beloved" 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 of many 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 in 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. spoon

Cooking.

1. Pour the 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, so that they are better cleaned

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

3. Beets can also be boiled, but to make it faster, I boiled the beets in the microwave. To do this, pour a glass of water into a special glass container for the microwave. Wash the beets thoroughly, 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 on 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. It will be necessary 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 reducing 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. The crumb can be used quickly, and the size of the resulting crumb can be better controlled. 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, they must be grated 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. That's it, 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. Salt and pepper it 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 net and all the things.

15. So what 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 over the entire circle. Now we lay out the last layer of mayonnaise. It shouldn't 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 you have time, then they can be laid out in even rows, grain by grain. And if not, then just take a little of the grains in your palm and distribute over the entire surface of the salad.

18. When finished, carefully remove the glass. You can leave the inner circle in such a way that the layers 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 thoroughly impregnated. 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 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 so that all the juice is drained from it.

2. Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs.

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

4. Eggs either also grate, 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 is drained 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 we have 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 are also salted and greased with mayonnaise.

As you may have noticed, 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 acquire a new beautiful look and a completely different taste. But I must tell you that this taste is not worse than the previous one.

Innings:

Before serving, prepare a large flat dish. 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 the original performance, the most delicate and refined taste. Just everything that the Red Rooster loves!

Also, as you know, the Rooster values ​​simplicity very much and does not waste money. In the composition of the products, everything is the simplest. 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

Preparation:

1. Boil chicken breast (meat) in slightly salted water. Cool, remove the skin if you are using uncooked 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 starts to boil, we time it out and boil with a little 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 in any way. We will have such a decor, namely, sunflower petals.

Well, everything has been prepared, it remains to prepare only a large flat plate or dish. The salad cannot fit on a small plate, I warn you right away, pay attention to this!

Preparation:

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

2. The next layer is to spread the cooled mushrooms and onions. 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.

No need to press down on the layers. We spread the ingredients freely, as they lay down. The layers themselves will be compacted while they are soaked, as they will need!

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

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 mix in some extra.

It is 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 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. Spread the olives cut into halves in a circle. These are our "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 the 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 with us.

It would seem that all these are trifles, but the taste of the dish just depends on these trifles. That is exactly what we are trying so hard for! After all, we are preparing a salad for our most beloved and closest 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 it ... 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 piece
• carrots, peppercorns, dill - for decoration
• mayonnaise to taste

Preparation:

1. Boil rice in salted water and cool it down.

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.

Coat this layer with mayonnaise too.

7. Cut a small square out of the cheese. It will be a makeshift bag of gifts. Grate 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 Santa Claus hat.

10. Decorate a figurine of Santa Claus and a 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 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. spoon
• thyme - 1 sprig
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste

For gravy:

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

The same recipe can be used to cook duck 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, with the gravy, the duck 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, you can cook duck 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
• bow - 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 in 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 cut them as well.

4. Cut the onion into small cubes. Fry 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 mashed.

6. Roll out the dough 3-4 mm thick. Put some of the mushrooms on it. Salt and pepper the meat 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 meat, it should be 50 degrees (degree of readiness - "medium rare" - with blood).

9. Take the Wellington meat out of the oven, let it cool and rest for 10 minutes.

10. Serve in portions.

You can also serve the sauce separately. Usually Bechamel sauce is prepared for beef with the addition of fried bacon.

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 the 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 dry white 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. 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 ​​tomatoes.

5. In the pork, make cross 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 break 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 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 baked fish, served at the festive table, will amaze the imagination of all those 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 pc
• sour cream - 1 tbsp. 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!

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, at 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, mix 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 make the next branch in the same way.

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, then he can start bullying to everyone! Therefore, it is advisable 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!

Cocktail "Home Baileys"

We need:

• egg yolks - 5 pieces
• sugar - 1 glass
• condensed milk without sugar - 1 can
• vodka - 200 ml
• instant coffee - 1 tbsp. spoon

Preparation:

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 real one! And it is made only from some natural ingredients!

Cocktail "Royal Delight"

We need:

• black currant liqueur - 10 ml
• dry champagne - 100 ml
• ice

In the absence of blackcurrant liqueur, it can be replaced with any other berry liqueur.

Preparation:

Pour liquor into a champagne glass. Then pour the champagne. Decorate the rim of the glass with strawberries or a slice of orange. Ice cubes can be added.

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 in sugar to make the edge of the glass slightly "snowy".

2. In a glass, carefully 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, too!

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! All I have to do is wish you a good mood!

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

For such a long feast as on New Year's Eve, it is worth choosing modern, compact and convenient snacks that allow you to serve the table effectively - tartlets and canapes.

In the menu for 2017 of the Rooster, be sure to add a symbolic offering that includes his favorite foods: nuts, cereals, berries and fresh herbs. And remember that he is used to pecking grain by grain - make more portioned dishes and for “one bite”.

"Christmas balls"

Products:

• Beef tongue - 350 gr.
• Boiled carrots - 3 pcs.
• Boiled eggs - 4 pcs.
• Chopped walnuts - 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise
• Olives for decoration
• Green onion feathers

Preparation

Cut the tongue and eggs into strips, mix with grated carrots. Season with mayonnaise, the mass should be quite plastic. Form balls. Sprinkle them with nuts. On top of each place a half of an olive and an onion loop.

Canapes "Triangles with salmon"

Products:

• Salmon
• Olives
• Lemon
• Cucumber

Preparation

Cut thin slices of white bread and salmon into equal triangles. String a circle of lemon or cucumber, olive, fish, bread on a skewer.

Canapes with cherry tomatoes

Products:

• Bread
• Cherry
• Greek salad cheese
• Basil

Preparation

Cut the cherry tomatoes into equal halves. The knife must be well sharpened. Spread a generous layer of cheese on top of the crispbread and put half a cherry and a basil leaf on top. Very tasty and simple!

Portioned salmon jellied

Products:

• Salmon - 1 kg
• Mayonnaise - 1/2 cup
• Fish broth - 150 gr
• Gelatin - 5 gr
• Vegetables (according to your taste)
• Greens

Preparation

Boil the salmon until tender in salted water, then cool without removing it from the broth. Gently remove the skin, divide the fillets into small pieces and arrange in the tins, adding the vegetables. Soak gelatin in cold boiled water. When ready, drain off excess water and combine gelatin with broth. Bring to a boil and strain. Combine mayonnaise and jelly, pour the resulting mixture over fish and vegetables. Remove the aspic in the refrigerator until it solidifies completely. Decorate with herbs.

Salads

"Hen"

Themed and very tasty meat salad, with which you can diversify the New Year's menu by 2017.

Products:

• Boiled champignons - 150 g,
• Boiled eggs - 8 pcs.,
• Boiled veal - 400 g,
• Green olives / pickled cucumbers - 250 g,
• Black olives - 10-15 pcs.,
• French fries - 150 g,
• Mayonnaise,
• Tomato / red bell pepper for decoration.

Preparation

Separate the whites from the yolks from 5 eggs. Cut 2 yolks and 3 eggs, veal and mushrooms into small cubes. Cut green olives or cucumbers into 4-6 pieces. Combine the cubes and chopped olives. Season with mayonnaise.

Grind 5 proteins on a grater. Put the chicken-shaped salad on a platter, sprinkle evenly with proteins. Put 3 yolks under the hen, make a nest of potatoes. Cut black olives into strips and half rings, depict them with a wing, an eye and a tail. From slices of tomato or pepper - scallop and beard.

"Snowmen"

A portioned salad in the form of funny snowmen will add enthusiasm to the New Year's menu for 2017. It will also delight you with its taste - the rich cheese aroma and sweetness of prunes are set off by smoked chicken.

Products:

• Smoked chicken - 600 g,
• Potatoes - 5 pcs.
• Prunes - 100-150 g,
• Chicken eggs - 6 pcs.,
• Hard cheese - 400 g,
• Boiled carrots,
• Green pea,
• Greens,
• Mayonnaise,
• Salt.

Preparation

Set aside the egg whites for decoration. Steam prunes well in boiling water. Chop it and chicken very finely, grate potatoes and yolks on a fine grater. Mix, add mayonnaise until plastic, form an equal number of larger and smaller balls.

Sprinkle the balls with a mixture of cheese and egg white, put the snowmen on portioned plates. Make hands from sprigs of parsley, buttons from green peas or eggs. The nose and the bucket on the head are made from pieces of boiled carrots, bread or tomato.

"Bullfinch"

Gourmet salad in composition and design.

Products:

• Boiled chicken eggs - 7 pcs.,
• Apples - 2 pcs.,
• Olives - 1 b.,
• Boiled shrimps - 200 g,
• Red caviar - 50 g,
• Mayonnaise.

Preparation

Lay the whites of 4 eggs. Cut the olives and shrimp into slices without mixing. Grind on a grater separately the pulp of apples, 3 eggs, 4 yolks. Set aside half of the olives.

Lay on a plate in layers in the shape of a bullfinch, smearing each with mayonnaise: shrimp, olives, yolks and eggs, apples.

Cover the wing, tail and head of the bird with chopped olives. Lay out the belly with a layer of caviar. Make an eye and beak from eggs or pieces of bell pepper.

Combine serving appetizers and salads in portions. For example, a snowman, canapes, and cheese slices. On common plates, dishes can linger, lose their appearance and taste. It is better to leave some of the prepared dishes in the refrigerator and serve as needed.

Hot dish

Meatloaf with cranberries

Products:

• Pork / turkey fillet - 1 kg,
• Meat broth - 300 ml,
• Marzipan - 50 g,
• Boiled rice - 200 g,
• Cream 23% fat - 150 ml,
• Rum / cognac - 150 ml,
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.,
• Cranberries - 150 g
• Salt.

You will also need cooking or thick cotton thread.

Preparation

Soak the cranberries in alcohol for 2-3 hours. Drain alcohol, mix with broth. Cut the fillet into thin plates and beat off slightly. Form a single sheet on cling film, salt.

Whisk the egg and cream with a blender, stir in the rice and marzipan. Spread the resulting cream on a sheet of meat over the entire surface and distribute the berries evenly. Roll up the roll tightly, carefully tie with a thread.

Bake the meat in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C, for 1.5-2 hours, periodically pouring it with a mixture of broth and alcohol. Remove the threads from the finished roll.

desserts

"Chocolate eggs"

A light and aromatic dessert with a very original serving imitating an egg. The delicate cream will look like white, half of the apricots - the yolk and the chocolate mold - the shell. The number of products indicated is for 4 servings.

Products:

• Canned apricot halves - 12 pcs. (8 will go to cream, 4 - to "yolks"),
• Mascarpone / whipping cream - g / 150 ml,
• Cottage cheese - 250 gr,
• Sugar - 1/3 cup
• Bitter chocolate without additives - 1 bar.

In addition, you will need four balloons to create the chocolate molds.

Preparation

Melt the chocolate in the microwave on low power or in a water bath. It is important to heat it up to no more than 40 ° C. Fill the balls with very cold water and tie well. Dip the balls into the chocolate, leaving empty in a small circle around the strings. Hang up or hold the balls until the mixture hardens. Then pour a tablespoon of chocolate onto portioned plates to form a stand and fix. Put balls with molds on them. Leave until the chocolate hardens completely.

Whisk the cream / mascarpone with cottage cheese and sugar with a blender until all the lumps are gone. Add peaches, except for the four halves.

Pierce a ball in the center of the free part and drain the water, remove from the chocolate egg. Fill the molds with ¾ of cream, carefully lay the half of the peach and add the cream, covering the rim. Chill before serving for at least an hour.

You can decorate in this way any cream, pudding or white jelly.