New Years is soon. Someone is going to meet him at home, just like one of the birthdays of the universe, someone with their family, visiting and expecting guests, but one thing, for sure, invariably, everyone is waiting for something new, good, cheerful mood and New Year's miracle.

How to create such a holiday atmosphere so that it will be remembered, cheer up, and will be fun and amazing.

Let's talk about decorating, decorating the festive table.

Basically, these will be salads, cuts, assorted, because these are the first courses put on the table and how they look determines the mood of the guests invited to the table.

Here are examples of how you can beautifully arrange meat, vegetable, fruit platter, perhaps you will like something, and you use it in practice, delighting your guests.

Beautiful cutting
Decoration of assorted vegetables Fish platter will appeal to everyone
Assorted seafood
Fruit platter

Recipes for beautiful and delicious salads for the festive table

Shrimp under a fur coat salad

It is not difficult to make this salad, the only thing is that you need to prepare it in advance so that it is infused in the refrigerator for several hours.

• Peel 500 g of boiled shrimp and cut in half.
• 4 large potatoes, boiled in their skins, 4 boiled eggs, peel, grate.
• Grease the bottom of the salad bowl with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
• Lay in layers, smearing each layer with mayonnaise: shrimp, potatoes, egg, shrimp.
• Spread a jar of red caviar on the top layer of mayonnaise.
• Garnish with the remaining shrimp, lemon wedges, herbs and a figuratively carved tomato.

Original vinaigrette

I'll be honest with this method of preparing vinaigrette, I have not met before, but the originality of its execution makes me try to build it.

For the cube itself - Rubik's vinaigrette, you need boiled potatoes, beets, carrots and a large hard pickled cucumber. They need to be cut into cubes of the same size.

This should be something like this, please note that the cut cucumber cube on one side must have the skin.

To dress the vinaigrette, you need 100 g of olive oil, half a lemon juice, 1 clove of garlic, 1 tsp. sugar, 100 g canned green peas, a sprig of dill and parsley, salt to taste.

• Put everything in a blender and purée at medium speed.
• Put a rubik's cube on a platter, mashed potatoes next to it and decorate with sprigs of dill and parsley.

Vinaigrette with herring for New Year's table

Inspiration salad

This salad is also laid out in layers, smearing each layer with mayonnaise, in the following order:

• Grated, boiled beets
• Grated, boiled carrots
• Onion, chopped in half rings and scalded with boiling water
• Finely chopped ham
• Grated egg yolk
• Finely chopped pickled mushrooms
• Grated hard cheese
• Grated egg white
• Put a decoration of a beetroot rose, carrot ribbons, parsley on the egg white.

Delicious salad "New Year's gift"

The principle of production is exactly the same as for the previous salad - in layers with a coating of each layer with mayonnaise:

• Boiled chicken breast, cut into small cubes
• Champignons fried with onions
• Grated boiled carrots
• Grated peeled apple
• Walnuts, chopped in a blender
• Mixed grated egg yolks with cheese
• The last layer of grated egg whites
• Decorate with fresh carrot ribbons, cherry tomato halves, dill, parsley.

Royal salad Olivier

A beautiful and delicious salad with beef tongue and shrimps will please your guests at the New Year's table.

A simple recipe for salad "Cap of Monomakh"

• Finely chop 500 g of boiled meat (any)
• Separately, in different dishes on a coarse grater, rub 3 boiled potatoes, 2 boiled carrots, 5 boiled eggs (we leave one protein for decoration), 100 g of hard cheese
• 100 - 150 g of peeled walnuts, lightly fry, grind in a blender
• Mix meat, vegetables, eggs with a little mayonnaise
• Put the dome in layers on a flat plate: potatoes, meat, cheese, nuts, carrots, eggs
• Cover with mayonnaise on top
• We make the edge of the "cap" from grated half egg white and grated cheese (50 g)
• On top we place a figured cut out half of an egg white and lay out the grains of pomegranate and green peas as precious stones.
• Put in the refrigerator to brew.

Festive salad "Pine cone"

For this salad, prepare:

• 3 - 4 boiled potatoes
• 200 g smoked chicken meat
• 1 onion
• 200 g canned corn
• 200 g canned green peas
• 2 pickled or pickled cucumbers
• 3 boiled eggs
• a handful of nuts of any
• 200 g processed cheese
• mayonnaise
• for decoration - almond nut, rosemary, green onion feathers

We make a salad of 3 parts, that is, three cones, so we divide the products into 3 parts, except for corn, cucumbers and peas, each will be used in its own cone. You get a salad with three flavors.

• Grate potatoes and eggs on a coarse grater
• Finely chop the chicken
• Scald the onions with boiling water or marinate for 30 minutes in 100ml of 6% vinegar with a teaspoon of sugar and salt, finely chop
• Cut cucumbers into strips
• Freeze the cheese slightly in the refrigerator and grate
• Grind nuts in a blender and mix with cheese
• We spread the salad in layers in the form of three cones, smearing each layer with mayonnaise

Layer order:

1. Potato
2. Chicken's meat
3. Corn (second cone - cucumbers, third - peas)
4. Cheese with nuts

Decorate a salad of three cones with almonds, onion feathers, and rosemary.

Lilac salad

How to cook it?

• Boil 1 cup of rice in water with the addition of turmeric or saffron, mix it with lightly fried shrimp (400 g) in oil with 4 cloves of garlic, chopped into plastics.
• Cut 250 g of pitted olives into rings, finely chop a small bunch of green onions, mix with rice and shrimps, season with mayonnaise, put in the refrigerator for a while.
• Peel 6 - 8 boiled eggs, separate the yolks from the whites, grate them separately.
• Leave half of the grated proteins white, and tint the second with finely grated beets, adding a little beets and stirring until the desired color is obtained.
• Put the salad in a salad bowl, sprinkle with yolk on top, gently form white and lilac flowers with a dessert spoon, add parsley.

The dish is ready, beautiful, tasty, satisfying.

Simple and tasty salad "Grape bunch"

• We take 800 g of Chinese cabbage, leave a few sheets for decoration, and chop the rest.
• To it we add 200 g of chopped boiled chicken, 150 g of ground pistachios, 100 g of grated hard cheese and mix with mayonnaise
• Put a salad in the form of a bunch of grapes on a dish, decorate with halves of seedless grapes (400 g). Put in the refrigerator, in a couple of hours the salad is ready.

Check out some more beautiful salads for the holiday table

• To begin with, take a fresh pike of one and a half kilograms, gut it.
• Make minced meat for its stuffing, for which boil 2/3 cup of rice, but not until fully cooked, but so that it remains firm, cool.
• 1 large fresh cucumber, peel, seed, dice and season with salt.
• Melt 2 tbsp in a frying pan. tablespoons of butter and fry the finely chopped onion and cucumbers until transparent.
• In a large bowl, mix rice, onion with cucumber, 2 coarsely chopped eggs, half a glass of finely chopped parsley and chives each, h. tablespoons of sour cream, salt and pepper with white pepper and mix well.
• Put the resulting mixture inside the pike, fasten the incision.
• Melt 100 g of butter on a baking sheet and in the oven at 180 degrees. Lightly fry the pike on both sides.
• Sprinkle it with bread crumbs, add half a glass of water to a baking sheet and bake it on the middle shelf of the oven until tender.
• Transfer to lettuce leaves on a large platter and garnish with herbs, mayonnaise, cherry tomatoes, lemon petals.

How to cook champagne mushroom chicken

• Take a chicken weighing about 2 kg, rinse it and cut it in half along the breastbone, but not completely, spread it out.
• Melt 40 g of butter in a skillet and fry the chicken in it.
• Remove it from the pan and fry 2 chopped onion heads in the same oil, put the chicken on top again, add the crushed clove of garlic, a sprig of thyme, bay leaf, salt and pepper, pour 0.5 bottles of champagne into the pan and cook over low heat for 40 minutes ...
• Add 40 g of dried mushrooms pre-soaked in water, cook for another 30 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken to a dish and bake in the oven at 180 degrees. until crisp.
• While the chicken is baking, add 1 tbsp to the mushroom pan. a spoonful of oil, pounded with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour and 250 g of sour cream, and simmer the sauce over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring continuously.
• Put the finished chicken on a dish, garnish with herbs, serve the sauce in a separate bowl, you can use boiled wild rice for a side dish.

Pork ribs baked with vegetables

Cut 500 g of pork ribs into a cup, add 50 ml of narshab sauce, salt and leave for 15 minutes.

Peel 1 kg of potatoes and cut into cubes, add 2 teaspoons of fragrant dried herbs.

Chop 250 g fresh tomatoes, 250 g eggplant

Fold the meat and vegetables into a cast iron baking dish, pour over 5 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil mixed with crushed garlic (3 cloves), salt and pepper.

Bake in the oven at 180 degrees. within 1 - 1.5 hours.

Put on a dish, garnish with herbs.

Very soon that magical moment will come when fluffy snowflakes are dancing in circles outside the window, the house is warm and festively cozy, the delicate fresh scent of a beautiful green Christmas tree reaches us, and we, as in childhood, in anticipation of a holiday, drag tangerines from the set table ... And although there is still a lot of time until December 31, the anticipation of the holiday, buying gifts, choosing New Year's films, drawing up a festive menu and searching for ideas for decorating dishes for the New Year have already captured us headlong. While we are not yet tired of the pre-holiday bustle, while there is free time and the mood for the implementation of new ideas, we need to try to prepare for what is usually not enough time on New Year's Eve. For example, choose several ideas for decorating dishes for the New Year.

Of course, you should prepare in advance for decorating dishes for the New Year, and it's not only about finding suitable ideas, but also buying everything you need to create beauty at the table. If you get wrapped up in everyday worries and pre-holiday bustle, then on December 31, it may turn out that there is simply no time to select or buy decorations for all kinds of salads and desserts, and then you will have to improvise or use the next idea. New Year is, first of all, a winter holiday, and what a winter is without snow! Snow can also decorate your holiday table. As snow, you can use your own powdered sugar; for this, grind the most common sugar in a coffee grinder, or coconut flakes. Make real iced sugar drifts on a dessert platter, top with dessert and garnish with spices.

By the way, about spices! They can also be a wonderful decoration for New Year's dishes. A bunch of cinnamon sticks, a few vanilla pods and star anise stars make a great addition to any dessert. They will not only decorate your festive table, but also fill the room with the aromas of the holiday. If you like the aroma of cinnamon or bay leaves and you want the festive table to smell like fresh tangerines, then use tall wide candles, fix the selected spices around them and tie them with hemp. When the candles are lit, the spice smell will intensify. Fruit slices can also be garnished with spices, prepare more clove buds and garnish the orange. And then a whole bunch of New Year's aromas will hover over your table. If there is not enough time even for such a simple decoration of dishes for the New Year, but you still want beauty, prepare more star anise stars in advance, it will come in handy just for such cases with a total lack of time. Just put the stars on the rim of the dishes, and any dish will immediately take on the most festive and New Year's look.

Decorating New Year's meals can be tricky. For example, when it comes to cookies or slices. If the cookies are sweet and you baked them yourself, then the task is simplified, because you can decorate it with some kind of confectionery sprinkle, just put it on a dish and get a fragrant decoration of the festive table. But with salty crackers and slicing, that trick won't work. And here, as always, greens come in handy, a decorative bow that can be tied from a red satin ribbon, a handful of berries, for example, raspberries, lingonberries or any other of your choice, as well as two types of cheese of different colors and shapes for cookies in the form of stars. Place a wreath-shaped slices or cracker on a round dish, garnish with herbs around the edges. Cut the cheese into thin slices, use cookie cutters to cut out the desired figures and decorate the dish with them. Lay out the berry and put a bow on top. The New Year's wreath is ready for your festive table!

If you like the theme of the New Year's wreath as a decoration, then in a similar way you can arrange sandwiches or profiteroles. You can't do without greens in a wreath, so this option for decorating dishes for the New Year is only suitable for savory products. Prepare profiteroles, use the filling based on cream cheese. Put cream cheese on top of the profiteroles, garnish with herbs or green vegetables, finely chop the red bell pepper and add it to the herbs. Place the profiteroles on a dish in a circle. In this case, a ribbon bow will not work, it will simply get dirty with cream cheese and will not look appetizing at all, so you can either do without the bow altogether or cut it out of bell pepper and decorate with herbs. You will get a beautiful and edible decoration for the holiday table.

The main symbol of the upcoming holiday is a tree. Most people, decorating a house for the New Year, decorate the Christmas tree first of all. Someone chooses a fragrant natural forest beauty, someone is limited to an artificial one, but it also happens that for one reason or another there is no Christmas tree in the house for the main winter holiday. But what is the New Year without a tree? If there is no way to dress up a festive tree at home, then you should consider at least decorating dishes for the New Year in the form of the main symbol of the holiday. To create such a decoration, you will need muffins, fresh strawberries, protein or butter cream, green food coloring, a pastry syringe, candy such as pebbles or M & M's, as well as pastry sprinkles in the form of stars. Add dye to the cream, mix thoroughly and put it in a pastry syringe. Squeeze out a little cream on the muffins and place strawberries on it, gently holding the berry, apply around the cream so that it looks like a cone, decorate future trees with sweets and set stars from pastry sprinkles. Miniature Christmas trees for your New Year's table are ready!

The method of decoration described above requires a lot of time, ingredients and effort, but the most important thing is that it must be prepared on the eve of the feast so that nothing has time to fall off, melt and not live to see the holiday. If you do not hope for free time on December 31, then you should take care of decorating dishes for the New Year in advance. For example, you can bake and glaze holiday cookies ahead of time. You will need shortbread dough, Christmas tree cookie cutters, white and green icing, chocolate, and a pastry syringe or baking paper bag. Roll out the dough thinly and use the molds to cut the Christmas trees. Bake the cookies in the oven. When the finished cookies have cooled slightly, decorate them with white and green sugar icing. At the same time, you do not need to try to make a neat, even pattern, a slight negligence will only decorate such cookies. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, put it in a pastry syringe, and decorate the tree with chocolate toys.

Continuing the theme of Christmas trees, one cannot fail to mention fruit trees, which can become both an excellent decoration for New Year's dishes, and a completely independent dish. New Year's Eve presupposes active communication, including at the table, so there is no point in making tall decorations, but miniature fruit trees placed on the table will be very useful. To make a fruit tree, you will need toothpicks, a knife, fruits and berries. You can use pineapple, apples, pears, peaches, strawberries, cherries, etc. It is better to use a large apple as a base. Cut off the top of it and place it on the platter with the cut side down to make the apple more stable. Cut the fruits into cubes and attach them to the apple using toothpicks, decorate everything with a berry also planted on toothpicks, and do not forget about the star, which can be cut from pineapple or apple. To keep the fruit from darkening, sprinkle the resulting tree with lemon juice.

Decorating dishes for the New Year can be interesting and original. So, instead of traditional candles, a birthday cake can be decorated with something New Year's, but at the same time unusual. For example, Santa's reindeer! To create such a decoration, you will need braid, thin wooden skewers, marshmallows, chocolate, crackers and white and red icing. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, put the marshmallows on a skewer and dip in the chocolate. Immediately make kerker horns and place them on a foam or floral sponge stand to allow the chocolate to harden. Repeat the procedure for the remaining pieces of marshmallow. Place the resulting blanks in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Then, using a pastry syringe and icing sugar, sketch out the eyes and noses of the deer. Tie some ribbons and decorate the New Year's cake.

Strawberries in December are, of course, an expensive pleasure, but such decoration of dishes for the New Year will definitely not go unnoticed. Frozen strawberries are not suitable for such decoration, the berry should be fresh, fragrant and keep its shape well. In addition to strawberries, you will need a pastry syringe, a sharp knife, whipped cream, protein or butter cream, and sesame seeds. Cut off the tip of the strawberry, use a pastry syringe to fill the berry with whipped cream or other cream. Make a hole in the cut end and fill with cream from the inside. Tape the cut end neatly to the strawberry, being careful not to damage the whipped cream. Put sesame seeds on the cream as eyes. The result is a fragrant, tasty and original decoration, suitable for almost any dish.

Coming up with the decoration of dishes for the New Year, one should not forget about glasses, because not a single feast can do without them. It is not necessary to decorate the drinks themselves, especially since any edible decoration will certainly affect their taste, however, you can create a festive atmosphere by decorating empty glasses. The decoration should be bright, fragrant and New Year's, which means that the combination of rosemary and cranberries will be very useful. Use a toothpick to pierce the cranberries, remove the toothpick and thread the rosemary sprig. Such a decoration, thanks to the rosemary resembling a spruce branch, looks bright and festive like New Year's.

Every hostess wants her festive table to look beautiful and so that at first glance it becomes clear why all this beauty was created. New Year is such a holiday when you cannot put a simple dish with a hot, salad or dessert on the table. Each dish should not only look delicious, but also create a festive atmosphere. The original decoration of dishes for the New Year will help make your festive table bright, and the celebration unforgettable, because each decorated dish will surely attract everyone's attention, and will certainly become the subject of admiration for guests. Let the process of preparing for the New Year's feast bring only positive emotions, creative successes and original ideas for you! Happy New Year!

As the saying goes, as you celebrate the New Year, so you will spend it ... Therefore, to create a sincere, warm, festive atmosphere in the house and at the table, you need to work hard! The rooms are cleaned, the decorations are hung, the air is in the air tangerine flavor, pine needles, fresh baked goods ...

So I want the meeting of this magical holiday to be fun and be remembered by the family for a long time! Every year, in anticipation of a festive feast, we are looking for new interesting recipes, trying to surprise loved ones with something new, come up with original ideas for serving dishes and festive table decoration.

"So simple!", trying to make it easier for you in the pre-holiday bustle, selected the most extraordinary ideas for decorations for New Year's dishes!

How to decorate New Year's dishes

1. Boiled eggs give scope for creative skills! Peas of black pepper serve as eyes and buttons for these snowmen, and they maintain stability thanks to a wooden skewer.
   
   

   Penguins from Antarctica will surely delight the little ones! To prevent them from tipping over, cut off the bottom of the egg.
   
   

   Well, where without the classic fly agarics in a forest glade ...



2. Original mini pizzas in New Year's style set the right mood.
   
   

   Shape and filling - to your taste!



3. You can bake yeast dough garlic pampusheki by placing them on a herringbone-shaped baking sheet. When serving, sprinkle baked goods with fresh chopped herbs.



4. New year wreath can show off not only on the door! Shape your favorite salad into a wreath.



5. Cheese platter in the shape of a wreath ... As an option!



6. Cheerful canapes in the shape of ladybugs will help to satisfy the growing appetite of children before the main courses are served.



7. The new role of the classic and beloved by many salad "Belochka".



8. Mini appetizer, but rather, edible decoration on the table in the form of Christmas boots. For the correct cut, you will have to remember the geometry lessons!



9. We design with imagination a chocolate gingerbread or cake.





10. It's time for desserts! Strawberry with cream out of competition, and if you approach the issue creatively, you get simply unforgettable masterpieces!
    

    Little Strawberry Santas are so cute!




11. New Year's style will not even pass by fruit.



12. Surely the muffins baked by you will amaze everyone with their taste! And thanks to the non-trivial design, they will become real stars of the festive party.





13. Decorate traditional New Year's pastries in the form of colorful houses. It's a pity to have such beauty!

Decorating New Year's meals can be a little headache. Of course, the main decoration of the table is the dishes themselves.

On the other hand, New Year is such a bright holiday that you want to see not only the most delicious, but also beautiful dishes on the table.

Decorating dishes is not an easy task at all and requires imagination. Or "homemade preparations".

How to decorate dishes without much labor and extra costs? Simple and beautiful.

I tried to find just such solutions.

Decorating dishes for the New Year

The decorations are very simple.

For example, a bullfinch. You will need red peppers, olives, and egg white. The decoration is very simple. As an independent dish, it may be too simple. But if you put such a decoration on a salad ... For example, on a fur coat or Olivier, you will immediately get a New Year's version of the salad.

Christmas candle and a Christmas tree made of fruits. Very simple. There is a photo tutorial about how to make such a Christmas tree. It can be seen below.

There is nothing special about this salad. But, they decorated it with dill sprigs and a green ribbon. And it turned out to be a dish for a Christmas tree.

Interesting canapé ideas. It can be both fruits and vegetables. The main thing is very bright, which means festive. And it's very simple.

A very simple and elegant Christmas tree. It can be used as an independent table decoration, or it can be used as a decoration for dishes.

To decorate the salad in the form of a cake - and the dish immediately takes on a festive look.

Decorating New Year's dishes

Very interesting candles. Green peppers and red peppers. Dill sprigs. It turned out to be a New Year's salad.

Or like this

A very interesting idea. You can not use green dye, but mix the oil with finely chopped herbs. You will get a Christmas tree in the snow. But, this is no longer for dessert. This is for the canapes. And for dessert, you can add pieces of colored marmalade or fruit jelly to the butter.

Appetizing pineapples. Nuts can be split in half.

And this decoration is for those who love Japanese cuisine.

Christmas tree options from a wide variety of products. Simple and delicious.

And here is the promised Christmas tree with fittings. As you can see, everything is very simple. You can make such a decoration not only from fruits, but also from vegetables, cheese and sausages, smoked fish, etc.

Very simple decorations for any salad.

Cauliflower lamb. This will require some sculpting skills.

The slices are garnished with vibrant fruits and green mint leaves. It turned out quite festive. And if you add dill twigs, then a New Year theme will appear.

Everything is very simple here. But how great are the bright orange slices in harmony with the fried bird. A small touch, but the dish looks very different. Oranges and tangerines are the Russian symbol of the New Year.

Very simple decoration of dishes. Both the Christmas tree and the snowman.

And Christmas candles made of peppers. If you take a multi-colored pepper, then the candles will look brighter and more elegant.

A very interesting decoration in the form of a Christmas wreath. Very simple and very effective.

And I liked this salad because of the simplicity of the decoration. Indeed - simple, fast and beautiful. More dill and there will be mushrooms under the spruce needles.

Candles made from red and yellow bell peppers.

And Santa Claus does not require special skills. Only the desire to do.

Cucumber candle rolls. Now in stores there are "greenhouse giants". These will make excellent "candles".

And in conclusion - another very simple Christmas tree.

One of the important stages of preparation for everyone's favorite holiday - the New Year - is to think over the menu for the festive table.

But it is not enough just to cook delicious dishes - the table and the dishes on it must be beautifully decorated.

What should be the New Year's table setting? Of course, festive and bright, and this can be achieved by carefully considering the design of the table and options for decorating the dishes.

In most cases, the table is decorated in accordance with the symbols of the coming year. For decoration, images of the patron saint of the coming year are used. But there are a number of ideas that are relevant every year.

From this article, you will learn how to beautifully decorate dishes, what methods of decorating the table for the New Year are considered classic and what you need to consider in order for the festive decoration of dishes to turn out to be solemn and stylish.

New Year's table decor, photo

Choosing a style for decoration

First of all, make a plan for decorating the table for the holiday. It is preferable that the decor idea is combined with the interior decoration of the room. If you decorate the table brighter than the furniture, attention will be focused on it, but not in all cases it is possible to mix colors in living rooms.

Combinations of shades should look harmonious, and with a lot of tones, this is difficult to achieve.

When choosing a discreet light tablecloth without a pattern and with a minimum number of accessories, decorating dishes on the New Year's table, done by yourself, will help to make the design bright.

DIY decoration of festive table dishes, photo

There are many successful options for decorating the table for the New Year, corresponding to a certain style direction. For example, the traditional style will allow you to demonstrate solemnity. This option implies a combination of a universal white, classic festive color - red and gold tones.

You can make the serving more varied with the help of an emerald hue.

In the traditional New Year's decor of the table, candles in beautifully decorated candlesticks, wine glasses on high legs with golden edging, beautiful cutlery polished to a shine and a tablecloth with patterns are always used. Often the setting is complemented by embroidered napkins in a classic design.

One of the most popular patterns found in table setting for the New Year is a bright checkered pattern on tablecloths and napkins.

DIY New Year's table decoration, photo

Traditional decor is vibrant but not to everyone's taste. There is another option - decorating in a winter style using cold colors. The perfect combination is a combination of white, pale blue and blue shades. Silver cutlery will add grace to the serving.

This combination makes it possible to focus on the table decor and the design of the dishes. You can also place small presents wrapped in bright paper on the table, use Christmas tree decorations and other New Year's accessories in the design.

New Year's tables, photo - the most beautiful decoration

The latest fashion trend is eco-design. And taking into account the fact that you can use real pine branches in the design, this style is perfect for New Year's table setting.
The design is not limited to emerald color, you can use another shade, consistent with the symbolism of the coming year.

Advice. Add light tones (for example, white or elegant beige) to the New Year's color scheme: they will add elegance to the design.

Festive decoration of the New Year's table, photo

Most of the modern design trends have similarities with minimalism. Considering this, even the laconic design of the table for the New Year will not become less solemn.

Recommendation. Replace the many accessories on the table with a few practical and elegant décor elements: decorative candles, unprinted vases, brightly colored but simple crockery.

Once you have decided on the style of decoration, consider the decor of the holiday dishes. You can decorate New Year's food in different ways, depending on the characteristics of the dishes that you are going to treat guests to on New Year's Eve.

New Year's menu

The tradition of serving a large number of dishes on the table on the occasion of the New Year's celebration is old.
Of course, it is not necessary to spend the whole day at the stove, but there are dishes that you definitely need to prepare for the New Year:

The table decoration looks beautiful with bright fruits, vegetables and small snacks. Place, for example, an imitation of a Christmas tree in the central part of the table. Use toothpicks to hold the pieces together, or arrange the items on a platter to create a herringbone shape.

Decorating fruit desserts for the festive table, photo

Edible decorative elements on the table must be positioned in such a way that the proportionality of the design is observed. With this in mind, place large dishes in the center and smaller ones closer to the edges.

Let's look at some interesting ideas for decorating dishes.

Decorating main courses and appetizers

Use dill and parsley sprigs, beautifully chopped vegetable slices, and onion rings to decorate the main dishes. Make New Year's inscriptions on dishes using mayonnaise.

If fish is chosen as the main dish, garnish it with pre-cooked carrots (cut them into flowers or twist them in a spiral), lemon slices.

Red cranberries or green olives are suitable for decorating meat dishes.

Decoration of New Year's dishes, photo

You can find many workshops on the Internet that demonstrate how to decorate unwanted dishes. For example, you can stuff a pepper and use greens to decorate it, creating small Christmas trees from it.

Slices of cucumbers, carrots or peppers are suitable for decorating imitations of Christmas trees.

You can make mini rolls with appetizing filling from pita bread. Arrange the rolls on large lettuce leaves - so that it looks like a Christmas tree. It is very simple to add brightness to the dish; for this you need greens, pomegranate seeds and peppers.

Use skewers to complement other meals. For decoration, use cheese, sausage, shrimp, boiled eggs, vegetables.

For a holiday, the decor of dishes made of butter and boiled eggs is perfect. Give the oil a vibrant color using boiled beets or carrots. Cut the boiled eggs into cubes and decorate with them on sandwiches or other small dishes. By mixing these ingredients, you will create an unusual New Year's table decor.

Decorating holiday dishes with your own hands, photo

The decoration in the form of small penguins made from carrots, boiled eggs and green olives looks just as advantageous. Details are held together with toothpicks.

The video below is a wonderful master class on decorating holiday dishes with carrot roses:

Decor for salads and sweet dishes

Now let's move on to the decor of salads, which you can easily do with your own hands. The most common option for decorating salads for serving on a New Year's feast is to create patterns on them that imitate Christmas trees.

Herringbone patterns are formed from dill and parsley sprigs. Such food decoration is suitable for almost all salads, the main thing is to give them a neat shape.

We decorate dishes with our own hands, photo

For the decoration of the main New Year's salad - Olivier - in most cases, greens, pomegranate seeds, black olives are used.

Advice: to decorate the salad beautifully, use shapes in the form of stars, trees and other figures.

Another original way to decorate salads for a New Year's feast is to form a dial on them or make a New Year's inscription from cucumber, carrots, and cheese cut into strips.

Give homemade salad decorations an original configuration of stars, spirals, thin slices.

Get creative - serve salads not in regular dishes, but in baskets made from grapefruit or other citrus peels. This design is one hundred percent consistent with the New Year theme.

If options for original jewelry do not come to mind, use beautiful dishes. For example, the salad “herring under a fur coat” can be served in a large glass dish, through the walls of which all layers will be visible: this technique will add brightness to the serving.

The most interesting thing is the decor of New Year's desserts. If you buy New Year's cake or other pastries, you don't have to worry about decorating them. Decorate your own desserts with cream and fruit cuts.

DIY decoration of dishes for the festive table, photo

Most often, gingerbread or carved cookies are served as a New Year's dessert. Use colored icing or melted chocolate to decorate them.

The nuances of a festive table setting

The decoration of the dishes, set on the occasion of the New Year celebration, is not limited to the decoration of the dishes.

The last step is serving and choosing accessories. There may be several decoration options.

For decoration, you can use napkins made of paper or fabric with a New Year's pattern. This option is especially relevant if the tablecloth is absent or it is monochromatic.

Napkins are laid out next to the plates or folded, giving them original shapes, for example, triangular. For decoration, use ribbons, rain or special holders. Until the time when the plates are full, napkins can be put on them.

In rare cases, candles are missing on the New Year's table. These decorative elements make the atmosphere in the room more comfortable, and after it gets dark, they also serve as a source of light on the table.

On the table, you can place candles of different shapes and sizes, made in the form of New Year's characters.

Christmas candles are easy to make with your own hands: decorate them with stickers or decorate using the decoupage technique. Beads, coffee grains, ribbons are suitable for decorating candles.

Place candles made in one color in beautiful candlesticks. You can make them with your own hands from glasses or other dishes. If the candles are small, place them in a glass container filled with water.

To decorate the table for the New Year, compositions created from candles, Christmas balls, berries, pine branches, fruits are used. Volumetric compositions look most advantageous in the central part of the table.

Among the materials suitable for New Year's decor, it is worth noting tangerines and coniferous branches, it is enough to spread them out in different parts of the table and complement the decoration with cones. Several branches can be placed in a bowl of water.

It is also recommended to use beads, ribbons, rain as decorative elements for the New Year's table, first of all, dishes.

A good idea for decorating a table for the New Year is small presents in bright packaging, located next to the guests' plates. You can put sweets or New Year's souvenirs in the boxes.

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And do not forget about the design of glasses, as well as bottles, if they are not distinguished by an exquisite design in themselves. Ribbons tied around the neck will help to decorate the bottles. The legs of the glasses are also decorated with ribbons. The glass can also be decorated with New Year's inscriptions, stickers, patterns or rhinestones.

To decorate the New Year's table, stock up on tinsel, beads, beautiful fabric cuts, rain.

There are a lot of ways to decorate the table for the New Year. To create an original and bright design with your own hands, if desired, is not difficult at all.

Show your imagination, and you will definitely get a successful decor - such that guests will admire not only deliciously prepared dishes, but also the original and solemn decoration of the festive table.