Friends, let's continue our conversation about the upcoming holiday. It's time to think over 2018 and decide what to prepare for the new year 2018, so that the table will be a success and to attract good luck by appeasing the Yellow Earth Dog.

The holiday is knocking on my door,
And the New Year's menu
It's time for me to come up with
To a very solemn day.

New Year's salads,
And desserts and appetizers...
I will set the table richly,
It will be festive and delicious!

What to cook for the New Year 2018

We will not discover America if we say that there are many worthy recipes and you can sit for hours, leafing through culinary pages in search of the treasured dish. But to save your time, we have already created a useful selection for the New Year's celebration. Here we will tell you what the menu for the New Year's table 2018 should be and offer options that you will surely like. In addition, we will discuss not only recipes for the New Year 2018, but also talk about setting the festive table. But first, let's make a plan for the future menu.

What should the New Year's table menu 2018 be like?

Since 2018 is the year of the Dog, we will have to take into account its taste preferences. It's good that she is an omnivore and loves a variety of foods. Therefore, we will select different recipes for the festive table, taking into account the tastes of those guests who will share the festive dinner with us.

What is allowed

• meat. Chicken, pork, beef, any. The dog loves meat products, so meat dishes must be on the holiday table;
• fish;
• nourishing flour products;
• sweets.

The presence of yellow and brown products is a must. After all, the symbol of next year is the Yellow and Earth Dog.

So, we’ve decided on the main products, it’s time to think through the 2018 New Year’s table and choose special and delicious recipes.

New Year's menu 2018 for home

• potato side dishes;
• salty pastries;
• stuffed dishes.

• rolls;
• baked poultry;
• options for slicing.

• salmon in cream sauce;
• baked fish under a “fur coat”.

• julienne buns;
• liver cake;
• “snowballs” with squid.

• chocolate mousse;
• chocolates in coconut flakes;
• cream caramel.

• mulled wine;
• punch.

Hot dishes for New Year 2018

Even the simplest menu for the New Year is not complete without hot dishes. And we just need to choose the right recipe for the festive feast. What to cook? Yes, everything you want. For example, serve beautifully plain potatoes, prepare hearty rolls or bake fish.

Let's start with potatoes

Country style potatoes

Ingredients (for 4 servings):

• peeled potatoes 800 g;
• vegetable oil 4 tablespoons;
• salt 1 tsp;
• ground pepper 0.5 tsp.

Preparation

1. Cut the well-washed potatoes lengthwise into 4 parts and mix with salt, pepper, and oil.
2. Place each slice on a greased baking sheet and bake for 35 - 45 minutes at 180 degrees.

Advice.
This same recipe can be made more refined. For example, add cilantro, basil and special seasoning for potatoes as seasonings. Or mix potatoes with crushed garlic and soy sauce.

Ingredients (6 servings):

• peeled potatoes 1 kg;
• hard cheese 50 g;
• chicken yolks 2;
• nutmeg (at the tip of the knife);
• pepper and salt

Preparation

If you don’t have a nozzle at hand, you can give the potato mass a beautiful shape in this way: form a ball in your hands and press it on both sides to make a neat medallion.

Salty pastries

Ingredients (10 servings):

• chicken fillet 1.5 kg;
• garlic cloves 5 – 6;
• hard cheese 250 g;
• flour 1 cup;
• mayonnaise 6 – 7 table. spoon;
• mustard 2 tsp;
• greens (optional);
• salt and pepper;
• seasoning for meat or chicken;
• vegetable oil.

Preparation

First, divide the chicken breasts into portions (thickness - about 1.5 cm).

Afterwards, rub each piece with salt, pepper, seasonings and lightly beat with a kitchen hammer, having previously wrapped it in cling film. Next we remove the film.

Then, the prepared meat must be rolled well in flour and fried in a frying pan in vegetable oil until light golden brown.

Let's start preparing the filling. To do this, mix half a portion of grated cheese with herbs, garlic, mayonnaise and mustard.

Place each fried piece on a baking sheet lined with parchment, and cover the meat with filling on top. Add another layer of grated cheese on top.

Bake the finished pieces under the “fur coat” at 200 degrees for 15 – 20 minutes.

It is not necessary to use chicken for this dish. Pork will also work. But then you don’t need to fry it, but put it in the oven right away.

And cook for about 35 minutes. You can also add chopped tomatoes and sweet peppers or fried champignons with onions to the filling. You can also, instead of the specified filling, put a piece of canned pineapple on each chop, and sprinkle grated cheese on top and pour mayonnaise on top. It will also turn out very tasty.

Ingredients

• pork (pulp);
• bulb onions;
• vinegar;
• sugar;
• lemon juice;
• spices;
• pepper and salt.

Preparation

Stuffed dishes

Ingredients (2 servings):

• drumstick 5 pcs.;
• vegetable oil 2 tbsp;
• whole walnuts 3;
• lingonberries 50 g;
• salt and pepper, seasoning for chicken;
• sugar 2 tsp;
• fresh parsley 2 branches.

Preparation

1. Lingonberries, wash the drumsticks, peel the nuts.
2. Then chop the peeled nuts well with a knife and mix with lingonberries, sugar and finely chopped parsley.
3. Next you need to prepare the drumsticks for stuffing. To do this, cut them lengthwise and carefully separate the flesh from the bone. If everything is done correctly, the drumstick should remain in its original shape.
4. Salt and pepper, sprinkle seasoning on the chicken pieces.
5. Then place the minced meat inside the drumsticks and secure the edges with a toothpick.
6. Place each piece on a baking sheet with heated oil and pour oil over the drumsticks as well.
7. Bake until golden brown for 45 - 50 minutes at 180 degrees.

If desired, lingonberries can be replaced with prunes, it will also turn out very tasty.

Ingredients:

• minced pork and beef 150 g each;
• salt, pepper to taste;
• onion 1 onion;
• ready-made yeast-free dough 300 g;
• yolk 1.

Preparation:

1. Mix the minced meat with pepper, salt and finely chopped onion.
2. Roll out the dough thinly (5 mm) and cut into narrow strips (“strings”).
3. We form small meatballs and wrap them with dough like a ball.
4. Place the prepared “kebabs” on a greased baking sheet, grease with yolk and bake for about an hour at 180 degrees.

Rolls

Karlovy Vary

Ingredients:

• beef tenderloin 500 g;
• bacon 40 g;
• ham 70 g;
• pickled cucumber 2 pcs;
• chicken eggs 2;
• vegetable oil (preferably olive) 1 tsp spoon;
• salt pepper.

Preparation

1. Beat the eggs with a fork, add a little salt and pepper.
2. Lightly grease the pan with a silicone brush and heat it up. Place the eggs here and fry the omelette in the form of a large pancake.
3. We cut the tenderloin along the grain and divide it into several portions (the width of each piece should be about 5 cm, length - 10 - 15 cm).
4. We wrap each piece with cling film and beat it. Remove the film and sprinkle with pepper.
5. 5. Place thin slices of bacon on each chop so that they cover the entire surface of the meat.
6. The next layer will be thinly sliced ​​ham.
7. Then - a layer of omelette.
8. Next: a layer of cucumbers thinly sliced ​​lengthwise.
9. We roll the workpiece into a roll and tie it with thread.
10. Place in a greased frying pan and fry on all sides until golden brown (not cooked).
11. Next, put the half-finished rolls in a baking dish, pour some water into the container and place in an oven preheated to 160 degrees.
12. Bake for 50 - 60 minutes, basting with the released juice every 10 seconds.

Ingredients:

• 1 piece of pork pulp (a rectangle of tenderloin about 1 kg measuring approximately 12 x 22 cm);
• onion peel from 7 medium onions;
• parsley;
• 1 -2 cloves of garlic;
• salt;
• seasoning for meat.

Preparation

1. Cover the meat with cling film and beat with a kitchen hammer.
2. Sprinkle the resulting rectangular layer with seasoning, pepper and salt, and on top with grated garlic and chopped parsley.
3. We twist the layer with the filling into a roll and wrap it with thread. We pierce the meat with a needle in several places.
4. We wash the husks and place them in a colander to drain all the water.
5. Pour the husks into a saucepan, fill with water and place the roll here. You need enough water to cover the entire surface of the meat. Cook for 1.5 hours.
6. Remove the finished roll from the water and place it on a paper towel for a few minutes.
7. Next, rub the meat on top with garlic, wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator.
8. Before serving, remove the film and thread and cut into portions.

Ingredients (2 servings):

• chicken fillet 0.5 kg;
• hard cheese 100 g;
• butter 70 g;
• vegetable oil 10 g;
• salt pepper.

Preparation

1. Cut along the fillet, cover with film, and beat. Remove the film, salt and pepper.
2. Divide the cheese and butter into an equal number of servings (the same as the fillet servings) in the form of rectangles.
3. Place a piece of butter and cheese on each fillet, roll it up and secure with a toothpick.
4. Fry the pieces in a frying pan until golden brown, and then put them on a greased baking sheet and put them in the oven. Bake for about half an hour at 200 degrees.

Baked bird

Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken (1.5 kg);
• 1 can of canned pineapple;
• spices for chicken;
• salt pepper.

Preparation

1. Cooking chicken carcass. We inspect to see if there are any hairs (if there are, pluck out and tar over the fire). Rinse well and dry with paper towels.
2. Mix the spices with salt and rub the chicken with them.
3. Stuff the carcass with pineapples and sew it up with thread.
4. Place in a deep container and pour over pineapple syrup. Leave for 2 hours.
5. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and place the marinated chicken on it.
6. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for an hour and a half, basting with marinade every 20 minutes.

To prevent the legs from getting burned during baking, you can wrap them in foil and remove it when serving.

To make the meat juicier and there is no need to baste it, you can bake the carcass in a sleeve, immediately pouring marinade over it.

For the filling you can also use: pears, apples, fried mushrooms, buckwheat.

You can cook duck in the same way.

Ingredients:

• turkey 1 carcass (about 4 kg);
• melted butter 40 g

For filling:

• vegetable oil 2 tbsp;
• pancetta (aka dry-cured brisket). Cut into 0.5 cm cubes 150 g;
• 2 medium bulbs;
• garlic 3 cloves;
• chopped dry sage 2 tbsp;
• roasted pine nuts 3 tsp;
• grated zest of 1 lemon;
• chopped parsley 0.5 cups;
• fresh bread crumbs 2 glasses;
• lightly beaten eggs 2.

Preparation

Making the filling

1. Fry the brisket in butter over high heat for 2 minutes.
2. Reduce heat and add garlic and onion. Simmer for another 5 minutes until the onion becomes soft.
3. Add the sage, remove from heat and leave for 15 minutes.
4. Then, add nuts, lemon zest, bread crumbs, parsley, eggs.
5. Salt, pepper and mix well.

Cooking turkey

1. We wash the carcass and dry it with paper towels.
2. Stuff with filling and tie the legs with strong thread. We bring the wings back.
3. Place the turkey in a large frying pan, pour in melted butter (half the norm), salt and pepper.
4. Pour 2 - 3 glasses of water into the pan and cover the carcass with foil.
5. Bake for 2.5 hours. Then remove the foil and grease with melted butter. If necessary, add water.
6. Simmer for about 45 more minutes. The bird should be golden.
7. Remove the cooked turkey from the oven, wrap it in foil and leave for another 20 minutes.
8. Advice. If the turkey needs to be defrosted, it is best to do this in the refrigerator, focusing on the weight of the bird (for every 0.5 kg you need 5 hours).

Slicing options

What delicious things to prepare for the New Year 2018, so that it would be both interesting and appropriate on the festive table? Maybe a slice? We are used to buying ready-made sausage, ham, etc. in stores. What if you try to make something like this yourself, using new recipes?

Essentially, this is the same lard with meat streaks, prepared according to an Italian recipe. Pancetta takes more than one day to prepare, so it’s better to make it in advance in order to be in time for the New Year’s table.

Ingredients:

• you will need a large, fairly fatty piece of brisket;
• chopped garlic;
• ground black pepper;
• chopped juniper berries;
• ground bay leaf and nutmeg;
• thyme;
• brown sugar and salt.

Preparation

1. Remove the skin from the brisket and shape it into a rectangle using a knife.
2. Rub with spices, put in a bag, tie well and leave in the refrigerator for a week.
3. It is important to turn the meat over and shake it every day.
4. Then we check the brisket. If the meat is uniformly elastic everywhere, proceed to the next stage. If there is any looseness, leave it for another couple of days.
5. Wash the aged brisket, sprinkle with pepper and roll into a roll. We tie it with a rope at a distance of every 3 cm and hang it in a dark, cool and not dry place for 2 weeks.

The same brisket can be cooked faster. To do this, you need to rub it well with spices, roll it tightly into a roll, wrap it in gauze and put it in the refrigerator for a week. In this form, it turns out more tender, but without the characteristic dried taste.

Ingredients:

• 0.7 - 1 kg pork ham;
• garlic;
• salt;
• Bay leaf;
• ground black pepper.

Preparation

1. Using a sharp knife, make small cuts in the flesh and stuff the meat with pieces of garlic and bay leaves.
2. Rub the pork with spices and let stand for 2 hours.
3. Wrap the meat in foil and place on a baking sheet.
4. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 90 minutes.
5. Remove the foil and place in the oven until the boiled pork is browned.
6. Once the meat is ready, remove it from the baking sheet and wrap it in foil for 20 minutes to keep it juicy.

Fish

Ingredients:

• salmon fillet 1 kg;
• lemon 1;
• salt and pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

• medium fat cream 1 l;
• Dijon mustard 1 tsp;
• fresh parsley, dill, basil, tarragon 10 g each;
• egg yolks 3.

Preparation

1. Grate the lemon zest and squeeze the juice well into a separate bowl.
2. Cut the salmon into strips 5 cm thick. Salt, pepper, and place in a baking dish. Pour in lemon juice and leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
3. Separately mix the yolks with cream, then add mustard, herbs, and lemon zest.
4. Pour the sauce over the fish and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
5. Serve with lemon slices and sprigs of herbs.

Instead of fresh herbs, you can use dried herbs; then the quantity should be adjusted to taste.

Ingredients:

• 400 g fillet of any sea fish. River fish will also work, but then you will need to choose the bones more carefully;
• 8 eggs;
• 2 table. spoons of flour;
• 2 onions;
• 150 g milk;
• 3 table. spoons of vegetable oil;
• salt, pepper and other spices to taste.

Preparation

Cut the fillet into pieces, remove the bones, salt and sprinkle with spices.

Bread the fish in flour and fry in vegetable oil on both sides.

Separately, finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil.

Place the fish in pots and sprinkle onions on top.

Separately, beat the eggs with milk, add salt and pour the egg mixture over the fish.

Bake in the oven at 200 degrees until golden brown.

The dish will become even tastier if you remove it from the oven a few minutes before cooking and sprinkle with grated cheese.
Instead of milk, you can use mayonnaise, then the omelette will be more fluffy.

New Year's snacks 2018

Ingredients:

• fresh champignons 500g;
• onion 2 onions;
• flour 40 g;
• vegetable oil (preferably olive);
• hard cheese;
• sour cream 300 g;
• small buns with crispy crust 8 pcs.

Preparation

1. Cut the onion into strips and lightly fry.
2. Add chopped mushrooms to the onion and fry until tender.
3. Add flour to the prepared mushroom mixture and mix quickly. Slowly add sour cream and remove from heat.
4. Cut the top off the buns and take out the middle.
5. Fill the void in the bun with mushroom filling and sprinkle with cheese.
6. Place the buns on a baking sheet and cover them with the cut off tops.
7. Place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 0.6 kg of liver (better than chicken, it is more tender and fries faster);
• 3 eggs;
• 2 onions and carrots each;
• 250 g mayonnaise;
• 3 table. spoons 20% sour cream;
• 2 table. l. vegetable oil;
• 3 table. spoons of flour;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tsp salt (half for dough, half for frying).

Preparation

1. Wash the liver well, remove the films and check for a gall bladder. If there is one, carefully cut it out.
2. Mix the liver with eggs, flour, sour cream and beat in a blender until smooth. Salt.
3. Grease a frying pan, the diameter of which is equal to the diameter of the future cake, with oil and heat it up.
4. Pour the liver mixture into a hot frying pan using a ladle to get a thin pancake.
5. Fry over medium heat until done. You need to turn it over carefully, in one motion, so as not to tear the pancake.
6. We fry separately. To do this, cut the onion into cubes and grate the carrots. Fry over medium heat with vegetable oil for about 10 minutes (the vegetables should not brown, but just become soft). Salt and pepper.
7. Divide the carrot-onion mixture into equal parts, the number of which is equal to the number of liver pancakes minus one (if you get 8 pancakes, then divide the vegetables into 7 parts).
8. Mix mayonnaise with crushed garlic.
9. Let's start shaping the cake. To do this, place the first cake on a dish, grease it with a thin layer of mayonnaise, and place fried onions and carrots on top.
10. Cover with the next pancake and grease with mayonnaise in the same way and sprinkle with vegetables.
11. This way we create a cake, leaving the top pancake untouched.

To make the cake more elegant, you can grease it on the sides and top with mayonnaise and sprinkle with boiled grated eggs.
It is better to prepare such an appetizer a day before serving, so that the cake is soaked.

Ingredients:

• 100 g hard cheese;
• 2 – 3 squid;
• 2 boiled eggs;
• 2 table. spoons of mayonnaise;
• green onions.

Preparation

1. Cook the squid covered for 1-2 minutes. You can’t keep it longer, otherwise the meat will become tough. Cut into cubes.
2. Grate the eggs on a medium grater, finely chop the onion.
3. Mix all ingredients (except cheese).
4. From the resulting mass we form balls and roll them in grated cheese.
5. Place on a plate and decorate to your liking.

Dessert

Of course, the main table decoration for the New Year of the Dog is the birthday cake. You can, for example, bake a delicious and elegant one, or you can even build a beautiful one. But sometimes you want to cook something truly special and more refined. Then maybe we can serve some mousse and sweets?

Ingredients:

• 150 g dark chocolate;
• 3 tsp honey;
• 300 ml cream 33%.

Preparation

1. Break the chocolate into pieces.
2. Separately, bring 150 ml of cream and honey to a boil and pour the hot mixture over the chocolate. Mix everything well so that there are no pieces left.
3. Pour the rest of the cream cold into the chocolate mass and beat into a strong foam with a mixer.
4. Place in the refrigerator for 10 hours.
5. Remove from the refrigerator and beat again.
6. Next, put the chocolate in a pastry bag and squeeze it beautifully into bowls or glasses.
7. Decorate with dark grated chocolate.

Ingredients (6 servings):

• 600 prunes;
• 250 g marzipan;
• 100 g each of dark and white chocolate;
• 200 g peeled walnuts;
• 50 ml brandy;
• coconut flakes.

Preparation

1. Pour the washed prunes into brandy, cover with a lid and leave in a cool place for 40 hours. Shake the dried fruits periodically.
2. Next, mix the prunes with marzipan and pass everything together through a meat grinder.
3. We form balls by placing walnut pieces in the middle of each.
4. We break the chocolate into small pieces and heat it in a water bath.
5. We place each prepared ball on a wooden stick and dip it well in chocolate, and then in coconut flakes.
6. Place the finished candies on parchment paper and place in the refrigerator.

Ingredients (8 servings):

• 1.5 cups sugar;
• 3 glasses of milk or cream;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 egg yolks;
• 1/8 tsp salt;
• 2 tsp vanilla extract.

Preparation

1. Preparing the molds. For this dish you need 8 ramekins with a volume of 115 ml. We put them on a baking sheet.
2. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees.
3. Pour 4 cups of water into a small saucepan, add 1 cup of sugar and place over medium-high heat. Cook for 6 – 8 minutes, stirring constantly. You should get an amber-colored caramel.
4. Quickly pour the resulting caramel into the molds.
5. Separately, pour milk (cream) into a saucepan and heat it without bringing it to a boil.
6. In a bowl, beat the eggs, yolks, salt and remaining sugar.
7. While whisking, slowly pour the hot milk into the egg mixture.
8. Strain the resulting cream through a sieve, add vanilla and pour into ramekins.
9. Pour enough water onto the baking sheet with the molds so that it reaches the middle of the height of the molds.
10. Place in the preheated oven and bake for about 35 minutes. The cream should thicken.
11. Using tongs, remove the hot ramekins from the water, cover and let cool for 3 hours or more.
12. After the dessert has cooled completely, run a sharp knife along the edges of the molds, separating the cream from the walls.
13. Turn the crème caramel onto serving plates and serve.

New Year's drinks 2018

Let's celebrate the New Year of the Dog with traditional New Year's drinks from different countries. In Germany, for example, they like to serve hot mulled wine, and in the UK they savor aromatic spicy punch.

Ingredients:

• 1 liter of red wine;
• 1.5 cinnamon sticks;
• 4 cloves;
• a glass of natural apple juice;
• 1 orange;
• 8 table. spoons of honey.

Preparation

1. Cut the orange into slices and place in a saucepan.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients here and put on low heat.
3. Warm up for 10 - 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Do not bring the drink to a boil. It is enough to warm it up to 70 degrees.
4. Then remove the mulled wine from the heat and let it brew for another 15 minutes.
5. Strain the finished drink through a sieve and serve immediately.
6. By the way, to make a truly beautiful New Year’s table setting, you can pour mulled wine into tall glasses and serve on a dish decorated with cardamom stars and cinnamon sticks.

Ingredients:

• 0.75 liters of water and dry white wine;
• 0.25 l white rum;
• 3 lemons;
• 6 oranges;
• 1 lime;
• 200 g sugar;
• 2 cinnamon sticks;
• 6 cloves;
• 3 cardamom stars.

Preparation

1. Set aside one lemon and one orange each, squeeze out the juice from the remaining citrus fruits (except lime), after first removing the peel.
2. In a saucepan, mix water with sugar, citrus zest and bring to a boil. Cook for 7 minutes.
3. Strain the syrup and add orange-lemon juice and wine.
4. Bring to a boil again and remove from heat. Add rum.
5. Pour the finished punch into a beautiful decanter and garnish with the remaining citrus and lime.

So, we decided on the menu. How to decorate the table for the New Year so that it is truly festive?

Let's take into account that we are celebrating the New Year of the Yellow and Earth Dog, so we will set the table in accordance with her preferences.

Current colors

All natural:

• green;
• sand;
• brown;
• yellow;
• golden;
• white;
• beige.

The best fabrics to choose are cotton and linen.

You can decorate the 2018 New Year's table with wicker baskets, dried flowers, and pottery. As for candles, it is better to light them only if you really want to, and scented candles are generally better left for another occasion. The dog is wary of open fire and does not like strong odors.

Well, in addition to the delicious menu and beautiful serving, let's not forget the sincere smile and joy of celebrating the New Year. Let's make our most cherished wishes on such a special night and celebrate the upcoming holiday with a special mood. And may the New Year 2018 be happy, successful and rich in amazing events and meetings for us!

What to cook for New Year 2018: recipes with photos

In the last days of the outgoing year, there is always a lot of work to do - you need to spend time with your loved ones, pick up gifts and decide what to celebrate the New Year with, plus clean up the house, finish all your work... Often there is very little time left to prepare and think about dishes for the holiday menu. To prevent the last days of December from becoming a nightmare for you, we invite you to take advantage of our selection of the most delicious and beautiful holiday dishes!

Of course, a wide variety of cuts will always be appropriate on the New Year's table. To save time, which is always so short on the eve of a holiday, it is better to buy ready-made, high-quality products. All you have to do is beautifully arrange slices of various delicacies on a dish - the festive tone will already be set! Let's add a couple of salads, a hot dish, a custom-made cake - that's all you need to prepare for the New Year 2018. See a selection of recipes with photos below.

Place herring fillets cut into equal pieces in the center of the dish. Cut the cold smoked mackerel along the main bone, separate the fillet and cut into pieces the same size as the herring. Lay out on the right and left. Add sliced ​​fish with lemon slices, olive rings and fresh parsley leaves.

Sliced ​​mackerel, shrimp and fish roll

Place chopped parsley in the center of a large dish, and place a purple or regular onion on top, cut like a chrysanthemum. Carefully place the sliced ​​fish roll around. Throw in the next ring of boiled eggs, cut in half, with small caviar laid on top. Then pieces of mackerel on lemon slices, alternating them with pre-peeled and boiled or pickled shrimp.

Cold cuts will always attract the attention of guests and arouse keen interest. For this cutting, you can choose the product that you like best. The assortment is wide: pork ham, ham, boiled and smoked sausages, tongue, lard with meat layer, basturma, balyk, various smoked meats. On a holiday platter, you can complement this cut with various vegetables and sprigs of rosemary.

To keep your meat cuts thin and looking neat, use a slicer or a knife with a sharp blade. If necessary, the semi-finished product can be placed in the freezer for a few minutes (for easy hardening). After this, the pieces will definitely turn out beautiful and even!

Cut the loaf or white bread first into thin slices and then into circles without crusts, using a glass with a sharp edge or a round cookie cutter. Fold the circles in pairs, layering them with either processed sandwich cheese or a cut-out circle of hard cheese. Place a leaf of green lettuce and an assembled slice of bacon or ham on top. Stick the entire structure with a skewer skewered with a yellow or red cherry tomato.

Aassorted canapés

You can use thinly sliced ​​bread, biscuits or small flatbreads, small tartlets or cucumber rings as the base for canapés. On top you can place a fish roll, slices of bacon rolled into a rosette, “mother-in-law’s tongue” made from zucchini, rosettes or rolls of sliced ​​cheese, shrimp sprinkled with cheese and herbs.

Salad in the shape of a Dog for New Year 2018

A tasty and satisfying salad can also be made themed. As everyone already knows, 2018 is the Year of the Dog, so a salad in the shape of the face of the mistress of the year will no doubt decorate the New Year’s table!

For cooking you will need products:

• 200 g chicken fillet
• 100 g ham
• 150 g cheese
• 1 onion
• 2 carrots
• 3 eggs
• 150 ml mayonnaise
• olives for decoration

Preparation:

Boil eggs, chicken fillet and carrots separately. Cut the boiled chicken into small cubes, the onion into quarters of rings (marinate or saute it). Chop the ham into thin cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, and the egg whites and cheese on a fine grater.

Place 2/3 of the chicken on a dish in the shape of a dog's head, make a mesh of mayonnaise. Next, distribute sautéed onions, ham, mayonnaise, and cheese in layers. Place the grated carrots only on the sides, forming ears. Place the remaining fillet in a mound on the lower part of the muzzle to obtain visual volume. Lubricate this layer with mayonnaise and thoroughly powder with protein. Decorate the upper part of the muzzle with crumbled egg yolk.

Make eyes and nose from olives, cut in half lengthwise. Use thin slices of olives to form eyebrows, eyelashes and mouth. Decorate the tongue with a piece of ham. Let the salad stand for a couple of hours to soak in.

This delicious and very beautiful salad from a classic combination of ingredients laid out in layers is a worthy dish for any holiday table.

To prepare it, prepare the following products:

• 500 g beef tenderloin
• 200 g walnuts
• 150 g mayonnaise
• 5 pickles
• 4 eggs
• 4 cloves garlic

Preparation:

Boil the beef and chop finely with a knife. Combine peeled and finely chopped cucumbers, pressed garlic and a little mayonnaise and mix. Boil the eggs and chop finely with a knife. Chop the nuts with a knife and fry a little in a dry frying pan.

Place a molding ring on a dish or plate and begin to layer the salad one by one - beef, mayonnaise, garlic-cucumber mixture, eggs, mayonnaise, nuts.

Carefully remove the ring upwards. Decorate the salad with fresh herbs or as you wish. Leave to soak for 2-3 hours.

Here is an easy-to-prepare, tasty and at the same time quite budget-friendly version of a holiday salad. To serve on New Year's Eve, it is better to lay it out in layers, but if you just mix all the ingredients, it will turn out even faster.

Required Products:

• 3 eggs
• 4 potato tubers
• 2 fresh cucumbers
• 1 carrot
• 1 sweet pepper
• 5 tbsp. l. mayonnaise

Preparation:

Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs. Peel the boiled vegetables and grate on a coarse grater. Chop the eggs into small cubes. Wash the cucumbers and peppers thoroughly and cut into thin strips. Place a molding ring on a dish or plate, place layers of salad, coating each of them with mayonnaise - ½ part potatoes, carrots, bell peppers, cucumbers, eggs, ½ part potatoes. Cover the top with a layer of mayonnaise and decorate with slices of cucumbers and peppers or olives and herbs. Place in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.

Mimosa salad has been a leader among classic holiday dishes for decades. And it’s no coincidence - the ingredients in it are perfectly selected, making the salad very tasty and harmonious.

To prepare it you will need the following ingredients:

• 1 can of canned pink salmon
• 4 eggs
• 100 g cheese
• 2-3 potato tubers
• 1 onion (preferably red)
• 1 carrot
• 200 g mayonnaise
• 0.5 bunch of green onions
• 0.5 tsp sunflower oil
• ground black pepper

Preparation:

Boil eggs separately for 10 minutes and potatoes and carrots for 25 minutes. Grate the boiled vegetables on a grater with large holes, and the cheese on a grater with small holes. Finely dice the onion. Drain the oil from the pink salmon and mash the fish thoroughly with a fork. Grate two yolks on a fine grater, chop two whites and two whole eggs into cubes with a knife.

Place a ring with a diameter of 20 cm on a dish, greasing its inner side with vegetable oil. Lay out the layers, coating with mayonnaise: onion, pink salmon, potatoes (pepper and salt), carrots, eggs, cheese, egg yolk. Carefully remove the molding ring. Decorate the top of the salad with slices of boiled carrots and green onions. Let it sit for at least half an hour to soak.

Potatoes with golden brown crust

Deliciously cooked potatoes are the best addition to any salad or hot dish. All you need for this is nothing - sunflower oil, salt and your favorite spices. Cut the potatoes into not very large slices and fry or bake in the oven until an appetizing crust. Believe me, this side dish will go down with a bang!

Another option for preparing a potato side dish is roses. Agree, this dish looks very festive! But in fact, preparing it is simple and quite quick - active steps will only take 20 minutes!

For 4 large potato tubers, take one egg, 50 g of butter and 100 g (or to taste) of creamy cheese (brie, cream cheese, camembert are suitable), salt and spices. Peel and boil the potatoes, mash them, adding all the other ingredients. Place the resulting mass into a pastry syringe or cornet with a star-shaped nozzle. If you have neither one nor the other, take a sheet of parchment paper, roll it up, make a small hole by cutting off the tip. Or use a thick, durable bag for this purpose. Line a baking tray with baking paper or foil. Squeeze roses onto it and place in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. Serve roses with fish, meat or salad.

What to cook for New Year 2018: recipes with photos of hot dishes

Rabbit meat is delicious meat. The main thing is to cook it correctly so that it turns out tender, soft and juicy. If this goal is achieved, stewed rabbit in cream sauce will become the main festive dish on the New Year's table.

To prepare you will need:

• 1 kg rabbit meat
• 0.75 cups sour cream
• 0.5 cups milk
• 1 cup broth or water
• 1 tbsp. l. flour
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil
• 3 bay leaves
• ground black pepper
• fine salt

Preparation:

Wash the rabbit thoroughly and cut into portions. Pour filtered water and leave to soak for 1 hour. Chop the onion, chop the garlic, fry in refined oil directly in the multicooker bowl. Add the meat to the vegetables and fry until an appetizing crust.

Combine sour cream and milk, add flour, pepper, salt. While stirring, pour in a glass of broth (vegetable/meat) or just hot water. Stir until smooth.

Pour the sauce into the multicooker bowl. The sauce should cover the rabbit meat approximately ¾ of the way up. Set the “Stew” mode and cook for 2 hours. The meat will be soft and juicy!

This dish can replace any meatloaf, as it is in no way inferior to it in taste or appearance. A great option for preparing and serving on the New Year's table!

Required ingredients:

• 800 g pork tenderloin
• 150 g champignons
• 90 g processed (or hard) cheese
• 1 onion
• 1-2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise
• 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil
• 0.5 tsp. seasonings for pork

Preparation:

Rinse the pork tenderloin well with running water, make cuts about one centimeter wide, without bringing the knife all the way through. The result was a kind of accordion. Rub the meat with pork seasoning on all sides (including inside the cuts). Spread mayonnaise on top and leave to marinate for half an hour or more.

Wash the champignons, cut into medium pieces, and cut the onion into half rings. Fry the mushrooms with onions in vegetable oil until browned, season with pepper and salt. Let cool slightly. Grate the cheese on a grater with large holes (you can use both processed and semi-hard/hard).

Place the onion and mushroom filling into the accordion slits. Sprinkle cheese on top. Carefully transfer the meat to a roasting bag or foil. Send to bake in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees. Bake for about an hour. 15-20 minutes before cooking, carefully, so as not to get burned by the hot steam, open the foil or sleeve. When an appetizing golden brown crust has formed, you can remove it from the oven.

It is not for nothing that representatives of the Slavic people fell in love with this popular dish of Italian cuisine - it is nourishing, very tasty and ideal for treating on any occasion! The main thing is to buy ready-made lasagne sheets in the supermarket, the rest of the steps are very simple, you just need to follow the instructions below.

Main ingredients:

• 12 ready-made lasagna sheets
• 240 g semi-hard cheese

For the filling you will need:

• 600 g minced chicken
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• 150 g tomato juice
• 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• 1 tsp. seasonings for meat
• 0.25 tsp ground black pepper

Products for Bechamel sauce:

• 750 g milk 2.5% fat
• 120 g butter
• 2 tbsp. l. flour
• 1 bay leaf
• pinch of nutmeg
• 0.25 tsp salt

Preparation:

Fry finely chopped onion in vegetable oil, then add coarsely grated carrots to it and fry together. Add minced chicken and meat seasonings to the vegetables, mix and simmer for 10 minutes. Pass the garlic through a press and place in the frying pan. Place tomato paste there and pour in tomato juice. Then add black pepper and salt. Mix well and simmer with the lid open until the moisture evaporates for 10-15 minutes. Let the filling cool. Prepare the cheese - grate it coarsely.

Prepare the sauce in a separate bowl. To do this, bring the milk to a boil, add the bay leaf and nutmeg. Turn off the gas and let it brew for 10 minutes. Melt butter in a frying pan. Gradually add flour to it, stir and fry for 5 minutes over low heat. Pour in the milk in a thin stream, stirring constantly, not allowing lumps to form and the sauce to boil. Cook until thickened. Then let it boil, add a little salt and turn off the heat.

Divide the sauce into approximately 5 equal parts, the cheese into 4, and the chicken filling into 3 parts. Grease the pan with oil, pour in the sauce (1/5 of it) and lay out three lasagna sheets, placed end to end, in one layer. Study the information on the packaging first - the sheets may need to be boiled before use. Place the prepared minced meat (1/3 part), pour over the sauce and sprinkle with cheese (1/4 part). Repeat twice according to the same scheme: dough sheets, minced meat, sauce, cheese. Place the remaining three sheets of dough on top, brush with sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for about 45 minutes at 190 degrees, then remove from the oven and leave for 15 minutes. After this, you can cut and serve in portions with tomato juice.

Krucheniki are meat rolls with filling. In this case, the meat is pork and the filling is mushrooms. Thanks to this composition, the dish turns out to be very satisfying. And the presentable appearance allows you to prepare krucheniki for the festive table!

Required ingredients:

• 500 g pork pulp
• 300 g champignons
• 200 g flour
• 1 onion
• 1 egg
• 50 ml water
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• ground black pepper

Preparation:

Rinse the meat, clean it of fat and films. Using a sharp knife, cut into portions. Beat each piece of pork well with a hammer. Salt and pepper.

For the filling, wash the mushrooms and cut into medium-sized pieces. Fry, stirring, until golden brown, then add the diced onion. Fry together until golden brown. Add salt and pepper, stir again and remove from heat, let cool.

To fry meat, beat one egg in a separate bowl, then pour in 50 ml of water and beat again. Prepare flour for breading - pour onto a flat plate.

Place the mushroom filling on the chopped pieces of pork and roll it up. Dip into the egg mixture, then bread in flour and back into the egg. Next, place in a well-heated frying pan with oil, seam side down. Fry on all sides until golden brown. Serve hot.

Chicken thigh shashlik - 3 marinade options

Prepare chicken thighs for barbecue - rinse cooled (but not frozen) thighs well under running water and place in a container with a lid, convenient for marinating.

Grill the marinated chicken thighs on the grill for about half an hour, then pierce them with a fork. If ichor is released, the meat did not have enough time to bake. If the juice is clear, it means the kebab is ready.

1. Classic version

Ingredients for marinade for 2 kg of chicken thighs:

• 500 g onions
• 1 tbsp. l. salt
• 1 tsp. ground black pepper

Preparation:

Salt and pepper the chicken thighs. You can use a special seasoning for barbecue or chicken if desired. Cut the onion into half rings, add to the meat, mix everything together. Cover with a lid and leave to marinate for a couple of hours. Then place the meat without onions on the grill.

1. Beer marinade

Ingredients per 2 kg of meat:

• 1 liter of beer
• 1 tbsp. l. salt
• 1 tsp. pepper

Preparation:

Mix the thighs with salt and pepper; if desired, you can additionally use basil, turmeric, and paprika. Pour beer, leave to marinate for 2 hours, then fry on the grill.

1. Kefir marinade

Products based on 2 kg of thighs:

• 1 l kefir
• 500 g onions
• 1 medium sized head of garlic
• 1 tbsp. l. salt
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 0.5-1 tsp. pepper

Preparation:

Pass the garlic through a press, cut the onion into half rings, chop the greens with a knife. Add everything to the chicken thighs, add salt and pepper. Pour in kefir and mix thoroughly. Marinate for 2 hours, then fry on a wire rack on both sides.

Of course, after a hearty and tasty meal, you’ll want something sweet for tea! The best option would be a cake - both festive and delicious! It is best to think in advance how you want it to be - biscuit, shortbread, waffle, curd. With what cream, with or without mastic. You also need to choose a thematic design. Popular options are cakes shaped like a clock or decorated with various New Year's decorations - edible Christmas balls, snowmen, etc.

To avoid unnecessary hassle and free up time on the eve of the holiday for more important matters, it is better to order a cake in advance from a pastry shop or from a trusted artisan. Or buy it in a supermarket, be sure to pay attention to the expiration date. Subscribe to our channel in Yandex.Zen!

There is not much time left until the most magical holiday of the year, and you should plan the dishes that will be on your table now. On this night we will celebrate the Year of the Dog. Even more than that, 2018 will represent the Yellow or Earth Dog. Therefore, it is appropriate to feed your new Friend with the most delicious dishes, preferably snacks in yellow or brown shades. But as you know, dogs are not particularly picky when it comes to food, so you can choose any recipes for the New Year 2018, even the simplest recipes with photos. The most important thing is that the hostess of the holiday remains satisfied and saves the goodies for the whole year.

What to cook for New Year 2018

When choosing what to cook for New Year 2018, pay attention to meat dishes. They should be varied, but always satisfying. Grill the kebab, cook the ribs, bake the boiled pork. You should cook something that any four-legged friend will like. Various meat snacks in the form of rolls, canapes, tartlets must be present for the New Year of the Dog 2018. Since she respects such dishes.

For those who don't really like meat, cook fish. The best alternative to beef and pork would be fried fish or fried salmon steaks.

Important! If children will be celebrating the New Year in your company, then it is better for them to steam and stew everything.

Don’t neglect vegetables, take yellow peppers and the usual potatoes, add mushrooms to your dishes, prepare salads with yellow fruits - pineapple, pear, apple. The Earth Dog will celebrate the New Year in style with such treats.

Preparation in a week

A week before the New Year 2018, be sure to create a menu that reflects what dishes will be on the table. Start with hot dishes for the New Year 2018, then include several salads, appetizers, and cold cuts. Finish with dessert, fruit and drinks. Then write down all the products that make up the menu for the New Year. Purchase in advance all components that have a long shelf life, napkins, and serving items.

Then, just before the holiday, think about fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as other perishable foods.

Just before the holiday

Before celebrating the New Year, look through your list of what you will be preparing for 2018 for the Year of the Dog and start cooking. Later in this article we will provide several recipes that may be useful to you.

There are an incredible variety of ideas for preparing the New Year's table 2018, and all these ideas have the right to be beautiful. Think about the design of your dishes in advance. Salads should be decorated elegantly; they can be laid out in the shape of a dog’s face or a bone, making them more festive. Use dill to imitate Christmas tree needles, buy napkins with a picture for the New Year, or fold a small Christmas tree from green napkins. Get ready to decide on the question: “how to prepare for the New Year 2018”, you must take into account the interests of the Dog. It should be present in any piece of furniture, on the Christmas tree, on the table, in costumes. You can buy candles in the shape of a dog or put small figurines on the table. Be sure to make your table bright and cheerful - Dogs love to play too.

Hot dishes, salads and snacks for the New Year 2018

Sandwiches for the New Year 2018 can be anything, but most importantly, tasty and preferably with a lot of meat products. And since this is still an unusual holiday, it is better to take more expensive products for this dish. For example, you can cook it with raw smoked sausage or red caviar. Canapés with sausage, cucumber and black olives will look very good on the menu. Decorate them with multi-colored pieces of sweet pepper: red, yellow, green, and you can also draw silhouettes of a dog with the sauce on the sandwiches. It will look very impressive and colorful.

Zucchini boats with minced meat in the oven:

• 400g of any minced meat (pork, chicken, beef or mixed);
• 3 small young zucchini;
• 100 g “Russian” cheese;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 head of onion;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• a little vegetable oil for frying;
• salt, ground black pepper

How to cook:

1. If you have young zucchini, you should not cut off the skin. But it’s better to cut off old ones.
2. We cut each zucchini lengthwise into 2 parts and scoop out the pulp with a spoon, leaving the walls about 1 cm.
3. Saute the finely chopped onion in a frying pan in vegetable oil until soft. Add minced meat to it, and stirring constantly, fry everything together for 10 minutes.
4. Then add salt and pepper to taste, and add the tomato cut into small pieces into the frying pan. Mix everything thoroughly and remove from heat.
5. Place the zucchini on a baking sheet, cut side up, and add the filling.
6. Grate the cheese and scatter it onto the boats. Then grease them with a layer of mayonnaise and put them in the oven for 25 - 30 minutes.

Snowballs with squid

If you want to see winter paraphernalia on the 2018 New Year's table, then be sure to prepare snowballs with squid. They will add variety and will resemble snow at your holiday.

Take 2 large or 3 small squids, clean them and throw them into boiling water, which must first be salted, for 2-3 minutes. Then they should be taken out and cooled. Finely chop two boiled eggs, chop the squid into small cubes, and mix some finely chopped green onions with a couple of spoons of mayonnaise and mashed garlic cloves. Grate the hard cheese on a medium or fine grater into a separate bowl. Then, using a spoon, or just your hands, we form small balls from the mixed mass, which we then roll in cheese shavings. These snowballs with olives and green onions will look very colorful.

Meat dishes require attention first when preparing the menu. It is advisable to make snacks for the New Year 2018 immediately before the holiday, following the prepared recipes.

Gourmet meatloaf

One of the most unusual recipes for New Year's Eve 2018 will be “Gourmet” meatloaf.

Ingredients:

How to cook: Wash the meat, dry it and marinate in white wine with salt and spices for 2 hours. Then wipe and divide with a knife along the piece in the form of a “book”. The nuts should be fried over high heat for about 10 minutes and divided into 2 parts. Grind one of them into crumbs and combine with the eggs, stirring until smooth. Next, add unground nuts, sliced ​​pears, and finely chopped cucumber. Then mix it all with salt and pepper. The ham should be cut into thin slices, which we place on the tenderloin. Distribute the nut filling evenly over the ham, roll everything tightly and tie it. Grease with sunflower oil on all sides and keep it in a plastic bag for 15-20 minutes. Baking the roll should be done in the oven at a temperature of 190 degrees. Preparing the dish will take 1 hour.

Meat balls

Another original dish for the New Year will be meat balls with mushrooms in puff pastry.

Compound:

Cooking steps:

1. Rinse the mushrooms, remove the stems from the caps and finely chop them.
2. Then we fry them in sunflower oil until all the liquid has evaporated.
3. You can add finely chopped onion to the mushrooms.
4. Boil the rice until ready.
5. Place the mushrooms and onions in a bowl and add rice, chopped herbs, chopped garlic and mix everything.
6. Then add salt and spices and mix well again.
7. Form small balls.
8. Roll out the defrosted puff pastry thinly and cut into thin strips.
9. Wrap the meat cutlets in strips of dough in the form of balls and place on baking paper.
10. Brush them with beaten eggs and place them in a preheated oven at 200 degrees.
11. After 40-45 minutes, take out the charming balls and place them on a large plate.

Stewed duck in prunes

For lovers of poultry dishes, we recommend preparing duck, which can be stewed with prunes.

When choosing a duck at the market, choose a younger one, otherwise it will take a very long time to cook. And it’s best to buy it at the Chicken Kingdom store. It must be cleanly plucked and gutted. The carcass should be chopped into portions, removing unnecessary bones and backbone. Salt. In a large thick-walled saucepan or saucepan, sauté the onions with carrots and various roots. After the vegetables have softened, add duck pieces to them so that the fat is at the bottom. This will add juiciness to the food. Fry until golden brown. Next, pour boiling water into the duck and simmer the bird over low heat for about 45 minutes. After this time, taste for salt and add bay leaf, peppercorns and your favorite spices. We also put prunes in a saucepan with them. After an additional 15 minutes of stewing, the delicious, aromatic duck will be ready.

Stuffed herring “Kaleidoscope”

Despite the fact that the ingredients used to prepare this dish are very simple, you will get an amazing result that will surprise many of your guests.

So, cut boiled carrots, red and always bell peppers, hard-boiled eggs, onions, preferably red, into small pieces. Finely chop the greens. We cut the herring carcass into 2 fillets. We cut thinly pickled cucumber into oblong slices lengthwise. We dilute 15 g of gelatin with water according to the instructions in a water bath, then cool and mix with 200 g of sour cream. Then add vegetables, herbs, a little lemon juice and sunflower oil to the resulting mass. Mix everything. Next, put one fish fillet on cling film, then sour cream with vegetables, then a layer of pickled cucumbers, again sour cream and again herring on top. We form a roll using film and put it in a cool place overnight. The appetizer should be cut with a sharp knife. And it turns out a real kaleidoscope of colors and tastes!

Salads for the New Year 2018

There are a huge variety of salads, so what to prepare for the New Year 2018 is such a big problem. When choosing this type of appetizer, give preference to new meat salads that you have never tried before. After all, from any combination of products you can create completely new and bright tastes. Don’t be afraid to experiment, a Dog is an omnivore, so it should like everything.

Simple salads for the New Year 2018

Simple and tasty salads prepared for the New Year should become a table decoration. Activate all your culinary abilities

To prepare a delicious New Year's menu. Here are some examples of salads.

It will require 250 g of boiled beef tongue, 5 eggs, just a small piece of grated cheese, 1 baked sweet pepper, a little garlic, sour cream, mayonnaise and various herbs. All products are chopped and it turns out to be a great snack.

Any sweet citrus (orange or tangerine is allowed), egg, crab sticks or meat are cut into fairly large cubes. Sweet corn and squeezed garlic are added to them. Everything is seasoned with sour cream or mayonnaise.

And you simply can’t count such salads for the New Year. Create!

A little more delicious stuff!

Drinks and desserts are among those types of treats, the preparation of which is optional, but very desirable. Children love sweet dishes, and adults love various drinks.

Be sure to prepare mulled wine for the New Year. This warming drink with clove and orange flavors will appeal to many. After all, what could be better on a frosty evening than the warming warmth of red wine, and even with the addition of spices.

1. Pour one bottle of dry red wine (750 ml) into a saucepan, add 6 cloves, a third of a glass of orange juice (or a whole orange, cut into slices), a pinch of nutmeg and a tablespoon of sugar. Heat on fire for 7 minutes at a temperature of 70 degrees. And you can drink!
2. You can also prepare mulled wine according to the classic recipe. It’s all the same, only water is added to the drink before heating, at the rate of 150 ml per 1 liter of wine.

Chocolate pistachio cake

The main highlight of any holiday should be a cake, but not a simple one, but the most delicious one. We suggest preparing a chocolate-pistachio cake, which will become a bright culmination of the New Year.

For baking you will need a mold with a diameter of 26 cm.

Ingredients for the crust:

Composition of chocolate glaze:

• ¾ cup cream with at least 30% fat content;
• 210 g dark chocolate;
• 1 tbsp. l. cognac

For impregnation you will need ½ cup of apricot jam, you can replace it with raspberry jam.

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the pistachios inside for 15 minutes and toast. Note, grind them with flour using a blender. Beat the yolks with half the granulated sugar until thick. Bring the egg whites and lemon juice with a mixer to a thick foam. Carefully combine the yolks with the protein mixture, vanilla syrup, and a third of ground pistachios. Stir, then add the rest of the nuts and stir again. Transfer the resulting mass into a mold and cook in the oven for 35-40 minutes.

To make the glaze, break the chocolate into the heated cream and stir until dissolved. Then pour cognac into the chocolate cream and stir.

Let's start assembling. Cut the cooled base into 2 parts and coat well with jam. Combine both cake layers and coat completely with frosting. A few pistachios can serve as a decoration for dessert. Enjoy!

What to cook for the New Year of the Dog 2018? Recipes with photos will help you make your choice. It is very desirable that New Year's dishes in the year of the dog 2018 have some shades of yellow, because this is the year of the yellow dog. Salads for the New Year 2018, the year of the dog, so you can prepare them from yellow vegetables and fruits, or simply decorate dishes with them. These are lemon, pineapple, yellow bell pepper, melon, etc. Salads can be very different, both vegetable and fruit. And be sure to prepare a meat salad, it’s the year of the dog after all. How to decorate layered New Year's salads? 2018 is the year of the dog, so such salads are decorated by depicting dog faces, dog paw prints or a bone using yellow vegetables and fruits. They can be cut out of sausages, drawn or labeled with mayonnaise, ketchup, Korean carrots, horseradish or mustard. New Year's table 2018, year of the dog, recipes with photos are recommended to diversify by preparing bright canapés. Well, what to cook for the main course for the new 2018 year of the dog? Recipes with photos will help with the choice in this case too. Meat dishes for the New Year 2018, the year of the dog, must be prepared with the dog’s main joy – the bone. It could be ribs, chicken drumsticks or legs. In general, meat on the bone. What dog doesn't like sausage? So cutting will be very useful. Yellow dog sausage can also be added to the salad. And in order to make the New Year's table even more themed, put on it the favorite sausages in a bun, in other words, this is a “hot dog” or “hot dog”. Here you can show your creative abilities, prepare and serve this traditional snack in an extraordinary way.

New Year's menu 2018 (year of the dog) recipes with photos can be supplemented with traditional Chinese dishes. In China, fish and dumplings are prepared for the new year, so you should add them to your culinary arsenal for the new year. And, of course, there must be sweet dishes for the New Year of the Dog, 2018. Recipes with photos will tell you how to make some original, and most importantly, delicious yellow cake. And we’ll also give you a very interesting idea for a cake for the year of the dog. This is a very popular pie or “Cold Dog” cake in Germany and Italy, made from cookies and chocolate cream. And don't forget about drinks in the year of the dog! The Salty Dog cocktail, the Stray Dog cocktail, and the Black Dog cocktail will help you surprise your guests and create a fun atmosphere.

If you still have questions about what to cook for the New Year 2018, the year of the dog, recipes with photos will definitely help you out, providing a large selection of dishes and detailed instructions for their preparation. And your New Year's table in the year of the yellow dog 2018 will be inimitable!

The topic of the article is New Year's recipes 2018. We will talk about recipes for dishes that can be prepared for the festive night. You will learn what you should prepare to make the coming Year of the Dog successful and interesting for you!

How to celebrate New Year 2018

After the Rooster, the symbol of 2017, the Dog comes into its legal rights. In order for the New Year 2018 to be successful for you, you should think in advance about what and how you will celebrate it. By the way, the festive table also influences whether the New Year will be successful. Therefore, take care of creating a menu for the New Year's table in advance.

The dog is a symbol of an active and cheerful creature. Therefore, the main rules for celebrating the new year 2018 are freedom and convenience. These rules apply not only to clothing, furnishings and guests at the party, but also to preparing an entertainment program that will make the fun last all night.

Choose an outfit for the celebration from light fabrics. It should not hinder your movements, but at the same time it must be beautiful.

The upcoming 2018 is the year of the Earth Dog. Feel free to choose colors that characterize this element:

• sand;
• yellow;
• brick;
• red;
• brown;
• grey;
• green.

Combine a festive outfit with metal jewelry and jewelry with a lot of stones.

Ideas for the festive New Year's table 2017-2018

It is hardly a secret for anyone that a dog is a voracious animal. Therefore, you should try to feed all your guests to their fullest. And if after the holiday they gain a few kilograms of excess weight, they can easily lose it with the help.

The main dish on the festive table is meat. You can cook anything: baked chicken, kebab or chops. Also prepare salads with meat and appetizers, to which you add ham, tenderloin, and sausage.

Decorating a dish is the main task that will be entrusted to you during cooking. All dishes should be decorated in such a way as to evoke positive emotions. Prepare salads in the shape of a dog's face or a Christmas tree. Don’t forget to put fresh fruit on the table - the “housewife of the year” will definitely like it.

When decorating a room, remember that the symbol of 2018 should be everywhere. Paste a beautiful calendar with a dog on the wall, hang toys in the shape of a dog on the Christmas tree. And give your guests a soft dog or a small figurine with the symbol of the year.

New Year's table menu for the Year of the Dog 2018: main courses, salads, appetizers and desserts

Many women before the New Year are faced with the fact that they do not know what to cook for the holiday table. Some people get tired of cooking, even though it is easy to prepare. Others choose and do not go wrong with this dish.

We save your time, which you can spend on choosing an outfit and gifts. That’s why we offer recipes for delicious and interesting dishes, ideal for a New Year’s feast.

Snacks for New Year 2018

The main appetizer of any holiday table is cold cuts. She is loved equally by adults and children. Try to make cuts from different smoked meats. Salami, dried chicken breast, basturma, etc. are ideal.

Each product should be thinly sliced ​​with a wide knife so that the meat slices can be made into a voluminous composition. Supplement the finished cuts with cheese and fresh vegetables.

Ideas for cutting design:

Chicken rolls with mushrooms and cheese

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 4 pcs;
• champignons - 0.1 kg;
• milk - 1 glass;
• cheese - 0.2 kg;
• Maggi French chicken seasoning - 1 pc.;
• vegetable oil - 40 ml.

For the marinade:

• mayonnaise - 40 g;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• vegetable oil - 40 g;
• turmeric - 2 g;
• black pepper - 5 g;
• salt - to taste;
• chopped bay leaf - 5 g.

How to cook:

1. Rinse the fillet under water, pound it, then mix with the marinade and leave for half an hour.
2. Wash the champignons and cut them into slices.
3. Cut the cheese into small cubes.
4. Place mushrooms and cheese on the fillet. Wrap the meat into roll shapes and secure with a toothpick.
5. Fry the rolls on both sides until golden brown
6. Dissolve maggi seasoning in milk.
7. Place the rolls in a baking dish and fill with milk mixture.
8. Bake the dish in the oven for 40 minutes.
9. Sprinkle the rolls with grated cheese, then bake for another 10 minutes.
10. Cool the finished dish slightly, remove the toothpicks and cut it crosswise.

New Year's liver pate

Ingredients:

• pork liver - 0.3 kg;
• carrots - 1 piece;
• onion - 1 head;
• salt and seasonings - to taste;
• butter - 60 g;
• shortcrust pastry tartlets - 12 pcs.

For decoration, use mayonnaise, herbs, cheese and cranberries.

How to cook:

1. Boil small pieces of liver until cooked.
2. Peel the onions and carrots, cut and fry.
3. Pass the boiled liver through a meat grinder twice and fry.
4. Add spices, if the pate turns out thick, add mayonnaise to it.
5. Wet your hands in water and divide the finished pate into 12 portions.
6. Form each portion into a cone, place it in a tartlet, sprinkle the finished dish with dill.
7. Decorate each “Christmas tree” with cranberries and sprinkle with mayonnaise. At the very end, sprinkle grated cheese on top of each Christmas tree.

Salads for New Year 2018

The salads that you prepare for the New Year 2018 should be hearty and beautifully presented, for example, like a salad.

Salad Tenderness

Ingredients:

• cod liver - 0.2 kg;
• onion - medium head;
• tomatoes - 2 pcs;
• eggs - 3 pcs;
• mayonnaise - 20 g;
• salt - 3 g;
• parsley - 1 sprig.

How to cook:

1. Boil the eggs hard.
2. Mash the fish liver, cut the tomatoes, scald the onion and let it drain.
3. Peel the eggs and chop them finely.
4. Combine all ingredients and mix gently.
5. Place the salad in a beautiful dish and garnish with a sprig of parsley on top.

Salad “Gercaillie’s Nest”

Use spices and salt to taste.

Products for salad:

• boiled chicken breast - 0.4 kg;
• ham - 0.1 kg;
• boiled egg whites - 4 pcs;
• pickled champignons - 0.7 kg;
• mayonnaise - 60 g;
• hard cheese - 50 g;
• green salad - 2 leaves.

For “eggs”:

• processed cheese - 0.2 kg;
• boiled egg yolks - 4 pcs;
• dill - a couple of sprigs;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• mayonnaise - 20 g.

For the “nest”:

• potatoes - 3 pcs;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml.

How to cook:

1. Cut the ham and breast into small pieces. Grate the cheese and whites on a coarse grater, finely chop the mushrooms.
2. Combine the product, add salt and spices, mix.
3. Rinse the lettuce leaves under running water and dry.
4. Grate the yolks with the cheeses on a fine-mesh grater, pass the garlic through a garlic press, and finely chop the dill. Pepper and salt, add mayonnaise. Mix and make “eggs” from the composition.
5. Cut the potatoes into strips and fry in a deep fryer, then season with pepper and salt.
6. Take a beautiful dish and place lettuce leaves on it. Place the meat filling on top and build a “nest” from the potatoes. Place the cooked “eggs” in the “nest” last.

Meat dishes for New Year 2018

Meat dishes are the most important on the New Year's table. Therefore, their preparation should be approached responsibly. We will share with you interesting recipes that will please any gourmet.

Pork with pineapple

You remember that on the holiday table, in addition to meat dishes, there should be fruits? We suggest you combine pork with pineapple in one dish. We assure you that you will really like the result!

Ingredients:

• pork ham - 0.8 kg;
• soy sauce - 60 ml;
• smoked bacon - 0.1-0.2 kg;
• cane sugar - 60 g;
• vegetable oil - 20 g;
• pineapple - 1 piece;
• sea ​​salt - to taste.

Preparation:

1. Beat the pork on both sides.
2. Marinate the meat in soy sauce and add a little salt.
3. Place the pork in cling film and leave it in the refrigerator overnight.
4. The next day, take a deep bowl and place several layers of foil in it so that the edges hang down.
5. Thinly slice the bacon and place it along the sides and bottom of the bowl, and around the edges so that the meat hangs over.
6. Peel the pineapple and remove the center.
7. Cut the pineapple into cubes, add a tablespoon of soy sauce, add cane sugar, and fry the mixture in a frying pan until the moisture has completely evaporated.
8. Place the pineapple mixture in a bowl with meat, then fold the overhanging edges.
9. Place the remaining meat on top and wrap with foil.
10. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, then place a baking sheet with a dish in it.
11. Bake for 55 minutes, then tear the foil and cook for another quarter of an hour at 190 degrees.

Beshbarmak

Delight your guests by preparing one of the main dishes of Caucasian cuisine. The ingredients indicated in the recipe are enough for 6 servings. Cooking time - 3 hours.

Ingredients:

• butter - 0.15 kg;
• lamb - 1 kg;
• onion - 2 heads;
• beef - 1 kg;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• seasonings and salt - to taste;
• horse meat - 1 kg.

For the test:

• flour - 1 kg;
• salt - to taste;
• egg - 1 pc.

How to cook:

1. Boil the meat in the broth, adding seasonings and salt, 1 onion and 1 garlic. The average cooking time for meat is about 2.5 hours. As a result, the meat should separate from the bones.
2. Knead the dough and roll it into a thin cake.
3. Remove the finished meat from the pan, cool and tear into small pieces.
4. Throw the prepared dough into the broth and cook it for a quarter of an hour.
5. Lay out the dish in layers: first the dough, then the meat, onion sauce, pepper.
6. To prepare the onion sauce, chop the onion into half rings into a deep container, then add the butter and add the pepper. At the end, fill the composition with boiling broth.

Desserts for New Year 2018

After preparing the main dishes, you should think about a delicious dessert. We offer to prepare you simple and delicious desserts that will delight children and adults.

You can also cook, or.

Banana cake without baking

Ingredients:

• cookies - 0.2 kg;
• dry vanilla pudding - 1 package;
• butter - 50 g;
• milk - 0.5 l;
• bananas - 3 pcs;
• cream 30% - 0.2 l.

Preparation:

1. Whip well-chilled cream. To do this, prepare plenty of ice and chill the whisks. Pour the cream into a container, then place it on ice and start whipping the cream with a mixer at minimum speed. After whipping, place the cream in the refrigerator.
2. Prepare pudding according to package directions.
3. Grind the cookies using a blender and melt the butter.
4. Place the cookies in a deep bowl, add melted butter and stir.
5. Take a springform pan, pour the sand mixture into it, and thoroughly compact the bottom and sides of the mold.
6. Cut the bananas into pieces and place them on the cookies.
7. Mix the cream with the pudding, but only carefully.
8. Pour the resulting cream over the bananas and smooth out the mixture.
9. Place the finished cake in the refrigerator overnight. Before serving, remove the cake from the mold.

Cake “Broken Glass”

This cute and incredibly delicious jelly cake is made with sour cream. Use instant gelatin.

Ingredients:

• sour cream - 0.5 kg;
• jelly of different colors - 3 packs of 90 g each;
• granulated sugar - 0.2 kg;
• gelatin - 25 g;
• sponge cake - 200 g.

Preparation:

1. Prepare 3 different types of jelly in three containers by diluting them in hot water. In this case, use 2 times less water than indicated on the pack.
2. After the jelly has set in the refrigerator (it's better to leave it there overnight), cut it into cubes and stir.
3. Beat sour cream with granulated sugar until sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Dilute gelatin in 60 g of hot water, combine with sour cream.
5. Line a cake tin with cling film.
6. Pour fruit jelly into a mold and fill with sour cream.
7. Place a layer of sponge cake on top of the cake, cover the composition with cling film and place in the refrigerator.
8. Remove the cake from the refrigerator once it has completely set.

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