What To Cook For The New 2023 Year Of The White Metal Rat

2023 according to the Eastern calendar is the year of the White Metal Rat. A practical, prudent, family rat loves to eat in a big company.

2023 according to the Eastern calendar is the year of the White Metal Rat. A practical, prudent, family rat loves to eat in a big company. She also loves her home, so celebrate the New Year at home or with loved ones with friends and relatives. As for gifts for 2023, give preference to the things you need in everyday life - household appliances, textiles, dishes.

If you want to please the hostess of next year, then use our advice. We will tell you how to decorate the house for the holiday, how to celebrate the New Year and, of course, what tasty and interesting things to cook on the table.

 

How to decorate the house and the table for the year of the Rat

White and silver tinsel, snowflakes, garlands will find their place on the walls and windows of your apartment. Use metal parts, beads, rat figurines or candles. In stores, you will definitely find stencils for windows with the image of the hostess of the year.

Cover the table with a white tablecloth, metal candlesticks, white or silver candles, napkins and figurines with the image of a rat or mouse will come in handy. Crockery - white, cutlery - silver. Simple but very festive.

How to celebrate the Year of the Rat

Clothing in the New Year should be free, simple cut, modest, but with a twist. Give preference to white, gray, silver colors and shades. Metal inserts, shimmering fabrics, interesting massive brooches will make a princess out of a "gray mouse". A little black dress with a blazer with metallic details or shoes with a shimmery buckle will also work. An ordinary gray short dress can become a playful outfit if you add a headband with ears and sparkling tights to the look.

What to cook for the Year of the Rat

The mouse loves to eat simply and satisfyingly. Better less exotic and complex dishes, but the menu should be varied. You can choose from all types of meat, fish, sausages, smoked meats, snacks, salads, fruits, vegetables and nuts. A rich cheese cut is a must! We offer popular dishes served in the form of cute mice and rats.

Turkey Cutlets for the Year of the Rat

 

500 g minced turkey 50 ml cream (15 percent) egg 1 tbsp. l. flour salt, black pepper to taste dried ground garlic or other spices to taste 2-3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil

In a bowl, thoroughly mix the minced meat with cream, flour, spices, salt, egg.

Heat the oil in a frying pan, form the minced meat into elongated buns with wet hands and fry over medium-high heat until golden brown on all sides. Then transfer the fried cutlets into a heat-resistant form, pour oil from the pan and bake for 12-15 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Using ketchup, raisins or peppercorns, cucumber or carrot circles, make mice. A sprig of parsley can serve as a tail. Serve with vegetables, cereals, salad, fried apples.

Sweet dessert for the New Year of the Rat

 

550 g biscuits 100 g butter at room temperature 150 g nuts (any) can of boiled condensed milk

To taste, you can add chopped chocolate, coconut or poppy seeds.

Break the cookies into pieces and beat with a blender into large crumbs. You can crush the cookies in a bowl with the end of a rolling pin. In another bowl, beat the butter until white with a mixer, then, continuing to beat, add the condensed milk. Get a homogeneous cream. Mix the cream with chopped nuts and cookie crumbs with a spoon. With your hands, form "cutlets" - the body and two small circles - ears. They can also be made from almond flakes. Make mice, make eyes and a nose from dragees, candied fruits or raisins, skewers or a strip of marshmallow are suitable for the tail. Refrigerate.

Shortbread cookies in the form of mice

 

100 g butter at room temperature 200 g flour 80 g sugar 2 egg yolks vanilla sugar pieces of chocolate, peanuts, M&M's for decoration

Beat the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar, add the yolks. Then gradually add flour. Gather the dough into a ball, wrap with cling film and refrigerate for an hour or two. If there is no time, then immediately start sculpting.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, cover the baking sheet with parchment. From the dough, mold blanks in the shape of an oval or egg, spread on a baking sheet. Make eyes out of chocolate pieces, make a nose out of M&M's, insert half of the roasted peanuts in place of the ears. Poke a hole in the back with a wooden skewer, insert a sweet gelatin tail strip into it after baking.

Bake the cookies in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Insert the tails into the cooled finished cookies.

Olivier for the Year of the Rat

 

3 potatoes boiled in their skins 4 boiled eggs 200 g boiled sausage 3 pickled cucumbers boiled carrots 200 g canned peas mayonnaise to taste

We clean all the ingredients and cut into cubes in a bowl, add peas and mayonnaise. Mix and you're done!

We spread the salad on a dish in the form of an oval. From the sausage we cut out two circles-ears, 6 strips-antennae and 4 paws in the form of a "tulip". A long strip of sausage is the tail, and the nose and eyes of the rat are made from halves of olives. Check out this simple salad dressing idea!

Jellied chicken for the year of the Rat

 

1 kg chicken legs 2 1/2 l water carrot onion 1-2 bay leaves 25 g gelatin 2-3 garlic cloves salt, pepper to taste quail eggs (3-4) and peppercorns for decoration

Put the chicken in a large saucepan, cover with water and put on fire. Bring to a boil, remove the foam, add the peeled carrots and onions, bay leaves, salt, pepper and cook on a slight boil until the chicken is cooked (the meat should come off the bone easily).

Put the finished chicken on a dish, separate the meat from the skin, bones and cartilage, chop finely.

Strain the broth. Pour gelatin with 50 ml of cold water, when it swells (after 20 minutes), stir in hot broth until dissolved.

Mix the meat with chopped peeled garlic. Put in a bowl for serving (one large or several bowls). If desired, add canned peas or corn to the meat, slices of boiled carrots, greens and pour the cooled broth over. Place in the refrigerator until completely solidified.

From boiled quail eggs, peppercorns and chicken ham or cheese (for ears and tail), make small mice and decorate them with aspic. Enjoy!

Herring under a fur coat for the year of the Rat

 

lightly salted herring (fillet) boiled carrot boiled beetroot small onion 2 medium potatoes boiled in their skins 4 boiled eggs mayonnaise to taste

Cool and peel boiled vegetables and eggs. Finely chop the herring. Grate vegetables separately. Separate the yolks from the whites, grate the whites, and set the yolks aside for now. Finely chop the onion and scald with boiling water, dry with a paper towel.

On a flat elongated dish, spread the salad in layers in the shape of an egg. Let's start with the bottom layer, coat all layers with mayonnaise. So, from below: potatoes, herring, onions, carrots, protein, beets. The top layer is crushed yolk. We decorate the salad with olives (we make a nose and eyes), parsley sprigs (mustache) and sausage or cucumber rings (ears).

Appetizer with crab sticks for the year of the Rat

 

180 g crab sticks 150 g melted cheese 2 eggs 1-2 garlic cloves 50-80 g hard cheese 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise peppercorns for decoration

Hard boil eggs, cool and peel.

Set aside a few whole crab sticks, grate the rest on a fine grater. Set aside half of the grated crab sticks on a separate dish, pour the rest into a bowl. Grate eggs, processed and hard cheese there, pass garlic through a press and mix with mayonnaise.

From the resulting mass, blind the body of the mouse in the shape of an egg, roll in grated crab sticks.

Stuffed squid for the Year of the Rat

 

2 large thawed squids 50 g rice 1/2 small onion 50 g mushrooms (mushrooms or wild mushrooms) 2 tbsp. l. sour cream 70 g hard cheese 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil greens, salt, black pepper to taste

Boil the rice until tender in salted water according to the instructions, drain the water.

Pour boiling water over the squids for a minute, then immediately lower them into ice water. Clean the squid from the film, select the chord and entrails if your squids are unpeeled. Cut off the fins.

Peel the onion and cut into small cubes, also chop the mushrooms. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry the onion until soft over medium heat, then add the mushrooms. Fry until liquid evaporates. Then add boiled rice, warm for a minute. Remove skillet from heat, cool. Add chopped squid fins, grated cheese, chopped greens, salt, pepper to the filling. Stir.

Stuff the squids, filling them 2/3, fasten the edges with toothpicks. Put on a baking sheet covered with parchment and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 5-6 minutes.

Decorate ready-made squids with fresh cucumber, boiled carrots or sausage, making ears and tail out of them. Insert the ears into the notches. Make eyes and nose from canned peas or peppers.

Delicious and Happy New Year!