What To Cook For The New Year, Except For The Boring Olivier

If you miss the traditional table with champagne in crystal, Mimosa and Olivier, grilled meat with cheese, then this article is not for you.

 

If you miss the traditional table with champagne in crystal, Mimosa and Olivier, grilled meat with cheese, then this article is not for you. Read better in our section of articles about what drinks you can make from water and "improvised" products. By the way, several jugs of liquid must be present at any feast. Wash down each glass with a glass of soft drink and you will not see a hangover!

And for all those who like the “Ruby Bracelet”, herring with pickled onions, chicken baked with potatoes in the oven and other traditional goodies, they are pretty boring here. Let's choose alternative treats for a winter feast. The criteria are: simple, cheap and beautiful. Go!

Introducing our holiday menu. Appetizers: train of fresh vegetables, garlic-cheese "tangerines" with olive, puff salad with chicken and kiwi, liver roll. Hot - to choose from: pork or beef in sour cream sauce, or moist and hearty fish pie with Tartar sauce. The easiest dessert for those who survived after the New Year's Eve: favorite jelly and caramel "bumps".

And a couple more bonuses: firstly, for those who want to appease the hostess of the year - the Dog, and please the baby, and secondly, useful links for step-by-step recipes with photos for those who have not enough of everything.

Snacks

Without tangerines, we still can not do. True, it will be tangerines from processed cheese with garlic, stuffed with olives! Grate 200 g of processed cheese chilled in the freezer, mix with two tablespoons of mayonnaise, add a clove of garlic passed through a press (we recommend two cloves for desperate people). Make a pancake from a teaspoon of cheese mass, put a pitted olive inside and roll into a ball. Roll the finished ball in ground paprika. Insert a parsley leaf. Serve chilled at the last minute!

 

Introducing a light version of puff salad - with chicken and kiwi. Boil one carrot, 300 g chicken breast and four eggs. Chop the chicken, grate the eggs, carrots and 150 g of hard yellow cheese. We spread the salad on a flat dish, in the middle of which you can put a ring, a glass or a cookie cutter in the form of a Christmas tree, a bell, or whatever. Coat each layer with mayonnaise. Bottom layers: eggs, breast, carrots, cheese. Lubricate the cheese layer with mayonnaise, decorate on top with canned corn (100 g) and sliced ​​​​kiwi into thin rings or just kiwi. The beauty!

 

And here is a vegetable plate in a new way. From four bell peppers of different colors, make "cars". To do this, cut one side of the pepper with a rectangle and cut out the seeds and membranes. Using skewers or a bamboo stick and circles of carrots and cucumbers, make wheels. Pierce the bottom of the peppers without a hole with a stick and attach the vegetable rings to the sides. Fill the "wagons" with chopped vegetables. Such cutting can be put on a rectangular dish or bottom.

 

For those who love serious snacks, here is a liver roll recipe. A kilogram of liver (we recommend turkey, but you can take any) boil in salted water (about half an hour). Cut two onions and carrots into cubes and fry in oil until soft. In a blender, beat the hot boiled liver, fried vegetables and 150 g of butter. You can drop brandy if you like. Grate 200 g of chilled processed cheese. Lightly grease a large rectangle of foil with vegetable oil and spread the liver mass over it. Put cheese on top. Carefully roll the roll away from you, folding it with foil. Wrap again with cling film and refrigerate for two hours. Before serving, pour over with mayonnaise and garnish with herbs, lemon slices or olives. Serve with crackers, bread or chips.

 

Main course

We offer a choice of three hot options - pork with sweet sauce, beef in sour cream, a chic fish pie, which we recommend serving with the most delicate Tartar sauce. Choose a side dish for meat to your taste - potatoes, rice, couscous or pasta. In Japan, for example, thin and long pasta is served on New Year's Eve, symbolizing longevity. Whoever pulls out the longest pasta is the happiest. Here the hostess will have to try and not break the pasta during cooking!

It is no coincidence that we chose meat dishes with sauce - they can be put in a food warmer and put on the table, or left on a small fire and kept warm throughout the evening. Fish pie is good both hot and cold. In addition, in the morning such a piece of pie with broth will be worth its weight in gold!

 

This is how we cook pork. Cut a kilogram of pork into pieces. Cut three onions into half rings. Peel the orange, remove the pits and chop. Fry the meat in oil until the color changes, add the onion and fry until soft, then put the orange in the pan, heat it up. Add four tablespoons of tomato paste and half a glass of water or broth, salt, pepper, reduce heat and simmer the meat under a lid over low heat for half an hour.

For those who are lucky enough to buy high-quality beef, we recommend this recipe. Cut a kilogram of beef into strips and fry in a saucepan in oil until light brown. Add 700 g of sour cream and four tablespoons of tomato paste. Stir and heat, then pour in 300 ml of water, salt, add a few peppercorns, bay leaf, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer under the lid for half an hour.

 

For fish pie, sift 500 g of flour, mix with a teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of sugar. Melt and cool 120 g of butter, combine with one egg, 90 ml of water, 1/2 teaspoon of soda slaked with lemon juice. Add flour and knead elastic dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate while you prepare the filling.

Boil four to five medium potatoes in their skins and peel. We will need 600 g of fish fillet - you can choose the taste and color, mix different types, for example, pelengas and salmon. Chop the fish, finely chop two onions and a bunch of dill. Potatoes (preferably hot) mash with a fork and mix with dill. Onions can be (but not necessarily) lightly fried.

Divide the dough into two parts - larger and smaller. Roll out most of it, length and width - like a baking dish with high sides, put in a mold. Now lay out the filling in layers, from below: mashed potatoes, half an onion, fish, onion. Pour half a cup of rich (peppered, salted) fish or vegetable broth into the pie. Put the rolled out layer of the remaining dough on top, make decorations from the scraps that you attach on top of the pie. Poke several holes with a knife. Brush the top of the pie with beaten egg yolk and a tablespoon of water. Bake the cake for 50 minutes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees.

Serve the fish pie with your favorite sauce. The easiest option is to beat a handful of pickled gherkins with a handful of small capers with a blender or in a food processor. Add chopped parsley (a couple of sprigs), 150 ml of mayonnaise or Greek yogurt, juice of one lemon and its zest. Overeating!

light dessert

If you do get to dessert (even in a day), then we recommend making jelly and “spruce cones” from corn flakes (breakfast powder). Jelly is wonderfully stored for several days in the refrigerator, and such cones can lie both warm and cold, their taste and appearance will definitely not change.

 

Chop half a glass of walnuts or other nuts you like with a knife or lightly crush in a mortar. In a bowl, mix 90 g of corn flakes, nuts and 180 g of warm boiled caramel. Stir gently so as not to break the flakes. Put the mass into disposable or glass glasses moistened with water, lightly tamp with a spoon and refrigerate for three hours. Important! Glasses should not taper towards the neck, otherwise the cones will have to be picked out with a spoon. Lightly pry the finished cones with a knife, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve on a plate with a spruce branch.

dog joys

2018 according to the Eastern calendar is the year of the Yellow Dog. Furry quadrupeds are welcome everywhere and in any form, be it a festive costume, soft toys on the table and Christmas tree, the shape of a muzzle of a cookie or a salad. You can decorate any of the dishes on the menu with dog paraphernalia. 

 

The simplest - molds in the form of bones, the silhouette of a dog and the like. You can not only cut out your favorite cookies with this shape, but also put it on a salad, pour grated yolk or chopped greens into the mold, then carefully remove it. You can work hard and lay out the muzzle. Here you already have to include imagination and creativity. 

useful links

Dishes for the Year of the Dog 

If you can't live without Olivier, then serve it in a new way - in a bun! And "Mimosa" can be served in portions - balls.

Winter holidays are not complete without gingerbread cookies - give, hang on the Christmas tree, decorate the table!

Of course, mulled wine is fragrant, viscous, festive! Enjoy!