Can't you decide what dishes to prepare for New year to surprise guests? It is a high time to experiment with the New Year's menu, having opened in themselves talent of the exotic chef. At the same time all recipes will be quite budgetary and fast in preparation.
Such traditional family holiday as New year always brings together many guests at a table. And the good hostess should try to surprise with the recipes friends and relatives. Therefore deciding what dishes to prepare for New year, it is worth giving preference to nonconventional recipes which preparation won't take away a lot of time and forces.
We will try to make the full New Year's menu which with ease will be prepared by any hostess without the aid of members of household. For this purpose we will take the best recipes of hot dishes and salads for New year, without having forgotten about a festive dessert and drinks.
Recipes hot for New year
Happens so that before giving of hot dishes the guests quite often manage to gorge on snack and salads. Therefore all efforts of the hostess with hours-long standing at a plate don't come true. Anybody doesn't have forces and the place in a stomach to try a Peking Duck or other grandiose overseas dish in sauce with expensive ingredients and dozen of seasonings. Therefore the choice for hot appetizers from habitual products in unusual execution will be the best decision.
Accordions from the spicy baked potatoes
For creation of this appetizing garnish it is necessary to take potatoes, multiple to the number of guests, as much leaflets of bay leaf, creamy and vegetable oil, garlic, salt and pepper.
While the oven is warmed (up to 200 degrees) it is necessary to clean potatoes and a sharp knife to make on it cross cuts, without reaching the opposite edge that the accordion didn't collapse. In the warmed vegetable oil to kindle a desi, to add the crushed garlic, salt and pepper. It is good to miss the mark with spicy mix all cuts and the parties at potatoes and to place on the baking tray which is also processed by oil. Before closing an oven it is necessary to enclose in each potatoes on one laurel leaflet and to bake half an hour.
Chicken kebab on a leg
To make kebab on sticks of cinnamon chicken forcemeat at the rate of 100 g of meat on one brochette, cinnamon sticks, garlic, paprika, favourite greens, salt, a sprinkling pepper and vegetable oil is required.
For preparation of fragrant brochettes kebab is enough to crush and add garlic, paprika to forcemeat, to chop greens, to salt and pepper. Leave meat mix for 2 hours in the fridge. Divide forcemeat into parts and stick around them a cinnamon stick on the one hand, imitating a chicken leg. If you have a frying pan a grill or a mini-brazier, then it is necessary to fry kebab to a ruddy crust. It is also possible to bake brochettes in an oven.
Recipes of salads for New year
To prepare an exotic dish it isn't obligatory to buy expensive import products at all. Even if the holiday table is planned to be made big, then there will be enough one nourishing and light salad provided that on a table several options of snack on skewers or in tartlets will be served.
Provencal tuna Nizuaz salad
For creation of this overseas masterpiece it is necessary to take a bunch of salad, 4 ripe tomatoes, 3 eggs, 3 bulbs, fillet of anchovies – 8 pieces, a half of red paprika, 0.2 kg of a bean, to bank of olives without stones, to bank of a tuna in oil and 2 tsps of lemon juice.
Sauce requires 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, garlic glove, 8 leaves of a basil, 1.5 tsps of wine vinegar, salt and pepper.
At first make sauce, having crushed a basil and garlic and having mixed all ingredients a nimbus or a fork. Cook haricot (5 minutes in the boiling water), then cast away it on a colander and wash out. Fry in a frying pan with oil the crushed garlic glove and haricot. Shift haricot in a bowl, let's cool down and sprinkle olive oil, wine vinegar and lemon juice. Sort lettuce leaves, wash out and tear them hands, cut tomatoes on thin segments, onions – rings, paprika – cubes. Cook eggs, cool and cut on quarters. Wash fillet of anchovies with water. In each salad bowl at first salad, onions, tomatoes, haricot and pepper gives all the best. Repeat this sequence several times and water all with the made sauce. Before giving of a nizuaz lay out layers the tuna kneaded by a fork, eggs, olives and anchovies. Sprinkle salad lemon juice.
New Year's pineapple and ham salad
For preparation of 4 portions it nourishing salad will be required to 250 g of ham, 3 potatoes, 4 eggs, 5 rings of tinned pineapple, 1 bulb, 1 apple, 1 tsp of lemon juice, 200 g of mayonnaise, green onions and walnuts for ornament, salt and pepper to taste.
We mash a fork boiled eggs and the cooked potatoes. We crush ham, pineapple and onions. We grate peeled and cores apple. We spread potatoes layer, from above we distribute mayonnaise, atop we impose onions, we salt salad and pepper. We do a layer of ham and from above we distribute mayonnaise. Further there is about one layer of apples and eggs and a mayonnaise layer. Before repetition of all layers pineapple keeps within. At the final stage salad becomes covered by egg, then a layer of mayonnaise and is decorated with the processed walnuts.
New Year's strawberry and champagne dessert
It is at least inexpedient cook cake which the feast which dragged on until late at night can even not reach. And here the light jelly fruit dessert will be suitable for guests as well as possible.
Preparation of fragrant intoxicated jelly requires 4 tsps of powder of gelatin, 130 g of granulated sugar, the whole lemon, 450 ml of champagne, 250 g of strawberry.
In a pan with water (300 ml) to lay out sugar and a lemon dried peel, to heat to sugar remelting and to filter syrup through a gauze, having separated a dried peel. Mix lemon juice and gelatin, leave for 5 minutes, place mix on a water bath before gelatin dissolution. Mix the prepared syrup with gelatin, add to it 50 g of the strawberry puree made in the blender and champagne. Take glasses for giving of a dessert, half fill them with the cut berries and fill in with fruit and gelatinous mix. Remove a dessert in the fridge for 5 hours. Before giving decorate with fresh strawberry.
Recipes of New Year's drinks
For a minute to forget that outside the window snow and subzero temperature will help exotic New Year's cocktails.
New Year's punch
For 4 portions of drink 2 glasses of any fruit (tinned peaches, pineapples, lemons, cherries), on 2 glasses of peach and pineapple juice without pulp and champagne and also 1 glass of soda will be required.
Crush fruit, mix all liquid ingredients. Give in glasses with ice.
Spicy sangria
For 4 portions of drink about 6 pieces of dried dates and dried apricots, a half-glass of a cranberry and raisin, a quarter of a glass of brandy or cognac, the Merlot grade wine bottle will be required (0.75 l.), 100 ml of soda, 2 tablespoons of honey.
Heat cognac, honey, the crushed dried fruits and a cranberry on weak fire. Allow drink to infuse, add wine, to mix and remove in the fridge for one day. Before giving to dilute with soda and to serve cocktail with ice.