According to the eastern calendar, 2019 is the year of the Earthen Yellow Pig. With the preparation of dishes for this year there will be no difficulties. Everything is clear. Pork - no, the rest of the products - yes. As a hot dish in the Year of the Pig it is good to serve chicken with apples, stuffed pike, red fish in white sauce and unusual dumplings with a "surprise". These dishes look beautiful and festive.
Hot Meat Dishes
Five different cold appetizers on the holiday table is, of course, excellent. But do not forget about hot meat dishes. After all, a chicken with apples or dumplings with a "surprise" not only decorate the New Year's table, but also turn the party into a real gastronomic event.
Chicken with apples
We have selected for you an interesting and very simple holiday chicken dish. Apple cider is added to the recipe, but you can take a sparkling wine, it will be even more interesting.
Ingredients:
- 1 small chicken carcass;
- 2 apples;
- 180 g of shallots;
- 200 g of oil;
- 3 sprigs of rosemary;
- 300 ml of apple cider;
- 80 g butter;
- 80 ml of olive oil;
- 20 grams of sugar;
- 2 pinches of freshly ground black pepper;
- to taste the salt.
Required: 1 hour 55 minutes. Each serving: 350 kcal.
Cooking:
- Wash chicken, dry with paper towels.
- Heat 20 g of butter and 40 ml of vegetable oil in a saucepan with a thick bottom, brown the bird on all sides and remove from the pan.
- Shallots to peel, chop into small rings, send to the pan (where the chicken was fried), add olive oil, a little rosemary (leaves with 2 sprigs), black pepper, salt.
- Fry onion until cream color.
- Return the bird's carcass to the pan, add cider, close the lid, simmer for 60 minutes on very low heat, turning once.
- Peel the apples, cut the core, chop into slices.
- In a skillet, heat the rest of the butter with the sugar, put the apples out, stand on the stove slices until they are covered with a beautiful caramel crust.
- When the meat is ready, put the apples into the pan, stew for another 5 minutes, sprinkle with the remaining rosemary. Cool a little chicken, then chop into slices and serve with apples.
To the note: do not worry if the apples are very brown - the taste of the caramel will be even brighter, and the chicken will especially like it.
Christmas dumplings with fortune telling inside
Making Christmas dumplings with surprises has become a tradition, each surprise message is a good wish for the next year.
Dumplings are cooked with unusual fillings. They put coins, rings, buttons, black peppercorns and more.
Rather, they make the meat filling, and during the modeling they put "surprises". But it is better to regret the guests, without exposing their teeth to danger, and to stuff the dumplings with edible "surprises."
You will need:
- chicken egg;
- ¾ glasses of ordinary water;
- 300 g of flour;
- 2 g of salt;
- 180 g of pulp beef + mutton;
- 50-60 g butter "Peasant";
- 30 ml of cream;
- 2 onions;
- 1-2 g nutmeg;
- Season to taste.
Required: 1 hour. The number of calories: 306 kcal.
How to cook:
- Sift flour, pour a slide, make a depression in the center. Pour water into it, add chicken egg, salt. Knead the dough, wrap with cling film, leave to "rest."
- Make minced lamb and beef by scrolling the meat together with butter and nuts twice.
- Season to taste. Gradually pour 30 ml of cream into the minced meat, add chopped onion, mix well.
- Roll the sausage out of dough, cut it into small pieces, and roll out thin slices from them, put the stuffing on it and form dumplings. Cook in boiling water for 8 minutes.
A sample list of "surprises" for the New Year 2019:
- cherry - good luck;
- peanuts - love;
- orange is a delight;
- peas - calm atmosphere at home;
- walnut - health;
- buckwheat - favorable news;
- mushrooms - happy and long life;
- big money - to win;
- grain - wealth;
- raisins are a great temptation;
- cabbage - to cash profit;
- caramel - to love;
- potato - promotion at work;
- cranberries - unexpected changes in life;
- ring - wedding chores;
- dried apricots - joy;
- bay leaf - career growth;
- coin - in material terms, everything will be fine;
- carrot - to a new acquaintance.
- white thread - a long journey;
- green thread - the road is far;
- cucumber - to good sex.
- button - to a new thing.
Tip: guests must be warned if the dumplings will be solid "surprises".
Hot fish dishes for the New Year 2019
On the New Year's table, the fish can be cooked in different ways: bake in an unusual white sauce or stuffed entirely.
Salmon in white sauce
Thick creamy sauce goes perfectly with red fish.
Ingredients:
- 400 g salmon (fillet);
- 300 g of mushrooms;
- 250 ml of thick cream;
- to taste thyme;
- 20 g of flour;
- 45 g butter;
- a pinch of black ground pepper;
- to taste the salt.
It takes: 35 minutes. Calorie portions: 189 kcal.
How to cook:
- Preheat oven to 150ºC. Cut a piece of fish in half, season with salt, ground pepper.
- Rinse the mushrooms thoroughly, chop, then put into the pan, close the lid and send on medium heat. After 2 minutes, shake the pan so that the mushrooms do not stick to the bottom. Five minutes to remove the cover and drain the water, it must be left.
- Add butter to the mushrooms, add heat and fry for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with flour, fry for a couple more minutes, stirring.
- Pour the water released by the mushrooms during frying. When the liquid thickens, add cream, mix well and bring the cream sauce to a boil, season to taste, remove from heat.
- Prepare two pieces of parchment (approximately 30 × 40 cm). In the center of each sheet, put the fillet, sauce on it with mushrooms. Raise the edges of the parchment over the salmon, combine and wrap 3 times.
- After that, twist the open ends of the parchment (looks like candy). Bake fish in the oven for about 12 minutes.
Pike stuffed whole
Stuffed pike perfectly complements the New Year's table, besides it is served not only hot, but also cold.
Ingredients:
- 1 pike carcass (weight - 1.5 kg);
- 3-4 sprigs of dill;
- to taste vegetable oil;
- 1 bunch green onions + parsley;
- 400 g of yesterday's white bread;
- 2 eggs;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- some milk;
- salt to taste;
- 1 handful of pitted olives.
Required: 2.5 hours. Each serving: 326 kcal.
How to cook:
- Rinse the pike well, remove the scales. Scissors cut from the head of the gills. From two sides along the gill slits make an incision. The skin that connects the head of the pike with the back remains intact.
- Bend the pike head back and separate the skin from the pulp using a small, sharp knife.
- Scissors cut fins from the inside. Peeled fillets cut off before reaching the tail section of 2 cm. The pike skin with head, fins and tail should remain. It must be straightened until postponed.
- Remove entrails, ridge and ribs from the carcass. Rinse the pulp, chop into pieces, removing small bones.
- From a loaf to cut off a crust, to fill a crumb with milk. Put in the blender container pieces of pulp, a slightly squeezed loaf, egg, grind everything.
- Chop greens, chop the garlic. Olives recline in a colander. Then cut into slices.
- To the minced fish add: olives, chopped garlic, to taste greens. Season with spices, mix well.
- Fill the prepared skin of pike seasoned with minced meat.
- In a preheated oven (200 ° C) send the fish, putting it on a greased baking pan belly down. Give it the required shape immediately, then coat with an egg mash, bake for 75 minutes.
Note to the hostess: you can use another method of cleansing: first you need to remove the bones from the pike, and then carefully remove all the meat with a spoon.
Stuffed pike with champignons
To prepare this dish for the New Year 2019, select small champignons.
Ingredients:
- 7 champignon hats;
- 1 pike;
- thyme leaves with 2 sprigs;
- to taste garlic;
- 200 g cream and sour cream;
- 150 ml of white wine;
- ½ tbsp. spoons of corn starch.
Required cooking: 2 hours. Calorie: 367 kcal.
How to cook:
- Cut pike along the ridge, remove bones, insides, wash well and dry with paper towels. Grate with salt.
- Boil the champignons in white dry wine (4-5 min.), Fold on a sieve and cool.
- Cream bring to a boil. Dilute the cornstarch with a small amount of water and, with continuous stirring, add to the hot cream. The prepared mixture should not be too liquid.
- Add pepper, salt, mushrooms, chopped garlic and thyme leaves to cream mixture.
- Fill this pike with this stuffing, sew up the back with threads. From all sides the carcass is abundantly smeared with sour cream.
- Put the fish on a greased baking sheet. Put in a hot oven, bake at 170 degrees until cooked.
Recipes for vegetable dishes for the holiday table
The easiest and most familiar vegetable garnish for the New Year is baked potatoes. We offer 2 options of New Year's dishes from potatoes.
Baked Potatoes with Cherry Tomatoes and Capers
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 4 potatoes;
- 10 cherry tomatoes;
- 1 handful of capers preserved in salt;
- 5-6 pieces of thyme;
- 50-60 ml of olive oil;
- 5 g of salt;
- pepper with freshly ground black pepper to taste.
Total cooking time: 35-40 min. Calorie portions: 255 kcal.
How to cook:
- Preheat the oven to 190ºC.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in halves.
- Peel the potatoes, then chop in even circles.
- Put potato circles on the bottom of the form, then cherry, capers on top, sprinkle with oil, spread thyme sprigs.
- Put potatoes in a hot oven for about 20-25 minutes.
Jacket-Shaped Potatoes
To baked potatoes did not look like an everyday dish, you must put a bright filling inside the tuber.
Ingredients for 2 persons:
- 1 yellow + 1 red pepper;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 12 pitted small olives;
- 2 small potatoes;
- 130 g of mozzarella cheese;
- 1 handful of basil leaves;
- to taste seasonings.
Preparation: 45 min. The number of calories: 330 kcal.
How to do:
- Remove the seeds from the peppers, then cut each pod into 4 pieces and chop into slices, chop the basil, chop the garlic, cut the mozzarella.
- Mix peppers with olives and garlic, season. Peel the potatoes to pierce.
- Prepared products put in the form, cook for 15 minutes in the oven or double boiler.
- In a bowl, mix the peppers and mozzarella. Cut each potato and put pepper stuffing inside, put the potatoes back into the mold, cook for 5-10 minutes. To get, sprinkle with basil on top.
Recommendations for decorating Christmas dishes and table setting
Astrologers advise to lay the table in the classic New Year's combination of red and white. A festive table, served with dishes in such colors, will give comfort and festive mood.
White and red accessories will be a great addition to the dishes. Red napkins, tied with white ribbons, and porcelain figurines. Glasses can be taken classic or white frosted glass, but always with a gold pattern. Cutlery also choose a golden hue. Plants, for example, a sprig of fir, are perfectly combined with bright colors, and wicker napkins will help to add comfort.
Properly selected Christmas menu for the holiday table will only support the general idea. Food should be taken bright: red fish, fresh tomatoes, colorful peppers and fresh greens will do. Put bright salad leaves on a flat plate, you can serve fish and baked potatoes on them.
Place the stuffed pike on a heated oval dish and add fresh baked tomatoes, green onions and parsley. Cut the finished chicken into portions with special scissors for cutting poultry. Put the pieces of poultry on a serving dish, give them the shape of a whole carcass. Put apples around.
Even more recipes for hot dishes for the New Year 2019 can be found in this video.
