Many of us are close to the soul following the instructions of horoscopes. Often the hostess read a lot of information before taking up the preparation of the festive table.
If you want the symbol of the year not to be offended, invisibly coming to the house to the table, you need to prepare dishes that he likes most. In this article, it will be described what goodies should be prepared for the New Year 2018, as well as what secrets there are so that the participants of the New Year's feast are also satisfied.
How to make a festive menu and to please everyone, even the owner of the year - Dog
The dog is a sign of a sociable and friendly, so it’s better to meet this year with friends, and you should always have fun and not skimp on entertainment. It is better to think over everything in advance, as well as the New Year's table.
When planning a holiday menu, you should first decide on preferences: if conservative views prevail, then you can make a classic salad, crab salad with corn and bake meat. Simple, convenient and familiar.
However, this procedure does not suit everyone and it is necessary to experiment, which in the Year of the Dogs, by the way, is very welcome. The 2018th year is also characterized by the patronage of the energy of the tree according to the Chinese calendar of the ten-year cycle, which means the domination of order, stable growth and peacefulness in everything.
Unlike many other signs, this is one of the most curious, that you can beat with the help of cooking a lot of absolutely small portions of completely different dishes, and those that have never been on the table.
It will be positive if, on a holiday for the new year 2018, not the usual vases of salads and all kinds of rolls will be served to the table, but large plates with many different tartlets filled with completely different goodies.
But we all know that the Dog cannot do without meat, so why not please her at the same time too? Bake in the oven juicy pork ham or a couple of good rolls, a goose cooked in a grill will be a good meat main course, and chicken, baked or stewed with garlic, will also fit well into the overall picture.
There is a wide selection of meat rolls, which are convenient to cut and serve on the plates for all guests, unlike poultry, which must also be disassembled after cooking. French meat is a simple solution that is welcomed by many housewives for their ease of preparation.
Chops and steaks, homemade cold cuts, home-made sausages, baked fish, balyk and fried fish fillets - all this is possible and necessary on the New Year's table, but the choice is already for each housewife.
Of course, after a different hearty meal on a holiday you want something sweet with tea. The easiest way is to buy a cake. But then he and the holiday, so that everything was on the highest level! And the best is self-made.
You can choose from delicious milk milkshakes, small basket cakes, a round neat little cake made from sponge cake and cream. Fruit is a bright addition not only for taste, but also for color.
The selection of the menu in this case is not limited to almost nothing, but requires extravagance, creativity and bold experiments on something new.
In Chinese culture, the symbols of the year are perceived by many people more seriously than in Western countries, where it is more popular advertising-oriented culture. For those who believe in it and are interested in real practitioners of the East, they know where the truth is and where PR is.
Next will be shown an example of a festive table for the new year 2018 with all the main points and recipes, but the reader can choose other dishes that he likes more.
New Year's recipes for table dishes 2018
To fill the table with a variety of snacks, you can first define a balanced list:
- Salad of prunes and beets;
- Shrimp salad with beans;
- Mini puff pastry rolls with minced meat;
- Chicken cutlets with cheese;
- Puff rolls with crab filling.
These snacks are well suited if you arrange them in different parts of the table and so it will not be overloaded with monotonous things, and their satiety is not so great that the guests do not want to start the main course. So, here are the step-by-step recipes for preparing dishes for the New Year 2018.
Salad of prunes and beets
This light vegetable and fruit salad is not bad in combination with meat, so it can be used both independently and with the main course. Calorie content is low (40 or less kcal), so for those who are concerned about the figure on holidays, this salad is not dangerous. To make it you will need:
- Beets - 1 kg;
- Prunes - 300 g;
- Nuts - 200 g;
- Garlic - 2 slices;
- Mayonnaise - to taste.
Cooking time - 30 minutes. Calories - 40 kcal.
Like most salads, it is easy to prepare. You need to take the beets and boil until cooked, then grate a large grater. Prunes can be finely crumbled, minced or sent as is - for an amateur.
Nuts and garlic definitely chop. All products combine and mix well with mayonnaise. The latter can be replaced with sour cream or not added at all if you do not like it.
Shrimp Salad with Beans
The recipe is not more complicated than the previous one, but deserves attention for its savory taste. It has a little more energy value, however, it is the squirrels that predominate, so you should not consider it harmful to the figure, which, of course, will please the beautiful ladies on New Year's Eve 2018.
- Shrimp - 0.5 kg;
- Beans - 1 can;
- Bulgarian pepper - 2-3 pcs .;
- Peking cabbage - 300 g;
- Sour-sweet sauce - to taste.
Cooking time - 40 minutes. Calorie - 90 kcal.
First you need to put the shrimp for 20 minutes to cook, and in the meantime prepare the sauce so that it will be present in the refrigerator for 5-10 minutes before dressing.
For one glass of sauce: stir a tablespoon of starch, a quarter of a cup of sugar and a tablespoon of vinegar, and half a tablespoon of ketchup and bring to a boil in a saucepan or iron cup, stirring until it thickens. Ready to cool on the table and refrigerate.
When the shrimps are ready, they should be cooled and cleaned of shells. After the vegetables are cut, they are smaller and mixed in deep dishes. Cooled prawns are added to vegetables, liquid is poured from a can of beans and beans are mixed with the bulk.
The sweet and sour sauce is added last and mixed very carefully. Salad ready. Instead of shrimp, you can use chopped boiled chicken breast, but then the choice for the cook.
Puff pastry mini rolls with minced meat
This appetizer will be a good way to satisfy the hunger of newly arrived guests to celebrate the New Year 2018, and they will not refuse later on from the subsequent dishes. It is prepared quickly, especially with purchased puff pastry, but it can be made independently, if there is a desire. However, if there is no certainty to get the right dough, then it is better to buy it at any pastry shop.
- Puff yeast dough - 400 g;
- Onion - 2 pcs .;
- Stuffing - 300 g;
- Spices - to taste;
- Vegetable oil - to taste.
Cooking time - 40 minutes. Calorie content - 110 kcal.
Minced meat can also be made from pieces of meat at home or bought in a store - it does not matter. First, the dough must be cooled and rolled into a solid thin sheet.
This sheet should be cut into identical pieces, based on what size the rolls are supposed to be. Then minced meat is prepared - it is fried with onions and spices, and then immediately laid out on the dough and wrapped.
On hot oil in a pan, the rolls are fried with a seam down first, then on the other side until golden brown. The main thing is to make dough, because the filling is ready.
Chicken cutlets with cheese
Such a dish is closer to the main one, but you should not serve it in large quantities on the New Year, as this is more a delicacy than a full meal.
- Stuffing - 400 g;
- Onions - 1 pc .;
- Egg - 1 pc .;
- Garlic - 2 slices;
- Spices - to taste;
- Hard cheese (preferably Parmesan) - 200 g;
- Vegetable oil - to taste.
Cooking time - 1 hour. Calorie - 130 kcal.
First, you need to mix the minced meat with eggs and spices, let it stand, to be fed. Cut the cheese into small pieces of about 2x2 centimeters. Heat the oil in a pan and add chopped garlic to it.
Mince form small patties into which to put on a piece of cheese. Each cutlet should be about 10 cm after roasting - their essence is in miniature.
Grate the remaining cheese on the top of the laid patties and cover them with a lid, reduce the heat and simmer until ready. Ready to put on a platter and serve 2018 with sweet and sour sauce, ketchup or soy sauce - the choice is great.
Puff rolls with crab filling
Many people know rolls of pita with fillings, and this dish is very close to them.
- Crab sticks - 8 pcs .;
- Hard cheese - 150 g;
- Puff pastry - half a kilo;
- Sour cream - 100 g;
- Parsley - 1 bunch;
- Flour - as long as it takes to roll.
Cooking time - 45 minutes. Calorie - 90 kcal.
Grate cheese, crab sticks too. Grind greens. Roll out the first layer of dough, spread with sour cream, sprinkle with cheese and chopsticks, then wrap the roll. It should be cut into pieces and cover the slices with bottoms cut from the second layer of dough. In an oven warmed to 180 degrees, bake for 30 minutes.
Baked knuckle with soy sauce
At this snack is enough, and you should think about the main dish. Shank - affordable and many favorite meat, albeit fat. Cooking it with soy sauce in the oven is a great option that suits salads and even just bread, and in combination with wine, such food will not allow you to quickly grow drunk.
As for strong alcohol, it should not be included in large quantities in the new 2018 Year of the Dog, since this sign has enough strength to have fun without external influences.
- Shank - 1 or two, depending on size;
- Soy sauce - 100 ml;
- Spices - to taste;
- Potatoes - 400 g;
- Onions - 3 pcs .;
- Hard cheese - 150 g.
Cooking time - 1 hour. Calorie - 180 kcal.
First you need to marinate for an hour pork with sauce and spices. It is enough to coat it from all sides, fold it into the sleeve and put it in the refrigerator.
Potatoes need to be cleaned and cut with medium washers, and onions - rings. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and prepare a baking sheet, smearing it with vegetable oil.
Put potatoes, knuckle on it in the center, sprinkle all the onions and grate the cheese. Bake for 20 minutes. If necessary, time can be increased. The finished dish is best served on a large plate in the same form as it looks on the baking sheet.
What to cook for dessert on New Year's Eve
The main course and snacks are over and the time for sweet comes at the end. As with the previous dishes, it is better to take the initiative and diversify the choice among a very small number of different sweets, and at the head to put a small cake. To do this, you can make the following list:
- Paris-Brest;
- Alfahores;
- Sponge cake
Pari-brest
This sweetness is familiar to many in appearance and to the taste, but how far to prepare it and its history is known not by everyone. These lovely round custards were first made by Louis Durand in 1891, when the Paris-Brest-Paris cycle race was held. That is the name and was timed to the event. A wonderful treat for the new year 2018.
It will take:
- Water - 90 ml;
- Milk - 90 ml;
- Butter - 75 g;
- Flour - 125 g;
- Eggs - 3 pcs .;
- Salt and sugar - on a pinch;
- Nuts - to taste.
Cooking time - 45 minutes. Calorie - 150 kcal.
Water, milk and butter should be mixed in a saucepan and over medium heat, give the latter to completely melt and remove from heat. Next, pour all the flour and quickly stir, put on the stove again. It is necessary to stir while the dough does not roll into a ball, a white thin crust should form at the bottom.
In a blender, you need to beat him up to cool, and knock eggs into it. They need to add one at a time and stir.
The homogeneous dough mass, which should be obtained, is determined into a pastry sleeve with a nozzle of 6-8 mildew stars, 10 mm.
On parchment, put reference points in the form of circles and put on each of the three rings a dough: one along the contour, the second along its outer circle, and the third over the previous ones. Sprinkle nuts on top. In the oven at 170 degrees bake them for 20 minutes, and this depends on the size of the cakes.
Alfachoresis
Sand cookies of the whole world are a separate history and geography. This recipe originated in Latin America more than one hundred years ago. Bake this wonderful cookie for celebrating the New Year holidays.
- Butter - 220 g;
- Sugar - 120 g;
- Vanilla - 1 pod;
- Egg - 1 pc .;
- Flour - 415 g;
- Starch - 100 g;
- Soda - half a teaspoon;
- Baking powder dough - 1 teaspoon;
- Boiled condensed milk - 350 g
Cooking time - 1 hour 20 minutes. Calories - 334 kcal.
Thawed butter should be mixed with a sugar mixer. When the mass becomes homogeneous and white, then add the seeds from the vanilla pod. Add the egg to the butter and mix again. At the end add flour, starch, baking powder and soda. The dough must be kneaded to the state of small chips, and do not moisten it with anything!
The dough is divided into 3 parts and small disks 1.5 cm thick are molded. Each should be wrapped in a film and let the dough rest in the refrigerator for one hour. Then roll each disc between two sheets of parchment without additional flour and anything in sheets of 3 mm. Cookies cut round shape.
It is important not to give the dough to warm up and do everything quickly.
On a baking sheet they need to be spread out not very far apart and pierced with a fork (neatly). At 180 degrees, they are baked for about 10 minutes. Prepared cookies cool down, and then condensed milk is dripped from a pastry sleeve with a nozzle of 1 cm onto half of them. The second half goes to the cover of the first. In the end, they should be left in the fridge to infuse, then serve with tea.
Sponge cake
If you don’t want to buy a cake on New Year's Eve 2018, then you can cook no less delicious at home.
Cakes:
- Chicken eggs - 8 pcs .;
- Sugar - 220 g;
- Flour - 200 g;
- Faded nuts in a coffee grinder - 50 g;
- Butter - 80 g;
Cream:
- Butter - 100 g;
- Dark chocolate - 70 g;
- Cocoa powder - 50 g;
- Sugar powder - 115 g;
- Instant coffee - 1 tsp.
Cooking time - 2 hours. Calories - 340 kcal.
First, make the dough for sponge cake. Eggs with sugar are whipped into a homogeneous mass. Flour is added to sifted, grated nuts too. Gently pouring the mixture to the eggs, you need to whip it all up. Finally, melted butter is added and the dough is stirred for the last time.
It is better to grease the baking molds with butter and sprinkle with flour, and at the bottom define a circle of parchment. Within 20 minutes at 180 degrees cakes will be ready and they need to be cooled on a wire rack.
Next, the cakes are cut off, leaving the bottom on two.
The cream is made from butter, whipped with powdered sugar, cocoa powder, melted chocolate and coffee. Next, you need to put it out of the sleeve between the cake layers and form the cake itself. The bottom cake and the top should stand facing out. Coating the sides of the cake should be done evenly, after which you can decorate it with fruit or decorative chocolate elements.
These are the New Year recipes we have prepared for you in this article. We hope that you take note of them and prepare for a festive dinner an excellent table with a variety of dishes. Happy New Year 2018!
Another delicious and original New Year's salad - in the next video.
