The Eastern tradition to symbolize the coming year as one of 12 animals appeared quite long ago and was firmly entrenched in our country. Even those who do not believe in such signs, "just in case" try, if not to appease the owner of the year, then at least not to offend him. Everything is thought out to the smallest detail: home decoration, wardrobe, gifts and, of course, the New Year's table.
In the coming 2019, we will seek the favor of the Yellow Earth Pig. First of all, you need to carefully consider the menu, because this animal loves to eat deliciously.
What you can and can not eat on the New 2019
Answering the question posed, one should first of all think about what the Pig prefers. Meals should be simple, and the ingredients in them are natural. The presence on the festive table of plenty of various fruits and vegetables, herbs, nuts, and sweet pastries is obligatory.
Delight Pig with one of her favorite delicacies - millet. You can, of course, just put a cup of cereal on the table, although in fact from this ingredient you get not only porridge, as some suggest, but other tasty festive dishes.
But the meat dishes in the New Year's menu 2019 should be minimized. First of all it concerns pork, jellied meat and fat. To refuse such delicacies is not easy, but in order not to anger the hostess of the year, you will have to choose alternative options.
New Year's dishes with millet
Millet is not the most popular product for the holiday menu. However, in order to achieve the favor of the symbol of the year 2019, it is recommended to cook at least one dish from this useful cereal. Believe me, if you do everything correctly, the result will delight you and your loved ones.
"Royal" puff pie
This dish is considered to be lean and very useful. At the same time, he is not ashamed to be put on the festive table on New Year's Eve, because the cake is tasty, fragrant and juicy.
Ingredients for the cake:
- millet - 70 grams;
- buckwheat - 80 grams;
- couscous - 70 grams;
- rice (for pilaf) - 70 grams;
- carrots - 200 grams;
- beets - 100 grams;
- tomato - 80 grams;
- pumpkin - 150 grams;
- sweet pepper - 50 grams;
- onions - 2 heads;
- salt;
- sunflower oil - 40 ml;
- semolina - 40 grams;
- fresh herbs - 1 bunch.
Ingredients for the sauce:
- dried mushrooms - 20 grams;
- champignons - 80 grams;
- mushroom decoction - 200 ml;
- wheat flour - 50 grams;
- onions - 1 head;
- ground nutmeg - 5 grams;
- ground black pepper - 5 grams;
- sunflower oil - 40 ml;
- salt (preferably sea).
How to cook:
- First of all, soak the dried mushrooms for several hours, after washing them in running water.
- Soaked mushrooms boil until cooked (about half an hour). At the end of cooking, in about 10 minutes, add to them fresh or thawed champignons. Strain the mushrooms. Do not forget that the decoction for cooking is also useful to you, so drain it into a small container and set aside.
- Wash vegetables and peel them. Grate beets, pumpkins and carrots separately from each other. Dice tomatoes and peppers, finely chop the onion.
- Rinse all the cereals in turn in running water.
- Pass the chopped onion in a hot frying pan in oil until you get transparency, then add carrots to it and then on the fire for another couple of minutes, salt in the end.
- Pot, it should be high enough, but at the same time fit in the oven, grease from the inside with sunflower oil and sprinkle the bottom and walls with semolina.
- Layer out all ingredients in a saucepan: beets, millet, half onions with carrots, rice, pepper with tomatoes, buckwheat, onions with carrots, couscous and pumpkin. Tamp each layer thoroughly with a spoon and sprinkle the grits lightly with salt. In several places, pierce the layers with a knife, trying to get to the bottom.
- Gently pour a liter of water into the pan, cover with a lid and put on moderate heat for a quarter of an hour.
- After a specified time, place the pan in an oven heated to 190 degrees, do not remove the lid. In half an hour the dish will be ready. It remains to prepare the sauce.
How to cook the sauce and decorate the cake:
- Mushrooms you are ready, they left only finely chop, leaving some of the most beautiful champignons to decorate the festive cake.
- Finely chop the onion and pour it onto a heated pan with vegetable oil. As soon as the onions begin to acquire a golden color, send sliced mushrooms to it.
- When the liquid evaporates from the pan, add flour and mix thoroughly. Pour in a glass of mushroom broth and boil until lightly thick.
- Add salt and spices, mix again and remove from heat.
- Take the pie out of the oven, check if all the liquid has evaporated (if not, bake for a few more minutes). After 10 minutes, gently turn the contents of the pan on a beautiful plate. If necessary, correct.
- Pour mushroom sauce over the cake and garnish with shredded greens and champignons. When serving, cut like a regular pie.
How to bake fish cake "Tsarsky", you can learn from this video recipe.
Salad "Yellow"
Millet, which is the main ingredient, makes this dish original and bright. The yellow color of the salad will not only appeal to the symbol of 2019, but also add brightness to the holiday table, and everyone present with a joyful sunny mood.
Ingredients:
- millet - 100 grams;
- chicken breast - 1 piece;
- chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
- hard cheese - 200 grams;
- carrots - 220 grams;
- pickled cucumbers - 180 grams;
- canned corn - half a can;
- garlic - 3 slices;
- mayonnaise - 300 grams;
- salt and pepper.
How to cook:
- Rinse and boil the chicken breast, lightly salted with water. Then put on a separate plate to cool.
- Rinse the cereal in hot water and send it to chicken broth. Boil until cooked (it should turn out crumbly).
- Cook the eggs, peel and separate the whites from the yolks.
- Grate the squirrels on a grater and chop the chicken meat into small pieces. Combine these ingredients together.
- Peel the garlic and squeeze through a press or grate, mix with mayonnaise.
- Boil carrots, peel and cut into small cubes, pepper, salt and mix. Dice cucumbers into cubes.
- On the grater, rub the cheese and crumble the yolks into it, mix.
- Spread the ingredients alternately in a salad bowl in layers, smearing them with garlic mayonnaise. The sequence is as follows: chicken, millet, carrots, cucumbers, corn. On top of the dish, sprinkle with cheese and yolks and garnish with fresh herbs.
What to cook for the New Year
The more varied the range of dishes on the holiday table, the better. Of course, you can cook a traditional "Herring under a fur coat" or "Olivier". These recipes are tested and for many decades are popular in our country, besides, the Yellow Earth Pig will surely come to taste. But when, if not on New Year's Eve, try new original dishes?
Snack "Tangerines"
Starts feast, usually with a snack. On this dish is a responsible mission - to warm up the appetite of the audience, so it should be not only tasty, but also beautiful. Try to make a snack in the form of the main winter fruit - mandarin.
Ingredients:
- hard cheese - 200 grams;
- carrots - 150 grams;
- mayonnaise - 150 grams;
- garlic - 3 slices;
- pitted olives - by the number of mandarins, about 10-15 pieces.
To decorate:
- smoked cheese - 3 strips;
- fresh parsley leaves.
How to cook:
- Rinse and peel carrots, rub on the finest grater and slightly squeeze out the juice with a spoon.
- Just finely rub the hard cheese and squeeze the garlic to it through the press.
- Add the carrots to the garlic and cheese, setting aside a little for the tangerine peel, and mayonnaise. Stir.
- Form a cake from the resulting mass, place one olive in the middle of each piece, and then roll the balls, which resemble mandarins in size and shape.
- Roll the balls in the remaining carrots, put them on a festive plate.
- Cut 3-4 cm smoked cheese and stick mandarin in each - these are twigs, add parsley leaves or any greens. Done!
Sandwiches "Roses"
Dishes with fish on the New Year's table in 2019 are relevant. Sandwiches, decorated in the form of flower buds, look beautiful and original, and the appearance is complemented by impeccable taste.
Ingredients:
- fillet of red fish (trout, salmon, pink salmon) - 200 grams;
- white bread - one third of the loaf;
- fresh cucumbers - 150 grams;
- chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 100 grams.
How to cook:
- Boil the eggs, peel them from the shell and chop finely. Add mayonnaise to them, mix.
- Wash the cucumbers and rub them on the largest grater (the one used for carrots in Korean).
- Cut the bread into small slices and brush with mayonnaise.
- Put a layer of cucumbers on the sandwiches, and then eggs.
- Cut fish fillets into plates, form from them roses. Decorate the sandwiches. Additionally, you can sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs.
Visually see the preparation of sandwiches "Rosettes" in this video.
Salad "Chafan"
Another name for this versatile dish is Goat in the Garden. Salad preparation options are many, and the essence lies in its special presentation. A bowl with any sauce, such as garlic, is placed in the middle of a wide dish, and various ingredients, mainly vegetables, are laid around it in slides.
Guests themselves impose in their plates those ingredients that they like.
Ingredients:
- beef - 200 grams;
- potatoes - 100 grams;
- carrots - 80 grams;
- white cabbage - 60 grams;
- beets - 80 grams;
- pickled cucumbers - 70 grams;
- Bulgarian pepper or green or red color - 70 grams;
- canned corn - 70 grams;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- salt;
- mayonnaise 120 grams;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- a mixture of fresh herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro, basil) - a large bunch.
How to cook:
- Boil the meat and finely chop it.
- Dice the sweet pepper into cubes by washing it out beforehand and removing the seeds from the stem.
- Rinse, peel and grate a fresh carrot on a medium grater.
- Boil beets in salted water until cooked, peel it and chop on a grater.
- Finely chop fresh cabbage.
- Wash and peel the potatoes, cut them into strips and fry them in deep fat. Do not forget at the end of frying a little salt. Cool it down.
- Chop pickles randomly, not too small.
- Prepare the sauce by mixing the mayonnaise with garlic squeezed through a press and finely chopped greens. Put the mixture in a bowl.
- Put garlic sauce in the middle of the dish, and around it, lay out all the ingredients, trying to keep the colors of the products from blending. For example, do not place green peppers next to cucumbers, and potatoes with corn and cabbage.
Tip: Put the salt shaker on the table in case some of the guests want to add some salt to the dish.
Fish on a bed of vegetables and mushrooms
The main dish for the New Year 2019 is proposed to be made from fish, the mistress of the year will certainly approve this choice. This may be mackerel, carp, tilapia or other varieties of your choice. Fish goes well with vegetables.
Ingredients:
- frozen mackerel (fillet) - 800 grams;
- carrots - 150 grams;
- onion - 3 heads;
- fresh champignons or other mushrooms - 400 grams;
- potatoes - 0.5 kilograms;
- hard cheese - 100 grams;
- mayonnaise - 120 grams;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- salt pepper.
How to cook:
- Thaw the fish, rinse it and cut it into large pieces. Salt lightly.
- Wash carrots and onions, peel and chop them.
- Rinse and slice the champignons, add carrots and onions to them, salt and pepper, and then thoroughly mix all the ingredients.
- Wash the potatoes, peel and rub on a medium grater. Squeeze out excess juice, salt and mix.
- On portions of the foil, partly arrange the potato mass first, then the carrot-mushroom mass, and on top - a piece of mackerel. Sprinkle with sunflower oil (an incomplete teaspoon per serving). Wrap in foil and place on baking sheet.
- Bake fish with vegetables in an oven heated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.
- Remove the dish from the oven, unwrap and sprinkle each portion with cheese, grated on a fine grater. Send for another ten minutes.
Dessert to the New Year's table
It is believed that the more desserts present on the festive table on New Year's Eve, the sweeter will be the year 2019. A large number of sweets and a huge cake from the store surprise no one, another thing is the original desserts made with your own hands.
Apple Granite
It is not recommended to make the dessert too high in calories and fat, because it is usually served at the very end of the feast, and after the variety of dishes many guests simply cannot master it. Apple granita is an excellent dietary variant with an unusual sour taste.
Ingredients:
- apples - 700 grams;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sugar - 180 grams;
- water - 600 ml.
How to cook:
- Pour water into a saucepan and add sugar.
- Wash the lemon, cut off several strips of peel with a vegetable peeler and send it in sugar water.
- Put the saucepan on a slow fire and stir constantly. Once the sugar has dissolved, remove from the stove and remove the zest.
- Apples wash, peel, core and slice.
- Put the fruit in a small saucepan, heat for 5 minutes. Cool them and put them in a blender, pour syrup there and squeeze lemon juice. Beat up.
- Place the resulting mass in a container and place in the freezer for about an hour.
- Remove the dish from the freezer, mash with a fork and send back. So repeat three times.
- Serve granite should be in glasses or drinking bowls in portions. Before serving, the dessert should be at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
Recommendations on the choice of drinks and table setting
No less responsible than to the menu, is to approach the choice of drinks. At once we will say that getting drunk "like a pig" is not at all obligatory and even extremely undesirable, after all, it is a housekeeping animal who does not really like alcohol abusers. Give preference to light wines, homemade liqueurs and liqueurs, liqueur. Traditionally, champagne can be present on the New Year's table.
As for the design of the feast, follow the same rules as in food: simple and natural. Linen napkins, earthenware vases, wooden spoons - all this will look harmonious and will fully satisfy the symbol of the year. Well, if you find acorns and decorate a banquet with them, it will be just wonderful.
The color scheme should also be appropriate. On New Year's Eve 2019, shades of yellow and brown should prevail both in clothes and in the decoration of the festive table, you can dilute them with green.
A few more original ideas of inexpensive dishes for the New Year's table can be found in this video:
To position the hostess of 2019 to yourself, you should approach with great responsibility to the design of the festive feast and the choice of dishes. You can cook those recipes that are offered in this article, or you can prefer something else. The main thing is to do everything with desire and love, and from quality products.
