Some housewives believe that decorating New Year's dishes is a waste of time, but, for example, a beautifully decorated appetizer pleases the eye and arouses appetite with its appearance. And at the feast on the occasion of the meeting of the upcoming 2022, this is also an occasion to appease the patron animal of the next 366 days.
- Content:
- what does the Tiger love?
- jewelry for tiger
- salads
- snacks
- beautiful cuts
- sandwiches
- fruits
- cakes and pastries
- new year drinks
What does Tirg love - the symbol of the year 2022?
The upcoming New Year 2022 will be held under the auspices of the Blue Water Tiger. This is a predatory, intelligent and very beautiful animal that does not like boredom and monotony, which cannot but affect the New Year's menu.
The tiger needs to be fed heartily, so the table should contain:
- a variety of dishes from meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruits,
- as well as baked goods,
- nuts,
- cheeses,
- chocolate,
- various drinks.
The patron saint of the next year loves greens and vegetables in all variations, so it will not be difficult to please him. And to appease her even more, it is worth paying more attention to decorating New Year's dishes.
Jewelry for the Year of the Tiger
Dishes with Tiger ears or tiger-colored dishes will look original and symbolic on the New Year's table. Serving a treat in this way is within the power of every hostess. Any salad, be it Olivier or crab, can be laid out on a plate in the shape of a tiger's face, the eyes and nose can be made from olives, and the ears can be made from boiled sausage.
Puff salads, for example, Mimosa, can be sprinkled with grated yolks to make the dish look like a cheese head, and then place tiger cubs or a “tiger” print on it. You can make cute edible Tiger cubs from boiled quail or chicken eggs. Elements of edible decor in the form can be not only snack bars, but also sweet. Chocolate covered cherries and cone candy will make a beautiful Tiger.
How to decorate your New Year's salad?
Decorating New Year's dishes is of great importance, since a beautiful serving can turn even the most ordinary salad into a festive treat. To give the appetizer a New Year's look, an ordinary bunch of greens is enough. It can be used to transform a salad into a lush fir tree or a Christmas wreath. Additionally, they can be decorated with pomegranate seeds, corn, peas or stars cut from boiled carrots, beets.
Puff salads can be arranged in the form of a calendar sheet, a clock that is about to show 12:00, a boot or horseshoes for good luck. Do not forget about additional elements such as candles made from crab sticks, flowers and spruce cones from vegetables, and more. With them, even a salad just laid out on a plate will look more elegant and appetizing.
Appetizing snacks
The appetizers are designed to whet your appetite before main meals. They are prepared from meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, eggs and seafood. In the New Year, snacks have another task - they should become a decoration of the table and give a festive mood. To achieve this, they are made in the form of snowmen, spruce, etc. Even cheese balls can be rolled in greens, paprika or seeds, which will make them look like Christmas tree decorations.
Beautiful cuts
For the sake of the symbol of the upcoming new year 2022, there will be a lot of cheese, nuts and fruits on the table. This is a reason to get a more creative approach to the design of the cheese plate. Various types of this fermented milk product can be cut into cubes, slices, thin plates and beautifully laid out on a wooden plate along with nuts, honey and fruits.
Cheese slices can be used to assemble a voluminous Christmas tree or put them on a serving dish a star, Christmas wreath or other New Year's element. According to this principle, you can also arrange sausage cuts.
Sandwiches
Sandwiches are snacks where you can let your imagination run wild. They can be made in the shape of Christmas trees, decorated with Christmas trees made of herbs or fresh cucumber, and folded in the shape of a fir before serving. Fresh tomato snacks can be turned into funny Santa Clauses. For small canapes, it is better to purchase skewers with stars, then the sandwich trees will turn out to be more realistic.
Delicious fruits on the New Year's table
Fruit slices for the New Year's table are most often decorated in the form of a Christmas tree. The sliced fruit can simply be spread out on a large platter in the shape of a forest beauty. And if you have patience, you can make a voluminous spruce. Its base is usually made from a large carrot and apple, pineapple, or a cardboard cone wrapped in foil.
For a buffet table, you can make small fruit canapes in the form of Santa Claus hats from strawberries, banana and small zerifirin or marshmallows. To prevent the banana slices from darkening, they should be sprinkled with lemon juice.
Cakes and pastries
Gingerbread cookies and cookies, Christmas adits, muffins, buns and cakes - this is an incomplete list of homemade pastries that the hostess traditionally prepares for the New Year's table. For their decoration, decorative elements are used that are associated with winter.
It can be Christmas trees, snowflakes, snowmen, fir cones. Powdered sugar and snow-white icing are also often used because of the analogy with snow. For example, after decorating a cake with fruits or berries, they must be sprinkled with ground sugar, like hoarfrost.
New Year drinks
Not only champagne, from a glass of which it is customary to raise to the chimes, but also hot chocolate, mulled wine, cranberry juice and dried fruit compote are New Year's drinks. To make their presentation more festive, you should take care of beautiful dishes (mugs and glasses).
The ingredients of the drinks themselves can act as decorative elements. Cinnamon sticks will not only add a spicy aroma to hot chocolate or mulled wine, but also become a decoration. Marshmallows in a mug of hot chocolate will create an analogy with snowballs, which melt to make the drink even sweeter.
Decorating New Year's dishes does not require any special tools, a huge investment of time or expensive products. All that is needed is beautiful dishes, a little imagination and a festive New Year's mood, and ideas for implementation can be seen in the above photo examples.
