New Year's holidays cannot be imagined without numerous dishes on the festive table. Each hostess, long before New Year's Eve, thinks over the menu, chooses interesting and varied dishes. It is believed that the festive table should delight with abundance so that the next year will bring good luck, prosperity, prosperity and good health. What dishes to cook for the new year 2020? We will compose a menu for the New Year's table, which will delight the hostess of the coming year - the White Rat.
What should be on the New Year's table 2020?
When compiling a New Year's menu, you should consider not only the preferences of guests and family members. The festive dishes should please the hostess of the coming year. According to the eastern calendar, 2019 passed under the sign of the Yellow Pig, and in 2020, power passes to another sign - the White Metal Rat. This animal, as you know, loves hearty and simple food, so the hostesses definitely need to set the table abundantly, but without unnecessary exoticism.
Despite the fact that the rat is omnivorous and loves simple hearty dishes, nevertheless, the variety of New Year's dishes will appeal to her. Housewives who want to please the symbol of the coming year will have to try and prepare a large number of different dishes so that the table literally burst with a variety of dishes. If on December 31st you cut food for Olivier from morning till night to eat it all next week, make an exception this year. It is better to cook several hot dishes, 3-4 salads, a few snacks to make the menu varied.
Also, the rat does not like a frivolous attitude towards himself and hastily cooked salads and snacks. Think over the holiday menu in advance and choose from numerous recipes that you can prepare new and interesting things for the new year 2020.
The rat, as you know, is a rodent, and therefore deliciously cooked porridge or at least one cereal dish must be present on the table this year.
The rat will not understand if there is no dessert in the festive menu, because she is a terrible sweet tooth. It is not necessary to bake a complex multi-tiered cake; small cakes, pies, berry desserts, cookies are quite suitable. As a last resort, slice the fruit platter and arrange nicely on a large platter.
And don't forget! The rat is very fond of beautiful dishes and prefers classics in decorating the festive table, cleanliness and accuracy are no less important for her. Cover the table with a snow-white tablecloth, put silver cutlery, and you will surely please the hostess of the upcoming 2020!
And of course, don't forget to include CHEESE in your menu! :)
What can be put on the New Year's table?
Astrologers suggest preparing meat or fish dishes for the new year 2020. For example, you can make the main hot dish of poultry or rabbit, and supplement the New Year's menu with a veal salad, appetizers with red fish and caviar, cold cuts, your favorite Herring under a fur coat salad, which is indispensable for the traditional New Year's festive table.
On a note! The more varied the festive menu will be and the more time you spend preparing dishes in the kitchen, the more chances the White Rat will like. In this case, 2020 will be held under her auspices and promises wealth and good luck.
As mentioned above, the Rat loves beautifully and exquisitely decorated dishes, so housewives should pay due attention to the design of the festive table. Bad taste and too bright complex decorations should be avoided. Give preference to the classics and do not overuse with an abundance of color.At the same time, the rat is not against shine, but let it be in one tone - silver will do just right.
Ideas for New Year's table setting: colors, styles, how to decorate a children's table
Another important point: the 2020 Rat hostess prefers natural products, which means that semi-finished products have no place on the New Year's table. It is advisable to prepare snacks, salads, main course, desserts on your own and taking time to do so. Cook with joy, with all your heart wishing to please the guests and patroness of the coming year.
On the New Year's table 2020 there should be no semi-finished products and too simply cooked dishes.
Snacks
The main purpose of the appetizers is to whet the appetite and prepare guests for the main course. Most often, snacks are prepared from various types of cheese, seafood and fish, meat products, vegetables. All kinds of New Year's cuts are popular, which are put on the festive table.
New Year's hot and cold snacks, new recipes
Chicken and pineapple tartlets
Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken breast;
- ½ cans of canned pineapples;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 3 eggs;
- Mayonnaise;
- Ready-made sand tartlets.
Cooking a snack:
- Cut boiled chicken into small pieces, pineapples into small cubes, grind eggs.
- Grate the cheese.
- We mix chicken, eggs, pineapple, cheese. Add mayonnaise, mix thoroughly.
- We fill each tartlet with ready-made salad, put the tartlets on a flat large dish with lettuce leaves.
- Decorate the tartlets with fresh parsley.
On a note! According to tradition, caviar should be present on the New Year's festive table, as a symbol of prosperity and well-being. Instead of the usual caviar sandwiches, prepare this appetizer: fill small tartlets with cottage cheese or cream cheese, and put a handful of caviar on top.
Sandwiches with sun-dried tomatoes
If you are planning to celebrate the New Year with your soul mate, you can prepare delicious and original sandwiches for two.
Ingredients:
- 1 small jar of sun-dried tomatoes
- Ciabatta;
- Sunflower oil;
- Goat cheese (you can use curd cheese).
Preparation:
- Cut the ciabatta into slices, cut each slice in half.
- Fry in a little vegetable oil.
- Allow the bread to cool, then spread goat (or curd) cheese on each slice.
- Place sun-dried tomatoes on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
- Place sun-dried tomatoes on each slice.
Santa Claus bags
An obligatory attribute of Santa Claus is a large bag of gif.webpts. Prepare small stuffed pancake bags as a snack on the New Year's table.
What you need to make pancakes:
- ½ liter of milk;
- 2 eggs;
- Sugar - 1 tsp;
- A pinch of salt;
- Wheat flour;
- Sunflower oil.
Ingredients for the filling:
- 350 grams of turkey fillet;
- 80 grams of rice;
- 1 medium onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise;
- Salt, pepper, vegetable oil;
- Fresh greens.
Let's start cooking:
- Pour milk into a bowl, add eggs, salt and sugar, beat thoroughly. Pour in flour to make a pancake dough. Add a spoonful of vegetable oil to the dough.
- Fry thin pancakes in a pan with a little vegetable oil.
- Cooking the filling: boil the chicken fillet and cool, finely chop. Grate the carrots, chop the onion. Saute the vegetables in vegetable oil until the onions are golden brown. Boil the rice in salted water until tender. We mix chicken, fried vegetables, boiled rice. Salt, pepper, add mayonnaise and chopped fresh herbs.
- We spread the filling on each pancake, wrap it in the shape of a bag, tie it on top with a feather of green onions.
Salads
The New Year's Russian table is not complete without the traditional Olivier. But there are many more different salad recipes with different ingredients and dressings.Prepare some cold dishes so that guests can enjoy the variety of dishes on offer.
New Year's table salad recipes: traditional and novelties
"Olivier" lean
We are used to seeing the traditional Olivier salad with ham, sausage or boiled meat on the New Year's festive table. Try this year to deviate from the usual recipe and serve the new Lenten New Year's "Olivier" with squid on the festive table.
What you need for a lean "Olivier":
- 5 medium-sized potatoes;
- 2 pieces of squid;
- 1 medium carrot;
- 2 cucumbers;
- Bank of peas;
- 1 onion;
- Lean mayonnaise;
- Fresh greens;
- Olives (optional)
Let's start cooking:
- Dip the squid in boiling water and simmer for 4 minutes. Drain water, let cool. Cut into strips.
- Boil potatoes and carrots until tender, cool, peel, cut into cubes.
- Wash fresh cucumbers, cut into small cubes.
- Peel the onion, chop finely.
- Combine squid, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, onions, add canned green peas.
- Season the salad with mayonnaise, mix. Using the culinary ring, place in portions on a dish, garnish with herbs and olives.
Try new recipes for the New Year's table and do not be afraid of culinary experiments!
The salad can be shaped like a rat:
Rat salad
Of course, the traditional "Herring under a fur coat" should be served for the New Year's table. But along with the usual salad, prepare an unusual dish in the form of a rat.
What you need:
- 6 hard-boiled eggs;
- 250 grams of boiled beef liver;
- 150 grams of veal milk sausage;
- 1 can of canned green peas;
- Salt pepper;
- Mayonnaise;
- Fresh greens.
How to prepare a salad:
- Boil the beef liver and eggs, drain the liquid from the jar with green peas.
- Cut the liver into small cubes.
- Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Chop the yolks, set aside the whites for decoration.
- Cut the sausage into small cubes, leave a portion for the ears and a patch of pig.
- Pour green peas into the salad, mix. Add spices to taste, season with mayonnaise.
On a note! You can use a mixture of mayonnaise with sour cream in equal proportions as a dressing.
- We decorate the salad. We line lettuce leaves at the bottom of the salad bowl, lay out the salad with a slide, give the shape of a rat body. Sprinkle the surface with finely grated egg whites, make the eyes and nose of the rat from allspice peas or any other suitable product (olives, cut pieces of sausage, etc.). From boiled or smoked sausage, we cut out ears, a tail, antennae can be made from thin green onions. The rat's muzzle is ready! Garnish the salad plate with fresh herbs, canned mushrooms, fresh vegetables.
Hot dishes
No holiday is complete without a main course. On New Year's Eve, offer guests several hot dishes at once, for example, baked fish and pots of veal or turkey with vegetables and sauce. Hot dishes on the New Year's table 2020 can be served both with a side dish and as an independent dish. As a side dish, cereals are most often prepared (the rat loves them very much), potatoes (baked, boiled, fried), rice, stewed or fried vegetables.
Examples of meat dishes for the New Year's festive table:
Stuffed quails
You will need the following ingredients:
- 3 quails;
- A tablespoon of sunflower oil;
- 150 ml of broth;
- 1 onion;
- 80 grams of couscous;
- Multi-colored bell pepper;
- Orange;
- Salt, ground black pepper to taste;
- A pinch of ground ginger;
- A teaspoon of liquid honey.
Cooking a hot dish for the New Year's festive table:
- Rinse the poultry carcasses, wipe the outside and inside dry.
- Rub with spices, leave for 10-15 minutes.
- Make a marinade with orange juice, runny honey, and ground ginger.
- Place the quail in a roasting sleeve, fill with marinade, close the bag tightly and refrigerate for half an hour.Shake the bag periodically to distribute the marinade evenly throughout the bag.
- Cut the peeled onion into small cubes, fry in vegetable oil.
- Add couscous to the pan with onions, pour in warm broth (you can just water), salt and pepper, close the lid. Remove from heat and leave covered for 10-15 minutes.
- Peel the multi-colored bell pepper, cut into cubes, add to the pan with onions and couscous, stir.
- Remove the quails from the bag, fill each carcass with couscous and vegetables, put in a greased form. Top with orange marinade.
- Put the dish in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake for 25-30 minutes, pouring orange marinade from time to time to make the meat softer.
- Put the finished quails on a dish, serve with stewed vegetables.
Chicken breasts in sour cream sauce
Second courses for the New Year's festive table can be prepared from various types of poultry: chicken, goose, duck, quail, turkey. Most often, housewives use chicken breast: it is easily and quickly prepared, combined with other components of the dish, and is also healthy and easily absorbed by the body.
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts;
- 6 potatoes;
- 350 grams of fresh champignons;
- 1 onion;
- 250 grams of medium fat sour cream;
- 3-4 tablespoons tomato sauce;
- A pinch of ground nutmeg;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt, spices.
Chicken fillet is prepared like this:
- Free the breasts from the skin and bones, wash, dry. Make several cuts on both sides.
- Add spices to sour cream (150 grams), salt, pour over the breasts and leave to marinate for several hours.
- Chop the onion finely, cut the mushrooms into plates. Fry onions and mushrooms in vegetable oil, add nutmeg.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Peel the potatoes, cut into thin slices, and place in a greased baking dish.
- Put chicken breasts on top of the potatoes, top with mushrooms and onions.
- Mix 100 grams of sour cream with tomato sauce, pour over the dish and bake for 45-50 minutes.
- Serve on lettuce leaves, sprinkle with chopped herbs on top.
Also try preparing vegetarian meals for the New Year's festive table. Even if there are no vegetarians among the guests and relatives, many will not give up light vegetable salads, snacks and hot dishes.
desserts
A dessert should be a beautiful end to a New Year's meal, so that the next year will be “sweet”. For dessert, you can serve cake, pastries, ice cream, whipped cream with fruit, jellies, chocolates, fruit salad.
Choose original and traditional recipes for New Year's desserts 2020.
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New Year's menu for children
New Year is a holiday that many associate with childhood memories. Thinking over the New Year's menu, do not forget about the little participants in the celebration, because for them this is the main holiday of the year, which all children are looking forward to. What can you cook for children for the New Year's festive table?
Christmas tree sandwiches
For three sandwiches you will need:
- White wheat bread - 6 slices;
- Boiled carrots - 1 piece;
- Sweet peppers for decoration;
- Soft curd cheese - 6 tablespoons;
- Boiled salmon fillet - 50 grams;
- Celery stalk;
- Salt.
Putting together a Christmas tree for kids:
- Beat the finished fish fillet in a souffle, add curd cheese and salt.
- Cut off the crust from the bread, cut out the shape of a triangle.
- Spread three slices of bread with a fish soufflé, cover the top with the three remaining bread slices.
- We cut out decorations for our Christmas trees from carrots and peppers.
- We apply a celery stalk to the base of each Christmas tree - this will be the “trunk” of the Christmas tree.
- We decorate each Christmas tree with carrots and pepper.
Remember that the New Year's table for children should be not only varied, but also useful.
How to please a nursing mother on New Year's Eve?
With the approaching New Year's holiday, nursing mothers begin to puzzle over what to cook for the festive table for themselves, so as not to harm the baby. Despite the many prohibitions, nursing mothers can fully enjoy the New Year's menu if they adhere to the basic rules and do not abuse prohibited foods and drinks.
Meat salad for nursing mothers
A turkey for the New Year's table is a suitable option for nursing mothers.
Ingredients:
- 1 green apple;
- 250 grams of turkey fillet;
- 1 avocado
- Lettuce leaves;
- Lemon juice;
- Olive oil;
- Salt.
Salad preparation:
- Boil the turkey fillet until tender, cool, chop finely.
- Chop the lettuce by hand, peel and dice the apple and avocado.
- Mix the turkey with salad, apple and avocado, salt, season with a mixture of lemon juice and olive oil (1: 1 ratio).
What cannot be cooked for the new 2019 year?
Each housewife should know which dishes should be discarded so as not to anger the symbol of the upcoming 2020 - the Rat.
What should not be put on the festive table:
- Too exotic products;
- Semi-finished products, fast food;
- Hastily prepared dishes;
- Frozen food;
- Dumplings.
They are used to serving meat dishes for the New Year's festive table. Unlike last year, pork can be served again, but do not forget that you can also cook chicken, goose, duck, rabbit, veal, turkey, quail, and fish dishes. Beef is perfect as an appetizer, sliced or main course on the New Year's festive table.
Drinks on the New Year's table
In addition to cooking, you should also pay due attention to beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, which you will put on the festive table. Of course, no New Year's Eve is complete without champagne. Drinking a sparkling drink on a magical New Year's Eve is a long-standing tradition that almost no one ever breaks. In addition to champagne, other drinks are also popular; many make various cocktails on their own during New Year's Eve celebrations.
See also: What to drink on New Year's Eve?
Recipes for alcoholic and non-alcoholic New Year's cocktails
Do not forget the well-known proverb: "As you celebrate the new year, so you will spend it." Gather your closest friends at the festive table to quietly and sincerely spend the old year and meet the new 2020 year of the White Rat. In fact, it is not so important what you prepare for the New Year, the main thing is what kind of atmosphere will reign on New Year's Eve. Be cheerful, sincere, rejoice that close people are next to you, and the whole next year you will be lucky.
