The winter holidays are rapidly approaching and it's time to pick up interesting recipes for the festive table to make a delicious and original New Year's menu for 2024 of the Dragon. We have put together a selection of really tasty and beautiful dishes that will decorate your table and will surely please your guests.
Dragon Preferences
When compiling the New Year's menu in 2024, it is worth considering the preferences of the new patron - the Green Wooden Dragon.
Important! Since the Dragon occupies a special place in Eastern culture and is a figure close to the Emperor, the table for 2024 should be rich in a variety of goodies. It is also recommended to beautifully decorate the festive table in the spirit of the imperial meal.
The Green Wood Dragon has its own special food preferences, so the New Year's table must have dishes that include:
- rice;
- fish;
- seafood;
- meat (Dragon prefers chicken, turkey or rabbit);
- fresh greens;
- hot spices.
What exactly can be your New Year's menu for the holiday of 2024 depends on many factors, but we offer our list of dishes worthy of your attention.
Hot fish dishes
The queen of the New Year's menu for 2024 will definitely be fish, so let's start our list of original recipes from this category.
Important! The fish from this section is served hot.
Pumpkin baked under a fur coat
For those who are looking for easy-to-implement recipes that can really decorate the table and diversify the New Year's menu in 2024, we offer you to try a simple but incredibly tasty version of baking pink salmon.
Ingredients:
- salmon fillet - 700 gr.;
- onion - 2 pcs.;
- carrot - 1 piece;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sour cream - 150 gr.;
- mayonnaise - 150 gr.;
- cheese (any hard) - 100 gr.;
- s alt, pepper, seasonings for baking fish.
Cooking algorithm:
- Wash, dry and cut the fish into portions.
- Cut the onion into large half rings.
- Grate cheese and carrots on a medium grater.
- Prepare the sauce (mayonnaise + sour cream + spices for the fish).
- Put the fish in a baking dish (s alt, pepper, season with seasonings to taste) pour over lemon juice (optional).
- Spread a ball of chopped onion.
- Spread a ball of grated carrots.
- Smear the layer with sauce.
- Spread a layer of grated cheese.
- Bake at 180℃ for 30 minutes.
Mackerel with soy sauce
If you can't imagine a New Year's table for 2024 without mackerel, we suggest baking your favorite fish in the oven, marinating it in soy sauce.
Ingredients:
- fresh mackerel (small, as in the photo) - 2 pieces;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- soy sauce - 150 ml;
- vegetable oil;
- spice for baking fish (to taste).
Cooking algorithm:
- Clean the fish by cutting off the tails and heads as well.
- Make cuts across the carcasses for better spice soaking.
- Sprinkle the fish with spices, drizzle with lemon juice (use half a lemon) and soy sauce, let it brew a little (no need for s alt, as soy sauce gives a s alty taste).
- Put the onion sliced into half rings in a baking dish.
- Lay out the fish and the second half of the lemon cut into half rings.
- Sprinkle plenty of soy sauce.
- Cover the mold with foil and bake for 20 minutes at 180℃.
- Remove the foil, pour the fish sauce from the mold and bake uncovered for another 20 minutes until a nice crust forms.
Juicy salmon with cream
An interesting and easy-to-prepare recipe that every guest will surely appreciate.
Ingredients:
- salmon fillet - 800 gr.;
- cream (preferably 10%) - 300 ml;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- Dijon mustard;
- pepper;
- greens: dill, parsley, basil, tarragon.
Cooking:
- Cut the fish fillet into portioned slices 5 cm thick and arrange in a mold, sprinkled with s alt, spices and lemon juice.
- Mix the yolks, separated from the protein, with the cream, adding chopped greens, 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard and a little lemon zest to the sauce.
- Pour the fish with creamy sauce.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 200℃.
Hot meat dishes
Many families cannot imagine a menu for the New Year 2024 without a delicious meat dish. In the coming year, you should not serve heavy and fatty pork on the table, because the symbol of the year (Green Dragon) prefers light dietary meats such as rabbit, chicken or turkey. Cooking them is easy enough, and how such a luxurious decoration of your New Year's menu will look like in 2024 can be seen in the photos that are attached to the recipes.
Rabbit baked with olives
We offer to diversify the menu of the New Year's table in 2024 by preparing a rabbit according to a new original recipe. The dish has an unsurpassed aroma and attracts attention with an interesting combination of ingredients. This rabbit is sure to please everyone who is not indifferent to recipes in the spirit of Italy.
Ingredients:
- rabbit (large) - 3 kg;
- canned olives (black) - 400 gr;
- onion - 1-2 pieces;
- garlic - 1 piece;
- cherry tomatoes - 200 g;
- dry white wine - 250 ml;
- olive oil;
- brown sugar;
- thyme - 5 sprigs;
- rosemary - 2 sprigs;
- s alt, pepper.
Cooking algorithm:
- The rabbit must first be marinated with vinegar for 2 hours, so the meat will be softer.
- Cut the onion (preferably in half rings).
- Cut the marinated carcass into portions.
- Grate with s alt and pepper.
- Fry in olive oil until golden brown, then add chopped onion and garlic to the pan and fry together for another 2 minutes.
- Add olives (cut into slices or whole, to taste) and cherry tomatoes to the pan, fry for another 1-2 minutes.
- Add 0.5 tsp. brown sugar, plus rosemary and thyme.
- Pour the white wine into the pan.
- Simmer another 1-2 minutes and remove from heat.
- Cover with foil and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180℃.
Turkey drumstick with oranges
If last year's New Year's menu already included a baked whole chicken or turkey, try in 2024 a portioned version of the dish that everyone should definitely like, because the "paws" will be big, juicy and tasty, and there will definitely be enough of them to everyone who will gather at the table.
Please note that this recipe is for 1 kg drumstick. If you have many guests, then all the ingredients should be increased in proportion, depending on the amount of meat purchased.
Ingredients:
- turkey drumstick - 1 kg;
- orange - 1 piece;
- soy sauce - 70 ml;
- mustard - 2 tsp;
- olive oil;
- seasonings: black pepper, smoked paprika, dried thyme.
Cooking:
- Squeeze the juice from an orange. Peel the skin and chop coarsely.
- Chop or crush the garlic.
- Mix juice and orange pieces, add soy sauce, garlic, mustard, olive oil, s alt, spices.
- Separate the skin on the shin from the meat and, without removing it, completely wrap it so that the meat opens.
- Poke a few punctures on the foot, generously smear marinade, put the skin back in place, and smear marinade again.
- Let the meat marinate in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
- Pour into a mold and bake at 200℃ for 30 minutes.
- Turn the drumstick, pour over the marinade and bake for another 20 minutes.
Chicken with mushrooms in sour cream sauce
For lovers of traditional combinations, be sure to add hot dishes based on chicken and champignons to the New Year's menu in 2024. It's a win-win that most guests will rave about.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 500 gr.;
- fresh champignons - 500 gr.;
- hard cheese (ideally cheddar) - 150 gr.;
- onion - 2 pcs.;
- cream 20% - 300 ml;
- vegetable oil;
- garlic;
- fresh dill;
- pepper;
- spices for roasting chicken.
Cooking algorithm:
- Cut the fillet into medium pieces and fry in a pan until golden brown.
- Put the meat into a baking dish.
- Chop onions and mushrooms, fry together over low heat.
- When the onion becomes transparent, pour 300 ml of cream into the mushrooms.
- Pour meat with mushroom sauce.
- Grate cheese on top.
- Place in the oven for 10-15 minutes until the cheese crust is golden brown.
Seafood snacks
The original appetizer always acts as a bright decoration for the New Year's table, so we definitely recommend including one of the options below in the 2024 menu.
Mix canape with shrimps
The dish looks very bright and will surely arouse the interest of guests, because different mini-sandwiches will have very bright flavors.
We offer to decorate these three canapes beautifully.
Option 1
- Cucumber base.
- Pasta - mayonnaise + lemon juice + fresh herbs.
- Decoration - shrimp + fresh herbs.
Option 2
- Base - cracker.
- Pasta - cream cheese.
- Decoration - shrimp + fresh herbs.
Option 3
- The base is white bread.
- Pasta is soft cheese.
- Decoration - shrimps + cherry tomatoes.
Poseidon's Dream Tartlets
In 2024, it is important to make a rich menu, because the Dragon is a symbol of imperial power. Tartlets "Poseidon's Dream" is a rather expensive dish, but guests will definitely appreciate it.
Ingredients:
- squid carcass - 600 gr.;
- salmon fillet (marinated or smoked, to taste) - 150 gr.;
- shrimps (small, peeled) - 200 gr.;
- red caviar - 150 gr.;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs;
- fresh tomatoes - 300 gr.;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- mayonnaise - 100 gr.;
- s alt, pepper;
- ready tartlets.
Cooking algorithm:
- Thaw and boil squids.
- Hard boil eggs.
- Cut into small cubes salmon, eggs, squid, tomatoes;
- Add whole shrimp (you can not add, but decorate the tartlet with them on top).
- We dress with mayonnaise like a salad.
- Spread into tartlets.
- Decorate with caviar and herbs (maybe shrimp).
Hot shrimp rolls
Since the symbol of 2024 is the Dragon, it will be quite obvious that there will be seafood rolls on the New Year's table. Connoisseurs of oriental cuisine have long learned how to cook cold rolls with red fish, caviar and other classic ingredients. We invite you to expand your range of oriental dishes and surprise your guests in 2024 by putting unusual hot rolls on the New Year's table.
Ingredients:
- peeled small shrimp - 250 gr.;
- rice for sushi - 250 gr.;
- rice vinegar - 30 ml;
- fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
- cream cheese - 1 pack;
- nori - 2 sheets;
- flour - 20 gr.;
- breadcrumbs;
- vegetable oil;
- s alt, sugar.
Cooking:
- Boil shrimp for 2-3 minutes
- Boil the rice (like for sushi).
- Prepare rice dressing (vinegar + s alt + sugar) and add to rice.
- Cut the cucumber into strips.
- Mix the sifted flour with water and s alt.
- Make a roll by laying out the ingredients in the following order: nori, rice, cheese, shrimp, cucumber.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan.
- Dip the roll in batter and breading, and then fry until golden brown.
- Cut the finished rolls into portions and decorate for serving.
Salads without mayonnaise
TOP New Year's dishes in 2024 will definitely include delicious salads that do not use mayonnaise. Breaking away from the traditions of the distant past, many young people today prefer lighter and lower-calorie salad options, especially when it comes to New Year's Eve.
Shrimp and grapefruit salad
An interesting exotic salad will definitely be appreciated by those who are afraid to gain extra pounds over the holidays. After all, it is light and very tasty.
Ingredients:
- peeled shrimp - 100 g;
- grapefruit - 100 g;
- cherry tomatoes - 100 g;
- spinach - 100 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
- lime juice - 1 tsp;
- sesame;
- s alt, pepper h. mol
Cooking:
- Peel the grapefruit, separate the slices and cut each into 3 pieces.
- Fry shrimp in a pan with garlic and cherry tomatoes (can be whole or cut into halves).
- In a bowl, mix shrimp with grapefruit, sprinkle everything with lime juice.
- Add spinach leaves.
- Toss salad with olive oil.
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.
Sushi salad
Continuing the oriental theme, to which we are pushed by the fact that 2024 will be held under the sign of the Dragon, we offer to surprise guests with an original and unusual salad, which includes products that are well known from everyone's favorite rolls.
Ingredients:
- boiled rice (it is better to take varieties for sushi) - 150 gr.;
- rice sauce - 25 ml;
- lightly s alted salmon - 350 g;
- cucumber - 1 piece;
- nori sheets - 3 pieces;
- cream cheese - 200 g;
- sesame.
You can expand the list of ingredients by adding avocado or caviar. Actually, you can layer everything that you love in sushi.
Cooking:
- Boil rice, season it with vinegar and spices and leave to cool.
- Cut salmon (optional, either into thin slices or cubes).
- Cut cucumber.
- Put a sheet of nori on the dish.
- Next, lay the ingredients in layers in the following order: rice, cheese, cucumber, fish, sesame (you should get 3 layers in total).
- Put the dish in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
Chicken with olives salad
For connoisseurs of the bright taste of olives combined with tender chicken fillet, we offer such an interesting New Year's recipe.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 300 gr.;
- tomatoes - 100 gr.;
- cucumbers - 100 gr.;
- pitted olives - 1 can;
- hard cheese - 100 gr.;
- Dijon mustard;
- lettuce;
- sesame.
Cooking:
- Cut the fillet into thin slices.
- Fry and put on a napkin to remove excess oil.
- Cut cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers (medium-sized cubes or long strips, as you like).
- Cut olives into rings.
- Combine and mix all the ingredients.
- Toss salad with Dijon mustard.
- Place in a dish on lettuce leaves.
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.
Salads with mayonnaise
If you prefer salads dressed with mayonnaise, then try to surprise your guests in 2024 with such non-trivial recipes.
Red fish salad
Meet the Green Wood Dragon in 2024, which means that there should be a lot of fish and greens on the table, and such an original recipe will come in handy.
Ingredients:
- lightly s alted red fish - 150 g;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- avocado - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise (preferably 30-40% fat);
- arugula;
- s alt, pepper h. mol
Cooking:
- Peel and dice the avocado.
- Cut also tomatoes, cucumbers, fish.
- Combine the ingredients, s alt, pepper and spread with mayonnaise.
- Put on a plate and garnish with a layer of arugula.
Rice and squid salad
Another trend of the New Year's table in 2024 is rice and seafood, so this salad will fit very well into the festive menu and will surely be remembered by guests with a delicate and at the same time bright taste.
Ingredients:
- squid - 400 g;
- fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs;
- rice - 200 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- low-fat mayonnaise;
- parsley (for decoration);
- s alt.
Cooking:
- Boil the rice and refrigerate.
- Boil the squids and let them cool.
- Cut the squid and cucumbers.
- Mix rice, cucumbers and squid.
- S alt.
- Sprinkle everything with the juice of 0.5 lemon.
- Spread the salad with mayonnaise.
- Before serving, decorate the salad with a sprig of parsley and a slice of lemon, as in the photo.
Salad with black caviar and smoked squid
For those who want to surprise their guests with something really new and luxurious at the same time in 2024, we suggest preparing a portioned salad with smoked squid and black caviar.
Ingredients:
- smoked squid - 200 g;
- black caviar - 1 sl. l.;
- potatoes - 250 gr.;
- quail eggs - 6 pcs;
- mayonnaise;
- s alt, ground pepper.
Cooking:
- Boil the potatoes in their skins and cool.
- Dice smoked squid, boiled potatoes and eggs.
- Spread the salad in layers using the small cooking ring in this order: potatoes, mayonnaise, eggs, mayonnaise, squid, mayonnaise (each layer lightly s alt and pepper to taste).
- Garnish the salad with black caviar.
Sweet desserts
Of course, one cannot imagine a luxurious New Year's table without original desserts that both children and adults are always looking forward to - we will offer interesting recipes for sweet dishes that will diversify your menu for the meeting of 2024.
Fruit flambé salad
Our dragon is fire-breathing, so we offer to surprise guests with a cool dessert with an original presentation.
Ingredients:
- orange - 1 piece;
- tangerine - 2 pcs;
- bananas - 1 piece;
- mango - 1 piece;
- fresh pineapple - 1 piece;
- cognac - 100 ml;
- sugar;
- butter;
- ice cream - 200 gr;
- fresh mint leaves (for decoration).
You can take any fruit that is available, including apples and pears, but exotic flavors will be brighter.
Cooking:
- Cut fruits into medium-sized cubes.
- Fry in butter.
- Put hot on a plate.
- Pour in 100 ml of cognac and set it on fire.
- Wait until the flame goes out, decorate with ice cream balls and fresh mint leaves.
Mochi Cake
Traditional Japanese dessert that can surprise guests with a very diverse filling and an original combination of flavors. We will make mochi with nut filling.
Ingredients:
- rice flour - 100 g;
- cookies - 30g;
- nut butter - 50 g;
- corn starch - 100g;
- kiwi - 1 piece;
- strawberries - 50 g;
- food coloring (you can have several, different shades);
- sugar.
Cooking:
- Cut strawberries and kiwi.
- Mix crushed biscuits with nut butter until the consistency of a dense dough.
- Make a cake from the nut dough and hide the strawberry and kiwi pieces inside, forming a ball.
- Prepare custard rice dough. Add sugar and rice flour to the water, mix and cook for 5 minutes in a water bath until the consistency of glue. Add dye to obtain the desired color.
- Sprinkle a tray with starch, put a thin layer of rice dough on it and divide into portions.
- Wrap walnut balls with colorful rice dough.
Chocolate curd trifle
An interesting idea for housewives who, after making a New Year's cake, will have scraps of biscuit shortcakes.
Ingredients:
- biscuit (you can bake or use cake scraps) - 100 g;
- mascarpone - 250 g;
- cream - 200 ml;
- cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.;
- icing sugar - 2 cl. l.;
- jam;
- blueberries (or other berries);
- confectionery powder for decoration.
Cooking:
- Whipping cream with powdered sugar.
- Add cream, cocoa, mascarpone, stir with a spatula until smooth.
- Squeeze the mass into a glass using a pastry syringe.
- Arrange the ingredients in this order: chocolate cheese mass, biscuit, jam, chocolate cheese mass, biscuit, jam, chocolate cheese mass.
- Decorate dessert with confectionery powder, fresh berries.
For decoration, you can also use coconut chips, chopped nuts, grated chocolate.
