If you have not decided what to cook for the New Year 2020, a selection of recipes for the New Year's table will help to create a balanced menu of delicious dishes. You can delight guests and household with goodies using simple and affordable products, but the menu is better to make in advance.
Hot meals
No festive table is complete without hot dishes. Most often they are prepared from different types of meat: pork, beef, rabbit, poultry, although you can use vegetables, mushrooms, cereals, seafood and other products.
Stuffed chicken
If you don’t know what to cook for the New Year of 2020 Rats, chicken stuffed with crackers and vegetables will be a beautiful decoration of the New Year's table and a delicious treat for guests. And although the cooking process is long, no special culinary skills are required.
Essential Ingredients:
- whole chicken carcass;
- 1 tbsp olive oil;
- 2 stalks of celery;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- dried herbs or spices for chicken;
- 1 egg
- 1 small red onion;
- 3-4 slices of white bread;
- salt.
Cooking method:
- First prepare the chicken carcass. Wash, dry and rub it well with salt and spices or herbs outside and inside. Set aside and get stuffed.
- Cut the white bread into small cubes and dry in a preheated oven until golden brown.
- While the bread is cooling, finely chopped onions and celery with garlic and fry in butter.
- Mix the croutons with the fried vegetables in a bowl. Add a raw egg and a couple of tablespoons of water. Mix well. Add salt and spices.
- Put the cooked stuffing inside the chicken.
- Bake at 220 degrees until cooked (45-60 minutes).
Advice! Around the chicken, you can put vegetables (broccoli, carrots, potatoes, etc.). So you don’t have to prepare a side dish separately, which means you can save time.
Meat nests with mushrooms
Meat nests will be a hearty and tasty treat for guests. They are prepared quite simply, so even a novice hostess can handle the process. In addition, you need a simple set of products.
Essential Ingredients:
- 600 g of minced meat (it is best to take mixed from pork and beef, but you can take only pork);
- 2-3 pieces of loaf;
- 100 ml of milk;
- 1 egg
- 100 g breadcrumbs;
- 1 onion;
- 100-150 g of champignons;
- salt and pepper;
- 1 tbsp. l sour cream;
- 75-100 g of cheese;
- a bunch of parsley;
- 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
- Soak slices of loaf in milk.
- Peel the mushrooms and chop finely. Fry them with finely chopped onions in vegetable oil. If desired, add mushroom seasoning. When the mushrooms have cooled, mix them with sour cream.
- Stuffing minced meat with a loaf through a meat grinder.
- Add the egg and chopped parsley, salt, spices. Intervene.
- Form round cutlets with wet hands. Bread them in breadcrumbs and make recesses in each meat ball.
- Place the nests on a baking sheet. Then put mushroom stuffing in each well.Sprinkle grated cheese on top and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes so that the nests are browned on top.
Advice! Serve with any side dish.
Pangasius with Bechamel sauce
It is believed that the mistress of 2020, the Rat is not picky animal, so you can serve not only meat, but also fish dishes on the table. For example, you can please relatives and friends with tender fish baked in sauce.
Essential Ingredients:
- 700 g of pangasius;
- 2 onions;
- a glass of milk;
- 150 g of cheese;
- a pinch of cinnamon;
- 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 4 tbsp. l wheat flour;
- 30 g butter;
- a pinch of nutmeg.
Cooking method:
- Cut the fish in portions. Salt, roll in flour and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
- Finely chop one onion. Heat butter in a pan and fry the onion until soft. Add 2-3 tablespoons of flour.
- Stir constantly, pour milk into the pan. Add spices to taste at the end.
- Cut the second onion into rings. Put on a baking sheet. Lay the fish on top and fill it with sauce. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
- Bake in the oven at 200 degrees until golden brown.
Advice! According to this recipe, you can cook any fish, including pink salmon, chum salmon, etc.
Salads
Almost all housewives will prepare salads for the New Year's table 2020. They may differ in the method of preparation or the products with which they are made. You can choose hearty options if there are a lot of men among the guests, and prepare light salads for women who are watching their figure.
"The Snow Queen" with crab sticks
If you like experimenting, try making a delicious and unusual salad with crab sticks.
Essential Ingredients:
- 200 g of crab sticks;
- 1 large apple;
- 4 boiled eggs;
- 100 g peanuts;
- 200 g of ham;
- 120-150 g of mayonnaise;
- 200 g of cream cheese.
Cooking method:
- Separate the whites from the yolks. Rub them separately on a grater. Also rub the peeled apple and cream cheese.
- Cut the ham and crab sticks into small cubes.
- Roast and chop the peanuts with a blender.
- All ingredients except apple, peanuts, and half protein are mixed separately with mayonnaise.
- Next, lay the salad in layers: cheese, yolks, crab sticks, apple, ham, peanuts. Lay out the squirrel with mayonnaise on top, and then sprinkle with grated squirrels.
- Before serving, send for a couple of hours in the refrigerator. Decorate as you wish.
Tomato and Shrimp Salad
Easy-to-cook salad will surely appeal to lovers of seafood. To make it take a little time, but the result is sure to please the guests.
Essential Ingredients:
- bunch of salad corn;
- bunch of arugula;
- 0.5 kg king prawns;
- olive oil;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 3-4 tomatoes.
Cooking method:
- Defrost and peel the shrimp if necessary.
- First, fry coarsely chopped garlic in hot oil.
- Then remove the garlic from the pan and send the shrimp. Fry on both sides until golden brown.
- Put washed and dried greens on a large plate.
- Put the sliced tomatoes on top. If you use cherry tomatoes, just cut them into halves.
- Add the shrimp.
Advice! To enhance the taste of the salad, sprinkle with pine nuts on top.
"Prince" with prunes
The salad has an unusual combination of products that gives incredible taste pleasure. If you want to surprise guests, then the recipe for this salad is a great option to bring your plan to life.
Essential Ingredients:
- 300 g of boiled beef;
- 3 pickled cucumbers;
- 250 g mayonnaise;
- 100-150 g pitted prunes;
- 1 tbsp. walnuts;
- 1 onion;
- 3-4 boiled eggs;
- 150 g of hard cheese.
Cooking method:
- Disassemble the beef with your hands or cut into thin strips.
- Place the ring from the baking dish on a plate and lay the beef. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
- The onion must be cut in advance and marinated in vinegar. Put the pickled onions in the next layer.
- After lay grated cucumbers. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
- Then lay the eggs, grated.Pour mayonnaise.
- Prune pour boiling water for 5-10 minutes. Cut into small pieces and lay on eggs.
- Then put the grated cheese and grease with mayonnaise. Then sprinkle generously with chopped walnuts.
- Put the salad in the refrigerator. Remove the ring before serving.
Snacks
Many housewives want to know in advance what kind of animal 2020 will be in order to decide what to cook on the New Year's table. To please the Rat, which will dominate in 2020, is not difficult, since it consumes almost everything. Various snacks are a good option. Below are some interesting recipes.
Tartlets with red fish
Preparing a snack is very fast, but thanks to the excellent combination of tastes, guests will definitely like it.
Essential Ingredients:
- 12 ready-made tartlets;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- a small bunch of dill;
- 150-200 g of salmon;
- 200 g cream cheese.
Cooking method:
- Finely chop the garlic and dill.
- Finely chop 50-70 g of slightly salted salmon, and set aside the rest of the fish.
- Combine cream cheese, minced fish, garlic and dill in a bowl.
- Using a pastry syringe, squeeze a portion of the prepared mixture into each tartlet. Advice! If there is no confectionery syringe, use a disposable, tight plastic bag. You can also fill the tartlets with a mixture with a spoon.
- Cut the remaining fish into thin strips and fold into roses.
- On each tartlet put a rosette of fish. Serve immediately.
Chicken pastrami with honey
For slicing on a New Year's table, instead of the usual sausage, it is better to use pastrami. It is not difficult to make it, but it is worthwhile to do the process in advance, since the meat must be given time to soak well.
Essential Ingredients:
- 700-800 g of chicken;
- 8 peas of black pepper;
- 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l salts;
- 4 peas of allspice;
- 700 ml of water;
- 2 bay leaves;
- 2 cloves.
For glaze:
- 30 ml of soy sauce;
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 50 g of honey;
- 1 tbsp. l finished mustard;
- 1 tbsp. l dry spices;
- 4 cloves of garlic.
Cooking method:
- You should pickle chicken breast from the evening. To do this, add spices, salt and sugar to the water. Stir to dissolve the salt and sugar.
- Place the breast in the marinade. Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 12 hours.
- At the next stage, when the chicken is salted, you need to make the icing. In a bowl, mix mustard, honey, garlic, soy sauce, and spices. Spices can be selected to your liking. You can use black pepper and paprika or a ready-made mixture.
- Rinse the fillets and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Put the meat in a bowl with icing. Massage it lightly, and then cover with foil and send for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator (more can be).
- Tie the breast tightly with a thread and put in the oven. Bake at 180 degrees for about an hour. Readiness check puncture. Leaking fluid should be transparent. In the process of baking, grease the pastra with glaze several times.
Advice! Serve on the table in warm or cooled form.
Raffaello with Hard Cheese
Since the Rat loves cheese, he will be glad of such a treat on the festive table. Surprise guests with an unusual snack.
Essential Ingredients:
- 200 hard cheese;
- 6 crab sticks;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- a handful of walnuts;
- 3 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
- 1 can of pitted olives.
Cooking method:
- In each olive shove a half of a walnut. If there is no time, you can buy already stuffed olives.
- Rub hard cheese on a fine grater. Add mayonnaise and minced garlic. Shuffle.
- From the cheese mass, make balls, inside of which lay on the olive.
- Roll cheese balls in grated crab sticks.
- Decorate as you wish and serve.
Advice! To prevent crab sticks from falling apart when rubbing, put them in the freezer so that they freeze.
Dessert
It is difficult to imagine a New Year's feast without sweets, so deciding what to cook for the New Year 2020, be sure to include desserts in the menu.
Cottage cheese dessert with cookies
Such a dessert will surely appeal to tiramisu lovers, as there are similar notes. Nobody can resist the delicate taste.
Essential Ingredients:
- 180-200 g pasty cottage cheese;
- 200 ml of heavy cream;
- 12 Savoyardi Liver
- 100 ml of milk;
- 15 g of gelatin;
- 50 g of chocolate;
- 250 g of mascarpone;
- 100 ml of brewed coffee (preferably with condensed milk);
- fruits and cocoa for decoration.
Cooking method:
- First prepare the cream. To do this, soak gelatin in milk and dissolve in a water bath. While milk with gelatin cools, whip the cream with a mixer.
- In a separate bowl, beat the cottage cheese and mascarpone. Without ceasing to beat, pour the cooled gelatin in a thin stream. Continue whisking for a couple of minutes. Then add the cream. The cream is ready.
- Pour the brewed coffee into a wide container so that it is convenient to dip cookies.
- Cover the form with cling film. Put some cream on the bottom.
- After dipping cookies in coffee and spread on the cream. Cover with curd cream on top. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
- Repeat the layers, and then send the dessert to the refrigerator for 6-7 hours, you can all night.
- Put the finished dessert on a plate and decorate as you wish.
Marshmallow cake
A universal recipe that is perfect even for housewives who do not know how to bake. And although preparing a cake is simple, it has a delicate taste.
Essential Ingredients:
- 500 g of walnuts;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 kg of marshmallows;
- 1 tbsp. milk;
- 200 g butter;
- 1.5 tbsp. Sahara;
- 5-6 liver;
- vanillin.
Cooking custard:
- Beat the eggs with sugar. Add milk and heat the mixture in a water bath. Cook the cream until it begins to thicken, stirring constantly. The mixture should not boil.
- Beat the softened butter and gradually pour in the egg-milk mixture.
- When the cream is ready, chop the walnuts in a blender into crumbs.
Grease the cake:
- Divide the marshmallows into halves, and then cut them further along.
- Cover the mold with cling film.
- Put a layer of marshmallows on the bottom. Lay the pieces as tight as possible.
- Lubricate generously with cream and sprinkle with walnuts. Then repeat the layers 2-3 times.
- Grind the cookies into crumbs and sprinkle the top layer of the cake. Garnish with marshmallows and walnuts. Let stand in the fridge for a while and serve.
The drinks
Take care in advance about drinks. For adults, you can prepare an alcoholic cocktail, punch or mulled wine, and children will be happy to drink not only juices, but also non-alcoholic cocktails.
Bounty Cocktail
It is prepared in a matter of minutes, but it has an unusual pleasant taste.
Essential Ingredients:
- 200 ml Coca-Cola;
- 50 ml coconut liquor;
- 3 ice cubes.
Mix cola with liquor and pour into glasses. Add ice and serve to guests.
Non-alcoholic mojito
A refreshing drink will appeal to both adults and children.
Essential Ingredients:
- lime;
- sprite;
- mint;
- rafinated sugar.
At the bottom of the glass, put a few sprigs of mint. Send lime slices and a couple of sugar cubes there. Take a little break. Add ice and fill to the top with a sprite. Serve right away.
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