To meet the New Year with dignity, it is not enough to cook a delicious dinner. It is required to “connect” it thematically with the holiday. Someone prefers to simplify the task and order food in a restaurant. And for those who prepare treats for loved ones on their own, we offer the top 5 best New Year's recipes for 2016.
Last year we published budget New Year's recipes dishes. Perhaps they are still relevant now.
5. "Snowman" salad
You will need: 2 fresh cucumbers, 2 pcs. potatoes, 3 boiled eggs, 400 gr chicken breast, 150 gr mayonnaise, 1 carrot, a pair of crab sticks, 2 peppercorns and 6 canned peas.
Recipe:
- Cut the boiled chicken breast into small cubes.
- Then boil the potatoes and also cut into cubes.
- Grate egg whites.
- Cut the cucumbers, peeled, into small strips.
- Lay out the salad in layers, smearing each layer with mayonnaise, except for the last layer. First, chicken breast is laid out, then cucumbers, potatoes and proteins.
- Decorate the salad with herbs. Parsley stalks can serve as "hands" of a snowman.
- The nose of the snowman is the tip of a carrot, the eyes are peppercorns. The mouth and cap are made of crab sticks, the buttons are made of canned peas.
4. Red punch
What better way to meet the Red Monkey than a glass of strong and aromatic punch? Just keep in mind that it will take a week to prepare it.
You will need: 750 ml red wine, 2 measuring cups (240 ml each) vodka, 1 vanilla pod (split lengthwise and select seeds), 2 cinnamon sticks, 2 cups sugar, 4 oranges, thinly sliced, 2 red oranges, thinly sliced, 2 lemon, thinly sliced, 2 dried clove buds (spice), 4 cups of ginger ale.
Recipe:
- Combine wine, vodka, vanilla pod and seeds, cinnamon sticks, sugar, citrus fruits, and cloves in a large bowl.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 7 days.
- Strain the punch through a fine sieve or cheesecloth.
- Add ginger ale and serve immediately.
3. Salad "Christmas decorations"
You will need: 2 cloves of garlic, 200 gr of cheese, mayonnaise, hazelnuts or almonds, olives, dill.
Recipe:
- Grate cheese.
- Mix with grated or finely chopped garlic.
- Add mayonnaise to make a plastic mass. Knead and stir.
- Place a nut in the middle of the olives.
- Shape the curd into balls.
- Place an olive with a nut inside each ball.
- Chop the dried dill very finely and sprinkle (or roll in) each ball.
2. New Year's cookies
You will need: 100 g butter, 300 gr of icing sugar, egg, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 275 gr. wheat flour, 4 tablespoons of water, 3 drops of food coloring, mastic pearls, or any other edible decoration.
Recipe:
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees.
- Cream, oil and one hundred gr. icing sugar in a bowl until light and "fluffy" consistency.
- Mix the mixture with egg and vanilla extract.
- Add flour until the mixture is like dough.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured board until 1 cm thick.
- Cut the cookies out of the dough (eg with a glass) and place on a baking sheet.
- Bake the biscuits for 10 minutes until they turn pale golden brown.
- Sift 200 g of icing sugar and mix with water. You should get a creamy mixture.
- Add food coloring.
- Use a knife to glaze the cookies and sprinkle with pearls.
1. "Monkey" salad
Of course, the rating of New Year's recipes could not do without the hostess of 2016.
You will need: 150 gr. cheese, 2 chicken fillets, 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 2 apples, 3 boiled eggs, 100 gr. olives, pepper and salt, a glass of chopped walnuts.
Recipe:
- Cut the chicken and eggs into small cubes.
- Peel the apples, grate on a medium grater, add to the dish.
- Add grated cheese (100 gr.) To the salad.
- Season the appetizer with mayonnaise, add salt and pepper.
- Put the mixture on a flat dish and shape it into a monkey's head.
- Grate the remaining 50 gr. cheese.
- Make the monkey's hairstyle from nuts, its edging - from olives, the muzzle - from grated cheese. The eyes, nose and smile are from olives.