Step by step Christmas recipes with photos and videos

New Year's most significant holiday. Preparation for it begins in advance when they buy clothes, select accessories, decorate a Christmas tree, plan a New Year’s menu.

The festive menu needs to be planned taking into account the symbol of the New Year. You need to be guided by the preferences of the animal - this is the main criterion for choosing holiday dishes.
Cold Appetizer List

Sandwiches.
Canapes of mushrooms and gherkins decorated with parsley or dill.
New Year's salads. Ideal - puff salads.
Smoked and slightly salted fish snacks.
Fruit desserts.

Adult Christmas Recipes

How does the hostess imagine New Year's Eve? Beautiful clothes, New Year's mood, dear guests and a festive table. If there are children present, plan a separate menu for them.

Avocado and Shrimp Salad

IngredientsServings: - + 4

avocado 2 pcs
tomatoes 2 pcs
shrimp 250 g
olive oil 2 tbsp. l
green salad 100 g
salt to taste
lemon juice 1 tbsp. l

Calories and BJU per 100 gCalories: 97 kcalProteins: 5.2 gFats: 7.3 gCarbohydrates: 3.4 gSteps30 min. Video//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjw6cE5enjw

Peel avocados, cook shrimps, cut tomatoes.
Tear the salad with your hands and gently put on a plate.
Shrimp with vegetables on top of the leaves. Sprinkle with lemon juice, season with oil.
Add avocado slices and some spices to the salad. Salad ready.

Salad with tuna

Ingredients:

tuna - 100 g
hard cheese - 150 g
cucumber - 1 pc.
eggs - 2 pcs.
carrots - 1 pc.
salt, mayonnaise, pepper.

Cooking:

Boil carrots and eggs. On a small dish put the skimmed whites and lightly grease with mayonnaise.
Put tuna on top of the squirrels. Pre-crush the canned food with a fork and drain the oil.
The third layer is made from grated fresh cucumber, add a little salt, grease with mayonnaise.
Put grated carrots on top of the cucumber layer.
Sprinkle with grated cheese, add a drop of mayonnaise.
The final layer is made from grated egg yolks. Use greens to decorate the salad.

Pineapple Chicken

Ingredients:

garlic - 3 cloves
chili pepper - 1 pc.
ginger - 1 tsp.
oil - 60 g
chicken meat - 600 g
pineapple - 0.5 pcs.
dark brown sugar - 60 g
lime - 1 pc.
salt.

Cooking:

Peel and chop the garlic, add salt and spices. Make a paste from the resulting mixture. Better use a mortar. Add oil to the garlic. After stirring, you get a marinade.
Cut the chicken into strips and send to the dishes with marinade. Mix. Send the meat to a cool place for a couple of hours.
Peel the pineapple and cut into cubes. Get about 300 g of pulp.
Heat the pan, add a little butter, sugar, lime juice. When the sugar has dissolved, pour the meat with the marinade into the pan, mix.
Add pineapple. Cook under the lid over low heat for about 5 minutes. The readiness of the dish is determined by the readiness of the meat.

Video recipe

Spicy chicken

Ingredients:

chicken breasts - 3 pcs.
champignons - 500 g
cheese - 200 g.
onion - 1 head.
eggs - pcs.
greens, mayonnaise, seasonings and butter.

Cooking:

Slightly fry the crushed mushrooms, season with spices, salt and stew for a couple of minutes.
Cut the chicken into pieces, slightly beat off. Transfer the meat into a deep dish, add the egg and spices. After thorough mixing, pickle for a quarter of an hour.
Put the chicken breasts in a mold pre-oiled and cover on top with chopped rings.
Top the onions with a layer of stewed mushrooms, grease with mayonnaise, sprinkle with cheese.
Put the meat in the oven for a third of an hour. Bake at a temperature of 170 degrees.

I shared my view on the New Year's menu for adults. If you find it too modest, feel free to expand it with other New Year's dishes, including a garnet bracelet, Armenian ghat, mulled wine.

Recipes for the New Year's menu for children

For children, prepare dishes that they can eat with their hands without using a knife. Even better if you are preparing a feast with the kids.

Meatloaf

Ingredients:

beef - 500 g
pork - 200 g
lard - 50 g
oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
roll - 100 g
onion - 1 head
egg - 1 pc.
pepper, crackers, salt.

Cooking:

Dice the meat and grind with the onion. Add minced bread, minced lard, egg and salt and pepper to the minced meat. Stir the resulting mass.
Divide the prepared meat into two pieces, roll it on a board sprinkled with breadcrumbs, and form rolls. Fry and bake a little in the oven.
Serve hot rolls. Cut into pieces and put on oblong plates. Put green peas on one side of the roll and boiled potatoes sprinkled with chopped herbs on the other.

Edible toys

Children will love the edible New Year's toys. For cooking, you need the simplest products: boiled eggs, vegetables, tea cheese, onions, parsley. Put the finished culinary products on a plate spread on top with mayonnaise and cheese.

“Basket with berries.” Cut the egg in half, use a spoon to select a portion of the yolk. Put a few pomegranate seeds and cranberries in the recess. Make a pen out of sweet pepper.
Amanita. From the testicle, make a leg, a cap of tomato. Put the resulting mushroom on a leaf of cabbage, sprinkle a cap with chopped protein. You can use mayonnaise to decorate toys.
"Penguin". From a fresh cucumber cut the head of a penguin. The body of the animal will be a boiled egg. Buttons and eyes made from beetroot, cauliflower wings. Penguin can roll over. Cut the tip of the egg to increase stability.
"Duckling". Cut the protein from the testicle along the length and put it on a piece of bread, oiled. Put a ball made of cheese on top of the squirrel. Beak and eyes made from carrots. Sprinkle the duckling with grated yolk.
"Clown". Lubricate a square slice of bread with butter. Put a nut-sized cheese ball on top. To make eyes, take two berries of currant or cranberry. Make a carrot nose, a beetroot mouth, a yolk cup, a sweet pepper cap.

Cooking video

New Year's fruit salad

Ingredients:

apples - 2 pcs.
pears - 2 pcs.
canned peaches - 4 pcs.
nuts - 200 g
tangerines - 4 pcs.
icing sugar - 100 g
sour cream - 1 cup
half lemon juice
Cherry jam
fruit juice.

Cooking:

Dice apples, pear, sprinkle with lemon juice, mix with slices of tangerines, chopped nuts and slices of peaches. Sprinkle the resulting mass with fruit juice and mix thoroughly.
Put fruit salad in a vase. Drizzle with sour cream, whipped with powder. Garnish with cherry jam.
To decorate the dish, grated chocolate or cinnamon is suitable.

Sweet snowballs

Ingredients:

bananas - 2 pcs.
oatmeal - 250 g
raisins - 150 g
coconut flakes - 100 g

Cooking:

Crush bananas with a fork to make slurry. Add raisins and cereal, minced. Mix.
Roll balls from the mass and roll in coconut. To make the snowballs strong, withstand a little in the cold.

Try now to introduce a children's New Year's table. In the center is a large dish with edible toys, a bowl of fruit salad is located nearby, and a plate of snowballs is in the neighborhood.

Popular salad recipes for the New Year's table

New Year's salads - a favorite dish at the New Year's celebration. Sometimes you want to create a new culinary work of art that will surprise guests.

Lamb Salad

Ingredients:

chicken meat 500 g
canned corn - 1 can
dessert pineapple - 1 can
mayonnaise - 100 g
tomato - 1 pc.
carrot - 1 pc.
fresh dill. Ground pepper, basil and peppercorns.

Cooking:

Pineapples and corn toss in a colander. Rinse and peel vegetables.
Boil the chicken meat. When the meat is cooked, cool and cut into cubes. Cut canned pineapple the same way.
In a deep dish mix meat, corn and pineapple, add mayonnaise. Mix. Add salt and spices to taste.
Form a salad. It will take two ovals to make a beautiful sheep out of a salad mass on a plate.
Proceed to decorate the dishes. Grate cheese and make a sheep’s fur coat. Make several colors from boiled carrots. Using greens around the sheep, make a meadow, put other decorations on top.

A wonderful salad for the New Year's table is ready.

Pink roll

Ingredients:

herring fillet - 100 g
egg whites - 2 pcs.
hard cheese - 100 g
starch - 25 g
beets - 200 g
Philadelphia cheese - 75 g.

Cooking:

Put the protein in a bowl and beat with a whisk. Peel the boiled beets and pass through a juicer. Grate hard cheese.
Cover the bottom of the mold with kitchen foil. Put protein in the form, add starch, cheese and beetroot juice.
Send the form to the oven for a third of an hour. While the mixture is baking, mix Philadelphia cheese with herring in a blender.
Remove the finished cake from the oven, put on parchment. Spread with a mixture of blender, form a roll. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
After 30 minutes, cut the roll into slices, put on a plate, sprinkle with herbs. The roll will turn pink in about 180 minutes.

There is already a salad and roll on the table. It remains to add some meat dish. Boiled pork is an ideal option.

Boiled pork in honey sauce

Ingredients:

pork - 1 kg
soy sauce - 60 g
garlic - 8 cloves
honey - 60 g
oil, pepper, salt.

Cooking:

Peel the garlic. Rinse the meat thoroughly, remove pieces of bone, fat and film.
Grate pork with a mixture of salt and pepper. Make several cruciform holes in a piece of meat and put garlic in them.
Move the meat into a large bowl, grate with soy sauce and liquid honey. Hold in the refrigerator for 90 minutes.
Move the meat onto a baking sheet, pour the marinade, and put in the oven. Cook for about an hour at 180 degrees.
During baking, pour over the juice that formed during cooking. Check the readiness of the dish by making a small cut with a knife. If transparent juice flows from the slot, the boiled pork is ready.
Cool the meat, cut into slices, serve.

How to decorate a New Year's table

We will talk about decorating and serving a New Year's table. Let us dwell on the table setting and consider its features.

How to set up a New Year's table

Use bright serving elements. It is better to forget about everyday dishes and cutlery during the holiday.
On the table should be present products and objects from materials of the symbol of the New Year.
Decorate the festive table in green, blue or blue colors. Noble tones are relevant: beige, peach, sand.
To design a festive table, use a creative and original approach. Improvise, create, show imagination.
To place New Year's attributes on the table: snowmen, symbols of the New Year’s animal, sledges, candles, Christmas trees. You can make such New Year's toys from improvised materials.

New Year's table decor

The time has come to talk about jewelry. Consider items that are perfect for decorating a New Year's table.

Tablecloth. It is better to use natural material - cotton or linen. You can pick up a tablecloth with a New Year's pattern. The monophonic option is boring.
Napkins are an integral element of the table. They can be a wonderful decoration. You can use paper and fabric napkins.
Candles Festive and beautiful will do. Buy curly candles or do it yourself.
Festive and bright dishes. Choose a beautiful service. Make beautiful decorations for your dishes.
Meals can decorate the table. Enough to show imagination. Salads can be laid in the form of snowmen, lambs, Christmas trees.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated and abstruse in decorating the festive table. It will take a little time, a bit of desire and a little imagination. The result is the most original, beautiful and unique New Year's table in the world.