To adequately celebrate the New Year, it is not enough to prepare a delicious dinner. It is required to thematically “link” it with the holiday. Someone prefers to simplify the task and orders food in a restaurant. And for those who prepare treats for loved ones on their own, we offer the top 5 best New Year recipes for 2016.
Last year, we published budget New Year's recipes. Perhaps they are relevant now.
5. Salad "Snowman"
It will be required: 2 fresh cucumbers, 2 pcs. potatoes, 3 boiled eggs, 400 grams of chicken breast, 150 grams of 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 the egg whites.
- Peeled cucumbers, cut into small strips.
- Put the salad in layers, spreading each layer with mayonnaise, except for the last layer. First, chicken breast is laid out, then cucumbers, potatoes and proteins.
- Garnish the salad with herbs. "Hands" of a snowman can serve as stalks of parsley.
- The nose of a snowman is the tip of a carrot, with his eyes - peas of pepper. Mouth and cap - from crab sticks, buttons - from canned peas.
4. Red punch
What could be better for meeting the Red Monkey than a glass of strong and fragrant punch? Just keep in mind that it will take a week to cook it.
It will be required: 750 ml of red wine, 2 measuring cups (240 ml each) of vodka, 1 vanilla pod (you need to divide it along and select the seeds), 2 cinnamon sticks, 2 cups of 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, pod and vanilla seeds, cinnamon sticks, sugar, citrus fruits, and cloves in a large container.
- Cover with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator for 7 days.
- Strain the punch through a fine sieve or cheesecloth.
- Add ginger ale and serve immediately.
3. Salad "Christmas decorations"
It will be required: 2 cloves of garlic, 200 grams of cheese, mayonnaise, hazelnuts or almonds, olives, dill.
Recipe:
- Grate the cheese.
- Mix with grated or finely chopped garlic.
- Add mayonnaise to make a plastic mass. Knead and mix.
- Place a nut in the middle of the olives.
- Form balls of cheese mass.
- Inside each ball place an olive with a nut.
- Cut the dill very finely and sprinkle (or roll in it) each ball.
2. Christmas cookies
It will be required: 100 gr. butter, 300 g of powdered sugar, egg, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 275 gr. wheat flour, 4 tablespoons of water, 3 drops of food coloring, pearls made of mastic or any other edible jewelry.
Recipe:
- Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
- Cream, butter and one hundred gr. mix the powdered sugar in a bowl until light and “fluffy”.
- Mix the mixture with the egg and vanilla extract.
- Pour flour until mixture resembles dough.
- Roll out the dough on a board, lightly sprinkled with flour, to a thickness of 1 cm.
- Cut cookies from the dough (for example, using a glass) and place on a baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes, it should turn pale golden brown.
- Sift 200 g of powdered sugar and mix with water. You should get a creamy mixture.
- Add food coloring.
- Apply icing to cookies with a knife and sprinkle with “pearls”.
1. Salad "Monkey"
Of course, the rating of New Year's recipes could not do without the hostess of 2016.
It will be required: 150 gr. cheese, 2 chicken, 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 2 apples, 3 boiled eggs, 100 gr. olives, pepper and salt, a glass of chopped walnuts.
Recipe:
- Dice chicken and eggs into small cubes.
- Peel the apples, grate, add to the dish.
- Grated cheese (100 gr.) Add to salad.
- Add mayonnaise to the appetizer, add salt and pepper.
- Put the mass on a flat dish and give it the shape of a monkey's head.
- Grate the remaining 50 gr. cheese.
- Make the monkey's hairstyle from nuts, its fringing from olives, and its muzzle from grated cheese. Eyes, nose and smile are from olives.
