What to cook for the New Year?

Selecting different recipes, it is necessary to remember that New Year's Eve dinner 2012 must be held in the family circle. So think about the dishes that your familytraditionally prepares for a festive table. Various salads from fresh vegetables or fruits are required. But salads, for which canned foods are required, such as "herring under the fur coat", "mimosa" and others, it is preferable not to cook. Black Dragon, a symbol of the coming year, does not approve the use of semi-finished products for cooking.

Recipes of New Year's dishes should be selected taking into account the time for their preparation. You must cook all the dishes in one day. You can not prepare meals for the holiday in advance. This attitude to food is unacceptable for the Dragon. So what to cook for the New Year?

The coming 2012 will be held under the symbol of the water element, so take care that on your festive table there must be fish dishes. Meat dishes also do not interfere. When you compose a New Year's menu for your table, we suggest you use these recipes:

Rolls of salmon

To make delicious salmon rolls, you will need:

• 250 g smoked salmon


• 200 g soft cheese


• 50 ml cream


• 50 g of cucumber


• greens (parsley, dill, green onions)


• black pepper

Rolls of salmon cook very easily. For the filling, beat up the soft cheese along with the cream. Add the finely chopped greens, cucumber and freshly ground black pepper. On thin slices of a salmon spread on one table spoon of cheese filling. Fold the slices into rolls and put them on the dish. Garnish with greens and lemon slices. The rolls are cold.

Fried chicken breast

Not only fish dishes should be on the festive table. Meat dishes should also be prepared. therefore we offer you to cook fried chicken. You will need:

• 1.5 kg raw loin


• 10 pieces. carnations


• 1 tsp. salt


• ground black pepper

For sauce:

• 0.5 kg of sour apples


• 1/4 cinnamon sticks


• 75 g of sugar


• 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice

The meat is rubbed with salt, pepper and cloves. Put the loin on the baking tray with lard and put the meat into the oven at 180 ° C for an hour and a half. After an hour and a half the loin is removed and plentifully smeared with apple sauce. Remember that you do not need to turn meat. Leave the loin bake for another half an hour. The prepared loin is cut into slices and served on a table.

To cook the sauce, wash and cutapples in 4 parts. Remove the core and cook them in 1 cup of water until soft. In the water, which cook apples, you should add sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice. When the apples are ready, the cinnamon is taken out. Welded apples should be recoated through a sieve.

Ice cream with apricots and ginger

As a dessert, you can cook any New Year's cake. But we suggest you cook a delicious chocolate ice cream. For its preparation you will need such ingredients:

• 75 grams of dried apricots


• 1 orange (for peel and juice)


• 1 kg of vanilla ice cream


• 100 grams of dark chocolate


• 100 grams of ginger biscuits

Freshly squeezed orange juice, zest and choppeddried apricots are put in a bowl and left for two hours. Ice cream is transferred to a chilled bowl and kneaded with a fork. Cookies are crumbled into small pieces and mixed with orange juice, chocolate and ice cream. It is advisable to do everything quickly enough so that the ice cream does not melt. Transfer the ice cream to the mold and put it freeze. Before serving, the form is dipped in hot water and turned over to a cold dish.

Of course, the given recipes can not make a complete New Year's menu. Therefore, put on the table various other dishes and salads that you like.