Hot starters for the New Year

Hot starters for the New Year can be prepared frommeat, fish and seafood, mushrooms, vegetables, dairy products - in general, everything that you can find in your fridge. They are usually prepared very simply, and it is unlikely that they will take much longer to prepare than cooking cold snacks. The symbol of the year, the fire-breathing Dragon, will surely appreciate your culinary impulses.

Kokot with salmon

Hot snacks for the New Year from salmon are unusually tasty and exquisite, and how can it be otherwise? To prepare a kokot from salmon, we will take (for four portions):

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  150 g smoked salmon fillet
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  4 eggs
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  4-6 tablespoons thick cream
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  4 tablespoons chopped fennel greens
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  1 tbsp. butter
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  black ground pepper - to taste

Preheat the oven to 170 ° C. Cut the fillet of salmon strips, sprinkle with herbs and freshly ground black pepper.

We take four small heat-resistant molds (as for julienne or soufflé), lubricate them with oil and put strips of salmon. We pour 3-5 teaspoons into each mold. thick cream, then drive into the egg.

Take the frying pan and half fill it with hot water. We install the molds in it and put it in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes (protein must be prepared, and yolk - to remain liquid).

A ready snack is decorated with dill sprigs and immediately served to the table. Instead of salmon, you can use fried mushrooms with onion or white sauce to prepare snacks.

Stuffed mushrooms

Very popular hot snacks from mushrooms, in fact, not only that the mushrooms are very tasty - hats mushrooms simply stuff it with any products. To prepare stuffed mushrooms, we take:

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  24 large champignons
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  100 g smoked chicken pulp
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  100 grams of hard cheese
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  2 tablespoons butter
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  1 tbsp. margarine
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  1 tbsp. chopped parsley
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  1 tsp chili sauce
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  ground black pepper, salt - to taste

Mushrooms, clean, separate the legs from the hats. The legs should be finely chopped. Finely chop the smoked chicken. Cheese three on a grater and divide into two equal parts.

Mix the chicken with chopped legs of mushrooms, add greens, chili sauce, butter, half of cheese. Solim and pepper to taste, carefully mix.

Mushroom hats are filled with cooked stuffing. We cover the baking tray with margarine and lay on it stuffed hats. Sprinkle mushrooms with the remaining cheese and bake in an oven, heated to 220 ° C, until golden brown. We serve hot.

Chicken wings in caramel

Be sure to serve hot meat appetizers for the festive table, and then the men present can and raise a riot - give them meat. To make piquant chicken wings in sweet and sour caramel, we will need:

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  16 chicken wings (you can take the legs)
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  8 tablespoons soy sauce
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  4 large cloves of garlic
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  3 tablespoons liquid honey
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  1 orange
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  1 lemon
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  black pepper to taste
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  vegetable oil for mold lubrication

Start cooking wings is the day before, tothey are better than promarinovalis. Wings of mine and promakivaem towel. Garlic is cleaned, let's go through the press. Soy sauce is mixed with garlic and pepper. We rub the wings with the received marinade, add it to the bowl, pour the remains of the marinade and put it in the refrigerator for several hours, and preferably at night.

Immediately before cooking, we getwings from the fridge, let the marinade drain. The form for baking is lubricated with oil, we put wings into it and bake for 30-40 minutes in an oven heated to 180 ° C.

While the meat is being cooked, we make caramel. From orange and lemon squeeze juice (make sure that it does not have pits). Add honey and mix until it cavity dissolves in citrus juice. We pour into the saucepan and evaporate on high heat for 5-7 minutes (until the caramel thickens).

Finished wings are poured hot citrus caramel and immediately served to the table.

Bon Appetit!