Cold snacks for the New Year 2020. TOP 6 recipes with photos of the holiday menu. Councils and recommendations for the design of the feast. Video recipes.
Nicely served cold snacks on the New Year's table will whet the appetite of all those present. Vegetable, meat, fish, with seafood - their variety is amazing. According to the eastern calendar, in 2020, the White Metal Rat patronizes. When composing a festive menu, her preferences should be taken into account. It is quite easy to please the patroness of the year, since she is not picky about food. However, it should be borne in mind that the symbol of the year prefers hearty dishes and does not like exotic foods.
A beautiful presentation of treats is of no small importance, because a festive atmosphere should be present in everything - from the Christmas tree to the festive design of the decoration of snacks. Here you can safely experiment, the more spectacular and brighter the dishes are decorated, the more they will appeal to both the patron of the future 2020 and guests. This collection contains recipes for bright and delicious snacks for the festive table of the New Year 2020.
Mushroom liver cake
Liver cakes are very popular at festive feasts. They are prepared with different fillings, but with fried mushrooms, the dish is much more satisfying, beautiful and nutritious.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 298 kcal.
- Servings - 8
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken liver - 600 g
- Bulb onions - 2 pcs.
- Ground black hot pepper - a pinch
- Mayonnaise - 3-4 tablespoons
- Flour - 60 g
- Milk - 150 ml
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Champignons - 400 g
- Hard cheese - 200 g
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Making a liver cake with mushrooms:
- Wash the liver, dry and grind with a blender until smooth.
- Pour milk into the liver mass, add eggs, add flour, salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in a skillet and fry thin liver cakes about 5 mm thick one by one.
- For the filling, peel and finely chop the onion and mushrooms. Send them to fry in another skillet with butter. Season with salt and pepper.
- Place one liver cake on a serving plate and brush with mayonnaise. Top with mushroom filling and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Continue alternating the filled liver cakes.
- Chill the liver cake with mushrooms in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours before serving.
Stuffed cherry tomatoes with shrimps
For the recipe, the shrimp are fried in a skillet. But if you want to cook a healthier and less nutritious snack, boil seafood in salted water.
Ingredients:
- Cherry tomatoes - 20 pcs.
- Boiled-frozen king prawns - 20 pcs.
- Cream cheese - 200 g
- Sunflower oil - 40 ml
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Spices to taste
- Greens - for decoration
Cooking Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes with Shrimp:
- Defrost the shrimps at room temperature or in the microwave and fry in a pan in vegetable oil with spices and finely chopped garlic.
- Wash the tomatoes, cut off the top and remove the pulp with a teaspoon. Lightly add salt to the pulp, turn the tomatoes over and leave for 5 minutes to get rid of excess liquid.
- Place cream cheese at room temperature into a pastry syringe or bag and fill the tomatoes 2/3 of the way with it.
- Peel the shrimp from the shell, leaving the tail, and insert into the cherry.
- Decorate the appetizer with a sprig of herbs.
Stuffed eggs with shrimps and crab sticks
Delicious, quick and easy to prepare cold appetizer - stuffed eggs. It will take its rightful place on the festive New Year's table.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Canned corn - 100 g
- Crab sticks - 3 pcs.
- Mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons
- Boiled-frozen shrimps - 100 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Greens - for decoration
Cooking stuffed eggs with shrimps and crab sticks:
- Boil eggs hard-boiled, cool in cold water and peel. Cut them in half and remove the yolks.
- Boil the shrimps in salted water for 3 minutes, cool and peel off the shell.
- Cut the crab sticks into small pieces and stir in the corn, egg yolks and mayonnaise.
- Stuff the egg whites with the filling, put 2-3 shrimps on top of each egg and garnish with herbs.
New Year's snack "Snowmen"
An unusual snack "Snowmen" will surprise your guests at the New Year's table. The dish is not only tasty, but also attractive. It will cheer you up and attract everyone's attention.
Ingredients:
- Bryndza cheese - 150 g
- Adyghe cheese - 150 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Mayonnaise - 100 g
- Carrots - 1 pc. (for decoration)
- Greens (parsley or dill) - 1-2 branches (for decoration)
- Dried cloves - 15 buds (for decoration)
Cooking New Year's snack "Snowmen":
- Hard boil the eggs for 7 minutes in boiling water. Cool, peel and finely grate.
- Also grate cheese and Adyghe cheese on a fine grater.
- Combine eggs with cheese, add mayonnaise and stir to make the mass viscous and stringy.
- From the resulting mass, roll balls for the "body" of the snowman, observing the proportions. For example, for the bottom ball, take 2 tablespoons. mass, for medium - 1 tablespoon, for top - 1, 5 tsp.
- Connect the resulting balls with a toothpick so that they do not fall apart and the snowman keeps its shape.
- Decorate the snowmen by making them eyes and carnation buttons, handles from twigs of greenery, a hat from carrot slices, and a smile from a semicircle of carrots.
Smoked salmon tartlets
Tartlets will replace boring sandwiches and become an alternative to canapés. They just cook, and you can choose any filling. For the New Year's table, avocado mousse with salmon and fresh cucumber slices is perfect.
Ingredients:
- Smoked salmon - 300 g
- Cream cheese - 200 g
- Tartlets - 16 pcs.
- Cucumber - 2 pcs.
- Avocado - 1 pc.
- Sour cream - 100 g
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Parsley - for decoration
- Spices to taste
Making smoked salmon tartlets:
- Peel the onions, wash and chop coarsely.
- Wash the avocado, cut in half, remove the pit and cut out the flesh.
- Put onion, cheese, salt, spices in a blender container, pour in sour cream and whisk everything until smooth.
- Fill the tartlets with the resulting mass.
- Wash the cucumber, dry it and chop it into thin slices together with the salmon fillet. Roll them into a tube, place in tartlets and garnish with parsley.
Puff snack cake
Both adults and children will like the layered salad cake. And if you decorate it by placing a basket made of cheese slices on top and filling it with red caviar, the dish will take center stage on the New Year's table.
Ingredients:
- Boiled eggs - 5 pcs.
- Cream cheese - 80 g
- Crab meat - 120 g
- Rice - 50 g
- Lightly salted red fish - 200 g
- Curd cheese - 300 g
- Mayonnaise - 120 g
- Instant gelatin - 10 g
- Water - 100 ml
Making a puff snack cake:
- Grate or coarsely grate cheese, eggs and crab meat.
- Boil rice in water until cooked without salt.
- Cut the red fish and crab meat into thin slices.
- For the cream, mix mayonnaise with curd cheese and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
- Dissolve the gelatin in water, add to the curd mass and beat again.
- In a deep container with sides, line a plastic wrap, put the fish slices all over the bottom and grease them with cream.
- Then put the remaining layers, each smearing with cream, in the following sequence: egg yolks, crab meat, egg whites, cheese, rice.
- Refrigerate the salad for 2 hours.
- Then turn the salad bowl over onto the platter and gently remove the cling film. Decorate the cake with fresh herbs if desired.
