What to cook for the festive table of the Old New Year 2020? Delicious recipes for salads, appetizers, hot dishes, desserts. Cooking the main dish of the holiday - kutya. Video recipes.
Holiday Old New Year is incomprehensible for many foreigners. It is celebrated in countries where the church continues to use the Julian calendar. For Orthodox Christians, the Old New Year is more significant than the New Year. Since on this day the forty-day fast ends and you can eat meat dishes. Therefore, this New Year's Eve is also called Generous Evening, and the dishes on the table are particularly exquisite. The Old New Year is celebrated annually on the night of January 13-14. This is a good reason to get your family together at the table and have fun. We offer a festive menu for the Old New Year, which will help you set a chic table.
Kutia is a must-have dish for celebrating the Old New Year
The festive table of the Old New Year will correspond to all the canons of Old Slavonic traditions, if you serve the most important dish - kutya. Traditionally, it is prepared from buckwheat and barley, but today they use peeled rice or pearl barley.
Unlike lean kutya, for the Old New Year it is seasoned with lard, butter, fat, cream. Dried fruits, nuts, grapes, honey are added to the dish. The richer the filling, the better and tastier the treat. At the same time, the added products have a sacred meaning: grain symbolizes the beginning of a new life, nuts - health, raisins - longevity, honey - good news, poppy - prosperity.
Classic kutia
- Caloric content per 100 g - 176 kcal.
- Servings - 8
- Cooking time - 2 hours
Ingredients:
- Wheat groats - 200 g
- Raisins - 50 g
- Poppy - 125 g
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Cream - 125 g
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Walnuts - 50 g
- Vanilla - a pinch
Cooking classic kutya:
- Sort the wheat groats, rinse and boil until soft for 2 hours.
- Then strain it through a fine sieve and cool.
- Pour boiling water over the poppy seeds, warm until soft under a closed lid and strain through a thick sieve. Dry it and pass it through a meat grinder.
- Pierce the nuts in a clean, dry frying pan, and then finely grind them.
- Soak the raisins in water or, if desired, in cognac.
- Combine poppy seeds, nuts, raisins, vanillin, sugar and honey with wheat.
- Pour in the cream and stir.
Generous kutia
Ingredients:
- Wheat or rice - 400 g
- Poppy - 200 g
- Walnuts or hazelnuts - 100 g
- Dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes, figs) - 100 g
- Honey - 100 g
- Cognac - 1 tablespoon (optional)
- Butter - 2-3 tablespoons
- Uzvar - 200 ml
Cooking generous kutya:
- Soak the wheat in cool water at room temperature.
- After 2 hours, drain the water, rinse the wheat, cover with fresh water (proportions of grain and water 1: 2, 5) and boil until tender.
- Fill the poppy with boiling water for 15 minutes, then drain and grind in a mortar.
- Finely chop nuts and dried fruits and mix.
- Dissolve honey in a warm uzvar and pour into porridge. At the same time, make sure that the kutia is not liquid.
- At the end of cooking, add cognac and butter to the kutya.
- Stir all ingredients before serving.
In addition to the traditional kasha-kutya, there are many interesting dishes for the festive table for the Old New Year. Below in the publication we will find out in more detail what to cook on this holiday.
Salads for celebrating the Old New Year
Thinking over the salad menu, choose them so that each guest can choose something for himself. Prepare a variety of treats. At a festive feast, bright and colorful salads look good. They can be any: meat, fish, vegetable and fruit.
"Old Year" salad
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 150 g
- Ham - 100 g
- Canned green peas - 50 g
- Hard cheese - 50 g
- Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
- A clove of garlic - 2 pcs.
- Dill - a few twigs
Cooking salad "Old Year":
- Pre-boil the chicken fillet, refrigerate and fiber.
- Cut the cucumber and ham into small cubes.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Peel the garlic and pass through a press.
- Chop the dill finely.
- Combine all products, add mayonnaise and stir.
Tiffany salad
Ingredients:
- Chicken meat - 300 g
- Hard cheese - 100 g
- Hard boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- Walnuts - 90-100 g
- Grapes (large seedless varieties) - 1 bunch
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
Cooking Tiffany Salad:
- Boil the chicken until tender, cut the meat into pieces and place in the first layer on the bottom of the serving dish. Coat it with mayonnaise.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, sprinkle with the next layer and draw a mayonnaise mesh.
- Pierce the walnuts in a clean and dry frying pan, chop and spread in an even layer. Cover lightly with mayonnaise.
- Grate the boiled eggs on a coarse shredder, put on top of the nuts and brush with mayonnaise mesh.
- Wash, dry the grapes, and cut each berry into 2 halves with a sharp knife. Divide the grape halves, cut down, over the top of the lettuce.
- Put the finished dish in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.
Cold snacks to celebrate the Old New Year
Old New Year's snacks can be varied. On the festive table, they warm up the appetite before serving the main course and serve as a snack for strong alcohol. Cold snacks also decorate the festive table and create a festive atmosphere.
Chips snack
Ingredients:
- Crab sticks - 150 g
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Hard boiled eggs - 1 pc.
- Processed cheese - 1 pc.
- Yogurt - 1 tablespoon
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Salt to taste
- Chips - 150 g
Cooking a snack on chips:
- Wash the tomatoes, dry and cut into cubes. Peel them off if desired.
- Cut the eggs, cheese and crab sticks, peeled from the shell, into small squares.
- Combine all the ingredients, add chopped herbs, salt, yogurt and mix.
- Before serving, put the resulting mixture on the chips so that they do not soften.
- You can first place a slice of lettuce or parsley on the bottom of the chips, and then spread the mixture. This will keep the chips crisp for longer.
Lavash roll with red fish
Ingredients:
- Hard boiled eggs - 7 pcs.
- Lavash - 2 sheets
- Lightly salted salmon - 200 g
- Cheese - 200 g
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Mayonnaise - 100 ml
Cooking pita bread roll with red fish:
- Peel the eggs and grate them on a fine grater.
- Grate the cheese on the same grater.
- Chop the dill finely.
- Cut the salmon into thin slices.
- Grease a sheet of pita bread with mayonnaise and lay out in strips, a layer of salmon slices, a layer of grated eggs.
- Roll the pita bread and set aside.
- Also grease the second sheet of pita bread with mayonnaise, lay out strips of chopped greens and grated cheese, and put the first roll on the edge.
- Roll the pita bread into one common roll.
- Wrap the roll with cling film and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Hot dishes for celebrating the Old New Year
To have a varied festive table, the menu should include hot dishes, which can be very varied.
Goose with apples
Ingredients:
- Goose weighing 2-3 kg - 1 pc.
- Salt - 3 tsp
- Ground black pepper - 3 tsp
- Dried basil and thyme to taste
- Garlic - 1 head
- Olive oil - 50 ml
- Sour apples - 4 pcs.
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
Cooking goose with apples:
- Wash the goose inside and out, then dry it with a paper towel.
- Combine salt, pepper and dried basil with thyme and rub the carcass inside and out with this mixture. Leave the bird for 10 hours.
- Combine the minced garlic with olive oil and grate the goose with the resulting mixture. Leave it on for another 30 minutes.
- Wash the apples, core them and cut into quarters. Sprinkle them with lemon juice and fill the goose.
- Wrap the carcass with cling foil, put on a baking sheet and send to a preheated oven up to 200 ° C. Bake the bird for one hour.
- Then reduce the heat to 180 ° C and cook the goose for 1.5 hours.
- Take out the baking sheet 30 minutes before cooking, unfold the foil, grease the carcass with the released fat and honey.
- Return the goose to the oven, turn the temperature down to 160 ° C and cook for another half hour.
Duck with prunes
Ingredients:
- Duck weighing 2-2.5 kg - 1 pc.
- Apple cider vinegar - 3 tablespoons
- Salt - 2 tsp
- Ground black pepper - 2 tsp
- Pitted prunes - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
Cooking duck with prunes:
- Wash the duck inside and out, and cover with cold water and apple cider vinegar. Send the bird to marinate in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Remove the duck from the marinade, pat dry with a paper towel and rub with salt and pepper. Leave it on for 15 minutes.
- Rinse the prunes and fill the goose with it.
- Grease the inside of the baking sleeve with vegetable oil and place the duck. Tie the bag and send the carcass to the oven.
- Bake the first hour at a temperature of 200 ° C., then 1, 5 hours at 180 ° C.
Desserts for celebrating the Old New Year
A festive table for a Generous evening will not be complete without sweets. If you do not have time to think over the finale of the holiday, see simple and delicious dessert recipes for the Old New Year.
Chocolate muffin
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Flour - 200 g
- Cocoa powder - 50 g
- Sugar - 150 g
- Baking powder for dough - 2 tsp
- Butter - 150 g
- Cinnamon - 2 tsp
- Ginger - 1 tsp
- Cardamom - 1 pinch
- Nutmeg - 1 pinch
- Dried fruits - 400 g
- Almonds - 150 g
- Brandy - 3 tbsp l.
- Mandarin - 4 pcs.
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
- Cream - 30 ml
Chocolate cake preparation:
- Rinse dried fruits, dry and pour in brandy. Leave in a dark place for 2 hours.
- Beat eggs with sugar and add soft butter.
- Beat the food again and add flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and spices to the egg-butter mass.
- Knead the dough and add chopped almonds, dried fruits along with brandy. Mix everything well.
- Place the dough in a greased pan and bake the cake for 1 hour at 170 ° C.
- Determine the readiness of the baking with a wooden match, it must be dry.
- Peel the tangerines, squeeze out the juice, remove the zest, boil and pour the juice over the finished cake.
- Leave it in the mold for 20 minutes, remove the baked goods from the mold and brush with icing.
- To prepare the icing in a water bath, melt the chocolate, combine with the cream and stir.
Carrot cakes
Ingredients:
- Hercules - 0.5 tbsp.
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Coarse grated carrots - 2 tbsp.
- Raisins - 50 g
- Hazelnuts - 50 g
- Cinnamon - 0.5 tbsp
- Nutmeg - 1 tsp
- Honey - 0.5 tbsp.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
Cooking carrot cakes:
- Pour the raisins with boiling water to steam, then dry with a towel and cool.
- Fry the hazelnuts in a dry frying pan and chop with a knife.
- Beat honey with eggs.
- Stir dry ingredients: flour, rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon, raisins, nutmeg.
- Add grated carrots to the honey-egg mixture and stir.
- Grease a baking dish with butter and lay out the dough.
- Bake the cake for 50 minutes at 180 ° C.
