Pre-holiday troubles are fun, but they don't always have time. In addition, often December 31 full-fledged working day. After him, there is neither time nor desire to stand at the stove. What to do? Prepare everything in advance!
There are dishes that are perfectly preserved not only until the next night, but also until the second of January. What would cook in advance?
Salad “Chicken with Pineapples”
This is a variant of the salad, which the next day becomes even tastier. Chicken breast is soaked with pineapple juice, it becomes very tender, the products are divided among themselves flavors. Preparing a salad with walnut kernels, it is better to add it when serving to the table.
Ingredients
- 600 g of chicken fillet;
- 100 g of walnuts;
- 1 can of pineapple;
- 200 g of mayonnaise;
- salt, laurel;
- 4 eggs;
- 100 g cheese.
Method of preparation
- Rinse the fillets and run into hot water. After boiling, remove the foam, throw laurel, boil for 25-30 minutes, no more. At the end we salt. Chill the chicken in the broth.
- Eggs boil hard-boiled, free from the shells, cool. Rub cheese finely. Pineapples are sent to a sieve, let the syrup drain, then cut into small cubes.
- Cut the cooled chicken into small pieces and lay it on the bottom of a deep salad bowl. We grease with mayonnaise.
- We pour out pineapples on chicken, their juice will soak the bird along with mayonnaise. Cover with a layer of chopped or grated eggs. They need to be slightly salted, then smeared with sauce.
- Finish with cheese. So that it does not dry out, we press the layer with a spoon and lightly grease it with mayonnaise.
- Immediately cover the salad, it’s better to stretch with cling film, put it in the refrigerator until the next day. Before serving, sprinkle with roasted walnut kernels.
Such a salad can be stored in the refrigerator for two days. Very often, soaked prunes, fresh cucumber are added to such a salad, but it is better not to do this. These products contain water, secrete juice, reduce shelf life.
Baked ham from turkey
Pork cannot be eaten on this holiday night, therefore we are looking for an alternative. Great for cooking ham pork turkey. It is big, fleshy, but it is baked quickly. Especially after pre-marinating. Such a pork will quietly remain in the refrigerator for up to four days. You can freeze it.
Ingredients
- 1-1.3 kg of turkey;
- 4 tbsp. l salts;
- 1 liter of water;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 10 spoons of soy sauce;
- 2 spoons of honey;
- 1 tbsp. l mustard
Method of preparation
- Dissolve salt in water, submerge turkey. If there are films on the breast, then remove it. If desired, throw laurel, crush pepper peas. Leave to soak in salt for four hours.
- Mix honey with soy sauce and mustard. We take out the turkey from the salt solution, wipe it with napkins, we stuff with pieces of garlic. Immerse in cooked sauce. Periodically we overturn. Marinating another hour.
- Preheat oven to 240 degrees. Put the turkey in the form, pour the rest of the sauce on top. We put in the oven for 20 minutes. Then turn off the stove.
- Leave the turkey in the oven to cool, do not open the door. Then we shift in the container, we clean in the refrigerator.
The shelf life is three days.
The same boiled pork can be made from chicken, in this case, the roasting time is reduced to 12 minutes, the breast is also left in the oven until it is completely cooled.
Puff cake with fish and caviar
Option cake snack filled with fish. For the dough is used ready-made puff pastry, choose no yeast in the composition. During the day, it is perfectly soaked, and in the refrigerator will last up to two or three days. In a long time depends on the freshness of fish and caviar.
Ingredients
- 200 g puff pastry;
- 400 g of cottage cheese;
- 300 g salted fish;
- 60 g red caviar;
- 1 bunch of dill.
Method of preparation
- Roll out a piece of dough, cut into four pieces. We pierce cakes with a fork, at 200 degrees we bake quickly, let cool.
- Slice the red fish into thin slices. Cheese just stir. Lubricate cakes, cover with a layer of fish, make a cake.
- Top the cake covered with cheese. Put in the fridge soak. Before serving, sprinkle the sides with dill, the top is decorated with caviar. You can scatter it or put it in piles.
Salad is quietly stored for two days in the refrigerator.
It is possible to use boiled eggs for the filling, sprinkle water on the fish with lemon juice. But do not use fresh vegetables, they will give juice.
Wings “Amazing”
Without a hot dish on the festive table still can not do. If time is short, then you need to choose the fastest, which will be prepared in a few minutes. Exit - these wings.
Marinating them in advance for 1-3 days, on a festive night we send for half an hour to the oven.
While the table is set, the main course will be cooked.
Ingredients
- 1 kg of wings;
- 150 ml of soy sauce;
- 1 spoon of honey;
- 1 spoon of ketchup;
- 3 cloves of garlic.
Method of preparation
- Mix the marinade ingredients. If necessary, melt the honey. If desired, if the ketchup is not sharp, pour a little pepper.
- We wash the wings, cut into the joints. Mix with sauce, close tight lid and put in the refrigerator.
- The next day, pour it all on a baking sheet, bake quickly at 210 degrees.
To make the wings marinate better, you can sometimes mix or simply turn the container over, let the sauce flow in the opposite direction.
Jellied “Aquarium” with sea cocktail
It is customary to cook aspic or aspic on the holiday table. They can be made in advance according to your favorite recipe or use this chic option. For filling you need boiled frozen sea shake and one squid.
The storage period for filler is three days.
Ingredients
- 30 g of gelatin;
- 300 g sea cocktail;
- 1 squid;
- 1 liter of broth;
- 4 sprigs of dill;
- 4 slices of lemon;
- 8 olives.
Method of preparation
- Prepare the broth from any fish, season with salt to taste. Strain, cool glass and soak gelatin in it.
- Boil cleaned squid for 1.5 minutes in boiling water. Then cut into rings. We just pour the sea cocktail with boiling water and let it stand for five minutes, pour it into a colander.
- We take a rounded bowl or salad bowl. Mix the dissolved gelatin with the rest of the broth, pour a layer of about 1.5 cm. Dip the dill sprigs, put them in the fridge for 40 minutes.
- We take out the salad bowl, arrange the sea cocktail in it, squid rings, lemon and olives. Fill with the rest of the broth. Withstand until the next day in the refrigerator.
- Put the prepared inlet in a bowl with hot water and turn it over in a few seconds.
For broth, you can take any fish, but tastier is a decoction of bones, heads, salmon fins. For flavor when cooking, you can add onions, carrots, roots or lemon peel.
What else can you cook in advance?
Here is just an example of dishes that can be made in advance and release time on December 31. If you try a little in advance, then you can set a chic table in half an hour.
What else to cook in advance:
- vegetables and eggs for salads;
- cake, pastries and other desserts;
- compotes, fruit drinks;
- pickled, pickled vegetables, mushrooms;
- salted, pickled fish.
Be sure to buy ready-made tartlets of various sizes for the holiday, bread and butter, fish and caviar for sandwiches. With them to lay the table very quickly. And remember that the shelf life and freshness of dishes will primarily depend on the quality of the original ingredients.
