Snacks for the New Year 2019

When composing a New Year's menu, be sure to include at least one hot snack and a few cold ones. New Year's table without them looks rather poor, even if the hostess was not too lazy to cook a few salads and a gorgeous dessert. Snacks for the New Year 2019, you can choose both traditional and original. The only limitation is the absence of pork in the composition of these dishes. This is due to the fact that, according to the eastern calendar, the coming year will pass under the sign of Pig, and the lord of the year is unlikely to like it if you eat the meat of its relatives.

Cooking Features

The complexity of preparing appetizers for the New Year's table depends on the selected recipe. Technological processes can also have significant differences. However, regardless of the recipe chosen, the hostess will need to know a few things.

• Christmas snacks are often made from expensive products. Wanting to save, many housewives buy them in advance, at the lowest possible prices or on sales. This increases the risk of purchasing a low-quality product. It happens that by the New Year delicacies become stale. When purchasing products for the holiday, it is important to make sure that they are of good quality and their shelf life is large enough.
• The preparation of some snacks takes a lot of time, which causes housewives not to delay this process for the last day. However, long before the holiday, they are still not worth doing, as they will lose their freshness, become tasteless or even dangerous to health. If the appetizer involves slicing, then it’s better to keep its ingredients whole, and chop them just before the holiday - it won't take long.
• It is not always that dishes made with sophisticated technology and expensive products excel the taste and beauty of the snacks from the available ingredients, the preparation of which does not take a lot of energy. Do not ignore recipes that at first glance seem too modest and simple.

How appetizing and festive the appetizer looks like depends not only on its recipe, but also on its presentation when serving. Many New Year's dishes provide a certain flow, you should not ignore these recommendations. However, to use your own imagination when decorating dishes is not prohibited. If the recipe does not provide any design appetizers, the dish can be decorated with sprigs of fennel, resembling fir branches, sprinkle with frozen berries. This decoration is suitable for almost any food and give it a truly New Year's look.

Profiteroles with cheese and cod liver

Composition:

• wheat flour - 140 g;
• water - 120 ml;
• chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
• margarine - 60 g;
• salt - a pinch;
• feta cheese - 0, 3 kg;
• cod liver - 0, 2 kg.

Method of preparation:

• Sift flour.
• Cut margarine into slices, mix with water and salt.
• Heat in a water bath or on very low heat, stirring until the water boils. Margarine by this time it should completely melt.
• Intensively whisk the contents of the pan, pour the flour into it.
• Remove thickened dough from heat. Wait until it cools down to 50 degrees so that the eggs do not cook in it.
• Add eggs one by one to the dough and beat with a mixer at low speed. As a result, the dough should have a homogeneous consistency resembling a thick cream.
• Place the choux pastry in the cooking bag. Baking cover the baking paper. Set the dough out of the bag at a distance of a few centimeters from each other. Your task is to get baking balls from choux pastry while baking.
• Heat the oven to 200 degrees and place a pan with dough in it. Bake until ready for 25-30 minutes. Do not open the oven at this time.
• While the profiteroles are being prepared, prepare the stuffing. To do this, you need to beat the cheese with a mixer, then add cod liver to it along with the oil in which it is conserved, and beat it again until a homogeneous mass.
• In the finished custard balls, make small holes.
• Put the stuffing in the culinary bag. Inserting the nozzle into the holes, fill the profiteroles with cream.

An appetizer made according to this recipe is suitable for a table set as a banquet or buffet table. It is pleasant to take balls with a filling, it is convenient to eat them, and a gentle snack cannot leave anyone indifferent.

Simple krill meat filling on chips

Composition:

• krill meat (canned) - 100 g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc .;
• hard cheese - 100 g;
• mayonnaise, fresh greens - to taste;
• tomato - 1 pc .;
• chips - 40 g.

Method of preparation:

• Cut the tomato in a zigzag pattern to create a shape resembling a flower. Put in the center of the plate.
• Cool a boiled chicken egg under cold running water, free from shell, chop on a grater.
• Coarsely grate hard cheese, put the cheese chips to the ground egg.
• Transfer krill meat from cans to other products.
• Add a spoonful of mayonnaise to them, mix.
• Place a teaspoon of lettuce in the center of a tomato flower. Arrange the rest of the salad in chips.
• Place the chips around the tomato.
• Finely chop the greens with a knife, sprinkle with it a snack.

Filling the chips with a salad should be done shortly before they are delivered to the New Year's table, otherwise they will quickly be sodden. The pleasant pinkish color of the snack will suit the symbol of the coming year - Pig.

“Snowballs” of crab sticks

Composition:

• processed cheese - 150 g;
• crab sticks - 150 g;
• chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
• butter - 100 g;
• pitted olives - 100 g;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• lettuce leaves - as required.

Method of preparation:

• Remove the butter from the refrigerator 20-30 minutes before starting the preparation of the snack, so that it is softened.
• Crab sticks and cheese simultaneously with the extraction of oil from the refrigerator, put it in the freezer, so that it would be easier to grind them later.
• Place boiled eggs. Boil them 10 minutes after boiling water in a saucepan. Salt the water itself so that the eggs are not cracked. Place the eggs under a stream of cold water to cool them faster. As a result, all the necessary ingredients will be prepared for one time.
• Peel the eggs, mash the yolks with a fork.
• Cream cheese and surimi rub, put to the yolks.
• Add to it softened butter and garlic passed through a press, mix well.
• Rub the proteins and pour them into a separate plate.
• Put the olives out of the jar.
• Take a spoonful of the mixture of butter, cheese, eggs and crab sticks, make a cake from it. Place an olive in the center. Lift the edges of the cakes, hiding the olive in the prepared mass. Form a ball out of it, roll it in squirrels, put it on a plate.
• Similarly, form snowballs from the remaining mass.
• Remove the balls of crab sticks to the fridge for at least an hour so that the butter has time to harden.

Before serving snacks, lay salad leaves on a plate and put frozen snowballs on them. Snack should be served cold: if the butter melts, the balls will be inconvenient to take, they may lose their neat shape.

Hot appetizer on chicken and cheese skewers

Composition:

• chicken breast fillet - 0.5 kg;
• hard cheese - 100 g;
• Adyghe cheese - 150 g;
• small bulbs - 0, 2 kg;
• dried apricots - 10 pcs .;
• table vinegar (9 percent) - 80 ml;
• kefir - 0, 25 l;
• seasoning for chicken - 20 g;
• sugar - 20 g;
• salt - 5 g;
• olive oil - as needed.

Method of preparation:

• Boil a glass of water, add salt, sugar and 60 ml of vinegar to it, mix well.
• Put the peeled onions in the marinade, leave for a few hours (you can also spend the night).
• Chicken fillet cut into cubes of about 2-2, 5 cm.
• Mix the kefir with the remaining vinegar and chicken seasoning.
• Put the chicken fillet in kefir and leave for 30-60 minutes.
• Put the chicken fillet in a baking dish and send it to an oven preheated to 180 degrees. The form must be oiled, cover with foil.
• Cook the chicken for 20-30 minutes.
• Dried apricots pour boiling water. Leave for 15 minutes. Drain, squeeze dried fruit.
• String on wooden skewers, alternating, pieces of chicken, cubes of Adyghe and hard cheese, dried apricots and onions.
• Send skewers for 2-3 minutes in the oven to soften the cheese.

Serving a snack should be hot, although after cooling it retains a pleasant taste.

Beef under pineapple

Composition:

• ground beef - 0, 5 kg;
• pineapple - 1 pc .;
• hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
• mayonnaise - 100 ml;
• vegetable oil - 20 ml;
• spices for meat, salt - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Peel the pineapple, cut into washers about 5 mm thick.
• From the stuffing form a flat cake resembling flat patties.
• Put the resulting minced meat cakes in a greased form a short distance from each other. Salt and pepper them.
• Place a pineapple circle on each patty.
• Grind grated cheese, pour them meat blanks.
• Moisten the palms, tamp the cheese. Brush it with mayonnaise.
• Heat the oven to 200 degrees and place the beef mince in it under the pineapples and cheese. Cook for 30-40 minutes.

If you cook a similar snack of beef chops, the meat will be baked for a long time, in the end it can be dry and tough. This recipe makes beef juicy and soft. This appetizer can serve as a good alternative to meat in French. Serve it should be hot.

Chicken roll with cheese and dill

Composition:

• chicken breast - 0, 4-0, 5 kg;
• hard cheese - 150 g;
• dill - 50 g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc .;
• breadcrumbs - 50 g;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• mayonnaise - as required;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Remove skin from chicken breast. Cut off the meat from the bones and remove them, trying not to disturb the integrity of the fillet itself.
• Place the chicken meat in the bag and beat it to make it as flat as possible.
• Salt and pepper the chicken fillet, grease it with mayonnaise on the inside.
• Sprinkle with grated cheese and chopped dill.
• Roll up the chicken fillet.
• Using a cooking brush, coat the roll with a beaten egg on all sides, then roll the preparation in breadcrumbs.
• Heat the butter in a pan, put the roll in it. For 5 minutes, brown it on one side, then turn it over and fry on the other side for the same amount of time.
• Fried chicken roll put in a baking dish.
• Heat the oven to 200 degrees and place a roll with it in it.
• Bake poultry for 20 minutes.
• Take the roll out of the oven. Wait for it to cool slightly, then place it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Before serving, the cooled roll is cut obliquely and spread on a meat platter or separately. When hot, this appetizer is also tasty, but neatly chop it without cooling it, you are unlikely to succeed.

Puff Pastry Snack Cake with Canned Fish

Composition:

• frozen puff pastry (yeast or fresh) - 0, 4 kg;
• canned fish in oil (saury or other) - 0, 25 kg;
• purple onions - 100 g;
• chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
• carrots - 0, 25 kg;
• walnuts (peeled) - 100 g;
• green onions - 50 g;
• mayonnaise - 100 ml;
• processed cheese - 0, 2 kg.

Method of preparation:

• Thaw the dough, divide it into 4 equal parts. Roll each piece into a layer with a thickness of no more than 0, 5 cm. The layers must have the same shape and size, since one will have to assemble a cake.
• Put the layers on a baking tray lined with parchment.
• Heat oven to 180 degrees. Place in it a baking sheet with blanks. Bake them for 20 minutes, then cool.
• Put canned food in a bowl with butter, mash with a fork.
• Cool the melted cheese for 20 minutes in the freezer to make it easier to grind. Rub, split in half.
• Put half of the cheese to the canned fish.
• Free the onions from the husk, finely chop and place in a bowl of fish and cheese. Add a spoonful of mayonnaise to them, mix well.
• Wash carrots. Boil until ready. Wait for it to cool. Peel, chop on a grater. Put in a clean bowl.
• Boil eggs hard, cool under cold running water, clean.
• Grate the eggs and place them in the carrots.
• Dry the nuts in a dry frying pan. Finely chop them with a knife.
• Place half of the nut crumb on the carrot. Add mayonnaise, leaving half a spoon.
• Add the remaining cheese to the carrots and eggs. Mix well.
• A dish on which you will serve a snack cake to the table, in the center, cover with mayonnaise left. Put the first cake on it.
• Put half the carrot mass on the cake. Cover the second cake.
• On the second cake, place half the canned fish salad. Cover with a third cake plate.
• Repeat layers, sprinkle top with remaining nut chips.

For the fate of the snack cake you can be calm: it will be eaten by guests and households without a trace.

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