It is generally believed that in order to be lucky at home all year round, the symbol of the coming year should be appeased. The symbol of 2016 is considered a mischievous Fire Monkey, and therefore the New Year's menu in the year of the Monkey should be thought of as a guest from warm countries.
Year of the Fiery Monkey: a menu on the New Year's table
Let's quickly go through the main products, which must be included in the festive menu and we will not bypass the ingredients that are banned.
Add the brightness of the banquet can fruit (necessarily find a place for bananas), bright vegetables and greens. Fish dishes should completely displace or significantly prevail over meat - Fiery Monkey does not like meat, and in particular beef and rabbit. In terms of snacks, the Monkey is unpretentious, loves light salads with nuts, cheese and eggs. It is not necessary to bypass traditional New Year's dishes, like jellied, salads "Olivier" and "Shuba."
Hot New Year's dishes: pork roll
Ingredients:
- pork tenderloin - 1.4 kg;
- minced meat - 440 g;
- butter - 35 g;
- sharp sausages - 90 g;
- onion - 115 g;
- garlic - 4 teeth;
- pumpkin - 240 g.
Preparation
Start with the filling. After heating a piece of butter, sprinker on it onions and add to it minced meat. When the minced meat grasps, put the sausages and wait until all the fat comes out of them. Add the chopped cloves of chopped garlic and the pumpkin cubed. When the pumpkin slices reach the half-ready level - remove the filling from the fire and grasp the meat.
Cut the tenderloin along, not to the end, open in the manner of the book and beat it into a layer of equal thickness. Season the meat and spread the filling over it. Fold the pork, fix the roll and send it to bake for 20 minutes at 230 degrees, and then another 40 at 170.
Hot snack
Ingredients:
- champignons - 840 g;
- minced meat - 420 g;
- bread crumb - 1/2 st .;
- dry white wine - 45 ml;
- grated cheese - 210 g.
Preparation
Separate the legs of champignons from the hats and chop them. Save the chopped mushrooms until the moisture evaporates completely, and then mix them with bread crumb and minced meat. Add to the meat dry wine and grated cheese, leaving about a third for sprinkling the dish on top. Fill the meat with mushroom hats, sprinkle with cheese and send to prepare for 45 minutes at 190 degrees.
Cold appetizer
A good addition to the menu on New Year's Eve 2016 is a portioned cheese balls, which are prepared on the basis of cream cheese or processed cheese, and then sprinkled with chopped nuts - everything like the Monkey likes.
Ingredients:
- cream cheese - 440 g;
- hard cheese - 115 g;
- bacon - 6 slices;
- Dried garlic - 1/2 tsp;
- walnuts - 1/2 tbsp.
Preparation
Fry the bacon to a crunch, and chilling, turn it into a crumb. Mix the crumbs of bacon with cream cheese and grated cheese. Add the finished mass with salt and dried garlic. Roll the balls out of the mixture and roll each one in chopped walnuts.
New Year's salad
Ingredients:
- tuna in its own juice - 480 g;
- eggs - 6 pcs .;
- sweet pepper - 110 g;
- a stalk of celery - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise - 270 ml;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- handful of green parsley.
Preparation
Drain excess liquid from canned tuna, and then disassemble the fish into smaller pieces. Grind the boiled eggs and mix them with fish and chopped pepper. Add the celery pieces to the dish, and then season with a mixture of mayonnaise and mustard. In the finale, put chopped parsley.