10 really New Year dishes for table decorations
Educational Program Food / / December 19, 2019
1. Snack "Cheese Snowman"
Ingredients
- 800 g of cream cheese;
- 450 g of grated cheddar cheese;
- 2 tablespoons pesto sauce;
- ¼ small onion;
- ¼ teaspoon mustard spoons;
- 1 pinch paprika;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- 1 cucumber;
- 1 olive;
- 1 small piece of carrot;
- 1 small piece of red pepper;
- 2 raisins;
- 2 salted sticks;
- 1 pack of crackers.
preparation
Mix 700 g of butter and grated cheddar cheese. Divide the cheese mixture into three equal parts. Then connect the two of them, add the pesto and stir. In the rest of the cheese mixture, add chopped onions, mustard and paprika and stir. Cover with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 4 hr.
When the cheese mixture becomes potvorzhe, shape of her big and small balloons. Wrap them with cling film and place in the freezer. These balls can be done even a month before the holiday!
12 hours before serving to move the balls from the freezer to the refrigerator. Just before serving, lay a large cheese ball on a dish, put the snowman's head - a small bowl.
Whip 100 g of cream cheese and milk, and the resulting mixture obmazhte snowman. Cut 2-3 thin strips of cucumber and make of them a scarf. Cut the olives and make the buttons. Carrot and pepper shape nose and mouth, and of the highlights - the eye. On each side insert the salty sticks - hands snowman. Serve snacks and crackers.
2. Salad with crab sticks "Christmas wreath"
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons of rice;
- 250 g of surimi;
- 1 sour-sweet apple;
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 50 g of grated hard cheese;
- 4 tablespoons canned corn;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- 100 g of mayonnaise;
- 1 fennel beam;
- 1 bunch green onions.
preparation
Boil rice in salt water. Drain, rinse and cool Fig.
Cut crab sticks into small cubes, leaving five sticks to decorate the wreath. Peel the apple peeled, cored and cut into small cubes. Sprinkle apples with lemon juice to keep it dark. Cut a tomato in half and leave half for decoration. 1,5 tomato dice.
Mix the cooled rice, crab sticks, apple, tomato, grated cheese, 3 tablespoons corn, salt, pepper and mayonnaise. Arrange the salad on a serving dish, forming from it a Christmas wreath. To make a hole in the middle, put the dishes in the center of a small jar and lay the salad around it.
Plug the whole crab sticks in the garland. Half of the tomato, cut the lights and paste them into candles. Chop half the beam of dill and a bunch of onions. Sprinkle with chopped salad greens, and overlaid on top of whole dill. Garnish with the remaining corn.
3. Christmas trees of mashed potatoes
Ingredients
- 900 g of potatoes;
- 120 g butter;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- 1 large egg;
- 2 large yellow peppers.
preparation
Peel the potatoes, cut them into large cubes and boil for puree. Drain the water from the potatoes, add oil to room temperature, salt and pepper. Mix well and leave for 10-15 minutes. When the mash has cooled slightly, to drive in the egg and mix well again. To make green Christmas trees, you can add a little pesto sauce.
Put the puree in a pastry bag with a nozzle in the form of a star. Cover the baking parchment paper and place it in the form of puree firs.
Put baking in a preheated 200 ° C oven for 15-20 minutes until lightly browned herringbone. Decorate them with asterisks cut peppers and serve hot.
4. Salad with mushrooms "Christmas gift"
Ingredients
- 250 g mushrooms;
- 1 onion;
- a little bit of vegetable oil;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- 300 g smoked chicken breast;
- 1 paprika;
- 2 pickles;
- 2 carrots;
- 5 eggs;
- 300 g of mayonnaise;
- 1 beets;
- ½ bunch of parsley.
preparation
Fry mushrooms chopped onion and chopped vegetable oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Dice smoked breast, bell peppers and cucumbers. Boil eggs and carrots until tender and rub them on a grater, leaving one carrot for decoration.
Put on a serving dish in the form of a square ingredients in this order: chicken, cucumbers, carrots, eggs, mushrooms and onions, peppers. Each layer promazyvat mayonnaise. They also cover the lettuce on top and on the sides.
Cut out the rest of boiled carrots four long, thin strips. Put them in a salad, as shown in the photo. Boil the beets, clean, cut into thin slices, form a rosette of them and place it in the center of the "gift".
Garnish with parsley salad leaves and place for a few hours in the refrigerator.
5. Canapés "Christmas socks"
Ingredients
- 5 frankfurters;
- a little cream cheese;
- a few sprigs of parsley;
- a small piece of red pepper.
preparation
Cook the sausages: they have enough for 10 canapés. Cut the sausages in half. Then each half cut in half again, but at an acute angle.
Attach pieces of sausage cut together and fasten skewers.
Using a confectionery syringe or a bag edge garnish socks cream cheese. Middle fix small sprig of parsley and a tiny piece of red pepper.
6. Salad with prunes "Christmas tree"
Ingredients
- 200 g of dried prunes;
- 2 beet;
- salt - to taste;
- 200 g grated hard cheese;
- 4 eggs;
- 250 g of mayonnaise;
- 1 fennel beam;
- 1 slice of red bell pepper;
- a few grains of pomegranate.
preparation
This salad is laid in layers in the shape of Christmas trees. Each layer should be lubricated mayonnaise.
Cut the prunes into small pieces and place a circle on a serving dish. Boil the beets, Rub on a grater, put on prunes and podsolite Next layer - grated cheese. Then put grated boiled eggs and a little salt.
Lubricate the resulting herringbone mayonnaise. From top to bottom cover dill, garnish with cut out red pepper and star garnet grains. By the way, instead of grains of pomegranate can use canned corn.
7. Christmas sandwiches
Ingredients
- 12 slices of bread;
- 200 g of cream cheese;
- ½ green onion beam;
- 1 red bell pepper;
- 1 large cucumber.
preparation
For the preparation of these sandwiches, you will need metal molds for cookies in the form of large and small stars. If a piece of bread can be cut two big stars, then the specified quantity of grain you get 12 sandwiches. Therefore, adjust the amount of the ingredients, depending on the size of the shapes.
Lightly fry the slices of bread, so they browned. Cut out these great stars. Spread half of the cream cheese. And in the other half of the cut in the middle of little stars.
One-third of blurred cheese sandwiches sprinkle with chopped onion, the second - chopped bell pepper, and a third cover with thin strips of cucumber. Cover with prepared with stars cut out the middle.
By the way, the stuffing can pick up on your taste for sandwiches. It may be thin slices of sausage, fried bacon bits, tomatoes and other ingredients.
8. Christmas brownies
Ingredients
For brownies:
- 180 g butter;
- Unsweetened chocolate 120 g;
- 3 large eggs,
- 400 g of sugar;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- vanillin - pinch;
- 120 g flour;
- a little vegetable oil.
- some M & M's candies.
For the glaze:
- 500 g of powdered sugar;
- 60 g butter;
- 4 tablespoons of milk;
- vanillin - pinch;
- green food coloring.
preparation
Melt butter and chocolate in a microwave oven. Stir until smooth and leave to cool.
In a separate bowl whisk together the eggs, sugar and salt. Add the vanilla and chocolate mixture. Gradually add flour, mixing thoroughly dough.
Cover the foil baking dish size of about 30 × 20 cm and grease oil. Put the dough into a mold and put in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 25-30 minutes.
While brownies cools, mix powdered sugar, butter, milk and vanilla and beat with a mixer until smooth. Use of food coloring dye glaze green.
Cut out the Christmas tree cake, spread it on the icing and decorate with candy.
9. Cake "Snow-Covered Wreath"
Ingredients
For the cake:
- a little bit of vegetable oil;
- 370 g flour;
- 100 g cocoa;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon of baking soda;
- 240 ml of sour cream;
- vanillin - pinch;
- 1 pinch cinnamon;
- 250 g butter;
- 400 g of sugar;
- 2 large eggs;
- 240 ml of milk.
To decorate:
- 1 orange;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 3 sprigs of rosemary;
- few cranberries or cherries (frozen or fresh);
- several ginger snap;
- 3 candy canes.
For the glaze:
- 3 large eggs,
- 150 g of sugar;
- 1 pinch salt;
- vanilla - on the tip of a knife.
preparation
Grease a cake pan with vegetable oil and sprinkle lightly with flour, shaking off excess. In a bowl, mix 360 g flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda. In another - the sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon.
Electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until smooth. One by one, add the eggs and beat well. Enter spiced sour cream. Then gradually add the flour mixture and milk, whisking batter mixer.
Put the dough into a cake pan and bake in a preheated 160 ° C oven for 40-50 minutes. Willingness to check with a toothpick: she must leave the cake is completely clean.
Orange to decorate the cake should be prepared in advance. Cut into thin slices (for the cake, you will need 3-4 slices), put on the laid parchment baking sheet and bake for two hours at 100 ° C.
In the meantime cools the cake, pour into the pan a glass of water, add 100 g of sugar, put on low heat and wait until the sugar has dissolved. Combine fire and cook another minute and remove from heat. Dip in syrup sprigs of rosemary, shake, roll in remaining sugar and place on a plate, so they dry. Repeat the same with the berries.
Glaze should be done in a water bath. Pour into pan 2.5 cm of water and bring to boil. In a bowl, combine the egg whites, sugar and salt. Place the bowl over a saucepan and whisk whisk the mixture for 3-5 minutes, until the sugar dissolves. Then remove the bowl, add vanilla and beat with a mixer glaze More 7-10 minutes.
Put the icing on the cooled cake. Garnish with oranges, candied berries and sprigs of rosemary, ginger candies and cookies.
10. Coconut biscuits "herringbone"
Ingredients
Cookie:
- 120 g butter;
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- 280 g coconut;
- vanillin - pinch;
- green food coloring.
To decorate:
- 100 g of the white chocolate;
- 1 teaspoon of butter;
- 1 tablespoon milk;
- some M & M's candies.
preparation
Melt the butter. Add to it the powdered sugar and milk and mix. Then vsypte coconut, vanilla and food coloring. Once again mix well. Form the mixture into small cones.
Put a herringbone refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Then, stirring constantly, over low heat, melt the chocolate, butter and milk. Dip crown firs glaze, decorate candies, put into a container and put in the refrigerator.
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