For the New Year's table, you can prepare as many different snacks, festive canapés and sandwiches as possible. They should be made with cheese, meat, fish and combined ones. This will satisfy the preferences of all guests and family members. Since there are so many recipes for these dishes, choosing the best ones is not so easy.
Cold and hot snacks are best made in small sizes. You can simply serve them on a plate, in a tartlet, on bread or toasted ciabatta, in the form of small rolls or sticks. Since they are small in size, the taste of the dish should be pronounced, very rich and memorable.
Meat balls with cheese
A fragrant hot appetizer will be a delicious start to the New Year's feast.
You will need:
150 g of minced meat, 100 g of cheese, 1 onion, 3 eggs, 4 potatoes, 1 clove of garlic, 2 tbsp.
sour cream, 2 tbsp. flour, salt, pepper. Preparation:
Grate the boiled potatoes on a coarse grater, add garlic, spices and 1 egg, place the dough in silicone molds. Mix the minced meat with onion, roll into balls and place in potato baskets. Beat the remaining eggs with sour cream and spices, fill the baskets, sprinkle with cheese and bake for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees.
"Snack" cheese
Components:
- five hundred grams of fresh cheese;
- two raw chicken eggs;
- three tablespoons of premium flour;
- a quarter cup of sunflower oil;
- spices.
Mix the chicken eggs thoroughly with salt and spices, then add flour and beat until the dough has a liquid consistency. Cut the prepared cheese into small cubes, then dip them in batter and fry in a hot frying pan with sunflower oil until the characteristic golden crust appears. Place the pieces of cheese on a paper towel and let it absorb the remaining oil. The correct way to serve this type of hot appetizer is on a large flat plate, sprinkling the cheese with ground black pepper and accompanied by mustard sauce.
"Snack" cheese
Snack "New Year's houses"
Instead of filling, use pate, melted cheese salad or something else of a similar consistency.
You will need:
1 cup flour, 50 g butter, 150 g flour, 2 eggs, salt, filling.
Preparation:
Boil a glass of water with butter and salt, add flour and make the dough, stirring. Add the eggs, mix until smooth and place the dough on the parchment in pyramids. Bake them until golden brown at 180 degrees, cut them and put a ball of filling inside. Give the filling the shape of a cube, depict windows made of carrots and a pickled cucumber spruce around it.
Hot appetizer of eggplant and chicken fillet
To prepare this simple hot dish, we need the following products:
- five medium-sized eggplants;
- four hundred grams of fresh chicken fillet;
- two small onions;
- one hundred grams of hard cheese;
- a hundred gram pack of butter;
- a glass of homemade sour cream;
- a bunch of parsley;
- spices to taste.
Hot appetizer of eggplant and chicken fillet
The recipe for this snack is quite simple, which will save a lot of effort and energy. First of all, wash the blue ones, peel them and cut them into small pieces. Next, they need to be marinated with salt, this will give their taste less bitterness and make the structure softer. At this time, you need to peel the onion and chop it finely. After you've coated the eggplant slices with salt and left them in a warm place for thirty minutes, rinse off the remaining salt and let the vegetables dry.
Heat a frying pan, melt half the prepared butter in it and fry the eggplant slices, add the onion and fry everything until a light golden crust is obtained. About five minutes before the vegetables are ready, add the washed and finely chopped parsley to the pan. Next, wash the chicken meat and cut it into small cubes. In a second frying pan, melt the remaining amount of butter and fry the fillet.
The last stage of preparation - take a high baking sheet or baking dish, grease the inner walls with oil, lay out eggplants with onions and meat in several layers. Each layer should be generously sprinkled with grated cheese and seasoned with sour cream; the topmost layer should be cheese. For complete readiness, bake the dish at a temperature of two hundred degrees for twenty to thirty minutes. After this, cut the future appetizer into small pieces and serve on a flat dish to the table.
Simple fish appetizer
A great recipe to cook mackerel or pink salmon for the New Year!
You will need:
150 g lightly salted fish, 200 g cream cheese, 2 tbsp.
water, 1 tbsp. gelatin, half a cucumber, a quarter of sweet pepper, dill, 3 tbsp. olive oil, 2 tbsp. lemon juice. Preparation:
Mix fish with cream cheese in a blender until smooth. Add chopped dill and gelatin dissolved according to instructions.
Mix, pour everything into silicone molds, cover with film and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Fry finely diced vegetables in olive oil and lemon juice and garnish the appetizer when serving.
Pork appetizer in the form of a roll with sweet bell pepper
A rosy, juicy piece of pork rolled into a roll stuffed with aromatic bell pepper and juicy pickled cucumber – it’s incredibly delicious!
We will need:
- pork tenderloin – 800 gr
- bell pepper – 1-2 pcs
- pickled cucumber – 1 pc.
- salt, pepper - to taste
- vegetable oil – 2-3 tbsp. spoons
Preparation:
1. Cut the pork into 5 pieces of equal thickness. Wrap each piece in cling film and beat with a hammer.
2. Cut the pepper and pickled cucumber into thin strips.
3. Remove the cling film from the meat and salt and pepper each piece. Place some chopped pepper and cucumber on the edge of each.
4. Roll up the rolls and tie them tightly with kitchen string.
5. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the rolls over high heat on all sides until golden brown.
6. Cover the pan with a lid and reduce heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes.
Serve on a platter garnished with lettuce or herbs.
Snack "New Year's balls"
Filled balls resemble Japanese onigiri and look very impressive on the New Year's table.
You will need:
350 g rice, 200 g minced meat, 2 carrots, 30 g onions, 1 egg, 0.5 tsp.
turmeric, 1.5 tsp. paprika, herbs and spices. Preparation:
Mix the minced meat with onion, garlic, beaten egg and spices and form into round cutlets. Fry them in a frying pan or bake them in the oven in grated carrots.
Boil the rice, divide it into several parts and add turmeric to one, paprika to another, and herbs to the third. Place it on cling film and place carrots and meat cutlet on top. Form into a tight ball.
Hot snacks for the New Year 2021
Hot cooking methods require longer cooking times than cold cooking methods. And this is understandable, because they often use meat, chicken or fish, which we fry, or bake, or boil. Well, if we prepare dishes from vegetables, then they must also undergo thermal preparation.
Of course, it takes more time to prepare such dishes, but it’s worth it. The dishes turn out to be very impressive, interesting and, of course, tasty. Let's look at a few of these recipes.
Eggs stuffed with mushrooms
A combination that has long become a classic and will definitely please guests at the New Year's table!
You will need:
6 eggs, 150 g mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 pickled cucumber, 3 tbsp.
mayonnaise, 1 tsp. mustard and garlic powder, spices and herbs. Preparation:
Grease a muffin tin with vegetable oil and place the yolk and white into each bowl separately. Cover with foil, place on a baking sheet, pour water into it and bake for 15 minutes at 160 degrees.
Fry the onions with mushrooms and spices, and mash the prepared yolks with a fork and mix with diced cucumber. Combine the ingredients for the filling, add mayonnaise with mustard and spices and place everything on the egg whites.
New Year's Julien "Provence"
The dish is one of the simplest and, at the same time, most delicious in the arsenal of any holiday table. It will take you no more than fifteen minutes to prepare it.
New Year's Julien "Provence"
Prepare the ingredients:
- two hundred grams of smoked chicken breast;
- one raw chicken egg;
- a glass of homemade sour cream;
- thirty grams of any butter;
- a teaspoon of premium flour;
- seasonings to taste.
After cutting the fillet into small strips, lightly fry it in a frying pan. Next, let's prepare the sauce - melt the butter in a frying pan, stir the sour cream in it, then add a well-beaten chicken egg to the sour cream. Grease a baking dish with oil, place the meat in it and pour the prepared sauce over it. The dish should be baked in the oven until cooked at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees.
Puff Christmas trees with cottage cheese
Take ready-made yeast-free dough - and it will take you a maximum of half an hour to prepare this New Year's snack!
You will need:
250 g of dough, 1 egg, 2 tbsp.
cottage cheese, 6 olives, 1 tsp. soy sauce, sesame. Preparation:
Roll out the puff pastry, cut out the Christmas trees, brush with egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake until golden brown at 200 degrees. Mix cottage cheese, soy sauce and finely chopped olives. Cut the Christmas trees in half and place the filling between the halves.
New Year's snack in cookies
Thanks to the crackers, these “sandwiches” are very convenient to take with your hands.
You will need:
10 crackers, 4 tbsp.
chopped chicken breast (boiled or smoked), 1 tsp. green onions, 1 clove of garlic, 1 tsp. soy sauce, 2 tbsp. hard cheese, 1 egg, 3 tbsp. walnuts, 2 tsp. mayonnaise. Preparation:
Mix the chopped breast with crushed garlic and grated cheese. Add soy sauce, onion and spices, mix everything with mayonnaise. Place a circle of boiled egg, filling and a second cracker on the cracker, and roll the sides of the snack in chopped walnuts.
Ham rolls with cheese and nuts
What do you need:
- turkey ham – 0.4 kg;
- hard cheese – 0.2 kg;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- walnuts – 50 g;
- green onions - how much will take.
How to cook:
- Cut the ham into as thin slices as possible.
- Grind the nuts using a blender, coffee grinder or meat grinder.
- Crush the garlic.
- Finely grate the cheese.
- Combine cheese, garlic and nuts, turning into a homogeneous mass.
- Place a spoonful of cheese and nut spread on a slice of ham, roll it up, and tie it with a green onion.
- Using this principle, form rolls from the remaining ham and cheese mixture.
When serving, a dish with ham and cheese rolls can be decorated with sprigs of dill and pomegranate seeds. The symbol of the coming year will definitely like this snack.
Cheese snowmen
Another classic appetizer with a twist that kids will love.
You will need:
100 g cheese, 1 egg, 2 tbsp.
mayonnaise, 9 olives, 2 cloves of garlic, a piece of carrot. Preparation:
Mix grated cheese with grated egg, mayonnaise and crushed garlic. Take some of the mixture, put a pitted olive inside and roll it into a ball. Build a snowman out of 2-3 balls, cut out his eyes from an olive and his nose from a carrot.
Santa Claus bags
Pancakes are least associated with the New Year, and it’s completely in vain!
You will need:
400 ml milk, 2 eggs, a pinch of sugar and salt, 170 g flour, 3 tbsp.
vegetable oil, 300 g chicken, 70 g rice, 1 carrot, 1 onion, herbs, spices, 2 tbsp. mayonnaise. Preparation:
Mix the dough from milk, eggs, vegetable oil and flour with salt and sugar, and fry thin small pancakes. Cut the chicken into small pieces or grind into minced meat and fry with chopped onions and carrots. Mix the filling, add spices, herbs and mayonnaise, place it on the pancake, form a bag and tie it with green onions or braided cheese.
Original appetizer “Piglets” made from squid
Such beauty will not leave anyone indifferent. Tested more than once! And although we see cute piglets, the secret is that they are made from squid.
We will need:
- squid – 10-15 carcasses (medium)
- vegetable oil for frying
- black peppercorns - for eyes
- mayonnaise or Dijon sauce
For minced meat:
- rice – 100-150 gr
- champignons – 15-20 pcs
- eggs – 3-5 pcs
- onion – 1 pc.
- carrots – 1 pc.
- mayonnaise (or any other sauce)
Preparation:
1. Clean the squid. Place in boiling water for a couple of seconds. Carefully cut off the tentacles, they will be useful to us later.
2. Prepare minced meat. Cook and cool the rice. Boil and cut eggs into cubes. Chop onions and carrots.
3. Cut the champignons into small plates. Fry onions, carrots and mushrooms in oil.
4. Add eggs and rice to them. Mix. Mix with mayonnaise or other sauce.
5. Cooking “piglets”. Fill the squid carcasses with prepared minced meat.
6. Make small cuts in place of the ears and eyes. Place a peppercorn in the eyes. Cut out triangles from the tentacles and attach ears to the “piglets”. Make tails from the thinnest tentacles.
7. Place the finished piglets on a baking sheet, grease with sauce or mayonnaise, or Dijon sauce.
8. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the “piglets” for 10-15 minutes.
Serve hot to the enthusiastic exclamations of all guests!
These are such beautiful recipes. If you prepare such dishes for the holiday table, they will bring a lot of joy to both adults and children.
Let me also remind you that appetizers, salads and other holiday dishes can be found in a specially compiled menu for the New Year's holiday. And you don’t need to look for anything anywhere else, all the best is collected here - these are Golden recipes, tested by people and time.
And when we have the most delicious and beautiful dishes on the table, the next Year will be successful for us in all respects.
Bon appetit! And Happy New Year!
Author of the publication
Italian appetizer
A minimum of ingredients, but a maximum of lightness and freshness at the New Year's table!
You will need:
3 tomatoes, 250 g mozzarella, 16 basil leaves, 3 tbsp.
olive oil. Preparation:
Cut the tomatoes into slices about 1 cm thick, and cut the cheese into the same slices. Place the tomato, cheese, basil leaf and tomato on a plate and drizzle with olive oil. You can add salt and sprinkle with chopped herbs or spices on top.
Adzhapsandali
Georgian cold appetizer will delight eggplant lovers.
You will need:
250 g tomatoes, 1 onion, 250 g eggplants, spices.
Preparation:
Peel the eggplants, cut into slices, salt, squeeze and put under a press for a couple of hours. Fry the eggplant until soft and set aside. Fry the chopped onion, and then add grated or crushed tomatoes to it. Place the tomato filling between the eggplant slices.
Zucchini with curd cheese
Another easy New Year's snack option for those watching calories.
You will need:
1 zucchini, 1 cucumber, 150 g of cottage cheese, 1 clove of garlic, spices, mint leaves.
Preparation:
Cut the zucchini into slices and fry in a non-stick or grill pan. Chop the cucumber into small cubes, add crushed garlic and spices, and mix everything with cheese. Place the cheese filling on zucchini circles and garnish with herbs, mint or nuts.
Sour cream mushrooms in white wine
We will need:
- half a kilogram of champignons;
- half a glass of any white wine;
- two tablespoons of homemade sour cream;
- fifty grams of hard cheese;
- a slice of butter;
- half a clove of garlic;
- seasonings to taste.
Sour cream mushrooms in white wine
Wash the mushrooms, peel them, then cut them into as thin slices as possible. After melting the butter in a frying pan, pour the mushrooms into it, add salt and fry for two to three minutes, then add the prepared wine and simmer for another fifty minutes with the lid closed. Crush a clove of garlic with a knife, add it to the dish, sprinkle with spices and mix the resulting mixture well.
At this stage, the mushrooms will release as much water as possible, gain characteristic tartaric acid and be very tender. The mixture must be placed in a special form, poured with sour cream and sprinkled with pre-grated cheese. Our dish should be baked in the oven at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees until a characteristic golden crust appears on the surface.
New Year's balls made from crab sticks
Thanks to crab sticks, cheese balls acquire not only taste, but also a pleasant shade.
You will need:
200 g crab sticks, 100 g cheese, 2 eggs, 5 tbsp.
mayonnaise, 2 cloves of garlic, 6 olives, 2 green onions, salt. Preparation:
Grate crab sticks, cheese and boiled eggs, mix it all with mayonnaise and salt. Form balls with wet hands, decorate them with olives and make loops of green onions.
Canapes of cucumber rolls with crab meat and cherry tomatoes
What do you need:
- cherry tomatoes – 200-250 g packaging;
- cucumbers – 2-3 pcs.;
- crab sticks (frozen) – 100 g;
- chicken eggs – 3 pcs.;
- processed cheese – 120 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
How to cook:
- Grate the crab sticks without defrosting.
- Grind the cheese and eggs.
- Mix the products by adding a drop of mayonnaise.
- Wash and pat the vegetables dry with a napkin.
- Slice the cucumbers lengthwise into thin slices.
- Closer to one end of the cucumber strip, place a little cheese-crab mixture, roll it up and secure it with a skewer.
- Thread a tomato onto the tip of a skewer.
- Also make canapés from the remaining ingredients.
This simple but very tasty appetizer will refresh the festive table set on the occasion of the New Year 2021.
We invite you to get acquainted with other options for canapés on skewers that can be made for the holiday.
New Year's appetizer with salmon and ham
A simple lavash roll with an unusual combination of ingredients for the New Year's table.
You will need:
2 thin pita bread, 300 g salmon, 300 g ham, 300 g processed cheese, greens.
Preparation:
Grease the pita bread with a thin layer of cheese, lay out a slice of salmon, sprinkle with herbs and lay out the ham. Roll up the pita bread, put it in the freezer for 15 minutes and carefully cut the snack into thin discs.
Pineapples with curry
A beautiful and festive appetizer with boiled eggs.
You will need:
4 eggs, half a pineapple, 1 red onion, 6 tbsp.
yogurt, 1 tsp. curry, 2 tsp. olive oil, 1 tsp. nuts, salt. Preparation:
Fry finely chopped onion and pineapple in olive oil, salt the yogurt and mix with the curry. Boil the eggs, chop finely and add to the pineapples, and then dress the salad with sauce. Serve on lettuce leaves or in baskets.
Stuffed tomatoes
Another delicious and healthy vegetable appetizer for the New Year's table.
You will need:
600 g of large cherry tomatoes, 4 cloves of garlic, 1 bunch of cilantro, 200 g of Adyghe cheese, olive oil, spices.
Preparation:
Grind the garlic in a blender with cilantro and spices and mix with grated cheese and olive oil. Remove the caps from the tomatoes, scoop out the pulp with a spoon, chop it and add to the cheese. Fill each tomato with the filling and cover with a cap.
Cottage cheese cakes with filling
Ingredients:
- four hundred grams of wheat flour;
- the same amount of cottage cheese with fifteen percent fat content;
- two tablespoons of olive oil;
- salt;
- two hundred grams of pork;
- the same amount of feta cheese;
- two tomatoes;
- Bell pepper;
- one onion;
- a bunch of parsley.
Cottage cheese cakes with filling
First you need to prepare the base - mix the cottage cheese and olive oil well, add salt and seasonings to taste. Divide the resulting dough into eight equal parts, then use a rolling pin to roll them out to form flat cakes. Peel and finely chop the onion, chop the cheese, then mix them. Rinse the meat, grind it in a blender or meat grinder, mix the resulting minced meat with finely chopped and fried onions.
Fry the meat mixture in a frying pan for five minutes. Wash the sweet pepper, peel it and cut it into thin strips; the tomato, in turn, needs to be cut into slices. Place cheese and herbs on half of the flatbreads, meat and vegetables on the other, then bake them in the oven at a temperature of two hundred degrees for twenty minutes.
Pumpkin with mushrooms
This snack recipe will make the New Year's table even brighter and more festive.
You will need:
500 g pumpkin, 700 g mushrooms, 120 g bacon, 50 g butter, 50 ml cream, 1 shallot, spices, nuts, cheese.
Preparation:
Cut the pumpkin into small cubes, fry in spices and butter, pour in cream and simmer until soft. Separately, fry the mushrooms with bacon and onions, and chop the nuts and cheese and mix. Place the appetizer in layers in a glass or bowl - pumpkin, mushrooms, cheese and nuts.
Pie with meat and potatoes
Ingredients:
- half a kilogram of ready-made puff pastry;
- kilogram of potatoes;
- four hundred grams of meat;
- one raw egg;
- fifty grams of cheese;
- bulb;
- several pickled cucumbers;
- herbs and spices.
Peel the potatoes, wash them and let them cook, then mash them. Cut the meat into small pieces, add peeled and chopped onion, then fry it in a frying pan for five minutes, add spices and simmer with the lid closed for ten minutes. Then open the lid and fry the minced meat for another three minutes.
Pie with meat and potatoes
While the meat is stewing, cut the cucumbers into small cubes. Cut the prepared puff pastry into small balls and make flat cakes out of them using a rolling pin. Place mashed potatoes, meat and a handful of pickles on each sheet of rolled out dough, then pinch the pies almost completely and place them in a preheated oven at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees until fully cooked.
Caesar on skewers
A snack variation of everyone's favorite salad will pleasantly surprise guests!
You will need:
100 g of white bread, 1 clove of garlic, olive oil, a sprig of dill, 200 g of boiled chicken fillet, 30 g of cheese, 150 g of salad, 100 g of cherry tomatoes, spices, Caesar sauce or light mayonnaise.
Preparation:
Cut the bread into cubes, grate with garlic and fry in olive oil. Cut the chicken into the same cubes, collect all the ingredients on skewers, place on the remaining lettuce leaves and pour over the sauce.
Chicken sticks on a carrot feather bed
Products:
- three hundred grams of chicken fillet;
- one green and one red sweet pepper;
- two medium-sized carrots;
- fifty milliliters of soy sauce;
- ten milliliters of vinegar;
- a tablespoon of sunflower oil;
- seasonings
Chicken sticks on a carrot feather bed
Wash and peel the carrots, then grate them on a fine grater, add salt, seasonings, vinegar and vegetable oil, then mix well. Wash and cut the chicken into small pieces, then fry in oil until golden brown, then add soy sauce, cover and simmer for five minutes. Wash the pepper, peel it and fry it in the sauce left over from the meat. Separately, you need to fry the carrots until the characteristic golden color appears. Take a flat dish, put lettuce leaves on it, place carrots on top, peppers and chicken pieces on it.
Honey sausages with prunes
A hearty and aromatic snack that goes well with beer or strong alcohol.
You will need:
12 mini sausages, 12 prunes, 12 slices of bacon, 1.5 tbsp.
honey Preparation:
Dredge the sausages in honey, top each with a prune and wrap in a slice of bacon. Place the snack in the oven on a baking sheet for 25 minutes at 200 degrees.
French-style meat from minced meat
Meat in French is a truly festive dish that many housewives make for the New Year. Traditionally it is made with pork, but we suggest substituting ground pork, chicken or turkey.
What do you need:
- minced pork – 0.5 kg;
- minced chicken or turkey – 0.3 kg;
- tomatoes – 0.2-0.3 kg;
- onions – 150 g;
- salt, pepper, mayonnaise - to taste;
- hard cheese – 100 g.
How to cook:
- Peel the onion and cut into small pieces.
- Combine both types of minced meat and onion, add salt and pepper. Stir with your hands.
- Form the minced meat into patties, flatten them between your palms and place on a baking sheet or in a fireproof dish.
- Cut the tomatoes into thin circles or semicircles and place them on the minced meat.
- Cover the tomatoes with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, place the workpiece in it. Bake for about 40 minutes until the minced meat is cooked through.
If you use beef chops to cook meat in French, they will take a long time to bake and will turn out dry. The given recipe solves both of these problems.
If you still think that the main appetizer should be pork, we suggest you find out how to prepare it deliciously for the holiday table. Recipes for pork baked in the oven in foil will come in handy.
Fish appetizer with olives
It is best to use two different types of fish - red and white.
You will need:
300 g of red and 300 g of white smoked fish, 1 can of olives and pitted olives, 100 g of herbs, 20 g of mint, juice and zest of 1 lemon, pepper.
Preparation:
Finely chop the olives, olives and herbs, mix it all with zest and season with pepper. Cut the fish into thin slices, sprinkle with lemon juice and coat each piece evenly with the filling. Fold two pieces, roll them into a small roll and secure with a skewer.
