The question about what should be a festive New Year's table in the year of the dragon, probably set by many mistresses. So which dishes should you cook for the year of the dragon? Since the dragon is omnivorous, we make the menu as diverse as possible. New Year's table in the year of the dragon should reflect the addiction of this beast to fresh food, and therefore all the dishes are served with heat and heat.
Menu for the Year of the Dragon:
- beef with prunes;
- Salad "Sweet Christmas tree";
- a salad "Dragon";
- snack "Roll of the Dragon";
- salad "Happiness of the Dragon";
- dessert.
Recipes of dishes for the year of the dragon
Beef with prunes
Ingredients:
- beef (scapular part) - 1 kg;
- prunes without pips - 200 g;
- red dry wine - 500 ml;
- butter - 100 g;
- pumpkin - 500 g;
- potatoes - 500 g;
- milk - 300 ml;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- cinnamon, salt, black pepper and thyme.
Preparation
Fry beef. In a saucepan with a thick bottom we simmer 50 g of butter and cook in it 7 minutes finely chopped onions, prunes and thyme. After add the wine, cinnamon and pepper, put the meat and simmer on low heat for about 3 hours. We make mashed potatoes of milk and butter. Pumpkin boil and chop, after the pumpkin and mashed potatoes combine, salt and pepper. Finished meat is served chopped with mashed potatoes and sauce, which was cooked.
Salad "Sweet Christmas tree"
Ingredients:
- chicken thigh smoked;
- 3 boiled eggs;
- pickled cucumber;
- 100 g of arugula;
- onion red;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of wine vinegar;
- 1 tbsp. spoon of mayonnaise and sour cream;
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar;
- 100 g of grapes without pits;
- Garnet;
- an Apple;
- salt;
- Cherry tomato;
- dill.
Preparation
Marinuem 20 min. finely chopped onions in a mixture of sugar, salt of water and wine vinegar. Finely chicken, eggs, rukkola, apple, cucumber, dill. Add the dried marinated onions, season with mayonnaise and sour cream, mix. We cut the grapes in half, spread out its halves around the salad, alternating with the pomegranate seeds. The top of the "Christmas tree" is made from the tomato "Cherry".
Snack "Roll of the Dragon"
Ingredients:
- eggs -2 pcs .;
- red caviar - 50 g;
- olives without pits - 100 g;
- cheese "Kosichka" - 50 g;
- cream cheese cream - 100 g;
- large leaves of lettuce;
- dill - 50 g.
Preparation
Olives cut in rings, dill crushed, mixed with beaten eggs, salt and pepper. Pechem pancakes. Half a pancake smear cheese and spread caviar. Pancake put on a leaf of lettuce and rolled into a roll, starting from the side with stuffing. We tie the roll with the fibers of "Kosichka" cheese and cut it into small rolls, so that the ties are in the middle of the slice.
Dragon salad
Ingredients:
- sausage boiled-smoked 200 g;
- boiled potatoes 3-4 pcs .;
- boiled carrots - 2 pieces;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- creamy cream cheese - 200 g;
- boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
- olives without pits - 1 pot;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- garnet - 1 piece;
- greens, salt, ground black pepper.
Preparation
Eggs, sausage, carrots, potatoes, peeled cucumbers and olives are cut and mixed. Leave for decoration a couple of egg circles, pieces of 10 olives and a cucumber peel. Spread the cheese in a bowl, add 1/2 lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper, mix everything. Fill the salad, add the seeds of pomegranate and mix again. We form a dragon figure on a flat platter, make eyes from eggs, lay out the ridge with olives, and shape the tail of the cucumber. From 2 leaves of lettuce we make dragon wings.
Salad "Happiness of the Dragon"
Ingredients:
- meat (any) 50 g;
- potatoes - 2-3 pieces;
- cheese is hard - 70 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs .;
- mayonnaise and ketchup for 2 tbsp. spoons;
- round bun;
- greenery.
Preparation
We fry the meat, add half a glass of hot water, put the bay leaf, salt, pepper and stew for 10-15 minutes. Boiled potatoes and cucumbers cut, cheese three on a grater. Greenery is crushed, we mix all ingredients (except cheese) and add mayonnaise and ketchup. We take a bun, cut off the top and take out the crumb. In the bun, add the salad, sprinkle with grated cheese and cover with the top. We put the bun in the oven for 10 minutes. We serve hot salad to the table.
Complementing the New Year table in the year of the dragon is a dessert - flambéed fruit in caramel.
Decorating your favorite fruit dishes, and the presence of candles on the table by the year of the dragon will also be appropriate. And on the New Year's table in the year of the dragon must be a fish, a symbol of the year to her not indifferent.