Cold snacks for New Year 2019

The approach of the New Year is approaching, which means it's time to think through the menu and make a list of products for preparing delicious and mouth-watering dishes. You can choose, both simple ones, which take a few minutes to prepare, and very complex ones, for which non-standard ingredients may be required. With the help of cold snacks for the New 2019 year, you can not only diversify, but also decorate the holiday table. And recipes with photos will be understandable even for those who are just mastering the culinary art.

It is worth considering various options depending on the number of guests and their composition, see recipes with videos, think about whether they will alternate during the evening, or, in general, you should not worry about this and set up a small but delicious buffet with cold appetizers.

And, of course, diversity is very important - cold snacks for the New Year 2019 should be made from meat and fish, cheese and vegetables, and if you have sweets and children, you should treat them with sweet snacks and skewers of their bright fruits in the glaze.

Rye bread canapes with two cheeses and olives

An appetizer cooks very quickly, and with its appetizing look it can easily decorate any holiday table and will be combined with any theme of the New Year's feast.

To prepare, you will need:

• rye or Borodino bread;
• 150 gr soft cream cheese;
• 100 gr of any hard cheese;
• some fresh herbs to decorate the appetizer;
• olives or olives - a generous handful;
• salt and freshly ground pepper;
• optionally garlic and toast oil.

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Cooking:

• Cut black bread into slices with a thickness of not more than 1-1.5 cm and cut hard crusts from them.

• Bread can be fried in a dry frying pan, or with the addition of butter, and then grated with a chopped clove of garlic to give the appetizer a taste and piquancy.

• Lay out slices of bread on a dish, it is desirable that these were portioned slices literally in one bite.

• Finely chop olives or olives, you can replace them with freshly chopped parsley, add soft cheese. Grate hard cheese on the finest grater, add to the filling and salt and pepper thoroughly mix.

Savory Mandarin Dessert Appetizer

A spectacular looking appetizer for the New Year's Eve, which from afar will resemble real tangerines.

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To prepare, you will need:

• 4 small carrots;
• hard cheese (for example, Dutch) - 150 gr;
• 100 grams of cream cheese;
• 2-3 eggs;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• salt and freshly ground black pepper;
• bay leaf and clove umbrellas for decoration.

Cooking:

1. Boil chicken eggs until tender, cool in very cold water and clear of shells. Also boil peeled carrots until tender in well-salted water.After chopping, season the root crop with a small amount of salt and black pepper.
2. For a special crunch and piquancy, carrots can not be boiled, but used raw. It is only important after rubbing on a fine grater, it is good to squeeze it from the allocated juice.
3. On a medium grater, rub peeled eggs and hard cheese, mix these ingredients with soft cream cheese. Now, if necessary, add a little mayonnaise to the mass, garlic, fresh herbs and spices, put in through the kitchen press.
4. The mass must be thoroughly mixed and molded small balls, then roll them in grated carrots and put on a dish.

Snack - Tsarsky Delicious Salad

Any festive feast, especially Christmas or New Year, is decorated with cold snacks for the New Year 2019, for example, a recipe with a photo of a salad with noble red fish. In addition, few products are used, and even a novice cook can cope with a dish.

To prepare, you will need:

• 3-4 medium-sized potatoes;
• 2 small carrots;
• 2-3 chicken eggs;
• 250 gr slightly salted red fish;
• some mayonnaise;
• salt and spices, black pepper;
• sprigs of greenery for decoration.

Cooking:

• Boil potatoes and carrots in well-salted water without peeling them. Put boiled chicken eggs in a small ladle on the stove.
• Cool the eggs in cold water and shell them, the vegetables should cool at room temperature, and only then can they be peeled.
• On the cutting surface of the table, spread the cling film and put the carrots grated on a coarse grater in a square or rectangle. It must be layered with seasoned salt and pepper mayonnaise.

• The next layer consists of boiled chopped or grated potatoes, smeared with mayonnaise.

• Then boiled eggs are laid out - they can also be rubbed or cut into thin strips.

• A little more mayonnaise is added, and on top are slices of red fish.

• To roll a neat roll, place a couple of layers of foil under the cling film to create a more elastic base for effective folding.

• Now with the help of a film it is necessary to roll the roll, in the film it is wrapped and cooled so that the roll is saturated with the sauce and all the ingredients stick together.

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Herring with spicy mayonnaise sauce

Almost no holiday table can do without herring - because it is used for a loved one lettuce "Fur coat", and as a snack, for example, on a toast. But the most delicious herring is obtained if, shortly before the feast, pickle it in mayonnaise sauce.

To prepare, you will need:

• 1 barrel slightly salted herring;
• 1 red sweet onion;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• ground pepper mixture;
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
• a little dill or parsley;
• 4-5 Art. tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• lemon slices - for decoration and serving.

Cooking:

1. Clean and undress the fresh barrel herring and clean it from all the bones and cut into thin slices.
2. Peel onions and garlic, and cut into thin slices.
3. Mix herring with onions and garlic, season with a mixture of ground pepper and lemon juice.
4. Add mayonnaise to herring, mix thoroughly and transfer to a container. Put the workpiece in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and serving it to the table, arrange an appetizer with fresh herbs and halves of chopped lemon.

Canned fish appetizer

This appetizer does not have to be cooked on tomatoes; you can use black bread toasts, boiled potato slices or fresh cucumber. Such new cold snacks for the New Year 2019 are very simple to prepare.

To prepare, you will need:

• 1 standard can of any canned fish in s / juice;
• 1 small carrot;
• 1 sweet and sour apple;
• 1 sweet onion;
• some dill and parsley;
• salt and black pepper;
• 3-4 fresh tomatoes;
• 85 gr quality mayonnaise.

Cooking:

1. Peel fresh carrots and apples, and grate them on the smallest grater. If the mass turned out to be watery, the excess juice must be squeezed.
2. Dice the onion into very small cubes. Put the fish out of the can, we do not need juice, remove bones from it and knead thoroughly with a fork. Mix with onions, salt and black pepper.
3. Add the grated carrots with apple, a little chopped greens and mayonnaise to the filling. Mix well and cool.
4. If you are going to serve an appetizer to the table, you need to cut the tomatoes with rings no more than 1-1.5 cm thick, lay the filling on them and put them on the dish.

Omelet rolls with herbs, with curd filling

Such an appetizer will not only be a delicious decoration of the festive feast, but also ideal for breakfast on January 1. Appetizing and elegant rolls with soft cheese filling will not leave anyone indifferent.

To prepare, you will need:

• 2-3 chicken eggs;
• low-fat cream - 65 ml;
• some salt and black pepper;
• sprigs of dill and parsley;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• small carrots;
• 70 grams of hard cheese;
• 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons soft or cream cheese;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• some salt and black pepper;
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Cooking:

• To prepare the filling, clean and grate fresh garlic and carrots on the smallest grater. Add soft cheese, grated hard cheese to vegetables, season with salt, black pepper and spices and mix everything thoroughly. If the filling seems a little dry to you, then you should add a little mayonnaise and mix everything thoroughly again - this will give it not only juiciness, but also an additional creamy taste.

• Now you need to cook thin omelet pancakes. To do this, beat eggs with cream, salt and pepper, pour into a frying pan heated with oil and bake a little. While the omelet is set, pick leaves from the green so that they remain intact, but there are no coarse stems.

• Put the leaves on top of the omelet, and cook until cooked. It is very important that the pancakes are large in diameter and thin.

• Cool the omelet pancakes, put the filling on them so that the layer with greens appears after wrapping on top, and roll the rolls.

Cheese appetizer with pistachios and grapes

Cheese and grapes are perfectly combined, and adding nuts to this appetizer gives a special taste and piquancy. If you use parchment molds for cupcakes to serve an appetizer to the table, you will get an original portioned dish for one or two bites.

To prepare, you will need:

• 300 g soft cheese, for example, "Philadelphia";
• 180 gr. pistachios without added salt;
• 1 generous handful of any grape, but it is advisable to use seedless;
• some salt and a mixture of peppers.

Cooking:

1. Sort the pistachios, dry them in the oven so that the nuts acquire a pronounced taste.If possible, peel them (not to be confused with the shell), and grind it rather rough, not forgetting to leave a handful of nuts for the whole snack.
2. Rinse and dry the grapes, cut in half and get rid of the seeds, if they are present in the fruits.
3. Salt soft cheese, season with a mixture of peppers. Hide half the grapes in the curd cheese, forming a bun in the hands.
4. Roll in chopped pistachios, put in parchment tins and decorate with a whole nut and grape on top.

Children's sandwiches "Pig"

Since the symbol of the coming year is the Pig, it’s worth preparing simple and tasty sandwiches with muzzle of a pig in her honor, which will be loved not only by children, but also by adults.

To prepare, you will need:

• slices of wheat or rye bread;
• 50 grams of soft cream cheese;
• 2 slices of hard bread;
• boiled or boiled beef sausage - 2 slices;
• olives for decoration;
• some mayonnaise or sour cream;
• a couple of branches of dill or parsley;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking:

1. For bread slices, crusts must be cut, and if desired, slices can be fried in butter or simply dried, for example, in a dry frying pan.
2. Bread can be left in squares or cut into slices of a round shape with a suitable cup or glass.
3. Cut two circles and four triangles from sausage. Cut in circles - this will be the heels of a pig.
4. Grease the toasts with cream cheese, add a drop of mayonnaise in order to attach slices of cheese to the bread rolls. Mayonnaise is also applied dropwise to the cheese and a muzzle is formed.
5. The eyes and mouth are formed from pieces of olives, but the sandwiches themselves are served on a dish with herbs.

As you can see, you can cook very tasty and original cold snacks for the New Year 2019 according to step-by-step recipes with photos, spending only 10-15 minutes on them, and then the New Year's table will be filled with a lot of different snacks, where everyone will find something in their own way to taste.