A simple New Year's menu for 2019: tasty and inexpensive

Traditionally, on New Year's Eve, tables are bursting with dishes. Many of them are difficult to prepare, and the cost of the ingredients is so high that housewives save money in advance and buy products for the future. On the eve of the holiday, you have to spend a couple of days in the kitchen so that everything is ready on time, and the food is tasty and varied. So is it necessary to spend a fortune and a lot of strength to have a good one evening? The editors of estet-portal.com offer an inexpensive and simple New Year's menu, thanks to which you will save without loss as as a holiday.

• What dos and cannot put on the table in Year of the Pig
• Creating a delicious and simple New Year's menu
• The main thing compiling a simple New Year's menu

What do dos put on the table in Year of the Pig

There are a lot of calendars with symbols of animals and plants, but for some reason we liked Chinese, so every year we try to meet with the totem animal. Next year 2019 — This is the Year of the Yellow Earth Pig. To keep the established traditions, when planning the New Year's menu, you need to take into account the preferences of the animal.

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The pig is omnivorous and loves variety. This opens up the broadest prospects for hostesses. Only pork dishes, lard and pork sausages are strictly prohibited on the New Year's table. Everything else is allowed. You can cook from the following products:

• Meat. Any dishes made from  beef, veal, lamb, chicken, turkey are allowed.

• Seafood. Choose from any variety of fish and seafood. Ideal — Decorate dishes using eggs, carrots, and other foods that can impart a yellow, golden, or earthy hue.

• Vegetables. Complete freedom of choice. Beans, corn, potatoes, cauliflower and other foods that pigs love are welcome.

• Fruits. Bananas, yellow apples are  priority, but the main thing when choosing products — preferences of the owners of the house and guests.

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Ideally, the number of dishes on the table should be at least 12, including drinks. This is already a tribute to Slavic traditions, which suggest that the New Year — this is the time when all 12 months come together. Pay special attention to bread. It is important! It is best to put vases with different types of bread — white, rye, bran.

The table should be decorated in yellow, golden tones. In the center you can put a figure of a pig. Salads are best decorated with egg yolks, cheese, carrots, corn — foods that the Pig likes or has a yellow tint.

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Creating a delicious and simple New Year's menu

We offer options for simple and relatively inexpensive dishes for the New Year's table:

• First courses. For the first course, you can cook soup with beef meatballs, lamb shurpa or hodgepodge. Great option — useful okroshka on & nbsp; kvass or kefir. Instead of the traditional boiled sausage, you can add boiled chicken breast cut into small cubes in it. In winter, okroshka will seem like the food of the gods, and the ingredients for it are in any supermarket.

• Hot. Plenty of options — chicken cutlets, meatballs with rice, chicken or beef liver stewed in sour cream. If you don’t want to waste time and energy, you can simply bake chicken, turkey or duck in the oven. And for housewives who don’t like the process of dividing a whole bird into portioned pieces, it’s better to bake chicken drumsticks or thighs right away. The advantages of this choice are obvious: it's cheap and doesn require much fuss.

• Garnish. You can cook any kind of cereal, including exotic cereals (bulgur, amaranth, quinoa). This is a great choice for those on a diet. Traditionally in our country, potato dishes are prepared. It can be mashed potatoes, and you can diversify the menu a little and bake potatoes "in a rural way", dipping each piece in a mixture of vegetable oil, salt and seasonings. Sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup are suitable as sauces.

• Snacks. You can make cuts of smoked chicken breast, roast lamb or veal. Also on the table will be appropriate a variety of salads, cheese and vegetable cuts, canapes.

• Desserts. Cake — it is familiar, but difficult and expensive. If you can't imagine New Year's without such a dessert, bake a simple biscuit-cream or honey cake. If this is not a matter of principle buy your favorite cakes and candies.

• Drinks. New Year — this is not an excuse to "get drunk like a pig." Choose good alcohol and drink it in moderation. As for the rest of the drinks, give preference to natural products: cook compote or uzvar, cook or buy juices. Tea coffee — great options too.

New Year — First of all, this is the atmosphere of a holiday. Even the simplest New Year's Eve menu will be enjoyed by everyone if you think about entertainment correctly.

The most inexpensive option: okroshka, baked chicken drumsticks or thighs, mashed potatoes, a few simple salads, sandwiches and various cuts, favorite cakes, juices. This is quite enough to enjoy the taste of dishes and not go broke when preparing them. The main thing is that you don't have to live in the kitchen all the pre-holiday days. Better take time for yourself: bring beauty and & nbsp; have a good rest.

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The main thing compiling a simple New Year's menu

The desire to surprise the household and guests with delights on the New Year's table is quite natural and understandable. But there and  — satiety. It is already almost impossible to find dishes that we wouldn't try: even delicacies, exotic vegetables and fruits have become commonplace. So is is it worth spending colossal effort, time and money on cooking? Choose a simple New Year's menu:

• To first — shurpa, okroshka, hodgepodge or meatball soup.

• To hot — baked chicken, turkey, cutlets or meatballs.

• For garnish — porridge, potatoes "peasant" or puree.

• Snacks — any cuts without pork, simple salads, sandwiches with different types of cheeses, fish, caviar.

• For dessert — cakes and sweets.

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Happiness — in the shower, and not on the table. Give joy to your loved ones, and the New Year will bring only pleasant events.

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