Cold starters for the New Year 2016, recipe with photo

You want to surprise your loved ones with tasty, but you are not ready to spend the whole pre-New Year's day for preparing complex dishes? Then you need to pay special attention to quick and easy snacks.

Cold snacks for the New Year in a hurry:

To the festive New Year's table we offer you to prepare eggplant rolls and penguins from olives. We hope that your family and guests will be delighted.

Eggplant rolls - traditional snacks for the New Year 2016

Rolls of eggplant with nuts - a favorite dish of many people, they must necessarily be present on the festive table. A special taste of eggplant creates a pleasant combination with a delicate nut filling. We offer a simple recipe for this dish, the number of products is based on 8 servings.

Necessary ingredients:

• eggplant - 3 pcs
• carrots - 2 pieces
• vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.
• garlic - 2-3 cloves
• coriander - 1 beam
• walnuts - 0.5 cups
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking method

1. Take two eggplants, wash them and cut along thin plates.
2. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Fry each slice of eggplant from two sides.
3. Another eggplant wash and cut into cubes.
4. Peel the carrots, grate them on a large grater. Then fry in a pan for several minutes, adding vegetable oil.
5. Place the eggplant cubes in a frying pan to the carrots, cover with a lid. Cook for about 25 minutes, do not forget to stir it. As soon as the eggplant becomes very soft, you can remove the frying pan from the stove.
6. Cut the finely chopped coriander, chop the walnuts. Garlic suppress in the garlick.
7. Combine the roasted mass with chopped cilantro and nuts, add the garlic. Stir well and lightly mash.
8. Cooked stuffing should be put on top of a strip of eggplant, and then roll it into rolls.
9. Ready eggplant rolls on a large plate, decorate them with cilantro.
   

Penguins from olives - unusual snacks for the New Year

This dish is not only very tasty, it still has an incredibly original look. Imagine a festive table, and on it - little cute penguins. They will definitely like your guests, especially if there are children at the party.

Necessary ingredients:

• large olives without pits - 20 pcs.
• small olives - 20 pieces
• cream cheese Philadelphia - 200 g
• carrots - 1 pc
• coriander - 1 beam
• walnuts - 0.5 cups
• salt, pepper - to taste
  

Cooking method

1. First you need to make a torso for penguins. Take the large olives without pits, along each of them cut a small oblong piece in the middle.
2. Each such olive tree is filled with cream cheese, that it slightly looked out for edges of olives.
3. Now you need to wash and peel the carrots. And then cut it into 20 small circles.
4. On each carrot mug cut a small triangle, it will become the future beak, and the rest of the base and paws.
5. Take the small olives, place in them small triangles of carrots.
6. It's time to collect penguins. To do this, stick the toothpicks into the circles of the carrot right in the middle. At the top, place the olive with the cheese, and then add a small olive to it.
7. Arrange the penguins on a large plate - the dish is ready!