In general, in all cases when guests come unexpectedly, you should take into account, when laying the table, the main rule - refreshments and snacks need not be made exquisite, because you still do not have time for it. The main thing is that the New Year's table should be original and beautifully decorated. Use fudge, imagination and dare, surprise guests with their originality.
To quick snacks for the New Year's table, you can include a few salads, beautifully designed sandwiches, dishes from products that are always at hand at every hostess. For tea, you can serve the simplest sweet foods and treats.
Sandwiches are made from wheat or their rye bread. A loaf or bread is cut diagonally or in other interesting ways. The main rule when preparing sandwiches - they should look beautiful, festive. Effectively look multicomponent sandwiches, decorated with fresh greens. For example, the following sandwiches will be a tasty and beautiful snack for the New Year's table: rye bread, chopped herring, butter and egg or rye bread, chopped herring, tomatoes, onions, greens. It all depends on your fiction.
The following requirements are imposed on sandwiches: they should be convenient to take them by hand and eat, on the sandwich the main product or at least part of it should be visible, so that guests know what sandwiches are made of, the pieces of meat or fish on the sandwich should not exceed much breadth and breadth.
A popular form of sandwiches that can be seen and tried on all holidays and parties is canapé. Canapes are "one bite" sandwiches, which are made for convenience on wooden skewers and forks. When preparing canapes, bread or toast, fried in vegetable oil, is used. Bread for canapé is cut into circles, squares or rhombuses. Preliminary from bread the crust is removed. Pieces of bread for canapé can be smeared with melted vegetable oil.
Sandwiches with chopped herring, onions and eggs.
From the loaf we remove the crusts, we trim the edges of the loaf so that the brick turns out. We cut the loaf horizontally into 3 or 4 layers, each layer is greased with butter. Browned in the oven. After the loaf has cooled, lubricate the dry side with butter, mixed with tomato paste. In the center of the layer should be put boiled egg, cut in half. Egg should be placed so that the yolk was on top. One edge of the loaf is sprinkled with chopped onions, the other with chopped herring. Finished strips are cut across into identical strips, about 2 fingers wide.
Sandwiches with pâté.
Bread is prepared in exactly the same way. Pate rubbed with butter in a proportion of 1: 3. From this mixture rollers or balls are formed, about 2 cm thick. Each roller is placed in the middle of the prepared loaf. To the left of the platen are laid eggs, mixed with chopped greens, to the right of the platen is put a slice of bacon. In the roller is a groove in which it is fashionable to pour finely chopped greens or green onions. Ready sandwiches are cut across into equal parts.
Canapes of black bread with sprats.
The preparation for canapé is cut from rye bread in circles, with a diameter of 3 cm, and fried in vegetable oil. Each circle is spread on butter mixed with mustard. On top lay an egg circle, then a cucumber circle. On top of the cucumber put putten into a ring of sprats. On top of the sprat, a sandwich is smeared with butter and mustard and sprinkled with herbs.
Canape with sardines.
Blanks of white bread (in the form of rectangles) smear with butter, in the middle lay fillets of sardines. On each side a sandwich is decorated with fresh cucumber and tomatoes, parsley greens. In the middle of a sandwich, a slice of lemon is put on a sardine.
Salad of tomatoes and apples.
Tomatoes and apples are peeled, sweet peppers are peeled from seeds. All finely chopped, mixed with the addition of sugar and a few drops of lemon juice. Season with lettuce sour cream.
You will need: 3 apples, 3 onions, 2 peppers, 150 g of sour cream, sugar, salt to taste, lemon juice.
Tomato salad with nuts.
Tomatoes must be cut into small slices, chopped onions. All the mix, salt and pepper, pour with vegetable oil and add to the mixture crushed walnuts and crushed garlic. Salad should be put in the refrigerator for half an hour before serving.
You will need: 400 g of tomatoes, 1 onion, half a glass of brushed and chopped walnuts, 3 tbsp. vegetable oil, pepper, garlic, salt - to taste.
Salad of squid with rice.
Rice should be boiled in salt water, rinsed and cooled. Squids boiled, cooled, cut into strips. Onion can be cut into large rings, lettuce leaves - slices. Greens should be finely chopped. Stir the ingredients, add pepper, salt, mayonnaise, tomato juice to the salad. Sprinkle the salad with greens.
You will need: 3-4 fillets of squid, 3 onions, 4 tbsp. rice, 3 eggs, 50g salad, 100g mayonnaise, tomato juice, greens, peppers, dill - to taste.
Meat salad.
The salad includes the following products: boiled meat (250g), boiled potatoes (3pcs), salted cucumber (2pcs), brushed apple (1pc), boiled egg (2pcs) - all the ingredients are finely chopped and mixed, add green peas (100g) pepper, salt, lemon juice. Salad dress mayonnaise, decorate with greens.
Cheese, fried in breadcrumbs.
Cheese of hard varieties is cut into cubes of the same size, dumped in flour, and then dipped in a beaten egg. Then bread is breaded in breadcrumbs and fried in vegetable oil.
You will need: 300g of cheese, 2 eggs, breadcrumbs, vegetable oil.
Enjoy your holidays and good mood!