How to decorate a table for the New Year 2017 Fire Cock by your own hands: 38 photos - How to decorate salads, appetizers, hot and desserts

New Year's Eve is a holiday with a special atmosphere. To it begin to be prepared almost for a month, planning an outfit, the menu and entertainments. When gathering guests, each hostess wants to demonstrate her culinary skills and surprise friends and relatives with a spectacular serving of dishes. Some on the eve of the coming year of the Firecracker are also important advice astrologers.

Decoration of the table for the New Year of the Firecracker: general recommendations

To meet the Rooster, it is recommended to use red-white, golden-red or orange-white in the serving. Dishes - if possible wooden, clay or glass. It is allowed to use ordinary ceramics, but there should not be any plastic on the table. Table cloth is preferably chosen from natural material (linen, cotton). Table decoration:

1. A small figure of a rooster from porcelain, clay, wood or made by own hands. If you have time, try practicing in the art of origami. A small red cockerel can be placed next to a plate of each guest as a wish of happiness and good luck in the coming year.
2. Candles. According to the eastern horoscope, 2017 is the year of the Firecracker, therefore fire in all its manifestations will be very appropriate. Put on the table 1, 3 or 5 candles white, golden or red (any shades will do). Observe safety techniques (steady candlesticks, candles in a glass cup or floating candles).
3. A plate with a grain (whole, sprouted), millet or seeds. Wheat on the table has always been a good sign, attracting wealth and prosperity. Rooster such a gift just will please.

Simple decoration of dishes for the New Year's table in the year of the Firecracker

Classic decoration of salads and hot dishes - greens. The rooster will not be against even the usual twigs of parsley, dill, coriander or basil. And the symbol of 2017 you can please the seeds. If the germinated grains do not fit into the themes of your menu, replace them with symbolic products:

1. Red caviar (natural or imitated their algae). Very convenient for decorating salads and snacks.
   It is very convenient to lay eggs and inscriptions with eggs. Even beginners can cope with this task.
2. Garnet grains are an ideal decoration for salads with any dressing. They are well combined with mixtures based on the striking oil or balsamic vinegar, as well as with mayonnaise and unsweetened yoghurt.

3. Seeds (sunflower, sesame, pumpkin). Can be part of the dishes or serve as an additional decoration.

4. Coffee beans (real or decorative of dark chocolate). Suitable for decorating desserts.

5. Berries. Bright cranberries and lingonberries are equally well decorated with cold snacks (sauerkraut, cold meat, boiled meat with horseradish) and hot meat dishes (baked pork, boiled pork, rolls).

Original design of festive dishes-2017

The easiest way to work with salads and snacks. Dishes of these categories are easy to decorate in the form of a symbol of the coming 2017. Salad can be shaped like a cockerel, and the decorative elements cut from vegetables:

• scallop and earrings - from red bell pepper,
• eyes - from black olives,
• beak from pepper or carrots,
• tail of colored sweet peppers and herbs, sea kale (for salads with seafood)

Snack can be made in the form of chickens. For a basis it is possible to take a cheese mass, and decorations to cut out from carrots.

Another option - the stylization of the dish under the cock or peacock tail. The easiest way is to lay it out of chopped roll (lavash + any bright filling) or circles of sliced ​​vegetables (tomato, cucumber, olives). A very bright tail will come from fruit slicing (apples, strawberries, grapes, kiwi).

Some dishes, for example, salads can be served in a half of pineapple, avocado or orange. Such a replacement of ordinary dishes will add color and decorativeness to the festive table.

Traditional symbols of the New Year - Christmas tree, chimes and tangerines. To make thematic decorations for a festive table, you will need simple products and a little patience. It's easiest to build a Christmas tree. A few simple options:

1. A horizontal Christmas tree. Salad lay out in the form of several triangles. Top with sprigs of dill. Garland gather of red berries or pomegranate seeds. Balls made from olives and corn, a star - cut out of red pepper.
   Salad leaves to lay with herringbone, from above to lay out a little salad in the form of a cone. Garnish with cherry tomatoes, olives and onion feathers.
   A Christmas tree can even be baked, for example, pizza. From the layer of the finished puff pastry, cut out the silhouette of the tree and the star on top. You can decorate it to your taste: tomatoes, olives, salami, red onions, green beans, colored bell peppers, etc.

2. Vertical Christmas tree. The tree can be assembled from slicing. As a stable base half of the apple will do. In it you need to stick a long wooden skewer and string alternately plastic sausage, cheese, vegetables or fruit.

3. Variations on the theme of the Christmas tree: a festive wreath, spruce twig, cones, Christmas balls.

With the chimes, too, there will be no problems. To form the base, you can lay out the salad in an even circle. The dial is cut from carrots or peppers. It's easier to make Roman numerals, but if you can not make neat, thin strips, you can replace them with circles. Figures are cut from the same products or cut into black olives without pits.

Get any culinary incarnation of any favorite winter symbol. For example, the base of a candle on a salad can be laid with grated egg white and cheese. The fire can be formed with the help of egg yolk, caviar and a piece of bell pepper.

Candles are also simple in performance:

1. A solid base of cucumber or daikon. As a filling, a finely chopped salad, cream cheese or shrimps is suitable. The fire simulates red pepper.

2. The base-roll is curled from plastic cheese or a long cucumber plate. The first inside is smeared with mayonnaise, and sprinkled with egg-white on top. The second should be smeared with creamy or curd cheese, put a slice of red fish. Rolls are installed vertically. As in the previous version, a piece of red pepper will serve as a flame.