Feeding the Dragon Isn't Easy: What Dishes to Put on the New Year's Table
What New Year can do without a feast?
The Slavic mentality is not close to the idea of festive buffets, where each guest is kind of on their own. We want comfortable seats, and around a set table, that's how we feel united with each other and understand that it is comfortable not only physically, but also emotionally. That's just the way it is.
Therefore, it is very important to correctly compose a menu for the New Year's table, because every housewife knows well that if you approach the process of composing it creatively, the New Year's menu will become such a highlight of the festive evening that it will make guests admire the culinary skills of the author of exotic dishes all year long.
The symbol of the coming year will be the Green Wooden Dragon. This is the only mystical animal of all the signs of the Chinese horoscope, so it is only known for certain that the Dragon is revered as a symbol of wisdom and strength, as well as the keeper of the balance of the forces of nature.
Perhaps that is why the New Year's menu should include lighter and "healthier" dishes, that is, from easily digestible products, preferably with an emphasis on fresh vegetables.
Let your New Year's table become a symbol of a healthy lifestyle, although you will have to give up many products that are traditional for the holiday table - mayonnaise, canned peas and beans, smoked meat and sausages.
Don't worry that your New Year's table will look poor or unappetizing without these products.
Modern chefs offer many exotic and fairly simple recipes for dishes where soy or special sauce is used instead of mayonnaise in New Year's salads, and it is better to replace meat with a fish dish or mushroom.
The era of Olivier salad is over. It has been replaced by healthier recipes that use olive oil as a dressing.
Since our nation is increasingly suffering from excess weight and physical inactivity, now guests will be happy to leave the holiday with a slight feeling of satiety, rather than total overeating, which on the morning of the new day threatens to turn into discomfort in the stomach and headaches from intoxication of the body with the products of decomposition of undigested food. Let simplicity, minimalism and healthy food reign on the festive table in the year of the Dragon.
Focus on setting the New Year's table, decorating the dishes and come up with new extravagant names for them.
Remember that the main thing on New Year's Eve is not to eat a week's supply of food, but to have a fun and bright festive night, because impressions for the whole year remain primarily from emotions, and not from food.
Earlier we told you how to bake fish with a crispy crust.
