New Year is around the corner, the festive environment requires careful preparation. In families where there are children, usually covered with a separate table. Food prepared for baby, given that they can be eaten without a knife, and the children's menu Children's menu: the basics of good nutrition baby   It should bear the cognitive and educational value. New Year is a family holiday, children - part of a large family, a separate set table, a kind of demonstration of respect for the younger members of the family.

How to create a children's menu

New Year's children's menu is tailored to the gastronomic preferences of children, financial capacity, and family traditions. It is best to cover the child table in a separate room, living conditions permitting. Children love to imitate their parents, because New Year's feast should be for them to organize a "grown-up": plates, cutlery and napkins laid out in accordance with the family values ​​and rules of etiquette.

A children's menu is necessary to diversify snacks, low-calorie dishes, making the emphasis on fun and games for kids. Every meal should be decorated with interesting and fun to the kids loved it. The format of the festival involves the preparation of one or two salads or appetizers, main dishes and several desserts table, drinks to choose from.

The main dish of the table

New Year 2011 - Year of the Rabbit or Cat, because the main dish festive table can become a meatloaf in a bunny or a casserole of puff pastry in the form of glomerular threads, which are so fond of playing kittens. To bake a tangle "threads", you need to take the package puff Puff dough, roll out and cut into long thin "thread." Chicken or pork mince (500g) mixed with chopped onion, salt and pepper and roll large balls. Wrap strips of dough, like a ball of yarn is wound.

Coat the dough with egg and bake in the oven at 180-200 degrees for 30 minutes or more, until tender. Instead of stuffing you can fight off the pieces of meat, chicken or fish, roll them into a tube and also wound dough, rolling up in a bun. To transform a festive meal into an exciting children's game, one or two of the glomerulus can be hidden "surprise" - nut chernoslivinu, peas or a apricot. That kid who gets tasty attachment, will receive a prize.

Salads and appetizers

Salads and snacks for the children's New Year's table can be arbitrary, the same as for adults, not sharp and light. The main component - all the cold food must be decorated with beautiful and unusual: in the form of Christmas trees, the Snow Maiden, Santa Claus, Christmas tree decorations, rabbits, a cat or a star. The usual salad "Olivier", figure laid out on a flat dish and decorated with pomegranate seeds, green peas, hearts and flowers of boiled vegetables, the younger generation will lead to the indescribable delight.

Funny children's sandwiches from anything, in the form of men and animals, will be a real decoration of the table. To make this miracle of culinary thought of sausage, cheese and bread, cookie cutters and cut out silhouettes form the desired complex sandwiches, decorate them to your taste.

Dessert

Banana cake cookie in the form of a small house, hut - a fun and delicious dessert. Half a kilo of cheese whip with a hundred grams of butter, add a cup of sugar. Shortbread pastry shop square shape slightly moisten with milk and put in a box on a flat dish. Lubricate curd cream and put in the middle of a banana. Start triangles spread on top of the pastry cream fastened together, so close to the banana completely. Top "house" can be decorated with crushed nuts, coconut or chocolate liquid. Give the cake to soak and cut into neat pieces, inside of which will be fragrant slices of banana.

Beverages

In a tall glass put 50 g of butter or vanilla ice cream, add 30 grams of pineapple juice, a few pieces of chopped fresh or canned pineapple and 120-150 ml of fruit lemonade. Get a tasty dessert cocktail "Ice Cream." If you involve children in the preparation of drinks, desserts, the effect of the filing of such dishes would be several times higher.

He mixed in a blender 250 grams of yogurt Kefir: a unique drink for health and harmony 100 ml of milk, and any fruit that has left - bananas, oranges, kiwi, frozen strawberries, cherries, cranberries, etc., you can get a delicious cocktail. Sugar rim around the edge of the glass give this Christmas dessert drink bar.

On a note

If visiting children were children of other families, the good old tradition, they may be endowed with a farewell sweet festive souvenirs, which you need to take care in advance. Tasty gifts are usually packed in Christmas packages by adding them tangerines, nuts, apples, candy and cookies. So kids extended holiday: with a good mood Good mood: Secrets positive   and the mass of experience they bring into your home a slice of sweet triumph hospitable home.

Jeanne Pyatirikova

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