New Year's table is traditionally made rich, offering a variety of different dishes. At the same time come to the fore a variety of salads and snacks are served hot New Year's relatively rare. Meanwhile, these snacks - a real godsend for the holiday table: they are tasty, fragrant, not too difficult to prepare. In addition, these snacks create an unforgettable festive atmosphere.

Why hot

Hot snacks "unlucky" - nowadays they are prepared very often, despite the fact that the Transfiguration professor in the cult novel by Bulgakov argued that self-respecting man operates a hot snack. Why over the last century the situation has changed and hot snacks have become such a rarity?

The unpopularity of hot snacks is not connected with their bad taste, and the fact that this kind of snacks calls for a particularly attentive attitude. If cold snacks Appetizers: from cutting up lettuce   and salads can and should be prepared in advance, hot meals are served to the table with piping hot. And it's not always comfortable at home, because the owners usually want to sit and chat with the guests and not run between the dining room and kitchen. For this reason, most modern people often eat hot meals in restaurants than at home.

Yet these problems can be easily solved if the house has a microwave Microwave - irreplaceable assistant modern housewife   or the oven timer. Calculating the time, you can podgadat to hot meals were cooked to the desired hour with little or no participation of the hostess. In this case, only need to pre-prepare the products and set the timer so the meals were ready at the right moment.

Hot snacks in our time - a real exclusive. Such courses do not just decorate the festive menu, but make it a memorable one. In some cases, hearty hot snacks can even replace the main meals. This is especially true in the New Year's Eve, when encouraged to apply the best light meals. Many can be difficult to calculate their own strength: after meals will not want to eat hot and before dessert business often do not get it. If instead the main dish was served hot snacks, such problems do not arise.

Hot snacks are different from the main dishes is not only the size of portions, but more spicy taste. Such foods can be nourishing, but they should not be too heavy and heavy.

Christmas table

From appetizers for New Year often prepare various salads, including the puff, and serves meat and fish specialties. It would seem that hot snacks are already too much, but such dishes blend perfectly with cold snacks. Hot snacks can replace the main hot food or supplement them. For the Christmas meal is preferred, perhaps, the first option.

Supply instead of main dishes hot snacks has many advantages. On the one hand, the preparation of such food consumed too much effort: snacks are served in small portions and need not garnish. On the other hand, thanks to the delicious taste such dishes are always attractive to those who eat them.

As hot snacks are served at the table with the heat from the heat, they do not need any special decorations. A couple of slices of mushrooms, a sprig of parsley, a slice of cucumber - decor such snacks should be very simple.

In fact, all hot snacks create a festive atmosphere already due to the fact that these dishes are rare. And yet, for the celebration of the New Year is better to choose the best recipes of the most delicious foods. It is obvious that even the most fragrant toast or fried sausage more suitable for everyday menu. But hot snack eclairs, chicken or fish in a mild sauce, grilled vegetables, various zhuleny or delicious meat balls are the ideal choice for the holiday table.

Proper combination

Hot snacks should be comfortable there: whenever possible it is better to do small pieces of meat, poultry or fish, as well as meat. Due to absence of side dishes such snacks are always full-bodied taste.

It is best to apply several options for hot snacks: meat, fish and vegetables or mushrooms. Well, if a snack will vary not only raw materials, but also the method of preparation. For example, small skewers of chicken breast can be combined with mushroom julienne, fried meat meatballs with leeks braised in cream and baked in a sauce fish with vegetables grilled.

The most popular hot appetizers

The most famous and favorite hot appetizer - it is, of course, julienne. Initially, this dish is prepared from chicken and cut into thin julienne vegetables in bechamel sauce, but eventually widely julienne and other species, such as the mushroom. Snack This is a refined delicate flavor, although it is a snap to prepare. Personal cooking julienne Julien: gourmet hot appetizer   - A stock suitable utensils, metal (rarely ceramic or glass) molds-cocotte. The molds are placed fried foods (which can be chicken, turkey, boiled beef tongue, mushrooms, even fish or seafood) with vegetables, pour bechamel sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese. Shortly before filing Julien should be put in the preheated oven and cook until ready to serve, garnish with herbs.

Very popular hot appetizers of eggplant - hearty and at the same time light, tender and flavorful. Small eggplant can be used whole, farshiruya meat, cheese or vegetables. Large eggplant cut into slices, and most of them are prepared hot "sandwiches" with vegetables and brine cheese or blue cheese.

The original and very simple snack - fried cheese. Thus it is possible to prepare almost any cheese, breaded it first in the flour, then the egg, and then bread crumbs and fried in hot oil.

Maria Bykov

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