New Year and Christmas Recipes
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Recipes for the New Year and Christmas table — salads, appetizers, mains, desserts and meatless dishes for Christmas Eve. At our home the New Year table always has kholodets with homemade horseradish, a big bowl of Olivier salad, buzhenina made from an old family recipe and uzvar.
New Year salads
The classics: herring under a fur coat, Olivier, Mimosa, cod liver salad, crab stick salad. With seafood — squid salad, shrimp salad. Lighter — avocado and feta salad, caprese, beets with prunes. Hearty — Tbilisi salad with beef and beans.
Herring Under a Fur Coat Salad
Canned Salmon Salad with Beets and Green Peas
Jewish Salad with Processed Cheese and Garlic
Shepherd’s Salad
Cod Liver Salad
Crab Stick Salad
Shrimp Salad
Olivier Salad
Squid Salad
Red Caviar Salad with Avocado and Corn
Seafood Salad with Squid and Shrimp
Olivier Salad with Pork and Corn
Beets with Prunes and Walnuts
Orange Salad
Avocado Salad
Caprese Salad: Tomatoes, Mozzarella and Basil
Mimosa Salad with Sardines
Meat Salad with Boiled Pork (or Veal) and Fried Vegetables
Holiday appetizers and aspic
Fried Cheese
Chopped Herring Forshmak with Butter
Kholodets with Pork Trotters and Beef
Sprat Sandwiches
How to Salt Trout
Cod Liver Sandwiches
Clear Turkey Aspic
Eggplant Rolls with Chicken Liver
Aioli with Olive Oil and Garlic
Beef Tongue in Aspic
Prosciutto, Cheese and Pear Rolls
Prosciutto with Melon
New Year Pizza with Shrimp and Mandarins
Mini Pizzas on Puff Pastry
Holiday mains
Poultry: roast duck stuffed with apples, duck with apples. Meat: French-style pork, oven-roasted pork, pork ribs with potatoes, rabbit in sour cream, chicken Kyiv, lasagna. Fish: oven-baked trout, stuffed pike.
Roast Duck with Apples
Buzhenina – Pork Roast Baked in Foil
Oven-Baked Pork with Pickled Onion and Adjika
French-Style Pork Loin Baked Under a Cheese Crust
Stuffed Pike
Chicken Kyiv
Classic Lasagna with Meat Sauce and Béchamel
Homemade Chicken Sausage
Oven-Roasted Pork Ribs with Potatoes
Homemade Pork Sausage
Roast Rabbit with Rosemary and Potatoes
Roast Stuffed Duck with Apples
Baked Chicken Thighs with Pineapple and Cheese
Oven-Baked Trout with Potatoes
Baked Chicken in the Oven with Fried Rice
Stuffed Peppers with Pork and Rice in Tomato Sauce
Rabbit in Sour Cream
Oven-Roasted Duck with Prunes, Dried Apricots and Apples
Roast Goose with Grapes
Christmas desserts and cookies
Cakes: Monastery Hut, Broken Glass. Also apple strudel, crème brûlée, sweet tartlets, honey cookies.
Meatless dishes for Ukrainian Christmas Eve
In Ukraine, Christmas Eve (Sviat Vechir) is on December 24 and Christmas on December 25 — since 2023; many families still celebrate on January 6 and 7. Christmas Eve dinner is traditionally meatless: uzvar, meatless borscht with mushrooms and beans, meatless cabbage rolls, beans with mushrooms, braised cabbage, marinated mushrooms, herring with onion, fish in marinade, cherry kisel. On Christmas Day — roast duck, kholodets and buzhenina.
How to get it all done in time
What to make ahead
A day or two before: kholodets or clear turkey aspic, beef tongue in aspic, buzhenina, homemade sausage, fish in marinade — it needs time to soak. Bake ahead: biscotti. For tea — tangerine jam.
Short on time
Leave for December 31 what takes half an hour: sprat sandwiches, shrimp salad, avocado salad. Aspic, buzhenina and cakes — a day or two ahead.