The results of the mini-contest "Who prepared what for the New Year"

In the last days of our forum on the "old" site burdastyle.ru, our dear hostesses shared recipes for their culinary delights.

For most of us, the most delicious on the festive table is sweet pastries, and we will start our mini cookbook with DESSERT.
Moreover, the only (alas!) Prize is subscription for the second half of 2014 to the magazine Burda- got a resident of Smolensk Olesya Popkova (Lisenok) precisely for the sweet gingerbread!

Gingerbread house from the gingerbread dough - amazing, fabulous, as in the picture from the children's book.
Here is the story of the winner of our mini-contest:
“This was the first time I made this house, as a gift to the little brothers for the New Year. I kneaded the dough several times because the house is big. I found a house pattern on the Internet.
Each detail was baked separately, then painted with multi-colored glaze (added food colors). After drying, at first glued the details of the lower tier with sugar glaze, left to dry for a day. Then glued the upper tier.
In total, this process took me 3 days. But it was worth it, everyone was thrilled.
Skewers are visible in the photo, but this is because the house had to be transported, I was worried that he would arrive safely. Everything worked out.
It's a pity the side windows are not visible in the photo, they are very beautifully painted. The house was given with the lights off, inside there was a lit candle. It was very beautiful, everywhere there was a magical New Year's aroma. "
We offer to repeat the work of Olesya to everyone who has the patience to prepare such a miracle!
"It will be necessary for the test: 3 teaspoons of honey, 110 g of sugar, 200 g of butter, 2 teaspoons of ginger (ground), 1 teaspoon of cinnamon (ground), 1 teaspoon of nutmeg, 1.5 hours tablespoons of soda, 1 egg, 200 g of flour.
It will be required for glaze: 1 egg white, 200 g of powdered sugar. "
For my part, I promise to get the "patterns" of the gingerbread house by Christmas and put them on our website.
And now I’ll tell you what else our forum users were preparing for the New Year.

Macinna shared a CARROT BISCUIT recipe with us.
"Tasty, bright, and not without health benefits!"
You will need: a split mold with a diameter of 24 cm.
For the test: 4 egg whites, 4 yolks, 200 g sugar, 200 g ground almonds, 200 g grated carrots, 60 g flour, 2.5 teaspoons of baking powder.
Top: 150 g of powdered sugar, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice or 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of cherry, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of almonds with slices.
Preparation: beat the yolks with sugar into a thick foam, gradually mix the almonds with carrots, flour and baking powder. After that, introduce proteins, also whipped into a strong foam.
Cover the bottom of the mold with baking paper. Put the biscuit mass into the mold. Bake at 175 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Remove the biscuit from the mold and cool.
Mix the powder with lemon juice or liquor, adding 1−2 tbsp. tablespoons of water. Fill the cake with icing and decorate as you like. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with almond petals. "

Natalie000 herself came up with NEW YEAR PIE!
"The recipe is very simple, the set of ingredients is also minimal, but it turns out very tasty.
You will need: 3 eggs, 100 - 150 g of sugar, 100 g of powdered sugar, 350 g of flour, 1 pack of margarine (200 g), vanilla to taste, a bar of chocolate (you can with nuts), 1 - 2 bananas.
First of all, we take margarine from the refrigerator, it should be at room temperature. To speed up the process, you can defrost it a little in the microwave. The main thing is that it does not melt.
Separate the whites from the yolks. We remove the proteins in the refrigerator.
Grind the yolks with 150-100 g of sugar (for those who love a sweeter, take 150 g).
Add margarine, whisk. You can use a whisk, you can use a mixer, in the last version the dough will turn out more airy.
Add the sifted flour with vanilla and knead the dough. The dough should turn out to be very plastic, a bit like plasticine, you may need a pinch of flour.
If necessary, cover the baking dish with foil and spread the dough in pieces, pressing with your hand to the form. Due to the consistency, the dough pieces are well distributed along the bottom of the mold and stick together. On the edges you need to form small sides. If the form is small, then the dough can be divided into two parts.
Bake at 170 degrees for 10-15 minutes. As soon as it is browned, it should be ready, for inspection you can pierce with a toothpick, if dry - then we pull it out of the oven. If the cake is baked in a deep, one-piece form, I advise you to shift it onto a flat baking sheet and carefully disconnect the foil.
While the cake is baked, you need to prepare the filling. If there is no icing sugar, then it's time to make it, cut the banana into rings and crumble the chocolate bar into small pieces, or at least break into slices.
We distribute the chocolate over the hot cake, on top a layer of banana.
We get the squirrels from the refrigerator. Beat first with a small pinch of salt, literally on the tip of a knife. Beat with a mixer for about five minutes, no less. It should be very thick foam. Then gradually add powdered sugar. In total, beat for at least 7 minutes.
Put the whipped squirrels on the cake. You can use a pastry syringe, you can just flatten with a spoon. We put in the oven preheated to 100 degrees for a couple of minutes, so that the protein warms up and browned.
You can decorate the top with confectionery topping or nuts - it all depends on your imagination. "

And this, too, is the Fried Chicken Cake! He was baked by mama42rus from store chocolate cakes, layered with a cream of condensed milk and butter, mashed with bananas. Top - cream of condensed and dried milk. Such a natural color "under the golden chicken crust" was obtained due to the glaze from Nesquik cocoa.
Now back to the beginning of the festival, namely toSNACKS. Here the fantasy of our members of the forum knew no bounds! But in fact, it is simply impossible to imagine a New Year's (and any holiday) table without many different salads!

Olga55 is very fond of salads, and on New Year’s says goodbye to all diets! I support completely and completely!
Here are her two recipes: the first is PACKAGE SALAD OF CREAM OR CRABME MEAT. It is prepared in layers:
"1 layer - shrimp (crab meat) - finely chopped. 2 layer - pickled cucumbers - finely chopped. 3 layer - protein - grate.
4 layer - boiled squids - cut into strips. 5 layer - onion - finely chopped. 6 layer - egg yolk - grate. 7 layer - red fish (salmon, trout) - cut. 8 layer - cheese - grate. 9 layer - shrimp.
Grease each layer with mayonnaise except the last. "
And this is the recipe for a hot appetizer “JULIEN IN SICKETS”.
"Take the tartlets ready. Fry the mushrooms, onions. Add sour cream (if you like, you can add chicken). Transfer the mixture to the tartlets. Sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the microwave before serving to melt the cheese. And the best part, that this dish can be cooked both in the country and at work (if there is a birthday), because all the blanks can be made at home, and in the absence of a microwave, you can simply put the hot mixture in tartlets and sprinkle cheese on top. The cheese will melt right there. "

Mariy told what their FAMILY FAMILY SALAD is made of! These are chicken thigh, canned pineapples, fried mushrooms, walnuts, parsley, mayonnaise. "It turns out easy and tasty salad!"
Nastya described the preparation of a delicious SALAD FROM SPRAYED SOY WITH SHRIMPS.
"No, he was not photographed. But the salad" disappeared "from the New Year's table very quickly!
You will need: 400 - 500 g of germinated soybeans, 150 g of fresh (i.e. green) shrimp, salt, spices, dill, vegetable oil, sesame seeds are your 30 minutes time.
We begin: pour boiling water on soybeans for 5-7 minutes. Fry sesame seeds.Shrimp "bring" to redness.
Then: drain the water from soybeans. Mix with shrimp and sesame seeds in a pan, heat all together. Add a little vegetable oil (Odorless!), To taste (and your desire) - soy sauce, a little salt, red bell pepper (ground), optionally red hot pepper.
ALL! Our salad is ready!
You can "absorb" hot (which I prefer), you can cold.
Vegetarian option is shrimp-free salad. "

Nashik shared the composition of very tasty and beautifully decorated salads too:
“NEW YEAR Horseshoe” salad is prepared from chicken fillet, boiled potatoes, mushrooms, onions, eggs, carrots and mayonnaise.

Salad "Orange" - also from boiled chicken, fresh cucumber, peeled and diced slices of orange and mayonnaise.
Natalisorel loves to cook (and eat) a variety of salads, her recipes are not only from notebooks or from her mother, but she herself comes up with them.

"By the New Year's table of 2014, of course, the Horse Horse salad was required.
To prepare the salad you need: chicken - 1 pc., Champignons - 500 g, carrot - 4 pcs., Onions - 4 pcs., Potatoes - 5 pcs., 5 eggs, mayonnaise.
Chicken, carrots and my potatoes and boil for 20 minutes. Finely chop the champignons and fry them with onions in a frying pan. I cook eggs. I cut the chicken into pieces and put it on a plate in the form of a horse’s head, then put it in turn, greasing layers of mayonnaise, potatoes, mushrooms, eggs, carrots - at the end, and using olives I make eyes with cilia, put the muzzle with egg yolk, mane with grated cheese , green peas - on the neck.
Option: to put a herring instead of a chicken, it will also be very tasty. "
Our forum member Istratova shared the recipe SNACKS FROM SALMON:
"You will need: slightly salted salmon (1 pack, about 300 g), sweet apple, green onions, mayonnaise.
Preparation: chop salmon, apple and onion, season with mayonnaise.
Serve in portioned baskets or tartines (took ready, from thin pastry). "

Mama42rus cooked a very beautiful Puff Salad
"Needed: 300 g of chicken (boil and chop finely), 1 onion (chop finely), 5 eggs (boil and grate), 1 tablespoon of prunes (cut, but not too finely), 1 tablespoon walnuts (chopped; you can take smaller nuts), and mayonnaise (where without it!).
We spread in layers: meat, onions, eggs, prunes, nuts, each layer should be greased with mayonnaise.
Decorated with chips, herbs and tomatoes. "
Glaksinia - I want to confess: all your recipes are great! And the design is wonderful - thanks for sharing!

"For the first time I made a puff salad in a mold" Mimosa with tuna and pepper:
Used for this an ordinary plastic bottle, cutting off the edges. Salad is prepared like this - ingredients (in layers):
- boiled grated potatoes, - canned tuna in oil (pre-squeeze the butter, mash the fish with a fork), - onions, slightly fried in oil, - boiled grated eggs (squirrels), - boiled grated carrots, - Bulgarian pepper (finely chopped).
Salt the layers at will, grease with mayonnaise, or tuna oil. I alternated both. Garnish with grated yolks and herbs on top of the salad.
You can use sour cream instead of mayonnaise.

GREEK SALAD
Briefly ingredients: fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers red and yellow, onions white and red, black olives, seedless black cheese, feta cheese, sauce of olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
You can also use sour cream instead of mayonnaise. "

And Vera54 showed how she prepares appetizers with caviar, pastes, mincemeat, etc.
After such an abundance of salads and in anticipation of sweets, you can forget aboutHOT MEALS. But we decided on New Year's Eve to give up on a diet! Moreover, there’s nothing on our "site" table! Here is a refined recipe for fried pineapple with seafood, and meat rolls adored by everyone, and stuffed pike (caught by her husband the day before!), And meat, of course, in pots, baked in the oven ... And, certainly, a chicken!

“Royal” recipe: CORONATION CHICKEN shared with us Mariy.
"Cut the boiled chicken breast and mango into strips, add a handful of raisins, 100 g cashew nuts, season with mayonnaise and lemon juice. Very tasty!"
Our forum member Istratova described, in addition to appetizers, the preparation of BAKED PORK WITH BACON:
"Ingredients: pork (tenderloin), bacon, salt, spices to taste, narsharab (pomegranate sauce). Proportions depend on the amount of meat.
Cut the tenderloin into slices 1.5–2 cm wide, salt, add spices, pour in pomegranate sauce - leave for 3-4 hours. Then we wrap each piece of marinated meat in bacon, put it in a mold and bake in a well-heated oven for about 30-40 minutes. If the bacon is not very greasy, a little oil can be added to the baking sheet. I poured the meat with the sauce in which it was pickled. This is not the cheapest, but a very simple and tasty recipe. "

Glaksinia on the hot cooked for the New Year HOT HOT IN POTS.
"Here's how to do it: - put slices of pork on the bottom of the pot, lightly fried to a golden crust, - then a layer of mushrooms (I used the dried ones, after boiling them and slicing them in slices), - onions, chopped into rings, - grated carrots, - potatoes pieces - a little mayonnaise, herbs, grated cheese ... and in the oven!
To make meat and mushrooms boil better, I pour 1/3 of a pot of warm water with salt and mayonnaise. I water everything on top of the potato so that all the ingredients are saturated.
You can use sour cream instead of mayonnaise. "
Ignatova HB described in detail how to cook BAKED CARBONATE WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE.
For meat you will need: carbonate, dry spices, curry, suneli hops, red bell pepper, salt. Grease a piece of meat with all this and top it with mustard and grains, pour soy sauce - 3 tbsp. tablespoons, put in a baking sleeve and bake for 2 hours at a temperature of 200 degrees.
For mushroom sauce you will need: champignons - 500 g, onions - 2 pcs., Sunflower oil for frying, sour cream - 3 tbsp. tablespoons, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour.
Preparation: fry the mushrooms to boil water, add sautéed onion, sour cream, salt, add flour, fry all together and add 1 cup of water, then let it stew for 15 minutes. The sauce is ready.
After that, cut the meat into portions and serve with boiled potatoes, pouring mushroom sauce. "
Our hostess also prepared HAMMEN ROLLS STILLED from cheese, garlic and herbs.
"Ham should be asked to cut thinly in the supermarket as for toast.
Grate the cheese (200 g), add chopped garlic, chopped dill and cilantro, season with mayonnaise. Then put the mass as a filling on a slice of ham and spin into rolls. "

Our forum member Melur also prepared MEAT ROLLS.
"They will need: fresh meat - layers of beef or pork (for example, thigh) - hold the night in red wine with lots of onions.
Slightly beat, salt, pepper, practically over the whole meat preparation, spread the filling in a thin layer. Roll rolls, and in order to keep their shape better, wrap them in strips of bacon (fresh or uncooked smoked).
Put our rolls in a baking dish greased with vegetable oil, add the onions and wine left from the marinade to them, grease (roll) the rolls with sour cream or thick cream of 15% fat on top.
Cover the form with foil and bake rolls in the oven for 30-60 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. Remove the foil and let the rolls brown.
Preparation of the filling: bell pepper + part of the onions from the wine marinade, fry in vegetable oil, remove excess oil, mix with chopped herbs and grated cheese + any additives and spices. "

Gordeeva Tatyana described how she stuffed the pike.
"Before the New Year, my husband caught a pike weighing 3.5 kg. So I decided to make stuffed fish. This is done like this:
1) clean the fish; 2) separate the head; 3) gently turn the skin away, cutting where the fins, with a knife, so as not to damage, and wrapping the skin to the tail like a stocking; 4) reaching the tail, cut off the bone inside; 5) separate the meat from the bones; 6) scroll the meat through a meat grinder; 7) add onion, bread soaked in milk to the meat grinder; 8) mix the minced meat, add salt and pepper, as well as a raw egg to taste; 9) stuff the pike with minced meat, put your head - and into the oven.
Then decorate. Taste - like fish cakes, cut like a roll. "

Irina Kurnosik shared an exquisite recipe Pineapple WITH SEAFOOD.
Ingredients: 1 small pineapple, 200 g of frozen sea cocktail, 100 g of champignons, ¼ cup of dry white wine, ½ cup of 20% cream, 50 g of Maasdam cheese, ½ teaspoon of starch, roasting oil, salt and white pepper to taste.
Preparation: cut the washed pineapple in half, cut out the core and part of the pulp. Cut the cut pineapple pulp into cubes and fry in oil (I took olive) until golden brown. Then add finely chopped champignons to the pineapples and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
After adding a sea cocktail, pour in the wine and simmer another 3-5 minutes, so that the wine evaporates completely.
Dilute starch in cold cream and pour seafood on them. Salt and pepper to taste. Simmer over low heat, stirring, until the sauce thickens.
Put everything in halves of pineapple, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in an oven heated to 200 degrees for about 5 minutes. Before serving, you can sprinkle with herbs. I took thyme.
Very unusual and tasty!
The editors congratulate again winner of the mini-contest Olesya Popkova and wishes her to continue to please both the natives and all relatives and friends with amazing handmade gifts!
The editors also thank everyone who participated in the contest and sent their recipes and posted great photos on the forum!
Anyone who has learned to sew beautifully can do many other very beautiful (and tasty) things!
Once again we wish you all happiness in your personal life and good luck in the New Year 2014!
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