Discover our recipes to bring something different to the table for the dinner on December 31st: crostini with plums and walnuts, cream of lentils and coconut milk, red rice with pomegranate and pears with dulce de leche
Enough with the usual New Year's Eve dinners. As good as they are, canapes with caviar, pasta with salmon, reinforcement salad and cotechino with lentils have a little stew, especially if the same person always has to prepare the usual dishes in the kitchen. Here are our proposals for a Cnew year from the alternative menu, which certainly will not regret the great holiday classics.
Hot and cold appetizers
Whether you serve a placée dinner or have organized a buffet, offering both a hot and a cold appetizer for your New Year's Eve from the alternative menu will prepare guests for the Luculian (and unusual) banquet that awaits them.
Simple, fast and delicious are gods croutons with Prague cooked ham, plum jam and walnuts. The hot appetizer, on the other hand, requires some extra attention, but it will be worth it: i sweet potato muffins and gorgonzola ice cream they are certainly not traditional, but they will conquer everyone.
New Year with alternative menu yes, but never without first
There are some foods that for December 31st they cannot be missing and they are lentils and the pomegranate, both auspicious bearers for the new year.
No cotechino, but oriental flavors for the cream of coral lentils and coconut milk. It is a first light, spicy at the right point and that with the mind makes you travel to distant lands … who knows if it will give so much luck to really bring those who eat it on the road.
The other first is a red rice with broccoli, pomegranate and pumpkin seeds. Boil the rice and sauté it in a pan with oil, a clove of garlic, nutmeg and cloves, pumpkin seeds and broccoli reduced to very small florets. Finish with the pomegranate seeds before serving the dish.
Second and side dish
A little sea and a little land, but definitely greedy, this is how the second of this alternative New Year's menu is.
Main course, the sword and bacon rolls. To prepare them, fill each thin slice of fish with a slice of bacon, grated orange zest, salt, pepper and rosemary. Close the rolls with a toothpick or kitchen string and brown them in a pan with a drizzle of oil, blending with the orange juice.
The outline, however, are very simple Brussels sprouts blanched and then done stir-fry with oil, diced bacon, salt and pepper and then enriched with walnuts and pomegranate seeds.
And finally the dessert
For the dessert of this alternative New Year's menu, the inspiration comes from South America with the pears al dulce de leche, a thick and very sweet cream that recalls toffee. To prepare it you can use both the classic and the quick dulce de leche recipe, keep the cream just a little more liquid. The pears, however, must be cooked whole and peeled for about 15 minutes in a saucepan with water, sugar and vanilla.
To serve, cut the pears in half, remove the internal seeds and place them on a bed of dulce de leche. Finish if you want with crumbled amaretti or cocoa beans.
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