The Old New Year 2019 is celebrated on the night of January 13-14. The evening on the eve of the Old New Year is called generous, therefore the festive table should be rich, satisfying and tasty.
In Ukraine, the tradition of celebrating is associated not only with the change in chronology, but also with church holidays. So, on January 13, the Melanka holiday is celebrated, and January 14 is Vasily’s Day. In addition, the modern New Year falls on the Nativity fast, and the Old New Year no longer exists, so this “new year” can be celebrated with all your heart.
The evening on the eve of the Old New Year - Generous Evening or Vasilyev, as it is also called - coincides with the Ukrainian folk holiday Malanka. Kutya is the main ritual food this evening. For Vasily, the kutya was prepared generously, fatty, seasoned with lard or cream. Hence the name of the evening - Generous.
The whole family sits down at the New Year's table, just like at Christmas. In our material you will find recipes for dishes for the Old New Year according to folk traditions to attract good luck and prosperity, as well as original modern recipes for festive treats.
What dishes should you prepare for the Old New Year?
In addition to kutia, it is customary to prepare many dishes for the Old New Year: it is appreciated if they are varied and satisfying, because the more dishes on the table, the more generous the next year will be. Mandatory treats on the table are dumplings, pancakes, and various sausages.
Also on the table must be pork dishes. This animal has traditionally been considered a symbol of fertility and prosperity.
Dishes for Old New Year 2019: pork ribs
According to folk customs, pork entrails are prepared for the Old New Year, jellied meat is cooked from pork legs so that people’s legs don’t hurt, kishka (blood milk), liver sausages, vereshchaka (an ancient Ukrainian dish of pork ribs) are prepared. fry and smoke lard Potaptsy (small sandwiches) are prepared with lard, stuffing a whole young pig, cook borscht and the like.
But cooking poultry and fish that evening was a bad omen, since it was believed that happiness would “fly away” or “swim away” from the house.
Dishes for Old New Year 2019: homemade sausage
The hosts covered the festive tables with towels and decorated them with spikelets, placed kutya in the center of the table and lit a candle to honor the memory of their ancestors. It is with kutya that the meal begins this evening.
Recipes for Old New Year
Generous kutia
The basic principle of preparing generous kutia is a combination of boiled cereals, poppy seeds, dried fruits and honey. Generous kutia - unlike lean kutia, is prepared with butter, milk, cream or animal fat.
Ingredients:
wheat or rice – 400 g;
poppy seed – 200 gr;
walnuts or hazelnuts – 100 g;
dried fruits – 100 g;
honey – 100 g;
cognac – 1 tbsp. l. (Optional);
butter – 2-3 tbsp. l.
Recipe for generous kutia for the Old New Year
Generous kutia recipe:
1. Wheat needs to be soaked for 1-2 hours, then boiled until tender. The proportions of grain and water are 1:2.5.
2. Pour boiling water over poppy seeds for 15 minutes, then grind in a mortar. Finely cut nuts and your favorite dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes, figs) into cubes. Mix all ingredients.
3. Dissolve honey in a glass of warm water or uzvar and pour into porridge. Kutya should not be liquid, so you may not need all the honey water.
4. At the very end, add cognac and a spoonful of butter to the kutya if desired. Mix all ingredients well before serving.
Vereshchaka (pork ribs)
Ingredients:
400 g pork ribs;
200 g white bread,
50 g lard
2 medium onions;
salt, ground black pepper and other spices to taste;
beet kvass
Ingredients for Vereshchaki for the Old New Year
Ingredients for beet kvass:
0.5 kg of peeled beets;
1 liter of chilled boiled water.
Vereshchaki (pork ribs) recipe:
1. You need to prepare beet kvass in advance. To do this, finely chop the beets and fill them with water. The mixture should be placed in a warm place for 4-5 days until a sour taste appears.
2. To prepare vereshchaki, take pork ribs, salt and pepper them. You can add other spices if you wish. Fry them in a deep frying pan until crusty. Add 500 grams of beet kvass to the frying pan and place in the oven for 30 minutes.
3. Cut the bread into small cubes, place it in the frying pan where the meat is stewed, and leave in the oven for another five minutes. At the end, add chopped and fried onions and lard to the vereshchaka. Remove the finished dish from the oven before serving and sprinkle with herbs. Vereshchaka is served in portions in deep bowls.
Recipe for Vereshchaki (pork ribs) for the Old New Year
Appetizer with lard
Ingredients:
lard without meat layer;
black bread;
salt, pepper to taste;
a few cloves of garlic.
Recipe for a snack of lard and garlic for the Old New Year
Lard snack recipe:
1. Freshly cooled, even slightly frozen lard without a meat layer, twist through a meat grinder, add salt and pepper to taste, add a few chopped garlic cloves and mix well. You can add ground nutmeg or curry.
2. Let the mixture sit for several hours so that the spices and garlic release their aroma. Spread on black bread; when serving, you can sprinkle with herbs. This appetizer is perfect with borscht or main meat courses.
Dumplings with potatoes and cracklings
Ingredients for the dough:
0.5 kg flour;
250 ml water;
2 tbsp. spoons of butter;
1-2 eggs;
salt to taste.
Ingredients for filling and cracklings:
potatoes 500 gr;
lard 200 gr;
2 onions;
salt and pepper to taste;
butter as desired.
Dumplings with potatoes and cracklings for the Old New Year
Recipe for dumplings with potatoes and cracklings:
1. Sift the flour. Add warm water, eggs, oil and salt. Mix the stiff, homogeneous dough. Cover the dough with cling film and leave it for half an hour in a warm place.
2. While the dough is resting, cook the potatoes. Make a puree and add cream or warm milk (optional). Also add salt to the filling, but keep in mind that the dough is also salty.
3. Roll out the dough and cut out small circles. This can be done using a regular glass. Place a spoonful of filling on each circle and form dumplings. The amount of filling depends on the size of the dumpling.
If desired, dumplings can be served not with cracklings, but with sour cream
4. Place the finished dumplings in boiling salted water. Cook for 6-7 minutes after surfacing.
5. Fry finely chopped lard and onion in a frying pan. When serving, sprinkle the dumplings with cracklings; if desired, you can pour over the melted fat that will appear during frying.
Homemade sausage
Homemade sausage is a very filling and tasty food. This sausage is perfectly preserved, especially if the finished sausage is placed in a ceramic pot and filled with melted lard. For the holiday, sausage should be prepared the day before, and it should be fried before serving - this way it will be tastier.
Homemade sausage recipe for Old New Year
Ingredients:
2-2.5 kg pork (neck, shoulder, back)
500-700 g of lard without meat streaks;
1 head of garlic;
pork small intestines;
salt, ground black pepper, dry herbs (basil, thyme, oregano), ground coriander.
Homemade sausage recipe:
1. Pork small intestines must be rinsed very thoroughly. Turn the intestines inside out and rinse again. It would not be superfluous to scrape out the intestines with the back of a knife and remove the mucus from the intestines.
Pork intestines need to be washed thoroughly
2. Pork meat can be used from any part of the carcass. Considering that homemade sausage is made with the addition of lard, the fat content of the meat does not matter. The neck, shoulder blade, back part are perfect. Thoroughly clean the meat from bones and cartilage. If you wish, you can mince the meat or cut it into small pieces. But sausage with chopped meat and lard turns out tastier.
3. Peel the lard. Set aside 100 grams of lard. Cut the rest into the same pieces as the meat. The ratio of meat and lard is approximately 1:6. If the meat is fatty, then less lard is needed and vice versa.
Minced meat for homemade sausage
4. In a large bowl, combine the chopped meat and lard. Season with salt and pepper. Add dry aromatic herbs: basil, oregano and definitely thyme. Add ground coriander to taste. Mix the meat very thoroughly. Add chopped garlic to the minced meat to make the sausage more flavorful.
5. Prepared intestines need to be stuffed with ready-made minced meat. For this purpose, meat grinders have a special tube-shaped attachment. The intestine must be put on the nozzle, and the tip must be tied with a cotton thread. There is no need to fill the intestine very tightly so that it does not burst during cooking or frying. If there is a hole in the intestine, then it needs to be divided into smaller sausages.
How to stuff homemade sausage
6. The stuffed sausage should stand in the refrigerator for at least 5 hours, or better yet, overnight. After this, roll the sausage into rings, this makes it easier to cook and fry. Pierce the sausage with a toothpick in several places to release excess air. Boil the sausage for 5-7 minutes in boiling water. For this it is better to take a large saucepan. Let the sausage cool.
Roll homemade sausage
7. Fry 100 grams of lard that you set aside. All you need is the fat, which needs to be cooled. Grease a baking sheet, place the sausage there and place in the oven. If desired, the sausage can be fried. The sausage is baked for about an hour, and it needs to be turned over periodically.
Homemade sausage goes better with mustard or horseradish
8. You can eat the sausage right away. But homemade sausage stores well in the refrigerator and is reheated as needed. Serve sausage with sauce - homemade mustard or horseradish.
Krovyanka with buckwheat
Ingredients:
200 g buckwheat;
1 liter of blood
350 g lard
100 g meat;
3 onions;
200 g milk
1 bay leaf;
2 peas of allspice;
salt to taste;
pepper to taste;
3 small intestines, cleaned.
Recipe for bloodwort with buckwheat
Recipe for bloodwort with buckwheat:
1. Boil buckwheat in salted water until tender. Boil lard with bay leaf and allspice, cool and chop finely.
2. If clots occur in the blood, it must be passed through a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion and fry in oil. Combine all ingredients and mix well to obtain a homogeneous mass.
3. The intestines are stuffed in the same way as in homemade sausage. But do not forget to rinse and clean the intestines well. Place the stuffed intestines in boiling water, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. During the cooking process, pierce the blood in several places with a needle or toothpick.
4. Bake the boiled blood in an oven preheated to 250°C for 20-30 minutes.
Homemade roast pork
Ingredients:
500 g lean pork;
2 onions;
7-8 large potatoes;
2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
salt and pepper to taste;
fresh greens.
Roast pork recipe for Old New Year
Pork roast recipe:
1. Cut the meat into small cubes. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Peel the potatoes and cut into slices (about 2 cm).
2. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and fry the meat until golden brown. Add the onion to the meat and fry until it becomes transparent. Add chopped potatoes, salt and pepper and mix well.
3. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer over low heat until done. If desired, the roast can be cooked in portions in clay pots in the oven.
Jellied meat made from two types of meat
Ingredients:
beef shin and another 500 g of beef.;
pork – 500 g
1 carrot;
1 onion;
dill – 3-4 sprigs;
parsley – 3-4 sprigs;
bay leaf – 2 pcs;
garlic – 3-4 cloves;
black pepper (peas)
salt to taste.
Jellied meat recipe for Old New Year
Recipe for jellied meat for the Old New Year:
1. Pour cold water over the beef shin, bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for another 5 hours. Don't forget to remove the foam. Add the remaining meat (beef and pork) and cook for another hour and a half.
2. Wash, peel and coarsely chop the carrots and onions. Add to broth. Also put in a bunch of herbs tied with a thread, bay leaf and pepper and cook for another half hour. Salt the broth and strain.
3. Remove the meat from the bones and chop fairly finely. Squeeze the peeled garlic cloves onto the meat.
4. Arrange the meat among the molds. Pour in the broth until the meat is just under the surface (about two fingers deep). Leave to cool at room temperature and then place the ramekins in the refrigerator until the jellied meat is set.
Pork and mushroom tortillas
Pork krucheniki can be prepared with a wide variety of fillings - from potatoes and vegetables to nuts and pineapples. We chose a simple option - with mushroom filling. But you can choose the filling to your taste!
Ingredients:
500 g pork (fillet)
400 g champignons (or dried mushrooms)
1 onion;
3 tbsp. l. flour;
oil;
spices to taste (basil, oregano, coriander, marjoram, thyme, pepper)
salt to taste.
Recipe for pork krucheniki for the Old New Year
Recipe for pork krucheniki with mushroom filling:
1. Cut the meat across the grain into pieces approximately 1 centimeter thick, beat well with a hammer, add salt and pepper.
2. Fry onions, mushrooms and spices in a frying pan. It is necessary that all liquid evaporates from the mixture. Set aside 2-3 tbsp. spoons of prepared mushrooms with filling for stewing krucheniki.
3. Place mushroom filling in each piece of meat and roll it up, carefully pressing the edges so that the filling does not fall out, and secure with toothpicks.
4. Each roll should be rolled in flour and fried in oil on both sides until golden brown. Place the krucheniki in a saucepan, layering them with the remaining mushrooms and filling, add water (or broth) so that it slightly covers the krucheniki, and add salt. Simmer the tortillas under the lid over low heat for 40-50 minutes until fully cooked.
5. Pork rolls are good served with a side dish: mashed potatoes, vegetables, etc.
Pancakes with minced meat
Ingredients for pancakes for 3 servings:
milk (300 ml)
2 eggs;
flour (200-250 g);
1 tbsp. spoon of butter;
salt and pepper.
Pancake recipe for Old New Year
Filling ingredients:
400 g boiled meat (pork, beef)
1 onion;
a bunch of greenery;
3 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
spices for meat;
salt to taste.
Recipe for pancakes with minced meat:
1. Beat the eggs until fluffy. Add salt and pepper to the eggs and beat again.
2. Add warm milk to the beaten eggs and stir. Add flour in small portions and stir constantly until all the “lumps” disappear.
3. Fry the pancakes over medium heat for 1-2 minutes on both sides until they are browned.
4. For the filling, pass the boiled meat through a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion and greens (you can use frozen ones).
5. In a preheated frying pan, fry the onion in vegetable oil, then add meat, spices, salt and fry, stirring, for 10 minutes. Add herbs and stir.
6. Place the prepared filling in the center of the pancake, form a bag and secure its edges with green onions. Or just form envelopes if you don’t have green onions.
Compote with raisins and cherries
Uzvar is a traditional Ukrainian drink that is prepared for various holidays. In particular, on Christmas Eve and Old New Year.
Ingredients:
dried apples 100 g
dried pears 100 g
prunes 100 g
dried apricots 100 g
raisins 100 g
dried cherries 100 g
sugar 100 g
Compote recipe for Old New Year
Recipe for compote for the Old New Year:
1. Pour dried fruits (traditional composition - dried pears, apples, raisins and prunes) with water and rinse them thoroughly.
2. Pour water (2-3 liters) into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Place all the dried fruits in water and bring to a boil. After this, reduce the heat and cook for another 15-20 minutes under the lid. 5 minutes before cooking, add sugar to the pan.
4. After this, remove the compote from the heat and let it brew for 12 hours. Before serving, the compote should be strained.
Have a delicious celebration! Share photos of your dishes for the Old New Year in the comments!
Very soon the Old New Year will come, which many are looking forward to no less than the usual New Year's holiday, and that is why housewives are wondering how to choose recipes for simple and tasty dishes for the Old New Year 2018. In fact, the dishes for this celebration will be no different from those snacks that were used for the modern New Year.
As traditions say, it is on this holiday that as many meat dishes as possible should be present on the table, and since the Year of the Dog has come to us, meat dishes will definitely suit her taste. Below we will describe the most interesting, but at the same time easy to prepare, dishes for the festive table.
Ingredients:
- pork heart - 520 grams;
- chicken egg - 4 pieces;
- hot garlic - 2 cloves;
- vinegar 9% - 2 tablespoons;
- onions - 1 piece;
- canned peas - 1 can;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- vegetable oil - 1 spoon;
- spices and salt - to taste;
- fresh greens - 1 bunch;
- mayonnaise - 150 grams.
Cooking process:
- First you need to prepare the pork heart, rinse it with water and then dry it with a towel. Once this is done, it is necessary to remove excess vessels and veins. The prepared product is cut into small cubes and then boiled in lightly salted water.
- While the heart is boiling, you should boil the chicken eggs. While cooking the heart, the water will need to be changed, as it will become very cloudy, the cooking process lasts another thirty minutes, after which the water is changed again, and the offal is cooked for about another hour. During this time, the meat will become soft, half an hour before the heart is ready, add a few peas of allspice and a couple of bay leaves to the water.
- The onion is chopped into thin rings or half rings and then pickled in acetic acid. The carrots are peeled and chopped using a grater, after which they are fried in a hot frying pan.
- The finished heart is removed from the broth and cooled, the boiled eggs are cut into cubes, fresh herbs should also be chopped and garlic chopped. Excess liquid is drained from the jar of peas, after which all the ingredients are transferred to a salad bowl. The appetizer is seasoned with mayonnaise and left for one hour in the refrigerator.
Spinach roll “Bright”
If the housewife is looking for delicious and simple recipes for dishes for the Old New Year 2018, then this appetizer is perfect for serving on the festive table. The finished roll looks very colorful and bright. This recipe will use red fish, which will add variety to the New Year's table.
Base ingredients:
- sour cream - 1 spoon;
- salt - to taste;
- 1st grade flour - 155 grams;
- chicken egg - 5 pieces;
- baking powder - 5 grams;
- fresh spinach - 410 grams.
Filling ingredients:
- cream cheese - 420 grams;
- lightly salted salmon - 260 grams;
- fresh dill - 1 bunch;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- salt - to taste;
- ground pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
- The spinach is washed in water and placed in boiling water; it only takes three minutes to cook the greens, after which the spinach is transferred to a colander and the water is allowed to drain. Excess moisture should be lightly squeezed out, and then grind the vegetable using a blender.
- Only the yolks of chicken eggs are added to the spinach mass, sour cream, spices and salt are also added, and the mass is thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous consistency. Flour, which was previously mixed with baking powder, is gradually added to the finished mixture, and the dough is gradually kneaded. Whip the whites separately into a stable foam and carefully fold into the dough.
- Transfer the spinach dough to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and then level it out to form an even rectangle. The baking sheet is placed in the oven, which is heated to 180 degrees, the baking process lasts no more than ten minutes, otherwise the layer will become dry.
- While the spinach base is baking, you should start preparing the filling. To do this, cream cheese is mixed with chopped garlic and dill. The finished layer is lubricated with cheese mass, and the thickness of the layer should be at least one centimeter.
- Pieces of salmon are laid out on the cheese, and then everything is rolled up into a roll, and the appetizer is put into the refrigerator so that the roll is soaked. Before serving the appetizer, it should be cut into portions.
Red fish with garnish
In this recipe, you can use any type of red fish, but if you can’t buy red fish, you can use white fish. The dish will turn out tender and tasty, even for a novice housewife.
Ingredients:
- fresh dill - 1 bunch;
- salt and pepper - to taste;
- medium-sized potatoes - 5 pieces;
- heavy cream - 250 ml;
- fish fillets or steaks - 1 kg.
Preparation:
- Pieces of fish should be marinated in cream for at least forty minutes. In the meantime, you need to boil the potatoes, but the root vegetable should not be cooked until tender, but only for seven minutes.
- The prepared fish is transferred to a baking sheet, then potatoes are laid out around it; if there is excess marinade, they must be removed. The cooking process lasts about 35 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. The result is a tender and juicy dish.
Lavash rolls
Today there are a lot of recipes for simple and tasty dishes for the Old New Year 2018; such rolls can be stuffed with different fillings, but we will describe only one of the options.
Ingredients:
- lightly salted chum salmon - 250 grams;
- lavash sheets - 2-3 pieces;
- chicken egg - 3 pieces;
- boiled shrimp - 110 grams;
- soft cream cheese - 100 grams;
- hot garlic - 1 clove;
- salt - to taste;
- dill - 1 bunch.
Preparation:
- First you need to cut the salted fish, boiled eggs into small pieces, you also need to chop the greens, boil and peel the shrimp.
- All ingredients, except seafood, must be mixed in one bowl, and then add salt to taste.
- Some of the filling is laid out on the pita bread, and shrimp are placed on top. After this, the layer is covered with another layer of pita bread, and the filling is added again. When the last layer is laid out, the roll is wrapped tightly and cut into portions. You can pre-cool the snack.
Zucchini "Boats"
Ingredients:
- any minced meat - 420 grams;
- small zucchini - 3 pieces;
- fresh tomato - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise - 110 grams;
- hard cheese - 130 grams;
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- onion - 1 piece;
- ground pepper - to taste;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation:
- First, you should prepare the zucchini; if they are young, then simply wash them without removing the skin, but in the case when the vegetables are already mature, it will be necessary to remove the skin. Each zucchini is cut into two equal parts lengthwise to create “boats”, and then the pulp is removed from the middle of the vegetable using a spoon. It is enough to leave just one centimeter of pulp, no more.
- Meanwhile, the white onion is finely chopped and then lightly fried in a frying pan, after which minced meat is added to the vegetable and cooking of the filling continues for ten minutes. When the minced meat is almost ready, add a little salt and ground pepper for taste. One chopped tomato is added to the mixture.
- Mix the mixture well, fry for another couple of minutes, and then remove from the stove. Now you can take the zucchini and place it on a baking sheet, place the fried minced meat filling in the grooves, and sprinkle cheese on top. The minced meat should first be greased with mayonnaise. The baking process lasts no more than half an hour, and the temperature should be set to 190-200 degrees.
Dish "Bear's Paw"
Minced bear paw
Ingredients:
- large onion - 1 piece;
- pork without bones and veins - 310 grams;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- hot garlic - 3 cloves;
- hard cheese - 120 grams;
- spices and coarse salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 1 spoon;
- chicken egg - 3 pieces.
Preparation:
- First, take a piece of pork, rinse it, and then lightly beat it. The finished plates are rubbed with meat spices and salt. It is also necessary to season the pork pieces with garlic.
- The potatoes and onions are peeled and then chopped using a grater. Be sure to drain the liquid from the vegetable mass, and then add two chicken eggs to it.
- Place a mixture of potatoes and onions on a cutting board; you need to make small cakes from the vegetable mixture. Place a piece of pork chop on each vegetable flatbread, and lightly brush the meat with beaten egg.
- The pork is covered with a layer of potato mixture on top, and then you need to pinch the edges of the vegetable mixture well so that the chop is inside. These cutlets are fried on both sides until golden brown, after which the “bear paws” are transferred to a baking sheet and baked for twenty minutes.
Pork roll “Exquisite”
You can prepare this tasty and simple dish according to the recipe for the Old New Year 2018, because the roll will turn out to be very juicy, aromatic and satisfying.
Ingredients:
- pork meat - 2 kg;
- ripe pear - 1 piece;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- ham - 320 grams;
- walnuts - 120 grams;
- pickled cucumber - 1 piece;
- white wine for marinade - 1 glass;
- spices for meat - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 1-2 tablespoons;
- coarse salt - to taste.
Preparation:
- To begin with, a piece of pork is washed and dried, and then marinated in spices and salt. The finished piece of meat is placed in a bowl and poured with wine. The pork is left in this form for 2-4 hours; the longer the meat is marinated, the tastier and juicier it will be after baking.
- When the time is up, you need to cut the meat with a book. The nuts are prepared in advance, fried in a frying pan without oil, and then chopped. The nut mass is mixed with a chicken egg, after which whole nuts, cucumber slices and chopped pear are added to it.
- Pieces of thinly sliced ham are placed on the surface of the meat, and then the whole thing is covered with a mixture of chicken eggs, nuts, cucumbers and pears. Top the mass with salt and lightly pepper. The finished meat is rolled into a very tight roll, and the future dish is tied with culinary thread.
- The workpiece should be greased with vegetable oil and then wrapped with cling film. Leave the roll in this form for 25-35 minutes so that the vegetable oil is absorbed into the meat. After this, the film is removed, and the roll is baked in the oven for one hour. To make the meat more juicy, it should be poured with the juice that melts out of the pork during baking.
Cheese croquettes
Ingredients:
- cinnamon - a pinch;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- white bread - 520 grams;
- hard cheese - 210 grams;
- fresh milk - 210 ml;
- fresh dill - 1 bunch;
- coarse salt - to taste.
Preparation:
- First, take the bread and cut it into small pieces. The crust must be removed and the pulp cut into medium-sized cubes. The finished bread is transferred to a bowl and poured with milk. Infuse the bread with milk for about 15-17 minutes.
- When the time is up, you can add one chicken egg to the mixture and mix everything thoroughly. A pinch of cinnamon, various spices to taste and salt are added to the mixture. Finely grated cheese is added last.
- Small balls are rolled from the resulting mass. In the meantime, take another chicken egg and beat it lightly, add chopped herbs there. Each ball is dipped in an egg and then deep-fried; you can bake this snack in the oven.
There are many more appetizers, hot dishes, salads, desserts and drinks that may be present on the table. It is worth remembering that the celebration of the Old New Year must necessarily take place at a table on which meat dishes will be placed.
But don’t forget about desserts, because the Dog will be happy to enjoy something sweet. You can pay attention to traditional desserts, such as Napoleon, Bird's Milk cake, Tiramisu dessert and many other sweets.
Drinks remain an equally important part of the festive table; you can choose interesting options for preparing cocktails and smoothies. It is enough to use a little imagination to make the festive table delight your guests and family.
The name Generous Evening speaks for itself - a day when it is customary to put a variety of dishes on the table, and the more, the better. And since, according to beliefs, Saint Basil the Great protected pig farmers, pork dishes are considered to be the main and obligatory dishes on Basil. This evening the hosts warmly welcome and treat any guest. In addition to pork, there should be pies, pancakes, and dumplings on the table, which are customary to treat sowers and generous givers. According to legend, the more generous the table and the more guests, the more successful the coming year will be.
In 2018, Orthodox Christians celebrate the Old New Year on the night from Saturday to Sunday, that is, from January 13 to 14. In general, the Old New Year is not a continuation of the New Year (as most believe), it is the same holiday only according to the old calendar. This is because the Julian and Gregorian calendars differed in the length of the year. In the Julian calendar, the solar year was 11 minutes longer, and therefore the dates of the holidays differ by about two weeks. And although the Julian calendar has not been used among Orthodox Christians for more than 600 years, the tradition of celebrating the New Year twice is firmly entrenched. Moreover, the Old New Year and Vasily’s Day coincide in the date of celebration.
What to cook for Old New Year
The holiday menu is very extensive and amazes with its variety and calorie content. On this day, you can prepare both traditional dishes and familiar dishes that are prepared on major holidays.
Those who adhere to Orthodox norms, as a rule, prepare pork dishes for the Old New Year.
The main dish of the day is, of course, roast suckling pig. There are many different recipes for its preparation, but what remains unchanged is that the pig must be whole.
Roasted pig with buckwheat
To prepare this dish, you need to prepare a gutted pig, but the head and legs must be intact. Wash the pig carcass thoroughly, leave it for a while to dry, rub with salt, mustard and pepper. Leave it to soak for about one hour. After that, put it on a baking sheet with the hooves up, be sure to pour it with vegetable oil and put it in a well-heated oven. Once you see that it is slightly browned, reduce the heat. Now you can start cooking the buckwheat, season it with boiled egg and onion, and add it to the pig. You can decorate the dish as desired: with herbs or baked apples.
Folk culinary traditions of celebrating Vasily's Day can be easily implemented today, and the addition of new ingredients will add a unique taste to the dishes. Of course, we must not forget that on the Generous Evening there should be real kutya on the table.
Just like at Christmas, kutia is an obligatory element of the festive table, but it is prepared with butter. All other products are exactly the same as in the Christmas Kutya. If you want to surprise your guests with the unusual taste of kutia, you can add a little cognac to it. To prepare this dish you need to prepare:
- rice or wheat 400 grams;
- poppy 200 grams;
- nuts (can be walnuts or hazelnuts) 100 grams;
- honey 100 grams;
- cognac 1 tablespoon.
Cooking method:
An hour before cooking, soak the wheat, which needs to be boiled for about 60 minutes until tender. The ratio of water and grain is 2.5 to 1. Pour boiling water over poppy seeds for fifteen minutes, then grind. Finely cut nuts and dried fruits (you can take any: raisins, prunes, figs and dried apricots) into cubes. Pre-dissolve the honey in warm water or compote. Mix cereals, poppy seeds, nuts and dried fruits thoroughly and add honey water or honey compote, but you don’t need to pour everything out, otherwise it will turn out too liquid. Mix thoroughly. After this, add cognac to the kutya and mix again. All kutia is ready to be served on the festive table.
Kutya, of course, is good, so is the pig. But what about originality? Moreover, considering that Vasily’s Day is a unique opportunity for fortune telling, you can bake a lucky cake that all guests will appreciate. The recipe for this pie is very popular and is prepared by housewives with great pleasure. It will turn out very tasty if you use puff pastry, which you can either prepare yourself or buy ready-made.
So, for a happy pie you need to prepare:
- puff pastry – 500 grams;
- half a kilogram of beef or mixed minced meat (in general, at your discretion);
- one onion;
- two eggs;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- salt and pepper.
The dough is divided into seven equal parts, each one is rolled out with a rolling pin. Salt and pepper the minced meat, add finely chopped onion and mix thoroughly. Place minced meat on each strip of dough, carefully adjusting the length of a tablespoon of minced meat. Then fold the strip in half and glue the edges. Make a pattern around the edges with a fork and roll it up like a rose. In total you need to make seven roses; in one of them you need to put a coin of any denomination. You can cut out leaves from the rest of the dough; place the roses and leaves on a pre-greased mold, forming something like a cow. Brush the pie with egg and place in the oven for baking (baking time - 1 hour, at 180 degrees).
Where there is a pig, there should be a variety of meat dishes. We offer monastic-style cutlets.
So, prepare:
- one kilogram of pork;
- three eggs;
- three onions;
- starch (three tablespoons) and mayonnaise;
- seasoning.
The meat must be cut into small cubes and mixed with finely chopped onion in a separate bowl. Mix thoroughly. Beat the eggs into the mixture, add mayonnaise, eggs, starch and seasonings. Mix thoroughly and place the mixture in the refrigerator to marinate. After an hour, place the mixture in a frying pan like pancakes and fry on both sides. Decorate the finished cutlets as desired.
It would not be out of place on the festive table monastery hub. This dish comes from Poland and is easy to prepare. In other words, shab is baked loin with cabbage.
To prepare you will need:
- one kilogram of cabbage;
- one and a half kilograms of lean pork;
- two hundred grams of water and salt.
Chop the pork finely, add salt and place in layers in a pan. A layer of meat, a layer of cabbage and so on until the end. Cover with water and simmer until done. Adding onions will make the dish more tender.
The table should contain: boiled pork, meatballs, krucheniki, homemade sausage and roast. Probably from that time the saying “A pig and a pig for Vasiliev’s day” came to us. Potatoes or some kind of cooked cereal can serve as an addition to meat dishes. For a successful, lucky and generous year, porridge and potatoes are cooked in rich meat broth.
Pancakes must be on the table, and once upon a time housewives, when preparing them, would say: “So that everything grows well this year, like the dough rises with yeast, so that the sun warms hot, as the fire bakes pancakes.”
In addition to the lucky pie, you can also make lucky dumplings, which in the old days girls used to tell fortunes about. To do this, each dumpling is filled with a different “magic” filling:
- coin – symbolizes money;
- bay leaf - a promotion is coming;
- dried apricots - for a joyful year;
- ring - an unmarried girl will get married within a year, and the married girl will do well in her marriage;
- caramel - those who receive it will meet true love;
- grain to the monetary year;
- and a cherry for good luck.
Our usual pickles are very good, but the table can be diversified with new items. We offer a selection of unique dishes for the holiday table.
Tuna tartare
An easy to prepare appetizer, but divinely delicious, and it takes a little time and effort to prepare. Remember that the tuna in this appetizer is served raw, so its freshness plays an important role. In addition, you will also need soy sauce, preferably a good dark sauce. Wonton dough can be purchased at Asian food stores.
Yields 4 servings.
Prepare:
- 300 grams of fresh tuna (be sure to trim the skin and cut it into cubes);
- eight squares of wonton dough (cut diagonally to make 18 triangular pieces);
- two onions, chopped into thin half rings;
- ready-made garlic and chili paste (the paste can also be cooked);
- two tablespoons of sour cream and two tablespoons of soy sauce;
- one tablespoon of sesame oil;
- frying oil;
- one tablespoon of sesame seeds.
How to cook:
Combine soy sauce and paste, add sesame oil. Drizzle the tuna with the dressing, cover with cling film and refrigerate for one hour.
Now start preparing the chips. Place pieces of dough into a preheated deep fryer filled with oil.
The dough should be fried for no more than two minutes, until golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel.
Now you can put tuna on the chips, which should be poured with sour cream and sprinkled with onions and sesame seeds. Finally, drizzle with sesame oil. The dish is ready.
Kohlrabi salad
A very tasty and healthy dish, a good addition to meat dishes. The number of components is enough for eight people.
So, prepare:
- kohlrabi – 1 pc. (cut, peel and cut into strips);
- celery – 1 stalk (cut and chopped into strips);
- carrots – 1 piece (peeled and cut into strips);
- red onion – 1 piece (peeled and finely chopped);
- natural yogurt (can be replaced with cheese) approximately 150 grams;
- grain mustard - 1 tablespoon;
- cream should be very fat - 50ml;
- any greens (to taste, you can do without them), lemon zest (one lemon), sea salt.
How to cook:
Mix yogurt, mustard, cream in a large bowl. Add kohlrabi, celery, carrots, herbs and onions, mix everything again. If the dressing is very thick, you can add two tablespoons of cold water. Salt and add zest. Salad ready.
In addition to preparing dishes and the diversity of the menu, I would like to draw attention to another interesting tradition that came to us from antiquity: table setting.
How to set a table on a holiday
The tablecloth should be bright and painted. The dishes should also be different; it would be ideal if they were selected from different sets; this is necessary for a variety of colors on the festive table. A variety of ceramic vases will also look good on the holiday table.
There is another folk custom: large fava beans. In the old days, large fava beans were boiled (their quantity was equal to the number of those present). Everyone had to eat one bean for a good year ahead. And the most important thing that should be at the festive table is a great mood and joy. Happy New Year.
In the old days, questions about what to cook for the Old New Year (2018 is no exception) did not arise. The thing is that the holiday then, firstly, was not old. It was an ordinary New Year, which, thanks to the old style of the calendar, did not fall during the Nativity Fast. That is, Orthodox believers could serve whatever their heart desired on the table.
Secondly, it should be noted that the day of the offensive then, this was before 1918, coincided with such an important church holiday as the day of St. Basil the Great. This saint was especially revered by the people because he helped in agriculture. That is, it was not only possible, but also necessary to put as many meat dishes as possible on the New Year's table.
What, according to tradition, should be included in the menu
In order to understand what to cook for the Old New Year 2018, you need to delve into the folk traditions of celebrating this event. On the festive table, in its very center, as a rule, there was a whole baked suckling pig. Basil the Great was not just a patron of agriculture, he especially helped pig farmers. So, the tendency of tradition here is clear,
where it came from.
Interesting! On the night of the old New Year, now it is from January 13 to 14, it was customary to go out into the yard and look at the sky. If the sky is clear and many stars are visible, then there will be an excellent harvest of berries in the coming year. This night you can also listen to the crackling of the wood in the stove: if there is no unnecessary noise and the sound is clear, then the owners of the house will definitely have a good year.
The second important ritual dish to prepare for the Old New Year 2018 should be buckwheat porridge. In order for the year to be good in terms of harvest, for modern city residents we can say that in material terms, porridge needs to be cooked in pork broth. In the villages they believed that the richer the broth for the porridge, the more successful the year would be. Always relevant on the holiday table.
They also served millet porridge, which was prepared with butter and milk. It is important to ensure that the porridge turns out crumbly and tasty - this is an indicator that the year will be successful for the family. If the porridge turns out sticky, you should expect troubles in the new year. When the porridge is over-salted, this indicates that there may be discord in the house.
Important! After dinner, not a single grain of porridge should remain. Leaving New Year's porridge on the table is a direct call to hotness and misfortune, tears into your family.
How to set a table
I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that it is important not only what to cook for the Old New Year 2018, but also how to serve the festive dinner. You should not take a white tablecloth; it is best to stick to bright and painted fabrics. You should also choose different dishes; they can even be assembled from different sets so that the table shines with a variety of colors and materials.
You can safely put various elegant vases and ceramics on the table in the old New Year. In general, on New Year's Day, all the best should be on the table: everyone knows about this. So, the old New Year is no exception here.
Fava beans
There was another custom among the people that was necessarily observed on this New Year’s Eve. It was necessary to boil as many fava beans as there were people gathered at the festive table. Everyone should eat a bean before starting their meal in order to protect themselves from misfortunes next year.
The Old New Year 2019 is celebrated on the night of January 13-14. The evening on the eve of the Old New Year is called generous, therefore the festive table should be rich, satisfying and tasty.
In Ukraine, the tradition of celebrating is associated not only with the change in chronology, but also with church holidays. So, on January 13, the Melanka holiday is celebrated, and January 14 is Vasily’s Day. In addition, the modern New Year falls on the Nativity fast, and the Old New Year no longer exists, so this “new year” can be celebrated with all your heart.
The evening on the eve of the Old New Year - Generous Evening or Vasilyev, as it is also called - coincides with the Ukrainian folk holiday Malanka. Kutya is the main ritual food this evening. For Vasily, the kutya was prepared generously, fatty, seasoned with lard or cream. Hence the name of the evening - Generous.
The whole family sits down at the New Year's table, just like at Christmas. In our material you will find recipes for dishes for the Old New Year according to folk traditions to attract good luck and prosperity, as well as original modern recipes for festive treats.
What dishes should you prepare for the Old New Year?
In addition to kutia, it is customary to prepare many dishes for the Old New Year: it is appreciated if they are varied and satisfying, because the more dishes on the table, the more generous the next year will be. Mandatory treats on the table are dumplings, pancakes, and various sausages.
Also on the table must be pork dishes. This animal has traditionally been considered a symbol of fertility and prosperity.
Dishes for Old New Year 2019: pork ribs
According to folk customs, pork entrails are prepared for the Old New Year, jellied meat is cooked from pork legs so that people’s legs don’t hurt, kishka (blood milk), liver sausages, vereshchaka (an ancient Ukrainian dish of pork ribs) are prepared. fry and smoke lard Potaptsy (small sandwiches) are prepared with lard, stuffing a whole young pig, cook borscht and the like.
But cooking poultry and fish that evening was a bad omen, since it was believed that happiness would “fly away” or “swim away” from the house.
Dishes for Old New Year 2019: homemade sausage
The hosts covered the festive tables with towels and decorated them with spikelets, placed kutya in the center of the table and lit a candle to honor the memory of their ancestors. It is with kutya that the meal begins this evening.
Recipes for Old New Year
Generous kutia
The basic principle of preparing generous kutia is a combination of boiled cereals, poppy seeds, dried fruits and honey. Generous kutia - unlike lean kutia, is prepared with butter, milk, cream or animal fat.
Ingredients:
wheat or rice – 400 g;
poppy seed – 200 gr;
walnuts or hazelnuts – 100 g;
dried fruits – 100 g;
honey – 100 g;
cognac – 1 tbsp. l. (Optional);
butter – 2-3 tbsp. l.
Recipe for generous kutia for the Old New Year
Generous kutia recipe:
1. Wheat needs to be soaked for 1-2 hours, then boiled until tender. The proportions of grain and water are 1:2.5.
2. Pour boiling water over poppy seeds for 15 minutes, then grind in a mortar. Finely cut nuts and your favorite dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes, figs) into cubes. Mix all ingredients.
3. Dissolve honey in a glass of warm water or uzvar and pour into porridge. Kutya should not be liquid, so you may not need all the honey water.
4. At the very end, add cognac and a spoonful of butter to the kutya if desired. Mix all ingredients well before serving.
Vereshchaka (pork ribs)
Ingredients:
400 g pork ribs;
200 g white bread,
50 g lard
2 medium onions;
salt, ground black pepper and other spices to taste;
beet kvass
Ingredients for Vereshchaki for the Old New Year
Ingredients for beet kvass:
0.5 kg of peeled beets;
1 liter of chilled boiled water.
Vereshchaki (pork ribs) recipe:
1. You need to prepare beet kvass in advance. To do this, finely chop the beets and fill them with water. The mixture should be placed in a warm place for 4-5 days until a sour taste appears.
2. To prepare vereshchaki, take pork ribs, salt and pepper them. You can add other spices if you wish. Fry them in a deep frying pan until crusty. Add 500 grams of beet kvass to the frying pan and place in the oven for 30 minutes.
3. Cut the bread into small cubes, place it in the frying pan where the meat is stewed, and leave in the oven for another five minutes. At the end, add chopped and fried onions and lard to the vereshchaka. Remove the finished dish from the oven before serving and sprinkle with herbs. Vereshchaka is served in portions in deep bowls.
Recipe for Vereshchaki (pork ribs) for the Old New Year
Appetizer with lard
Ingredients:
lard without meat layer;
black bread;
salt, pepper to taste;
a few cloves of garlic.
Recipe for a snack of lard and garlic for the Old New Year
Lard snack recipe:
1. Freshly cooled, even slightly frozen lard without a meat layer, twist through a meat grinder, add salt and pepper to taste, add a few chopped garlic cloves and mix well. You can add ground nutmeg or curry.
2. Let the mixture sit for several hours so that the spices and garlic release their aroma. Spread on black bread; when serving, you can sprinkle with herbs. This appetizer is perfect with borscht or main meat courses.
Dumplings with potatoes and cracklings
Ingredients for the dough:
0.5 kg flour;
250 ml water;
2 tbsp. spoons of butter;
1-2 eggs;
salt to taste.
Ingredients for filling and cracklings:
potatoes 500 gr;
lard 200 gr;
2 onions;
salt and pepper to taste;
butter as desired.
Dumplings with potatoes and cracklings for the Old New Year
Recipe for dumplings with potatoes and cracklings:
1. Sift the flour. Add warm water, eggs, oil and salt. Mix the stiff, homogeneous dough. Cover the dough with cling film and leave it for half an hour in a warm place.
2. While the dough is resting, cook the potatoes. Make a puree and add cream or warm milk (optional). Also add salt to the filling, but keep in mind that the dough is also salty.
3. Roll out the dough and cut out small circles. This can be done using a regular glass. Place a spoonful of filling on each circle and form dumplings. The amount of filling depends on the size of the dumpling.
If desired, dumplings can be served not with cracklings, but with sour cream
4. Place the finished dumplings in boiling salted water. Cook for 6-7 minutes after surfacing.
5. Fry finely chopped lard and onion in a frying pan. When serving, sprinkle the dumplings with cracklings; if desired, you can pour over the melted fat that will appear during frying.
Homemade sausage
Homemade sausage is a very filling and tasty food. This sausage is perfectly preserved, especially if the finished sausage is placed in a ceramic pot and filled with melted lard. For the holiday, sausage should be prepared the day before, and it should be fried before serving - this way it will be tastier.
Homemade sausage recipe for Old New Year
Ingredients:
2-2.5 kg pork (neck, shoulder, back)
500-700 g of lard without meat streaks;
1 head of garlic;
pork small intestines;
salt, ground black pepper, dry herbs (basil, thyme, oregano), ground coriander.
Homemade sausage recipe:
1. Pork small intestines must be rinsed very thoroughly. Turn the intestines inside out and rinse again. It would not be superfluous to scrape out the intestines with the back of a knife and remove the mucus from the intestines.
Pork intestines need to be washed thoroughly
2. Pork meat can be used from any part of the carcass. Considering that homemade sausage is made with the addition of lard, the fat content of the meat does not matter. The neck, shoulder blade, back part are perfect. Thoroughly clean the meat from bones and cartilage. If you wish, you can mince the meat or cut it into small pieces. But sausage with chopped meat and lard turns out tastier.
3. Peel the lard. Set aside 100 grams of lard. Cut the rest into the same pieces as the meat. The ratio of meat and lard is approximately 1:6. If the meat is fatty, then less lard is needed and vice versa.
Minced meat for homemade sausage
4. In a large bowl, combine the chopped meat and lard. Season with salt and pepper. Add dry aromatic herbs: basil, oregano and definitely thyme. Add ground coriander to taste. Mix the meat very thoroughly. Add chopped garlic to the minced meat to make the sausage more flavorful.
5. Prepared intestines need to be stuffed with ready-made minced meat. For this purpose, meat grinders have a special tube-shaped attachment. The intestine must be put on the nozzle, and the tip must be tied with a cotton thread. There is no need to fill the intestine very tightly so that it does not burst during cooking or frying. If there is a hole in the intestine, then it needs to be divided into smaller sausages.
How to stuff homemade sausage
6. The stuffed sausage should stand in the refrigerator for at least 5 hours, or better yet, overnight. After this, roll the sausage into rings, this makes it easier to cook and fry. Pierce the sausage with a toothpick in several places to release excess air. Boil the sausage for 5-7 minutes in boiling water. For this it is better to take a large saucepan. Let the sausage cool.
Roll homemade sausage
7. Fry 100 grams of lard that you set aside. All you need is the fat, which needs to be cooled. Grease a baking sheet, place the sausage there and place in the oven. If desired, the sausage can be fried. The sausage is baked for about an hour, and it needs to be turned over periodically.
Homemade sausage goes better with mustard or horseradish
8. You can eat the sausage right away. But homemade sausage stores well in the refrigerator and is reheated as needed. Serve sausage with sauce - homemade mustard or horseradish.
Krovyanka with buckwheat
Ingredients:
200 g buckwheat;
1 liter of blood
350 g lard
100 g meat;
3 onions;
200 g milk
1 bay leaf;
2 peas of allspice;
salt to taste;
pepper to taste;
3 small intestines, cleaned.
Recipe for bloodwort with buckwheat
Recipe for bloodwort with buckwheat:
1. Boil buckwheat in salted water until tender. Boil lard with bay leaf and allspice, cool and chop finely.
2. If clots occur in the blood, it must be passed through a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion and fry in oil. Combine all ingredients and mix well to obtain a homogeneous mass.
3. The intestines are stuffed in the same way as in homemade sausage. But do not forget to rinse and clean the intestines well. Place the stuffed intestines in boiling water, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. During the cooking process, pierce the blood in several places with a needle or toothpick.
4. Bake the boiled blood in an oven preheated to 250°C for 20-30 minutes.
Homemade roast pork
Ingredients:
500 g lean pork;
2 onions;
7-8 large potatoes;
2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
salt and pepper to taste;
fresh greens.
Roast pork recipe for Old New Year
Pork roast recipe:
1. Cut the meat into small cubes. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Peel the potatoes and cut into slices (about 2 cm).
2. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and fry the meat until golden brown. Add the onion to the meat and fry until it becomes transparent. Add chopped potatoes, salt and pepper and mix well.
3. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer over low heat until done. If desired, the roast can be cooked in portions in clay pots in the oven.
Jellied meat made from two types of meat
Ingredients:
beef shin and another 500 g of beef.;
pork – 500 g
1 carrot;
1 onion;
dill – 3-4 sprigs;
parsley – 3-4 sprigs;
bay leaf – 2 pcs;
garlic – 3-4 cloves;
black pepper (peas)
salt to taste.
Jellied meat recipe for Old New Year
Recipe for jellied meat for the Old New Year:
1. Pour cold water over the beef shin, bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for another 5 hours. Don't forget to remove the foam. Add the remaining meat (beef and pork) and cook for another hour and a half.
2. Wash, peel and coarsely chop the carrots and onions. Add to broth. Also put in a bunch of herbs tied with a thread, bay leaf and pepper and cook for another half hour. Salt the broth and strain.
3. Remove the meat from the bones and chop fairly finely. Squeeze the peeled garlic cloves onto the meat.
4. Arrange the meat among the molds. Pour in the broth until the meat is just under the surface (about two fingers deep). Leave to cool at room temperature and then place the ramekins in the refrigerator until the jellied meat is set.
Pork and mushroom tortillas
Pork krucheniki can be prepared with a wide variety of fillings - from potatoes and vegetables to nuts and pineapples. We chose a simple option - with mushroom filling. But you can choose the filling to your taste!
Ingredients:
500 g pork (fillet)
400 g champignons (or dried mushrooms)
1 onion;
3 tbsp. l. flour;
oil;
spices to taste (basil, oregano, coriander, marjoram, thyme, pepper)
salt to taste.
Recipe for pork krucheniki for the Old New Year
Recipe for pork krucheniki with mushroom filling:
1. Cut the meat across the grain into pieces approximately 1 centimeter thick, beat well with a hammer, add salt and pepper.
2. Fry onions, mushrooms and spices in a frying pan. It is necessary that all liquid evaporates from the mixture. Set aside 2-3 tbsp. spoons of prepared mushrooms with filling for stewing krucheniki.
3. Place mushroom filling in each piece of meat and roll it up, carefully pressing the edges so that the filling does not fall out, and secure with toothpicks.
4. Each roll should be rolled in flour and fried in oil on both sides until golden brown. Place the krucheniki in a saucepan, layering them with the remaining mushrooms and filling, add water (or broth) so that it slightly covers the krucheniki, and add salt. Simmer the tortillas under the lid over low heat for 40-50 minutes until fully cooked.
5. Pork rolls are good served with a side dish: mashed potatoes, vegetables, etc.
Pancakes with minced meat
Ingredients for pancakes for 3 servings:
milk (300 ml)
2 eggs;
flour (200-250 g);
1 tbsp. spoon of butter;
salt and pepper.
Pancake recipe for Old New Year
Filling ingredients:
400 g boiled meat (pork, beef)
1 onion;
a bunch of greenery;
3 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
spices for meat;
salt to taste.
Recipe for pancakes with minced meat:
1. Beat the eggs until fluffy. Add salt and pepper to the eggs and beat again.
2. Add warm milk to the beaten eggs and stir. Add flour in small portions and stir constantly until all the “lumps” disappear.
3. Fry the pancakes over medium heat for 1-2 minutes on both sides until they are browned.
4. For the filling, pass the boiled meat through a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion and greens (you can use frozen ones).
5. In a preheated frying pan, fry the onion in vegetable oil, then add meat, spices, salt and fry, stirring, for 10 minutes. Add herbs and stir.
6. Place the prepared filling in the center of the pancake, form a bag and secure its edges with green onions. Or just form envelopes if you don’t have green onions.
Compote with raisins and cherries
Uzvar is a traditional Ukrainian drink that is prepared for various holidays. In particular, on Christmas Eve and Old New Year.
Ingredients:
dried apples 100 g
dried pears 100 g
prunes 100 g
dried apricots 100 g
raisins 100 g
dried cherries 100 g
sugar 100 g
Compote recipe for Old New Year
Recipe for compote for the Old New Year:
1. Pour dried fruits (traditional composition - dried pears, apples, raisins and prunes) with water and rinse them thoroughly.
2. Pour water (2-3 liters) into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Place all the dried fruits in water and bring to a boil. After this, reduce the heat and cook for another 15-20 minutes under the lid. 5 minutes before cooking, add sugar to the pan.
4. After this, remove the compote from the heat and let it brew for 12 hours. Before serving, the compote should be strained.
Have a delicious celebration! Share photos of your dishes for the Old New Year in the comments!
