Ideas for the New Year 2020 Year of the Rat

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  salads

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• saury
• potato
• carrot
• chicken egg
• quail egg
• mayonnaise
• greens
• spices

New Year 2020 comes into power of the White Rat. Such nimble animals love to eat deliciously. Therefore, it is worth carefully considering what can be prepared in the Year of the Rat for the New Year's table in order to gain the trust of the new ruler.

New Year's "Rats in mimosa"

In the Year of the Rat, you can prepare a delicious dish "Rat in mimosa" and serve it on the table as a snack or salad. Everyone will surely enjoy such a festive treat both in taste and in presentation. The appetizer is decorated with cute rat pups, which will delight the patron saint of the New Year 2020.

Ingredients:

• 0, 5 jars of saury;
• 0.5 potatoes;
• 0.5 carrots;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 4 quail eggs;
• 2-3 sprigs of greenery;
• 1-2 sec. l. mayonnaise.

Preparation:

• Boil all vegetables, cool, peel and grind on a coarse grater. Don't worry that so few ingredients are used for the dish. Not much filling is used for tartlets.
• We also boil a chicken egg, peel it, divide it into protein, which we grind with a coarse grater, and into the yolk, while we put it aside.
• We take out the saury from the jar, knead it with a fork and mix with chopped herbs.
• Now we take the tartlets, lay out the ingredients in layers and start with potatoes, which, if necessary, add some salt, and on top we make a net of mayonnaise.

Put the fish on the potatoes, and then the carrots, on top of the sauce

Then put the egg white, crumb the yolk on top

We make mice for decoration from boiled quail eggs. We cut out the ears and nose from carrots, and make the eyes from the stalks of greenery

Here is such a simple, delicious New Year's snack turned out, but you need to cook it only before serving the table. If the tartlets are filled in advance, the dough will soften and they will lose their crispness.

Festive "Olivier" in the Year of the Rat

In the year of the Rat, it is not necessary to cook delicious dishes, because rodents, although voracious animals, love everything simple. Therefore, for the New Year 2020, you can prepare a traditional Olivier, you just have to think about its original presentation.

Ingredients:

• 1 potato tuber;
• 4 eggs;
• 1 cucumber;
• 100 g of boiled sausage;
• 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
• greens of onions and dill;
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

• Cut the boiled and peeled potatoes into cubes.
• We also cut the boiled sausage into small cubes, transfer the ingredients to a common bowl.

Next, we send a fresh cucumber cut into cubes, as well as chopped dill and onions

• Divide boiled eggs into yolks and whites. Grind the yolks and pour into the total mass.
• Rub the proteins on a medium grater and set aside for now.
• Salad and season with mayonnaise.

• Then we spread it on a flat plate and give it the shape that will resemble the bodies of a rodent.
• Sprinkle the surface with grated proteins. We make the eyes of the rat from rings of olives, the nose - from carrots, antennae - from small twigs of dill.

• We turn the sausage semicircles into a tube and insert the ears of the rodent, also cut out its legs and tail from the sausage.
• If desired, such a salad can be made with any kind of meat, ham, replace fresh cucumber with pickled, add onions for piquancy. There are a lot of options.

New Year's salad "Mice in cheese"

In the Year of the Rat, you can add a simple but delicious Mice in Cheese salad to the New Year's menus. Such a dish will become a real decoration of the festive table for the New Year 2020. All ingredients are available, and the cooking process does not require much effort and time, which will surely please all housewives.

Ingredients:

• 7 chicken eggs;
• 150 g pineapple (canned);
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 1-2 cloves of garlic;
• 100 ml mayonnaise;
• 6 peas of black pepper.

Preparation:

Boil all the eggs, cool in cold water and peel them off. After 2 eggs, lay aside, separate the whites and yolks from 5 eggs, grind them separately on a fine grater

We take pineapples out of the jar, cut them into small cubes and squeeze out excess juice

• Pass hard cheese, like eggs, through a fine grater. Squeeze the garlic to the grated cheese and mix.
• Now we lay out all the prepared ingredients in the form of a head of cheese, but with a piece already cut off. We coat each layer with mayonnaise.

• First, lay out the proteins, then pineapples, cheese with garlic and complete the assembly of the dish with yolks.
• For decoration, take the remaining eggs, cut off a little less than half so that the mice sit steadily on the cheese.

• We make eyes and a nose for rodents from peppercorns, cut out ears from a thin piece of cheese, and to make them even and beautiful, we use a nozzle for a pastry bag.
• It remains only to make tails for the mice, which we cut out from the remaining protein.

If desired, you can add boiled chicken fillet to such a salad, the salad will turn out to be just as tasty, but more satisfying

"Snowman" beetroot and herring salad

If you are used to cooking “Herring half with a fur coat” for the holidays, then in the Year of the Rat you can try to cook a different version of fish salad. Due to its taste and interesting presentation, such a dish will become a worthy treat for the festive table for the New Year 2020. In addition, the recipe uses nuts, which are a favorite of the rodents.

Ingredients:

• 1 herring;
• 1 beet;
• 1 apple;
• 50 g walnuts;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 5 eggs;
• 2-3 pickled cucumbers;
• 1 onion;
• mayonnaise to taste;
• carrots for decoration.

Preparation:

• We clean the herring carcass from the skin, entrails, cut into fillets, remove the ridge with all the bones and cut into small pieces.
• Boil or bake the beets, grind them on a coarse grater.
• Crumble walnuts in not too small pieces.
• Boil the eggs, separate the whites and yolks from the three eggs.
• Grate the cheese, set aside half for decoration, in the remaining cheese three grated two whole eggs and yolks.
• Put mayonnaise with the cheese with eggs, mix and put the resulting mass in a dish that is not deep and covered with cling film, level it.

Lay out the pickled cucumbers on top, which we also grind with a coarse grater, cover the top with a net of mayonnaise

Sprinkle the cucumbers with nuts, again make a mesh of mayonnaise, then there is a layer of herring and grated peeled apple

• Now we apply a wide plate and turn over the dish with salad, but we make it so that it is not in the center, but with a slight indentation, as in the photo.
• We take whites from two eggs, three on a fine grater and cover the surface of the salad, not completely, a little more than half.

• Add salt to the grated beets, put mayonnaise, mix and make a snowman's hat from the resulting beet mass.
• Now we take half of the protein, apply it to the hat, this is a pompom, and to make it fluffy, cover with the remaining protein, which we pass through a fine grater.

The salad is almost ready, there is very little left. We make a lapel on the cap from the remaining grated cheese, and also draw strips on the cap with mayonnaise. We make the snowman's eyes from peppercorns or olives, and the nose and smile from raw or boiled carrots

Delicious hot meat dish for New Year's table

If you do not know what hot can be prepared for the New Year 2020, then especially for you there is a recipe for a simple but very tasty meat dish. Such a treat should be served in the Year of the Rat, it can satisfy many guests.

Ingredients:

• 900 g minced meat;
• 2 onions;
• 2 potato tubers;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 5 sweet peppers;
• 200 g of cheese;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• 150 ml sour cream.

Preparation:

• First, prepare all the vegetables, peel the onions and potatoes, cut out the stalk of the sweet peppers and remove all the seeds.
• Now chop the onion into small cubes and pour into the minced meat. Meat semi-finished product can be taken chicken or mixed, that is, from beef and pork. We do not regret onion, thanks to him the minced meat will turn out to be juicy.

• We also add salt and pepper, if desired, add other spices to taste and herbs, mix everything well.
• Cut the bell peppers into 1.5 cm thick rings.

Cut the potatoes into oblong circles 0.5 cm thick

• And now the tomatoes, we also cut them into circles.
• We take the form, cover it with foil, grease the bottom with oil and spread the potatoes in an even layer, sprinkle with salt.
• Put sweet peppers on the potatoes, and tightly fill the rings of the Bulgarian vegetable with minced meat.

Put the tomatoes on top, salt the tomatoes a little and now we grease everything with sour cream

We send the dish to the oven for 45 minutes, temperature 190 ° C. Sprinkle with grated cheese 10 minutes before cooking. Decorate the finished festive treat with fresh herbs, if desired, and serve it to the table.

Year of the Rat birthday cake

Any desserts can be served on the festive table in the Year of the Rat, because such an animal loves everything sweet. But if you really want to surprise the guests and please the new mistress, but for the New Year 2020, you can make a cake in the shape of a rat. And do not be afraid that you will have to work with mastic here, the recipe is very simple.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 200 g flour;
• 10 g baking powder;
• 3 eggs;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 400 ml of condensed milk;
• 80 g butter.

For the cream:

• 400 ml cream (33%);
• 3 eggs;
• 200 g sugar;
• 60 g starch;
• 300 g butter;
• 10 g vanilla sugar.

For decoration:

• 20 g of black mastic;
• 120 g of white mastic.

Cooking with step by step photos:

• Sift the flour and baking powder into a deep bowl.
• We drive eggs into a separate container, add salt, flavored sugar and pour in condensed milk. Beat with a mixer until smooth.

• Melt the butter, pour it into the egg mixture and stir everything again.
• Now pour dry ingredients into the liquid mixture and knead the dough also using a mixer.

• Cut out a template from paper, as in the photo, measuring 17 by 22 cm, put it on a baking sheet, and cover it with parchment on top.
• Lay out the dough on top, level it in an even layer so that its edges do not go beyond the contours of the template.

Then we remove the template itself, and send the dough to the oven and bake the cake until tender at a temperature of 170 ° C

After that, cut off 1 cm from the template and bake a new cake on it. For the cake, you will need 3 more such cakes and all with a difference of 1 cm

• From black mastic we make antennae for the future rat and leave the blanks to dry.
• For the cream, pour half the cream into the bowl, drive in the eggs, add the starch and stir until smooth with an ordinary whisk.

• Pour the remaining half of the cream into a small saucepan, pour in the vanilla and regular sugar, put on the fire.
• As soon as the sugar is completely dissolved, add cream with starch through a sieve, heat until thickened.

• Then put the butter directly into the hot cream and beat with a mixer.
• Cover with foil and cool, and then beat the already cooled cream again.

We lay the cakes in a pile on top of each other, coat each with cream, including all the sides of the future dessert

• Now we take white mastic and combine it with black, knead it well with our hands, and then roll it out with a rolling pin.
• We cover the cakes, level them, smooth them out with our hands so that there are no wrinkles left, cut off the excess.

Now we sculpt ears, nose, eyes and tail from mastic. There is nothing complicated, everything is simple. Then we insert the mustaches already made in advance and the real confectionery New Year's masterpiece is ready

Cake Potatoes as a symbol of the year 2020

If you still can't bake a cake, then you can prepare a simpler dessert for the New Year 2020. These are potato cakes, decorated in the form of curious rat pups. Such a delicacy is the best suited to the festive table in the Year of the Rat.

Ingredients:

• 200 g of shortbread cookies (chocolate);
• 140 g roasted peanuts;
• 50 g butter;
• 120 ml of condensed milk (boiled);
• 20 ml of cognac (brandy).

For glaze:

• 100 g chocolate (50%);
• 25 g butter;
• 5 tsp milk.

Cooking with step by step photos:

1. Grind the chocolate shortbread cookies into crumbs by hand or using a blender.
2. We also interrupt the fried peanuts with a blender and pour into sand crumbs, mix.
3. Now put the butter, stir again and add the boiled condensed milk, knead until smooth. At the end, if desired, pour in cognac or brandy.
4. Cover the resulting dough with foil and send it to the freezer for 25 minutes.
5. Then we divide the chocolate mass into 7 equal parts, roll each between the palms into a tight ball, then slightly stretch one side and press the tip with a finger. Put the resulting cakes on parchment.
6. Now we put each cake on skewers. Cover with plastic wrap and put in the freezer for another 25 minutes.
7. Prepare icing from chocolate, milk and butter and completely cover the cakes with it.

Now from any confectionery decorations we make ears, nose and eyes for rat pups. Cool the finished dessert so that the icing is completely frozen, serve.

Meeting the New Year 2020 is a troublesome business, but now you know what you can cook interesting and original for a festive table in the Year of the Rat. Thanks to the voraciousness of the animal, the hostesses are provided with a large selection of recipes, but it is worth remembering that rodents do not like those products that cause a pungent smell, including certain types of cheeses and strong alcohol.