Charming ease of Christmas - video recipes at home

If the set of memories will seem insufficient, you can not search for rare cards on the Internet, and take our word for it - pictures of grand feasts you will not find. Heroes postcards do anything, just do not eat. And there is even a very modern sense. Well do not we take a break from the hardships of the New Year table, the more so in the coming weeks, we will have to work hard on the food front. Heed this advice, if you do not want, of course, become well fed Christmas bobblehead.

Vintage postcards with all your views as it motivates us to sit at the table for a long time, and to warm up: ice skating, playing snowballs or making a snowman.

Particularly active may try to catch Santa Claus. For those who know him by the name of Santa Claus - Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.

But you must agree to produce this kind of gestures, coming up from the table, you need to dish on this table it was easy. Although the ancient tradition should be the opposite: on the eve of Christmas, indeed ascetic ate ​​only sochivo or kutyu and then only after the first star that symbolizes Bethlehem. The next day there came gastronomic awe: the table served roasted suckling pig, stuffed pig's head, jelly, fattened for Christmas goose with apples and sauerkraut, sturgeon, rabbit in sour cream, lamb, all kinds of pies stuffed with meat, candy, gingerbread, uzvar or sbiten ...

The main trend of the new year - the ease and once again ease. Therefore we suggest you to escape from tradition. More precisely, we will try to establish the traditions of its exclusive Christmas menu. This will help us famous chefs in Moscow. So, we offer you a range of emotional and light dishes.

Vinaigrette the PRO from the restaurant "Spotlight" by chef Maxim Myasnikov.

It should be (1 serving)

1 medium-sized potato

1 medium-sized beets

20 g of pickled cucumber

1 apple

1 carrot

20g capers

20 g of green peas

chard salad beam

10 ml of sunflower oil

5 g of granular mustard

5 ml of balsamic vinegar

How to prepare: 1. Potatoes and thoroughly wash the beets, wrap in foil and bake. Potatoes - for 30 minutes, beets - 50 minutes.

2. Boil the carrots.

3. Vegetables and fruits cleaned and cut in any form, without mixing on a plate, garnish with lettuce spinach and green peas.

4. In the center of the plate gently pour oil, balsamic vinegar and mustard.

salad with pumpkin and bacon with honey sauce from the chef of the restaurant "SchiSliva" Andrew Corned beef.

It is necessary: ​​ (1 serving)

30 g of pumpkin

salads and mixtures beam rocket frieze

20 g of bacon

20 g of cherry tomatoes

4 g of pumpkin seed

salt and pepper - to taste

1 h. L. olive oil

Sauce: 40 g of honey

55 ml of olive oil

5 ml of raspberry vinegar (can be replaced by any fruit vinegar)

How to prepare: 1. pumpkin peel and seeds, cut into cubes, approximately 2x2 cm Put on a baking sheet, season with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil.. Pumpkin bake at 180 ° C for 10 minutes.

2. Bacon cut into strips and fry in a pan.

3. For the sauce, combine the honey, olive oil, vinegar.

4. Lettuce and roasted pumpkin mixed with, put on a plate sauce. 5. On top decorate the dish with bacon and sunflower seeds. Along the edges of the plates to put cherry tomatoes.

For those who do not comply with any posts, but wants to restore the health of Andrei SOLONIN offers soup hangover.

must: 2, 5 l water

500 grams of beef on the bone

750 g of sauerkraut

250 g of potato

50 g of tomato saline

50 g of onions

70 g carrots

20 g of melted butter

salt, pepper, bay leaves - to taste

How to prepare: 1. Beef fill with water, bring to a boil, add the cabbage and cook for 2 hours.

2. Add the purified whole potatoes, bring to the boil.

3. Chop onion half rings, carrots grate.

4. Tomatoes peeled, cut into cubes.

5. Onions and carrots lightly fry in melted butter, add the chopped tomatoes, saute for a minute.

6. Add the broth roasted vegetables, cook over medium heat.

7. 5 minutes before ready to get potatoes, potoloch, return to the pot.

8. Add salt, pepper, bay leaf.

Finally, the amazing apple pie from Sergei Eroshenko the restaurant "Fair cuisine".

It is necessary: ​​

Dough: 100 g of butter

50g sugar

2 eggs

155 g flour

1 h. L. baking powder

Vegetable oil - for greasing

filling 1, 5 kg of apples

10 g cinnamon

250 g of sugar

25 g butter

100 ml whipping cream (33%)

How to prepare: 1. For the filling clean the apples and cut into 8 slices, roll each slice in cinnamon.

2. In a frying pan with high sides melt the butter with the sugar, add the cream, apples coated in cinnamon and fry up until the apples are soft. 3. Fold the apples in a colander to glass excess caramel. Cool.

4. Whip Test butter with sugar until fluffy white foam.

5. Add one egg, mix thoroughly.

6. Mix the flour (150 g), baking powder; mix dry and liquid ingredients, knead the dough.

7. Divide dough into 2 equal parts.

8. Lubricate the form of vegetable oil and sprinkle the bottom of the bumpers and the remaining flour (1, 5 hours. L.).

9. Roll out the first part of the test and put into shape.

10. Bake at 220 ° C until half of 7-10 minutes.

11. Roll second part of the test.

12. Take the workpiece from the oven, cover lay apples and second formation test.

13. Lubricate the egg and sprinkle with sugar and bake until tender for 20-30 minutes.

14. Serve the cake warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

In general, our primary recommendation is: try not celebrate Christmas so that the devil was sick, and so that the angels had fun. Do not think that this is one and the same.