This New Year in the joy, and to whom - in grief.For example, the chief force you to work on December 31 until late in the evening (and that, in a crisis it happens very often).A New Year's table, however, it is necessary to cook.
Question : what to do?
Answer: here 20 products that can be bought in advance that unscheduled not eat your homework and that will quickly prepare a quite normal New Year's feast.And even very normal.Along the way you will need to buy only except a bottle of champagne and a couple of kilos of mandarins, everything else you already have.
1. White onions
Please note - not the usual yellow onions, and red and it white.He is sweet enough to use it in a salad without scalding, and quite juicy, so that you can roast and stew.Red sweet onions, perfectly suitable for salad, frying is done in purple and yellow onion often happens in such a tear, which is not scalded him not put in a salad.
2. chicken breast fillet
recommend buy fresh fillets, each breast wrapped separately in foil, put everything in a bag and freeze.If you need to cook one or two fillets will not have to defrost all there.To Boil frozen fillets, put it in boiling water (you can even chat in the film, it does not dissolve), wait until the water boils again, and remove the pan from the heat.Cover the pan with hot water and cover fillets.After 10 minutes, then fillet ready.
3. Green peas
Preferably French, Hungarian or American (carefully read the label).Because in France, Hungary and the US canneries built right among pea fields.The indispensable basis of two dozen fast and quite festive dishes, Russian, French, Spanish - what you want.
4. Hard cheese
It can be of two kinds.Parmesan type (starting with the Lithuanian parmesan "dzhugas" including "Grana Padano" and "pecorino", and ending with the actual "Parmigiano Reggiano"), or the type of cheddar (starting with Dutch cheese, including Swiss cheese, Gruyere, and ending with the actual cheddar).
5. Mashed tomato pulp
or canned whole peeled tomatoes in own juice.The thing that should be on any decent kitchen always.If you have canned tomatoes can be cooked lasagna, put fish or seafood, or bungled some instant pasta sauce.If you do not, sit down and cry.
6. Canned mix for "Olivier»
If you have not bought it, then you just got lucky.It reduces the time of preparation of this iconic Russian salad four times.
7. Cream fat content 33%
They are also difficult to use with coffee, while elementary creamy sauce to complement any dish.
8. Frozen seafood mixture "seafood cocktails»
Affordable and never get tired of luxury.
9. Pine nuts
ideal the final chord for almost anything, even a simple green salad, though the liver, stewed Venetian.
10. Eggs
About a third of all Russian salad, and an indispensable part of many grand European dishes.Yes, and in itself it is a good snack, especially with a dollop of caviar.
11. Caviar
red or pike.See previous point.
12. Pickles
Treat their choice as much as possible carefully.And most importantly, do not eat ahead of time.
13. Sliced olives
They give life-giving Mediterranean note to anyone, even the most banal salad.But if you do not like olives, for the same purposes be reserved capers.
14. Butter
Well, firstly, it is an integral part of any decent Russian snacks - black bread with butter and herring, white bread with butter and caviar, Borodino bread with butter and salmon.Who would not want a snack?No one will refuse.
Secondly, from 25 grams good butter and the juice of one lemon preparing an excellent sauce to any fish dish: just put the oil in a saucepan and place on low heat.When it begins to melt, add the lemon juice and mix with a fork.You can add a pinch of salt, it is possible - a little fresh dill.And run, run to the table!
15. Salmon steak
They can boil, fry or bake.Or, say, cut into small pieces and fry in a wok with juicy vegetables,
garlic and soy sauce - two billion Chinese people can not be wrong, honestly.
16. Lemons
And kilogram.Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the two halves of 25 grams of melted butter, add a pinch of salt and mix.You will get the easiest and perhaps the most delicious sauce for fish, about two servings.The rest of the lemons are useful, too - at the very least submit your tea.
17. Garlic
Sly cook Italian restaurants put under the counter plate with fried in olive oil with garlic.However, apart from this you can apply garlic dozens of ways, and each of them is already actively salivating its description.
18. Very dark chocolate
bitter, because it more intense and strong taste, and hot chocolate sauce will turn the most banal purchase cake or ice cream in a balanced and delicious dessert.And because no one is there for a reason.A normal home will find chocolate and always eat.
19. A large pack of vanilla ice cream
The fastest and the best dessert in the universe - or put a piece of ice cream on a plate, place the next half tangerine and pour over the hot chocolate sauce.If you do not like it, then you are allergic to lactose.
20. liter bottle of vodka
Well, there's nothing to explain.Not small.If champagne is always, the vodka is never enough.Put the bottle in a deep freezer, you will cover a package of frozen broccoli, and at the right time - oops!And do not run to the store.
Articles Source: gastronom.ru