We live in a very interesting era when the attitude to such a holiday as the New Year is undergoing dramatic changes, however, at the same time, everything shifts from one foot to another in the usual place.

And while conservative housewives are stocking up with pot-bellied tins with canned peas and expect discounts on cooked sausage for home-made Olivier salad variations, culinary specialists open to everything new do not intend to burden their holiday tables with an abundance of mayonnaise salads.

Recipes for classic New Year's Eve snacks are known to everyone. But far from everyone knows about ways to arrange a holiday on the basis of a refined and minimalistic, but at the same time satisfying and tasty menu. That is why the editors of Fermer.blog are in a hurry to share with you the idea of ​​a quick, mouth-watering, elegant, but not artsy holiday dinner.

Gourmet dinner - a worthy alternative to the artsy New Year's abundance

Following the technologies described below, you can beautifully and tastyly celebrate the New Year together with your loved one (or in a close circle of your closest ones, increasing the number of ingredients in accordance with the given proportions). So get acquainted with the recipes, stock up on food and on the eve of the most magical holiday start cooking three delicacies at once - snacks in the form of bread sticks with prosciutto, a main course of pork tenderloin with fragrant filling and a fantastically simple and effective ice cream and coffee dessert.

Bread sticks (grissini) wrapped in prosciutto slices

Making this dish will not take you more than 10 minutes. The main thing is to stock up on the following components:

• thin grissini bread sticks (sold in large and medium-sized supermarkets in the bread department, usually on the same shelf with bagels and straws);
• slices of prosciutto (or bacon), which are often already sold cut into slices in a vacuum package, or you can cut them yourself or ask the seller from the meat department about this.

The combination of hard sticks and tender meat creates an unforgettable game in contrasts!

Agree, the set is not numerous. However, a little patience - and only two ingredients will combine into a single appetizer, original and delicious!

Experienced chefs recommend preparing this appetizer 20 minutes before the feast. Otherwise, fatty slices of meat can soften the grissini sticks.

So, cut each slice of prosciutto lengthwise into two parts and wrap the breadsticks a little at an angle with strips of meat. For each stick you will take 2 ribbons of prosciutto.

Wrapped grissini is best served in a transparent glass or wide glass, or in neat rows on a flat dish - general or portioned.

Affogato ice cream dessert

Dessert is almost as easy to cook as a snack. And the ingredients for it can be purchased without problems in the nearest supermarket:

• strong coffee;
• vanilla or creamy ice cream;
• fresh (frozen) raspberries.

Ice cream, coffee, raspberries ... Is this not a dream of an exquisite sweet tooth?

First you need to brew strong coffee (1 large cup or 2 espresso). After cooling the drink to room temperature, just before serving the dessert put vanilla or cream ice cream in a bowl, pour strong coffee and garnish with raspberries. Serve this dessert immediately!

Pork tenderloin stuffed with shallots, pear and blue cheese

The total cooking time for this dish is 45 minutes. But first, check that you have everything you need:

• 700 g pork tenderloin;
• 2 large sweet pears;
• 250 g shallots;
• 1 tbsp butter;
• 0.5 l of white wine;
• 100 g of cheese with noble mold;
• 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
• a quarter of a teaspoon of black pepper;
• 3 sprigs of rosemary;
• 2 tsp olive oil;
• 100 ml of chicken stock;
• cooking twine.

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. In the meantime, it heats up, cut into cubes of pear, and shallots - into thin plates.

Melt the butter in a pan with a thick bottom or a wide frying pan, add shallots, a little salt and pepper to the oil. Fry for a couple of minutes, not forgetting to stir constantly. After that we send pears and wine to the onion.

The combination of pear, blue cheese and onions will complement the pork and favorably shade its flavor

Keep the onion-wine mixture on low heat until the liquid evaporates to a minimum and the pears become translucent. On average, this will take about 12 minutes.

While the pears are boiling in wine, cut the pork tenderloin into two layers and cut each one without cutting to the end. You will get a kind of pocket. In it we "pack" pears and shallots.

Rosemary is the best friend of tender meat!

On top of the pear-onion mixture, spread the crumbs from blue cheese. Now you need to carefully roll the meat into the roll, focusing on the image below and carefully bind the product with culinary twine. It is very easy to do this by placing twine under the meat, and then assemble the product with a thread and tie.

On top of the pork roll you need to add salt and pepper.

We distribute the filling evenly and accurately for the overall aesthetics of the dish

In the same pan where you fry the onions and pears with wine, heat the olive oil (you do not need to wash the pan before preparing the filling). Fry the roll on this oil for a couple of minutes, until an appetizing blush appears on it. Do not forget to fry the meat from all sides so that the crust is uniform.

With the help of culinary twine, tie the meat with a roll

When the meat is browned, send it to a heat-resistant dish with butter and put in the oven for 12-15 minutes.

When the tenderloin is ready, put it on a cutting board and let it “rest” for 5 minutes. After that, cut the meat into neat slices.

Fry the roll until a delicious crust is formed

In the meantime, the roll will “rest”, start cooking the sauce: pour the broth into the pan where the pork was fried, and stew it, carefully passing a wooden spatula along the bottom of the pan.

Serving dishes is of great importance if you intend to surprise not only with taste, but also with appearance!

When the sauce thickens, and the liquid evaporates to the desired consistency, transfer the sauce to a special bowl. Serve slices of pork roll in a common dish, pouring sauce over the dish.

Bon appetit and happy new year!