Best Recipes for the New Year Occasion

It’s the New Year all over again, and to welcome the New Year’s festivity, you need to cook something good for your friends and family. What should it be? Here are some recipes you can try for the New Year occasion:

1. Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington is the dish created by Gordon Ramsay, and it’s Gordon Ramsay’s own version of the classic steak dish. To make this dish, you will need around 2 hours and 30 minutes of preparation time. This is a perfect dish for you to serve as your main dish for the New Year.

Here are the ingredients for Beef Wellington:

• 1kg high-quality beef fillet
• 250g chestnut mushroom
• 3 tablespoon of olive oil
• 100ml dry white wine
• 50g butter
• 1 sprig fresh thyme (large)
• 500g pack puff pastry
• 12 prosciutto slices
• 2 egg yolks and 1 tablespoon water (combined)
• Flour (small amount)

Here are the steps to make Beef Wellington:

1. Prepare the oven by heating it to gas 7, 220C, and fan 220C.
2. Put the beef fillet to the roasting tray and roast for around 15-20 minutes while adding 1 tablespoon of olive oil and pepper. Then, remove the beef fillet from the oven and let it cool down.
3. Chop the chestnut mushroom in a way that makes it similar to coarse breadcrumbs.
4. Using a large pan, prepare 50g butter and 2 tbsp of olive oil to fry the chestnut mushroom for 10 minutes and stir often until its textures become soft. Add sprig fresh thyme to the mix.
5. Continue stirring the chestnut mushroom while pouring 100ml dry white wine. Stir and cook for another 10 minutes until the wine gets absorbed.
6. Remove the mushroom duxelles from the pan while discarding the thyme.
7. Use the large chopping board and overlap two pieces of cling film, then put the 12 slices of prosciutto in a double row, overlapping each other.
8. Use half of the mushroom duxelles to spread over the prosciutto, and put the beef fillet on top of the prosciutto while spreading the other half of the mushroom duxelles on top of the fillet.
9. Using the cling film, draw the prosciuttos around the beef fillet, tightening both the beef fillet and prosciuttos together.
10. Roll out the pastry and chill the fillet.
11. Use the flour to dust your work surface, then roll out a third of the 500g pack of pastry on a non-stick baking sheet. Create an 18x30cm strip out of the roll.
12. Create a 28x36cm strip for the rest of the puff pastry.
13. Remove the cling film from the beef fillet and put the fillet on top of the smaller strip.
14. Mix 2 egg yolks with 1 tablespoon water and use it to brush the pastry’s edges and the fillet.
15. Use the rolling pin to lift the larger pastry and drape it over the fillet, making sure that you press it well against the fillet’s sides.
16. Trim the pastry to a 4 cm rim and seal the rim with a spoon handle.
17. Cover the fillet more with egg yolks and mark the Beef Wellington with long diagonal lines while avoiding to cut the pastry.
18. Chill it for at least 30 minutes and then heat the oven again for gas 6, 200C, and fan 150C.
19. Brush the Beef Wellington with more egg yolks and cook it for around 25-30 minutes. Then, leave it for 10 minutes before you can serve the Beef Wellington in thick slices for the whole family.

2. White Chocolate Fortune Cookies

These are the snacks you can make to celebrate the New Year, and it’s very easy to prepare. You only need to spend less than 30 minutes to prepare it before you can serve it to your family.

Here are the ingredients for White Chocolate Fortune Cookies:

• 2 egg whites
• Grapeseed oil (3 tablespoon)
• Vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)
• Corn flour (2 teaspoon)
• 100g plain flour
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 150g white chocolate (chopped)

Here are the steps to make White Chocolate Fortune Cookies:

1. Prepare fortunes in 1x6cm papers. You can write any fortune on the paper. Line a large baking sheet along with a silicone baking sheet while you heat the oven to gas 4, 180C, and 160C fan.
2. Prepare an electric whisk and whisk the egg white, oil, vanilla, and a half tablespoon of water for 30 seconds. Then, prepare the flour, sugar, corn flour, and some salt in a bowl. Using a sieve, you can sift the ingredients you have prepared from the bowl to the egg white mixture. Next, you will need to whisk them together until they become smooth. After that, you need to chill it for 1 hour.
3. Take a half tablespoon from the mixture and put them on the baking sheet. Using a small palette knife, create the circle 8cm in diameter from the mixture. One circle will get you prepared for one cookie, and you will need to bake two cookies at a time. You will need to bake the two cookies for 8 minutes until the edges turn into golden color.
4. Use the same palette knife to lift the cookies one after another and flip it. Then, put a fortune in each cookie and fold the cookie in half while pinching the edges to create a seal. Next, you will need to lift the cookies to the rim of a pan, pulling the two corners to shape it. Hold this position for 10 seconds to create its shape. You will need to put the cookie with this shape to muffin tins, so it can hold its shape while cooling down. Repeat this step for the other cookies.
5. Using a microwave, you need to melt the white chocolate, and you need to tip the white chocolate sprinkles into deep bowls. Now, you need to dip the cookies into the melted chocolate and then dip it into the sprinkles. Let it dry and serve it.

Conclusion

These are the best recipes you can use to cook the best foods for the New Year occasion. These recipes will help you celebrate the New Year occasion in the best way with your friends and family. Happy New Year!