5 Best French Recipes for the Festive Table.

Perhaps, if you ask for and pick up a single word, captures the essence of French cuisine, this is the word "elegant.

Perhaps, if you ask for and pick up a single word, captures the essence of French cuisine, this is the word "elegant." That is why it is so complements our traditional festive cuisine, with its echoes of product shortages Soviet times. Disturbing trend may be diluted with French charm, glamor, glitz and elegance!

In this article, we have collected some exquisite meals that you can prepare well for the New Year or any other occasion.

Trout baked with avocado and wine
Ingredients:
1 kg of trout
1 large onion
3 large avocado
3 tablespoons white wine
3 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste.

How to cook: 
Fillet of trout rinse and dry them gently, cut into serving pieces, salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice and leave for 15-20 minutes to marinate. Clean the onion and avocado peeled. Chop onion rings, avocado - diced fry in oil until light blush. Remove from heat, add the wine and give a little brew. Then put in a greased form, from top to evenly spread out the fish fillets, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.

Shrimp mousse and mascarpone                                                                                                                                                                                     Served in tartlets.
Ingredients:
300 g shrimp
300g mascarpone cheese
120 ml whipping cream
Half a lemon
Parsley root
100 g of parsley
Salt and white pepper to taste.
How to prepare:
Boil shrimp in water with crushed roots of parsley, slices of lemon and a little salt. Drain, peel shrimp, whisk together the cream cheese and a lush air mass. Add 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, white pepper and salt to taste, lay in tartlets and garnish of parsley leaves.

Salad with tuna and anchovies
Ingredients:
1 jar of canned tuna in brine
250 grams of salad
150g salted anchovies
2 boiled eggs
1 cucumber
2 fresh tomatoes
1 onion (blue)
2 tablespoons olives
1 tablespoon wine vinegar
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt to taste.
How to cook:
Drain the juice from the tuna and finely chop it. Anchovy fillets cut and grind well. Mix the fish with chopped onion rings, slices of boiled eggs, black olives. Put everything in a salad bowl, add the cucumber, diced, sliced ​​tomatoes, oil, vinegar and salt to taste.

Shrimp Gratin
Ingredients:
200 g shrimp
100 g of hard cheese
1 onion (blue)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup heavy cream
2 cloves of garlic
1 red pepper bitter
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Salt to taste.

How to prepare: 
Clean the shrimp and pour the lemon juice. Grind the onion and fry in hot oil for 5 minutes, add the finely chopped garlic and hot peppers. Stir browned 3-4 minutes, expanded in ceramic pots. Top with shrimp, pour the cream and sprinkle with grated cheese. Add salt to taste and bake in a preheated 200 degree oven for 10 minutes.
At first glance it may seem that in the compilation of recipes explicit bias towards fish and seafood. However, it is these products generally do not have enough on our New Year's table! So why not take advantage and not to please guests expertly prepared trout and shrimp, as well as a delicious fish salad?

And for a snack - a classic French dessert!

Crème Brule
Ingredients:
8 chicken egg yolks
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 cups heavy cream
1 sachet of vanilla sugar
3 tablespoons sugar for the caramel crust.

How to cook: 
Beat the yolks of chicken with powdered sugar until smooth light weight. Add the cream and vanilla sugar, again as it should shake up and pour into molds. Put in a preheated 170 degree oven (in a deep pan, half filled with water). Gotovit1 hour or so, cool. Before serving, sprinkle with sugar and place in preheated oven with top heat (that was formed on the surface of the dessert caramel crust).
Of course, 5 recipes - it's too little to fully appreciate the splendor of the French cuisine. But as the journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step and discover new culinary tradition begins with some good cooking. Believe in yourself and cook with love!