To have a whole head in the morning: how to have a snack on New Year's Eve

The New Year's menu with mayonnaise salads, sandwiches with butter and red caviar, aspic or jelly is a must-have, without which many Belarusians cannot imagine a festive table. How to make the feast useful, and the dishes less high-calorie, they asked the famous nutritionist Irina Yablonskaya. Beware, generous table! Every year we are strenuously losing weight for the New Year holidays, for example, in order to fit into the most fashionable dress before a corporate party. Then overnight we make up for a two- or even three-week calorie deficit, eating off, as if for the last time. On the morning of January 1, the picture is almost the same - a swollen face and heaviness in the stomach. But even here we do not lose the strength of the spirit,
Irina Yablonskaya is sure that Belarusians have a completely wrong idea about the celebration of the New Year.
- People often make a cult out of food, and the family should be the most important. After all, this is a family holiday, so it’s better not to rejoice at a richly laid table, where there is a lot of unhealthy food, but to enjoy communication with family and friends. On December 31, it is equally important to eat rationally throughout the day.
How does it really happen? Admit it, if this is not a working day, then cleaning and cooking begins in the morning. It is good if a person manages to intercept something from food. Because the main meal and falls at midnight.
- In fact, the schedule of the last day of the year in terms of nutrition should not differ from others: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do not starve yourself until the evening in anticipation of the feast. Important clarification: the gala dinner should not be at midnight, but at 8 pm. Under the chimes, it is enough to raise a glass of champagne and eat, for example, a tangerine. A healthy alternative to mayonnaise As for the New Year's menu, the nutritionist advises to completely forget what mayonnaise is. This sauce has not been in great demand all over the world for a long time.
- As a dressing for salads, I recommend unrefined oil with the addition of lemon juice. You can also cook with balsamic vinegar or guacamole (avocado sauce). If you really can’t imagine Olivier without mayonnaise, then it’s better to cook it yourself. To make the salad even lighter, the sausage can be replaced with a homemade roll or saltison, or even better, with shrimp.
The sauce can also be made from Greek yogurt, which will sparkle with new colors if you add greens and a little garlic to it. Another life hack from a nutritionist concerns an important attribute of the New Year's table - sandwiches with red fish. It is better to remove them from the menu.
- First, we forget about the habit of eating everything with bread. Instead, there may be, for example, carrot or celery sticks. A lightly salted yogurt sauce will go well with them. Lightly salted red fish is a complete snack in itself. It can be cut and beautifully arranged on a plate. Or put on cucumber circles - you get the right sandwich.
It is worth crossing out smoked sausages from the shopping list, which are oversaturated with SALT and monosodium glutamate. Instead, you can cook boiled pork or serve sliced ​​\u200b\u200bbeef tongue.
One version of a healthy snack is zucchini rolls, which can be savory stuffed with, for example, sun-dried tomatoes with nuts. Tasty and easy MEAT dish can be anything. The main thing here is the time of its use. Baked fish, pork, poultry... Even an ordinary chicken breast can be deliciously cooked and served on wooden skewers. Eggplants, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, various types of cabbage and lettuce are suitable as decor. In addition, they will diversify the taste of your dishes.
According to Irina, most of the treats should be fresh vegetables and fruits. They are low in calories and easily absorbed by the body, they do not contain fat. The idea of ​​ending a festive meal with dessert is, of course, completely inconsistent with the principles of a healthy diet. But if you really can’t do without sweets, it’s better to make treats yourself. For example, truffles or marzipans.
- Due to the New Year's food "mess", which is most often washed down with alcoholic beverages, HEALTH problems arise in the morning. When food is not digested, there is a serious burden on the pancreas, liver and gastrointestinal tract. The morning of January 1 begins with yesterday's salads. And the body receives a new portion of junk food.
A nutritionist advises starting the new year with a freshly prepared breakfast. For example, you can bake pancakes, pancakes with caviar or red fish.
- Treat yourself to a festive breakfast, but only if your dinner is not over at two or three in the morning. Another important rule: do not make New Year's dishes for the future. Cook exactly as much as you eat at dinner.
The main dishes of the New Year's menu: vegetable salad with natural dressing, fish or poultry baked with vegetable mix fries (sweet potato, celery root).
What to avoid: mayonnaise salads, excessive ALCOHOL consumption, and coca-cola or juices. It is better to replace them with berry fruit drinks. PP-recipes for the New Year's table from Irina Yablonskaya Truffles "Exquisite" You will need:
100 g 100% dark chocolate; 100 g of chicory; 100 g ghee; 100 ml coconut MILK; 100 g of inulin; cinnamon; pistachio crumbs and cocoa for sprinkling.
Chop the chocolate and melt in a water bath. Melt the ghee in a separate bowl over a fire, add coconut milk and place. Do not boil! Combine with chocolate, add chicory, add cinnamon to taste, stir and, without boiling, remove from the stove. Once the mass has cooled, add inulin there and mix thoroughly. If you add inulin to a hot mass, it will harden. We put the truffle mass in the refrigerator for 4 hours. Then we take out and sculpt truffles. As a topping, we use coconut chips, nut crumbs, sesame seeds. Healthy salad "For Belarusians" You will need:
150 g mixed salad; 3 feijoa; 1 persimmon; 1 avocado; 100 grams each: shrimp, squid, octopus, mussels; salt, lemon, pumpkin seed oil.
Wash greens, dry, arrange in a dish. Boil seafood in lightly salted water, drain in a colander. As soon as the water drains, add to the salad dish. Feijoa cut into rings, persimmon and avocado into half rings. Add to salad and arrange nicely. Salt a little, sprinkle with lemon juice, pour over pumpkin seed oil and serve. Pancakes for the first January breakfast You will need:
2 bananas; 200 g of natural yogurt; 1 egg; 4 tablespoons of any FLOUR; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil.
Mix all ingredients with a mixer. Fry pancakes on both sides. Serve with sugar-free yogurt or jam. “Herring under a fur coat”: a new taste of the Soviet dish You will need:
dietary “brick” bread; lightly salted herring fillet; 3 medium sized beets; 3 potatoes; 1 carrot; 1 parsnip; 1 onion;
For the sauce:
200 g Greek yogurt; 1 teaspoon mustard powder; salt pepper.
Boil potatoes, beets, carrots and parsnips and cool. After cleaning, grate. Cut off the top of the bread and remove all the crumb. Chop the herring and chop the onion. Prepare the sauce by adding mustard powder, salt and pepper to the yogurt and beat with a mixer. Divide herring, as well as grated potatoes, carrots and beets into two parts. At the bottom of the "brick" put layers of herring, potatoes, onions, carrots. Press down and top with sauce. Then comes parsnips, layers of potatoes, herring, more potatoes and beets. Press again and pour over the sauce. Top with a bread “lid”, grease with sauce and sprinkle with Provence herbs. We put in the refrigerator for several hours so that the layers are soaked. Stuffed Cucumbers You will need:
2 cucumbers; 5% crumbly cottage cheese; 1 sweet pepper; 2% natural yogurt; garlic and salt.
We take out the core from the cucumbers. Finely chop half of the pulp with garlic and place in a bowl. Add cottage cheese, finely chopped pepper, salt everything and mix. We start cucumbers with cottage cheese “minced meat” and leave in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then cut into circles of 1.5 centimeters, lay out on a plate and serve. Salmon tartare You will need a salmon fillet.
For dressing:
salt; black and white pepper; lemon juice; shallot; APPLE vinegar; Provencal herbs;
Wash salmon and dry on paper towel. Cut into small cubes. Pour shallots with apple cider vinegar and let it brew for half an hour. Then add pepper, salt, lemon juice, Provencal herbs to taste. To mix everything. Place the tartar in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. When serving, you can add avocado or fresh cucumber to the table.

| Marina VALAKH, . | Photo from open Internet sources.

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