Fondue – Classic for New Year’s Eve
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I’ll show you my Fondue Recipe.
The New Year’s Eve fondue tastes great with vegetables, fish, seafood or meat.
In recent times, a vegetarian fondue with tofu, baked cheese and lots of vegetables is a good choice!
At best, a successful fondue is accompanied by many tasty cold sauces.
Classic sauces such as chive sauce, remoulade sauce combined with exotic chutneys or fiery dips make the palate dance.
Here you can finde Fondue Sauces and Raclette Sauces…
The fondue is a real classic for New Year’s Eve.
The advantage is obvious: no one has to stand alone in the kitchen after the preparations.
The guests put together their fondue menu according to their own taste at the table.
As a great addition, I present you with an idea for a fondue dessert.
When the pot is boiling, the time has come for relaxed conversations.
My contribution brings the fondue preparation to the point and answers the question which fondue is right for you.
Table of Contents
1. Recipe for Fondue
Sitting together in a convivial circle and enjoying, that’s what a fondue offers.
Here is my recipe with shopping tips.
Fondue – Classic for New Year’s Eve
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple instructions for preparing fondue and New Year’s Eve fondue in variants.
Ingredients
| Fish Fondue | ||
| 1 | KG | Fish and seafood (salmon, plaice, cod, prawns, mussels) |
| 1 | l | Vegetable broth (or fish stock) |
| 800 | g | fat (Optional instead of broth) |
| Meat Fondue | ||
| 1 | KG | Meat (chicken, turkey, fillet of beef, duck breast, more ideas see article) |
| 1 | L | Beef broth (or start with vegetable broth) |
| 800 | g | fat (Optional instead of broth) |
| Vegetarian Fondue | ||
| 250 | g | tofu |
| 250 | g | smoked tofu |
| 200 | g | Feta sheep cheese |
| 200 | g | Falafel-Instant |
| 4 | pc | eggs |
| 100 | g | cornflour |
| 100 | g | breadcrumbs (there’s also gluten-free!) |
| 80 | g | Sesam |
| 1-2 | tsp | Herbs (Thyme or rosemary) |
| 800 | g | fat |
| Backteig | ||
| 100 | g | flour (also successful with gluten-free flour) |
| 1-2 | pc | eggs |
| 80-100 | ml | milk (Optionally beer or wine for beer dough/wine dough) |
| Gemüse | ||
| 200 | g | Mushrooms |
| 2 | pc | Zucchini |
| 1 | pc | broccoli |
| 3 | pc | paprika peppers (yellow, red, green) |
| 1 | pc | fennel |
| 4 | pc | Potatoes |
| 1 | pc | eggplant |
| Fondue Dessert | ||
| 500 | g | Fruits by season (banana, apple, plum, ….) |
| For the soup | ||
| 1 | bunch | fresh herbs (chives or parsley) |
Instruction
Prepare fish ingredients
Fish Fondue:
Defrost and dry deep-frozen ingredients, place fish fillets in bowls, cut into cubes, clean shrimps and remove intestines on top.
Cover all fish and seafood ingredients and refrigerate in the fridge until fondue evening.
Prepare meat ingredients
Meat Fondue:
Have the meat cleaned by the butcher or meat, cut into strips or slices in the kitchen at home and place in bowls or on plates.
Cover the meat and put it in the fridge until evening.
Prepare bread ingredients
Prepare yeast dough and puff pastry in batches and refrigerate until ready to assemble.
Prepare sesame seeds and salt in small bowls.
Prepare tofu
Cut the tofu and smoked tofu into 2 cm large cubes.
Bread half of the tofu to taste with flour, egg and sesame seeds.
Mix the instant falafel according to the recipe on the packaging and then form small falafel balls.
Place all ingredients on plates in the refrigerator
Prepare cheese
Cut the sheep’s cheese into cubes and bread with flour, egg, breadcrumbs and herbs.
Prepare baking dough
Prepare the dough, mix all the ingredients, chill the dough.
Prepare fondue sauces
Prepare the fondue sauces.
Prepare vegetables
Clean and prepare the vegetables, put the vegetables in a cool place.
Prepare table
Set the table and prepare the fondue.
Courses
Cousine
Keyword
2. Nutritional Values
3. Fondue with Broth
ADVANTAGE: HEALTHY AND NO GREASE SMELL
DISADVANTAGE: IT TAKES LONGER
The fondue with broth is the healthiest fondue variant for New Year’s Eve.
It therefore certainly fits in with the good resolutions for the New Year!
The ingredients boil or poach in the hot broth.
Fish, meat or vegetarian, everything is possible and depending on the diet of the guests several fondue pots are announced.
The basis for the fondue with broth is a beef broth, a fish broth or a vegetable broth.
You can season the respective broth with classic European or Asian spices.
The Asian version of the soup fondue is called “Feuertopf”.
Refine your broth for a fire pot with soy sauce, sesame oil, shiitake mushrooms, ginger, anise and garlic.
Note: Seafood and vegetables cook quickly in the hot soup.
Cut the meat as small as possible, thin slices of meat or strips are ideal, which can be easily skewered or cooked evenly fast in the basket.
The cooking of the ingredients in the soup makes it very powerful in taste.
Hold back some fresh herbs to enjoy the soup at the end of the evening with freshly cut herbs.
4. Fondue with Fat
ADVANTAGE: FAST COOKING OF THE INGREDIENTS, ROASTED TASTE
DISADVANTAGE: GREASY SMELL AND LIMITED HEALTH, DANGER OF OVERHEATING
For a classic meat and vegetable fondue you use hot fat.
Refined rapeseed oil, sunflower oil or tasteless coconut fat is ideal.
The fat fondue is not harmless. Your table should be stable, the fondue pot should only be half filled with hot fat or oil.
For some it sounds exaggerated, I recommend to have an additional fire blanket ready to hand, because some New Year’s Eve has not only burned down the old year.
As a small safety measure, there is a lid matching the pot.
If the fat becomes too hot or ignites, the pot can be quickly closed with a lid.
Fat fires must not be extinguished with water, because here the hot fat splashes in all directions and extreme burns can develop.
When using fondue with fat and oil, please pay attention to the temperature.
The temperature range of 170°C +-10 degrees Celsius has proved its worth.
The tasty part of the classic fondue with fat is quickly explained:
When frying in hot fat, the fondue ingredients are cooked tasty and evenly.
You can also prepare a baking dough for dipping the ingredients.
Fish and seafood, meat and tofu, fruit for fondue dessert…
You can dip all these ingredients into the dough and then fry them deliciously crispy in hot oil.
Rich with fondue fresh crispy and warm baguette or a garlic baguette a herb baguette or homemade pizza bread.
If you want to take a little more time, you can use puff pastry to make small cheese appetizers or puff pastry sticks with sesame seeds.
5. Fondue Side Dishes
Below are a few tips for a great New Year’s Eve fondue:
5.1 Bread and pastries with fondue
Serve with fondue fresh crusty and warm baguette or a garlic baguette, a herb baguette or homemade pizza bread.
If you can spare a little more time, prepare small cheese bites or puff pastry sticks with sesame seeds from puff pastry.
5.2 Salads
Colourful leaf salads, potato salad, cucumber salad, cabbage salad, tomato salad, bean salad, general antipasti from the glass:
Dried and pickled tomatoes, mixed pickles, pickled gherkins, artichokes in addition, a noodle salad is a good accompaniment to fondue.
5.3 Fondue Sauces
A selection of cold sauces for fondue will enrich your fondue with different flavours. Here you can find my article about fondue sauces.
6. Ideas for the Meat Fondue
Suitable are:
Turkey meat, chicken breast meat, beef fillet, quail breast, duck breast, chicken liver, duck liver, beef liver…
In general, all types of meat and offal that are served fried for a short time.
Please generally cut the liver into small slices and clean well beforehand, otherwise the liver will splash the fat.
7. Ideas for the Fish Fondue
Saithe fillet, salmon fillet, plaice rolled, sole rolled, shrimps (raw, grey colour!), seafood mix, octopus and blanched mussels.
8. Vegetarian Fondue
You would like to prepare a contemporary vegetarian fondue, here are my tips:
- Instead of meat you can use raw tofu and raw smoked tofu (soup fondue).
- Bread tofu in flour, egg and breadcrumbs (fat fondue)
- Bread Tofu in Sesame and Cornflakes (Fat Fondue)
- Breaded sheep cheese (fat fondue)
- Falafel balls based on chickpea flour
- Generally prepare a baking dough, so all vegetarian ingredients are baked in the dough and put on the table.
- Vegetable ideas: Broccoli prepared in florets, peppers in pieces, mushrooms such as mushrooms, zucchini slices, eggplant slices, fennel, potato in slices or cubes,…
Special tip! Fondue Dessert – prepare more baking dough and fruit in the baking dough as fondue dessert…
9. Dispose of Fondue Fat
After the fondue, please do not pour the grease residues into the sink or toilet.
The fat would block the drain pipes!
Allow the fat to cool completely, then dispose of in the household waste.
10. Cheese Fondue
It is still to be mentioned briefly: The cheese fondue is a speciality from Switzerland.
The cheese fondue is prepared in a special ceramic pot.
Cheese fondue sets are available on the market for this purpose.
The cheese fondue preparation I will show next in another article.
11. More Recipes Around New Year’s Eve and Christmas
Veal Chop
Cotoletta Milanese
Porterhouse Steak
Pork Loin
Truffle Pasta
Chervil Soup
Crayfish
Stuffed Pancakes
Apple Pancake
Pheasant Recipe
Quail Recipe
Quail With Bavarian Cabbage
Quail With Pasta Recipe
Quail Sauce Recipe
Nut Cookies Recipe
Goose Legs Recipe
Christmas Cookie Recipe
Cinnamon Cookies Recipe
Red Lentil Soup Recipe
How to Prepare Roast Veal with Mustard Sauce simply
Truffle Risotto Recipe
Bratwurst Fry Made Simple Recipe
Grilling Lamb Shanks, the Recipe with Smoking in the Oven
How to Prepare Fantastic Roast Chicken you Will Learn in this Recipe
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