Make your New Year's Eve party unforgettable with these 10 tasty recipes!
Smokehattan
This New Year try a Smokehattan cocktail. It may sound exotic, but it is really simple to prepare. Infused with cinnamon smoke, Smokehattan combines bitters, whiskey and vermouth.
Please find the recipe here: Smokehattan
Fries can be made more ways than you can imagine. Opt for a twist on classic fries! These Skinny Sweet Potato Fries With Feta And Pomegranate are a vibrant addition to your holiday menu.
Please find the recipe here: Sweet Potato Fries With Feta And Pomegranate
What a delightful way to bring in 2025 -- with Mayur Sanap's easy Sugar And Cinnamon Glazed Popcorn with caramel sauce drizzled over it; homemade, so no GST :).
Please find the recipe here: Sugar and Cinnamon Glazed Popcorn
Impress your guests this new year with Zelda Pande and Kshamaya Daniel's recipe for a Holiday Burrata Ball! Creamy, flavourful, and easy to make. It might be not so easy to locate fresh burrata cheese for the burrata ball -- although many Indian fromageries (also known as cheese shops, for us janta) now do make it and stock it -- but once you do, it needs just a little gussying up to taste delicious.
Please find the recipe here: Holiday Burrata Ball
Do have a go at making a fusion-style chicken popcorn to usher the New Year in with. It's spiked with panch phoron, the traditional Bengali five-spice powder. Coated with dry roasted oats, this yummy starterby Bethica Das is can be dished out in a jiffy.
Please find the recipe: Crunchy Chicken Popcorn
Try Sonal Ved's unusual Buratta Papdi Chaat which makes an excellent starter for a family New Year's Eve get-together. Drizzle sweet yoghurt, tamarind-jaggery chutney, and the mint-coriander chutney on the papdi and the burrata and tuck in.
Please find the recipe here: Buratta Papdi Chaat
An ideal New Year snackie, finger food with traditional flavours, is Divya Nair's Beetroot Vada served with green coconut chutney.
Please find the recipe here: Beetroot Vada
New Year's Eve is definitely the day to make up Chef Pawan Kumar's satiating mutton Shikampuri Kebabs, stuffed with onions, cashews, raisins, chopped mint and coriander leaves. These kebabs generally utilise yoghurt but Kumar has opted for only nuts and a touch of sweetness instead.
Please find the recipe here: Shikampuri Kebabs
Looking for a party appetiser? Make Shumaila Chauhan's Dahi Kebabs. Not difficult to put together, the kebab mixture can be made early in the day in advance, rolled into kebabs, refrigerated and fried just before serving.
Please find the recipe here: Dahi Kebabs
Get creative with vodka, gin and tequila for a new year drink. You don't have to be a seasoned bartender to pull off a flamboyant cocktail hour for friends and family.
Please find the recipe here: A Sunday Kind Of Love