Women's day menu: aperitif, first course, second course, side dish and mimosa-scented dessert!
A women's day menu must be truly special, just like this occasion, which celebrates all the social achievements of the female gender! To celebrate it properly, you could think of a nice dinner with your friends and prepare a mimosa-themed menu, the flower symbol of March 8th.
Wouldn't you know what to cook? Do not worry, we are here to give you ideas on an aperitif, first course, second course, side dish and dessert indicated when needed. Ready to make yellow prevail in your menu for women's day?
The ideal aperitif to open the menu for women's day!
The menu for the women's party can only open with a classic aperitif, the mimosa cocktail! It is undoubtedly the ideal drink for this party, to sip with your friends. How to prepare it? All you need is orange juice and some champagne. Serve in flutes and decorate with a sprig of mimosa. Prosecco or sparkling wine is also good.
To accompany the cocktail, you can prepare mimosa canapes: cut slices of loaf bread with the shape you like best (maybe a nice heart to dedicate to your friends?) And spread them on a mixture prepared with mustard, cream and chopped chives . Top with crumbled hard-boiled eggs, salt and pepper.
Another idea for an elegant aperitif for women's day are salty puffs, strictly yellow! We leave you here a video with the recipe for making puff pastry. You can then dress it with mayonnaise, mustard, chopped hard-boiled eggs, parsley and a mince of capers.
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First for the women's day with the scent of mimosa!
A very good and ideal first course for women's day is the mimosa risotto with asparagus and eggs. Start by preparing the asparagus by cleaning and cutting them into slices, put them to boil and boil them for about ten minutes. Boil some eggs and in the meantime fry a chopped onion. Pour the rice over it and toast it, blending with the wine. Add the asparagus and broth and cook. Whisk with crescenza and grated parmesan, then use the egg yolk to decorate the rice.
An equally delicious alternative is the fusilli with mimosa eggs. Boil some eggs, then peel them and take the egg yolks, passing them through a sieve. Cut the pecorino cheese into cubes and add it to butter, marjoram and pepper. Boil the pasta and put it in the bowl with the sauce, adding parmesan and decorative egg yolks.
Ideas for a second for women's day!
Your women's day menu continues with a nice themed second. How about a mimosa chicken? Prepare it like this: cut the chicken into small pieces, flour it and brown it in a pan with oil. Add sliced onion, garlic and bay leaf, salt and pepper, then blend with some wine. Combine two ladles of broth with diluted turmeric inside, cover everything and cook for half an hour. You will serve your chicken sprinkled with chopped parsley and with decorative hard-boiled eggs.
If you prefer a vegetarian main course, opt for asparagus with mimosa sauce! This special sauce is made with hard-boiled eggs, chopped parsley, vinegar, salt and pepper. Mash everything by adding some olive oil. Meanwhile, clean the asparagus by removing the final part of the stems and peeling the rest. Cook them in the asparagus basket, securing them in bunches with string.After having drained them, you can serve by removing the strings and sprinkling them with mimosa sauce, with a few wedges of hard-boiled eggs on the side.
Here is the side dish suitable for the women's day menu!
Even the side dish on a women's day menu must be "mimosa"! You could therefore bet on a good mimosa cabbage. How to prepare it? Clean the cabbage and cut it into small buds. Heat some salted water with the addition of saffron and, when it boils, throw in the cabbage and let it boil. Boil some eggs too, then crumble them and use them to sprinkle the florets that you have placed on a plate. You can also add some chopped anchovies .
A very simple side dish, but always very, very yellow? A salty zabaglione to accompany mixed vegetables! Steam vegetables (cabbage, carrots, new potatoes, leeks ...) and in the meantime prepare your zabaglione with which to serve them: just beat egg yolks together with vegetable broth, salt, cream, white wine, and then whip all in a bain-marie.
And finally, a sweet mimosa for your menu!
What better occasion than women's day to prepare a delicious mimosa cake? This delicious dessert is not super quick to prepare, but the result will be outstanding. You will first need to cook the sponge cake, preferably the day before to let it rest. Then prepare the custard and whip some cream with icing sugar. Cut the sponge cake to form two layers and cut the central disc into cubes. Wet the base with rum and / or orange juice, pour over the custard, then put the other disc back. Sprinkle everything with whipped cream and pour over the cubes of sponge cake so that they adhere and give the impression of being small mimosa flowers!
If you want a more original idea, opt for mimosa cupcakes, similar to cake, but less demanding. To prepare them you will first have to prepare the classic muffins to use as a base, which you will then fill with custard mixed with fresh cream. The muffin cap, once closed, must be decorated with the inside of the muffin itself that you have extracted to insert the cream and then crumbled, just like for the cake. Enjoy your meal and, above all, best wishes!
