Christmas is one of the happiest holidays that gathers us all in the family, around the table full of delicious dishes, to spend a more blessed and joyful time together. We want to share this article with you, sharing some Christmas Menus Ideas to help you find the best healthy and simple recipes for your Christmas lunch or dinner menu.
Christmas is not just a holiday. It is about sharing love and kindness, giving and receive and celebrating enjoying the true meaning of this day marked for all Christian believers, which is the birth of our Savior.
Some Tips on Christmas Menus
One of the best moments on this Merry day to spend a happy time all together is when we gather around the table. Christmas lunch or dinner time is significant for all the family. We can spend time and enjoy the delicious dishes cooked by us with love, so, for that reason, we should keep in mind a series of tips for having a menu liked by everyone.
- We need to cook the Christmas Menu recipes for everyone in the family, including young children.
- We must prepare recipes that suit the tastes of all family members in the family. So if someone in the family is vegetarian or vegan, you can very well cook a vegetarian menu in his / her respect, or indulge the whole family by combining dishes where in addition to meat or fish dishes you can also prepare vegetarian dishes.
- The menu should contain healthy dishes, so that our relatives with various health amnesias such as diabetes, hypertension, etc., have the opportunity to dine or have lunch with us.
- We need to organize to cook on time to provide and serve hot cooking or at the required temperature.
- The table should be beautifully served and contain all the festive elements and the full serving set according to the menu prepared for each family member.
Christmas Menus from Family Cooking Recipes
When we talk about the end-of-year holidays such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve, most of us define it with a traditional menu, preparing our loved and favorite recipes. Most of us like to cook traditional dishes representing the country we live in or the country from which we come. But you know what, there is no matter what menu or dishes you choose to cook. The most significant thing is to spend all the time happy and blessed with family and friends, and above all, to think and cook healthy. And for this, we come to help you with our Christmas Menu ideas. Keep reading to inform about our proposals.
#1. Traditional Albanian Christmas Menu
We thought to be closer to our tradition in this first Christmas menu, where the main course is undoubtedly Roasted Turkey with Pershesh.
The other courses in this Christmas menu will be mostly appetizers and salads since, in our traditional cooking recipes, roasted Turkey accompanied with Scone. The variety of salads and appetizers will enrich the table in colors and nutritional value and balance the calories taken from the main dish to consume a meal as acceptable as possible for all. So in this Christmas Menu, you will not have an individual first course, but a variety of antipasti and salads, which will follow with the main course and dessert.
1. Appetizers and Salads
Chicken and Vegetable Meatballs
It is a light appetizer, and the presence of vegetables combines it best with chicken. You can accompany it with a sauce prepared with yogurt and spices, which you can find in our cauliflower meatballs recipe. It is much tasty recipe even for holidays.>Read Full Recipe
Easy Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast
It is a light dish prepared with chicken breast, which combines best with spinach, for an appetizer full of flavor and nutritional value. The recipe is partially cooked in the pan and ends in the oven for tasty and healthy cooking. > Read Full Recipe
Caprese Salad
This appetizer is a much tasty mix with mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. It is an easy recipe to start our meal, and together with salads or other appetizers in this Christmas menu to enjoy and raise our first toast.>Read Full Recipe.
Russian Salad
It is one of the best salad recipes, and it combines best with turkey or chicken in this Christmas menu. A perfect combination of diced vegetables and mayonnaise, which are best enjoyed even with the presence of pickles and fresh parsley. We know this taste from our childhood, and it continues to be one of my favorites..> Read Full Recipe.
Red Cabbage And Carrot Salad
It is a light salad, flavored and marinated with oranges, a colorful salad rich in Vitamin C and Vitamin A, which is healthy to be consumed by all.> Read Full Recipe
Cauliflower And Broccoli Salad
This dish is a salad of the season, rich in vitamins and minerals and easy to enjoy and consume by everyone. > Read Full Recipe
2. Main Course
Pulë Me Përshesh (Turkey with scone)
You can cook this dish with any variety of chicken you can afford, but this recipe turns out tastier if it cooks with turkey juice or organically grown village chicken. > Read Full Recipe
You can also consider our Stuffed Chicken with Chestnuts recipe and Stuffed Chicken with Rice.
3. Dessert
Kajmaklie with Fruits
Kajmaklia is a light dessert that can best wrap up this menu. Especially if you choose to cook this menu for Christmas Dinner, this is one of the easiest desserts to prepare and enjoy.> Read Full Recipe
Ginger Cookies
The second dessert for this menu is Gingerbread Cookies with their fragrant and slightly spicy. They are a tasty dessert for this menu..>Read Full Recipe
2. Meat-Based Christmas Menu
The second menu we suggest based on meat is a combination of antipasti, the first dish, and the main one with meat products combined with vegetables or dairy by-products. The menu is rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and mineral salts.
1.Appetizers and Salads
Red Beets and Arugula Salad
It is much tasty and colorful salad. Arugula combines with beets best in this salad and with other dishes on this menu..> Read Full Recipe
Cottage Cheese With Vegetables
It is a much healthy appetizer, which you can prepare with your favorite vegetables like zucchini, peppers, eggplants, etc. Read Full Recipe
Red Peppers Bruschetta
It is an appetizer prepared with roasted red peppers, olives, and feta cheese, marinated with garlic, olive oil, and pepper, which goes best with meat-based dishes. >Read Full Recipe.
Black Olive Salad
Black Olive Salad is one of the favorites to accompany meat-based dishes. In this recipe, black olives season with oranges. >Read Full Recipe.
Meatball Sauce
Meatballs with sauce recipe is a much tasty appetizer. It is a colorful one, full of flavors, and perfect to accompany and combine with other dishes on this menu. >Read Full Recipe.
2. First Course
Lazagna alla Bolognese
The first dish we propose in this second menu is Lasagna with Bolognese sauce, which tastes best when we prepare all the ingredients ourselves in our kitchen.> Read Full Recipe.
3. Main Course
Roasted Lamb Leg
Roasted Lamb Leg is e delicious recipe to prepare for one of the Christmas meals. In this combination with Semolina, this dish is balanced and very healthy. >Read Full Recipe.
You can consider the Roasted Goat Leg recipe cooked in the pan and Oven Baked Beef Ribs recipe.
4. Dessert
Kadaif Me Arra
Kadaif Me Arra is a traditional Albanian dessert, one of the sweets that never missed in the holiday season. A recipe prepared with minced kadaifi noodles stuffed with walnut rolls, baked with butter, and softened in a sorbet. >Read Full Recipe.
3.Seadfood Christmas Menu
Seafood is a healthy and light food, and it assimilates and is one of the best recommendations for Christmas dinner. It is one of the menus to consider for an elegant and healthy choice for the whole family. The fish menu can be a little more expensive than the other menus. In general, the Christmas menus proposed by us remain at the economic and average level, so that they can afford by everyone financially.
1.Appetizers and Salads
Fried Calamari
Fried squid is one of the appetizers, which we often enjoy at fish-based lunches or dinners, easy to prepare and delicious to accompany with white wine. >Read Full Recipe.
Saganaki
Saganaki is a traditional Greek recipe, a warm and much tasty appetizer with shrimp and feta cheese. >Read Full Recipe.
Octopus Salad
It is one of the classic octopus salad recipes that we can serve hot or cold as desired. >Read Full Recipe.
Spinach Salad
This recipe is another delicious and healthy dish to enjoy at a festive fish-based dinner. >Read Full Recipe.
2.First Course
Shrimp and Zucchini Risotto
It is a much tasty first course, a perfect taste of shrimp and zucchini risotto. It is a delicious course for everyone. >Read Full Recipe.
3.Main Course
As a main course dish, we want to recommend Oven Baked Fish With vegetables, where below you will find two recipes depending on the type of fish you will use. If you manage to provide fresh wild fish, we would recommend the first recipe, other-wise, the Fresh salmon with baked vegetables is a complete and much tasty recipe to cook for the main course in your Christmas meal.
Oven-Baked Sea Bass With Veggies
Wild fish in the oven with vegetables is one of the most delicious dishes where fish and vegetables marinate mutually. We will serve the fish together with the baked vegetables in the oven.>Read Full Recipe.
If you prefer an easier version of cooking fish, I would recommend Fish in Salt or Fish baked on baking paper.
4. Dessert
Best Custard Pie
As a dessert for this fish menu, we will recommend our Custard Pie recipe, a light dessert based on the shortcrust dough and custard cream.>Read Full Recipe.
Coffee Granita
Coffee Granita is another suggestion for this menu. Granita will offer you easier digestion of food, and it is a pleasant taste after the meal.>Read Full Recipe.
4.Vegetarian Christmas Menu
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, we should respect and cook at home for everyone’s tastes and preferences. This menu is to fulfill the desires of all those people who like vegetarian dishes, so this menu is rich in salads, vegetable-based antipasti.
1.Appetizers and Salads
Grilled Zucchini
It is a much tasty appetizer, wherein this recipe you will learn how to serve and marinate zucchini grilled zucchini. >Read Full Recipe.
Potatoes Salad
Potato salad is one of the typical dishes of the season holidays, a winter salad that we can enjoy for the holidays and in everyday life, combined with a variety of vegetables and other fruits for a different taste. >Read Full Recipe.
Stuffed Mushrooms
It is a much tasty appetizer, stuffed mushrooms with cottage cheese and nuts, a way to eat and serve the mushrooms. Refer to the vegetarian version in the recipe by eliminating animal bacon.>Read Full Recipe.
Baked Cauliflower Meatballs
It is a tasty first course or appetizer accompanied by a sauce with yogurt and spices, a delicious one that combines with other appetizers on the menu. >Read Full Recipe.
Spinach and Ricotta Tart
It is a first course or appetizer that can eat and enjoy by everyone. It is a delicious way to serve and eat spinach. >Read Full Recipe.
Oven-Baked Spinach
Oven-baked spinach with bechamel is another delicious spinach recipe for this Christmas. It is a colorful and healthy recipe to enjoy by everyone. >Read Full Recipe.
2. First Course
Squash Soup
It is a tasty vegetarian dish cooked with winter squash, which remains one of the vegetables rich in nutritional values and a favorite dish for the winter season. >Read Full Recipe.
3. Main Course
Vegetable Lasagna
It is the main dish presented to you in this menu, a white vegetable lasagna, a much tasty, which you can choose to prepare with your favorite vegetables by following our recipe. >Read Full Recipe.
4. Dessert
Un-Baked Cheesecake
Unbaked cheesecake is an easy dessert to prepare and much tasty. We are introducing you to one of the classic cheesecake recipes without baking, but you can also consider Blueberry Cheesecake for this menu. >Read Full Recipe.
Conclusion
I hope this article on some menu ideas for this Christmas was helping you to have clearer ideas on the dishes and recipes that you will prepare.
You can also customize or use these menus for New Year’s Eve dinner if you wish.
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