Why Christmas Dinner is Important: Celebrating the Season with Some Delicious Dishes
The holidays are fast approaching, and you know what that means: Christmas dinner! Nothing says Christmas like the delicious array of mouth-watering food served on Christmas dinner tables across the world.
Sure, all of the trimming, baking, and decorating takes some time, but when you pull it all together on the big day, it’s so worth it. This year, however, make sure you don’t let the preparation get in the way of one of the best parts of Christmas dinner—the actual meal itself!
While the dinner has deep religious and cultural roots, it’s also an opportunity to reconnect with family members who might have traveled from far away or to show new friends what Christmas means to you and your loved ones. Regardless of why you choose to celebrate Christmas with a meal, though, make sure you cook it properly!
Here are some Christmas dinner ideas that will help you create a feast fit for your holiday gathering.
3 Best Christmas appetizers
#1 – Tomato bruschettas with cream cheese
The easiest option for a Christmas snack is bruschetta. It will take no more than 15 minutes and 6 ingredients to prepare. But the main feature is that such dishes will appeal to both adults and children.
Ingredients:
- Baguette – several slices
- Cream cheese – 200 g
- Soy sauce – 1 tbsp
- Tomatoes – 3-4 pcs.
- Arugula – a medium bunch
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Instruction
- The baguette needs to be cut into slices and dried in a pan or using a toaster.
- Mix cream cheese with soy sauce and garlic.
- Lubricate the bread with a creamy garlic mixture. Then add arugula and tomato slices. The dish is ready!
#2 – Mexican snack with avocado
This simple and delicious appetizer will bring interesting notes to the Christmas menu – the best thing about this recipe is fast, tasty, and healthy! You can make it in just 5 minutes.
Ingredients
- Avocado – 2-3 pieces;
- Tomato – 1 pc.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Olive oil – 2 tbsp
- Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
- Soy sauce – 1 tbsp
- Dry garlic, salt, paprika
Instructions
- Peel ripe avocados, put them in a water container, and crush them with a fork.
- Finely chop the onion and tomatoes and add to the avocado.
- Season the mixture with vegetable oil, soy sauce, and lemon juice.
- Add spices of your choice and mix thoroughly. You can serve it with croutons or nachos.
# 3 – Pane shrimp
This appetizer will appeal to anyone who loves seafood. We offer a delicious version of tempura shrimp, the preparation of which will take no more than 20 minutes.
Ingredients
- Shrimps (size 50/70) – 250 g
- Egg – 1-2 pcs
- Flour – 100 g
- Breadcrumbs – 100 g
- Sesame oil – 250 ml
Instructions
- Shrimps must be cleaned – remove the intestines, rinse and dry with paper towels.
- Pour the oil into a saucepan and place over medium heat.
- Beat the eggs, and pour the flour and crackers into separate containers.
- Now dip the shrimp into the egg, then into the flour, and again into the egg and breadcrumbs. Fry the shrimp in well-heated oil for 5 minutes.
- Place cooked shrimp on paper towels to remove excess oil. The dish is ready! Pane shrimp can be served with soy sauce.
3 Best Main Dishes for Christmas 2022
#1 – Beef in the oven
A real Christmas dinner table is hard to imagine without baked beef. Therefore, we offer a simple and quick recipe that will appeal to all guests.
Ingredients
- Beef tenderloin – 800 g
- Garlic – 2 teeth
- Olive oil – 3 tbsp
- Salt, pepper – 1 tsp each
- Rosemary, thyme – a few sprigs
Instructions
- Rinse beef, pat dry, and add salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in a frying pan; add garlic, rosemary, and thyme.
- Fry the tenderloin in vegetable oil for 2 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Now cover the baking sheet with foil, put the tenderloin on it, and put it in the oven for 20 minutes; reduce the temperature to 180 degrees.
- Take out the meat, let it cool and serve it to the guests!
# 2 – Baked honey chicken with oranges
You see baked chicken at every Christmas table. Therefore, we suggest leaving the traditional chicken but adding new notes to the usual dish with the help of an interesting marinade. With this recipe, you can make chicken tender with a honey-orange flavor.
Ingredients
- Whole chicken – 1 pc.
- Soy sauce – 5-7 tbsp.
- Honey -3 tbsp.
- Garlic – 2 teeth
- Oranges – 2-3 pcs
- Spices to your liking
Ingredients
- Mix honey, soy sauce, and garlic in one container and rub the chicken with this marinade; add spices and leave it for 1-2 hours.
- After that, take out the chicken and stuff it with oranges.
- Spread the chicken on a baking sheet and put it in the oven, heated to 180 degrees for 1-1.5 hours.
- Take the chicken out of the oven, take out the oranges and present it to the guests
# 3 – Tender salmon
This Christmas, the salmon and delicate creamy sauce can be the star. This dish is quick and easy to prepare, so this is ideal for those who want to cook yummy and do not want to stand at the stove for hours. Another feature of the dish is that you can cook it even in a regular frying pan.
Ingredients
- Salmon steaks – 3 pcs
- Cream with a fat content of 10-15% – 200 ml
- Spinach – a small bunch
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves
- Olive oil
Instructions
- Clean the salmon from the skin and bones, and cut it into large pieces.
- Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and begin to fry the salmon for 2 minutes on each side.
- Cut the spinach, squeeze the garlic and add them to the pan.
- Add cream, fry for another 3-5 minutes, turn off the heat and cover with a lid. The dish is ready!
3 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes
#1 – Butter Cookies with Orange Jam
Ingredients for 35 pieces
- Butter – 250 g
- Sugar – 100 g
- Zest of one orange
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Liquid honey – 1 tbsp.
- Flour – 410 g
- Baking powder – 8 g
- Salt – a pinch
- Orange or any other thick jam – 100-150 g
Instructions
- RUB THE BUTTER WITH WHITE POWDER; add the zest, egg, and honey. You can add a couple of drops of citrus oil. Mix thoroughly with a spatula in a mixer or by hand with a fork.
- MIX FLOUR WITH BAKING POWDER AND SALT; gradually add to the butter mass. Knead the dough well, using a spatula or fork, trying to touch it as little as possible with your hands.
- ROLL INTO A BALL, wrap in a cling film, and refrigerate for at least an hour.
- ROLL OUT THE FINISHED DOUGH very thinly (three to four millimeters) on a table sprinkled with flour, and cut out circles with a glass. Cut a hole in half of the circles with a glass or cookie cutter.
- PREHEAT OVEN to 160°C. Bake cookies until golden yellow (about ten minutes). Remove from oven and let cool completely.
- GLUE FULL CIRCLES with circles with a slot using jam. Cookies can be decorated with melted white chocolate or sugar icing, as for gingerbread.
# 2 – Gingerbread Cookies
Ingredients for 30 pieces
FOR GINGERBREAD:
- Flour – 250 g
- Ground cinnamon – 2 tsp
- Ground cloves – 1/4 tsp
- Grated nutmeg – 1/4 tsp
- Ground ginger – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp.
- Sugar – 60 g
- Cream or milk – 10 g
- Honey – 50 g
- Butter – 50 g
- Egg – 1 pc., Shake in a glass with a fork
FOR GLAZE:
- Egg white – 1 pc.
- Powdered sugar – 200 g
- Lemon juice – 2-3 tbsp.
Instructions
- FOR THE DOUGH, COMBINE FLOUR, all spices, and salt. Mix. In a saucepan, combine sugar, cream, honey, butter, and melt over low heat. Let the syrup cool and mix it with the egg.
- POUR THE SYRUP INTO THE DRY MIXTURE and knead the dough with your hands. Roll out on a table generously sprinkled with flour. Ready-made gingerbread cookies are hard and crispy, so it is better to roll out the dough as thinly as possible, 23 millimeters. Ready cookies almost do not change in size after baking.
- CUT out cookies with cookie cutters and place them on a baking sheet.
- BAKE IN PREHEATED OVEN AT 160°C FOR about ten minutes and let cool completely before decorating. So the gingerbread will turn out crumbly. If you want to increase their strength, bake a little longer – about 15 minutes.
- FOR THE GLAZE, BEAT THE EGG WHITE TO STIFF PEAKS, pour in the powder, and mix with a fork or whisk. Dilute crumbly crumbs with lemon juice to a consistency slightly thicker than toothpaste. Transfer the glaze immediately to a pastry bag and store it in the refrigerator. After decorating the gingerbread, the sugar icing completely hardens in 23 minutes and is almost impossible to damage.
# 3 – Coconut snowballs with white chocolate
Ingredients for 30 pieces
- Egg white – from two eggs
- Citric acid – 1/4 tsp.
- Powdered sugar – 100 g
- Ground almonds – 30 g
- Salt – 1 pinch
- Coconut cream – 2 tbsp. l. (it is better not to shake the jar and take the thickest part of the “cream”)
- Coconut flakes – 200 g
- White chocolate – 50 g, broken into very small pieces (half a centimeter)
Instructions
- WHISK THE EGG WHITES to soft peaks. Pour in citric acid and half of the powdered sugar, and continue to beat, gradually adding the remaining powder. Achieve solid peaks.
- GRADUALLY ADD ALMONDS, salt, and coconut flakes, and add cream, stirring the mass with a spatula. Let stand for about half an hour so that the chips absorb moisture.
- LUBRICATE YOUR HANDS WITH VEGETABLE or coconut oil. Put one teaspoon of coconut mass on the palm, flatten, put a piece of chocolate on top, cover with another spoonful of mass and form a ball with your hands. Thus form cakes from the entire coconut mass.
- BAKE at 170°C for 15-20 minutes.
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