How are you doing appetite? Lunchtime is approaching and many days are celebrated at the table, like today, Christmas Eve. Every week we put on our apron to get into the kitchen and prepare delicious recipes for the whole family. If you have not closed the menu tonight, Christmas, New Year's Eve ... we present the most delicious dishes to surprise children and guests.
We bring you the best recipes of our companions of Direct to the Palate and Vitónica with which you can prepare varied and healthy dishes and in which Christmas is the protagonist. Today in our selection we highlight appetizing dishes of appetizers and vegetables, main dishes and desserts for the sweet tooth. Bon Appetite!
Dishes with vegetables and snacks
Three fancy creams to impress at Christmas: broccoli and zucchini with almond milk, green asparagus cream and Parmesan cheese and shrimp bisque (top photo), which incorporates this delicious seafood with vegetables. Which one do you prefer?
Appetizer of blinis with avocado, cheese and roe, ideal to start any meal or dinner celebration. We can make the dough ourselves or take the idea and combine it with the typical cakes or canapés.
Anchovy canape with avocado, cheese and vegetable caviar, a light and healthy snack so that the pecking does not take us away from continuing with the main course. In addition, it is prepared in a moment.
Rustic pumpkin pie and Parmesan cheese (top photo), an ideal recipe for fall, when the pumpkin is at its best, but we still find these dates easily. It is taken warm and accompanied by a salad of green leaves, adding some roasted pine nuts to provide a crispy touch.
Stewed artichokes with crayfish, which can also be made with prawns, at a cheaper price. A simple recipe that can be ready in 45 minutes and has an intense flavor to surprise guests.
Vegetarian Christmas Eve. If you opt for a vegetarian dinner, do not miss these healthy ideas of appetizers and main dishes with vegetables, hummus, tofu ...
Dishes to surprise at Christmas
Haddock in white sauce with vegetables (top photo), a very healthy dish that combines fish and vegetables (carrot, broccoli, pepper, zucchini, pepper), and that is made in just 20 minutes.
Volován de hake cider, an elegant way to present a main course on special occasions, in small puff pastry molds that can be purchased already made if they are of quality. A simple and surprising recipe that incorporates the rich fish.
Roasted quail with orange glaze, maple syrup and whiskey, ready in 45 minutes and easy to prepare, accompanied by a few slices of tangerines and simple roasted or cooked new potatoes.
Salmon ingot with sweet potato and wasabi mayonnaise, another ideal recipe for this Christmas, a light dish, simple to make and incorporating salmon so rich in nutritional properties for the whole family.
Finally, do not miss this summary of the best Christmas recipes to prepare with meat: from the traditional roasted veal round roasted picantones with mustard, honey and raisins, lamb, pork recipes ...
A sweet Christmas
Apart from nougat and polvorones, there is life beyond in desserts for these Christmas dates.
17 quick and easy desserts to sweeten Christmas, from yogurt and redcurrant pannacotta (top photo) to chocolate balls with apricot and orange to lemon snacks, custard, apple compote flan... It will cost us to choose only one!
Chocolate mousse with crunchy orange (cover photo), a delicious combination of flavors that I hope to try very soon since chocolate with orange is a muna of our weaknesses. The mousse can be distributed in glasses or set in a mousse ring as in the image, in any case a very special and tasty dessert will be left.
Pumpkin muffins, a recipe to make with or without Thermomix and that result in delicious spongy cakes, for snack, breakfast ... In addition, they could be combined with chocolate chips, which looks great with the pumpkin and sure that love children.
Sweet potato puff pastry snacks with orange blossom water (top photo), for which we need 300 g of sweet potato puree, 15 g of orange blossom water, 15 g of rum, 80 g of sugar + 10 g for sprinkling, zest 1/2 lemon, 1 rectangular puff pastry sheet and 1 egg. Do you dare to try them? The result is surprising!
17 Star Wars cakes and desserts to enjoy the premiere. We end with an original idea for fans of the film saga that is more topical, with ideas of cookies, macarons, cakes, cupcakes ...
We hope our Summary of Recipes for the whole family so appetite has opened your appetite and that you put them into practice these Christmas days. Remember that if there is an ingredient that is not suitable for young children, we can suppress it or make a slight adaptation in the recipe if they do not like something. Next week we will return with more ideas, bon appetit and happy Christmas Eve!
