What meals to cook for Christmas?

What dishes to cook for Christmas, you will learn in our article.

Royal pudding

How to prepare a dish:

Eggs beat with milk and cognac. Then combine with the remaining ingredients and refrigerate for 12 hours. The resulting mixture is placed in a mold, laid with oiled paper, put in a water bath, and boil for 8 hours. Put the pudding in the freezer. Before the feast, take out the dish, and keep it at room temperature for a day or reheat it in a water bath (3-4 hours).

Christmas gloss

How to prepare a dish:

Pour 0.5 cups of wine into a saucepan, add cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. You can also put an orange or lemon zest or just orange slices. Cook under a lid on low heat for 30 minutes. Then put in the refrigerator at night. The remaining wine is heated to 60 ° C, pour the extract for a night and add raisins, almonds and brown sugar. Serve in glass mugs. If desired, you can add a little port wine or rum to the glove.

Goose with apples and raisins

How to prepare a dish:

Goose geese, and salt the salt from the outside and from the inside. Raisins wash and soak in hot water until swelling. Wash apples, peel half of the peel, cut into quarters and remove cores from them. Combine raisins, chopped apples and sugar. Prepare a mixture of stuffed goose and sew a cut thread. Lay the carcass on the baking tray with the backrest down. Add 0.5 cups of water and put in a heavily heated oven. Once the goose blushes, turn it upside down. When the whole carcass is lightly browned, reduce the heat to a weak one. Every 10 minutes, water the bird with the resulting fat. The goose will be ready after 3 hours. For complete certainty, pierce the meat with a thin stick, it must pass without effort. Cut the remaining apples and overlay them with carcasses a few minutes before the end of frying, pour them fat and bake in a heavily heated oven until completely softened. The main thing is that the apples do not crack. From the finished goose remove the thread and take out the mince. Stuff the stuffing on an oval dish, place the bird on top, and around - baked apples. Decorate the dish with herbs and cooked vegetables.

Christmas Fish

How to prepare a dish:

Wash carp fillets, dry with a napkin and mix with a mixture of salt and black pepper. Transfer to a plate, drizzle with beer and send to the refrigerator for 1 hour. In a saucepan with a thick bottom, heat the olive oil and fry the finely chopped onions (2 minutes). Add fillets, pour beer, sprinkle with lemon juice, sprinkle with cumin and red pepper. Stew on a small fire under the lid for 20 minutes. If necessary, add more beer.

Cocktail salad with beets and cheese

How to prepare a dish:

Pepper, beets, apple and potatoes cut into strips. Grate the cheese on grater. Vegetables and an apple lay in glasses in layers, pouring each with mayonnaise, mixed with dill, and sprinkling with cheese. Cook the salad with a piece of egg.

Christmas "log"

For cream:

For the test:

For syrup:

For glaze:

How to prepare a dish:

First, prepare the cream. Drain the corn flour with 1 glass of cold milk. Enter the beaten egg. The remaining milk is boiled with sugar and vanilla. Pour the mixture of flour and eggs and simmer, stirring constantly, for 2-4 minutes. Remove from heat and add nuts and butter, cut into pieces. Stir well, pour in the liquor and mix again. For a biscuit, egg yolks whip with sugar, add vanilla sugar, corn and wheat flour and baking powder. Whisk the whites separately and gently put into the dough. The resulting mass is poured onto a rectangular pan, lubricated with butter. Bake for 10 minutes in a preheated oven. Then turn the baking sheet over the paper, sprinkled with powdered sugar, and grease the biscuit with syrup. For syrup, both types of sugar dissolve in water. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the plate and add the liquor. Lubricate the biscuit with a cream filling, roll it with a roll, wrap it with a damp towel and leave it in a cool place for a day. For chocolate glaze, melt along with water and sugar (over low heat). Then remove from the plate, add oil and stir. Give a little thicken and oil the prepared biscuit. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate in a Christmas style: chocolate leaves, powdered sugar and silver powder.

Cocktail salad «Night guests»

• 120 g of red salted fish

• 60 grams of boiled rice

• 2 boiled eggs

• 0.5 cups of mayonnaise

• 50 g of onion green

• 5 g of dill and parsley greens

How to prepare a dish:

Lay the prepared foods in glasses and pour the remaining mayonnaise. Before serving, decorate with slices of fish and greens. Cut the fish fillets into cubes, leaving a little for decoration. Eggs grate on a fine grater. Chop onion, parsley and dill, mix with rice and a piece of mayonnaise.

Salad cocktail with squid

How to prepare a dish:

Squid the squids. Cabbage chop with straws and rub with salt. Eggs grate on a fine grater. Cut cabbage with eggs and season with mayonnaise. In the glasses lay a layer of corn, on it - dressed cabbage, on top - squid, decorate with lemon slices and greens.

Salad with salmon, fruits and vegetables

How to prepare a dish:

Fish cut into thin ribbons, apple and orange pulp - cubes, tomato - circles. Cut the mushrooms in half. Cucumbers peel, and cut into small slices. Prepared ingredients put in glasses in the following order: salad leaf, cucumber, fish, mushrooms, apple, orange. Pour mayonnaise, garnish with a slice of tomato.

Salad cocktail "Sea"

How to prepare a dish:

Mussels fry in oil. Eggs grate on a grater, cut into small pieces, spread onion each layer with mayonnaise, lay the ingredients in glasses in the following order: shrimps, onions, eggs, mussels, octopus. When serving, decorate the salad with lemon slices.

Salad-cocktail with tongue

• 150 g of boiled tongue

• 150 g chicken fillet boiled

• 150 g of cucumbers

• 100 g of cheese

• 1 tbsp. spoon of parsley and dill chopped

• 25 grams of walnut nuts (kernels)

• 1 tbsp. spoon of horseradish (sauce)

• 1.5 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise

• 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of sour cream

• ground black pepper, salt to taste

How to prepare a dish:

Tongue, chicken fillet and cucumbers cut into small cubes. Cheese grate on a large grater. Nuts fry and chop. For the sauce, mix horseradish, mayonnaise, sour cream, salt and pepper. Prepared ingredients put in glasses in the following order: cucumbers, tongue, chicken, cheese, greens, sauce. Sprinkle with nuts and hold in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

Cocktail salad with chicken and fruits

How to prepare a dish:

Chicken flesh cut into small cubes. Cucumber and apples, peeled and peeled, cut into cubes, orange - slices, chop nuts. Cook chicken, apples, cucumber, orange and nuts layers in wine glasses, pouring lemon juice. Decorate with greens and slices of orange.

Salad cocktail of potatoes with apples

• 300 g of boiled potatoes

• 80 ml of meat broth

• 4 red apples

• 100 g of cheese

• 8 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil

• 1 clove of garlic

• 4 tbsp. spoons of sunflower seeds fried

• 1 bunch of onion green

• 1 tbsp. mustard spoon

• 3 tbsp. spoonful of white wine vinegar

• sugar, white pepper ground, salt to taste

• greens for decoration

How to prepare a dish:

Potatoes cut into slices or slices and for a few minutes fill with a mixture of broth and a small amount of mustard. Apples, removing the core, cut into cubes or slices, cheese - straws, green onions - ringlets. For refueling, sweep the mustard, salt, sugar, pepper, vinegar, butter and chopped garlic. Potatoes, apples, cheese and onion mix, put into glasses, pour refueling, sprinkle with sunflower seeds and decorate with greens.

Cocktail salad with chicken and pineapple

• 100 g of boiled chicken pulp

• 1 pepper Bulgarian

• 100 g of champignons

• 75 g of canned pineapple

• 15 g walnuts (kernels)

• mayonnaise to taste

How to prepare a dish:

Cut the champignons and boil for 10 minutes in boiling salted water. Pepper the seeds and cut into cubes. Cut chicken pulp with straws, pineapple - cubes. Grind the nuts. Prepared ingredients spread on the glasses layers and pour mayonnaise.

Salad cocktail with smoked chicken

How to prepare a dish:

Remove the skin from the chicken, cut the flesh into small cubes. Cucumbers and sweet peppers, leaving a little for decoration, finely chop. Prepared foods, season, without stirring, with salt, ground pepper, lemon juice and soy sauce. In the wine-glasses first lay the cut salad leaves, and then - the rest of the prepared foods. For sauce combine horseradish, sour cream and mayonnaise. Season the salad with a prepared sauce, decorate with cucumber mugs, strips of sweet pepper and greens.