Simple and delicious recipes for Christmas 2020

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

• Category:

  Festive dishes

• Cooking time:

  1, 5 - 2 hours

Ingredients

• pearl barley
• water
• salt
• walnuts
• dried cranberries
• raisin
• poppy
• honey

Christmas is celebrated in many countries of the world, and each has its own customs and traditions, including in the preparation of the menu. Therefore, let's look at recipes with photos of dishes that can be delicious and easy to cook for the most magical holiday of 2020.

Sochivo (kutia)

Sochivo or kutia is a traditional dish served on Christmas Eve and at Christmas. In the old days, such a dish was prepared from wheat with the addition of poppy, honey and oil. It was believed that the richer it is, the more fruitful the coming year will be. Today, not only wheat is used for kutya, but also other cereals. For example, for the holiday of 2020, you can simply and deliciously cook ovy from pearl barley. The proposed recipe with a photo should be included in the Christmas menu, you will definitely like this kutia.

Ingredients:

• 200 g of pearl barley;
• 600 ml of water;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 50 g of walnuts;
• 50 g dried cranberries;
• 50 g raisins;
• 4 tbsp. l. poppy;
• honey to taste.

Preparation:

We wash the barley well, fill it with two glasses of cold water and leave it for 1 hour

After that we drain the water, pour the cereals into the pan, pour in 3 glasses of water and put on the fire

At this time, fill the poppy with a glass of boiling water, wrap it up and steam for 30 minutes

Also, for steaming, pour boiling water over dried cranberries and raisins, leave for 20 minutes

As soon as the cereal boils, add salt to it and cook until fully cooked, about 25-30 minutes. Dry the walnuts in a dry frying pan, peel and cut into small pieces

We strain the liquid from the raisins and cranberries, also drain the water from the poppy and grind it in a mortar

Drain the water from the finished barley, add honey and poppy seeds to it, mix well

Now pour in the cranberries with raisins and nuts, leave a little for decoration, and mix everything again

Other dried fruits can also be added to the sochivo, but poppy seeds and honey must be present. After all, poppy symbolizes wealth in the house, and honey is considered a symbol of health and well-being.

Christmas bags with herring

In the menu for Christmas 2020, be sure to include a recipe with a photo of such a festive snack as Christmas herring bags. They are very simple to prepare, it turns out delicious, unusual and festive.

Ingredients:

• 200 g spinach;
• 100 ml of water;
• 3 eggs;
• a pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp Sahara;
• 250 ml of milk;
• 200 g flour;
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

For filling:

• 1 herring fillet;
• 100 g cream cheese;
• 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
• greens to taste;
• red caviar optional.

Preparation:

Pour fresh spinach leaves with boiling water and after half a minute drain the water, and rinse the greens under running water

We transfer the spinach into a bowl, pour in 100 ml of water to it and interrupt with a blender until smooth

In a separate container, beat the eggs with an ordinary whisk with the addition of salt and sugar

Pour some of the milk into the egg mass, stir and sift the flour, mix thoroughly

Do not be afraid that the dough turned out to be thick, because now we add spinach and mix everything

If the dough is still thick, add milk in portions. Then pour in more oil and stir everything well again. We give the dough a little time to rest and bake pancakes in a dry frying pan

While the pancakes are cooling, prepare the filling. To do this, cut the herring fillet into small cubes

Now add cream cheese, chopped greens and mayonnaise to the fish slices, if desired, mix the entire contents

Put the filling in the middle of each pancake, collect everything in a bag, tie it with a stalk of green onions

Put the finished bags on a dish and, if desired, decorate with red caviar. For a snack, you can also use frozen spinach, you do not need to pour boiling water over it, just defrost it.

Festive salad "Christmas wreath"

The menu for Christmas 2020 can be very diverse, but no holiday table is complete without salads. Therefore, we offer a recipe with a photo of a dish that can be simply and deliciously prepared for the Christmas table. The "Christmas wreath" salad turns out to be very tasty, beautiful and will definitely appeal to those who prefer to cook snacks without mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

• 300 g chicken fillet;
• 350 g of pickled mushrooms;
• 250 g pineapple (canned);
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 4 eggs;
• 1 onion;
• dill and cherry for decoration.

For refueling:

• 300 ml of yogurt (thick);
• 1 tbsp. l. mustard.

Marinade for onions:

• 100 ml of water;
• 1 tbsp. l. vinegar;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara.

Preparation:

First you need to pre-pickle the onions. To do this, the onion must be peeled, chopped finely and mixed with salt and sugar. After filling with water and vinegar, leave for 10 minutes

At this time, we cut the pickled champignons, if the caps are small, then we cut them in half or into 4 parts

We cut the poultry fillet boiled with the addition of salt and other spices into small cubes, but you can simply disassemble the meat into fibers

We take out the pineapples from the jar and also cut them into small pieces

Now put the meat, mushrooms, grated cheese on a fine grater, as well as boiled eggs in a bowl, which we also grind only on a coarse grater

Drain the marinade from the onion, add to the rest of the ingredients and mix everything

For dressing, mix thick yogurt with mustard and pour into the salad, stir

Now we put a serving ring on a wide dish, in the center a regular jar of water. And spread the salad around the glass container. After that, carefully remove the form and the jar

Put some more yogurt on top of the salad, but without the mustard, lay out the halves of cherry, mushrooms and dill sprigs. To make it easier to remove the form and the jar, grease the sides of the form and the vessel itself with vegetable oil.

Christmas Candle Salad

Christmas Candle Salad is also on the menu for Christmas 2020. The dish is prepared very simply, the appetizer turns out to be hearty and piquant in taste due to the combination of smoked chicken and pickled cucumbers.

Ingredients:

• 400 g smoked chicken;
• 2 potato tubers;
• 3 eggs;
• 3 pickled cucumbers;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 20 g of cheese;
• Dill;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation:

Separate the smoked chicken meat from the skin and bones, disassemble it into pieces with your hands

Grate the potatoes boiled in their uniforms and peeled them on a coarse grater, immediately put them on a dish

Sprinkle a layer of potatoes with onions, which we chop into cubes and put a net of mayonnaise on top

Cut the pickled cucumbers into arbitrary, but small cubes and lay them on top of the onions

On top of the cucumbers we make a meat layer and grease with mayonnaise

We make the last layer from boiled eggs, which we rub on a fine grater

Grease the egg layer with mayonnaise and lay the dill sprigs on top of the salad

Decorate the finished salad with candles. To do this, we cut out the candles themselves from the cheese using a curly knife. We make a small hole in them and insert a light cut out of carrots.

Chicken jelly for Christmas - a dietary option

Aspic is a traditional dish on the Christmas table. As a rule, it is prepared from pork legs and drumsticks. But today there is a lighter, simpler and just as tasty option - with chicken.

Ingredients:

• 2 kg of chicken (breast or drumstick);
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 50 g green peas;
• 10 g gelatin;
• Bay leaf;
• spices to taste.

Preparation:

Put chicken in a saucepan, fill it with water, put peeled carrots and onions. And also add bay leaves, peppercorns, salt to taste and, if desired, dried garlic

After boiling, be sure to remove the foam and simmer the broth over the lowest heat for 2 hours

Then we separate the meat from the bones and disassemble it into fibers

Pour gelatin with water, stir and give it time to completely dissolve

At this time, we lay out the meat pieces in shapes, sprinkle green peas on top and lay out the figures cut from boiled carrots

Then pour the gelatin into the broth through a sieve, stir

Fill the molds with gelatin with broth and send them to a cool place for 8-10 hours

After the mold, we take it out, put it in a container with hot water for a few seconds, apply the dish and turn it over. We decorate the jellied meat with herbs, lemon slices and serve.

Christmas turkey

It is a custom in every American family to bake a turkey for Christmas. This dish has taken root in many Russian families. And now let's try to find out how to deliciously prepare such a dish for the Christmas table.

Ingredients:

• Turkey;
• 3 apples;
• 2 oranges;
• 1 lemon;
• 200 g butter;
• celery stalks;
• 1 onion;
• 6 cloves of garlic;
• white peppercorns;
• ground white pepper;
• salt.

Preparation:

To begin with, prepare the marinade and for this, pour salt into a saucepan of water at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. for 1 liter of water. Put half a lemon, an orange cut into 4 parts and 2 celery stalks into 5 parts. And also coarsely chopped 3 cloves of garlic and parsley, a few peas of black pepper

We wash the turkey well, put it in a suitable container, fill it with marinade and leave it for 8 hours, or better for a day

For the filling, cut the orange and apples into slices, and also cut the remaining celery stalks into large pieces

Pour white pepper into the softened butter and stir

We take out the turkey from the marinade, dry it with paper towels outside and inside

Now we gently push our hand between the skin and the breast, make a pocket. And then generously grease the inside of the pocket with butter, and then the entire surface of the carcass

Put the prepared fruits, celery inside and tie the turkey legs

Put celery in a deep baking sheet, the remaining fruit, onion, chopped into large pieces, herbs, pour in a little water and put a wire rack on top

We put the carcass on the grate, wrap the wings under the back and put it in an oven preheated to 180 ° C

Every hour we grease the turkey with the remaining oil, 1-1.5 hours after it was sent to bake, cover with foil and cook until the juice is transparent. But the exact time can be calculated from the weight of the carcass, so it takes about 40 minutes for 1 kg of meat.

Every housewife can make up such a menu for Christmas 2020. And, of course, for the holiday you can bake the famous Stollen Christmas cake or choose a simple gingerbread recipe.