What to cook for Christmas 2021

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Hospitable hostesses carefully think over not only the New Year, but also the Christmas menu. What to cook for Christmas 2021 quickly and tasty - we offer several recipes with step by step photos. All dishes are simple and healthy.

Rice kutia with orange juice

For Christmas 2021, you can prepare your favorite meals. But there is something that must be on the festive table - it is kutia as a symbol of prosperity and prosperity. In the old days, it was prepared from wheat, but today rice kutia is especially popular, which turns out to be more tender and tasty.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice
• 100 g raisins;
• 100 g dried apricots;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 100 g almonds;
• 100 g hazelnuts;
• 2.5 cups orange juice
• 1 tbsp. l. honey.

Preparation:

1. Pour the well-washed rice into a saucepan, pour it with orange juice and cook until tender.
2. Fry the hazelnuts and peeled almonds in a dry frying pan, and then chop the nuts into small pieces.
3. We cut dried apricots.
4. Grind the prunes.
5. Steam the raisins, if necessary, and then pour them along with the rest of the dried fruits and nuts to the finished rice. Add honey, mix.

It is better to add raisins and all dried fruits to rice just before serving - with long storage they lose their taste. And if fresh fruits are used in the recipe, they can ferment.

Salads and snacks for Christmas

There is no need to prepare gourmet salads and snacks for Christmas 2021. Keep the dishes simple but delicious. In the old days, vinaigrette, aspic and homemade sausages were prepared, but today there are more interesting recipes, all with a photo.

Jellied "Hen under the Snow"

• whole chicken;
• carrot;
• 1 onion;
• salt, allspice;
• 1-2 cloves of garlic;
• 1-2 processed cheese;
• 0.5-1 liters of filling.

For 1 liter of filling:

• 1 liter of chicken broth;
• 20 g gelatin;
• 2 tbsp. l. horseradish;
• 5 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
• juice of 1 lemon.

Preparation:

Cut off excess fat from the bird's carcass, cut it into pieces, put it in a saucepan, fill it with clean water and put it on fire

• As soon as the water starts to boil, remove the foam, put a whole onion, carrots for taste and aroma. Add salt, allspice and cook until cooked (about an hour).
• After that, we take out all the vegetables and chicken from the broth. We filter the liquid, and separate the chicken meat from the bones.

• Immediately put the resulting fillet in a mold, then sprinkle with finely chopped garlic on top and rub the processed cheese on a coarse grater in a thin layer.
• We measure out a glass of broth, let it cool and soak the gelatin.
• Put horseradish, mayonnaise in the remaining broth, stir everything.

• Warm up the swollen gelatin, add it to the filling, and then the juice of a small lemon, mix.
• Fill in the chicken meat, sprinkle with chopped fresh dill on top and decorate as you wish, for example, with flowers cut from carrots.

We put the aspic in the refrigerator until it solidifies

For aspic, it is better to use any part of the chicken, except for the breast, for this dish it is rather dry.

Language royally

• 1 boiled pork tongue;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 200 g champignons;
• 2 eggs;
• greens and mayonnaise to taste;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Cut the peeled champignons into small cubes, send them to the pan and fry in a little oil until tender. In the process, salt and pepper the mushrooms

Cut the boiled eggs into thin slices

• Rub any hard cheese on a fine grater.
• Pre-boil the pork tongue, peel and cut into small slices.
• Grease each piece of pork tongue with mayonnaise, put fried mushrooms on top and again apply a thin mesh of mayonnaise.

Now put a boiled egg on the mushrooms, then a little mayonnaise, sprinkle everything with grated cheese and decorate the appetizer with sprigs of fresh dill

Pork tongue is a real delicacy. You need to cook it for at least two hours with the addition of salt and spices, then it will turn out delicious and tender.

Christmas wreath salad

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

For refueling:

• 250-300 ml of thick yogurt;
• 1 tbsp. l. mustard.

Marinade for onions:

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

For decoration:

• dill greens;
• yogurt;
• cherry.

Preparation:

Let's start with onions, as they need to be pickled. To do this, chop the vegetable into small cubes, add salt and sugar to it, pour in vinegar and hot water. Mix and leave for 10 minutes

• Cut the pickled mushrooms into small pieces, pour into a bowl.
• With the addition of salt and spices, boil the poultry fillets (it is better to do this in advance), then cut into pieces and send the meat to the mushrooms.

• Add canned pineapple diced and finely grated cheese.
• Grind boiled eggs with a coarse grater, pour into a bowl with the rest of the ingredients, add pickled onions.

• For dressing, mix the thick yogurt with mustard, send the resulting sauce to the salad, mix everything well and proceed to the formation of the dish.
• We put a split ring on a wide plate, in the center - a glass or a jar of water. In this case, grease the form and the jar with vegetable oil.

• We spread the salad in a mold, level it and then remove all excess.
• On top of the salad we put a net of only one yogurt, decorate the wreath with cherry halves and dill.

To make the chicken meat in the salad juicy, after cooking, cool the fillet directly in the broth.

Hot dishes for the Christmas table

Each national cuisine has its own traditional Christmas dishes. So, in Russia, pork was necessarily cooked, and in wealthy families, a festive table was decorated with a suckling pig baked with porridge.

But if you don't know what to cook quickly and tasty for Christmas in 2021, then you can serve turkey with cranberry sauce, as in England, carp with mushroom filling, as in the Czech Republic, or goose baked with apples, as in Germany.

Turkey with cranberry sauce

• 600 g turkey (steaks);
• thyme, rosemary;
• salt and pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

• 200 g cranberries;
• 1 orange;
• 150 ml of red wine (dry);
• 2 tbsp. l. honey;
• any sweetener to taste.

Preparation:

If you have the time and desire, then you can bake the whole turkey, but if you need to cook the dish quickly, then take the steaks from the turkey breast. Salt and pepper the meat, season with oil, add rosemary and thyme leaves, mix and leave for 15 minutes

At this time, prepare the sauce. We send the cranberries into the stewpan, pour in the wine, and also add the juice and zest of one orange. We put on fire and cook until the berries begin to burst

Then grind the cranberries with an immersion blender, leave the resulting sauce to cool

We return to the steaks, which we send to the pan and fry for 3-4 minutes on each side. And to make the meat tender and soft, wrap it in foil and leave for 10 minutes

• Stir honey in the cooled sauce, taste it. If the sauce is too sour, add more honey or any other sweetener.
• Place the sliced turkey on a plate, pour over the sauce and serve with baked potatoes and vegetables.

Turkey, like chicken breast, is low in fat, so if you overexpose the meat on the fire, it will turn out to be dry and tasteless.

Czech Christmas carp

• carp weighing 1, 3 kg;
• 150 g champignons;
• 100 g of onions;
• 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
• 50 g butter;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Fry finely chopped onions in a pan with heated vegetable oil for three minutes. Then add the finely chopped champignons

• As soon as the excess liquid evaporates, put a piece of butter, salt, pepper and fry for 3-4 minutes.
• Rub the peeled, gutted speck well inside and out with salt and pepper. Then we stuff with mushroom filling.

• Lubricate the carcass with butter and send it to the oven for 15 minutes (temperature 180 ° C).
• After we take out the fish, pour with melted butter and bake for another 15 minutes.
• Grease the finished carp with oil again and serve.

If you follow Czech traditions, then carp should be soaked in beer 3 days before cooking.

Christmas goose with apples

• a goose weighing 4.5 kg;
• for brine for 1 liter of water 25 g of salt.

For marinade for 1 kg of bird weight:

• 1 tsp mustard;
• 1 tbsp. l. honey;
• ½ tsp each. salt and pepper;
• ½ tsp dry garlic;
• ¼ h. L. seasonings for chicken;
• zest of ½ orange.

For filling:

• 4-5 sour apples;
• 1-2 oranges;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 100 g of dried apricots.

Preparation:

1. We prepare the goose carcass: we cut off the internal fat, cut off the extreme phalanges of the wings, be sure to remove the glands on the tail. Soak the bird in salted brine for two days.
2. For the marinade, add all the spices, spices, mustard and zest of half an orange to the honey. Stir thoroughly.
3. For the filling, we take oranges, peel off the peel from them and cut each into four parts. We also divide the apples into four parts and cut out the seeds.
4. We send apples, oranges, dried apricots and prunes to the total container, mix.
5. We rub the goose inside with half of the entire portion of the marinade, stuff it with fruit, chop off the abdomen with toothpicks or sew it up with threads.
6. We also lightly coat the incision on the neck with marinade. If there is room, lay the fruit, peel off the skin or sew it up.
7. Cover a deep baking sheet with foil, put the goose, carefully coat with the remaining marinade on all sides.
8. We seal the bird in foil and leave it for several hours, or better overnight. Then we send it to the oven preheated to 140 ° C, bake at the rate of 1 hour per 1 kg of poultry.
9. After half the required time, unfold the goose and pour it with melted fat and juice. We repeat the procedure every 20-30 minutes.
10. As soon as the goose is ready, unfold the foil and cook it for another 20-30 minutes.

Put dried fruits and oranges in the filling as desired, the main ingredient is sour or sweet and sour apples.

desserts

Not a single festive table is complete without desserts. For Christmas 2021, you can bake goats - a quick and tasty dish of Russian cuisine in the form of different animals. You can also make a Christmas log, a delicious French cake or English pudding. There are a lot of recipes with photos, choose what you like the most.

Christmas log

• 120 g flour;
• 5 eggs;
• 100 g of sugar.

For the cream:

• 3 oranges;
• 200 g butter;
• 2 egg yolks;
• 200 g sugar;
• 40 g cornstarch.

For decoration:

• 200 g of dark chocolate;
• 70 g butter;
• 7 g sugar;
• 10 g flour;
• 0.5 tsp baking powder;
• 30 ml of egg white;
• 20 g cranberries;
• food coloring (green).

Preparation:

Let's start with a biscuit. The first step is to separate the yolks and whites. Beat the second until light foam. Then gradually add sugar and continue beating until persistent peaks are formed

• Add the yolks one by one to the whipped whites, while we do not stop working with the mixer.
• Pour the sifted flour in 2-3 approaches, mix with a spatula and spread the dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment.

• Distribute the dough evenly on a baking sheet, put in the oven for 10-15 minutes (temperature 180 ° C).
• We immediately put the finished biscuit on a towel, remove the parchment and roll it into a roll, leave it to cool.

• For the orange cream, squeeze the juice, filter, leave half a glass of nectar, pour the rest into a saucepan and put on fire.
• Grind the yolks with granulated sugar.
• Dilute the starch in the remaining juice. As soon as the juice boils, add sugar with yolks and pour in the diluted starch. With constant stirring, brew the cream until it boils.
• After the mass is cooled, and then mixed with whipped butter.

• For impregnation, cook the syrup. It's simple: mix sugar and water in equal proportions. Bring to a boil, cook for 2-3 minutes.
• Expand the cooled biscuit, soak it well with syrup, and then evenly distribute the custard on top.

Gently wrap the sponge cake with cream in a roll, then in a film and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours

Now, as in the photo, we make a log of biscuit

For decoration, put pieces of chocolate and butter in a bowl. We heat in a water bath until a homogeneous mass is obtained

• Cover the roll with chocolate glaze, imitating the bark of a tree.
• Also, for decoration, beat the egg white with sugar, then sift the flour and baking powder. Add green food coloring and whisk.
• The resulting mass is filled with plastic cups for 1/3 of the volume, put in the microwave for 1 minute.
• As soon as the biscuit moss has cooled down, decorate the log along with the cranberries. Sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.

The main thing is not to overexpose the biscuit in the oven, otherwise you will not be able to roll it into a roll.

Christmas pudding

• 250 g dried fruits;
• 15 g of nuts;
• 1 egg;
• 70 g white bread crumbs;
• 70 ml orange juice;
• zest of 1 orange;
• 50 g butter;
• 50 g sugar;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• 0.5 tsp allspice;
• 1 tsp vanilla extract.

Preparation:

1. We send any dried fruits and nuts to taste into a bowl, add juice and orange zest to them, drive in an egg, put all the spices and, at the end, crumbs of fresh white bread. Mix everything well.
2. We spread the resulting mass on oiled molds, cover with foil and fix with elastic bands.
3. We put the molds in a saucepan with boiling water and cook under the lid for 1, 5-2 hours. You can cook pudding in the multicooker using Steam mode.
4. We put the finished product on a plate and serve warm, garnished with cream, cream and fresh berries.

It is very important to keep an eye on the water level during the cooking process. The molds should be half soaked in water.

By tradition, 12 dishes are prepared for the Christmas table, but if you wish, for Christmas 2021 you can quickly and tasty cook something that will combine the traditions of different nations. Then your holiday will be the most unusual, and the treats will be varied and very tasty.