How to prepare a tasty Quick and easy Christmas lunch menu, anticipating some preparation, with simple recipes to prepare at home.
The Christmas lunch menu first it should include both the traditional Italian recipes and a presentation of the dishes a little more accurate than usual. All in an easy way and within everyone's reach. Even those who are not really skilled chefs in the kitchen.
Establish a quick and easy Christmas menu perhaps it is a bit risky because as we know there are many things to prepare. But you can simplify the effort by choosing easy recipes, without too many steps and playing a lot on the presentation of the dishes. That will already embellish the table.
We propose one series of very simple but successful recipes that everyone always likes, and that you can anticipate even from the day before.
Which certainly does not mean eating badly, on the contrary it does focus on the quality of raw materials And treat yourself to something good on Christmas day that we would not allow ourselves during the year. For example a good wine or a good salmon or of fine meat or a particular cheese. Without necessarily spending a fortune.
After all, Christmas is a simple celebration of tradition and of the family coming together.
So what to prepare for the quick and easy Christmas lunch menu?
The Christmas lunch menu should first of all include:
- a simple aperitif based on prosecco or white wine to combine with appetizers made by you.
- Then continue with a starter delicious
- a first course in broth, usually tortellini or cappelletti
- a second course of meat which can be directly the boiled meat of the broth and a side dish.
- Finally, gluttons cannot be missing traditional Christmas sweets.
Compared to the dinner on Christmas Eve where instead you eat only fish, on Christmas day meat is preferred.
Let's start immediately with the STARTERS and aperitifs
Canapes with prawns and zucchini cream

Sandwich cake

Salmon canapes tree

Christmas sandwiches with salmon and robiola

Christmas mini pizzas in the shape of a tree

Smoked salmon with citrus

Homemade Russian salad

Grilled courgette rolls with speck and robiola

Nordic croutons with butter and smoked herring

Dried tomato paté

Black olives with orange

Celery, black olives and corn salad

Five-flavor cheese balls

Crispy parmesan waffles

Quick sauce for croutons with eggs and tuna

Savory parmesan biscuits

Salmon and fennel appetizer

Quick tuna sauce and spreadable cheese

Easy and cheap salty Christmas log

FIRST COURSES for Christmas Lunch
Cappelletti in capon broth

Tagliolini with smoked salmon and cream

White lasagna with mushrooms and sausage

Meat broth recipe

Gnocchetti with cream and smoked salmon

Crepes with ricotta and spinach in sauce

SECOND COURSES for CHRISTMAS LUNCH
Umbrian stewed cod

Roast pork with plums and apples

Stuffed veal roulade in casserole

SIDE DISHES FOR CHRISTMAS LUNCH
Christmas salad of fruit and fennel

Radicchio, fennel and orange salad

THEnsalad with oranges and pomegranate

DESSERTS for Christmas Lunch
Soft chocolate nougat

Gingerbread cookies

Homemade Ricciarelli

Star biscuits with candied cherries

Saplings of orange and cinnamon biscuits

Pandoro stuffed with mascarpone cream

Mascarpone cream

And to digest the Christmas lunch we offer you this tasty and fragrant Christmas tea!
Spice Christmas tea

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