10 Christmas Meal Menu Ideas
10 Christmas Meal Menu Ideas and recipes. Easy Family dinner of roasted meat dishes and hot side dishes with salads and desserts for a menu.
10 Christmas Meal Menu Ideas
10 Christmas Meal Menu Ideas and recipes. Easy Family dinner of roasted meat dishes and hot side dishes with salads and desserts for a menu. Oven Roasted meats and vegetables for a family planned meal. No Bake cold salads and trifle dessert or either cook the traditional Christmas fruit pudding with sauce. A simple menu to help plan a family party meal or suggest each one brings a dish.
What is a traditional Christmas dinner menu?
The traditional Christmas dinner meal menu for a family get together would differ from country to country. In America you would roast a turkey with mash potato, green beans and cranberry sauce. In south Africa, its Roasted meats like lamb and beef with chicken, roast potato or potato salad, With salads of tomato and beans and sweet corn. Then there are the warm vegetables like glazed carrots. Not much of a difference, it will all depend on your family traditions.
How to make Christmas dinner easier?
- A few tips to make things easier, are planning, purchasing the ingredients.
- organization of the foods to cook, to prevent burnout
- prep foods and desserts ahead of time that are needed
- have family help or bring along some dishes needed.
- have vegetarian options
- serve sauces and condiments to add more flavor
- Keep on top of the cleaning
- don not make it to complicated
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Roasted Meats
You should at least serve one white meat and red meat for a family dinner party.
Roasted Honey Glazed Gammon with mustard recipe. The best oven roast for a Christmas or Easter dinner, this boneless leg of pork cut glazed.
Easy Roasted Leg of Lamb Recipe. A delicious tender lamb with bone in roasted in the oven for Christmas family dinner or lunch. or Roast Beef.
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s recipe. Best family meal for lunch or dinner and Thanksgiving or Christmas with gravy and vegetables. Or roasted Turkey, depends on your taste.
Vegetable Dishes for Warm Sides
For family get together you should have at least three warm or hot side dishes of vegetables including potatoes. The roasted potato recipe is with the chicken. Even make Mash potato or a creamy garlic potato bake.
Roasted Honey Garlic Glazed Carrots
Roasted Honey Garlic Glazed Carrots recipe idea to create for a delicious side dish. Easy Thanksgiving season tradition and Christmas meal. Another orange vegetable is roasted stuffed butternut or the mash butternut or pumpkin.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon
Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and onion recipe. Transform bland Brussels Sprouts vegetables into a healthy mouthwatering meal. Get the cauliflower casserole as well.
Creamy Pumpkin & Vegetable Casserole
Creamy Pumpkin & Vegetable Casserole side dish to bake with creamy mushroom soup and cheese on top the dish off with a sauce.
Versatile Salads
Adding two salads with the meal will give the family members a choice for their sides with your meal.
Best Greek Salad Recipe with a dressing, tossed together with lettuce. An easy and crunchy cold side dish in a bowl for braai, barbecue meals.
Simple Tomato and Onion Salad recipe with spiced balsamic dressing. Easy side dish idea for a braai, barbecue, healthy South African recipe.
Desserts
Warm or cold desserts, choice of two. No Bake stove top cooking.
Christmas Cherry Trifle Bowl recipe idea. Easy family fancy dessert, layered sponge cake and cream with blueberries and cherries for pudding.
Traditional Christmas Pudding Recipe
Traditional Christmas Pudding Recipe to create. A delicious steamed fruit dessert with brandy, treacle and spices in a bowl, serve with sauce.
Recommendations
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Other roasted meat ideas to create for dinner —-> Christmas Roasted Cold Meat Platter and 20 Best Christmas Roast Dinner Recipes and 24 Easy Veggie Side Dish Recipes
After Christmas lunch get ideas to use left overs —-> 25 Quick Christmas Leftovers Ideas
Summer salad recipe ideas —-> 22 Healthy Cold Christmas Summer Salads
Some dessert recipe ideas —-> 24 Christmas Fancy Dessert Recipes and 19 Vegetarian Christmas Desserts Recipes and Easy Christmas Trifle Recipes and 10 Best Christmas Baked Pudding Recipes
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