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The Christmas menu for expert chefs – Italian Cuisine

If you are expert cooks and the more complicated preparations don't scare you, give your best even at Christmas!

You left everyone speechless with your cream puffs. Take out even puffy soufflés and your macarons have brought everyone to Versailles. If you are expert cooks, looking for complicated, refined and delicious recipes for Christmas, read here.

We have selected various Christmas dishes from medium-high difficultystolen from regional traditions and contemporary experiments. The Christmas menu that we propose is elastic and you will be the one to compose it with your taste and desire to cook.

We start with two appetizers rich and complex: guinea fowl stew in cocotte and foie gras marinated in the port and black currant. We recommend serving them both in small portions, to announce the great lunch you have cooked. Following the recipes of stuffed pasta to be prepared rigorously in all its components and to be chosen based on the taste sought. The additional idea may be to serve an encore, perhaps by selecting a preparation in broth and a dry one. You can choose from the recipes: plin raviolini stuffed with fondue with pepper infusion, carbonara ravioli, capon ravioli in cinnamon broth and date and capon ravioli.

Another great Christmas classic are the stuffed meats and they cannot be missing even on the table of an expert cook. We go fromstuffed goose, to the simple roast with porcini, from the delicious partridges stuffed with hazelnuts and leeks to the traditional boiled stuffed hen. A fresh and fragrant salad with radicchio, oranges and black olives will be the ideal accompaniment for these delicious meats.

And finally? You can orient yourself on one variation of the classic pandoro, the stuffed pan brioche. Or try something really extreme and sought after like the mango and ham ingot. If you are more traditionalist, we advise you to prepare the beautiful one instead apple tart with crumble you hate amaze everyone once again with the cream puff with lemon cream.

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The Christmas Eve menu for 20 people – Italian Cuisine

To bring the fish to the table, as tradition dictates, when there are many you have to adopt some stratagem. Here are some recipes to get by and enjoy the party from appetizer to dessert

Tradition has it that the Christmas Eve menu both based on fish, which is known is not so easy to cook and may require a little effort. If you add to this that on December 24th your house will be "invaded" by numerous guests, the issue becomes even more complex. But if you want to respect tradition at all costs and bring to the table fish dishes for the dinner of the most magical party, you can do it. Just adopt some makeup, Such as, choose not particularly complicated recipes or that you can prepare in advance so as not to fry while relatives and friends are sitting waiting to be served. Here are some tips to prepare a Eve menu for 20 people.

A selection of appetizers

Where to start if you don't give it appetizers. The advice is not to prepare anything that must be served individually and at dinner time, but to opt for a selection of appetizers to be served in trays and that you can also prepare in advance. You could bet on salmon that lends itself to the creation of really greedy appetizers. The salmon jealousies they are easy to prepare, do not require much time and can be served warm. And what about the salmon and leek boats? They are made in just 15 minutes, they are beautiful to look at and will make the table more colorful. If you want to add an ethnic touch to your dinner, but always using fish, the solution could be an exquisite one salmon sushi with goat cheese and vegetables. THE mini salmon and scamorza toast they are a small appetizer that children and kids will also love wholemeal tartlets with salmon mousse they will also appeal to the finest palates. From the North we stole the recipe from the assorted canapés smørrebrød and, if you want to offer some different ingredients, let yourself be inspired by the recipes of the blini with walnut sauce and sea bass tartare and come on swordfish rolls with vegetables and prawns.

Sea lasagna: practical and traditional

When there are many, it would be better to abandon the idea of preparing first courses that need to be skipped at the moment and choose one baked pasta, which can be prepared in advance. The sea lasagnain particular, they can be cooked in different ways, always using fish. You can use i seafood, i shrimps or a delicious fish ragout, prepared with monkfish, redfish and prawns. If you love clams then, you will not be able to resist the recipe marinara lasagna. Also cannelloni in the sea version they are a good idea. THE cannelloni with prawns and oranges for example, they will surprise and conquer all diners. And instead, if you want to prepare something in single portion you could bet on lasagna, robiola and smoked salmon pie.

Squid stuffed with cotechino

For the second you could offer a dish always in line with the entire fish-based menu, but which reserves a surprise inside. How about using the cotechino, symbol of the Christmas holidays, as a filling for the squid? It would be a way to combine meat and fish in an original dish that requires neither too many ingredients nor too many steps. And then, to stay on the topic of squid, we propose the recipes of the Vietnamese squid in sweet cooking and gods stuffed squid on bread cream.

More classic, but never taken for granted, it is the fish soup. The process is simple and while the fish is cooking you can devote yourself to something else because it does not require much attention. A special recipe on the subject is that of prawns, shrimps and "triple" porcino while the palates most fond of authentic flavors will appreciate the preparation of the Porto Recanati brodetto.

Nougat parfait to end sweetly

There are many things to do to organize a dinner for 20 people and they take a lot of time: even just setting up becomes a small business. Choosing a dessert that you can prepare the day before will greatly simplify your commitment. The nougat parfait and the Bavarian nougat and croque monsieur they are preparations in full Christmas spirit and do not require much attention to detail so they are ideal for large doses. Alternatively you could bring it to the table Jule resengrod, the Christmas pudding, a typical recipe from Denmark's Christmas menu, very easy to prepare. If you feel like daring a little instead, trust the greedy eggnog mousse on nougat wafer.

Christmas Moscow Mule, the Christmas cocktail – Italian Cuisine

One of the trendiest drinks of the moment, decorated for the holidays. The classic recipe with a special touch to toast the magic of Christmas

Whether they are sparkling wine, champagne or prosecco, bubbles are always good, because they celebrate. But for an evening of celebrations, especially if we are with friends, there is music and it is a little late, there is also a good toast cocktail.
Among the trendiest drinks of this moment there is definitely the Moscow Mule, to be served strictly in the copper cup (if you don't have it, here are some ideas to get it).

And since we are in the period of Christmas, why not decorate it with a theme? We thought we would serve it with a touch of red and "snow", decorating it with gods cranberries, the cranberries, made first to freeze. Here's how to prepare the cocktail.

The recipe for the Christmas Moscow Mule

Ingredients

12 cl of Fever-Tree Ginger Beer
5 cl of Stolichnaya Premium Vodka
fresh lime juice
cranberry berries
mint leaves

Method

Fill a copper cocktail cup with ice and vodka. Add the fresh lime juice and the quantity of Fever-Tree Ginger Beer. Finally garnish with a slice of lime or fresh ginger, a mint leaf and the cranberry berries. For a more spectacular effect, you can freeze the fruit first in the freezer. The tip: to avoid sticking the berries, place them on a baking sheet with parchment paper, separating them one by one.

The gift idea

An idea may also be to give away a pack of Fever-Tree Ginger Beer, a bottle of vodka or the copper cup if there are mixology enthusiasts among friends and relatives: do not forget a handwritten label with the cocktail recipe or educate yourself the recipient of your gift by preparing the drink together.

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