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30 Christmas first courses that … you have never cooked at Christmas – Italian Cuisine

Last year you prepared delicious baked lasagna. The year before the cappelletti in brodo and this year, you do not know where to find the right inspiration. Tagliatelle with ragu? Tomato pasta with chicken sauce?
The answer may not be so obvious. The first Christmas dishes in fact are many more than those commonly used and are characterized by the choice of seasonal ingredients, cooking often unusual and pastas fresh. To egg, with simple water and flour or with potatoes, as in the case of gnocchi.
To make these bases even more special, delicate sauces, crustaceans, spices, dried fruit and wines. Which enrich the recipes transforming each risotto, fresh pasta and ravioli in the most awaited course of the entire Christmas lunch.

Yes to the contrasts

First Christmas dishes require bright flavors, just like the lights of the party. Yes to the sweet and savory combination, to the small acid notes that refresh the richest dishes and to the dried fruit grains that surprise with a crunchy consistency. Thanks to these small measures we can turn every first course into a party recipe. Seeing is believing!

Meat or fish?

This choice is different depending on the traditions of each family, but can be renewed thanks to a new project on the menu. For example, if you are choosing a recipe among Christmas dishes that will precede a course like roast, take into consideration also the preparations based on crustaceans. In case you have decided to propose a second based on fish instead, go ahead to shells, blue fish and molluscs.
The first based on meat, vegetables or cheese instead, they must be chosen in combination with the second in order to highlight it without "obscuring it". Recipes with a strong taste based on sausage or zola for example, could inhibit the taste of a second delicate course or be too substantial in a menu that includes four dishes. The advice is therefore to choose dishes that live in harmony with each other to compose a greedy but balanced menu.

And now … you just have to choose the perfect first course of your Christmas menu! In the gallery above, our 30 first Christmas dishes

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Tarragon risotto with prawns and artichokes

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Spaghetti alla chitarra, beetroot and smoked eel

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Macaroni with iron

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Tagliolini with pesto with pistachios

Light baked recipes: 10 diet first and second courses – Italian Cuisine

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Cook in the oven often means being able to reduce condiments. That's why there are so many light recipes, both first courses and second courses, to be prepared using this prodigious appliance. There cooking in the oven adds a touch to our dishes without giving up lightness, maintaining taste and nutritional properties. You do not know what to prepare for a dietetic dinner but just as greedy? Try the Sale & Pepe selection of light baked recipes.

We offer you for example the barley and vegetable flan with ricotta sauce and i tomatoes stuffed with wheat, 2 dishes that combine cereals and vegetables to bring to the table 2 simple and tasty first courses. And if you want a second, the fish it's the ingredient for you, like the sea bass in the aromatic salt shell, light and fragrant, perfect even if you're on a diet. There meat instead? It is not necessarily the white one, the roast beef with almonds, shallots and mint for example it is not excessively caloric. Serve it with a nice mixed salad. Enjoy your meal!

10 traditional Christmas first courses

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The Christmas lunch it is different from family to family: everyone has his own traditions and his dishes that are handed down from grandparents to grandchildren and every year at the table are repeated. Italy, from North to South, has many traditional Christmas first courses, which fully represent the regional differences and the roots of each place. There are those who choose the meat and offers a menu entirely based on it, those who prefer the fish, as in Rome, in the South and in seaside places.

We have collected many recipes for you: come on tortellini in bolognese broth typical of Emilia Romagna, which warm the table with a filling of meat whose recipe is always the same as always and a rich broth that cooks for hours, ai bigoli with duck sauce, typical Veneto. If we then move to Sardinia, I will not lack on the table i ravioli with cheese, called culurgiones de casu fruscu, as in Naples the Maritata soup. Discover all the recipes of traditional Christmas first courses!

Yes to the contrasts

Meat or fish?

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