Christmas 2022: 10 simple recipes that you can practice for Christmas Eve dinner

If you are one of those who have guests this Christmas or simply do not want to eat the same as last Christmas, but there is not much time to think about something very sophisticated, here we share 10 recipes that you can prepare and with which, in addition, you will probably surprise your guests.

1. Biscayan tuna:

Ingredient:

5 cans of tuna

1 chopped onion

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 kilo of tomatoes cut into small cubes

¾ cup olives

3 potatoes chopped into cubes

1 cup of parsley

Olive oil

3 cups of chicken broth

Preparation:

Strain the liquid from the tuna cans and reserve. Sauté the onion and garlic in abundant olive oil, add the potatoes and let cook. Then add the tomato and chicken broth and let it cook over low heat. Add the finely chopped parsley and the tuna. Let the stewed tuna simmer over low heat until the liquid has evaporated and the Biscayan sauce is thick.

2. Hake in ham bottom with green asparagus al dente

Ingredient:

800 g. loins of hake

A bunch of green asparagus

50 g. Serrano ham in very thin slices

150 ml. of ham broth

a glass (100 ml.) of white wine

flour

Salt

extra virgin olive oil

Preparation:

Start by salting the hake fillets, then flour them. Cut the asparagus leaving the buds three centimeters apart and the rest chop very finely. In a pot with a drizzle of olive oil, fry the loins on both sides. Add the cut asparagus. Add the white wine until it evaporates. Dip the fish in the ham broth until heated through, about 10 minutes. Microwave the ham slices for one minute until they are fried and firm. They are chopped and reserved. The loins are placed on the sauce, on top of the fish with the asparagus.

3. Mashed potatoes with Parmesan cheese

Ingredients:

750 grams of peeled potatoes

4 tablespoons butter

1/3 cup cream

1/3 cup Parmesan cheese

White pepper

1 pinch of nutmeg

Preparation:

Peel the potatoes and cook in salted water, once done, grind until they form a mixture, add the rest of the ingredients and mix well until it has the consistency of a puree.

4. Light shrimp and fruit salad

Ingredients:

2 large table oranges

1 green apple

1 large pineapple slice

8 cherry tomatoes

80g sweet corn

12 prawn tails

70 g small sprout lettuce

Salt

Pepper

For the dressing:

150 g homemade mayonnaise

1 tablespoon brandy

Juice of ½ orange

1 heaping tablespoon ketchup

Preparation:

Start by cooking the prawn tails for three minutes in a pot with salted water. Drain and reserve for later. Cut the oranges in half and then into cubes removing the skin, which you then drain for the pink sauce. In a glass bowl, mix the cut orange, the pineapple, the apple in small cubes, the cherry tomatoes in quarters, the corn and the lettuce. Add the prawn tails and salt and pepper. For the dressing, mix the homemade mayonnaise with the brandy, the juice of half an orange and the ketchup, stir and serve.

5. Tuna crepes gratin with cheese

3 cans of tuna

1/2 chopped onion

1 tin of roasted peppers

1 cup cream

1 cup of grated manchego cheese

8 pre-made or purchased crepes

Preparation:

Cut the bell pepper into strips and chop the onion, then mix the vegetables with the tuna. Fill the crepes with the fish mixture and arrange them. Add the cream and grated cheese on the crepes, immediately put in the oven for a few minutes until the cheese is gratin.

6. Pork chops with pineapple sauce

Ingredients:

pork chops

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon pepper

5 tablespoons of vegetable oil

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

pineapple sauce:

¼ piece of onion finely chopped

2 garlic cloves finely chopped

½ cup chicken broth

¼ cup pineapple juice

2 tablespoons of sugar

3 tablespoons Dijon mustard

1 teaspoon vinegar

½ piece of pineapple chopped into medium cubes

1 bunch of chopped parsley

Preparation:

Season the pork chops with salt and pepper, blend half of the pineapple with the chicken broth, pineapple juice, sugar, mustard, vinegar and parsley. Meanwhile, in a frying pan with oil and butter, cook the chops on both sides until they take on a golden color. Sauté the onion and garlic in the same pan as the chops. Add the pineapple sauce and cook for five minutes. Add the chops and the rest of the chopped pineapple and cook for eight minutes. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

7. Lasagna

Ingredients:

1 kilo of ground beef

1 cup tomato puree

2 cups of tomato sauce for pizza

2 eggs

500g cottage cheese

½ cup Parmesan cheese

4 cups of mozzarella cheese

12 sheets of pasta for lasagna

Olive oil

Preparation:

Heat the olive oil in a skillet and add the meat, add the tomato puree and tomato pizza sauce. Mix the eggs, cottage cheese and Parmesan cheese. In a greased bowl, place the lasagna noodles, a layer of meat, a layer of prepared cottage cheese and a cup of mozzarella cheese, repeat this action four times. Cover the lasagna with aluminum foil and bake at 180° for 40 minutes.

8. Salty bonbons

Ingredients:

100 g slices of duck ham, sliced ​​very thin

1/2 handle

100 g goat cheese

30 g of chopped walnuts

Salt

Preparation:

Line an ice tray with the duck ham. In a bowl, mix the goat cheese with the chopped walnuts and the mango cut into pieces. Put a pinch of salt, but make sure that the mixture is not too salty, use it later to fill the chocolates. When finished, cover using other ham strips. Freeze the chocolates for about thirty minutes.

And although dinner is important, dessert is a must for Christmas dinner, so we leave you three easy-to-prepare options.

9. Orange Apricot Chocolate Balls

Ingredients:

50g oats

25g of Butter

a tablespoon of honey

Two tablespoons of pure cocoa powder

2 finely chopped apricots

zest of an orange

Salt

toasted sesame seeds

Preparation:

Blend the oats until you get a kind of coarse flour. In a bowl, mix the butter with the honey. Add the cocoa powder and mix, wait and add the oats, the chopped apricots, the orange zest and the salt and knead, reserve it for 10 minutes and then form a ball and pass it through the sesame.

10. Quick Chocolate Oreo Cookie Cake

Ingredients:

200g Oreo cookies

100 g softened butter

200 g of dark chocolate 70% cocoa

200 g of milk cream

25g of Butter

Preparation:

Crush the Oreo cookies, mix them with the melted butter. Line the base and walls of the mold with this paste. Put it in the freezer. For the filling, heat the milk cream in a pot, remove from the heat and add the chocolate and butter. When everything is integrated, see the cream on the biscuit base. Freeze a few minutes.