Christmas 2023: 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 thing as last year, 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 friends. guests.

1. Biscayan-style tuna:

Ingredient:

5 cans of tuna

1 chopped onion

4 cloves of garlic, minced

1 kilo of tomatoes cut into small cubes

¾ cup olives

3 potatoes cut into cubes

1 cup parsley

Olive oil

3 cups chicken broth

Preparation:

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

2. Hake in ham stock with al dente green asparagus

Ingredient:

800g. hake loins

A bunch of green asparagus

50g. Serrano ham in very thin slices

150 ml. ham broth

a glass (100 ml.) of white wine

flour

salt

extra virgin olive oil

Preparation:

Start by salting the hake loins, then flour them. Cut the asparagus, leaving the buds three centimeters away and chop the rest very finely. In a pot with a splash of olive oil, fry the loins on both sides. Add the cut asparagus. Add the white wine until it evaporates. Soak the fish in the ham broth until heated through, about 10 minutes. Put the ham slices in the microwave for a minute until they fry and harden. They are chopped and set aside. The loins are placed on the sauce, the fish with the asparagus on top.

3. Mashed potatoes with parmesan cheese

Ingredients:

750 grams of peeled potatoes

4 tablespoons of butter

1/3 cup of cream

1/3 cup parmesan cheese

White pepper

1 pinch of nutmeg

Preparation:

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

4. Light prawn and fruit salad

Ingredients:

2 large table oranges

1 green apple

1 large pineapple slice

8 cherry tomatoes

80 g 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 heaped tablespoon of ketchup

Preparation:

Start by cooking the prawn tails for three minutes in a pot of salted water. Drain and reserve for later. Cut the oranges in half and then into cubes, removing the peel, 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 season with 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. Gratin tuna crepes with cheese

3 cans of tuna

1/2 onion chopped

1 can of roasted peppers

1 cup of cream

1 cup grated Manchego cheese

8 crepes previously made or purchased

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 top of the crepes, immediately place in the oven for a few minutes until the cheese is melted.

6. Pork chops with pineapple sauce

Ingredients:

pork chops

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon pepper

5 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Pineapple sauce:

¼ piece of onion finely chopped

2 cloves of garlic 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 turn golden brown. 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 tomato pizza sauce

2 eggs

500g cottage cheese

½ cup parmesan cheese

4 cups mozzarella cheese

12 sheets of lasagna pasta

Olive oil

Preparation:

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan 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 pasta sheets, 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 and bake at 180° for 40 minutes.

8. Salty chocolates

Ingredients:

100 g slices of duck ham, cut very thin

1/2 mango

100 g goat cheese

30 g chopped walnuts

Salt

Preparation:

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

And while dinner is important, dessert is a must at Christmas dinner, so we leave you three easy options to prepare.

9. Chocolate balls with apricot and orange

Ingredients:

50 g oats

25 g of Butter

a spoonful of honey

Two tablespoons of pure cocoa powder

2 small chopped dried apricots

Zest of an orange

Salt

Toasted sesame seeds

Preparation:

Grind 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, chopped apricots, orange zest and salt and knead, set aside for 10 minutes and then form a ball and pass it through the sesame.

10. Quick chocolate and Oreo cookie cake

Ingredients:

200 g Oreo cookies

100 g softened butter

200 g dark chocolate 70% cocoa

200 g of milk cream

25 g 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 heavy cream in a pot, remove from the heat and add the chocolate and butter. When everything is integrated, pour the cream over the cookie base. Freeze for a few minutes.