Mouth Watering Healthy Christmas recipes

Christmas is a festival full of fun and enjoyment. Everybody is involved in having fun and delicious dishes. There is wide range of healthy Christmas recipes which people have. These include cookies, desert, dinner, candy, turkey toast, cakes and many more for family and friends. You would want to make one of best Christmas recipes at your home for everybody. Christmas recipes may differ from place to place. Let us look into Christmas recipes of few places such as Italy, Spain, and Brazil.

Italian Christmas Recipes

Italian recipes for dinner at Christmas Eve normally have meatless and fish dishes. The fish is included as the part of the main meal. Codfish is very famous and is part of the main course at Christmas dinner. Pasta recipe are also famous on Christmas. One of the famous pasta recipes is as follows:

Ingredients: 300 g Pasta, 200g salt codfish, 15 tomatoes, black olives, 1 scallion, white wine (half glass), virgin oil, salt, and pepper.

Preparation:  In the little oil brown the scallion. Add chopped codfish and wine. After some time add tomatoes and olives. Then add water and cook for some more time. At the same time boil the pasta in salted water, and then drain the water. Add the pasta in the other mixture and stir the same. You can also add orange zest.

Spanish Christmas Recipes

The Christmas is celebrated in Spain with a lavish family feast. This feast is eaten at the dinner time. The families have the meal either before attending the midnight mass or after the same. In Spain people celebrate the Christmas Eve in the neighbourhood cafes and bars. They prefer to be with friends and family and have lavish meal together. The Spanish menu at Christmas has wide range of dishes starting with appetizers, first course, main course, and the end desert and coffee or even dinner after drinks.

• Appetizers include Ham, Cheese, and Spanish Chorizo Sausage.
• First Course meal includes Fish and Shellfish soup, and White Asparaqus to name a few.
• Main Course meal includes Roast Lamb, Home Fried potatoes, and Mixed Green salad to name a few.
• Desert may include Spanish almond candy, almond cookie, and Spanish crumble cakes to name a few.

Brazilian Christmas Recipes

Brazilians have their own traditions and customs of Christmas.  The Dinner at Christmas is very important part of the Brazilian Christmas festival. The Brazilian recipes are unique and the same are palate and not only a feast. These includes dishes like turkey, ham, chicken, rice, mashed potatoes, beans, Brazilian Nut Fruitcake, fresh and dried fruits to name a few. People also love to have wine and beer.