Christmas Dinner 2021 – 4 recipes that can’t be missed!

1.Salpicão

I personally love eating salpicão at any time of the year. This dish is a 100% Brazilian creation.

It is characterized by its delicious mix of greens, vegetables, straw potatoes, shredded chicken and mayonnaise.

Each Brazilian family has its own salpicão recipe and special secret, however, the recipe generally includes:

Mayonnaise;
Potato;
Carrot;
Peppers of various colors;
Celery;
Pepper;
Fruits.

See below a step-by-step guide to this simple and tasty recipe that you can't miss on your menu. Christmas dinner.

1 kg of cooked chicken fillet with salt;
2 grated carrots;
200g of seedless black raisins;
100g of pitted green olives;
Half a red, yellow and green pepper, finely chopped;
300g of green corn;
1 apple, chopped and peeled;
Mayonnaise to make it ready;
3 tablespoons of cream without whey;
Salt, olive oil, lemon, parsley;
Shoestring potatoes.

How to prepare

First, cook the chicken with salt, shred it and set aside. Now, grate the carrot into the finest part and set aside as well.

Then chop the olive and mix it with the other ingredients.

Finally, season with salt, lemon, olive oil, parsley and add mayonnaise until it reaches the desired consistency. Finish with the cream.

Place in a dish and cover with straw potatoes, decorate with parsley and strips of pepper, for example.

Leave it in the fridge until it's time to Christmas dinner.

2. Farofa

One of the best Christmas recipes, despite being simple, if it is well made it is wonderful and we can give it a refined look with other ingredients.

There are thousands of stuffing recipes for Christmas, but today's recipe is simple and special, a family recipe.

Let's look at the ingredients?

2 large plantains;
Half a kilo of dried meat (jabá);
A large onion;
1 kg of flour;
2 tablespoons of butter;
Scallion.

How to prepare

First, cut the dried meat into small pieces, remove the salt, fry and set aside.

Now, cut the plantains into cubes and fry them with the chopped onion in the same oil that you fried the meat in.

Then, add the two tablespoons of butter and once it has melted, add the meat and gradually add the flour and mix it with the other ingredients.

Finally, sprinkle with chives and serve.

3. Christmas Rice

We know the controversy that rice with raisins causes in Christmas dinner. The dish certainly divides opinions, but to avoid conflicts, how about a different Christmas rice recipe?

You will need:

1 kg of rice;
2 large garlic cloves, chopped;
A spoonful of olive oil;
2 cans of canned corn and peas;
Half a kilo of chicken sausage or another sausage of your choice;
300 grams of mozzarella;
Seasoning to taste, for example, coriander, parsley, chives.

How to prepare

First, make your rice as usual, with garlic, olive oil and salt and set aside.

Now, cut the sausage into cubes and place in a pan to boil for 5 minutes, drain the water and fry the sausage.

In a bowl, mix the sausage, rice, corn, peas and grated or diced mozzarella cheese.

Finally, bake until the cheese melts and finish with raw green seasonings, for example, parsley and coriander.

If you prefer, you can add raisins too, but if you want to keep it together during the Christmas dinner, leave the item out.

4. Pave

Christmas isn't really Christmas if we don't hear anyone ask: “Is it pavê or pacumê”.

Jokes aside, this dessert is delicious, but we focus so much on the pun that we forget to give it the prestige it deserves.

So, let's get to the recipe?

Cornstarch biscuit;
2 tablespoons of cornstarch;
1 can of cream;
Milk (same amount as the can of cream);
2 cans of condensed milk;
2 egg yolks;
3 tablespoons of chocolate powder or chocolate powder;
Milk to dip the cookies;
Unsalted butter or margarine, to set the consistency.

How to prepare

Make a cream with the egg yolks, 1 can of condensed milk, cornstarch and milk. Place over low heat and stir until it reaches the right consistency. Set aside.

Then, make another cream with the second can of condensed milk, margarine and chocolate.

So, stir over low heat until it reaches the right consistency. Turn off the heat and mix in the cream.

So, start the assembly:

First the white cream, then soak the cookies in milk and place on top of the white cream.

Then, pour the dark cream on top and add the chocolate shavings at the end. Finally, leave it in the freezer for two hours.

Then leave it in the freezer until it's time to Christmas dinner.

So, did you like our recipes?

They are certainly simple, cheap, easy to make and delicious, so they cannot be missing from your Christmas dinner.

Finally, be sure to check out the credit cards with high limits to buy the ingredients for Christmas dinner.

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Nara December 17, 2021