What is the best menu for Christmas dinner?

Question

What should I be cooking this Christmas? What do you recommend? 3 courses for 6 people is my task. Thanks.

Answer 1

Cream of watercress soup

Roast turkey
Sausages wrapped in bacon
Chestnut and sausage meat stuffing balls
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Brussels sprouts
Honey glazed carrots
Roman peas ( peas with diced onion and crispy bacon)
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce.
Served with a nice chardonney.

Christmas pudding & Brandy cream
sherry trifle.
Port and Stilton

Coffee and after dinner mints

Answer 2

This is my Christmas dinner menu -

Starter - Prawn cocktail on a bed of lettuce with a slice of lemon

Main Course - Roast chicken, roast lamb, roast potato's, stuffing, pigs in blankets (sausage wrapped in bacon), roast parsnips, green veg and gravy

Pudding - Chocolate cake with custard or whipped cream (i don't eat dried fruit so i will not be having Christmas pudding or mince pies)

I will also be doing a buffet-style selection such as chicken pieces and sausage rolls etc ...

I guess my menu is kinda old-fashioned, but it's what I've had for Christmas dinner every year that i can remember (desserts have varied though) and don't forget to buy some crackers!

Oh, and all my food is the oven-ready type as i am pregnant and don't really want to faff about preparing food for hours on end. The only thing that will be entirely handmade is the starter.

Answer 3

3 courses for 6 people
write out a planner
and plan ahead and fast

my suggestions

for starter
recipe made not tined soup
flavour suggestions
vegetable or beef soup with a little spice

for main course
Get 1 extra large chicken or turkey
with the extras
like
stuffing
pottatoes
vegetables carrots, brussel sprout etc
apple sauce and jam

for pudding
christmas pudding with rum

for extras
Mince pies
Christmas cake
after eight mints chocolate tins
cakes

oh and one big table with 6 chairs
plus a small kiddy table for if there are kids

dont certain store websites have recipe information
i use tesco's to search for recipes
tesco shopping got recipes on christmas dinners and mincepies etc and you can then buy the items from the click of a button

theres a button below the list of recipe ingredients and then it takes you to a mini basket and you add items to the main grocery basket

hope i have been helpful

Answer 4

We have similar starters, veg etc. to the other answerers, but we usually have a goose each year instead of a turkey.

Goose is also a traditional Christmas bird, and it makes a nice change to Turkey. It does give off a lot of fat when cooking, so you will have to use a spoon or baster to remove it every so often as you cook the goose. We put the fat into lidded pots and use it for cooking roast potatoes for the next 6 months. It makes the best roast potatoes!!

Answer 5

I usually have the same every year.
Home made Scotch Broth, Roast Turkey, Carrots, Brussels Sprouts, Roast Parsnip, Boiled & Roast potatoes, Mini sausages wrapped in bacon, gravy & cranberry auce. Followed by a choice of either Trifle or a meringue dessert of some kind with lots of cream.
Then after that slouch in an armchair in front of the telly while consuming copious amounts of alcohol.

Answer 6

Hi Craig,

If |I may I would recommend a traditional meal. Where I come from we start with Shrimp/prawn in sea food sauce served on a bed of salad(make the salad colourful with peppers maybe grated carrot and sultanas)
Then Turkey of course. served with in- season veg i.e. Roasted parsnip with a drizzle of honey, roasted potatoes, roasted carrots peas brussel sprouts are traditional.
Then Christmas pudding or homemade triffle. Checkout BBc recipes at channel 4. They will give you all the prearation info. Happy Christmas

Answer 7

A Big 16 lb Turkey of coarse. Its big and it will satisfy your whole family for days to go as a main coarse.
p.s Don't forget the mashed carrots(boiled),mashed potatoes(can be chunky) with medium thickness gravy, broccoli cauliflower and Pork Stuffing for the turkey.
Phew, I'm Stuffed even thinking about this
For desert, a big Christmas Pudding topped with Whipped cream, Holly leaves, a cherry and some Wine for a flame.
It was a Pleasure answering you question.
See Ya

Answer 8

i cooked a very early christmas dinner on sunday and we had

starter : king prawns with rocket salad and crusty brown rolls

Main Course: turkey crown, sausage stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots and parsnips, sausages wrapped in smoked bacon, cranbery sauce, really rich gravy and yorkshire pudding (for those who could manage it) and sprouts

Desert: christmas pudding with extra thick brandy cream

for a traditional christmas dinner i don't think you can go wrong with an old fashioned menu that people are guaranteed to enjoy
(personally i would have left off the yorkshire puddings but they were requested)

Answer 9

Just serve it family style... have lots of foods... save the 3 course meal for New Years Day.

Christmas Honey Glazed Ham
Yams & Twice Baked Potatoes
Baked Beans
Green Bean Casserole
Deviled Eggs
Relish Tray
Fruit Salad
Homemade Buns
Cherry Pie
Apple Pie

Make that a dinner for 8 and John and I won't be late
TEEHEE

Answer 10

First course, get some duck and orange, or liver pate and some fresh cut bread/ french stick!! Or go for a light leek and potatoe soup, for second got with traditional Turkey (or goose) and roast Pots, parsnips, carrotts, (sprouts if liked by all!!) and pigs in blankets, stuffing and yorkshire puds, Dont over kill each plate though, for pudding go for Christmas pudding and or mince pies with champayne double cream and a small glass of mulled wine, for those who dont like the Christmas Pud or mince pies, make them a pavalova or lemon Merigue pie.

xx