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You haven't thought yet about what delicious meal to prepare for the Christmas lunch? If you're looking for ideas to create a complete and delightful Christmas menu, you’re in the right place!
The Christmas lunch is the essence of the holidays dedicated to family, conviviality, good food, and affections. Every Italian region, every city, even every family has its own customs: but on one thing we all agree, that the Christmas lunch must be rich and of quality.
Organizing the Christmas menu with the related recipes requires a fair amount of effort: Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas lunch must be taken care of in the smallest details, preparing the most typical Christmas recipes. If you are the host, there’s no escape: you will have to bring out your organizational and culinary skills to make everything more or less perfect.
Whatever your tradition, Spaghetti & Mandolino provides you with everything you need to prepare an amazing Christmas menu that will leave all your relatives and friends at the table speechless.
Where to start if not with the appetizer? While we can easily do without it on regular days, for the Christmas menu we can indulge in this extra delight and take the opportunity to bring some tasty treats to the table. If you're short on time, it's ideal to serve cured meats and cheeses, and you can find plenty of them on our website.
For cheeses, you can choose from various selections of goat cheeses, blue cheeses, fresh cheeses, or aged cheeses: from Parmigiano Reggiano aged up to 50 months to Bagoss, from Castelmagno Dop to Chiusello goat cheese, from Monte Veronese to Bastardo del Grappa di Alpeggio. And if someone is lactose intolerant, no problem: we also have a delightful range of exquisite lactose-free cheeses of the best quality! And what could be better than a great mustard to accompany the cheeses? Our sweet and savory mustards can surprise even those who are not fond of sauces, adding balance to the dishes.
As for the cured meats, your Christmas menu also couldn't be more varied: we have indeed numerous types of cured meats linked to different cultures and traditions, created from very different cuts of meat and following recipes that are now centuries old. You can choose between Prosciutto di Parma DOP or San Daniele DOP; the Culatello, a very prestigious salami typical of Emilia-Romagna; or the salami, the quintessential Italian cured meat.
If you have little time to devote to the preparation of the first course, delight your guests' palates with some easy and tasty recipes that can please everyone at the table. We offer you a selection of the best rice and top-quality Italian pasta: excellence products from great pasta factories and rice mills. From Gragnano paccheri to pasta made with Senatore Cappelli wheat. You can also choose different types of egg pasta, like the traditional and always excellent tagliatelle. And then there's the range from the famous Felicetti pasta factory, which produces mainly in a biological manner. With quality pasta, it will be much easier to prepare an excellent dish, perhaps dressed with a homemade sauce made with the best ingredients: from the black sauce of Chianina to Tuscan pork ragù, from hare ragù to wild boar ragù.
For second courses, the Christmas menu is usually a triumph of roasts and stuffed meats. Herb stuffed capon and sparkling wine is a classic of the holiday season, as it traditionally appears in the menus of big lunches. But there are also simple and traditional second courses like cotechino or zampone, both rich and tasty dishes, pleasing to everyone and perfect for celebrating Christmas. Other great options include pickled beef tongue, Pampano, or roasted loin.
What Christmas would it be without desserts? We have a wide selection of traditional sweets, all in the name of craftsmanship and quality, such as the panettone with Torcolato Maculan, the Mandorlato typical of Cologna Veneta, and the classic almond cake, with the variant Almond Star, a great idea to impress the diners.
A good wine is just as important as food in crafting a respectable Christmas menu and is essential to enhance the flavors of the recipes, especially on a special occasion like this. The wines should be chosen according to the menu.
If you are fans of red wines and your menu is meat-based, our wide range of red wines includes the best from Italy: from Amarone della Valpolicella to Lambrusco Grasparossa, from Nebbiolo to Barolo. For white wines, you can choose from Franciacorta to Gewurztraminer, from Valdobbiadene to Muller Thurgau.
But of course, Christmas is the quintessential moment for toasts: you can choose to toast with the bubbles of a Prosecco or with an excellent Franciacorta.
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