At Christmas surprise your guests with healthy food

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We don’t need to tell you, at Christmas there is always a very special atmosphere, not only on the street, but also inside the house. Christmas dinners and lunches are the protagonists of this period along with gifts, so it is important to think a little about them before the dates arrive. So many appointments with a table full of food make us then have to pay for the excesses, so we propose that you change your concept a little. At Christmas surprise your guests with healthy food.

As simple as substituting one thing for another

When you arrive at someone’s house at Christmas, the first thing you see on the living room table is a huge bowl full of chocolates of all flavors and colors, marzipan, nougat, mantecados… Very healthy, right? It is true that they are very rich, but both they and you know that they will later take their toll. The key is, therefore, to change the content of that bowl. As for snacks, there are thousands of options much healthier than Christmas sweets.

For example, you can replace sweets with nuts, which are always desirable and are the healthiest there is. Choose from hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, pistachios… or put them all together! All these products are rich in fiber, minerals, vitamins and something very important to take care of the heart: unsaturated fats.

The chestnut, the queen of Christmas

And maybe you have to take out another bowl to offer the star product of Christmas, which although it is collected in autumn always triumphs in winter: chestnut. Without a doubt it is something curious and original that will surprise your guests. Not only will it surprise, but it will give an even more festive atmosphere to your home, first because the simple fact of having chestnuts at home is totally Christmas; and second, because the aroma left when the handles creates a climate that exceeds that of any other Christmas decoration. 

In addition, this rich nut offers only advantages. Chestnuts are rich in carbohydrates, their fat content is very low and also has a large amount of water; In short, an ideal energy food. But they are also perfect if your guests arrive with gusa to your house and you still do not have the main dishes ready, because chestnuts help to appease hunger. Surely they will not miss those bowls overflowing with sweets.

Tips to avoid overwhelming your guests

When we sit around a table at Christmas, we are sure that we will end up unbuttoning the first button of our pants. Well, this doesn’t have to happen either. If we have already managed to surprise by changing sweets for nuts, why not surprise with the rest of the food?

The trick is to present a table full of hors d’oeuvres and starters, but healthy. One idea is to prepare turkey meat curl dishes stuffed with egg yolk threads. Egg yolk threads are easily found in any supermarket and give a very sweet and pleasant touch to something as seemingly bland as turkey cold cuts. Another idea is to present as many dishes with tomatoes stuffed with philadelphia cheese with a little basil, or if you prefer directly, pesto sauce. And a cream?

Then you can surprise with a special salad, out of the ordinary. At Christmas, let’s leave aside the country salad, we show you other ideas. For example a typical German salad, apple, celery and pine nuts. You can season it with a multitude of ingredients, from yogurt sauce -which we recommend from Diario Femenino-, to honey or mayonnaise flavored with mustard. It is a bittersweet explosion that surely leaves no one indifferent.

Another option is to turn to arugula, which has successfully made its way into the Mediterranean diet. It accompanies it with walnuts, goat curl and Parmesan cheese, a nod to Italy. You can season it with oil and vinegar from Modena, or if you dare with raspberry vinaigrette.
After the cold dishes, what you want is something warmer. Always triumph a healthy consommé, a chicken broth, a cream of zucchini or a pumpkin. All this accompanied by a good wine that is sure to impress your guests.

You see, it is not so difficult to get your guests to leave with a good taste in their mouths without ending up saturated. If you follow our advice, you will surely become the perfect hostess.

And you, what are you going to cook this Christmas?

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