Vegetarian Christmas Dinner

Healthy and wonderfully tasty: Our chefs have prepared a vegetarian christmas dinner for you, which is easy to cook. Enjoy!

 

Festive Soup with Chestnuts

Ingredients for 2,5 Litres

100 g leek, white part

100 g parsley root

180 g parsnip

80 g celery

600 g chestnuts, peeled and precooked

125 ml soy milk or cold pressed oil

2 l water

salt, pepper, cinnamon, coriander

Preparation

Cut the vegetable into walnuts iced pieces and sauté them in a pan without fad. After 2-4 minutes add the water and the spices. Cook until tender. Blend together with the soy milk or the cold pressed oil and season to taste.

 

Warming Chicory-Salad

Ingredients (for 4 persons)

4-6 Chicory

250 g yoghurt

2 oranges, pressed

2 oranges, in fillets or in pieces

4 tbsp coconut flakes, roasted in a pan without oil

2 tbsp cold pressed almond oil

2 tbsp sallow thorn juice

spices like cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, Piment, ginger

salt

Preparation

For the salad sauce mix yoghurt, orange juice, almond oil, spices and salt. Peel and filet the oranges. Wash the and cut chicory. Mix it with the oranges and the sauce and garnish with coconut flakes in the end.

 

Benjamin’s Salmon & Spinach Tartlet

 

Ingredients (for 2 portions)

400 g fresh spinach

15 g butter

250 g organic salmon filet (without skin)

Salt

Pepper

 

Preparation

Clean and wash the spinach and leave it still wet in a pot until it sinks together. Then shake off the water and chop the leaves roughly. Melt 15 g of butter in a pan and fry the spinach gently for 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

Wash the salmon, dry it gently and slice it thinly. Season with salt and pepper. Butter the forms and layer the spinach and salmon alternately into the forms. Be sure to use spinach as the base and the top. Cover with aluminium foil. Boil 2 cm of water in a pot, reduce heat and steam the tartlets for 8 minutes in the covered pot in gentle heat.

 

Energy and nutrient content

Whole recipe: ~500 kcal; 30 g Fat; 2g Carbohydrates; 56g Protein;

Per portion: ~250 kcal; 15g Fat; 1g Carbohydrates; 28g Protein

 

Peapods

 

Ingredients (4 portions)

400 g peapods

4 garlic cloves

6 tbsp of sesame seeds

1 tbsp of oil (heat resistant, e.g. sunflower oil)

1 tbsp of cold pressed sesame oil

2 tbsp of soy sauce

1 tbsp honey

Pepper

 

Preparation

Roast the sesame seeds, clean the peapods and slice the garlic thinly.

Heat oil in a pan and roast the garlic lightly brown, remove garlic and replace with the peapods and stir-fry in great heat for about 45 seconds. Add again garlic.

Add soy sauce and season with sugar and pepper and cold pressed sesame oil.

 

Energy and nutrient content

Whole recipe: ~780 kcal; 46g fat; 62g carbohydrates; 27g protein

Per portion: ~ 190 kcal; 11g fat; 16g carbohydrates; 7g protein

 

Baked Apple

Ingredients (for 4 persons)

4 apples (Boskoop or another sourly sort)

6 tbsp oat flakes

2 tbsp raisins, soaked and chopped

1 tbsp almonds, roasted and chopped

1 tbsp almond puree

1 tbsp honey

spices as desired (vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, allspice)

2 small piece candied ginger, chopped

Preparation

Deseed the apples, mix all the other ingredients and stuff the apples, envelop them with aluminium foil and bake them in the oven on 150°C for about 20 minutes.

Tip: vary with lavender flowers, cranberries, barberry, marzipan, coconut flakes, hazelnuts, walnuts, raisins in rum, fruits in rum, chocolate. After baking 10 minutes put ½ tbsp of honey on each apple and allow to bake until tasty.

 

Vanilla-Pumpkin-Sauce

Ingredients

50 ml milk

50 g (2 oz) pumpkin

1 tbsp whole grain rice flour

vanilla, honey or syrup

 

Preparation

Heat the milk and boil the pumpkin until soft and tender. Add the rice flour and allow to boil. Season to taste with vanilla and honey.

Energy and nutrient content

Per portion (30g): ~ 28 kcal; 0,1g fat; 6g carbohydrates; 0,8g protein; 0,5 BE

 

Apple Punch

Ingredients for 1 l

4 apples

1 stick cinnamon

5 cloves

1 stick liquorice

2 oranges (zeste and juice)

1 small piece of chilli

Preparation

Wash, peel and dice the apples, give all in a pot, together with the cinnamon sticks and the cloves. Pour water on top of all the ingredients, allow to boil once and allow to simmer for about 15 minutes to increase the taste. Add chilli and allow to heat for 5 minutes.

Tip: in wintertime you may by spice blends for punch in an whole food or organic store an add those in a tea bag to the water. Star anis, cardamom or allspice are delicious as well. To prevent colds you may add some elder flower or sloe syrup.

 
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