Healthy Christmas recipes: bring superfoods to the table

The Christmas recipes are a true institution, especially in Italy: each Region, not to mention each Municipality, has its own traditional specialities, handed down from generation to generation and essential for celebrating the holidays.

But have you ever thought about bringing a touch of originality, health and well-being to the festive table?

It is not at all certain, in fact, that Christmas dishes necessarily have to be heavy, difficult to digest and full of fats and sugars! This is why, together with a team of food bloggers passionate about superfood and healthy food, we have created a recipe book with many ideas to make Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas breakfast and lunch or New Year's Eve dinner healthier and lighter.

Healthy breakfast recipes

TheChristmas Day breakfastsmells of spices, cinnamon and cocoa, those aromas that take you back to childhood... but not only that, because it is also possible to fill up on micronutrients and beneficial substances for the our organism!

Biscuits and leavened products: Christmas recipes revisited

Try to imagine modernizing the traditional recipe for Gingerbread Cookies, the gingerbread men so loved by adults and children, with a green and aromatic touch of matcha tea or with the full-bodied hints of natural organic cocoa... a delight that will fill the house with scents!

Or a soft Danubio, the famous recipe for brioche divided into delicious "spheres" to be filled as you prefer: to make it healthier, we have enriched it with psyllium fibers and a glaze based on very sweet Manuka honey, natural antibacterial.

Another wonderful idea to serve for breakfast are theThumbprint Cookies, characteristic biscuits made simply by shaping them with your hands, with a delicate coconut oil pastry and a jam filling of your choice.

Cinnamon is once again the protagonist in Cinnamon Rolls, the spicy rolls typical of Northern Europe, further enriched by organic cocoa and dark chocolate.

Original and “fit” breakfast ideas for Christmas

Among the ideas that pay more attention to figure and macros, for those who don't give up on keeping fit even during the holidays, there are some breakfast cakes such as the VegSoj Cake con Maca energizing and the New York Cheesecake with Açai and blueberry, rich in antioxidants.

Both two simple and healthy cakes, which recall the concept of American cheesecake, with a base of crumbled rusks and a filling that varies from embellished rice milk cream from açai powder to Greek yogurt with honey, cocoa and fresh blueberries.

Another express recipe to replicate for Christmas are the so-called bliss balls or energy balls, real concentrates of energy to be eaten in one bite: we offer them based on pumpkin, spelled flakes and pecans, dusted of açai for an extra energy boost!

Impressive savory recipes for Christmas

Christmas is not just sweets: among the recipes with superfoods to bring to the table as main courses, therisotto with red turnips and gorgonzola, with a real chef's touch, that is, the crunchiness given by the cocoa nibs and hazelnuts.

For a truly chic brunch, try the savory pancakes alla moringa, to be stuffed with avocado, smoked salmon, fresh cheese and aromatic herbs.

Mediterranean scents, however, with a pinch of originality, if you decide to prepare veg Greek pitas… with organic cocoa! An entirely vegan recipe, enriched with a truly delicious matcha tea and cashew sauce, and crunchy pumpkin "chips".

Finally, an easy-to-use delight rich in beneficial fibres: the gluten-free wraps allo psillio, a light and tasty bread substitute, perfect as an aperitif or as an accompaniment to many dishes.

Christmas desserts with superfoods, for a delicious dessert or a nutritious snack

To be served at the end of the meal to amaze all the guests, here are our recipes for Christmas desserts, always enriched with the benefits of superfoods.

The “Pinguino” tart is a real delicacy that uses perhaps the best and most versatile fruits of winter: persimmons. A light coconut oil shortcrust pastry contains a creamy ricotta-based filling, decorated with a topping of blended persimmons together with natural cocoa.

The Matcha tea cake-roll is truly spectacular, a biscuit dough with an incredible bright green color which encloses in its "coils" a fresh filling made from spreadable cheese and cream.

Traditional but never out of fashion, this version of the Pear and Chocolate Plumcake has a touch of crunchiness that makes it special, given by the raw cocoa nibs.

Finally, a fragrant Matcha cake with the acidic softness of the yogurt and the unmistakable note of the hazelnuts in the dough: to make it even more delicious, serve it with a fresh scoop of ice cream, also with matcha or honey!

Let us know what you think of the proposals in the Natural Bio Christmas Recipe Book and tag us on your social networks if you try to replicate them!