A vegan Christmas menu, is it possible?

Are you team Christmas Eve dinner or Christmas lunch? In any case, a vegan Christmas menu will be surprising for your guests. Surprisingly good and healthy, perhaps with the addition of some superfoods to the recipes!

Let's be clear, we absolutely do not want to boycott traditional Italian dishes, rich and different in every Region, not to mention in every single Municipality of Italy.

indeed, it could be the perfect opportunity to make known the goodness of a plant-based approach even to the most “purist” relatives of Bolognese sauce!

Vegan Christmas menu: revisiting traditional dishes in an ethical way

From appetizers to desserts, it is possible to make very clever substitutions to make every dish veg, without sacrificing taste but with a light, healthy and more sustainable touch towards the Planet and our animal friends.

Let's start with the appetizer: do you want to make a good impression with nice puff pastry creations? There are excellent vegan versions on the market, or you can choose to make it at home. A fragrant base for galettes and savory pies, in fact, can be easily mixed with flour, psillio, water and olive oil, for example, then enriching it with oil seeds and filling it with vegetable creams.

Another must-have Christmas appetizer are the sauces, which find their vegan declination in a delicious way, just think of chickpea hummus or babaganoush, a very tasty Middle Eastern sauce made with aubergines.

For the first course, pasta or risotto can be cooked with only ingredients of vegetable origin, playing around with combinations: from lentil ragout to sautéed mushrooms, from courgettes to truffles. And why not surprise your guests with fresh homemade pasta with cocoa?