Healthy Christmas Recipes: Bring Superfoods to the Table

The Christmas recipes They are a true institution, especially in Italy: each Region, not to mention each Municipality, has its own traditional specialties, handed down from generation to generation and essential to celebrate the holiday.

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

In fact, it is not at all true that Christmas dishes must necessarily be heavy, difficult to digest and full of fats and sugars! That's why, together with a team of food bloggers passionate about superfood and healthy food, we have realized a recipe book with lots of ideas to make Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas breakfast and lunch or New Year's Eve dinner healthier and lighter.

Healthy Breakfast Recipes

There Christmas Day Breakfast It smells of spices, cinnamon and cocoa, those aromas that bring you back to childhood... but not only that, because it is also possible to fill up on micronutrients and beneficial substances for our body!

Biscuits and leavened products: Christmas recipes revisited

Try to imagine modernizing the traditional recipe of 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 scents of natural organic cocoa… a delight that will fill your home with aromas!

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

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

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

Original and “fit” breakfast ideas for Christmas

Among the ideas that are more attentive to the 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 with Maca energizing and the New York Cheesecake with Acai and blueberry, rich in antioxidants.

Both are simple and healthy cakes, which recall the concept of American cheesecake , with a base of crumbled biscuits and a filling that varies from cream to rice milk embellished from acai powder with Greek yogurt, 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 eat in one bite: we offer them to you made with pumpkin, spelt flakes and pecan nuts, rolled in açai powder for an extra energy boost!

Impressive Savoury Recipes for Christmas

Christmas is not just sweets: among the recipes with superfoods to be brought to the table as main courses, unmissable risotto with beetroot and gorgonzola , with a touch of real chefs, that is the crunchiness given by the cocoa nibs and hazelnuts.

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

Mediterranean scents, instead, with a pinch of originality, if you decide to prepare the veg greek pitas … with organic cocoa! A completely vegan recipe, enriched with a truly delicious matcha tea and cashew sauce, and crunchy pumpkin “chips”.

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

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

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

There “Penguin” Tart It is a real delicacy that uses perhaps the tastiest and most versatile fruits of winter: persimmons. A light coconut oil shortcrust pastry encloses a creamy ricotta filling, decorated with a topping of blended persimmons together with natural cocoa.

Truly spectacular the Matcha tea cake-roll , a biscuit dough with an incredible bright green color that encloses in its “coils” a fresh filling made with spreadable cheese and cream.

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

Finally, a scented one Matcha Cake with the acidic softness of the yogurt and the unmistakable note of 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 of NaturaleBio Christmas Recipe Book and tag us on your social media if you try to replicate them!