A vegan Christmas menu, is it possible?

Are you team Christmas Eve dinner or Christmas lunch? In any case, a vegan christmas menu It will be surprising for your guests. Surprisingly good and healthy, maybe 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 in Italy.

But whoever chose one vegan diet does not have to give up taste at Christmas and, indeed, it could be the perfect opportunity to make known the goodness of an approach plant based even to the most “purist” relatives of ragù alla bolognese!

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 cute 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 kneaded with flour, psyllium , water and olive oil, for example, then enriching it with oil seeds and filling it with vegetable creams.

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

For the first, Pasta or risotto can be cooked with only ingredients of plant origin , having fun with the combinations: from lentil ragù to sautéed mushrooms, from courgettes to truffles. And why not surprise your guests with a fresh homemade pasta cocoa ?

For the second , vegetables are still the protagonists: very elegant flans, skewers that alternate vegetables, mushrooms and tofu, chickpea flour farinata enriched with dried fruit and seeds.