Whether you always eat more or less the same dinner at Mexican Christmas Food or you try to find something different every year, it never hurts a new inspiration so that the dinner on December 24 continues to have a truly special air of celebration. Next, we present several options for you to think about what kind of menu you want to develop on this occasion: rustic or elegant, traditional or novel, etc. Each menu contains suggestions for entrees, entrees, side dishes and desserts, all around a certain theme; however, feel free to mix items from various themes, if you wish, to put together a dreamy Christmas menu of your own. When is the Christmas tree put up? All our advice.
- Mexicanized Waldorf Salad
- Shrimp cream
- Souffle of leek (poro) and hearts of palm
- Cod Biscayne
- Brussels sprouts sauteed with bacon and chili
- Shortbread cookies
- Roll of walnut or pine nuts and chocolate and rum truffles
- Baked Turkey Stuffed with Meat
VERY MEXICAN Christmas menu
- Christmas Eve Salad
- Huitlacoche cream or sweet potato cream
- Chiles en nogada cake or dry noodle with cheese stuffed chili peppers
- Tequila baked turkey or turkey with mole poblano
- Rompope cake or Mexican chocolate flan
- Poinsettia flower shaped cookies
RUSTIC Christmas menu
- Sweet potato salad
- Huitlacoche cream or mushroom soup
- Spaghetti with pasilla chili sauce or green rice with poblano chili or Christmas rice
- Turkey baked in garlic sauce or oven-marinated tenderloin
- Pears stuffed with raisins and walnuts or compote of jocote (tejocote)
- Carrot pudding or pumpkin flan with pepitas
FRESH Christmas menu
- Fresh shrimp salad or palm heart salad or Brussels sprouts and tomato salad
- Cream of coriander or cream of lettuce
- Seafood rice or coconut rice
- Baked Pork Leg
- Cream cheese pancake or 12 fruit salad or some jelly
- Coconut meringue cookies
ECONOMIC Christmas menu
- Creamy jicama and carrot salad
- Cream of carrot or cream of zucchini
- Elbow salad with ham or cream spaghetti
- Romeritos with shrimp pancakes
- Spiced pork tamales
- Meringues filled with fruit
- Pineapple slices with jelly or jelly spirals
DIFFERENT Christmas menu
- Chips with spicy cranberry sauce
- Creamy Grape Salad or Colorful or Tropical Poinsettia Salad
- Orange pumpkin soup with chipotle chili or sweet potato cream
- Rice to the planter
- Fish and shrimp with zucchini and pumpkin flower or Mexican salmon with bean puree
- Chicken in cranberry sauce and chipotle chili or breast in pumpkin flower sauce
- Churros filled with dulce de leche or mosaic carlota
FUNNY Christmas menu
- Empanadas with Mexican fillings
- Elbow and ham salad
- Watery soup made with pasta in some Christmas form or Magic tapa soup
- Meatloafstuffed with mushrooms accompanied with spinach puree
- Impossible flan or flipped pineapple cake
- Gingerbread Cookies or Marshmallow Popcorn Balls
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