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What to cook for Christmas

Fifty dishes for Christmas and Christmas Eve with a price per serving: kutia and uzvar, lean dumplings, mushroom borscht and cabbage rolls for the Eve, duck with prunes, buzhenina, honey-glazed pork, pike-perch and salmon for the feast, salads and starters, stollen, gingerbread and honey cake, cranberry mulled juice. Ready tables: lean Christmas Eve, Christmas dinner, in two hours, budget, for a big family, sweet.

50recipes
$0.18–$6.08per portion
5 min – 11 hto cook
134–1626kcal per portion

Plan a week from this collection

On January 6 the table is lean, on the 7th anything goes, and both have to come together in one weekend. Here are fifty dishes for Christmas and Christmas Eve, each with time, calories and a price per serving at your store's prices. For the Eve: kutia with honey and poppy seed, uzvar, lean mushroom borscht, dumplings with potato and cabbage, cabbage rolls with mushrooms. For the feast: duck with prunes, buzhenina, honey-glazed pork, chicken stuffed with buckwheat, pike-perch and salmon, with salads, julienne, kulebyaka and pies. For tea: stollen, gingerbread, nut crescents and honey cake.

Below are six ready tables. "Christmas Eve" has no meat, dairy or eggs, "Christmas dinner" has the duck and olivier, "In two hours" is salmon and quick starters, "Budget" is pork, herring and beetroot, "Big family" has buzhenina and kulebyaka, "Sweet" is for tea. Every recipe has a servings counter: set the number of guests and the grams and price are recalculated, and the shopping list covers everyone.

Ready menus

Christmas dinner

Duck with apples and prunes, olivier, herring under a fur coat, mushroom julienne, rosemary potatoes, medovik. Start the duck three hours ahead, make the herring salad and the medovik the day before.

Table in two hours

Salmon with orange and honey, squid and egg salad, mushroom tartlets, potatoes with mushrooms and garlic, baked apples with honey, hot chocolate with orange. Nothing over 45 minutes.

Budget table

Honey-glazed pork with prunes, beetroot salad with prunes, herring with potatoes and onion, cabbage and egg pies, spiced honey cake, cranberry mulled juice. The cheapest set in the collection.

Big family table

Buzhenina, chicken stuffed with buckwheat and mushrooms, fish kulebyaka, chicken and pomegranate salad, red cabbage with cranberries, honey cake with sour cream. Everything cuts into ten portions.

Sweet table

Stollen, gingerbread for a house, nut crescents, ginger cookies, hot apple punch, mulled wine. Bake the stollen a week ahead, the cookies two days ahead.

Salads 7

Layered Beetroot, Potato & Apple Salad Dinner1 h 50 min368 kcal≈ $1.87

Russian Salad (Olivier) Dinner45 min618 kcal≈ $1.78

Pickled Herring Under a Fur Coat Dinner4 h 30 min627 kcal≈ $2.27

Squid, Egg, and Fresh Cucumber Salad Dinner15 min276 kcal≈ $3.89

Beetroot Salad with Dates and Walnuts Dinner55 min305 kcal≈ $1.83

Chicken, Pomegranate, and Walnut Salad Dinner35 min578 kcal≈ $3.44

Chicken, Grapes, and Celery Salad Dinner35 min374 kcal≈ $2.88

Starters 9

Mushroom Julienne in Ramekins Snack30 min415 kcal≈ $2.39

Mushroom Cream Tartlets Snack20 min396 kcal≈ $1.62

Stuffed Cabbage and Egg Buns Snack2 h 10 min548 kcal≈ $0.59

Smoked Salmon and Farmer’s Cheese Canapés Snack15 min237 kcal≈ $2.10

Cheese platter with grapes and walnuts Snack5 min724 kcal≈ $5.60

Garlic & Dill Buns (Pampushky) Snack1 h 35 min323 kcal≈ $0.26

Stuffed Eggs with Mushroom Pâté Snack25 min289 kcal≈ $1.47

Smoked Sprat Sandwiches with Pickled Cucumber Snack10 min469 kcal≈ $2.35

Cheese Board with Honey, Nuts, and Pear Snack10 min434 kcal≈ $2.54

Soup 1

Vegetarian Mushroom & Bean Borscht Lunch1 h376 kcal≈ $1.76

Mains 19

Potato and Mushroom Dumplings (Varenyky) Lunch1 h 20 min605 kcal≈ $1.26

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls with Mushrooms and Rice Lunch1 h 30 min500 kcal≈ $1.82

Roast Duck with Apples and Prunes Dinner3 h917 kcal≈ $3.54

Rosemary & Garlic Potato Wedges Dinner45 min233 kcal≈ $0.57

Honey-Glazed Salmon with Orange Dinner20 min471 kcal≈ $5.11

Garlic & Mushroom Roasted Potatoes Dinner45 min356 kcal≈ $1.72

Pork Neck with Honey-Glazed Prunes Dinner1 h 30 min703 kcal≈ $2.37

Pickled Herring with Warm Potatoes, Onions, and Dill Dinner25 min487 kcal≈ $2.47

Baked Buzhenina (Pork Neck) Dinner2 h587 kcal≈ $1.65

Stuffed Chicken with Buckwheat and Mushrooms Dinner2 h687 kcal≈ $2.11

Fish and Rice Kulibyaka Lunch1 h671 kcal≈ $2.48

Red Cabbage Braised with Cranberries Dinner40 min253 kcal≈ $1.23

Duck stuffed with apples Dinner2 h 30 min1626 kcal≈ $6.08

Beef with Prunes and Carrots (Pot Roast Style) Dinner2 h 30 min789 kcal≈ $3.83

Stuffed Pike-Perch with Vegetables Dinner45 min374 kcal≈ $4.41

Lemon-Herb Baked Trout Steaks Dinner35 min462 kcal≈ $4.55

Caviar Toast with Butter Breakfast15 min425 kcal≈ $4.13

Pierogi with Braised Cabbage Lunch1 h 20 min518 kcal≈ $0.64

Buckwheat with Mushrooms and Fried Onions Dinner30 min443 kcal≈ $1.87

Dessert 14

Honey Pearl Barley Kutya with Poppy Seeds and Nuts Breakfast1 h489 kcal≈ $1.15

Spiced Dried Fruit Compote with Honey Snack55 min249 kcal≈ $1.37

Honey Cake (Medovik) Snack11 h695 kcal≈ $0.94

Baked Apples with Honey, Walnuts, and Raisins Snack25 min354 kcal≈ $1.49

Spiced Orange Hot Chocolate Snack10 min371 kcal≈ $1.21

Spiced Honey Cake Snack45 min622 kcal≈ $0.50

Non-Alcoholic Cranberry Glühwein Snack20 min229 kcal≈ $1.69

Honey Cake with Sour Cream Frosting and Walnuts Snack3 h503 kcal≈ $0.63

Christmas Fruit Stollen Snack3 h791 kcal≈ $1.22

Spiced Honey Gingerbread Cookies with Lemon Glaze Snack1 h 20 min774 kcal≈ $0.36

Walnuts in Powdered Sugar Crescents Snack45 min320 kcal≈ $0.43

Gingerbread Cookies Snack2 h 30 min402 kcal≈ $0.18

Spiced Apple Cider Snack15 min135 kcal≈ $0.78

Mulled Wine Snack20 min197 kcal≈ $2.06

How to use it

Open each dish of the table, set the number of guests in the servings counter and add it to the shopping list: the products merge into one list in whole packs. The quiz has a Christmas event that builds a festive table for your number of guests from this collection, and the "Build a week from the collection" button spreads the dishes across the week from Christmas Eve.

Bake the stollen a week ahead, it needs to rest. Two days ahead, the cookies and the honey cake; the day before, the kutia, uzvar, herring salad and buzhenina. The duck takes the oven for three hours, so cook its sides on the stove or put them in after, while the duck rests. The Christmas Eve dishes are made with vegetable oil and have no milk or eggs; check them if you keep a strict fast.

Plan a week from this collection

Questions

What can I cook for Christmas Eve?

Kutia of wheat or barley with honey, poppy seed and nuts, uzvar, lean mushroom borscht, dumplings with potato or cabbage, cabbage rolls with mushrooms and rice, buckwheat with mushrooms, a layered beetroot salad without herring. The Christmas Eve table is built without meat, dairy or eggs.

What main course should I cook for Christmas?

Duck with apples and prunes, buzhenina, honey-glazed pork, chicken stuffed with buckwheat and mushrooms, a beef roast with prunes, pike-perch or salmon. All of them go into the oven and need no supervision.

What can I cook for Christmas on a budget?

Pork with prunes, herring with potatoes, beetroot salad with prunes, cabbage pies, spiced honey cake and cranberry mulled juice. The Budget table is these six, and the price per guest is under the list.

What should I bake for Christmas?

Stollen with dried fruit, gingerbread for a house and the tree, nut crescents, ginger cookies, spiced honey cake, honey layer cake. Stollen and gingerbread keep for a week, so bake them first.

What can replace the duck at Christmas?

A whole chicken with buckwheat and mushrooms, buzhenina, honey-glazed pork or a beef roast with prunes. Chicken and pork cost half as much as duck and spend the same time in the oven.