The best Christmas recipes from the (Insta)chefs in a row
The holidays are just around the corner and anyone who follows Bart has already seen a lot of 'Christmas'. By inspiration on how to celebrate Christmas to the best Christmas movies. In addition to the filling, filling the belly (ha, nice!) is also important during the Christmas period. You can choose to to pick up goodies, but you can also cook yourself. How? With the (very) best Christmas recipes from chefs. See here: all recipes - drinks, before, main, after - from chefs in a row.
(just a nice idea: put all the recipes in a large jar and draw lots for the coming week: that is what you will eat that day (or the next, because of groceries and such))
We can never get enough of spaghetti and that is why it is such a delicious main dish during the holidays. With pasta you can make it as special as you want, go all out this Christmas.
To give you a helping hand, Lynn has a spaghetti recipe with no-waste cheese. Yes, you heard it right, no waste cheese. Ricotta is made from the residual products of the cheese factory and is super tasty in combination with pasta. Good luck with cooking!
Read Lynn van de Vorst's recipe here!
When you think of a color associated with Christmas, you naturally think of… RED! (or green...) How nice is it if this color can be seen on the dinner table this Christmas? By decorating the table you naturally add some color to it, but a striking dish always works wonders. Veggilaine has the perfect (red) Christmas recipe for the holidays: beetroot risotto with burrata and walnut crumbs.
Doesn't this sound like music to your ears? Good luck and, above all, have fun eating!
You need an oven for many dishes made during Christmas dinner. They are often super tasty, but they do cause some stress in terms of timing. To avoid all that stress, enjoy your Christmas dinner to the fullest and be able to empty your plate in peace, it is nice to prepare a lot in advance. This No-Bake Chocolate Cake recipe from Rens Kroes is an ideal dessert that you can prepare before your visit arrives. It doesn't even need to be in the oven, it's that easy. Have fun baking!
Don't make it too difficult for yourself during the holidays. Make sure the table is nicely set with beautiful tableware and candles; a good appearance is half the battle. By making a recipe that you can serve beautifully on plates without too much fuss, you make things a little easier for yourself. Because admit it, those holidays already bring more than enough stress.
Sanne has a delicious recipe: Chicken in creamy mushroom sauce with sun-dried tomato, spinach and Parmesan. This recipe has a lot of flavor and requires little effort; best of both worlds.
The moment has come again; The courses have been divided again for the holidays and you have been given responsibility for dessert. Of course you want to make something delicious that will really impress your in-laws. The well-known and oh-so-inspiring Pien has a delicious recipe ready for you.
How about a Trifle with raspberries, passion fruit curd and mini meringues?
Burrata is indispensable these days, and neither is this delicious recipe from chef SuzieLenghi. With this beet tartare with burrata and beet oil, the holidays will certainly not go wrong. Now let's be honest, doesn't this look delicious? It is a super tasty starter to start the Christmas dinner well. The recipe can be made in just 30 minutes (+ 1 hour oven time).
Read here how you can prepare SuzieLenghi's recipe yourself.
Bart is good at long tables! So start your Christmas dinner with cozy Christmas amuse-bouche; these are small snacks before you start the big Christmas dinner (you know). Especially for all cheese lovers, Pauline from Uit Paulines Keuken has three delicious cheese recipes to get your Christmas dinner off to a good start.
For example, she has a recipe for a mini cheese fondue, fried Kaltbach creamy and Focaccia with carpaccio and Tête de Moine AOP.
Why make it difficult when it can be easy? All that stress at Christmas about the perfect dinner, the craziness that everyone thinks they have to comply with... Caviar, truffles, foie gras, the best wines and so on are sprinkled around. That's right, that's nice, but secretly it's quite a hassle. And it always hurts in the wallet...
Well, then you should try this recipe! It is fun to cook and not too much hassle. Ha! Every half hour we look at the stew, then enjoy each other and the Christmas atmosphere. Because people, during the happiest time of the year, you really shouldn't make things more difficult for yourself than necessary at Christmas - or at all.
Bart went out and rang the alarm at the hotel The Dylan on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. There we picked up the tastiest Christmas recipe from Michelin star chef Dennis Kuipers(*) from restaurant Vinkeles. Is it difficult, his menu? No! That is our request to the chefs: tasty and delicious idiot-proof. You can thank us later. Fun fact: Chef Kuipers received his first Michelin star when this recipe was put on the menu of restaurant Vinkeles.
This recipe is a delicious starter, or how about at the end of the afternoon, a good start next to your third glass of bubbles.
Christmas without food coma It's not quite a real Christmas, is it? On and around (and after) December 25, you expect a little more from dinner. And not just dinner: it's actually a party all day long. Food and drinks. On to part 2: le food. Although you still have to make it yourself. It's fun, it really is (and then damn tasty, if it does it right).
Stefan Schuchard, the chef of Restaurant Kien, you know, that top restaurant in Amsterdam-West, shares its ultimate Christmas recipe here. Coq au vin it is.
Chef Peter takes a comprehensive approach with a cold and warm version of the langoustine and quite a few components. But people, you got this. As the picture reveals, this is how you prepare the dish the way Peter does it. Good luck and have fun eating!
De Nederlanden, a Michelin star restaurant with delightful bedrooms close to Amsterdam. At the helm is star chef Wilco Berends, best known for his signature oyster tasting.
In addition to the restaurant, De Nederlanden also has eleven beautifully furnished hotel rooms and a suite. Wilco's wife Caroline was mainly involved in the furnishing of the rooms and is a master hostess. To the point: Star chef Wilco also shares his favorite Christmas recipe with us. One to print out and frame: soufflé of vanilla and cottage cheese with banana ice cream.
The recipes of star chef Sergio Herman's favorite dishes. His favorite, he told us himself, is twice comfort food (hurray! Sergio is not foreign to anything human). Both recipes come from Sergio's book 'Simple Food'. Twice as tasty: we have a recipe for fish lovers and one for carnivores.
Convenient? Groenlo? More soon, but first this because we sounded the alarm and then... Rolled out this delicious Christmas recipe from the Top Hat from the East (that is, from the country). Wonderful for the holidays, but also one to remember afterwards. What?
Cauliflower couscous with braised vegetables, mustard seeds and potato-quinoa crisp. Exactly, no meat or fish this Christmas if it were up to team Groenlo: vegetarian it is.
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