Amazing Christmas Dinner Dishes Everyone Will Love
Christmas is the time of year to spend time with family and friends. Christmas Dinner dishes is a great way to bring everyone in the family together and enjoy each other’s company. Here are some recipes from Recipes.com that you should consider making for Christmas dinner this year.
Macaroni and Cheese
Macaroni and cheese is a great Christmas dinner dish that everyone is going to love. Macaroni and cheese is a comfort food that is delicious to eat. Here is a Mac & Cheese recipe by Marg CaymanDesigns.
Mac & Cheese Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 ounces elbow macaroni, cooked
- 8 ounces cheddar cheese or 8 ounces Colby cheese, shredded
- 1⁄4 – 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
- saltine crackers or cheese crackers, crushed
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- salt and pepper
Directions
- Spray a flat-bottomed casserole dish with vegetable spray.
- Put half of the macaroni in the dish, top with half of the shredded cheese.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Repeat
- Mix the melted butter and enough crushed saltines to absorb the butter, together.
- Spread on top of the cheese layer.
- Pour milk slowly overall.
- Bake at 350°F for 35-45 minutes or until milk is no longer liquid.
- Let sit for at least 10 minutes before serving.
- Then one of your Christmas Dinner dishes will be ready to serve
Collard Greens
Collard greens are one of the best vegetables for Christmas dinner dishes you can put on the dinner table. This recipe for Southern Collard Greens is by Southern Chef in Lo.
Southern Collard Greens Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 bunch collard greens, washed and cut into pieces do not cut up the stems
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup vinegar
- salt and pepper
- 3 hot peppers, chopped up
- 2 large ham hocks (also you could use a ham bone, smoked bacon about 7 slices or any other smoked pork product)
- 1⁄4 cup water
Directions
- Saute your onion in a large cast-iron pot with just a touch of oil (1 tsp). Add your smoked pork product and let some of the juices start to flow from it (about 5 minutes worth of cooking).
- Meanwhile, mix water, vinegar, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and the chopped hot pepper together. Pour into pot and stir.
- Add the greens. Mix up after each handfull. Don’t worry, the greens will come to the top but will reduce as the cooking wilts them.
- Continue to stir until wilted; then turn to low, cover and let cook for about 2 hours stirring once in a while and tasting to see if you need more salt and pepper.
Ham
Ham is a part of Christmas dinner dishes that have sat on many people’s dinner tables. There are many ways that ham can be prepared, but this recipe by AuntWoofieWoof is for a Savory Ham that your family is going to love.
Savory Spiral Cut Ham Recipe
Ingredient
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 (7 lb) spiral cut ham
- honey glaze mix (packet that came with the ham)
- 1 (14 ounces) can Swanson’s chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard
- 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
Directions
- You will also need 1 large Reynolds Oven Cooking Bag (turkey size).
- Heat the oven to 325°F.
- Put the flour into the cooking bag and shake the bag until it is completely covered with the flour.
- Do not remove the remaining flour from the bag (I didn’t anyway).
- This prevents the bag from exploding in the oven while baking.
- Place the bag in a large cake pan or a roasting pan.
- Open the bag and put the ham in it, cut side down.
- Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, mix the chicken broth, honey glaze mix, mustard, and orange juice over medium heat until the glaze mix, and orange juice concentrate are dissolved.
- Pour it over the ham.
- With a tie that came with the bag, tightly seal the bag.
- Cut 6-1 inch slits into the top and upper sides of the bag to allow steam to escape.
- Make sure the bag is completely inside the pan.
- Do not allow any of it to hang over the sides of the pan.
- Place on middle rack of the oven, allowing enough room for the bag to expand without touching the top heating coil.
- This prevents the bag from melting.
- Bake for approximately 1 hour or until the ham slices begin to separate, and the top of the ham starts to brown.
- Lower the oven temp to 200°F and let the ham sit in the oven until the rest of the meal is ready.
- You could probably lower it to 175°F if you want to.
- Spiral cut ham is precooked, so it does not have to reach a certain temperature.
- You are just warming it or making it hot for a hot meal.
- When you are ready, remove the ham from the oven.
- Allow it to cool enough to touch the bag.
- Remove the tie from the bag and slowly tear the bag open at the top of it.
- Remove ham and place it on a large plate or a platter.
- Allow to cool slightly before cutting it.
- Pour the juices from the baking/roasting into a saucepan and make gravy with it or pour it into a container and save it for soup.
- Taste the juice from the ham.
- If it is very strong tasting, (mine was) you may need to add water, a little at a time until it is at your desired strength.
Save the ham bone to make ham stock or soup with, leaving some of the meat on the bone.
Sweet Potato Pie
A Christmas dinner will not be complete without a sweet potato pie. Sweet potato pie is a part of the Christmas dinner dishes that your family is going to fight overeating because it is that good. The recipe if from Ratherbeswimmin.
Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
Ingredients
- Sweet Potato Pie
- 1⁄3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, softened
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3⁄4 cup evaporated milk
- 2 cups mashed sweet potatoes
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 9 inches unbaked pie shells
Directions
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
- Add eggs; mix well.
- Add milk, sweet potatoes, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; mix well.
- Pour into pie shell.
- Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Reduce heat to 350 degrees; bake 35-40 minutes longer or until pie tests done.
- Cool; Store in refrigerator.
