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Light menu for Christmas

Courses

Toasts with smoked salmon
Assorted raw vegetables with Taste sauce

Strangozzi with truffles

Delicate sturgeon
Lemon sorbet
Sparkling wine-flavoured quails
with seasonal salad

Orange jelly

Wine

Prosecco di Conegliano Valdobbiadene
(sparkling wine from Italy)

This menu is composed by simple but refined dishes; you can realize it not only for Christmas but also for other special occasions. In fact you can find all the ingredients in every season.
You can prepare all dishes in the morning but you have to make orange jelly the day before because it needs cooling time in the refrigerator.
If you look at the recipes, you can see they are low fat recipes; in fact we don't use butter but olive oil and you can't find mayonnaise or cream among the ingredients. We use a lot of fruit and vegetables. You can also cook quails without bacon.
You can see every recipe if you click on its title; doses are modifiable according to the number of your guests. In any case email us, if you need some suggestions
You can choose the vegetables you prefer for preparing your antipasto: carrots, celery, onions, artichokes, tomatoes, ... .
Planning everything is very easy. You have to prepare the dessert the day before; you can also prepare grated truffles in oil the day before.
The day after you have to boil court-bouillon for sturgeon, cook the quails, clean and wash green salad and all the vegetables to be served with the taste sauce. You need 90-100 minutes for all these steps.
You have to prepare toasts (bruschetta) with smoked salmon just before serving. Prepare strangozzi and warm up court-bouillon while your guests are eating antipasto. When your guests are eating pasta, you can boil fish. Sturgeon is to be served hor or warm.
This menu is only a suggestion; if you want, you can look for other light recipes in our website.

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