Christmas lunch is less than two weeks away and if you haven’t decided on a menu yet, these celebrities-approved recipes will save the day
From Chrissy Teigen’s juicy roast chicken to Siba Mtongana’s malva pudding, these dishes will leave your guest wanting more.
Actress Alicia Silverstone also has some vegan-friendly recipes for non-meat eaters.
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy is big on Christmas and big on cooking. The model loves cooking so much that she released her own cookbook called Cravings.
She shared some of her favourite holiday recipes with Vogue magazine in 2016.
“I love my roasted chicken recipe – it’s rubbed with loads of garlic butter with a ton of fresh herbs and lemon zest, and more is stuffed underneath the skin. I snuggle up two to a pan, breast-side down so you’re left with an extremely juicy roasted chicken with a perfectly crispy skin,” she told the publication.
Chrissy also enjoys making Dutch baby pancakes.
“My Dutch baby pancake are my favourite to make for holiday mornings, especially when you have a good crowd of friends or family around. It comes out of the oven so perfectly golden brown and puffed up like a beautiful, buttery cloud. I like to put out a buffet of warm syrup, berries, cream, lemons, and powdered sugar (and Champagne!) so people can do up their slices as they please.”
You can find the recipe for her Dutch baby pancakes on the Vogue website.
Siba Mtongana
Siba Mtongana’s Christmas menu includes her famous Sunday Trifle recipe. You can’t have Christmas without the traditional dessert. The celebrity cook loves adding cream cheese and strawberry yogurt to her trifle.
She told ZAlebs in 2015 that the key to a successful Christmas lunch is to ask family for help.
“Plan in advance and ask family members to help with making at least one recipe each. For instance, draw up the menu and do the mains and dessert, and ask others to do the starter, salads and sides. That takes huge pressure off the one person,” she said.
Siba shared a tasty hack on how to “revamp a store-bought cake” for your festive season guests on Instagram. Her famous malva pudding recipe will leave friends and family drooling.
Alicia Silverstone
Vegan mom Alicia posts vegan recipes on her blog, ‘The Kind Life’.
Some of the dishes include Cuban Style Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Dreamy Pear Trifle and Mississippi Vegan’s Apple Rose Tart. She recently shared a delicious creamy tahini dressing that will come in handy this holiday season.
