17 Ideas for your Easy and Cheap Christmas menu 2024!
We are in November and Christmas it's in 1 month ! The holidays are fast approaching and honestly, this is the time of year that I prefer the most 🤭! I decided to make you easier the task by offering you flat ideas for your cheap Christmas menu , since life has become super expensive in this year 2024. Know that all Christmas recipes prospect in this article are already available in the blog.
What Christmas menu for this year 2024?
Look for a Christmas menu, is not always easy. But when I was little, I loved this task. My mother let us think about a Christmas and New Year menu . It was then an opportunity to look for the recipes that we were not used to cooking normally in the year .. lol
Here are 15 recipe ideas for a Christmas menu , I hope you will find recipes that you will like:
1-Salade of original pasta with Mayo-Easy & Quick!
An idea of cold entry for your festival menus, it is simply an easy and very fast original pasta salad . This recipe reminds me too much of Macedonia that my mom liked to make during the holidays in the country!
Entrance: very easy | Preparation time: 15 min
2. Fruit salad
For an economic Christmas, think of the fruit! The idea is to make a small fruit salad as a starter dish using seasonal fruit on the one hand, because seasonal fruits are generally not very expensive. But on the other hand to keep the originality and bring a touch of pep's to your menu, you can mix with exotic fruits.
3. Tuna pastels | Pili Pili
A appetite mouth perfect as starters . Tuna pastels are very popular in Senegal but not only. They are also known as Pili Pili in Cameroon . For this recipe I used only 1 fish with about 400 grams of flour about 4 and I obtained exactly 28 pastels. It was a lot! The recipe is not quick that I admit, but it is very simple and can be nice to do with children.
Entrance: Easy | Preparation time: 120 min
4. Meat bread
After the small starters, let's now go to the main dish of our menu!
When I discovered this recipe, I immediately thought that I had to share it with you. Meat bread, or Meatloaf, is a perfect dish to epate your guests. The dish is mainly composed of minced meat and spices, baked in a bread mold and topped with a sauce over it!
Check the recipe here: meat .
5. Mayo chicken from the DRC
After the small starters, let's now go to the main dish of our menu!
Direction the DRC with this “African” mayonnaise chicken recipe . So the Mayo chicken is simply well -seasoned chicken cooked/ toasted first on wood fire. Then the cooking ends in a foil . So we add the onions to the grilled chicken, pepper, chili, mayonnaise before closing everything together for the 2nd part of cooking. In this way, the chicken cooked slowly by soaking up from Mayo, ohlala is too bonnnn !!!!
Check the recipe here: Mayo chicken from the DRC
6. Crispy fried fried poulet: easy and quick recipe!
If you don't want to make the Mayo chicken with 2 cooking etc 😄 ... I suggest you make this little super easy chicken ecette : fried chicken wing with a marinade really different from the one you are used to seeing. The mixture of spices used in the soy honey marinade , will not only give a beautiful golden color to your chicken, but the taste will be really incomparable. The chicken will be tender, with a slightly caramelized, salty and spicy taste at the same time . If you don't want to break your head too much, this recipe is made for you! Fast and so good. It would also be perfect for prompts with a little hunger!
Check the recipe here: Crispy fried chicken: easy and quick recipe!
7. Pork skewer
For a simple and original menu, what could be better than a small skewer served at the table? They are easy to do, because cooking is done in the oven! And presents itself well, I want to say. For my pork skewers, I opted this time for a 100% Cameroonian marinade , because I mainly use the country's spices. These spices you can also undoubtedly find them in Afro stores here in Europe
Check the recipe here: pork skewers
8. Eru Cameroon
The ERU is undoubtedly the second best known dish in Cameroon , after the Ndolé . Personally, when I go to a party and there is eru on the table, I start by using a small amount. Later, if I still have a little hollow, I nibble some chips or chicken fries, haha! When the ERU is well prepared, it is so delicious . I think this dish would be perfect as a main dish for your party menu, especially if you want to offer an African menu .
Check the recipe here: the best recipe for the eru Cameroon
9. Yassa Poisson
So for those looking for African dishes with fish Yassa Fish in the oven recipe is made for you. It is an in addition super simple and easy to make. Ideal for your Christmas or New Year meals ! Because it is a dish that is both super original and very delicious!
Check the recipe here: Yassa Poisson: Easy and quick recipe!
10. Attiéké Poisson
It is direction Côte d'Ivoire with this Far dish of Ivorian gastronomy. The dish is mainly composed of fried fish , Attiéke ( cassava semolina ), condiments , a spicy sauce , a small salad, and fries of plantains. What could be better to threate your guests with a dish served in this way!
Check the recipe here: Attiéké Poisson
11. ACCOMPENSION SAUces: African pepper and green sauce!
I think that in your Christmas menu, accompaniment sauces should not miss. They are ideal for serving the grills or simply to accompany the dishes. Here are 2 recipes that you will surely like.
12. Sautéed shrimp rice
You agree with me, a menu of festivals without rice. It's rare, right? Almost everyone likes to eat rice well. And me too! But we are far from classic recipes, which we are used to making during the year. For this menu, I offer a fairly original rice recipe, anyway and super quick to do in addition.
Check the recipe here: Sautéed shrimp rice
13. Plantains fries | Alloco
Now let's go to the accompanimnet for your dishes!
Plantains' fries are never missing during a meal for December 25 in Africa. It is perfect for accompanying your dishes, whether it be chicken, meat or even rice. Without forgetting that the fries are super easy to do
Support: very easy | Preparation time: 15 min
Check the recipe here: the best alloco recipe, with all my tips!
14. Spicy Alloco: Kelewele from Ghana!
As an alternative to the special Alloco, you can do the Kelewele or spicy alloco of Ghana! The Kelewele or the AlloCo Epices are simply the fries of Plantains to which are first added the Epices Avat to fry as its name suggests. Me here, I added garlic, onions, ginger, salt, pepper and the powder . I would say that the choice of spices depends on your tastes. Ideal support for your Christmas menu!
Check the recipe here: spicy Alloco: Kelewele du Ghana!
15. Bissap juice: easy recipe with pineapple and mint!
Who says menu, also says drink, is not true? lol instead of buying a lot of drinks at the supermarket. What is often expensive, you can opt for a homemade juice , why not? Or even make a mix of the 2. Think of plain juice L, and pay twice as many drinks at the super market!
Check the recipe here: bissap juice: easy recipe with pineapple and mint!
16. Moelleux marbled cake: Inratable recipe!
We end with a sweet note . I offer you an easy -to -make dessert recipe. You will love my recipe marbled cake because it is:
- Perfect for the holidays - everyone feasts on! Especially if you want to make a super easy and quick dessert for your guests without breaking your head
- My marbled cake is ultra soft and light .
Check the recipe here: soft marbled cake: inractable recipe!
17- African Croquette
African kibbles are small crisp shortbreads, cooked in frying, very often sweet, slightly salty or neutral . They are also part of the pastries that are prepared during the Christmas holidays to receive family and friends or just to offer them especially in Nigeria . I advise you to make your kibbles the day before Christmas, because preparation still takes enough time! Do not worry about conservation, it can be kept for several days in an airtight jar!
Check the recipe here: the best African kibble recipe (Cameroon)
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