Are you famished! Don’t worry we bring you top 10 menus for Christmas dinner, which is enough to heighten your festive spirits.
 

Starters

Prawn and Avocado Salad:  This is a straightforward and soothing starter recipe for Christmas. This salad ignites your spirits, without adding to your waistline.
Tips: You can prepare this salad in advance and freeze it. The salad should be kept covered in a bowl.

Spicy Squash Soup: This soup has a Caribbean origin. You can use any winter squash like: Calabaza, Hubbard squash, butternut, or sugar pumpkin, to prepare this soup.  
Tips: Serve it after garnishing with chives and pumpkin seeds.

Christmas Dinner

Honey Glazed Ham:  The honey, butter glaze on the ham, makes it a perfect choice for Christmas dinner.  You can enjoy the fruity and spicy flavors in a single dish.
Tips: Remove ham from the oven and cover it with foil and allow it to sit for 10 minutes.  Serve after drizzling pan juices on each piece of the ham.

Potatoes Grand Mere:  The scalloped potatoes are treated with heavy cream. You can serve it with ham. This phenomenal dish can be served during all times.
Tips: You need to bake it till the cheese turns golden brown and potatoes turn soft.

Roasted Chicken with Fresh Herbs:  This year why don't you try herbed chicken in place of a turkey? The aromatic blend of herbs and spices make it worth trying.
Tips: Don’t add vegetables to the roasting pan.

Sour Cream Cherry Fruit Salad Mold: This gorgeous salad is noted for its incredibly lush pink demeanor.  The fruity and nutty flavor of the mold will blow you out of your senses.  This not so sweet mold is perfect to be served during all celebrations.
Tips:  Ensure that the pits of the cherries are removed. To impart a distinguished fruit punch, add canned fruit juices to it.

Dessert

Coconut Cake with Fluffy Icing: By seeing a slice of the cake you might nurse an impression that it has transcended right from heaven. You might hear some chefs saying that the cake can be prepared and stored in advance, but that's not really good. They taste good only when prepared on the main day.
Tips:  For an added effect press handfuls of coconut over the cake, before serving.

Creamy Ginger Filling:  You don't need to work hard for getting it right. Only you have to blend all the ingredients in an electric mixer. Ginger, butter, sugar and honey - wow! What a feisty combination. This combination delivers tantalizing flavor to the dish.
Tips:  This filling can be stored in refrigerator for at least 3 days.

Cocktail

Vanilla Citrus Punch: We bet everyone will yearn for it. If you feel that the punch has turned quite straight, then you can make it wicked by adding a dose of your favorite rum.
Tips:  Add ginger ale or club soda before serving.

Traditional Egg nog: A Christmas is incomplete without eggnog. Unlike the previous years, you can try out preparing it at home itself. For an added effect add freshly grated nutmegs.
Tips : The egg nog should be refrigerated for an hour or two for  experiencing the punch of the brandy added to it.  

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