For the upcoming Christmas, do you have any suggestions for dishes for the party? Together with the section Cooking Tips, let’s pocket 15 Christmas menus with many delicious dishes for the family that are both lovely, nutritious, and can stimulate the visual and taste senses to the maximum. Let’s get cooking with TasteVN!
1Christmas Party Dishes
Dishes made from beef
* Beef steak
Beef steak is a popular dish loved by many people all over the world.
Beef steak is prepared in many styles, bringing unique and delicious flavors from each country, combined with various sauces to create a very distinctive taste.
The beef is cooked just right, tender, juicy, blending with the fragrant sauce, and eaten with crispy fried potatoes will be “addictive” from the very first taste!
* Grilled beef
At parties, the fragrant grilled beef marinated with rich spices, bringing an irresistible flavor, is a must-have.
You can grill the beef combined with fat, betel leaves, five spices, satay, cheese,… all are very delicious and attractive.
* Beef Salad
Beef salad is an extremely effective dish to relieve heaviness during family meals; this colorful and nutritious salad will be a wonderful choice.
Beef, when lightly stir-fried, retains its softness and delicious flavor, evoking the natural sweetness in the meat. Served with various herbs, sour bananas, sour starfruit, pineapple, and a sweet, sour, spicy sauce that is irresistibly flavorful.
* Braised Beef
When it comes to beef dishes, braised beef is the most popular, with tender beef that absorbs rich spices, resulting in a delicious thick broth.
You can braise beef with potatoes, carrots, papayas, lemongrass, Chinese herbs, etc., to have more options for your braised beef dish.
* Beef Hot Pot
With the chilly weather on Christmas Eve, gathering together to enjoy a hot beef hot pot is simply the best.
The broth is clear and sweet, and the beef is tender and chewy, served with various greens or mushrooms to enjoy a more authentic beef hot pot!
* Beef Lagu
The next equally attractive beef dish is traditional beef lagu, which is cooked during parties or memorial services, especially during Tet.
When you bite into the beef, you’ll feel it melt in your mouth. The soft, fragrant potatoes blend with the rich flavors of the broth, served with bread dipped in a bit of chili salt for a delicious treat!
* Beef with Green Peppercorn
Next is the dish of beef with green peppercorn, which has a very unique flavor, with the strong aroma of green peppercorn combined with tender, sweet beef, all harmonizing with the spicy and fragrant taste of green peppercorn that creates an irresistible flavor.
This dish is also delicious when served with bread!
Chicken Dishes
* Grilled Chicken
Grilled chicken is a familiar dish on the menu of family parties, especially in Western families, with its fragrant, flavorful aroma, and attractive colors, grilled chicken will surely melt many hearts when they see and smell this dish.
If you are still hesitating to find a grilled dish that is both delicious and easy to make, check out 16 attractive grilled chicken recipes that are sure to please your whole family.
If you are still hesitating to find a grilled dish that is both delicious and easy to make, check out 16 attractive grilled chicken recipes that are sure to please your whole family.
* Chicken Hot Pot
The next chicken dish that TasteVN suggests for you is the steaming hot chicken hot pot, which will make the atmosphere of the Christmas party warmer and more intimate.
The hot pot broth is a perfect combination of light sweet flavors, served with vegetables such as water spinach, amaranth, loofah,… making the hot pot more delicious. Moreover, the chicken meat is firm and flavorful, blending perfectly with the soft mushrooms, truly delightful.
* Chicken Salad
Chicken salad is often very popular because of its simple preparation and incredibly appealing, nutritious flavor. The moderately sweet and sour dressing, along with the fragrant and rich chicken, is indeed a perfect combination.
You can refer to 12 delicious chicken salad recipes below to have the authentic chicken salad for your Christmas party.
* Chicken cooked with beans
You can combine chicken with various types of beans such as green beans, white beans, black beans, mung beans, or peas to prepare a nourishing chicken cooked with beans dish for the whole family.
The chicken after cooking is very tender and juicy, not at all mushy or crumbly, while the beans are incredibly refreshing, creamy, and very easy to eat.
* Fried chicken
Next is the irresistible crispy fried chicken dish, which is fried to a golden crisp without being dry or tough, just like in restaurants. It will surely make your party livelier.
From adults to children, everyone is attracted to the golden fried chicken, dipping it in chili sauce or ketchup makes it even more delicious.
* Stewed Chicken
A famous nutritious dish from the Chinese that will be an interesting choice for your family’s Christmas dinner is stewed chicken.
Stewed chicken with Chinese herbs or stewed with mushrooms and lotus seeds has a delicious and rich flavor that is very unique. The broth is light and sweet, and the chicken meat is tender and rich, absolutely perfect.
Dishes from Duck
* Grilled Duck
Grilled duck is a familiar and rustic dish chosen for festive occasions and family gatherings, a delicious dish that cannot be missed.
The duck is marinated with spices and then grilled in various ways, bringing an irresistible aroma and unforgettable flavor. The duck meat is tender and rich, and dipping it in salt and lime is incredibly delicious.
* Roasted Duck
Surely you are no stranger to the roasted duck dish that carries the flavor of home, often present in the menu of Vietnamese people.
The roasted duck, when completed, has a beautiful golden color and a delicious aroma, with a crispy skin on the outside and soft, sweet meat on the inside that is not at all dry. This dish is best enjoyed hot, served with bread, and dipped in a rich sauce – what could be better?
* Duck Lagu
When mentioning duck lagu, you immediately think of lavish parties, as it is the main dish on the menu for celebrations and memorial days.
To make a delicious duck lagu, coconut milk is indispensable, bringing a distinctive richness that no other ingredient can replace. The sauce is a golden-brown, thick texture with tender, juicy duck meat served with various delicious vegetables.
* Duck Stewed with Fermented Bean Sauce
You must have tried the fragrant and rich duck stewed with fermented bean sauce, which captivates you from the first bite.
The stewed duck has an eye-catching color, a fragrant aroma that fills the room, and tender duck meat soaked in spices. You can dip the vegetables to eat along with rice noodles to enjoy this dish correctly.
* Duck Hotpot
Duck hotpot has been transformed to a new level, becoming a dish present in all restaurants and eateries, especially loved by everyone.
The duck hotpot pot is steaming, with the delicious and rich flavor of coconut water, tender and flavorful duck meat, maintaining its original chewiness. The sticky and creamy taro and yam pieces combine with crispy water spinach, making it even more appealing.
Dishes from Pork
* Pig Ear Salad
Pork ears with their irresistible crispiness are chosen by housewives to prepare delicious dishes that can effectively relieve greasiness.
Pork ears combined with various fresh vegetables create a famous pork ear salad that becomes more addictive with each bite. You can refer to some ways to make pork ear salad below to add to your Christmas menu!
Pork ears combined with various fresh vegetables create a famous pork ear salad that becomes more addictive with each bite. You can refer to some ways to make pork ear salad below to add to your Christmas menu!
* Shrimp and Pork Salad
Salads are always highly regarded for stimulating the taste buds, making our meals more enjoyable. Therefore, the shrimp and pork salad that TasteVN introduces to you next will be an indispensable dish at your party.
With the main ingredient being shrimp, you can combine it with coconut heart, lotus stems, banana flowers, water spinach, papaya,… to prepare a delicious salad as you desire.
* Salted Pork Leg
Next, a delicious cold dish made from pork that is particularly good for health is salted pork leg, a dish that is steamed without much oil, effectively reducing greasiness.
Salted pork leg is usually marinated with rich spices and then boiled thoroughly; this dish is best enjoyed cold, paired with pickled scallions or pickles along with fresh vegetables, it will be fantastic!
* Braised Pork Leg
Braised pork leg is a healthy dish, rich in vitamins that nourish the blood and help boost collagen to improve your skin. This dish is also very suitable for a Christmas dinner menu, and the whole family will surely praise its deliciousness.
Seafood Dishes
* Seafood Salad
Seafood salad is a delicious dish with fresh ingredients like squid and shrimp combined with green mango, taro, and lotus stems, creating a visually appealing dish with a rich sweet and sour flavor that will delight you.
Below are some detailed ways to make seafood salad; you can check them out to prepare this salad for your Christmas party!
* Grilled Squid
Next is the grilled squid that will make you “unable to sit still” when enjoying it!
The grilled squid remains fresh and firm just like the original. Besides the natural sweetness in each piece of squid, there is a savory flavor enhanced by spicy satay that tingles on your tongue. Absolutely delicious!
* Grilled shrimp
Grilled shrimp is the next suggestion to add joy to this year’s year-end Christmas party.
With an extremely simple preparation method and easily found ingredients, the grilled shrimp dish produced will not disappoint everyone.
Fresh and sweet shrimp combined with the wonderful spicy flavor of satay, dipped in sauce or salt and pepper with lime is truly “irresistible”.
* Fried shrimp
Fried shrimp is also a strong candidate that you should pay attention to with an extremely simple preparation method, featuring a crispy golden crust and the enticing aroma of fresh shrimp, seasoned to perfection, incredibly flavorful.
If you like, you can prepare fried shrimp in various styles such as: crispy fried shrimp, cheese fried shrimp, garlic butter fried shrimp, lemongrass fried shrimp, chili salt fried shrimp,… to enhance the flavor and uniqueness of the Christmas party.
* Dishes from crab
For seafood lovers, crab is a must-try dish, which can be prepared in many ways, especially salt and chili fried, tamarind fried, which are very popular.
The white crab meat has a rich flavor and a faint aroma that evokes the taste of the sea, surely your family will love it. To enhance the flavor of the dish, you can dip crab in a sour and spicy lime and pepper sauce.
* Dishes from trumpet snails
Trumpet snails have delicious, chewy, and sweet meat, and they also contain a large amount of vitamins and essential minerals for the body.
Dishes from trumpet snails can include: steamed trumpet snails with lemongrass, salt-fried trumpet snails, garlic-fried trumpet snails, tamarind stir-fried trumpet snails,… which will help make your menu richer and more appealing.
* Dishes from butter snails
Dishes from butter snails are unmissable, especially stir-fried dishes made from butter snails that are incredibly delicious and close to the Vietnamese people, especially those who love seafood.
Garlic stir-fried butter snails, tamarind stir-fried butter snails, garlic butter stir-fried butter snails, water spinach stir-fried butter snails and countless other attractive dishes from butter snails will not disappoint you, the sweet and chewy flavor of butter snail meat blends with the spices emitting an irresistible aroma.
* Dishes from clams
Next are the clam dishes that seafood lovers definitely cannot miss. With extremely simple and quick preparation methods, delicious clam dishes such as steamed clams with lemongrass, grilled clams with scallion oil, garlic fried clams, clam curry,… are loved by many people.
The recipes below will help you have more suggestions for making clam dishes that are truly fragrant and delicious.
* Dishes from scallops
Do scallop dishes make you fascinated? Dishes made from scallops have rich flavors, sweet taste, provide high nutritional value, and with simple preparation methods, are an extremely suitable choice to add to your home party menu.
Below, TasteVN suggests 20 recipes to make scallop dishes more attractive, flavorful, and delicious.
* Fish Hot Pot
There’s nothing better than gathering with loved ones on Christmas Eve to enjoy a steaming hot fish hot pot, spreading a warm aroma in the chilly air of the year-end.
Looking at the pot of fish hot pot steaming with smoke, served with various vegetables and a bowl of spicy chili fish sauce, it looks really tempting. When you bite into it, the sweet, tender, and smooth taste of the fish makes you feel like the flavors of the sea are rushing back to you.
* Seafood Hot Pot
A fragrant seafood hot pot, full of eye-catching colors from shrimp, squid, tomatoes, pineapple, and various green vegetables is boiling on the stove, releasing aromatic steam, very enticing and making you want to eat right away.
The broth is sour and sweet from the seafood and various mushrooms, fragrant with lemongrass and ginger, blended with the aroma of hot pot spices. Served with fresh rice noodles or noodles dipped in salty fish sauce is delicious for sure.
Appetizers
* Fried Rice
Fried rice is a quite popular dish that appears in some Asian-style parties.
Rice combined with various ingredients is processed into attractive fried rice dishes such as Yangzhou fried rice, seafood fried rice, salmon fried rice, salty fish fried rice, egg fried rice,… that you can freely experiment with.
The rice grains are evenly infused with spices, fluffy, rich, and delicious, combined with ingredients and vegetables creating a complete and delightful taste.
* Spring Rolls
A national dish that is no longer unfamiliar to everyone, especially during joyful parties like Christmas, it would be a shame to miss out on spring rolls, wouldn’t it?
The pieces of spring rolls are crispy golden on the outside, combined with the filling of pork and wood ear mushroom, seasoned just right, creating a unique flavor that anyone would love.
* Shrimp Paste
Shrimp paste is a very attractive dish that enhances flavors, prepared for parties to make the atmosphere more lively and cheerful.
You can wrap shrimp paste in sugarcane or lemongrass and then fry it until crispy, bringing out the natural sweetness from fresh shrimp. Eating it gives a very enjoyable chewy feeling; you can pair it with vermicelli and herbs to make the shrimp paste more delicious.
* Salads
Salads are a favorite dish among women because they are very good for health and support an effective weight loss process. In addition, the fiber, vitamins, and minerals found in vegetables also help slow down the aging process.
Moreover, salads help the eater feel full quickly, making it easier to reduce portion sizes, thus helping with weight loss while also being refreshing and positively impacting weight, who wouldn’t like that, right?
* Soups
To get accustomed to the party atmosphere, stimulate the taste buds before eating, but without making you too full before the main course, soups are always a great choice.
Hot soups are very appealing, with a gentle sweetness blended with the taste of mushrooms, vegetables, meat, and eggs, providing a dish that is nutritious and very easy to eat.
Desserts
* Yule Log Cake
Enjoying pieces of fragrant, soft Yule log cake with sweet chocolate flavor during Christmas is simply the best.
Below are a few recipes for making delicious Yule log cakes; you can refer to them and showcase your cooking skills to prepare this indispensable dessert for your Christmas dinner.
* Cupcakes
The small, cute cupcakes are sure to win the hearts of little ones when enjoyed after the main meal.
The cake is delicious, soft, and the creamy butter frosting beautifully decorated on top blends with the soft sponge cake, creating an irresistible taste and a delightful feeling when enjoying these cute little treats.
* Cheesecake
Christmas Eve spent surrounded by family, enjoying sweet treats with a hot cup of tea is simply wonderful, isn’t it? Without needing a complicated recipe, the baked cream cheese dish will be a fantastic suggestion for you to make.
The cheesecake is attractively shaped and incredibly appealing. When tasting, you will experience the sweet and sour strawberry jam, the rich and cool cream cheese, along with a crispy and fragrant cookie crust.
* Gac sticky rice
The sticky rice with gac is fragrant and rich, and you can freely shape it into Santa Claus faces or wreaths to create a sweet dessert for the party.
Check out the recipe for cooking gac sticky rice using a convenient rice cooker, delicious and with many ways to decorate a beautiful sticky rice plate for the upcoming Christmas below.
* Agar jelly
Agar jelly, with its beautiful appearance and sweet, crunchy taste, makes this dish a popular dessert.
Moreover, this dish does not limit creativity, as well as the ingredients you can add. Therefore, you can freely combine ingredients to create a new agar jelly with various flavors and shapes as you wish.
Below are some delicious agar jelly recipes you can refer to and creatively modify!
Christmas Menu 1
- Beef steak
- Shrimp cake
- Grilled snakehead fish with onion grease
- Spring rolls with shrimp and pork
- Spicy chicken hot pot
- Yule log cake
Christmas Menu 2
- Pumpkin sticky rice themed Christmas
- Grilled clams with onion grease
- Chicken cooked with beans
- Thai seafood hot pot
- Coconut jelly
- Soft drink
Christmas Menu 3
- Roast turkey
- Lotus root salad with shrimp and pork
- Grilled beef with betel leaves
- Crab in plum sauce
- Mushroom hot pot
- Fruit dessert
- Soft drink
Christmas Menu 4
- Grilled duck with fermented bean curd
- Vegetable salad
- Salted crab
- Beef hot pot
- Christmas cupcake
- Beer/soft drink
Christmas Menu 5
- Pumpkin cream soup
- Grilled scallops
- Beef rolled with enoki mushrooms
- Green mango squid salad
- Thai hot pot
- Fruit dessert
- Wine
Christmas Menu 6
- Shrimp wrapped in sugarcane
- Honey grilled chicken
- Beef salad with bean sprouts
- Garlic fried snails
- Beef hot pot
- Custard puff
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 7
- Crab soup
- Grilled beef with lard
- Grilled beef wrapped in grape leaves
- Grilled lobster with cheese
- Duck hot pot with fermented tofu
- Fruits
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 8
- Beef cooked with green pepper
- Green mango salad with dried shrimp
- Deep-fried tilapia
- Beef hot pot with sour tamarind
- Yule log cake
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 9
- Duck stew
- Pasta with minced beef sauce
- Pork ear salad with lotus stem
- Chicken hot pot with bird’s eye chili
- Almond pudding
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 10
- Salted shrimp
- Grilled pepper chicken
- Salad with coconut heart, shrimp, and meat
- Grilled sea snails with chili salt
- Seafood hot pot
- Layered jelly
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 11
- Chicken soup
- Grilled lobster with cheese
- Lotus stem salad with shrimp and meat
- Chicken hot pot with sour leaves
- American grapes
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 12
- Deep-fried red snapper
- Seafood fried rice
- Thai beef salad
- Honey grilled chicken
- Tomyum hot pot
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 13
- Crab soup
- Stir-fried crab with tamarind
- Roast duck
- Pork ear and shrimp salad
- Thai hot pot
- Fruits
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 14
- Fried shrimp
- Pumpkin cream soup
- Chicken wrapped in sticky rice
- Snow mushroom and shrimp salad
- Chicken hot pot with chili
- Fruits
- Soda/beer
Christmas Menu 15
- Five-spice roasted chicken
- Seafood spring rolls
- Grilled lobster with cheese
- Dried shrimp mango salad
- Beef hot pot
- Fruits
- Soda/beer
So, TasteVN has suggested 15 Christmas menus for the family with a variety of delicious and nutritious dishes. We hope it will give you more options for a warmer year-end party. Wishing you success in your preparations!
