Five Classic Recipes for Holiday Entertaining
Everyone has their own favourites for classic holiday meals! Turkey with cranberry sauce, grandma’s famous meatball stew, meat pies—there’s no shortage of ideas to please family or guests. Here are 5 classic main meal recipes with a touch of originality that will appeal to lovers of nostalgia and novelty both.
Turkey is a must-have for any holiday table! It’s a tried-and-true classic that we can’t get enough of, sure to delight those we love. In this version, the turkey is stuffed with a delicious mix of crunchy pecans and cranberry-thyme sauce for a little hit of tang. It is served with mashed potatoes and roasted carrots.
Entertain in style this holiday season with this reimagined pork Wellington recipe, a new version of an impressive classic that uses pork instead of beef and a thin mix of carrots, sweet potatoes and juicy Medjool dates instead of mushrooms. With its puff pastry and creamy herb and lemon sauce, this is sure to be a real show-stopper.
Want to entertain with an Italian-inspired feast? Josée di Stasio offers you a very typical dish: pork osso buco with fennel and orange, served with a lemony gremolata. This comforting recipe is very popular and so easy to prepare. Serve it with buttered fresh tagliatelle or mashed potatoes.
The perfect holiday meat pie is definitely this tourtière. A holiday classic made with salted pork belly, turkey pieces, bison stewing cubes, beef and pork—along with small cubes of potatoes and the beef broth which gives it its “tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean” characteristics and its distinctive taste.
A true local holiday classic, this dish will take you right back to your childhood. Christian Bégin adds meat pie spices to his meatball preparation, in addition to dried cranberries and a mixture of bacon, pork and chicken, to bring you a good dose of comfort. Hot tip: Cook the meatball stew ahead of time and freeze it. All you need to do is bring the broth back to a boil before serving.