The excellent Christmas menu by Spaghetti & Mandolino

Have you not yet thought about what to prepare for the Christmas lunch? If you are looking for ideas to create a complete and delightful Christmas menu, you are in the right place!
The Christmas lunch is the highlight of the holidays dedicated to family, conviviality, good food, and love. Every Italian region, every city, and even every family has its own traditions: but we all agree on one thing, that the Christmas lunch must be rich and of high quality.

Organizing the Christmas menu with the respective recipes requires quite an effort: the Christmas Eve dinner and the Christmas lunch need to be taken care of in detail, preparing the most typical Christmas recipes. If you are the hosts, there’s no escaping: you will have to bring out your organizational and culinary skills to make everything more or less perfect.
Whatever your tradition, Spaghetti & Mandolino provides you with everything you need to prepare a fabulous Christmas menu that will leave all your relatives and friends at the table speechless.

Christmas Appetizers

Where to start if not with the appetizer? While we can easily do without it on regular days, for the Christmas menu we can indulge in this extra treat and take the opportunity to bring some tasty delicacies to the table. If you have little time, the ideal is to serve cured meats and cheeses, which you can find in abundance on our site.

For cheeses, you can choose from various selections of goat cheeses, blue cheeses, fresh cheeses, or aged cheeses: from aged Parmigiano Reggiano up to 50 months to Bagoss, from Castelmagno Dop to Chiusello goat cheese, from Monte Veronese to Alpeggio Grappa Bastardo. And if someone is lactose intolerant, no problem: we also have a tasty range of exquisite lactose-free cheeses of the highest quality! And what could be better than a great mostarda to accompany the cheeses? Our sweet and savory mustards can surprise even those who are not fans of sauces, bringing balance to the dishes.

As for the cured meats, here too your Christmas menu could not be more varied: we indeed have a vast array of cured meats linked to different cultures and traditions, created from very different cuts of meat and following recipes that are centuries old. You can choose the DOP Parma or San Daniele ham; the Culatello, a prized salami typical of Emilia-Romagna; or salami, the quintessential Italian cured meat.

Christmas First Courses

If you have little time to dedicate to the preparation of the first course, delight your guests' palates with some easy and tasty recipes that will please everyone at the table. We offer you a selection of the best rice and pasta from Italy: excellent products coming from large pasta and rice factories. From paccheri from Gragnano to pasta made with Senatore Cappelli wheat. You can also choose different types of egg pasta, such as the traditional and always excellent tagliatelle. And then there's the range from the famous Felicetti pasta factory, which primarily produces in an organic way. With quality pasta, it will be much easier to prepare an excellent dish, perhaps dressed with a handcrafted sauce made with the finest ingredients: from the black Chianina sauce to Tuscan pork ragù, from hare ragù to wild boar ragù.

Christmas Main Courses

For main courses, the Christmas menu is usually a triumph of roasts and stuffed meats. Herb and sparkling wine stuffed capon is a classic of the Christmas season, as it traditionally appears in the menus of grand lunches. But also simple and traditional main courses like cotechino or zampone are rich and tasty dishes, appreciated by all and perfect for celebrating Christmas. Other excellent options include salted beef tongue, Pampano, or oven-roasted Arista.

Christmas Desserts

What would Christmas be without sweets? We have a wide selection of traditional desserts, always showcasing artisanal quality, such as the Torcolato Maculan panettone, the Mandorlato typical of Cologna Veneta, and the classic mandorlato cake, with the variant Stella di mandorlato, an excellent idea to impress your guests.

Christmas Wines

A good wine is equally important as food in crafting a respectable Christmas menu and is essential to highlight the flavors of the recipes, especially on a special occasion like this. The wines should be chosen according to the menu.
If you love red wines and your menu is meat-based, our extensive range of red wines includes the best from Italy: from Amarone della Valpolicella to Lambrusco Grasparossa, from Nebbiolo to Barolo. For white wines, you can choose from Franciacorta to Gewurztraminer, from Valdobbiadene to Muller Thurgau.

But it is known, Christmas is the quintessential moment for toasts: you can choose to toast with the bubbles of a Prosecco or an excellent Franciacorta.