Preparing Christmas Eve dishes is an inseparable element of the pre-holiday days and Christmas Eve itself. It is worth spending this time without excessive rush, stress and with your loved ones. To do this, you need to plan your work in the kitchen accordingly - recipes for quick Christmas Eve dishes will help you with this, as well as the right equipment, which can make the work much easier.

 Some traditional Christmas Eve dishes, such as good borscht, need time to impress with their taste. However, there are many dishes that you can make without a problem the day before Christmas Eve dinner, or even on the same day. All you need to do is prepare the ingredients and the right equipment in advance, such as a hand blender, which will make your work easier and faster.

 Holiday recipes for mushroom dishes

 Christmas Eve, according to Polish tradition, is meatless. The holiday dishes prepared for this festive dinner therefore consist mainly of aromatic and tasty vegetables and fish. Thanks to this, Christmas Eve is undoubtedly associated with, for example, the smell of cooked, stewed and blended mushrooms.

 If you are wondering what dishes for Christmas dinner can be conjured from mushrooms, we have a few excellent and proven ideas. Read what is worth cooking for the holidays:

  •  dumplings with mushrooms, which will be an addition to red borscht,
  • dumplings with cabbage and finely chopped mushrooms - they taste best fried,
  • cream mushroom soup, which when put on plates and added with puff pastry peas will not only taste but also look phenomenal.

 To prepare these dishes, you will need a hand blender. What is this device for? Not only for chopping vegetables, but also for preparing smooth creams that even the pickiest eater will eat! All you need to do is blend the prepared broth with mushrooms until smooth. In this form, your Christmas Eve soup will not only taste great, but also look beautiful. On the other hand, the mushrooms ground into the filling for dumplings and pierogi will be very fine and melt in your mouth.

 What can you use a hand blender for? Recipes for sweets!

 How to prepare a table for Christmas Eve? First of all, it must have traditional elements - hay under the tablecloth, an extra seat at the table, a candle and twelve dishes. Among so many dishes, it is worth taking care of something for lovers of sweets. The most popular sweet dishes on the Christmas Eve table are, of course, dishes with poppy seeds.

 Poppy seed cake is a cake that is extremely quick to make, and when properly prepared, almost everyone will like it. How to go about it? First of all, prepare the poppy seed mass - blend the previously soaked poppy seeds (can also be boiled in milk) until as smooth as possible. You can add raisins to it. Use one of the VARIO hand blenders for this. It will easily handle even small poppy seeds.

To prepare the yeast dough for the poppy seed cake, you will need:

  • 500 g wheat flour,
  • half a stick of butter,
  • 1/3 cup of sugar,
  • 2 egg yolks,
  • half a cup of milk
  • 40 g fresh yeast or 12 g dry yeast.

Put the butter, milk and sugar in a pot and heat until the butter melts. Then set aside to cool (to about 40 degrees). Put the yolks in a large bowl. Add the yeast. Rub the ingredients together with the cooled milk and butter, then add the sifted flour. Knead the dough until smooth and leave to rise for 1.5 hours. Roll out the risen dough into a circle and cover it with the poppy seed mixture. Then roll it up and wrap it in baking paper. Bake the poppy seed cake for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 170 degrees. After baking, you can sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Ready!

 You now know how to prepare Christmas Eve so that everyone has plenty of treats and that traditional Christmas Eve dishes are on the table. Small household appliances from Zelmer will certainly help you prepare meals faster - check the website to see what you need and order before Christmas!