Christmas time is filled with festive cheer!
What better way to bring together family and friends to celebrate everyone’s favourite time of year than with these winter warmers and tasty treats? By using canned food, cooking at Christmas has never been easier – all the preparation is done for you, which means you can get back to the festivities quicker. Check out these recipes that are sure to sparkle all around.
Star of the show
This dazzling main course is a vegan mushroom Wellington, featuring lentils, spinach, caramelised onion gravy, and roast potatoes. A great alternative to meat, this dish makes a fantastic main course for vegans and vegetarians but is also worth trying in place of your usual Christmas turkey this year!
A centrepiece that looks good and tastes even better!
Meringue wreath with Christmas-spiced apricots
This festive dessert makes an eye-catching centrepiece for your Christmas Day dinner, and it tastes even better! This meringue wreath with Christmas-spiced apricots perfectly captures the essence of Christmas, using the liquid from canned chickpeas, coconut milk, and apricot halves. Make your meringue and bake until crisp. Once cool, it’s time to decorate with your spiced apricots! Dust with cinnamon and enjoy.
Boxing Day banger
An ideal recipe for using up those Christmas leftovers and creating a deliciously warming meal the day after the big celebration. This pie can be filled with your leftover turkey and stuffing, canned sweetcorn, and canned mushroom soup, and altered to suit whatever leftovers you have. Now this is a tasty upgrade to the usual Boxing Day turkey sandwiches!
A Christmas tradition
This year, why not create a new tradition? Creating this yummy pud with family or friends could be the perfect way to spend time and cook together. Take canned custard, canned mandarin segments, orange jelly, and sponge fingers to create this dish. If cooking with little ones, remember that canned food can be the perfect way to help minimise mess while still having a great time and a tasty outcome!
Canned foods not only make cooking easier but are also an eco-friendly choice, as empty cans are simple to recycle. Made primarily from steel or aluminium, cans are infinitely recyclable and can be transformed into new products repeatedly without losing quality. So, after enjoying your delicious festive dishes, remember to rinse out your cans and pop them in the recycling bin – it’s a small step that makes a big difference for the planet!
However, you cook up a storm this Christmas, do it with cans! If you try out any of our tasty recipes, make sure to post them and tag us @cannedfooduk.
