The kitchen is my office all year round. Cooking an elaborate menu for hours on end at Christmas would therefore feel like work. That’s why I’m serving a tavolata for Christmas dinner this year and recommend this vegan feast to anyone who wants to cook comfortably and have enough time to take a hot bath and drink a glass of sparkling wine at Christmas.
You can find the ready-made organic ingredients and side dishes in organic food stores and wholesalers, and you can arrange them in pretty bowls. However, the Travolata is not a complete ready-to-eat dinner. Your cooking skills are required for the Portobello-Mushroom-Wellington roast. The festive dish, a moderately difficult task, is completed in 60 minutes.
There’s no need to run back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room in your Christmas outfit: the purely plant-based roast doesn’t have to be served à la minute. You can keep it warm in the oven until the guests have arrived. I wish you a peaceful and stress-free holiday season!
Ingredients for the Lazy X-Mas dinner
- Various spreads & dips (hummus; babaganoush, soybeanada cream cheese with horseradish, ajvar
- Organic olives
- Exquisite, wholesome organic breads
- Dolma or warak iinab (stuffed vine leaves with rice)
- Red cabbage (cook warm in the pan)
- Sauerkraut (cook warm in the pan)
- Stuffed vine leaves with rice
- Tofu terrine from Taifun
- Portobello-Mushroom-Wellington
- Fruit platter with clementines, persimmons, oranges and grapes.
Recipe for Portobello-Mushroom-Wellington roast
Cutlery from Brockenhaus and also from Ikea, other vessels by en Soie.