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Simple Christmas Menu: Lamb’s Lettuce, Beef Fillet with Rosemary Potatoes and Red Grits

5 from 5 votes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 5 people
Calories 114 kcal

Ingredients
 

Lamb's lettuce with bacon cubes and cranberry-horseradish dressing

  • 350 g Lamb's lettuce
  • 200 g Bacon cubes
  • 2 tsp Lingonberry fresh
  • 2 tsp Cream of horseradish
  • 2 tbsp Rapeseed oil
  • 2 tbsp Vinegar
  • 1 piece Pomegranate

Fillet of beef in puff pastry with red wine sauce and rosemary potatoes

  • 800 g Beef fillet
  • 2 piece Puff pastry roll
  • 2 tbsp Clarified butter
  • 4 tbsp Mustard
  • 200 g Herbal mixture
  • 2 piece Egg yolk

sauce

  • 2 piece Shallots
  • 0,25 liter Red wine
  • 0,25 liter Beef stock
  • 3 tbsp Creme fraiche Cheese
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Rosemary Potatoes

  • 600 g Small potatoes
  • 3 tbsp Olive oil
  • Rosemary fresh
  • Fleur de sel

Christmas red fruit jelly with vanilla sauce

  • 1 kilogram Red fruit juice jelly
  • 400 Milliliters Custard
  • 1 tsp Ginger bread spice
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 4 Centiliters Rum
  • Mint

Instructions
 

Lamb's lettuce with bacon cubes and cranberry-horseradish dressing

  • Wash and spin lettuce.
  • Fry the bacon cubes in the pan.
  • For the dressing: mix the cranberries, cream horseradish, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper with a hand blender.
  • Spread the bacon cubes on the lamb's lettuce, pour the dressing over it and decorate with pomegranate seeds.

Fillet of beef in puff pastry

  • Fry the fillet in clarified butter on all sides in a pan - keep the fat and the roast.
  • Remove the meat and brush with mustard.
  • Roll in the frozen herbs.
  • Roll out a roll of puff pastry on a baking sheet, place the fillet on top and seal it tightly in the pastry.
  • Cut out puff pastry from the second roll with cookie molds for Christmas shapes and press onto the puff pastry and meat roll.
  • Whisk the egg yolks and brush onto the decorated roll.
  • Bake for about 30 minutes at 180 °.

Red wine sauce

  • Sew the shallots in the roast fillet.
  • When they are glassy, ​​deglaze with red wine and stock.
  • Salt, pepper and refine with creme fraîche.
  • Let simmer until the roast is done.

Rosemary Potatoes

  • Wash potatoes and cut in half.
  • Put in a baking pan with olive oil, fresh rosemary and fleur de sel.
  • The potatoes can be put in the oven at the same time as the meat and also take 30 minutes at 180 °.

Christmas red fruit jelly with vanilla sauce

  • Refine vanilla sauce with gingerbread spices, cinnamon and rum.
  • Pour red groats into beautiful glasses, pour the gingerbread custard on top and decorate with fresh mint.

Nutrition

Serving: 100gCalories: 114kcalCarbohydrates: 7.2gProtein: 5.9gFat: 6.2g
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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