Dishes to Bring as a Holiday Guest

Caramelized Onion, Roasted Garlic and Fried Sage Bread

There is nothing quite like the aroma of freshly-baked bread in the house during the holiday season. Our Caramelized Onion, Roasted Garlic, and Fried Sage Bread is a great way to experiment with bread-making all-while making for a great addition to any holiday menu.

Our Bread Oven is the ideal piece of cookware to prepare this recipe, as its name suggests, creating the perfect environment for the dough to rise thanks to its tight-fitting lid and enamelled cast iron walls.

The combination of caramelized onions, roasted garlic, and fried sage elevates this traditional recipe and is sure to become a family favourite. This bread recipe takes just over three hours to prepare, but can accommodate between six and eight servings.

For more information on how to prepare this recipe, watch our quick video.

Baked Deep Vanilla Cheesecake with Fresh Raspberry Sauce

Looking for the ultimate recipe to complete a four-course meal? Look no further than our Baked Deep Vanilla Cheesecake with Fresh Raspberry Sauce. Our cheesecake recipe embodies decadence and is a great way to cap off any meal. After all, who doesn’t love a guest that brings cheesecake.

All you’ll need is Le Creuset’s Springform Round Cake Tin, exposing your cheesecake to an event heat source until the desired texture is achieved. Typically, this should take approximately one hour or until there is a slight wobble in the center of the cake.

The raspberry sauce, featuring 300 g of fresh raspberries, caster sugar, lemon juice, and one tablespoon of corn flour, is a thoughtful final touch, contrasting the cheesecake wonderfully. This recipe takes just over an hour to make and can accommodate up to 10 to 12 servings.

Panettone with Dark Chocolate, Figs, and Almonds

Originating from Milan, Italy, Panettone is a traditional Italian recipe and is typically served over Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Our Panettone recipe is a unique take on this classic Italian staple, introducing dark chocolate, figs, and almonds.

Best served with coffee after a meal, our Panettone with Dark Chocolate, Figs, and Almonds is perfect for the sweet tooth in your family and is a great recipe to experiment with your Dutch Oven. This iconic piece of cookware is designed to lock in heat and moisture, allowing the dough to gradually rise.

The combination of vanilla seeds and citrus zest inject a sweet and tangy component, while the dark chocolate, figs, and almonds ensure your panettone is not lacking in texture. This recipe may take over two hours to prepare, but it is designed to serve a large family, accommodating up to 12 servings and is one that is sure to leave guests impressed.

Potato Salad

Our Potato Salad recipe is yet another essential holiday staple, complimenting any meal wonderfully. Easy to put together and customize for larger portions, this potato salad recipe is a great dish to prepare ahead of your next family get-together.

Our Potato Salad recipe features many of the same ingredients as traditional potato salad recipes, however, introduces a delicious vinaigrette, featuring vinegar, maple syrup, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper.

Its spice mix is also sure to pack a punch combining onion flakes, dried garlic granules, white sesame seeds, and poppy seeds, transforming the classic potato salad dish into something more refined. Whether you’re serving meat, poultry, or even fish, this potato salad recipe is extremely versatile and can compliment any, if not all main courses to perfection.

Recipe courtesy of Olive & Gourmando

Spinach Salad with Grilled Zucchini, Peas, Feta and Mint

If you are unsure about what to bring to your friend’s house this holiday season, consider this delicious salad. Equally healthy as it is tasty, you can’t go wrong with our Spinach Salad with Grilled Zucchini, Peas, Feta, and Mint.

The grilled zucchinis, spinach, almonds, and peas make for a hearty addition to any salad, offering a nutritious dish for the whole family. Its vinaigrette, combining honey, Dijon mustard, extra virgin olive oil, red wine, lemon juice, and a pinch of sea salt flakes, guarantees everyone will be coming for seconds, all-while your thinly–sliced feta contrasts the veggies to perfection.

This recipe takes 30 minutes to prepare from start to finish, and provides between four and six servings. However, you can easily adjust the portions according to the number of guests you intend on serving!

Recipe by Drizzle and Dip

Stuffed Tomatoes

Our Stuffed Tomatoes are everything you need in a holiday dish. Healthy, easy to prepare and transport, this recipe can be ready in no time featuring a blend of delicious ingredients and flavours.

The trick to getting the most out of this recipe is to get the stuffing just right. Begin by adding tomato flesh, half of the olive oil, garlic, onion, mint, parsley, nuts and raisins in a food processor and lightly pulsing it until combined. This stuffing will ultimately make or break this recipe, and can easily be adjusted according to personal preference.

Our Rectangular Casserole is recommended for this recipe, providing superior heat retention and even heat distribution. Featuring a tight-fitting lid and a durable enamelled cast iron construction, this casserole will ensure your stuffed tomatoes cook evenly.

Mediterranean Mezze Trio

Our Mediterranean Mezze Trio makes for yet another great dish to bring as a holiday guest this year. This combination of fresh dips, including Baba Ganoush, Tzatziki, and Hummus, is sure to whet the appetite, serving as the ultimate holiday appetizer.

Simplicity is key to preparing the hummus, combining chickpeas, a roasted garlic clove, lemon zest and juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Tzatziki, a traditional Greek dish, is similar in that sense, featuring a number of fresh ingredients, including yoghurt, cucumbers, olive oil, garlic, and lemon juice.

Last but certainly not least, the Baba Ganoush rounds off this wonderful Mediterranean mezze trio. Whether you want to serve this mezze trio with vegetables or pita, or maybe both, these dips are extremely versatile, making for a great appetizer to kickstart the celebrations.

Crispy Iranian Rice with Saffron and Rose (Tahdig)

Our Crispy Iranian Rice with Saffron and Rose, also known as Tahdig, is a great way to explore new cuisines and discover a delicious side dish this holiday season.

Begin by bringing your Dutch Oven to a boil and add salt. Once the saffron has been combined with the boiling water, introduce the rice into the Dutch Oven and let it simmer until it begins to float on top and is very al dente. This should take approximately six minutes.

Next, melt the butter and oil in a Toughened Nonstick Braiser and add the barberries. When softened, remove them with a slotted spoon and add in the cinnamon, cumin, cardamom and rose along with the saffron water. With this completed, gradually introduce the rice into the pot and cook over medium heat until it begins to brown.

The Toughened Nonstick Braiser is the perfect piece of cookware for this recipe, ensuring no rice sticks to the surface and provides even cooking. Our Crispy Iranian Rice with Saffron and Rice recipe takes over two hours to prepare, but is sure to emerge as a great side dish this holiday season.

Lobster Strata with Bacon, Caramelized Shallots and Burrata

No holiday menu is complete without some variation of lobster, and our Lobster Strata with Bacon, Caramelized Shallots, and Burrata recipe might just be the ideal dish for this holiday season.

Featuring a soft and buttery brioche bread that gets soaked in egg and a mascarpone mixture that compliments the chopped lobster and butter to perfection, this recipe has all the makings to become a holiday classic.

The Rectangular Roaster is the ultimate piece of cookware to prepare this culinary masterpiece, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source and can even be used to transport and serve this delicious dish.

Learn how to prepare this dish here! The end result is a savoury pain perdu topped with creamy burrata.