Christmas Challenge

                       Bulgarian Christmas dishes

Stuffed cabbage leaves

Ingredients:

1. pickled cabbage leaves
2. minced meat-about 500 grams
3. rice-1 teacup
4. an onion
5. paprika
6. pepper
7. oregano
8. savory
9. salt
10. oil

Yeast bread

Ingredients:

1. a block of yeast (30g)
2. 1 kg flour
3. 300 ml milk
4. 3 eggs
5. 5 tbsp yoghurt
6. 2 tbsp salt
7. 1 tbsp sugar
8. 3 tbsp butter

Oven baked boneless

pork in a bag in the oven

Ingredients:

1. 1 kg boneless
2. 1 tbsp flour
3. pepper
4. butter
5. soy sauce
6. garlic
7. 3 tbsp mayonnaise
8. 1 tbsp sugar
9. paprika
10. 30 ml white wine
11. 2 onions
12.  some spring onions
13. 1 tbsp oil

Sweet Christmas gingerbread with honey

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 c cow butter
2. 1/2 c honey
3. 2 1/2 c flour
4. 1egg
5. 1/2 ts bicarbonate of soda
6. 1 tsp ginger
7. 1/2 tsp cinnamon
8. 1 tsp baking powder
9. 200g powdered sugar
10. 1 egg white
11. 2 tsp lemon juice

British Christmas dishes

Christmas Turkey

Ingredients:

1. sprig of fresh sage-1
2. 12 strips higher-welfare pancetta or thinly sliced
3. 1 bulb garlic
4. 4 medium red onions
5. 2 sticks celery
6. 1 big handful of breadcrumbs
7. 1 handful of dried apricots
8. 300g higher-welfare minced pork
9. 1 lemon
10. 1 pinch of grated nutmeg
11. 1 large free-range egg
12. 12 small spring of fresh rosemary, plus a few extra
13. 4 kg-higher-welfare turkey at room temperature
14. 2 carrots
15. 1 large orange
16. olive oil
17. 2 tablespoons plain flour
18. 1.1 liters organic or vegetable stock

Pigs in blankets

Ingredients:

1. 24 rashers smoked streaky bacon
2. 2xpaskc 12 Tesco Finest British Cumberland chipolatas
3. 2tbsp clear honey
4. 1tbsp grainy mustard
5. few springs rosemary, finely chopped, plus extra to garnish

Baked Camembert

Ingredients:

1. 400g strong bread flour, plus extra for dusting
2. 400g strong whole meal bread bread flour
3. 1×7 sachet of dried yeast
4. unsalted butter
5. 80g stale breadcrumbs
6. 3x250g round Camembert cheeses
7. spring of fresh rosemary
8. 3 small cloves of garlic
9. 1-2 fresh red chillies
10. olive oil

Banana panettone pudding

Ingredients:

1. 65g soft unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing ground cinnamon
2. 200g golden caster sugar, plus extra for sprinking
3. 3 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
4. 3 large free-range eggs
5. 3 clementines
6. 600ml semi-skimmed milk optional: smoth whisky, brandy, gorden rum
7. 4 bananas
8. 150gMedjood dates
9. 500g panettone
10. 15g flaked almonds
11. 150ml single cream
12. vanilla ice cream, to serve