In recent years, home cooking has taken on a whole new value. Purchasing expensive, pre-made meals just isn’t in the budget, and gifts from the kitchen are back in style. Of course, if you have been dairy-free for a while, then you already know that from-scratch is really the way to go … but, how to create dairy-free holiday dinners that everyone will enjoy, even your cheese-addicted sister (okay, maybe that’s just my sister)?
For starters, I recommend taking a peek at The Biggest Gathering of Dairy-Free Thanksgiving Recipes that I compiled for you last month. How convenient is it that the major holidays share so many traditional dishes? If the big day wouldn’t be complete without a festive pie, check out The Huge Dairy-Free Holiday Pie Recipe Round-Up. Also, for those of you scrambling for last minute, quick & easy dairy substitutes (perhaps for that cream of mushroom soup or sweetened condensed milk?), you can get Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook in an ebook format, delivered instantly.
Since a few weeks have passed since Thanksgiving, I have had time to discover a few more recipes for dairy-free holiday dinners (lactose-free, casein-free, milk-free, you name it). That’s right, the recipes below are dairy-free as is; no hoping that your substitutes will work. After all, who has time for experimentation at the 11th hour?!
Opening Acts
- Mrs Claus Christmas Welcome Soup
- Wild Blueberry Egg Nog
- Carrot Pate
- Artichoke Pate
- Winter Squash Crostini
- Rustic Fruit Salad with Cinnamon Croutons (pictured above)
- Delicious Deluxe Deviled Eggs
- A Jolly Christmas Special Cosmo or Red Hot Lovers Cosmo
- California Wassail
- Vegan Pumpkin Nog
- Pumpkin Spice Soy Nog
- Banana Nog
The Main Event
- Heavenly Sweet Potato Casserole
- Toasted Almond Green Beans
- Dairy-Free Corn Pudding and Corn Cakes
- Asparagus with Vegan Hollandaise Sauce
- Spiced Grilled Ham with Sweet Citrus Glaze
- Acorn Squash with Cornbread, Apple and Sausage Stuffing
- All-the-Fixins’ Holiday Veggie Burger
- Christmas Jam
- Restaurant-Worthy Creamy Potato-Leek Soup
- Creamy Baked Brussel Sprouts (pictured below)
- Baked Eggplant w/ Nutty Bulgur Stuffing
- Butternut Squash and Macaroni Casserole
- Butternut Squash & Cabbage Salad
- Roasted Sweet Potatoes w/ Tempeh
- Deb’s Wild Rice Stuffing
- Quick & Easy Spiced Cranberry Sauce
- Fluffy, “Buttery”, No-Fat Vegan Mashed Potatoes
- Pumpkin Cornbread
- Lemon-Ginger Pears
- Christmas Sauteed Bell Peppers
- Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls
- Wild Rice & Chestnut Stuffing
- Quick & Rich Mushroom Gravy
- Baked Pumpkin w/ Vegetable Pilaf
- Vegan Gobbler Slices
- Quick Vegan Biscuits and “Milk Gravy”
- Green Beans w/ Bacon and Hazelnuts
- Old-Fashioned Pan Gravy w/ Red Currant Jelly
- Broccoli w/ Caramelized Onions and Pine Nuts
- Mushroom Nut Roast
- Braised Chicken w/ Fennel and Apples
- Rosemary Mustard Pesto Lamb and Orange Fig Chutney
- Rosemary Roasted Turkey
- Foolproof Rib Roast
- Rosemary Mustard Pesto Lamb and Orange Fig Chutney
- No Basting Roasted Turkey
- Roasted Beef Tenderloin w/ Rosemary and Thyme
- Apple-Maple Country Ham
- Gluten-Free Stuffed Cornish Game Hens
- Pork Tenderloin w/ Apple & Rye Stuffing
- Pork Tenderloin w/ Orange-Chipotle Sauce
- Potato Encrusted Halibut w/ Roasted Onions & Fennel
- Apple-Plum Stuffed Pork Chops w/ Cider Glaze (use a dairy-free corn bread)
Cookies for Santa and Santa’s Helpers
- A Dozen of the Best Dairy-Free Cookie Recipes
- Six Sensational Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Cookie Recipes
- Chewy Molasses Fig Cookies
- Christmas Mint Cookies
- Soft Molasses Drop Cookies
- Dairy-Free, Wheat-Free, Egg-Free Snickerdoodles
- Gluten-Free Ginger Molasses Cookies w/ Chocolate Drizzle
- No Bake Coconut Snowball Cookies
- Grain-Free Gingerbread Men
Encore, Encore!
- Perfectly Peppermint Fudge Bites
- Gingerbread Ice Cream
- Wild Blueberry Gingerbread
- “Milk” Chocolate Mint Truffles
- Pumpkin Nog Bread (pictured below)
- Maple Pecan Apple Crisp
- Cranberries ‘n Creme Tart with Chocolate Crust
- Glazed Fig Tart with Chocolate Ganache
- Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cupcakes
- Chocolate Peppermint Covered Marshmallows
- Pumpkin Dessert
- Candy Cane Ice Cream
- Perfect Gluten-Free and Vegan Pumpkin Bread
- Mint Cacao Cookie Truffles
- Nog Panna Cotta
- Hot Christmas Tea
- Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies
- Christmas Cake
- Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge
- Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread
- New Orleans Fruitcake
- Mom’s Best Fruitcake
- Pumpkin Gingerbread
- Christmas Rum Balls (or Bourbon Balls)
- Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
- Christmas Hard Candy
- Pumpkin Streusel Bread
- Popular Moist Pumpkin Bread
- Chocolate Pecan Pie
- Hot Spiced Cider
- Vegan Holiday Fudge
- Caramel Corn
- Turkish Delight
- Roasted Applesauce Amaretti Vegan Gelato
- Gingersnap Truffles
- Bryanna’s Low Fat Vegan Carrot Fruit Cake
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