Christmas Consommé Recipe

The Christmas consommé is one of the most traditional dishes to start the Christmas dinner or meal. This is a simple and comforting dish for this cold season, in addition, very strong dishes are prepared for these holidays, and so starting with a rich consommé is the best.

To make a good Christmas consommé you don’t need many things, we just need some good ingredients and time for it to come out delicious. In this sense, the ingredients that make up the Christmas consommé are vegetables, meat and bones, which must be fresh. Likewise, we can make a good pot to prepare a large quantity and freeze, so we can have it for more days. As for the type of pot, it can be done in a traditional pot for 2-3 hours or in a pressure cooker for 20-30 minutes. In any case, something that is important to keep in mind when making consommé is that the broth must be defatted to remove fat and impurities, throughout the recipe we will explain how to do it. Having said that, keep reading and discover how to make Christmas consommé.

Ingredients to make Christmas Consommé:

• 1 chicken
• chicken carcasses
• 1 ham bone
• 1 veal bones
• 1 salted bone
• 1 piece of beef for the broth
• 1 leek
• 1 stick of celery
• 2 carrots
• 1 turnip
• 1 handful of salt
• 1 onion

How to make Christmas Consommé:

1. Begin the Christmas consommé recipe by cleaning the vegetables. Thus, wash them well, peel them if necessary, remove some strands and cut them only in half, although you could also leave them whole.
2. Prepare the meat, removing the skin from the chicken, the nerves and the fat around it. Wash the bones.
3. Put the meat in the pot and place all the vegetables on top. Remember that you can make the traditional Christmas consommé or in a pressure cooker.
4. Pour cold water until everything is covered, approximately 3 liters. Then put the pot on the fire.
5. Heat over high heat until the broth begins to boil. At this point, lower the heat and let the consommé come to a boil.
6. When it starts to boil, it will form a foam on the surface that you will have to remove with a spoon, little by little, until the broth is clean. This process is known as defatting the broth. Let cook over medium-low heat for 2 hours. If you make the Christmas consommé in an express pot, the time will be 20-30 minutes, depending on the type of pot you have.
7. Once the broth is ready, remove the meat and vegetables. You can take advantage of these ingredients to make other recipes, such as cooked croquettes with the meat or vegetable puree with the vegetables and a little broth.
8. When you have the consommé without the meat, strain it to finish removing any impurities it may have. Let it cool down and put it in the fridge to remove any remaining fat, or even better if you can leave it overnight. The vegetable consommé is almost there!
9. After the resting time, remove the consommé from the fridge. You will notice that all the fat on the surface will have solidified, so, with the help of a spoon, remove it. Once this is done, strain it again and put it on the fire to let it cook for another 30 minutes, so it will reduce a little and it will be more concentrated. This is a great trick to get a Christmas consommé with a lot of flavor.
10. Salt test and rectify if you consider it necessary. Ready the Christmas consommé recipe! You can serve it as is or add pieces of meat and vegetables that you reserved. Another option is to add noodles when you are heating the broth to make a soup. Anyway, the Christmas consommé is delicious.