Is your company in the fitness industry? Or does it work on many different continents? In such a situation, the traditional Christmas Eve menu for companies will not work. What feast to organize for the specific needs of the team?
Vegetarian Christmas Eve menu for companies
If you have organized corporate banquet, you probably know that in your team you have not only vegetarians, but also vegans. The former do not eat meat (and therefore fish!), and vegans also avoid milk and eggs. Actually many traditional Christmas Eve dishes are meatlessso you can easily compose the right menu. Regardless of whether you choose borscht or mushroom soup, both are served in a meatless version.
Unfortunately, vegans must forget both about noodles and dumplings (eggs). Prepare for them cabbage with mushrooms served separately. It's a warm, filling dish in itself. You can surprise the most fastidious team members and prepare vegan bigos. Masters make it so that it tastes just like meat, including the characteristic crunchiness, for which nuts are responsible here. Serve also a pate made of beans or chickpeas and mushrooms, which will surprise even game lovers with its taste.
What Christmas Eve menu for international companies?
For some, sauerkraut and sourdough borscht are obligatory elements of the Christmas Eve table. However, for guests from outside Poland, this can be literally hard to swallow. Especially if they are people from outside Europe who have never heard of this type of food before. Then what?
It is not about giving up national dishes completely. Dumplings can be found on such a Christmas table, but in a slightly more universal version than those with greaves or traditional ones with cabbage and mushrooms. They can be stuffed with vegetables, groats or lentils - in fact, in many Asian countries such momos, dim sum and samosas are very popular. You can also serve fish such as salmon, trout or cod on the table, instead of salted herring and fish in jelly, which are practically unknown outside our region.
As for the soup, mushroom soup with noodles will be better for foreigners' delicate stomachs than traditional sourdough borscht. Go crazy with Polish cakes, because apple pies, gingerbreads and cakes with poppy seeds are quite well known all over the world.
Might be a good idea in that case too culinary workshops for companies, during which you will prepare Polish classics or international dishes together, such as gingerbread known probably in every latitude.
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Slimmed Christmas Eve company menu
Or maybe the problem is different - your company operates in the wellness or diet industry, so it is simply not appropriate for you to serve fatty dishes and sweets? There are many "slimmed" variants of traditional dumplings, especially those with the addition of rye dough. Clear borscht is also very healthy, and if you want to charm your guests, serve a hit - beetroot sourdough. Like kombucha or pickles, it is currently experiencing a real renaissance. Additionally, rare and dietary cabbage with peas and carp, one of the least fatty fish. In fact, most Christmas Eve dishes are quite low-calorie.
Christmas Eve standing
The traditional Christmas Eve is a long, sit-down dinner. Even then, it's easy to stain a white shirt with borscht, let alone when you have to talk small talk and move around the room with a portion of borscht in your hand? Take care of such a Christmas Eve menu for companies that will allow you to eat easily and on the run. These can be:
- dumplings served individually on toothpicks, like the so-called finger foods;
- mini-portions of dough and individual gingerbread cookies;
- borscht in cups;
- mini-pies with cabbage and mushrooms;
- herring sticks;
- tartlets with vegetable salad.
This approach will allow guests to talk freely. It will also eliminate the number of cups, plates and cutlery you will need to use. At such an event, mulled wine served with orange and spices will be the perfect complement to the Christmas Eve menu for the company.
Once you deliver fingerfoods, i.e. dishes for one bite, you can also organize a contest to see who will eat a certain number of dumplings or gingerbread cookies in a certain time. It can also be a team competition, by the way integration in the group, which is a way to achieve common goals.
How to organize a company Christmas party?
If you don't know what dishes your team would like, you can ask them. Gluten-free, lactose-free and macrobiotic diets are hard to navigate, and it's really impossible to know what will suit each individual. If you already have an outline of the menu, it is worth ordering professional catering or a feast in a restaurant or hotel. Thanks to this, you will not have to worry about the order, temperature and composition of dishes, and after all, someone else will remove the dishes and clean up. Check our offer - you can organize an employee Christmas party according to your own idea or take advantage of our suggestions.
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