Christmas Sauce Recipes
The condiments often make the meal. These Christmas sauce recipes and condiments are here to compliment your already-great cooking, and give an added lift to your holiday meals. They are perfect, of course, for spicing up any meal at any time, but they are great to add special touches at this time of year.
One or two of these Christmas sauce recipes require as much effort as the meal itself, but none are difficult to make perfectly. Though each of these recipes has a recommended amount of spices, remember always these are recommendations, and you should always add spice to taste.
Because I like things rather bland in the spice department, you'll find that it is safe for anyone to use the recommended amounts and add more to suit!
I am also adding some dips and marinades to the Christmas sauce recipes page. For that reason, I will be listing under different headings, instead of individual recipes.
Try one or two of these sauce recipes and condiments with your holiday meal, and watch the smiles appear!
Christmas Sauce Recipes Currently on this Page:
Sauces
Barbeque Sauce
Cinnamon Butter
Custard Sauce
Dipping Sauce for Breads
Granny Sue's Super Easy Hollandaise Sauce
Honey Mustard Sauce
Plum Sauce
Tartar Sauce
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Barbeque Sauce
I love sweet barbeque sauce recipes - and this is one of the best I've found. It is a combination of my mother's sauce base, and my friend Jerry's additions to it. As barbeque recipes go, I do not generally use measuring utensils to make this one - just pour and taste. It's easy, and it's custom-made every time!
Several of the Christmas sauce recipes here will work on top of old-fashioned meat-loaf, but this is my favorite for it. Even Rich likes it better than plain brown gravy!
Ingredients:
½ cup (125 ml) catsup
½ teaspoon onion powder
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1 tablespoons yellow prepared mustard
2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon red pepper
2 teaspoons grape jelly
Simply stir together until there are no more lumps from the brown sugar.
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Cinnamon Butter
This is actually one of those all-purpose sauce recipes. When kept cold, of course, it's a spread. When warmed, a sauce or syrup. Substitute any herb you wish to create butters for different purposes.
Fresh garlic and a little seasoning salt will create a wonderful spread for garlic bread, which Rich has also used on many cuts of meat before roasting. A combination of herbs will create a wonderful rub for birds - chicken, turkey, goose or duck.
Ingredients:
2 sticks butter softened
1/3 cup condensed milk, chilled
½ teaspoon corn syrup
¾ teaspoon cinnamon (to taste)
Beat together all ingredients until smooth. Can be stored in the refrigerator.
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Custard Sauce
There are several custard sauce recipes floating around, but this one is the easiest I've made. It also lends itself to additions of herbs and spices for a truly unique flavor.
Ingredients:
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon cornstarch
3 tablespoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
2 cups milk, scalded
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat egg yolks. Mix in the cornstarch, sugar, and salt, and add to egg yolks. Slowly add to scalded milk, stirring constantly.
Cook over low heat until mixture coats spoon.
Remove from heat, pour into covered bowl or jar to cool. Add vanilla after custard has chilled and stir to mix thoroughly. Store in refrigerator as soon as transferred from saucepan to bowl or jar.
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Dipping Sauce for Bread
Dipping sauce recipes can have as many or as few ingredients as you wish. Create several, with this basic recipe, and put out several types of bread, and you have a very fast and easy appetizer. This is one of those Christmas sauce recipes that will keep in the fridge, and is also perfect for midnight snacking!
Ingredients:
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon parsley
1 tablespoon basil
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon thyme
¼ teaspoon minced garlic
½ teaspoon salt
Ground black pepper
1 tablespoon tomato paste, optional
Whisk together and let sit for several hours before serving. Will keep in the fridge for 3 days.
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Granny Sue's Super Easy Hollandaise Sauce
I love Eggs Benedict. I always hated making the sauce. This is a great short-cut version of all those great hollandaise sauce recipes out there that automatically curdle if you look at them wrong!
Ingredients:
3 large eggs
¼ cup lemon juice
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1½ cups butter, melted
Dash or two of hot sauce to taste
Put the raw eggs and lemon juice in the blender, and blend until creamy and light. Add salt and pepper, and while blending slowly, drizzle in the butter to form the sauce. Pour into a serving dish and add the hot sauce, stirring it until well blended.
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Honey Mustard Sauce
Since Chili's® doesn't like to fork over all its famous sauce recipes, this is the closest I've come to getting their Honey Mustard Sauce without buying it. It comes close, and is super delicious on just about everything from brats to cucumber salad.
Ingredients:
½ cup honey
1 cup salad dressing
¼ cup mustard powder
1 tablespoon parsley
2 to 3 teaspoons white vinegar
Mix and refrigerate.
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Plum Sauce
Unless you know the owners of a Chinese restaurant - and they are generous people - finding great plum sauce recipes can be a bit difficult. This one is perfect for anything you would use a plum sauce on, and is very simple to make.
Ingredients:
1 cup plum preserves
2 tablespoon vinegar
2 tablespoon hot honey soy sauce
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 dash ground red pepper
In a small saucepan, combine plum preserves, vinegar, soy sauce, garlic powder, ginger, and red pepper.
Bring mixture to boiling, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; cool.
Refrigerate overnight in a covered dish.
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Tartar Sauce
This is one of several tartar sauce recipes my grandmother used in the restaurant. I think it was passed to me because I don't like to cook, but love fish. It's simple, delicious and fast.
Ingredients:
1 cup salad dressing
2½ tablespoons pickle relish
½ small onion (chopped fine)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Combine and chill for a couple hours.
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Stay tuned!! More Christmas sauce recipes coming soon!
Christmas Sauce Recipes
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