For the lazy, for the laggards or simply for those who do not want to warm their hooves at Christmas and tie themselves to pans and ovens while the rest of the family toasts in the living room or the brother-in-law gets tangled up on Christmas afternoon between unfortunate Christmas carols.
For all of them, Mercadona arrives for another year with its ‘fun fun fun’ and that our December 25th only means eating and making little stains with Christmas orders for Ready to Eat, the section of prepared dishes that is present in the 970 stores of the Valencian supermarket chain.
More of twenty recipes in which canapés aboundwhich will be the protagonists of the world of starters, where the Valencian chain throws the house out the window with some tartlets filled with hummus or those filled with cod brandade, which are added to other hits such as cheese with salmon or the curious roast beef cream.
Thus, up to 18 different canapés and hors d’oeuvres that can be enjoy from November 28 until next December 28 (so, for now, we will have to see how we manage New Year’s Eve, although in that case here are our Christmas recipes).
Beyond the first bars of the menu, Mercadona’s proposal and its Ready to Eat It is rounded off with seconds that could bear the signature of more than one grandmother and that allow for different formats, depending on the size of the family we have.
This is the case, if there are a few of us at home, of boneless free-range chicken or another temptation to feed more than one as is the half roast suckling pig. For smaller tables, the Valencian chain has also launched a suckling lamb shoulder or, if someone is not for the work of the world of roasts, resort to a red wine cheek.
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The only thing we miss in the proposal of the Juan Roig supermarkets is that there is no no purely vegetarian option in the seconds, nor is there any alternative based on fish or shellfish in this sense, although we understand that culinary it is more difficult to replicate.
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