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Are you ready to bring some rustic charm to your Christmas feast this year? Get ready to embrace the cozy and heartwarming flavors of the countryside with these delightful country-style Christmas recipes. In this article, we’re diving into a world of wholesome and comforting dishes that will transport you to a simpler, more traditional holiday celebration. From hearty dishes to classic favorites, these recipes are all about savoring the season with a touch of rustic homestyle elegance. So, if you’re longing for a homely and inviting Christmas spread that’s bursting with flavor, explore the soulful delights of country-style cooking for the holidays! Let’s get cooking and infuse your festivities with the warmth and tradition of country Christmas recipes.
The Best Holiday Roasted Chicken
The key to the best holiday roasted chicken might lie in the simplicity of the recipe. Also ideal for a regular weeknight dinner when you want something a little fancier, this no-fuss, one-pot whole chicken is a real winner. Garlic, lemon, and rosemary add subtle, delicious flavors, and you will find just about any festive side dishes that go perfectly alongside this juicy chicken. Add this Thanksgiving or Christmas roast chicken to your holiday menu!
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Cranberry Jello Salad With Mandarins and Pineapple
If you’re planning your Thanksgiving dinner spread, don’t forget the homemade cranberry jello salad with pineapple and oranges! This recipe is made with jello, giving it a different consistency, and the fruity taste goes perfectly with your Thanksgiving turkey!
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Holiday Beef Wellington
What about making holiday beef wellington for Thanksgiving dinner this year? It’s made with beef tenderloin, the most tender cut of beef, along with flavourful ingredients such as prosciutto parma ham, rosemary, thyme, mushrooms, shallot, and more. This Thanksgiving or Christmas beef wellington recipe is straightforward to make and it’s a wonderfully decadent meal for the holidays.
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Sweet Potatoes With Candied Maple Pecans
If you’re looking for a slightly different sweet potato dish for your holiday menu, I bet you’ll love these sweet potatoes with candied maple pecans. Its streusel-like topping makes a change from the classic dish.
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Cranberry Holiday Beef Brisket
This cranberry holiday beef brisket is seriously amazing. It’s a lovely dish for the holiday season, Jewish holidays or any time of year you’re feeling festive. A large brisket with fresh cranberries or cranberry jelly is a great recipe for any holiday, special occasion or simply because it’s delicious enough to have any day!
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One Pot Gouda And Cream Cheese Corn
One pot gouda and cream cheese corn is an extra-special and very delicious side dish. It’s an amazing holiday corn recipe and pairs nicely with any kind of meat you want to cook. The combination of gouda, cream cheese and heavy cream gives this cheesy corn casserole recipe a rich taste and it’s a cozy, comforting side dish the whole family will love.
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Gouda Cheddar Parmesan Scalloped Potatoes
Gouda, cheddar, and parmesan scalloped potatoes made from scratch make an excellent side dish and a comforting meal. The combination of smoked Gouda, white cheddar, and parmesan cheese gives a unique flavor to this dish, making it a perfect choice for a special occasion.
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Smoked Gouda Mac And Cheese With Pancetta
Take standard mac and cheese to inspiring new heights with this smoked gouda mac and cheese with pancetta recipe. Elbow noodles pair up with gouda cheese, white cheddar, garlic, pancetta or bacon, shallots, and more, to create this seriously impressive dish. You can enjoy this grown up mac and cheese as a side dish or as the main dish and I guarantee second helpings and clean plates!
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Pot Roast with Red Wine
This slow cooker pot roast with red wine is a simple and delicious meal that is perfect for preparing in the morning and letting cook all day. When you return, the mouth-watering aroma that fills your home is just a bonus!
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Air Fryer Bacon Loaded Cornbread Pudding
Bacon loaded cornbread pudding pairs with everything from chicken to ham or steaks. It’s a wonderful potluck dish and this is the best corn casserole I’ve made. It’s easy to put together this air fryer cornbread pudding made with Jiffy cornbread mix. This bacon corn casserole will become a family dinner tradition.
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Smoked Sweet Onion Honey Glazed Ham
Smoked sweet onion honey glazed ham on a pellet grill makes such a delicious meal for a special occasion. Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter would be the perfect time for smoking a ham on a pellet smoker or Traeger grill. This honey ham recipe is juicy, boasting all kinds of rich, wonderful flavours. The glaze ensures it won’t dry out and the flavour is just phenomenal.
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Instant Pot Pork Loin Roast with Vegetables
This Instant Pot pork loin roast is an especially great recipe because you can make it in a fraction of the time you’d spend using a slow cooker or Dutch oven. Pork roast with vegetables makes a very easy dinner for busy weeknights.
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Cranberry Cream Cheese Stuffed Flank Steak
How does cranberry cream cheese stuffed flank steak sound as a Thanksgiving dinner dish? Doesn’t the sound of this recipe make your mouth begin to water? It’s such a great recipe for stuffed flank steak and works well as a New Year, Thanksgiving or Christmas steak recipe when you want something both fancy and tasty. It is so easy to Stuff and roll a butterflied flank steak, so don’t be intimidated.
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Roasted Delicata Squash
Delicata Squash is a small, easy to cook squash that’s sweet and tender and doesn’t require peeling because you can eat the skin! Roast it with salt, pepper, and olive oil or cinnamon and coconut oil for an even sweeter side dish!
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Red White & Blue Ambrosia Salad Recipe
This Red White & Blue Ambrosia Salad is a delicious, no-bake, retro dessert recipe that’s easy, addictive, and loaded with strawberries, blueberries, coconut, and pineapple!
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Best Jiffy Cheesy Corn Casserole Recipe
Cheesy Corn Casserole is an easy, no-effort side dish made with just 6 ingredients and ready for the oven in just 5 minutes! It’s an instant family favorite during the holidays!
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Creamy Baked Mac And Cheese
This Creamy Baked Mac and Cheese brings the comfort food feeling of a casserole and the cheesiness of Mac and cheese together in one dish.
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Crack Potatoes
Crack Potatoes is a flavor-packed side dish made of shredded hash browns tossed in an addicting combo of ranch dressing, sour cream, and cream cheese! As if all that goodness is not enough, gooey, melty cheese and crispy bacon crumbles are thrown in. It’s an easier, creamier, and fun twist to the classic potato casserole!
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Slow Cooker Collard Greens
This easy slow cooker collard greens recipe is a family favorite! Slow-cooker collard greens are a classic soul food dish consisting of smoked meat and bunches of collards cooked in a delicious savory broth. This easy recipe is a delicious side dish during the holidays and perfect for family dinners.
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Maryland Crab Dip Recipe
This ultra creamy, cheesy Hot Maryland Crab Dip Recipe is bringing you all of the best flavor that Maryland has to offer! I’m talking old bay seasoning and jumbo lump blue crab meat all baked together in this delicious easy crab dip recipe. Serve this as the perfect appetizer with toasted bread or your favorite crackers for the ultimate creamy dip!
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Gluten-Free Apple Pear Galettes With Pecan Streusel
Apples and pears harmonize with cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar in a buttery, flaky, gluten-free galette crust topped with a golden pecan streusel. These mini apple pear galettes are a fun and supremely tasty personal-sized dessert for Thanksgiving or Christmas!
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Roasted Garlic Mashed Cauliflower
The perfect gluten-free, veggie-centric side dish for any dinner or holiday meal! This Roasted Garlic Mashed Cauliflower is creamy, garlicky, luscious, and requires only 25-minutes to make!
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Gluten-Free Green Bean Casserole
Gluten-free green bean casserole made from scratch! Fresh green beans in a homemade mushroom cream sauce made with shiitake mushrooms, cheddar cheese, and bacon and then topped with homemade crispy fried onions. Finally a cheesy green bean casserole that is both gluten-free and incredibly tasty!
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Brussels Sprouts With Bacon
This five-ingredient Brussels sprouts with bacon recipe is going to become your new family-favorite side dish – especially for the holidays!
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Green Bean Casserole
Learn how to make green bean casserole, and you mastered like, 90% of hosting Thanksgiving dinner. Ok, that’s maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but this classic side dish has appeared at many a holiday table over the last 65 years.
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Biscuit Pretzels
One of my favorite pub fares is getting an upgrade. These biscuit pretzels are our favorite easy homemade soft pretzel recipe. They come hot and fresh from the oven with a side of warm, gooey cheese. Life just got better. You can thank me later.
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Hashbrown Casserole
This hashbrown casserole is a mixture of creamy potatoes with plenty of melted cheese, all baked to golden brown perfection. A simple yet totally satisfying side dish that’s perfect for any occasion!
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Ranch Cheesy Potatoes
Every good Midwesterner has a recipe for cheesy potatoes when a comforting side dish is needed; these easy Ranch Cheesy Potatoes with Frozen Hash Browns includes Ranch seasoning for a delicious twist on this wintertime staple.
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Cranberry Apple Crisp
Sweet, tangy, and with a hint of holiday-flavored spices, this easy, one-bowl cranberry apple crisp is just as perfect for an impromptu fall get-together as it is for a holiday dessert table.
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Coca Cola Ham
This coca cola ham is a spiral cut ham coated in a coke and brown sugar glaze, then baked to perfection. A 3 ingredient recipe that’s perfect for a special occasion!
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Overnight Eggnog French Toast
Who says delicious has to be stressful? This easy eggnog french toast sure isn’t! Just 15 minutes of prep in the evening and you’re on your way to the most delicious,
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Country Ham Biscuits
These are a southern staple. Country Ham Biscuits. In the South, these tender yeast biscuits layered with salty ham are as ubiquitous as a smile and nod hello.
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Oven Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Brussel Sprouts
Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Brussel Sprouts make the perfect side dish for the holiday season or any weeknight dinner. Exploding with robust flavor from roasted veggies, fresh herbs and savory seasonings, there’s nothing better than a delicious side dish with deep flavor to adorn your holiday table
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Southern Pineapple Casserole
Pineapple Casserole is a classic, Southern dish, that’s sweet, savory, and has a buttery topping that makes it totally addictive! Served as a side dish for the holidays or as a dessert, this surprising recipe brings together contrasting flavors and textures, making it incredibly delicious.
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Amish Scalloped Corn
Old-fashioned comfort food at its finest. This scalloped corn recipe is made even better with a delicious cracker topping.
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Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
This sourdough cinnamon roll recipe is made with brioche dough which gives them a pull-apart, soft, and fluffy texture.
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Beer Braised Short Ribs
Tasty, fall off the bone Beer Braised Short Ribs are easier than you might expect, and they are so good! If you’re looking for a tasty main dish that will work well with a number of side dishes, these easy short ribs are your answer.
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Chicken Fried Chicken Recipe
The Best Chicken Fried Chicken Recipe – Made with chicken breasts breaded and pan-fried to crispy golden perfection and topped with the most creamy and delicious white pepper gravy.
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Savory Baked Turkey Crepes
An excellent way to use leftovers, these savory baked turkey crepes are both hearty and makes for a delicious meal option for the whole family.
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Pear Cobbler
This old-fashioned pear cobbler recipe is super simple to make and is one of my go-to desserts to make when I’m having people over. Impress your guests with this fancy, secretly effortless recipe.
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Dutch Oven Turkey Breast
Dutch Oven Turkey Breast is the perfect alternative to roasting a whole turkey during the holidays. It’s moist, tender, and loaded with flavor from the dry rub brine, fresh herbs, and juicy lemons!
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Spinach, Sun-dried Tomato and Pesto Quiche
Spinach, Sun-dried Tomato and Pesto Quiche is a delicious combination of sweet and tart sun-dried tomatoes and the fresh flavours of basil pesto and spinach.
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Slow Cooker Turkey Meatloaf (With Stovetop Stuffing)
This Slow Cooker Turkey Meatloaf is made with ground turkey, Stovetop stuffing, celery, carrot, and a few seasonings you’ll most likely already have on hand. This comforting meal is flavorful, delicious, and sure to be a huge hit for the whole family.
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Pork Sirloin Roast
Easy to make with garlic herb butter, this Pork Sirloin Roast is the perfect healthy family dinner. A pork sirloin roast is a relatively lean cut of meat that roasts quickly into tender juicy slices.
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Easy Roasted Lima Beans
Crispy oven roasted lima beans are full of flavor from garlic and pepper sauce. It’s an easy, quick, and healthy side dish that requires very minimal prep time.
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Cast Iron Peach Cobbler (Gluten-Free Option!)
Fresh summer peaches shine in this Cast Iron Peach Cobbler. With warm spices, a brown sugar sauce, a gluten-free variation, and flaky sweet biscuits, this dessert is summer in a skillet!
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Smoked Mac And Cheese With Bacon
Smoked Mac and Cheese with bacon is cheesy comfort food with smoky flavors. Make this pellet grill macaroni and cheese recipe for game day!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.