Christmas Viennese menu to cook at home

What do we like doing the most at home in the weeks leading up to Christmas? That's right: We cook, bake, and feast. Transform your home into a fragrant Viennese Christmas market and make the most popular treats really easily at home. We show you how it's done.

Martini goose becomes a Christmas goose

What the Martini goose is to autumn, the Christmas goose is to winter. Served with red cabbage and potato dumplings, it's is an especially festive dish that needs a bit of preparation. But it's well worth the effort, because home-cooked food always tastes the best.

Red cabbage:

130 g sugar
5 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1 bay leaf
5 juniper berries
250 ml apple juice
250 ml red wine
250 ml orange juice
1 level tsp
salt
100 g lingonberries
Pepper
1 head of red cabbage

Stuffing for the goose:

1 onion
1 orange
2 apples
1 garlic clove
Marjoram
Salt
Pepper
Water

Potato dumplings:

1 kg floury potatoes
Nutmeg
1 tbsp semolina
300 g potato starch

Christmas market for your home

A visit to a Christmas market wouldn't be complete without a warming mulled wine and sweet treats.

Mulled wine

100 g fine granulated sugar
3 pcs. star anise
6 pcs. cardamom pods
6 pcs. cloves
2 pcs. cinnamon bark
750 ml red/white wine
250 ml orange juice
1 pc. lemon
1 pc. orange

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Sweet Christmas baking

Typical Christmas baking includes gingerbread, cinnamon stars, macaroons, Christmas fruit loaf (stollen) and mulled wine guglhupf cake. However, the undisputed Christmas cookies are the popular vanilla croissants.

Vanilla croissants