THE Christmas is around the corner and means, for many families in Spain, thinking about what to eat or dine on special days. What are Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?. There are those who like to spend a whole day in the kitchen preparing a top-of-the-range Christmas menu. However, there is another sector of the population that does not prefer it, so they try to find alternatives to not cook while still surprising their guests.
Mercadona has the solution. Juan Roig’s supermarket chain has once again offered prepared dishes in their ‘Ready to eat’ section with recipes that leave no one indifferent, from the assortment of canapes to stuffed chicken leg to suckling lamb shoulder. This is what you need to know.
From suckling lamb shoulder to seafood salad
To start the culinary evening of the next holidays, Mercadona offers an assortment of sofas for groups of four people and at the price of 15 euros. Includes tarts like garlic shrimp or goat’s cheese and caramelized onion.
THE seafood salad It is intended for groups of 6 people. It costs 15 euros, although it is not available in all supermarkets in the country, as they warn that it is not available in Galicia. There are also individual dishes such as chicken thigh stuffed with truffle sauce at 15 euros per portion, cheek in compote 20 euros per plate and individual suckling lamb shoulder for 27 euros.
A main option is quarter roast suckling pig for two people for 50 euros. They also offer their most classic dish and which they announce is “available in several stores in Galicia”: a cod with turnip greens and potatoes for two people and for 33 euros.
In some stores in the provinces of Valencia, Castellón, Teruel, Cuenca, Balearic Islands and Alicante they have a assortment of small potato tortillas for four people and for 15 euros.
Finally, in localities located in the provinces of Almería, Granada and Jaén you can buy a roast loin with Pedro Ximénez for four people and at the price of 30 euros.
When to order prepared meals at Mercadona for Christmas
For Christmas Eve, you can order the dishes until December 20 in the store. If you order them for New Year’s Eve, the deadline It’s December 27.
In turn, they announce on their website that there will be an assisted sale of the assortment at the section counter. December 23 and 24 for Christmas Eve, and December 30 and 31for New Year’s Eve.
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