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Healthy Christmas Recipes

Healthy Christmas recipes to stay on track over the festive period. Christmas treats and desserts which are refined sugar-free, with many gluten-free options. Plus, lots of healthy side dishes and sauces, and healthy Christmas leftover recipes.

Why not try some healthy mince pies, chocolate nut clusters or baked apples with mincemeat? Or switch to a sugar-free cranberry sauce and add some roasted swede and braised red cabbage to your side dishes.

Healthy Christmas Treats

Healthy Christmas treats, naturally sweetened with dried fruit and nuts.

  • Healthy mince pies with stars.
    Healthy Mince Pies with No Added Sugar Mincemeat
  • Slices of sugar free fruit cake.
    No Added Sugar Fruit Cake
  • Fat free fruit cake.
    Fat Free Fruit Cake
  • Healthy honey and almond marzipan
    Healthy Honey and Almond Marzipan
  • Healthy stollen bites on blue dish.
    Healthy Stollen Bites
  • Gluten-free almond biscotti on wire rack.
    Healthy Gluten Free Almond Biscotti
  • Healthy Christmas cookies
    Healthy Christmas Cookies (Refined Sugar Free, Gluten Free)

There are also more healthy cake recipes with traditional Christmas ingredients such as dates and ginger.

Healthy Chocolate Treats

Chocolate treats for the festive period, perfect for nibbling, or after dinner. Made with either cocoa or rich dark chocolate to make them low in added sugar.

  • Healthy chocolate coconut truffles.
    Healthy Chocolate Coconut Truffles (Dairy Free & No Refined Sugar)
  • Healthy date truffles with bite taken out.
    Healthy Chocolate Date Truffles
  • Chocolate nut clusters.
    Chocolate Nut Clusters
  • Cocoa dusted almonds in blue bowl.
    Cocoa Dusted Almonds
  • Healthy florentines on tray.
    Healthy Florentines

See here for more healthy chocolate recipes and treats.

Healthy Christmas Desserts

Traditional Christmas desserts made lighter with less sugar and less saturated fats.

  • Healthy Christmas Pudding
    Healthy Christmas Pudding
  • Healthy trifle showing layers with spoons.
    Healthy Trifle (gluten free)

There are also lots more healthy desserts that you might like to serve over the festive period.

Healthy Christmas Side Dishes

Healthy vegetable and side dishes for Christmas day, including gluten free and dairy free options.

  • Dairy free Yorkshire puddings.
    Dairy Free Yorkshire Puddings (with Oat Milk)
  • Gluten free sage and onion stuffing in red dish
    Gluten Free Sage and Onion Stuffing
  • Gluten free Yorkshire pudding in tin
    Gluten Free Yorkshire Puddings
  • Slow cooker red cabbage
    Slow Cooker Braised Red Cabbage
  • Gluten free cauliflower cheese.
    Gluten Free Cauliflower Cheese without Flour
  • Roasted swede
    Roasted Swede
  • Carrot and swede mash
    Carrot and Swede Mash
  • Quick and healthy mackerel pate
    Quick and Healthy Mackerel Pate

Healthy Christmas Sauces

Healthy versions of traditional Christmas sauces that are low in sugar and gluten free.

  • Healthy sugar free cranberry sauce.
    Refined Sugar Free Cranberry Sauce
  • Gluten free bread sauce in brown jug with bay leaf.
    Gluten Free Bread Sauce
  • Jug of gluten free onion gravy with herbs
    Gluten Free Onion Gravy
  • Easy homemade custard
    Easy homemade custard without cream

Healthy Christmas Leftover Recipes

Wondering what to do with your leftover Christmas mincemeat or turkey?

  • Mincemeat crumble bars.
    Mincemeat Crumble Bars
  • Serving of apple and mincemeat crumble in green bowl.
    Apple and Mincemeat Crumble
  • Baked apple with mincemeat in dish sq
    Baked Apples with Mincemeat
  • Mincemeat flapjacks on wire rack.
    Christmas Mincemeat Flapjacks
  • Turkey cobbler in red dish.
    Turkey Cobbler
  • Coronation turkey.
    Coronation Turkey

Christmas Roundups

  • Healthy mince pies with stars.
    Healthy and Delicious Christmas Recipes
  • Chocolate nut clusters.
    Refined Sugar Free Christmas Treats

Wendy Faulkner, creator of Cinnamon and Kale

Hi, I'm Wendy.
Welcome to Cinnamon and Kale.
Here you'll find lots of delicious, healthy recipes which are easy to make with everyday ingredients.

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