What do people eat around the world for Christmas? Unexpected dishes from familiar countries
Let's start our culinary journey with distant and hot Australia. There, Christmas is celebrated by having a barbecue with chicken, shrimp, pork or beef. The dessert for such a festive table is a cake with whipped cream or jelly. Australian Christmas is perhaps the most atypical - this is the time when the continent begins its hot summer.
IN Britain Christmas is celebrated in a royal manner. The main dish is served on the table – turkey with cranberry sauce. It can be garnished with steamed vegetables, mashed potatoes or Brussels sprouts. The traditional Christmas dessert is pudding with candied fruits, raisins, dried apricots. Before serving, it is poured with cognac or rum and set on fire. This is an alternative to our Bengal lights. All these delicacies are usually washed down with warm ale or punch.
Famous chefs Italians Salmon in oranges is called their traditional Christmas dish. The country is famous for its numerous fish dishes, and the Italians themselves are proud of their ability to cook them. All these delicacies are washed down with champagne or wine.
Despite the fact that Sweden is also a "fish" country, traditionally braised ham is served at Christmas. Swedes are firmly convinced that fatty foods are very harmful and can only be eaten for lunch or dinner, and only on holidays. And since Christmas is one of the most revered holidays in the country, braised ham will be on the table of almost every Swedish family.
What do you think is the traditional dish eaten? Poles? No, definitely not pork or fish. Pasta. Christmas kutia is made from special pasta. Its recipe is quite simple. First, you need to boil the pasta and grind the poppy seeds until they become soft. Then add dried apricots and your favorite nuts to this mass. In the case of the Poles, these are hazelnuts. The poppy seed-nut mixture is added to the pasta, poured with honey and served.
French, as is well known, are famous for their extraordinary approach to cooking and eating. This also applies to the Christmas table. Traditionally, turkey with cognac and cream, goose liver pate, roasted chestnuts, oysters and all kinds of cheese are prepared for Christmas. Dessert is a Yule log (a creamy cake-cake). To raise the festive mood, the French drink champagne and dry wines.
IN Germany Christmas is probably one of the most desired holidays of the year. The main dish on the German Christmas table is considered to be baked goose with apples, cabbage and prunes, pork with sauerkraut and homemade pies ("kuchen"). According to the rules, there should be 7 or 9 dishes on the table made from products symbolizing the origin of life: wheat, eggs, caviar, peas, beans. An obligatory attribute of Christmas in Germany is aromatic mulled wine. The main dessert is marzipan cake with cream.
IN Czech Republic It is not customary to eat meat on Christmas. Therefore, the main dish is considered to be fried carp, which is served with potato salad. In addition, it is customary to cook homemade cookies, which are then distributed to guests.
IN Bulgaria Only Lenten dishes are served on the Christmas table and always in odd quantities: vegetable cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers, layered pumpkin pie. And only on the second day can you eat meat. Traditionally, on this day they eat meat with vegetables and banitsa - a layered pie with a filling of feta cheese, veal, apples and eggplant.
IN Brazil Christmas traditions from many countries have mixed together, and this is what came out of it: usually the main festive dish for Brazilians is fish or pork, with colored rice as a side dish. Dessert consists of fruit salad and nuts.
If you want to try something unusual for Christmas, be sure to visit Argentina. After all, it is there that roast peacock, boring beef, pork or turkey are served at the Christmas table, and fruit and all kinds of puddings are served as dessert.
