Christmas food

Czechoslovakian Christmas cookies (vánoční cukroví)

This is a list of Christmas dishes as eaten around the world.

Belgium

• Cougnou (or cougnolle), sweet bread in the form of the infant Jesus

Canada

• Apple cider
• Yule Log
• Candy canes
• Christmas pudding
• Eggnog
• Fruitcake
• Pumpkin Pie
• Gingerbread, often in the form of a Gingerbread house or Gingerbread man
• Ham
• Pâté à la viande
• Roast turkey
• Tourtière
• Shortbread
• Stuffing

Czech Republic

The traditional meal (served as the dinner on the Christmas Eve) consists of fish soup and fried fish (most often, carp) served with potato salad. It should be the first food consumed that day.

Before the Christmas holidays, many kinds of sweet biscuits are prepared.

Denmark

Danish Christmas meal

• Apple dumplings (Æbleskiver) sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with strawberry marmalade
  Boiled potatoes
  Brown sauce (Brun sovs)
  Browned potatoes (Brunede kartofler)
  Christmas beer (Juleøl)
• Glogg (Gløg)
• Rice pudding with almonds (Risalamande) served with cherry sauce (kirsebærsauce)
• Roast duck (Andesteg) served with apples and prunes
  Red cabbage (Rødkål)

Finland

• Freshly salted salmon (Graavilohi)
• Rosolli salad of pickled herring and boiled vegetables (Rosolli)
• Baked ham with mustard (Kinkku)
• Turkey (Kalkkuna)
• Raw-pickled slightly salted salmon (Kylmäsavuohi)
• Carrot Casserole (Porkkanalaatikko)
• Potato Casserole (Perunalaatikko or tuuvinki)
• Swede pudding, rutabaga casserole (Lanttulaatikko)
• Liver Casserole (Maksalaatikko)
• Mixed fruit soup or prune soup (Sekahedelmäkiisseli, luumukiisseli)
• Rice pudding or rice porridge with cinnamon, sugar and cold milk or with mixed fruit soup (Riisipuuro)
• Glogg or mulled wine (Glögi)
• Prune jam pastries (Joulutortut)
• Gingerbread, sometimes in the form of a Gingerbread house or Gingerbread man (Piparkakut)

France

• Bûche de Noël
• Foie gras
  Nougat noir au miel
  Kouglof traditionnel
• Ganzeltopf
• Berauwecka

Germany

• Pfeffernüsse
• Glühwein
• Lebkuchen
• Christstollen
• Hexenhäuserl
• Springerle
• Plätzchen

Italy

• Panettone (Milan)

Japan

• Christmas cake - Different from a U.K. Christmas cake or American fruitcake, the Japanese Christmas cake is usually sponge cake frosted with whipped cream, and topped with strawberries.

Contrary to popular myth and KFC advertisements, chicken karaage (fried chicken) is not a traditional Christmas meal in Japan. The Christmas holiday in Japan is akin to the Valentine's Day holiday in countries like America, often celebrated by couples with meals in upscale restaurants. As such, there is no specific traditional meal.

Lithuania

12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper plays the main role in Lithuanian Christmas tradition. Thus the traditional dishes are served on December 24th.

• Poppy milk (aguonų pienas)
  Slizikai (šližikai')
  Auselės (Deep fried dumplings)
  Herring with carrots (silkė su morkomis')
  Herring with mushrooms (silkė su grybais')

New Zealand

• Pavlova

Norway

• Gløgg (drink)
• Julepølse
• Lutefisk
• Pinnekjøtt
• Svineribbe

Poland

• Kutia

Romania

• Piftie (pork- and cow-based aspic, with pork meat, vegetables and garlic)
• Cârnaţi (pork-based saussages)
• Tobā (various cuttings of pork, liver boiled, diced and "packed" in pork stomach like a salami)
• Sarmale (rolls of cabbage pickled in brine and filled with meat and rice)
• Cozonac, sort of Romanian equivalent of panettone

Serbia

• Fish soup (for the Christmas Eve)
• Koljivo
• Česnica

Spain

• Turron

Sweden

• Köttbullar - Swedish meatballs
  Julskinka - Christmas ham
  Inlagd sill - Pickled herring (you usually have all different kinds of sill as well)
  Julbord - Christmas smorgasbord (julbord really means all the dishes you eat at christmas together)
  Rödkål - Sweet and sour red cabbage
• Julmust - A traditional very sweet stout-like, Christmas soft drink
• Glögg - Mulled wine
• Knäck - Christmas toffee
• Prinskorv - Small sausages
  Revbensspjäll - Meat on bones
  Pepparkaka - Gingerbread
  Gravad lax - Graved salmon
  Julost - Christmas cheese
• Julgröt - Rice pudding

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the traditional meal consists of roast turkey or goose, served with roast potatoes and other vegetables, followed by Christmas pudding, a heavy boiled pudding made with dried fruit (traditionally plums) and flour.

• Brandy butter
• Chocolate yule log
• Christmas cake
• Christmas pudding
• Dundee cake
• Mince pie
• Roast turkey
  Snap-dragons
  Stuffing
  Gravy
  roast beef
  roast duck
  roast goose
  Brussels Sprouts

United States

Roast turkey

• Apple cider
• Candy canes
• Champagne, or sparkling apple cider
• Christmas cookies
• Cranberry sauce
• Eggnog
• Fruitcake
• Gingerbread, often in the form of a Gingerbread house or Gingerbread man
• Honey ham
• Hot chocolate
• Marzipan
• Pie
  
  • Apple pie
  • Pecan pie
  • Pumpkin pie
• Roast turkey, less often roast duck or roast goose
• Smithfield ham, often served on a biscuit or a roll
• Stuffing also known as Dressing in the Southern United States

Venezuela

• Hallaca
• Pan de jamón (ham-filled bread)

Links

• Wiki-Recipe.org recipes for Christmas
• Santa's Lapland and Christmas Club - Christmas Recipes
• Collection of Christmas Recipes
• World Famous Recipes - Christmas Recipes
• Spanish Christmas recipes

This guide is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia.

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