Christmas dinner doesn't need to be in a luxury hotel or at any level. In the west, as long as it is a Christmas family dinner, it is called a Christmas dinner. However, several traditional foods are indispensable for Christmas, such as Christmas turkey, smoked ham, Christmas salmon and Christmas pudding. However, due to the different regional and cultural differences in different countries, the form and content of Christmas dinner will also have various wonderful changes. A country's custom is a dining table, a kind of food is a landscape, the aroma lingers in the air, and the attractive atmosphere of Christmas flows freely.
The song of Gingell Bells has already resounded through the sky, and the industrious elk has gently printed a string of happy footprints in the snow. The blessing hidden in Santa Claus's white beard turned into snowflakes flying all over the sky, which landed in the palm of Ying Ying's hand. Why don't you pack up your happy bags, get on the sleigh of happiness, take a trip to various countries' food in the name of Christmas, and feast your eyes on Christmas Eve!
10 classic Christmas dinner
French: elegant demeanour in full bloom in romance
Besides being the most romantic, the French also value warmth, so the Christmas dinner will be shared with their families, and the atmosphere is very important. Ordinary families will decorate their homes, with beautiful tablecloths on the dining table, flowers and candles in the middle as decorations, white fine porcelain utensils decorated with delicate patterns, silver knives and forks and crystal cups, and soft lighting, which will create a harmonious and warm tone of a room and create romantic talents.
French people don't pay much attention to the dishes of Christmas dinner, but only make the dishes they can taste more exquisite and rich, but one thing is necessary, that is, catering. After the Christmas dinner, you should open a bottle of top champagne for the whole family to enjoy. This is a complete and rich French Christmas dinner.
Smoked salmon is a delicious food, because the fish of salmon are bright in color and full in taste. French people will choose smoked salmon as a festive dish at Christmas, and there are many cooking methods, such as making a fresh salad appetizer with fragrant mango and asparagus, or making a dish with white sauce and ground flour. These are very popular dishes in the family.
Top foie gras. There must be foie gras on the Christmas table in France Foie gras is usually fried. If you add a little port wine, figs or French special sauce to taste, it will be more pungent and the taste will be sweet and smooth immediately. Some families can't afford top-grade foie gras, so they will eat some canned foie gras instead. The general practice is to slice and make it into a cold appetizer. Some people like to dip in sauce or bread to make Christmas dinner more noble.
Buckwheat cake Buckwheat cake-a special cake for Christmas, represented by buckwheat cake made of buckwheat flour, is considered to be hard in texture although its color is dark. In fact, because the buckwheat flour used is delicate, the cake tastes soft and has a unique wheat flavor.
Britain: The Last Romance.
British people have different requirements for three meals a day: full breakfast, simple lunch and delicious dinner. So their dinner is usually the most abundant and never perfunctory. In the biggest holiday of the year, Christmas, an extremely rich and tailor-made Christmas dinner is a standard holiday ceremony. The whole family will sit around the dining table, enjoy wine and food, congratulate each other and chat. The atmosphere warms people's hearts
Christmas pudding comes from traditional Christmas food, such as milk porridge and dried fruit pudding. The traditional custom is to make pudding one month before Christmas, and every family member should participate in the making process, which symbolizes unity and harmony. And everyone is responsible for stirring the dough, making a silent wish while stirring, and finally hiding a coin in the dough. If you are lucky enough to eat this coin, you will have good luck for a whole year.
Christmas cake Christmas cake is a dessert made of dried fruit and almond protein. It is covered with a layer of snow-white powdered sugar. It tastes sweet and firm. Some people will spread cream or jam on Christmas cakes and even write the words "Merry Christmas". When eating, some people like to insert special Christmas candles around the cake. Candles are small and delicate, only two, three or four? Hey? Colorful, lit and blown out by the host, and then cut into pieces to enjoy with the family, and as a successful conclusion of the Christmas dinner.
Sweden: Have fun with others.
Every Christmas, Swedes have a stubborn habit when entertaining guests, that is, they must let the guests sit on the host's left, and they usually eat European western food, especially ham and cake. They always prepare a table of delicious food. Ham meat called Earl singa is indispensable. Call friends and relatives, and sometimes even some unfamiliar friends. They are willing to invite them into the house to enjoy delicious food. Their style is very generous, and they think Christmas should be a good day to share fun and enjoy food.
Swedish rice porridge rice porridge. Swedes have the habit of eating rice porridge. It is a kind of porridge with sweet taste and thick texture. The commonly used materials are fruits, such as apples. Then cinnamon, Yunnan, butter, rice, milk, white raisins, etc. Is added to cooking. The entrance is smooth and has a strong milk flavor. Coupled with the bite of fruit, rice porridge is chewy and tastes delicious. But this kind of rice porridge can only be tasted during festivals, so most people eat it backwards.
White sauce cod Lutfisk Swedes like seafood very much, and they especially like to taste a kind of white sauce cod at Christmas. Cod is dried in the sun, then pickled and made into white sauce. The pungent taste is more appetizing, and the slippery white sauce is more appetizing.
Brown bread soaked in a kettle
At Christmas, Swedes will sit around and taste this interesting, lively, delicious and nutritious black bread cocktail. First, use a small pot, add pork, sausage, ground beef and other materials, boil it into a very rich gravy, and dip it in black bread.
Germany: Bring warmth home.
German Christmas dinner means that on Christmas Eve, the whole family goes home for a reunion dinner, so almost everyone has to go home for the New Year. Therefore, there is naturally no Christmas dinner in the restaurant, and everyone can only treat the dinner cooked at home as a Christmas dinner, which is both warm and innovative.
Christmas markets are generally open at the end of June each year 165438+, and are distributed all over Germany. The general booth will be open until noon on February 24th 12. Of course, the scale of Christmas market varies from place to place, such as Nuremberg, which is famous for Christmas gingerbread, and Dresden, which specializes in Christmas cake Stollen. This is a very famous Christmas market.
Christmas red wine Gluehwein is one of the hot drinks that Germans must drink at Christmas. It is a kind of heated red wine, but in addition to the ingredients of general red wine, manufacturers will also introduce some different flavors, such as cinnamon, honey, lemon and even fruit spirits, to make the taste more changeable. Many Germans will drink a glass of hot Christmas red wine to warm themselves up immediately after midnight mass on Christmas Eve. This is a very special drink.
Germany's NuernbergerLebkuchen, a small spot between cakes and biscuits, is made of a lot of honey and pepper granules, and its sweet and spicy taste is very unique. Among them, "Nuremberg gingerbread" is the most famous. Now many gingerbread have been improved, covered with chocolate or white syrup, and added with almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts to make the taste richer.
Christmas cake Christstollen/Stollen. Christstollen, usually called stollen, is a long cake wrapped in white powdered sugar and containing fruit particles, which is usually sold at Christmas. Although there are not so many kinds of gingerbread, there are many flavors to choose from, the most common ones are Butterstollen, Rosinenstollen of raisins and Marzipanstollen of almond flavor. Germans usually cut the whole Stollen into pieces and enjoy it with Christmas red wine.
Switzerland: burning passion, living color and fragrance
Generally speaking, traditional Swiss families eat Christmas dinner mainly including: cheese hotpot, fried meat hotpot, Chinese hotpot, grilled cheese or barbecue on the table. These dishes are very typical Swiss winter dishes, which are enjoyed with family and friends. They are high in calories, only enough to thicken their subcutaneous fat a little to resist the freezing temperature.
Cheese fondue, written in German-Kaesefondue (a has two dots on it), this dish should be the most famous food in Switzerland. Some kind of cheese and white wine are heated and melted in a pot. When the cheese becomes thick and liquid, a small piece of bread (some people use potatoes) is put into the pot and wrapped with cheese.
Chinese hot pot, written in German-Fondue Chinois, as the name implies, is a hot pot that has absorbed the spirit of our China hot pot and combined with Swiss cooking habits. Cook a pot of clear soup, prepare some meat and straw mushrooms, iron things, and then dip them in various sauces. Although not as good as China's hot pot, I feel homesick, which shows the friendship between Switzerland and China.
The barbecue on the table is written in German-tischgrill. The barbecue on the table is the most enjoyable dish. When many Swiss people are too lazy to cook in winter and want to eat a lot, most of them will have a barbecue on the table. Supermarkets and appliance stores in Switzerland sell barbecue utensils on the table, similar to an electric iron plate. After the iron plate is oiled and heated to a certain degree, put the meat and green pepper on it, then pour the sauce and cook it.
Australia: Two Worlds of Ice and Fire
Christmas will inspire all kinds of strange imaginations, and the most attractive thing is food. This is also the best time for Australia to show off its extraordinary specialties, from tropical fruits to seafood, cheese and wine.
Where should I go to enjoy the Christmas barbecue? By the sea! Absolute comfort! Enthusiastic Australians will barbecue all kinds of fresh seafood for you on the spot, and will also perform various fashionable ways, including olive oil, Chili sauce, curry, coriander and so on. You can eat your fill with an open stomach! After the barbecue, you can walk on the beach. If you are worried that the overeating just now has ruined the plan of "losing weight", you might as well rent a bike for a ride on the seaside avenue, or go surfing, fishing, diving, swimming and diving. These are all excellent exercises to burn calories!
Christmas dishes with different Australian styles can best reflect the essence of immigrant culture in mainland Australia. Every nation is constantly introducing its own cultural traditions and delicacies, and constantly enriching, improving and expanding Australian recipes.
Austria: as famous as art
As the hometown of music, Austria can be said to be a "feast of art and chocolate" every Christmas. The most distinctive commodity in Salzburg Christmas market is undoubtedly Mozart chocolate, which is rich and smooth, sweet but not greasy, and lingering fragrance. There are also cakes on the Christmas table in Austria. Austrian cakes are absolutely as magnificent, colorful and varied as palaces. Sandwich sandwiches are various, exquisite and rich, pleasing to the eye and full of fragrance. The Austrian faction is also worth mentioning. It's crisp and tender, it melts in the mouth, and the milk is overflowing. It's amazing. Have some white wine from neighboring Germany. Austria likes it very much. It is fresh, sweet and fruity. With chocolate and cake, this is an artistic collision of chocolate in the mouth!
In addition, on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, there is a famous drinking area, located halfway up the mountain, called "Vienna Forest". Residents nearby will set up a Christmas dinner there, drinking, dancing and eating pig's trotters, accompanied by fragrant German brandy. They will definitely call their friends, drink and dance until dawn.
Finland: Legendary Food in Fairy Tales
In Finland, Christmas dinner is also the highlight of this festival, and many restaurants have added Christmas specialties to their menus. The real Finnish Christmas dinner includes star-shaped plum sauce pie, ginger bread, Rosolli (a herring salad with beetroot and other vegetables) and Christmas ham. In terms of drinks, there is the traditional Glogi, which is a wine mixed with almonds and raisins. It tastes spicy and fragrant, and there are many brands of Christmas beer to choose from, as well as hot chocolate and hot coffee with "little things" ("little things" is another name for rum or brandy in Finland).
Finland is the hometown of the legendary Santa Claus. Starting from rovaniemi in northern Finland, 8 kilometers to the north, there is a "Santa Claus Village". It is said that Santa Claus always sets out from here to give gifts. How happy and beautiful it would be to be with Santa Claus, enjoy ginger bread, drink Glogi wine, enjoy Christmas dinner, help him equip gifts, and wave goodbye to Santa Claus in the crisp music on Christmas Eve!
America: crossing the cowboy color is just a visit.
The United States is a multi-ethnic country, so the situation of Americans celebrating Christmas is also the most complicated. Immigrants from different countries still follow the customs of their motherland. However, the annual Christmas program in the United States, in addition to business discounts and street decorations, is the ballet Nutcracker that must be performed every year. Almost all Americans who love life have this hobby, that is, taking the whole family to see a lively and beautiful Nutcracker before Christmas.
Americans pay attention to family decoration, put up Christmas trees, fill socks with gifts, eat Christmas dishes mainly turkey and hold family dances. The custom of eating turkey at Christmas dinner began at 1620, which is popular in the United States. After thawing, the turkey will be stuffed with many fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, celery, onions, chestnuts and so on. Then marinate it with various seasonings and finally put it in? It takes several hours to bake in the H oven. But turkey is not as smooth as ordinary chicken because of its low fat. Fortunately, a lot of ingredients are mixed, so the taste is quite rich and pungent. Turkey is very big, so it is not easy to finish it overnight. The usual practice is to slice the turkey the next day and then freeze it as a material for making sandwiches, noodles and so on.
Italy: the ultimate temptation of food
For more than 500 years, Italians have done one thing every Christmas-eating a Christmas cake called "PANETTONE Tone". Pan Nadoni cake is produced in Milan and is the symbolic food of this city. The appearance is unpretentious, but it is stuffed with dried fruits such as raisins and candied fruit, which is soft and delicious and full of fragrance. As an essential item for Italians to spend Christmas, the authority of Panadoni cake is beyond doubt. A family can share a piece of cake, strengthen communication and enhance feelings.
Nowadays, Panadoni cake has a variety of local flavors, including Genoa flavor with nuts, abruzzi flavor covered with chocolate, Venetian flavor with golden surface, and it is also "baked" outside the national boundaries. Nowadays, Panadoni cake has become a delicious food for people in Greece, Sweden and Luxembourg to celebrate Christmas.
It is the extraordinary charm of Italian cuisine to make simple food delicious and artistic. Enthusiastic Italians' temptation to food endows artists with unique creativity, which shines like a diamond of food under the aura of modern Italian civilization. Pizza and pasta, on the other hand, give full play to the imagination of Italian chefs, just like two bright gems in the crown of Italian cuisine, which exude unparalleled Italian charm. Fresh crust, top cheese, top pizza sauce and fresh stuffing, pizza lingers on the attachment of taste buds with long and fragrant cheese, while butterfly-shaped, ear-shaped and spiral spaghetti weaves a fragrant net, which makes people addicted to it and unwilling to extricate themselves.