Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat a fat turkey. In addition, there are pumpkin pie, sweet potato, corn, foreign chestnuts, cranberry jelly, sour jam, cider and so on. It can be said that Thanksgiving dinner is the most important and sumptuous family dinner for Americans in a year.

1. Turkey

Turkey is the main course of traditional American festivals. The process of making turkey is complicated. In addition to filling the belly with pre-prepared stuffing, the turkey has to be roasted for at least four hours. Turkey is tender, with protein content above 30%. Most Americans like turkeys.

There is also a certain emphasis on how to eat turkey. It needs to be roasted whole, the chicken skin is roasted to dark brown, and its stomach is stuffed with a lot of miscellaneous food such as broken bread. After serving, the host cut it with a knife and distributed it to everyone. Then pour the marinade and sprinkle with salt. It's delicious.

2, cranberry sauce

Cranberry sauce, also known as cranberry sauce, has always been the ingredient and condiment of turkey, the main dish of Thanksgiving and Christmas. According to the United States Pharmacopoeia, cranberry has been used as an adjuvant against cystitis and infection, and its remarkable curative effect has been widely recognized. According to Chinese Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, cranberry leaves are "bitter in taste, mild in nature and slightly toxic", which can induce diuresis and detoxify, and are often used for rheumatism and gout. Its fruit can "relieve pain and treat dysentery". What makes people sit up and take notice is that cranberry is listed as one of the five healthy foods for human beings by FAO because of its high economic value, medicinal potential and development prospect.

The method is also very simple. Weigh the cranberries and weigh the same amount of sugar as cranberries. Put the cranberries in a clean thick-bottomed soup pot, heat them on low heat (please don't add water), and stir them every three to five minutes until the cranberries begin to soften and the juice oozes. Add sugar to cranberries and stir well. Turn to low heat and cook until all the sugar melts and the jam starts to boil slightly, then stop the fire. When the temperature of cranberry jam will be room temperature, it can be sealed in a clean container without water and oil.

3.pumpkin pie

Pumpkin pie is a traditional home-cooked dish in the southern United States from late autumn to early winter. People usually eat it, especially around Thanksgiving, and it becomes a seasonal food. Pumpkin is a symbol of harvest and abundance. It comes from Huang Chengcheng and is very auspicious.

4. Sweet potato puree

In the United States, mashed potatoes are also an indispensable food for Thanksgiving. First, mash the steamed and peeled sweet potatoes with an egg beater or a small spoon, and stir more to make the sweet potato puree as fine as possible; Put the stirred mud into a container that can be baked at high temperature, about nine minutes full; Flatten the mashed potatoes; Mozzarella cheese is twisted into filaments with a grinding head with a fine end; Sprinkle the shredded mozzarella cheese on the mashed sweet potatoes, preheat the oven to 160 degrees, and bake the mozzarella cheese on the top of the oven for about 20 minutes. According to the firepower of personal oven, the surface can be baked.

5. Indian pudding

Besides turkey and pumpkin pie, Indian pudding made of corn flour is the most common traditional food for Thanksgiving. Indian pudding has nothing to do with Indians, just because this dessert is made of corn flour that Indians like. Indian pudding is an essential dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas, which was very popular during the early British immigrants to the United States.

7. Corn bread

Corn bread is a delicious American snack and an indispensable food for Thanksgiving. The English name is "bread", which is actually more like a coarse grain cake. Soup and vegetables are the staple foods in the southern United States, and the taste is light and single. In the northern United States, it is a kind of cake, sweet and salty, mixed with different ingredients, more like a snack.

cider

There are many delicious traditional foods on Thanksgiving Day. It's perfect to have a drink after a big meal. Cider is one of the indispensable foods for Thanksgiving in America. The alcohol content of cider is low, about 2%-8.5%. Apple mainly contains fructose, which has a fresh aroma and a slight apple flavor. The taste is slightly sweet and slightly acidic, and the fruity taste is strong or light.

Cider is the main raw material, which contains double nutrients produced by apple and biological fermentation, amino acids needed by human body and unique fruit acid of cider. Can help human metabolism and maintain balance. Apples also contain calcium, magnesium and other minerals, which can help the human body digest and absorb, maintain acid-base balance and control the balance in the body.