In the west, the traditional Christmas dinner consists of appetizer, soup, appetizer, main course, snacks and drinks. The essential foods on this day include Christmas turkey, smoked ham, Christmas salmon and Christmas pudding.

1. Roasted Turkey

On the traditional Christmas table, roasted turkey is an indispensable dish. In some Asian countries, perhaps only Christmas day is eaten every year to celebrate the festival; But in Europe and America, especially in the American continent, turkey is a very common meat, and it is a traditional food on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

why do you want to eat turkey at Christmas? It is said that on Christmas Day in 162, a large number of immigrants from Britain arrived in Primmouth Mountain in America. Because there was almost no food here except turkeys everywhere, they had to roast turkeys for the holidays. Turkey is big and fleshy, delicious, nutritious and low in cholesterol, so it is favored by westerners. Eating turkey at Christmas has been a tradition ever since.

2. Christmas Salmon

Just like people in China eat New Year's dinner during the Spring Festival, Europeans and Americans also pay great attention to family reunion during Christmas. * * * Turkey is a must-have food for festive meals, and smoked ham, Christmas salmon, Christmas pudding and other delicacies will also be put on the table. Salmon is a popular food and a very healthy food. Fish is high in protein and OMEGA-3 fatty acids, but low in fat. The fish is orange, which is a red-fleshed fish, but there are a few wild varieties with white meat.

There are many ways to eat salmon. Europeans and Americans will make smoked salmon by hot or cold smoking. Smoked fillets are usually served with butter and fresh lemon juice.

3. Smoked ham

Smoked ham should be regarded as the most traditional main dish in Christmas dinner. Not only is it convenient to eat, but it can also meet the needs of many people dining on holidays, even if it is left. Smoked ham is often coated with a sweet sauce, such as honey or cherry pomegranate sauce.

These sweet sauces can be a perfect combination with red wine to accompany smoked ham, so it is necessary to choose red wine with a little fruity taste and a little rich taste to match the sweet and greasy taste on the outer layer of smoked ham.

4. The reason for the tradition of red wine

is that meat symbolizes the body of Jesus Christ and red wine represents his blood. Jesus' suffering on behalf of others and crucifixion should be commemorated.

Christmas red wine has a special drinking method: add brown sugar, orange peel, meat orange, orange kernel, raisins and other ingredients to the wine, then stir while heating it on the fire (be careful not to open the pot), and finally pour a little vodka on it. After taking the pot, drink a glass, which is really fragrant and warm.

5. Christmas cake

Cake is an indispensable food in peacetime and festivals, and Christmas is not to be missed. Chocolate taste is one of the main flavors of Christmas cake, and almost every family will make chocolate-based cakes at this moment. People often make Christmas cakes novel and beautiful. Pour the words "Merry Christmas" with cream or jam on it, and insert special Christmas candles around it.

Candles are small in shape, only three or four inches long, but they are made of exquisite and colorful materials, and some of them are spiral. After lighting, the host will put it out twice, and then everyone will share the cake. People sometimes put three beans in the cake to represent the three eastern sages in the Bible story. Whoever eats the beans becomes the "three kings", which makes people feel very interesting.

6. Christmas pudding

Christmas pudding is a kind of seasonal food to eat at Christmas. Today's Christmas pudding comes from traditional Christmas food, milk, wheat porridge and dried fruit pudding. Therefore, although there are no plums in the Christmas pudding, it is also called dried fruit pudding and has become a new member of Christmas dishes. Traditionally, when Christmas comes, every family member will make a Christmas pudding to symbolize unity and harmony, and everyone will make a wish silently when stirring the dough, and finally a coin will be hidden in the dough.

In Denmark, when Christmas dinner begins, people must eat an almond pudding before they can start eating something else. If anyone can eat the only intact almond, he will be the luckiest person in the coming year. Usually, adults will put this almond in the youngest child's bowl to make them happy.

7. Gingerbread

The most famous traditional Christmas food in Germany is gingerbread. There are two English versions of gingerbread: Gingersnap, which literally means ginger+thin and crisp cake; The other one comes from German and is called Lebkuchen. In short, gingerbread is a shortcake eaten at Christmas, usually made of honey, brown sugar, almonds, candied peel and spices.

Although the hometown of gingerbread is in Germany, Europeans are also used to eating gingerbread during Christmas. Finns will enjoy gingerbread and drink glogi wine, which is a kind of wine mixed with almonds and raisins. It tastes spicy and fragrant. Dutch people even hide Christmas presents in pudding or sheep intestines! As for Poles, they are divided into two factions, one likes to have a big meal on Christmas Eve, while the other fastes and prays all day!