Thanksgiving eat roast turkey, cranberry sauce, sweet yams, pumpkin pie, cornbread.

1. Roast Turkey

Every Thanksgiving, Americans must have fat, tender chicken to eat. Turkey is the traditional main dish of Thanksgiving. It was originally a wild bird that inhabited North America, and was later raised in large numbers to become a delicious fowl, weighing as much as 40 or 50 pounds each.

Now there are still some places with a hunting ground, dedicated to people in the Thanksgiving Day before the shooting, interested people to the hunting ground to spend some money, you can personally hit on a few wild turkey home. It makes the holiday more fun.

The turkey is also eaten in a certain way. It needs to be roasted whole, with the skin baked to a dark brown color, and the stomach stuffed with lots of mixed food, such as crumbled bread. When it is brought to the table, it is cut into thin slices with a knife by the man of the house and distributed to everyone. Then each person pours his own marinade and sprinkles it with salt, and it tastes delicious.

2, cranberry jam

History books tell us that cranberries were a delicacy enjoyed by Americans at the first Thanksgiving, and nearly 400 years later, the fruit is still on the holiday table in every home. Cranberry sauce is a traditional ingredient in the American Thanksgiving main course of turkey. Because cranberries have a strong acidic flavor, the juice is usually sweetened with syrup or apple juice.

3, sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes are one of the main foods of Thanksgiving. Sweet potato contains dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E and potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, etc., high nutritional value, the World Health Organization selected the "ten best vegetables" champion.

Wild species of yams originated in the tropical regions of the Americas, the success of artificial planting by the Indians, strong resistance to pests and diseases, easy to cultivate. When Columbus first met the Queen of Spain, he offered the sweet potatoes brought back from the New World to the Queen, and Spanish sailors spread the sweet potatoes to the Philippines.

4, pumpkin pie

In Western countries, Thanksgiving Day, the hostess on the table is no longer flowers, but fruits and vegetables, which has pumpkin. In the United States, a Thanksgiving Day was instituted to remember the hardships of the first settlers and to celebrate the annual harvest, when every family ate pumpkin pie.

Pumpkin pie is a traditional Thanksgiving treat. Wash the pumpkin, remove the skin and pith, and cut it into chunks. Put it into a steamer to steam and mash it into puree, add honey and flour, and then make it into a round cake of the same size, (don't add water because it's already wet after steaming), then dip it in breadcrumbs and leave it for use. Sit in a pot, pour in cooking oil, light the fire, to 4 mature, the round cake into the oil and fry until golden brown that is.

5. Cornbread

Cornbread, a favorite food of both English and Indians. Corn represents the death-defying experiences of the Puritan settlers. Used in table or door decorations, corn represents harvest and fall. Cornbread is said to be a food that American moms almost always make. Cornbread is served as stuffing for turkey.

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