Another part of the Christmas dinner is dessert. Such as biscuits and cakes. This kind of food is usually prepared on Christmas Eve. Families sit together and cook, and children love to participate in such things that they find interesting. Because Christmas cakes can be made according to their favorite shape and taste. When making Christmas cakes in Swedish-speaking countries, there is a custom similar to China's wrapping jiaozi, that is, a whole almond is deliberately put in the almond-flavored cakes, and whoever eats the only intact almond is the lucky god of the New Year. Of course, the God of Luck wins prizes. The Nordic people often give the God of Luck a big biscuit with a red butterfly bow tie. In Holland and Germany, it's little black Peter, the size of a palm. It can be seen that eating Christmas dinner in the west can not only satisfy one's appetite, but also appreciate a very interesting food culture.
first-class champagne+top-class foie gras+smoked salmon+buckwheat cake
French people not only know how to be romantic, but also value warmth, so Christmas dinner will be shared with their families, and the atmosphere is very important. Generally, families will decorate their homes, with beautiful tablecloths on the dining table, flowers and candles in the middle for decoration, and white fine porcelain utensils dotted with fine patterns are used for tableware. In addition, it is equipped with a silver knife and fork and a crystal cup, and with soft lighting, it creates a harmonious warm tone in one room.
French people don't pay too much attention to the dishes of Christmas dinner. They just make the dishes that can be tasted on weekdays more exquisite and rich, but one thing is necessary, that is, after the Christmas dinner, a good champagne should be opened for the whole family to enjoy. This is a complete French Christmas dinner.
Smokedsalmon is a delicious food, because the fish of salmon is bright in color and plump 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 starter with fragrant mango and asparagus, or mixing it with white sauce and twisted rice flour, which are all popular dishes in families.
top FoieGras. There must be foie gras on the French Christmas table. The way to eat foie gras is usually fried. If you add a little port wine, figs or French specialty sauce to taste it, it will be even more pungent, and the taste will be sweet and smooth immediately. Some families can't afford the top-grade foie gras, and they will eat some processed canned foie gras at a lower price. Generally, it is sliced and made into cold appetizers. Some people like to eat it with sauce or bread to make the Christmas dinner more noble.
BuckwheatCake is a special cake of Christmas, represented by buckwheat cake made of buckwheat flour, but although its color is dark, its texture must be hard. In fact, because the buckwheat flour used is the first-class goods, the texture is soft and slippery, so the cake made is soft and has a unique wheat flavor.
Christmas pudding+Christmas cake
British people have different requirements for three meals a day: breakfast should be full, lunch should be simple, and dinner should be good, so their dinner is usually the most abundant and never perfunctory. On Christmas Day, the biggest festival every year, an extremely rich and tailor-made Christmas dinner is a standard holiday ceremony. The family will gather around the dining table, enjoy wine and delicious food, and congratulate and chat with each other. The atmosphere is warm to the heart.
Christmas-Pudding is derived from traditional Christmas foods, such as milk, wheat 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. Moreover, everyone is responsible for stirring the dough, making a wish silently 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.
ChristmasCake Christmas cake is an after-dinner snack, which is made of dried fruit and almond protein. It is covered with a layer of snow-white powdered sugar. It tastes sweet and solid. Some people will spread cream or jam on the Christmas cake and even write the words "Merry Christmas". When eating it, some people will like to insert special Christmas candles around the cake. The candles are small and exquisite in shape, only two or three or four inches long and colorful.
red wine+gingerbread+cake
The German Christmas dinner means that the whole family comes home for a reunion dinner on Christmas Eve, so almost everyone has to go home for the holiday, so naturally there is no Christmas dinner in the restaurant. The Christmas market is usually opened at the end of November every year and distributed all over Germany. Generally, the stalls will be open until 12 noon on December 24th. For example, Nuremberg, which is famous for Christmas gingerbread, and Dresden, which specializes in Christmas cake Stollen, are very famous Christmas markets.
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 besides the ingredients of ordinary red wine, manufacturers will also introduce some different flavors, such as cinnamon, honey, lemon and even fruit spirits, to make the taste more varied. Many Germans will drink a cup of hot Christmas red wine to warm up immediately after midnight mass on Christmas Eve, which is a very special drink.
German gingerbread Lebkuchen is a kind of dot between cake and biscuit. Its raw material contains a lot of honey and pepper, and its sweet and spicy taste is very unique. Among them, "Nuremberg gingerbread" Nuernberger-Lebkuchen is the most famous. Nowadays, many gingerbread cakes have been improved, covered with chocolate or white syrup, and almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts are also added to make the taste richer.
Christmas cake Christstollen/Stollen Christstollen, commonly referred to as Stollen, is a long cake wrapped in white powdered sugar and containing fruit particles, which is usually sold at Christmas. Butterstollen with butter flavor, Rosinenstollen with raisins, and Marzipanstollen with almond flavor are the most common. Germans usually cut the whole Stollen into pieces and enjoy it with Christmas red wine.
Cheese chafing dish+Chinese chafing dish+barbecue on the table
Generally, traditional Swiss families eat Christmas dinner mainly: cheese chafing dish, fried meat chafing dish, Chinese chafing dish, grilled cheese or barbecue on the table. These dishes are very typical Swiss winter dishes enjoyed with family and friends, which are high in calories, just enough to thicken their subcutaneous fat a little bit to resist the freezing temperature.
fondue with cheese, written by Kaesefondue in German. This dish should be the most famous Swiss cuisine. A certain cheese is heated and melted in a pot together with white wine. After the cheese becomes thick and liquid, a small piece of bread (some people use potatoes) is put in the pot and wrapped in cheese.
Chinese hot pot, written in German by FondueChinois. This is the evolution of China hot pot combined with Swiss cooking skills. Cook a pot of light broth, prepare some meat and straw mushrooms, scald things, and then dip them in various sauces.
BBQ on the table, written in German as Tischgrill, is very enjoyable. When many Swiss people are too lazy to cook and want to eat a lot in winter, most of them will have a barbecue on the table. Swiss supermarkets and home appliances stores sell barbecue equipment on the table, which is similar to an electric iron plate. After the iron plate is oiled and heated to a certain degree, the meat and green peppers are put on it, and then cooked with sauce.
Christmas BBQ
Christmas is the best time for Australia to show its extraordinary specialties, from tropical fruits to seafood, cheese and wine.
where should I go to enjoy the Christmas barbecue? -the seaside! Absolutely comfortable! Enthusiastic Australians will barbecue all kinds of fresh seafood for you on the spot, and also perform various fashionable and diverse ways, including spreading olive oil, Chili sauce, curry and coriander. After eating the barbecue, you can wander on the beach. If you are worried that the overeating just now ruined the plan of "losing weight", you might as well rent a bike to go for a ride on the seaside avenue, or go surfing, fishing, diving, swimming and diving, all of which are excellent exercises to burn calories!
American roast turkey+cream pumpkin soup with chestnut paste
Americans pay attention to family layout, place Christmas trees, stuff their socks with presents, eat Christmas dishes mainly with turkey and hold family dances. The custom of eating turkey at Christmas dinner began in 162, and this custom flourished in the United States. After thawing, the turkey is stuffed with a lot of fruits and vegetables, such as carrot, celery, onion, chestnuts, etc., and then salted with various spices, and finally baked in the oven for several hours. However, because turkey has less fat, its meat quality is not as smooth as that of ordinary chickens. Fortunately, it is mixed with a lot of ingredients, so its taste is quite rich and very pungent. Turkey is large, so it is not easy to eat it all 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.
Turkey's method
The most traditional method of turkey is very simple. You only need to fully smear the turkey inside and outside with salt and pepper powder, and then bake it in the oven for about 3 hours.
western Christmas turkey
ingredients: 4 cups of wild rice, 1 pair of mushrooms, 1 pair of celery, 1 pair of carrots and 1 stuffed turkey.
seasoning: appropriate amount of pepper, 1 Antu (25g) butter, a little diced seeds, appropriate amount of salt, 1 teaspoon of garlic, 1 cup of clear chicken soup.
Cooking method:
1. Wash and gut the turkey and marinate it with salt and pepper for 3 minutes.
2. Drain the wild rice, stir-fry with garlic and other vegetable granules in butter for a while, add the diced seeds and season.
3. Add chicken soup and bring to a boil. Cook over low heat until half cooked, and let it cool.
4. Put the wild rice stuffing into the turkey cavity, cover the opening with tin foil, and bake in a gas oven at 8 degrees (23 C/45 F) for about 2 hours until cooked.
Chinese-style stuffed turkey
Ingredients: 1 turkey, 1 cup of steamed glutinous rice, 2 sausages, 8 clove mushrooms (soaked and diced), 2 tablespoons of dried shrimp (soaked), 3 garlic, 1/2 tablespoons of onion, 1/2 celery and 1 onion.
seasoning: 3 tbsp wine, 2 tsps salt, a little pepper, 2 tsps soy sauce, 1/4 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp water and a little cream.
Cooking method:
1. Thaw, wash and dry the turkey, and then marinate the turkey with soy sauce, sugar and water.
2. Stir-fry garlic in a frying pan, add dried shrimps, mushrooms and sausages, stir-fry glutinous rice, onion, wine, salt and pepper, and mix well as a filler. Stuff the stuffing into the turkey breast and seal the incision with an iron needle.
3. Coat the turkey with cream and put it in the oven.
4. When stuffing the turkey, you should pay attention to wait until the turkey is about to enter the oven before stuffing it into the turkey.
5. Cut the celery into sections, shred the onion and put it under the turkey. The baking time needs to be adjusted according to the size of the turkey.