List of Christmas dishes
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This page is a list of Christmas dishes as eaten around the world.
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Czech Republic
- Main article: Cuisine of the Czech Republic
The traditional meal (served as the dinner on the Christmas Eve) consists of fish soup and fried fish (most often, carp) served with potato salad. It should be the first food consumed that day.
Before the Christmas holidays, many kinds of sweet biscuits are prepared.
Denmark
- Main article: Cuisine of Denmark
- Apple dumplings (Æbleskiver) sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with strawberry marmalade
- Boiled potatoes
- Brown sauce (Brun sovs)
- Browned potatoes (Brunede kartofler)
- Christmas beer (Juleøl)
- Glogg (Gløg)
- Rice pudding with almonds (Risalamande) served with cherry sauce (kirsebærsauce)
- Roast duck (Andesteg) served with apples and prunes
- Red cabbage (Rødkål)
Finland
- Main article: Cuisine of Finland
- Freshly salted salmon (Lohi)
- Rosolli salad (Rosolli)
- Baked ham with mustard (Kinkku)
- Turkey (Kalkkuna)
- Mixed fruit soup or prune soup (Sekahedelmäkiisseli, luumukiisseli)
- Rice pudding or rice porridge (Riisipuuro)
- Glogg or mulled wine (Glögi)
- Prune jam pastries (Joulutortut)
- Gingerbread, sometimes in the form of a Gingerbread house or Gingerbread man (Piparkakut)
France
Germany
New Zealand
Norway
- Gløgg (drink)
- Julepølse
- Lutefisk
- Pinnekjøtt
- Svineribbe
Poland
Spain
Sweden
- Köttbullar - Swedish meatballs
- Julskinka - Christmas ham
- Inlagd sill - Pickled herring
- Julbord - Christmas smorgasbord
- Rödkål - Sweet and sour red cabbage
- Julmust - A traditional very sweet stout-like, Christmas soft drink
- Glögg - Mulled wine
- Knäck - Christmas toffee
United Kingdom
- Main article: British cuisine
In the United Kingdom, the traditional meal consists of roast turkey or goose, served with roast potatoes and other vegetables, followed by Christmas pudding, a heavy boiled pudding made with dried fruit (traditionally plums) and flour.
- Brandy butter
- Chocolate yule log
- Christmas cake
- Christmas pudding
- Dundee cake
- Mince pie
- Roast turkey
- Snap-dragons
- Stuffing
United States
- Apple cider
- Candy canes
- Champagne, or sparkling apple cider
- Christmas cookies
- Cranberry sauce
- Eggnog
- Fruitcake
- Gingerbread, often in the form of a Gingerbread house or Gingerbread man
- Honey ham
- Hot chocolate
- Marzipan
- Pie
- Roast turkey, less often roast duck or roast goose
- Stuffing
See also: Thanksgiving (the dishes tend to be similar)
External links
- Santa´s Lapland and Christmas Club - Christmas Recipes
- Origins & history of selected traditional Christmas foods
- Traditional Swedish Christmas buffet, made by school children.
- Collection of Christmas Recipes
- World Famous Recipes - Christmas Recipes
- Finnish Christmas recipes
