As you know, there is a Catholic Christmas and an Orthodox Christmas, and at the same time it is difficult to find even two Catholic or Orthodox countries that would have absolutely identical Christmas dishes and Christmas menu. The Christmas table should not only saturate the family, but also symbolize abundance, the beginning of a new life. Traditional Christmas dishes in different countries are very diverse, in connection with the end of the fast, a variety of products are allowed. For example, from the end of November to January 7, the Orthodox Christmas fast lasts, the menu of the Christmas fast is a great way not only to be cleansed spiritually, but also physically. Eating during the Christmas fast excludes fatty animal food, fish can be eaten several times a week. But after the fast, the recipes for Christmas dishes are more diverse, there is meat, fish, and dairy products.
For the countries of Western Europe, Christmas baking recipes are especially characteristic of sweet dishes. At this time, houses and bazaars are really flooded with Christmas pastries. The recipe for Christmas baking is Christmas cookies, as well as Christmas gingerbread. Christmas cupcake and Christmas candy recipes are also very popular. There is even a special English Christmas cake in England. The recipe for Christmas cookies is simple, the main thing is a beautiful design. To please your loved ones and, especially, children, we offer you a recipe for Christmas gingerbread. You will need flour, sugar, soda, eggs, butter, cocoa, honey, spices. After mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough, it should be put in the refrigerator overnight so that it is infused and soaked with spices, in this case you will get especially fragrant Christmas gingerbread. The recipe for Christmas gingerbread will also require you to have a certain artistic taste, because it will be necessary to mold human figures, animals, or some geometric shapes from the dough. After that, the cookies are baked in the oven and decorated with icing. About the same way Christmas cookies are prepared. The recipe for a Christmas cake is very popular in England. It is prepared with dried fruits and nuts, soaked with some alcohol. For Orthodox Christians, Christmas sweets are primarily Christmas carols and Christmas pastries, for example, Christmas cake. The recipe that creates a holiday for children is lollipops in the form of cockerels. The ideal option for Christmas baking will be Christmas tea. It is made from black tea, ginger, cinnamon and orange peel.
Also in many European countries, a mandatory Christmas dish is a Christmas goose, a Christmas duck or a Christmas turkey. Christmas goose is prepared in Germany, Denmark, Greece etc. You will definitely not regret if a Christmas goose appears on your table. The Christmas goose recipe usually uses apples and prunes. Christmas turkey is a recipe that is typical for England and the USA. Meat dishes are often served with a Christmas salad, the recipe of which may differ in different countries.
This is an ideal lemon pie with a bright citrus note, moderately sweet, very tasty and fragrant. It is prepared simply, and if you wish, you can beat it in your own way, cover it with cream and it will sparkle with new colors and look like a cake, you can add steamed poppy seeds to the dough, the taste of the cake will be enriched. Take the recipe as a basis, and the pie will not let you down.
Dessert made from available seasonal products, healthy besides. Add any gingerbread spices if you want. The pumpkin will be transformed, filled with aromas and will pass with a bang! with ice cream in the store for children and adults.
Pancakes, for which an onion of finely chopped onion is added to the dough. When you fry these pancakes, the house becomes so fragrant! For those who have not tried these pancakes yet, I just advise! Today I will prepare for them a filling of doctor’s sausage with cottage cheese. I will prepare a snack for the New Year’s table and just like that: breakfast, dinner… a snack. There will be enough toppings for each pancake. It’s very tasty and fast!
I offer a very satisfying and at the same time light salad. It will appeal to both the female half thanks to the pear, and the male half because of the large number of meat products.
Delicious and beautiful, light and hearty – the most suitable salad in the New Year’s menu. Minus the recipe, I must say, in any salad there are basic products – potatoes, rice or vegetables, in this salad couscous is the most profitable and delicious. Mixed with caviar, it is almost unrecognizable, but it goes very well with fish.
A simple salad with tuna, egg and celery root. Very easy to prepare, but at the same time delicious salad. Cooking will take only twenty minutes. And this salad is also good for sandwiches: put a lettuce leaf on toasted bread, a few spoons of lettuce, cover with a lettuce leaf and another piece of toasted bread.
Despite the fact that the salad “Olivier” is perfect in itself. Dedicated to everyone who loves sweet notes in salads, because the pear gives this salad a delicate taste
Imagine a very tasty, light salad! The main thing is to boil the beef and defrost the broccoli.. We cook it for every New Year, and everyone eats this salad with pleasure – even those who don’t like broccoli! Come in, cook with pleasure and treat your family!