Christmas Recipes Around the World: Today we want to take you around the world, but concentrating on one of the senses: taste. Taking advantage of the dates we went through and that we have already begun to open the boxes of nougat and order the seafood and meat in the supermarket, we have thought about making a gastronomic trip for the Christmas recipes of the world.
Of course, we have the Spanish lamb, but we will also stop in Italy to eat a pasta with broth, we will fly to Brazil to try the farofa, without forgetting to sit in Portugal to eat cod.
Top 15 Christmas Recipes Around the World
Save a place for Christmas desserts! The sweet touches will be collected in France with the trunk of Christmas markets of Germany where you eat lebkuchen (gingerbread).
Christmas Recipes Spain: Baked Lamb
They say that the lamb is at its point when it melts in the mouth. The fundamental thing is that the meat is good and if it is lamb, better. It is usual to have to order it in advance and then, in each house, the tricks are applied to keep the juicy meat macerating it with wine, water, laurel, lemon, oil, garlic … Three hours later, the whole house starts to smell like Christmas and the dishes arrive at the table topped with potatoes, onion and lamb.
Christmas Recipes France: Buche De Noel
The trunk of Christmas or Buche de Noel is the Christmas dessert par excellence in France. There are several recipes, although the most popular is the one made with sponge cake and chocolate cream. The decoration is important! The more realistic the trunk, the better.
Christmas Recipes United States: Ham With Pineapple
If there is a typical dish on Christmas Eve in the United States, that is the ham with pineapple. In the country of barbecues, grilled meat is one of the typical things and cannot miss in the book of Christmas recipes. However, there are other popular dishes on these dates such as stuffed turkey or gingerbread.
Christmas Recipes United Kingdom: Christmas Pudding
With ingredients as Christmas as cinnamon, dates, ginger and nuts it is not surprising that this dessert is perfect to end a delicious Christmas dinner. The big moment comes when the pudding flames with brandy, a show!
Christmas Recipes Brazil: Farofa With Bacon
Brazil forgets soups for Christmas, you can tell it’s summer. Here, where Portugal influence is seen (and tasted) in every corner, there is no lack of cod on the table, however, there are other specialties such as farofa, a kind of cassava flour that is eaten with an infinity of ingredients, mainly roasted meats such as sausages or bacon.
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Christmas Recipes Philippines: Suckling Kawali
The case of the Philippines is an exception since it is one of the few Asian countries where Christmas is celebrated. The houses, which begin to decorate in mid-October, are also filled with colors in the kitchen. One of the dishes that can not be missing at the table is the Kawali sucker: tender and crispy bacon at the same time with rice garnish, oyster sauce …
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Christmas Recipes Germany: Lebkuchen
The lebkuchen or “gingerbread” is one of the most typical Christmas sweets in Germany. It can be found in any Christmas market in different ways and with careful decorations. Of all the Christmas cookies (and there are many) these are the most famous.
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Christmas Recipes Italy: Cappelletti in Brodo
Being in December, you can not miss soups on the menu. Many Italian Christmas recipes do not carry meat, because of the country’s religious tradition. However, the Cappelletti (or tortellini), which are usually eaten on the 24th or the 25th, are filled with chicken and ricotta and cooked in capon broth. The tradition includes the homemade preparation of pasta.
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Christmas Recipes Greece: Melomakarona
These sweet facts, basically, with flour, olive oil and honey are not missing in any Greek house at Christmas. The way to present them? Sprinkled with pieces of hazelnut.
Christmas Recipes Portugal: Bacalhau
How could it be otherwise, the Portuguese celebrate Christmas with a dinner in which the protagonist is cod or bacalhau. The traditional way of preparing it for these dates is boiled with potatoes and vegetables.
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Christmas Recipes Poland: Barszcz With Pierogi
The Poles have many traditions and superstitions around Christmas. One of them is that at the Christmas Eve dinner there must be 12 dishes (for the 12 apostles), among which there is no lack of red barszcz soup, made with beet, which can be accompanied by pierogi.
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Christmas Recipes Hungary: Halaszle
One of the typical dishes on Christmas Eve is the fish soup or halaszle, although in the family dinner there are also recipes for meat and of course, Christmas sweets among which highlights the bejgli, a cake made with honey and nuts or poppy seeds.
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Christmas Recipes Nigeria: Soup Okra
In Nigeria, Christmas is celebrated mainly in the south and east of the country and among the traditional foods are several ingredients: the yam, a tuber that is crushed or cooked with more vegetables and okra or okra, a green fruit with which they usually make soups and stews.
