Any country boasts its own specialties of festive national cuisine. And yet there is one general trend: on the eve of the New Year or before Christmas, symbolic dishes should appear on the table in strict order.

Now we will get acquainted with what goodies decorate holiday tables in various countries of the world.

Italy

Italy, like most European countries, celebrates Catholic Christmas. Here it is customary to celebrate New Year and Christmas with approximately the same menu. The only difference is that the Christmas menu does not contain meat products, on the hot Italians cook fish.

Well, after Christmas, the Italian housewives personally make pork sausage kotekino, serving it to the table with lentils. The latter has long symbolized many years, health and all the benefits in the family.

England

The British traditionally prepare a stuffed turkey for the Christmas holidays, serving it along with a vegetable side dish. For dessert, one hundred percent - pudding. The preparation of this sweet is special, because bread crumbs, flour, lard with raisins, eggs and various spices are involved. Before serving, desserts are sprinkled with rum and set on fire. Such a burning pudding symbolizes a proactive stance.

France

The Christmas menu in France is very different depending on the region. For example, in the northeast of the country they prefer to cook goose, in Burgundy they love turkey, in Provence compulsory food is buche de Noël (bûche de Noël) - a traditional dessert, which they managed to love outside France.

Parisians celebrate the main holidays of the year with oysters. This is a mandatory attribute of the Christmas table. And the housewives make sandwiches with foie-rai and cheese. All this exotic drinks down with French wine.

Among the dishes typical for all Frenchmen, are smoked ham, salads, sausage.

Germany

The traditional Christmas treats for the Germans are fondue and raclette. The tradition of serving carp to the New Year's table is gradually becoming a thing of the past.

Of the drinks, the Germans prefer champagne, punch, or the traditional hook.

Czech

Czech apple strudel is an indispensable dish of the New Year's table. This very gentle roll with apples on puff pastry will not leave indifferent any of the relatives and guests. Strudel is eaten with ice cream, cream or jam. Czechs usually prepare for the New Year a simple holiday table with fairly hearty dishes. Be sure to fry the carp and eat it under potato salad. Dessert dishes are gingerbread and cookies.

Portugal

The Portuguese love to eat grapes on New Year's Eve. They believe that the grapes are a symbol of prosperity and happiness in the family. As soon as the clock starts to beat 12 times, the Portuguese are trying to contrive to eat 12 grapes. How many grapes, so many desires. The same custom exists in Italy.

Among the traditional dishes of Portuguese cuisine on the Christmas table, you can often find octopus in rice, roast lamb or goat meat. Particular attention is paid to the Portuguese baking. Bolorei Christmas Cupcake - this dessert should be tasted by every guest of this beautiful country, who happened to be here during the Christmas holidays.

Denmark

The classic dish of the Danes - roast goose stuffed with dried fruit. This dish is put on the table with a golden crust. Alternatively, baked pork may be available. It is served with potatoes and red cabbage salad.

Traditional Danish dessert - grütze is a rice porridge seasoned with roasted almonds and very thick berry jelly. Drink Danes, as a rule, mulled wine or beer.

Iceland

By tradition, Icelanders fry venison and ferment herring. The latter is mainly consumed in a restaurant or ordered into the house already cooked, because when cooking the room may smell bad.

Also often on the Christmas table of Icelanders you can find baked turkey, leg of lamb or pork.

Poland

Polish housewives are preparing for the New Year's table exactly 12 different treats. The main condition of the dishes is the absence of meat. The queen of the table is fish cooked in different ways: baked, jellied, fried. The Poles fish symbolizes family well-being. And even fish is one of the symbols of the Christian faith. Fish is served with soups, cereals, potatoes, kutia, dumplings, apples, nuts and various pastries.

Netherlands

The Dutch consider the main New Year's dish to be donuts, which are fried in deep fat and sprinkled with powdered sugar. In addition, all the main main dishes contain salted beans, which are considered to be traditional Dutch food.

But the dishes of traditional European cuisine are also required on the festive table of the Dutch. This and roast beef, pheasant, glazed ham. American culture also made adjustments to the Christmas menu, complementing it with roast turkey.

From the former Dutch colony of Indonesia, an interesting new year custom arrived in the country. Each guest, coming to the house for the holidays, brings with him a small griddle with some kind of a festive dish, which is laid out on the common table.

Nepali New Year is held in April. This holiday has a unique name - Bisket Jatra. Nepalis do not so much give attention to the rich table, as many spectacles. Popular noisy musical theatrical shows. When Nepalis get to the table, there are usually presented dishes of cuisines of India and Tibet. The most common is a dish of lentils, as gave baht.

Mexico

Mexicans prefer spicy dishes. That is why a romeritos appears on the Mexican holiday table as a mandatory attribute. This exotic is prepared from dried shrimp, potatoes and a rosemary-like plant. In addition, traditionally eaten stuffed turkey, a lot of corn with beans and sweet pancakes bunuelos. Mexicans love to drink tequila, punch or light wine.

Vietnam

Vietnamese New Year is called Tet and they celebrate this holiday according to the lunar calendar. Every year for the new year different dates fall within the limits of January 20 - February 20. Ingredients for festive dishes are rice and meat. Vietnamese delicacies include pork in coconut milk and banh chung pie. The technology of making chung baths is this: mixed rice with pork is wrapped in bamboo leaves, and then it is fried.

Japan

Unlike European countries and America, where Christmas is considered the main winter holiday, here is the New Year.

Japanese New Year's table here is markedly different from the rest of the world. The Japanese call their New Year's dishes in one word - Oseti-ryori. This is usually boiled seaweed, fish pie, sweet potato mash with chestnuts, as well as sweet soybeans.

It is difficult to imagine New Year's festivities without the traditional Japanese mochi cakes made from sticky rice. There are many kinds of mochi, the Japanese love to give them as gifts to their families and friends.

The symbolic Japanese food is chestnuts. In Japan, they believe that after eating chestnuts, a person will be successful in all his affairs. For this reason, chestnuts are added to many New Year's dishes: side dishes and desserts. Chestnuts, as components, are also in mochi cakes prepared from boiled rice. The Japanese New Year’s table will be incomplete if there is no seaweed, beans and herring caviar on it.

America

In the United States, as in many other countries, they prefer to cook turkey, stuffed with vegetables or apples, for Christmas. The cooking method is special. Festive bird stuffed with everything that is in the fridge.

Some Americans are preparing for the holiday drink called egg-legs, which consists of eggs, powdered sugar, brandy and milk.

Canada

Canadians celebrate New Year just like the British or Americans: stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, vegetables, and raisin pudding for dessert. Among the sweet dishes on the Canadian festive tables adorn cakes on butter creams, as well as shortbread.

Australia

Here, Christmas is celebrated in the middle of summer (December and January are summer months in the southern hemisphere of the planet), so traditionally the family goes out into the countryside and barbecue. Favorite dessert - strawberry meringue or ice cream.

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Argentina

Argentines also celebrate New Year with Christmas in the summer. The main dish is considered to be veal and tuna, seasoned with sauce or mayonnaise. It is impossible without capers. Europeans do not understand such an explosive combination, but the Argentines claim that it is very tasty.

In Japan, each dish of the New Year's table is symbolic. Christmas feast begins with the filing of the main dish sob - buckwheat noodles with broth. Soba is a symbol of longevity, and longevity is the main wish for the New Year. In the following holidays, the Japanese eat osechi-iori - a set of a variety of seafood: here is fish nikhon-tai, and shrimp, caviar, herring, lobster, oysters, seaweed. All of the above products are served either raw or steamed. To oseri-ryori served ozone soup with rice cakes. For dessert, the Japanese prepare black soybeans symbolizing health and mashed sweet potatoes with chestnuts - for good luck. For the new year, the Japanese prefer to drink green tea and rice vodka moja.

France

The French are real gourmets who complement their traditional New Year's dish - turkey with goose liver and cheeses. French turkey is prepared by adding brandy and cream. Served with baked chestnuts. No less a traditional French New Year's dish is a goose liver pâté with crispy French baguette toast. Also traditional on the New Year's table are seafood: oysters and smoked salmon. And, of course, a cheese platter. Dessert - Christmas log is a creamy cake-cake with lots of chocolate. French champagne and dry wines are always present on the New Year holiday table.

Mexico

Despite the fact that Mexico is famous for burrito, nacho, and fajito for the new year, Mexicans prefer to bake a young piglet. It is served with a very tasty and useful side dish - rice baked in the oven with black beans and sweet peppers. Mexicans usually serve a lot of vegetables and lettuce on the table, as well as pasio, serano and jalapeño stuffed with hard cheese. For dessert - simple cornmeal pastries. The national New Year's drink is homemade tequila.

Italy

On the New Year's table of Italians there is always a place for small tortellini dumplings with ham pashutto and creamy sauce. But the main dish of the New Year's table is homemade pork sausage, in Italian it sounds like “ketekkino”. Cut the sausage in small circles and served with a side dish of corn grits and braised lentils. For dessert, the Italians prepare a pannetone cake with dried fruits inside. On New Year's Eve Italians prefer to drink dry or sparkling wine.

India

As it is not surprising in India - the country of New Year spices is celebrated with pilaf biryani and okroshka. Biryani pilaf cooked lamb. To rice and carrots add nuts kershju, raisins, pineapples, green peas, and of course, many local spices - cumin, cloves, coriander, turmeric, cardamom. Spices give rice a few colors, and this dish looks very festive. Wright is served to the pilaf - Indian okroshka from tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers based on light kefir. And dessert is a fermented milk drink lasi - yogurt whipped with ginger and sugar.

Travels

New Year's recipes of the peoples of the world

New Year's Eve Dinner is truly a work of culinary art, no matter what country you are in. Bright unusual dishes will tell a lot of interesting things about the passions of the peoples of the world. Today we offer you exotic New Year's dishes from all over the world.

Frog legs dance

Frog legs - a specialty of French cuisine, which is very popular in the countries of Southeast Asia. Most often, an exquisite delicacy is deep-fried or baked in breadcrumbs. There is also a festive version of the dish - frog legs in tomato sauce. Preparation start with him. To do this, fry a clove of garlic and celery stalk in olive oil. When the garlic has acquired a brownish tint, add 200 g of fresh tomatoes and stew for 10-15 minutes. In the meantime, frog legs are fried in another skillet, pre-rolled in flour. As soon as they are covered with a smooth light golden crust, they are transferred to the pan with the sauce and roasted for another 5-7 minutes. They serve such treats with dried toasts, while the paws themselves are decorated with greens.

Holiday Flavor Soup

Who said that soup is not a New Year's dish? Residents of Asian countries with pleasure eat it on weekdays and on holidays. For example, the soup of mussels and seaweed will quite successfully complement the recipes of the original New Year's dishes and pretty surprise the guests. The first step is to prepare mussels (300 g): rinse, peel, boil in water and lightly fry with onions. For thickness and rich taste, pearl barley can be added to the dish. Boil 5 tbsp. l pearl barley in a saucepan according to the usual recipe and at the very end add fried mussels with onions and pickled sea kale (200 g). Cook the soup for a few more minutes and at the very end put in a pair of cloves of mashed garlic. Add to the soup any creamy sauce or sour cream to taste and decorate with parsley petals.

Dinner at the company with ostrich

The dish out in our eyes is undoubtedly an exotic New Year recipe. But for residents of Africa and Australia - this is quite a usual treat. It can be slightly adapted to our taste preferences, adding more traditional ingredients. First, in a skillet, sauté the onion with the addition of 5 tsp. sugar and bay leaf. Ostrich liver (300 g) is thoroughly washed, allowed to dry and cut into small pieces. Each of them is rubbed with salt and pepper, rolled in flour and sent to the pan with onions. Meanwhile, take 150 g of pork, cut the same pieces and spread on the bottom of the form for roasting. A layer of slightly toasted ostrich liver is laid on top, along with a golden onion. The meat is baked in the oven at 180 ° C for an hour. Before serving, the finished dish is decorated with fresh herbs.

Green, toothy and tasty

The crocodile is not only a dangerous predator and raw material for luxury accessories, but an exquisite delicacy. Crocodile meat tastes like chicken, only it is much softer and more tender. It is not surprising that the New Year recipes of the peoples of the world, predominantly Asians, often include crocodile dishes. Usually they are grilled whole, but for a festive dinner you can cook something more subtle. First, onions are fried in a large frying pan, to which pieces of crocodile fillet (3 kg) are gradually added. Then it is transferred to a deep pan, put a little ghee and pour a glass of water. The fillet is stewed for 10-15 minutes, after which more water is added to cover the meat and roast for 30-45 minutes. Meanwhile, they are preparing a dressing: 400 grams of grated cheese are mixed with a dozen eggs and knocked them down well. Next, crocodile meat is shifted into a baking dish, flavored with salt and black pepper and poured with cheese sauce. The dish is sent to the oven preheated to 180 ° C for half an hour.

High-flying chicken

In the recipes unusual New Year's dishes can include exotic salads. There is no need to go far for the ingredients, because even the most ordinary can be prepared with a twist, for example, according to recipes of inhabitants of the Caribbean islands. For this we need chicken fillet and liver with a total weight of 600 g. The whole fillet is boiled or grilled, and then cut into small pieces. In a similar way, chop the liver and fry in butter. We clean the pair of small pears and cut them into cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice and mix with chicken fillet. Fried liver, too, pour lemon juice, we spice pepper, salt, sour cream and mustard to taste. It remains to combine the two parts of chicken meat, mix thoroughly and supplement the dish with any herbs. Serve such a colorful salad is best warm.

The New Year holidays are approaching every day, when close relatives and friends gather at the festive table. Every country of the world has its own culinary traditions - hostesses do not spare their time and effort to prepare traditional dishes, wanting to please loved ones and guests. What is being prepared for the New Year in overseas countries? I'll tell you about the culinary traditions of the New Year from around the world and share some recipes. Maybe from them you will choose for yourself the dishes that you want to cook for the festive table 2017. And do not forget

Original dishes for the new year 2017

Christmas table in english family It is impossible to imagine without traditional pudding made from pieces of wheat bread, candied fruits, cherries, apples and raisins with the addition of nuts, citrus zest and aromatic spices. It takes a whole month to prepare the Christmas pudding - rum is poured over the finished dessert, set on fire and effectively served on a festive table.

Mandatory attribute of New Year's meal in Poland  is a fish that symbolizes wealth and family well-being. Remember? There are twelve dishes on the New Year's table, among which there is not a single meat one. This evening, the housewives are served or, dumplings, barley porridge with prunes, and for dessert - chocolate cake or puff strudel with apples.

In Bulgaria  The main New Year's dish is moussaka - a huge flaky casserole of meat, vegetables and various spices.

The main decoration of the New Year's meal among residents U.S.A  - Traditional stuffed turkey. As a filling, any components can be used - potatoes, apples, oranges, grapes, nuts and everything in the refrigerator.

In the Scandinavian countries  Hot New Year's Eve cream salmon soup . The New Year's menu includes fish dishes and stewed meat ribs or baked poultry with mashed potatoes.

Cream Salmon Soup

Composition:

• Salmon 500g
• Potatoes 4-5 pieces
• One onion or leek
• One carrot
• 3-4 tomatoes
• Cream 500 ml
• Fresh greens
• Salt and pepper
• Vegetable oil
• Water 1.25 l

1. Fish cut into small pieces. Potatoes and onions - diced, carrots - on a coarse grater or as you wish, scalded tomatoes with boiling water, peel and cut into cubes.
2. Pour oil into the pan. Stew onions and carrots until soft. Add tomatoes, simmer for 3-5 minutes.
3. Pour water, bring to a boil, then put the potatoes + salt and pepper, cook until ready for 10 minutes.
4. When the potatoes are almost ready, add the fish and pour in the cream, cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add finely chopped greens.

Traditional hot snack italians  on New Year's Day - Kockino's pork sausage made from pork meat and lard, which is baked with the addition of Mediterranean herbs, juniper berries, shallots and pear slices. Steam perch or white wine baked cod .

Cod baked in white wine

Composition:

• cod fillet 800 g
• butter 50 g
• dry white wine 100 ml
• parsley
• salt pepper

1. Grease the baking dish with oil. Put the cod fillets. Salt, pepper.
2. Top with pieces of butter and pour over the wine.
3. Finely chop the parsley and sprinkle with the fish.
4. Put in a hot oven t = 200 degrees, bake for 25-30 minutes. Follow the process, as the ovens are different for everyone.

New Year's Eve german  housewives serve on the table fragrant salmon, baked with cream and spinach in puff pastry   and fried carp with a side dish of potatoes in mustard sauce. Decorates the festive table dish with pies, apples, nuts and raisins, as a symbol of family well-being in the coming year. For dessert, it is customary in German families to serve a cake stuffed with marzipan or nut cake.

Baked salmon with cream and spinach in puff pastry

Composition:

• Salmon fillet 600 g
• Spinach fresh or frozen 400 g
• Cream 50 ml
• Salt pepper
• Lemon juice
• Puff pastry 450 g
• Dough egg

1. Salmon fillet salt, pepper and sprinkle with lemon juice
2. Pour cream and spinach on to spin off the liquid
3. Roll out the dough, put half the spinach and cream in the middle, on this layer of salmon fillet. Top again a layer of spinach.
4. Wrap the dough in a thick envelope. Put on a baking sheet seam down. Brush with beaten egg.
5. Pierce the dough in several places
6. Put in a preheated oven t = 200 degrees 25-30 minutes

In the Netherlands  New Year's celebration is not complete without the traditional snack - salted beans. On the hot side, they prepare a rabbit stewed in a wine gravy, to which are added bacon, chopped shallots, spices and sour cream.

New Year's table in France  literally bursting with gourmet snacks and hot dishes. The holiday menu here includes snails, oysters, goose liver pate, sliced ​​from several varieties of cheese. Also on the table in the New Year's Eve served spicy onion soup   and turkey baked in white wine with herbs and vegetables.

Onion soup

Composition:

• 1 kg of onions
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 hl salt, pepper
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 250 ml of dry white wine
• 2 sprigs of thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 liter chicken broth
• French baguette (loaf)
• 150 g of hard cheese

1. Onion cut into half rings. Melt the butter in a pan, add olive + salt and pepper. Put onion, mix and simmer it on low heat for 30 minutes.
2. After 20 minutes, add finely chopped garlic, wine, thyme sprigs, bay leaf. Cover and simmer for another 10 minutes.
3. Remove from heat, remove thyme sprigs and lavrushka.
4. Add hot broth, mix and leave under the lid for 15-20 minutes to infuse.
5. Cut the bread into slices and dry it in a toaster, in the oven or in a dry frying pan until golden brown. To cut in cubes.
6. Pour the soup into ceramic pots, put the bread and sprinkle with grated cheese.
7. Bake in the oven until melted cheese.

Spanish New Year's Meal  not without roast lamb or suckling pig. As a snack you can meet mollusks and fish delicacies. Under the battle of hours here it is customary to eat 12 grapes, making wishes for each month of the new year.

In Bulgaria, Romania and other European countries, a New Year's Eve pies with surprises are taken - in some products a coin, a nutlet or a pepper pod is hidden for good luck. Anyone who finds a surprise in his pie will have good luck all year round.

The season of the long New Year holidays gives you the opportunity to escape from the everyday hustle and bustle and pay attention to family and friends. Take your time and prepare for the holiday table one of the dishes of European cuisine - surprise guests with culinary excellence. If you have experience cooking unusual New Year's dishes - share in the comments.

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New Year's recipes from around the world

1.France

Turkey - the main dish of the New Year's table in France. The French joke: "If there is no turkey, then the New Year may not come."

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Turkey in french

Ingredients

0.5 kg turkey fillet, 5 small onions, 2 tomatoes, 300 g of cheese, mayonnaise, spices, salt to taste.

Cooking

Cut the turkey fillet into thin layers and place in a bowl, sprinkling with spices and salt. Cover with a lid, put the load on top and leave for 20-30 minutes to pickle in their own juice.

Wash the tomatoes and cut into slices, chop the onion into rings. Sliced ​​grated cheese. Lay out a sheet of foil on a baking sheet, tuck the edges. Spread the turkey layers evenly in one layer, lightly pat the top with mayonnaise. Then put a layer of onions and a layer of tomatoes. Top down all the cheese.

Bake in the oven for about an hour. First over high heat, then over low heat. Serve the dish on the table hot, decorated with greens.

2. Poland

On the New Year's table in Poland, there is necessarily a fish that is considered a symbol of well-being and family happiness.

Polish fish

Ingredients

300 g perch fillet with skin, 1 carrot, 4 g parsley root, 2-3 boiled eggs, 20 g butter, 1 tbsp. l lemon juice, parsley, salt - to taste.

Cooking

Fish fillet cut into portions, broth in salted water with the addition of carrots and parsley root.

For the sauce, melted butter combined with chopped eggs, lemon juice, chopped herbs and 2 tbsp. l fish broth.

When serving, lay the fish in a dish, cooked sauce fields. Alternatively, garnish with mashed potatoes and carrots.

3. Czech Republic and Slovakia

In these countries, the New Year's table does not do without a fragrant national dessert - apple strudel.

Apple strudel

Ingredients

250 g flour, 1 egg, 150 g butter, 1 tsp. vinegar, 1 kg of apples, 80 g of sugar, 30 g of raisins, 100 g of bread crumbs, ground cinnamon, lemon peel - to taste.

Cooking

Ask for flour, then pour into it whipped from 6 tbsp. l warm water egg, 1 tbsp. l melted butter, vinegar, add salt and knead soft shiny dough. Roll into a ball and leave for 30 minutes, covered with a damp cloth.

Cut the dough in half, roll each half on a linen towel heaped with flour. Stretch the dough from the center in all directions, trying not to tear, sprinkle with melted butter, put a layer of peeled and sliced ​​apples on it, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, washed raisins, chopped zest and bread crumbs roasted in 30 g of butter.

Raising the edge of the towel, roll the dough into a roll. Transfer to a baking sheet and bake in a moderately heated oven for 30 minutes, occasionally oiling. Cool the finished strudel and cut it into slices. Serve to the table, decorated to taste. For example, nuts, sprigs of mint, cinnamon or powdered sugar.

4. Germany

In this country, pies and other dishes with raisins, apples and nuts are served on the New Year’s table. And each ingredient has its own value. For example, nuts are the ability to learn secrets and overcome the difficulties of life, and raisins are a symbol of abundance.

Cakes with nuts - a recipe from Germany

Ingredients

2 eggs, 2 egg yolks, 200 g sugar, 6 tbsp. l crackers, pinch of salt, 2 tsp. dry yeast, 1 tbsp. l flour, 0.5 tbsp. crushed raisins, 1 tbsp. nuts, 200 g butter, 0.5 tbsp. milk

Cooking

Beat eggs and sugar, add salt, crackers, mixed with flour, yeast, raisins and 0.5 tbsp. nuts. Knead the dough, roll it into a 0.7 cm thick layer, put it on a baking sheet covered with oiled paper and bake in the oven for 15 minutes with medium heat.

For cream yolks, beat with sugar, stir in, stirring hot milk. Warm up, beating continuously, in a water bath until thick. Cool the resulting mass, mix with whipped butter and whisk all together until a fluffy consistency. Add 0.5 tbsp. chopped nuts and mix.

Baked cake immediately cut into rectangular cakes, let them cool, then cut the cream and garnish to taste.

5. England

Traditional dessert on New Year's table in this country is pudding. Before serving, the festive pudding is poured over with rum and set on fire. A very spectacular decoration of the New Year's table, especially in the year of Dragon 2012!