Christmas Food

From Wikipedia: 

"List of Christmas dishes"

- Albania:   Pumpkin & walnut pie (Byrek me kungull dhe are)

- Argentina:   Vitel toné,  Turrón, Pan dulce, Asado (beef, chicken, calf, lamb, suckling pig, cider - apple, pineapple) and sparkling wine, Budín, Pionono, Matambre

 - Australia:  Cold ham and cold turkey, Seafood and salads, Roast chicken, ham and turkey, Stuffing, Custard, Christmas damper - in wreath or star shape, served with butter, jam, honey or golden syrup, Trifle, Pavlova, Mince pies

- Belgium: Cougnou, sweet bread in the form of the infant Jesus

- Brazil:  Lombo à Califórnia (pork loins), Rabanada - (French toast), Pernil - (roast pork), Bacalhau (codfish), Farofa (raw manioc flour roasted with butter, salt, bacon or smoked meat, and spices, with a smoky and slightly salty taste) Panettone

- Canada: Bûche de Noël, Butter Tarts, Christmas Pudding, Eggnog, Fruitcake, Tourtière (Meat pie), Mince Pie, Roast Turkey, Stuffing, Trifle, Cranberry Sauce

- Chile:  Pan de Pascua (sponge cake flavoured with cloves and with bits of candied fruits, raisins, walnuts and almonds),  Roasted turkey, Ponche a la romana (Eggnog-style beverage made of champagne and pineapple-flavoured ice cream)

- Colombia:  Buñuelos, Natilla, Manjar blanco, Hojaldres,  Christmas cookies, Sweet bread filled with fruits like raisins and raspberries.

- Cuba: Crema De Vie (Cuban eggnog, made with condensed milk, rum, sugar syrup, lemon rind, cinnamon, and egg yolk),  Majarete (corn pudding made with coconut milk, fresh corn, cornstarch, milk, water, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar),  Platillo Moros y Cristianos, Lechon asado, Turrón

- Czech Republic: Christmas cookies (vánoční cukroví) Vánoční rybí polévka (Christmas fish soup), Carp, Potato salad with mayonnaise, hard-boiled eggs and boiled vegetables

- Denmark: Æbleskiver (spherical pancakes), Roasted chestnuts,  Brun sovs (brown sauce). Brunede kartofler (caramelised potatoes), Julebryg (Christmas beer), gløgg  (mulled red wine combined with spices, sugar, raisins and chopped almonds typically served warm), risalamande  (rice pudding), Flæskesteg (roast pork with cracklings), Andesteg (roast duck with apple and prune stuffing), Rødkål (red cabbage pickled, sweet-sour red cabbage served hot as a side dish), Christmas cookies - Vaniljekranse, klejner, jødekager, pebernødder, honningkager og finskbrød. Konfekt, marzipan, caramelised fruits, nougat and chocolate-covered nuts.

- Dominican Republic:  Moro de guandules con coco ( rice with pigeon peas and coconut milk), ponche (eggnog), Bread pudding, Majarete -(corn pudding made with coconut milk, fresh corn, cornstarch, milk, water, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar), Pasteles de hojas (Root tamales),  Pig roast, Pollo al Horno (Roasted Chicken)

- Finland: Glogg (mulled wine), Christmas ham with mustard (almost every family has one for Christmas), turkey (kalkkuna), Freshly salted salmon (gravlax graavilohi) and whitefish graavisiika, Pickled herring, whitefish and pikeperch, Liver casserole, Potato casserole, Boiled potatoes, Rutabaga casserole (lanttulaatikko), Rosolli (salad from boiled beetroots, carrots, potatoes, apples and pickled cucumber. Christmas bread, usually sweet bread (Joululimppu), Karelian pasties, rice pasties, served with egg-butter (Karjalanpiirakka)

- France: Foie gras en cocotte Oysters, Smoked salmon, Crêpes (Brittany), chapon (roasted chicken), dinde aux marrons (chestnut-stuffed turkey), Ganzeltopf (goose) (Alsace), Bûche de Noël.

- Germany: Stollen is a fruitcake with bits of candied fruits, raisins, walnuts and almonds and spices such as cardamom and cinnamon; sprinkled with confectioners sugar.  Pfefferkuchenhaus - a gingerbread house decorated with candies, sweets and sugar icing, Weisswurst - sausages with veal and bacon, usually flavored with parsley, lemon, mace, onions, ginger and cardamom, Kartoffelsalat (potato salad) with Wurst (sausages) is traditionally eaten in northern Germany for lunch on Christmas Eve, Schäufele (a corned, smoked ham) usually served with potato salad in southern Germany for dinner on Christmas Eve. Oblaten Lebkuchen, Springerle, Roasted goose, Carp, Feuerzangenbowle

- Guatemala: Tamales, Ponche (Christmas fruit punch served hot with lots of fruits), pavo (Turkey), Buñuelos (Fluffy sweet dessert made with corn with maple syrup), Chicken

- Hong Kong: roasted turkey, roasted chicken

- Hungary: Fish soup (halászlé), Stuffed cabbage (töltött káposzta), Roast goose, Roast duck. Roast turkey, Pastry roll filled with walnut or poppy seed (bejgli), Bread pudding with poppy seed (mákos guba or bobájka), Szaloncukor

-  Iceland: MöndlugrauturHamborgarhryggur (a smoked, cured pork roast),  Hangikjöt, Oven-roasted turkey, Möndlugrautur (rice pudding with an almond hidden inside), Brúnaðar kartöflur, Pickled red cabbage, Smákökur  (small cookies),  Laufabrauð (round, very thin flat cakes with a diameter of about 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 inches), decorated with leaf-like, geometric patterns and fried briefly in hot fat or oil.)

- India: Christmas cake - a type of fruit cake, Chocolate Fudge, Mathri (flaky biscuit), Neureos (dumpling made of semolina, khoa and nutlet.)

- Italy: Panettone, Struffoli, Pastiera

- Jamaica: Christmas (fruit) cake or black cake - a heavy fruit cake made with dried fruit, wine and rum, Curry goat, Rice and peas, ham, Chicken

- Japan: Christmas cake is often a white cream cake, sponge cake frosted with whipped cream, topped with strawberries and with a chocolate plate that says Merry Christmas,  KFC Fried Chicken - With turkey as a dish being virtually unknown in Japan  the popularity of this item at Christmas is such that orders are placed as much as two months in advance.

- Lithuania:  Poppy milk (aguonų pienas), Slizikai (slightly sweet small pastries made from leavened dough and poppy seed),  Auselės (Deep fried dumplings), Herring with carrots (silkė su morkomis'), Herring with mushrooms (silkė su grybais'), Spanguolių kisielius (cranberry and milk sauce dessert)

- Malta: Panettone, fruit cake, Christmas log

- Mexico: Christmas roastpavo  (Stuffed, roasted Turkey served with gravy),  Ensalada de Noche Buena (Christmas Eve Salad) Russian potato salad, Bacalao (clipfish or cod), Ponche (a hot, sweet drink made with apples, sugar cane, prunes and tejocotes),  Marshmallow fruit salad

- New Zealand: Pavlova,  Sausages, Ham, Turkey, Strawberries, Christmas Pudding, Mince pies, Trifle, Brandy Snaps, Potato Salad

 - Norway: Akvavit, (pirit flavored with spices like caraway and aniseed), Gløgg (mulled wine),  Julepølse (Pork sausage made with powdered ginger, cloves, mustard seeds and nutmeg. Served steamed or roasted),  Lutefisk (fish preserved with lye that has been washed and boiled),  Pinnekjøtt (salted, dried, and sometimes smoked lamb's ribs which are rehydrated and then steamed, traditionally over birch branches), svineribbe ( pork ribs roasted whole with the skin on), Julegrøt (rice porridge with an almond hidden inside), Medisterkaker (Large meatballs made from a mix of pork meat and pork fat), Pepperkake (gingerbread-like spice cookies flavoured with black pepper)

- Panama: Arroz con Pollo, Tamales, Ham, Turkey, Potato salad

- Philippines: Ham, Queso de bola (edam cheese), Puto bumbong  (a purple-coloured dessert made of sweet rice cooked in hollow bamboo tubes placed on a special steamer-cooker.) Pancit (noodle dish made with sliced meat and vegetables)

- Poland: Makowiecbarszcz (beetroot soup) with uszka (small dumplings) Carp with potato salad,

Śledzie (pickled herring) Pierogi, Zupa rybna (fish soup),  Bigos (savory stew of cabbage and meat), Gołąbki (cabbage rolls), Kopytka (potato dumplings), Sernik (cheesecake), Makowiec (poppy seed cake roll)

- Portugal: Bolo-ReiBacalhau (codfish), Cabrito assado (roasted goat), Borrego assado (roasted lamb), Bolo Rei (King Cake) (fluffy fruitcake),  Tronco de Natal - Christmas log (a delicious Swiss roll, resembling a tree's trunk, filled with chocolate cream, decorated with chocolate and mini - 2 cm Christmas trees)

- Puerto Rico: Arroz con gandules (yellow-rice and pigeon peas with olives, capers, and pieces of ham), Escabeche (boiled green bananas and chicken gizzards), Pig roast, Potato salad

- Romania:  Cârnaţi (pork-based sausages), Sarmale ( rolls of cabbage pickled in brine and filled with meat and rice), Cozonac

- Serbia: Koljivo (boiled wheat), Česnica (soda bread with a silver coin to bring health and good luck baked in the bread)

- Spain: Jamón (Spanish Dry-Cured Ham), Meat Roasted turkey, Roasted lamb, Seafood Langostinos (king prawn), Yema (egg-based dessert),  King cake known as roscón de Reyes in Spanish and tortell in Catalan.

- Sweden:  Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs), Julskinka (Christmas ham),  Prinskorv (small hot dog sausages), Revbensspjäll (spare ribs), Inlagd sill (pickled herring), Glögg (mulled wine)

- United Kingdom and Ireland: Christmas pudding, Christmas ham, Mince pies, Roast turkey, Roast beef, Roast duck, Roast goose, Stuffing, Trifle

- United States: Roast Turkey, Christmas Cookies, Eggnog, Fruitcake, Christmas Ham, Hot Buttered Rum, Hot Chocolate, Stuffing

- Venezuela: Hallaca (rectangle-shaped meal made of maize, filled with beef, pork, olives, raisins and caper, and wrapped in plantain leaves),  Pan de jamón (ham-filled bread with olives and raisins)

^ Since it is only 5 days away I wanted to get in the Christmas spirit by taking about the different foods people eat. ^

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