10 Amazing New Year's Dishes From Around The World

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In many countries, the main winter holiday is Christmas. They responsibly prepare for it, observing the traditions of grandfathers and great-grandfathers, often celebrating with their families. The New Year is celebrated in a noisy company of friends, on the street, the New Year's menu is more liberal. We talk about New Year's culinary traditions from around the world.

1. Poppy milk and Kuchukai, Lithuania

 

In Lithuania, Christmas is celebrated for three days. On Christmas Eve, there should be 12 dishes on the table. No meat or alcohol. At the head of the table - fish, pies with mushrooms, herring, poppy milk, cookies with poppy seeds. Traditionally, Christmas Eve is celebrated with family. At Christmas, they bake meat and go to visit.

 

Interesting Christmas Eve dishes are poppy milk and cookies in the form of small pillows with poppy seeds, or kuchukai. They are prepared only once a year - on Christmas Eve.

How to make poppy milk, see here.

2. Rice porridge with roasted almonds, Denmark

 

A hot Danish holiday dish is baked goose with dried fruits or pork with potatoes and cabbage. But for dessert they serve rice porridge with roasted almonds and jelly.

3. Lentils for garnish, Italy

 

Italians use lentils as a symbol of longevity; they serve them with homemade pork sausages. Nuts of various kinds, grapes, seafood, fish are also present on the festive table.

How to cook lentils in Italian for the New Year >>>

4. New Year's drink slam and donuts, the Netherlands

 

The Dutch spicy New Year's drink "slam" is made from hot milk, tea, sugar and spices - saffron, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon peel. And donuts fried in oil should take away the sword of the formidable goddess, who flies over the country on New Year's Eve and strives to rip open someone's belly. If you eat donuts, then the oil will saturate a person and the sword will only slide over him. In short, donuts are power!

5. Seaweed for joy, Japan

 

The Japanese put a whole set of "happy" foods on the festive table. So herring caviar will provide many children and a happy family, chestnuts will bring success in business, seaweed will bring joy, beans - health, and boiled fish - peace of mind.

6. Bread pudding, England

 

The British at Christmas stuff a turkey and bake bread pudding. The table is necessarily decorated with crackers, which must be pulled together, they are torn and a paper crown flies out of them (because on Christmas every person is a king), a piece of paper with a wish or a joke and a surprise - decoration, cosmetics. Everyone must wear crowns, read jokes and take pictures.

The recipe for the traditional English pudding can be found here.

7. Foie gras and champagne, France

 

The main attributes of the French New Year's table are champagne and foie gras. As well as oysters, caviar, duck roast, snails. What else to add - the French are the French. Chic!

8. Draniki, Czech Republic

 

The Czechs prepare fish for the New Year, a magnificent strudel. And in the stalls in the center of Prague they sell mulled wine, fried sausages and old Bohemian potato pancakes, or bramboraki. Draniki are cooked with bacon pieces and beer! Here you will find a step-by-step recipe for bramboraks.

9. Grapes for the fulfillment of desires, Spain, Portugal, Cuba

 

In Spain, Portugal and Cuba, with each stroke of the chimes, it is customary to eat a grape and make a wish. Grapes are a symbol of a happy family hearth and abundance.

10 Stuffed Turkey, USA

 

At the head of the American Christmas table is a stuffed turkey. Americans also eat homemade sausages, cabbage and bean soup, potato pie, fish, pudding for dessert. They drink wine and an eg-nock cocktail made from cream, pounded yolk with alcohol.