Recipes for New Year's dishes from different countries.  New Year's dishes in different countries

Australia Traditional cuisine came to Australia from the UK with the first colonists, but over time acquired a local flavor thanks to unusual animals living there - for example, excellent steaks are made from kangaroo meat. However, meat pies turned out to be the main thing in the Australian culinary culture - they were easy to prepare from products available to the settlers. traditional decoration New Year's table in Australia has become the most unusual of pies - floating. It's called Pie Floater. The first mention of it dates back to 1890, when The Melbourne Argus newspaper published an article about a cook who dropped ready-made meat pie. At first, such pies, immersed in pea soup, sold street vendors on mobile carts - it was hearty lunch for ordinary people. Then float pies began to be served in pubs and restaurants. In 2003, Pie Floater was recognized as a national heritage of South Australia. Floating cake was a favorite dish of the famous bluesman Joe Cocker, rock band AC / DC and actor Hugh Jackman. What do you need to make a piroc float? First to do pea puree soup- from meat broth, with onions and garlic. Then prepare the filling for the pie - finely chop beef steak, fry it in a hot frying pan in a small amount oils. Saute onion and garlic in a large skillet. Add flour and pieces of fried beef. Salt and pepper a little, add tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce Bay leaf. Then mix everything and simmer over low heat for about an hour. Ready stuffing put in the refrigerator. The Australians make the pie itself from two types of dough: the lower part is made of shortbread, and the round lid is made of puff pastry without yeast. The size of such a share is obtained with a palm (10-12 cm in diameter). Chilled filling is placed in the prepared pies, pea soup is poured into a plate and the pie is placed in it, decorating with tomato sauce. Africa Depending on the country, African cuisine may be dominated by meat, fruit, and vegetable dishes. Moreover, combinations of products can be the most unexpected, unusual for us. In general, Africans eat simple food without much frills. crown number culinary arts in Africa - fufu. Without it, it is difficult to imagine any holiday table somewhere in Ghana or Cameroon. Fufu is like ours mashed potatoes, only African is prepared from everything that is tucked under the arm or can be found in a nearby shop. We bought, for example, cassava, rice, corn or some completely exotic inyam or yam - finely cut it and boil it. Then the boiled must be crushed for a long time, adding water, bringing the resulting substance to the state light air mass, from which large balls are then molded. These balls are called fufu. But this is only a prelude to the dish. And the main theme is sauces, seasonings, meat, vegetables. Usually for fu-fu they cook spicy meat sauces or stewed beef with vegetables. Fufu is usually eaten with the hands, pinching off a piece and dipping it into the sauce. Fufu on the New Year's table is a sign that there is prosperity and prosperity in the house.

What holiday table is complete without salads? In Morocco, for example, bulgur salad is very popular - wheat groats. First brew vegetable broth, then pour them with bulgur and keep on low heat for about ten minutes. Then pour boiling water for five minutes green pea and while it stands, finely chop garlic, onions, capers, crush olives and pitted olives. Then, on medium heat, fry the onion and add shrimp to it. 3-4 minutes, a little garlic - and the shrimp are ready to decorate the salad. Finely chopped parsley is mixed with ready-made bulgur. All this is laid out on a dish, shrimp and fresh herbs are placed on top. America What is put on the festive table in North America? Of course, a giant turkey, pumpkin soup, Apple pie. All this is well known, so it’s better to talk about what the Brazilians like for the New Year, for example. On the festive table in Brazil there will always be a dish with cochinea - chicken pieces baked with cheese and spices. Koshinha is quite simple to prepare, and most importantly in it - choux pastry made with chicken broth. First, the hostess roasts in the oven chicken thighs with salt and pepper - no longer than twenty minutes, so that the meat does not become dry. The meat is then cut into small pieces, put in a pan along with onions, garlic and fried for about ten minutes. Having cooled down a bit, the meat is sent for mixing with grated cheese and parsley.

The next step is preparing the dough. In boiling chicken bouillon flour is poured and, with stirring, brought to a homogeneous mass. Then the dough is rolled out and koshinos are molded from it in the form chicken leg or truffle. The result is smeared egg yolk and rolled in breadcrumbs. Deep-fried koshinha for 2-3 minutes. Europe Most Europeans celebrate Christmas as family celebration leaving only fireworks and festivities in the squares on New Year's Eve. Christmas dinner is the main event of the year, and they prepare for it thoroughly. In the Czech Republic, for example, it is impossible to imagine Christmas without carp dishes. They began to breed fish in monasteries - the monks understood food and wine perfectly, they knew how to cook, and they loved to eat deliciously. IN early XIX centuries, throughout the Czech Republic, they began to breed carp in ponds and cook Christmas soup from it. On December 25, huge cauldrons of free soup were rolled out on the Old Town Square in Prague, and the mayor treated them to the townspeople. This tradition still exists today. On Christmas Eve, on the eve, the Czech family gathers at home and eats fish soup And fried carp. There is such a sign - you need to put a scale of a Christmas carp under a bowl of soup, and then in next year you will be fine. Czechs buy live carps right on the street - before Christmas, almost on every corner there are large vats in which hefty fish are splashing. The purchased carp must be carefully gutted, and then the head, bones and fins should be put in pots along with vegetables (carrots, onions, parsley, celery, etc.). Pour a lot of water into the pan and bring it to a boil, remembering to collect the foam with a slotted spoon. You need to cook for about an hour, then throw into the pan for two large pieces fish and cook for another ten minutes. Then it is better to pass the broth through a sieve so that the bones do not get into it. Then boil all this again, and pull out the meat from the broth and cut it, removing the bones.

After that, you need to cut the vegetables, fry them for butter and add some flour. Pour the broth into the pan and keep on fire for 2-3 minutes, stirring. And then pour it all into a bowl with ready-made broth. The soup should turn out like heavy cream. You need to cook it for about ten minutes, then add croutons and serve.

Miracles happen on New Year's Eve! You can go on a trip without even leaving your home. Enough to prepare a traditional festive dinner some distant country, such as Japan or Mexico. Or put on New Year's table one of exotic dishes: buckwheat noodles soba, stuffed duck, whole baked carp, chocolate covered turkey, bread pudding or just gingerbread cookies…

China

On the Chinese New Year's table, dumplings, noodles, a decoction of peaches and dishes from five types of vegetables or cereals, symbolizing 5 certain types happiness. Chestnuts represent profit, a whole fish - abundance, shrimp joy and happiness, chicken - prosperity.

At this time, peach and apricot trees, tangerines, almonds, watermelons bloom - their red sweet pulp symbolizes good luck in the coming year.

Dumplings are stuffed with pork, cabbage and onions. Usually a coin or gem is placed in one, and the finder of it will have great luck in the coming year. Long strings of noodles are perceived as a symbol of long life.

The Chinese are very sensitive to color scheme festive New Year's table - only rice can be white on it. Be sure to try all the dishes, otherwise there will be no happiness.

The Chinese custom for the New Year is to cook whole fish, which is considered a symbol of strong family ties. They also cook chicken, also whole - with a head, tail and paws - this symbolizes the unity of the family.

The Chinese in the New Year necessarily eat a vegetarian dish called "yai", with the addition of various seasonings.

Japan

To welcome the deities who bring good luck and happiness, osogatsu is prepared on Japanese New Year original dishes which are preferred and approved by the gods. Special New Year's cuisine, "osechi ryori", includes not only offerings to deities, but also simple meals, which is eaten by all Japanese during the three-day traditional holiday.

There are various versions of osechi, from traditional to modern and even exotic for Japan (Italian, French, Chinese cuisine), but they are all based on the main principle of "hozongshoku" - preserved food.

In Japan, housewives prepare food for the New Year from products that they believe bring happiness: they believe that seaweed brings joy, roasted chestnuts- success in business, peas and beans - health, boiled rice- calmness, herring caviar - family happiness and many children, noodles, like the Chinese, a symbol of long life. Therefore, soba (noodles) must be necessarily unsliced, since the longer the noodles, the longer our life.

Philippine Islands

?In the Philippine Islands, people prepare a variety of food on New Year's Eve, the more food, the better, since a rich New Year's table is considered a pledge of the same rich and full coming New Year.

Tibet

Tibetan housewives bake mountains of pies for the New Year various fillings and treat them to everyone in a row, acquaintances and strangers, because the more you give out, the richer you will be!

In some provinces of Tibet, a sheep's head is traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve with a side dish of vegetables and sauce. It is believed that the head on the festive table is an auspicious sign.

England

In England, traditional Christmas food is pudding and stuffed turkey With vegetable side dish from Brussels sprouts. Turkey is traditionally stuffed with chestnuts. grated breadcrumbs and sage, and it is served with a wonderful sauce of gooseberries, cranberries or cream.

Pudding is made from bread crumbs, flour, lard, raisins, eggs and various spices. Before serving, the pudding is doused with rum, set on fire and put on the table flaming.

In England, if you are invited to visit for the New Year, you must bring bread, coal and a pinch of salt with you, which symbolize food, warmth and prosperity.

USA

In America traditional dish also considered stuffed turkey. The turkey is stuffed with everything that is lying around in the refrigerator: bread, cheese, prunes, garlic, beans, mushrooms, apples.

But the traditional New World dish of the inhabitants of the New World is considered to be a dish with the cynical name "Lame John" - Ham with red beans. In the south of the United States, it is believed that for happiness and wealth in the New Year, you need to eat peas or beans to fight New Year's clock. You can often hear that peas, greens, cabbage symbolize money.

Mexico

Despite the fact that Mexico is a country of burritos, nachos, and fajitos, Mexicans prefer to bake a young pig for the new year. It is served with a side dish of oven baked rice with black beans and sweet peppers.

It is customary for Mexicans to serve a lot of vegetables and leaf salad, as well as pacio, serano and jalapeno stuffed with hard cheese. For dessert - a simple pastry from cornmeal. Mexicans also stuff turkeys. Beans, corn and other vegetables and, of course, do not spare the fiery hot sauce with chili peppers. Other specialty of the house they have a chocolate covered turkey.

Italy

?Among traditional dishes, homemade cappelletti, truffles, smoked salmon, campone, turkey, almond cakes, steam cod or perch in white wine, small dumplings - tortellini with pasciutto ham and cream sauce.

But the main dish of the New Year's table - homemade sausage from pork "kotekkino". It is cut into small circles and served with a side dish of corn grits And stewed lentils. For dessert, Italians prepare a pannetone cake with dried fruits inside, reminiscent of Easter cake, decorated with raisins and candied fruits.

In Italy, it is customary to serve grapes, nuts, lentils to the New Year's table as a symbol and guarantee of longevity, health and well-being.

Spain

?The Spaniards set a rich table, where sweets are obligatory: cumin cookies, macaroons. They eat roast lamb, shellfish, turkey, suckling pig, sherry. In Spain, it is customary to eat twelve grapes at the stroke of midnight, according to the number of strokes of the clock. With each grape, a wish is made - twelve cherished wishes for each month of the year, which will surely come true!

Germany

In Germany, the centerpiece of the table is goose with red cabbage and potato and bread balls. Be sure to serve a brightly colored dish with apples, nuts, raisins and pies. The symbolism here is as follows: an apple is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, nuts with their hard shells and tasty core symbolize the secrets and difficulties of life.

In Germany they say: "God gave the nut, and man must crack it". ?If there is a herring or carp on the New Year's table, it will bring happiness in the coming year.?

Poland

In Poland, according to tradition, 12 dishes are put on the table, and none of them should be meat. Definitely a fish! Main holiday treat- a symbol of family happiness and well-being - carp. And also - mushroom soup, borscht, barley porridge with prunes, dumplings with butter, for dessert - chocolate cake.

Be sure to have a strudel on the table - puff roll with apples, the pride of every good housewife.

Norway

Traditionally, for Christmas in Norway, you need to have 7 pastries. The most common Norwegian flour products:


Kransekake - Pyramid ring cake
Julekake (Christmas round bun with raisins), Fatigman (Fattigman) - brushwood, Krumkaker (Krumkaker) - waffles, Mandelkake (Mandelkake) - almond cake.

Pepperkaker - gingerbread cookies.
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India

In India, the New Year is celebrated with biryani and okroshka. Biryani pilaf is prepared, of course, from lamb. Kishmish, cashew nuts, green peas, pineapples, green peas and a lot of local spices - cumin, cloves, coriander, turmeric, cardamom are added to rice and carrots. The spices give the rice several colors, which makes the dish look very festive and "smart".

Pilaf is served with raita - Indian okroshka based on kefir made from tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers. For dessert, lasi is prepared - yogurt whipped with ginger and sugar.

In Japan, every dish of the New Year's table is symbolic. New Year's feast begins with serving the main course of soba - buckwheat noodles with broth. Soba is a symbol of longevity, and longevity is the main wish for the New Year. In subsequent holidays japanese eat osechi-ryori - a set of the most different seafood: here you can find nihon-tai fish, shrimps, herring caviar, lobsters, oysters, sea kale. All of the above foods are served either raw or steamed. Osechi-riori is served with ozoni soup with rice cakes. For dessert, the Japanese cook black soya beans symbolizing health and mashed sweet potatoes with chestnuts - for good luck. The Japanese prefer to drink on New Year's Eve. green tea And rice vodka moju.

France

The French are real gourmets, they complement their traditional New Year's dish - turkey with goose liver and cheeses. The French prepare the turkey by adding cognac and cream. Served with roasted chestnuts. No less traditional French New Year's dish is a pate from goose liver with crispy toast French baguette. Also traditional on the New Year's table are seafood: oysters and smoked salmon. And of course, cheese plate. Dessert - christmas log is a creamy cake with big amount chocolate. French champagne and dry wines are always present on the New Year's festive table.

Mexico

Despite the fact that Mexico is famous for burritos, nachos, and fajitos, Mexicans prefer to bake a young pig for the new year. It is served with very tasty and useful side dish- Rice baked in the oven with black beans and sweet peppers. It is customary for Mexicans to serve a lot of vegetables and leaf lettuce, as well as pacio, serano and jalapeno stuffed with hard cheese. Dessert is a simple cornmeal pastry. National New Year's drink is a homemade tequila.

Italy

On the New Year's table of Italians there is always a place for small tortellini dumplings with pashutto ham and cream sauce. But the main dish of the New Year's table is homemade pork sausage, in Italian it sounds like "kotekkino". The sausage is cut into small circles and served with a side dish of corn grits and stewed lentils. For dessert, Italians prepare a pannetone cake with dried fruits inside. IN new year's eve Italians prefer to drink dry or sparkling wine.

India

Not surprisingly, in India, the country of spices, the New Year is celebrated with biryani pilaf and okroshka. Biryani pilaf is made from lamb. Kershyu nuts, raisins, pineapples, green peas and, of course, many local spices are added to rice and carrots - cumin, cloves, coriander, turmeric, cardamom. The spices give the rice several colors, making the dish look very festive. Pilaf is served with raita - Indian okroshka made from tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers based on light kefir. And the dessert is fermented milk drink lasi - yogurt whipped with ginger and sugar.

Each dish on the New Year and Christmas table is endowed with different countries, y different peoples with its own meaning and significance. Let's take a short walk through the traditions of the New Year's table.

New Year's table in France
In France, a holiday is not a holiday if there is no traditional roast turkey at the New Year's table.

What is remarkable about the New Year's table of Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia
But on the festive tables of Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia there is never a bird - geese, ducks, chickens, turkeys. In these countries, they believe that it is impossible to eat a bird this evening, happiness will fly away.

New Year's pies in Romania, Australia, Bulgaria
In Romania, Australia, Bulgaria they bake New Year's pies, and not simple ones, but with surprises: whoever gets it will be lucky.

New Year's table in Poland
In Poland, exactly twelve dishes can be counted on the New Year's table. And no meat! Mushroom soup or borscht, barley porridge with prunes, dumplings with butter, for a sweet chocolate cake. Mandatory dish- fish. In many countries, it is considered a symbol of family happiness and prosperity.

New Year's table in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
A similar set of dishes is present on the New Year's tables of the hostesses of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. True, they prefer pearl barley porridge, and strudel is obligatory - a puff roll with apples, the pride of every good housewife.

New Year's table in Germany
In Germany, a brightly colored dish with apples, nuts, raisins and pies is always served on New Year's Eve. The symbolism here is as follows: an apple is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, nuts with their hard shells and tasty core symbolize the secrets and difficulties of life. In Germany they say: "God gave the nut, and man must crack it."

New Year's table in Spain, Portugal, Cuba
In many countries, in Spain, Portugal, Cuba, since ancient times they have been considered a symbol of abundance and a happy family hearth. vine. Therefore, the inhabitants of these countries eat twelve grapes at midnight, according to the number of strokes of the clock. With each grape, a wish is made - twelve cherished wishes for each month of the year.

New Year's table in Italy
In Italy, it is also customary to serve grapes, nuts, lentils to the New Year's table as a symbol and guarantee of longevity, health and well-being.

New Year's table in England
In England, traditional Christmas food is pudding and stuffed turkey with a vegetable side dish. Pudding is made from bread crumbs, flour, lard, raisins, eggs and various spices. Before serving, the pudding is doused with rum, set on fire and put on the table flaming.

New Year's table in America
In America, stuffed turkey is also considered a traditional dish. The turkey is stuffed with everything that is lying around in the refrigerator: bread, cheese, prunes, garlic, beans, mushrooms, apples, cabbage.

New Year's table in Holland
In Holland, one of the main national New Year's dishes are salted beans. This is a very heavy food for the stomach, which cannot be relieved either by vodka or red wine.

New Year's table in Cambodia
In Cambodia, the New Year's table is placed near the window and the family's favorite sweets are served.

New Year custom in Tibet
Tibetans have a cute New Year's custom. Mistresses bake mountains of pies with a wide variety of fillings and present them to all acquaintances and strangers. The more you give away, the richer you will be!

New Year's table in Japan
In Japan, on New Year's Eve, dishes are prepared from foods that, according to legend, bring happiness. sea ​​kale gives joy, roasted chestnuts - success in business, peas and beans - health, boiled fish - peace and good spirits, herring caviar - a happy family and many children. The New Year's meal in Japanese families is quiet and decorous, without noisy conversations and drinking songs. Nothing should distract from thoughts about what awaits everyone in the coming year.

New Year's table in China
In China. In the end, it was the Chinese who gave us all these rabbits, dragons and wild boars, which we are trying to "appease" on the night of December 31 to January 1. Many of the traditional Chinese New Year foods are vegetarian and well-seasoned. However, this does not mean at all that the Chinese in the New Year deny themselves meat - they eat and how. But they cook it in their own way. For example, chicken is baked or fried only as a whole, that is, with the head, paws and tail. In China, they believe that this way you can strengthen your family. The same applies to fish: it is also cooked whole so that the family is strong and happy.

History of Russian New Year traditions
In the beginning, under Peter the Great, who ordered the celebration of the New Year from December 31 to January 1, the main thing at the holiday was not the table, but balls. Following the well-known line from the song for lunch, dinner and breakfast, our ancestors had ... dances and drinks to quench their thirst. Almost until the middle of the 19th century, the Russian New Year's menu did not exist, and what is now considered an invariable accessory of the New Year's table - all these suckling pigs with buckwheat porridge and geese with sauerkraut or apples - actually came from the Christmas table. At the beginning of the 19th century, cuisine was not complicated. Even in the homes of the nobility, pickles and mushrooms, radish salad could well have been on the New Year's table. They also served a piglet, veal fricassee, fried poulards, boiled trout in wine, ruffed flesh. And, by the way, apricots, oranges, grapes and pears - greenhouses were in vogue, fruits were grown in the middle of winter in St. Petersburg, and in Moscow. IN New Year's menu In the second half of the 19th century, salmon, caviar, smelt and vendace, cheeses are already present - along with the same radish and pickles. For some reason, they cooled off for mushrooms, but labardan (cod) and watermelons came into fashion. The game competed with the pig fried with buckwheat porridge.

Festive roast pigs

It's time soft drinks, ice cream and brandy. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, French, Spanish fortified, Italian and German wines were drunk. And in imitation of champagne, they already made Don sparkling wine. Of course, they drank vodka, tinctures and liqueurs, Russian homemade and German beer. By the beginning of the 20th century, anchovies, lobsters, and sardines began to appear on the New Year's table. The notorious piglet and goose with apples could not do without, but hazel grouse and turkeys already competed with them. During the Christmas days of 1912, 250,000 piglets, 75,000 turkeys, 110,000 geese, 260,000 chickens and ducks were sold in St. Petersburg. After the revolution, the celebration of the New Year was canceled. But he was welcomed anyway. True, only quiet dances were possible so as not to wake the neighbors. It was then, presumably, that the habit of sitting at the table arose. The food was poor. They tried, of course, to hang nuts in gold and silver foil and apples on the Christmas tree banned by the revolution. Rehabilitated Christmas tree in 1936, along with the night dances. The Soviet New Year's table did not become refined - even sausage cut into circles could decorate it. However, in the former shops of Eliseev they still sold hazel grouse and caviar. In the forties, the New Year was celebrated with vodka, boiled potatoes and herring, decorated with onion rings. In the fifties, life became more fun. Celebrating the new year was no longer considered reprehensible. And it became possible to gather not only in a narrow circle, but also big company. On the tables appeared: jelly, herring under a fur coat, Baltic sprats. The second coming of Olivier salad has come - with doctor's sausage instead of grouse. It was prepared in a large basin and generously seasoned with mayonnaise.

Piglet, goose or duck were desirable but not required. Under the chimes, it was imperative to open a bottle of "Soviet champagne". In cramped apartments, the table took up all the space, so you had to choose: dancing or food. With the advent of televisions, the table won completely.

Christmas is a special holiday for many people around the world. And, perhaps, one of the most important traditions is the Christmas dinner. What kind of food is served on Christmas Eve festive table in different parts of our planet? Traditional German treats are mulled wine and a candied fruit pie called stollen. Stollen is often baked with humpbacks, in memory of the camels on which the Magi reached the cradle of Jesus. Many Bulgarians go hungry on the eve of Christmas, and on the holiday they treat themselves stuffed vegetables, soup and pies.
The festive table of the inhabitants of Fiji consists of fish wrapped in banana leaves, stuffed chicken and roasted pork. It is cooked in an earthen oven “lovo” lined with heavy stones.
In the United Kingdom, fig pudding serves as a table decoration. It should be doused with brandy and set on fire.
The Italians call Christmas dinner the “Feast of the Seven Fishes”. A variety of seafood dishes are served at the table - squid, cod, anchovies, as well as pasta with shellfish.
The French also prefer seafood. Lobsters, oysters and foie gras usually flaunt on the table.
Traditional christmas dish Swedes - rice pudding. An almond is hidden in one of the servings, promising good luck to the one who finds it until the end of the year.
Costa Ricans enjoy tamales, a pork and corn dish that has been passed down from generation to generation.
In Ethiopia, doro wat is a roasted chicken served on thin cakes. And forget about knives and forks, this dish should be taken with your hands.
In South Africa, Christmas comes in the summer and locals flock to the braai, an African grill, to roast lamb, turkey or pork.
It's also summer in Australia in December, and Australians have a Christmas barbecue. They roast turkey, lamb and large shrimp.
Ghanaians eat at Christmas corn porridge, stewed okra and mashed various root vegetables called "fufu".
Most of those who find Christmas in Antarctica celebrate the holiday on board the ship. So they have to make do with meat, canned food and frozen vegetables.
The Christians of Egypt observe strict post during three days before Christmas. The main dish at this time is "kushari", it is made from pasta, rice and lentils seasoned with tomato-vinegar sauce.
In India, biryani or curry is served for the holiday - a dish of rice and spices with the addition of meat, fish, eggs or vegetables. Dessert is a sweet milk pudding.
Filipinos Prefer Whole Baked suckling pig, in the mouth of which they put a ball of yellow cheese.
In Iceland, Christmas dinner starts at 6 p.m. and consists of a wide variety of meat dishes, including venison.
In Argentina, they serve "vitel ton" - veal in tuna sauce, as well as turkey, pork, and bread. Often, a gala dinner is served in the backyard barbecue style.
Finnish people organize Christmas Buffet, which contains ham, bread, fish, various casseroles and vegetables, as well as warmed spiced wine
In the US, many people prefer "egg nogg", or heady eggnog - a drink made from beaten eggs with sugar and wine.
Believe it or not, on Christmas night, a lot of Japanese people gather at KFC to eat crispy chicken with a side dish.