List of Christmas Dishes from around the World-Wikipedia Translation from English to Spanish by SD members

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List of Christmas dishes

An oven-roasted brine-soaked turkey.

Fruit cake

This page is a list of Christmas dishes as eaten around the world. These food items are traditionally eaten at or associated with the Christmas season.

Albania

• Traditional Albanian pumpkin and walnut pie – Byrek me kungull dhe arre

This is a traditional Albanian pie cooked usually on Christmas Eve, especially in Catholic families. The ingredients are wheat flour, pumpkin, walnuts, vegetable oil (if fasting is considered) or butter, a pinch of salt and black pepper. Sometimes oregano is added. The pastry layers are traditionally homemade, filled with baked pumpkin mixture, which contains butter, salt and pepper. On top of the mixture, chopped walnuts are sprinkled. Layers are then folded up, put on a flat baking dish in a circular shape and baked. It makes a very delicious and light side dish for Christmas or any other occasion.

Argentina

Vitel toné

• Vitel toné
• Turrón
• Pan dulce
• Asado (beef, chicken, calf, lamb, suckling pig)
• Cider (apple, pineapple) and sparkling wine
• Budín
• Salads
• Pionono
• Russian salad
• Matambre
• Lengua a la vinagreta
• Garrapiñadas
• Waldorf salad
• Sandwiches de miga

Australia

Candy Cane can be hung as edible decorations.

• White Christmas, a sweet slice made of copha and mixed fruit
• Cold ham and cold turkey
• Seafood and salads
• Roast chicken, ham and turkey
• Stuffing
• Christmas cake or Christmas pudding
• Custard
• Gingerbread in Christmas shapes
• Christmas damper - in wreath or star shape, served with butter, jam, honey or golden syrup. Made in the Australian bush in the 19th century.
• lollies, such as rocky road; rum balls; candy canes
• Champagne[citation needed]
• Trifle
• Pavlova
• prawns
• Mince pies

Belgium

• Cougnou (with various like cougnolle), sweet bread in the form of the infant Jesus

Brazil

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

Canada

Gingerbread house

• Apple cider
• Bûche de Noël
• Butter tarts
• Candy canes
• Christmas pudding
• satsumas
• Doughnuts
• Eggnog
• Fruitcake
• Gingerbread, often in the form of a Gingerbread house or Gingerbread man
• Mixed nuts in the shell and spiced nuts
• Tourtière (pâté à la viande and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean varieties)
• Pumpkin pie
• Mince pie
• Roasted turkey
• Shortbread
• Stuffing
• Trifle
• ## Chile

Pan de pascua

• Cola de mono - (literally, "monkey's tail") A Chilean Christmas beverage, with aguardiente, milk, coffee, and flavoured with vanilla and cloves
• Pan de Pascua - Chilean Christmas 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 icecream.

Colombia

Colombian Buñuelos

Colombian natilla

Colombian Christmas dishes are mostly sweets and desserts. Some of the most popular dishes include:

• Buñuelos
• Natilla
• Manjar blanco
• Hojaldres
• Brevas dessert with cheese
• 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 (váno?ní cukroví)

• Váno?ní rybí polévka - Christmas fish soup
• Carp
• Potato salad with mayonnaise, hard-boiled eggs and boiled vegetables
• Váno?ní cukroví - Christmas cookies
• Fruitcake
• Gingerbread

The traditional meal (served as dinner on Christmas Eve) consists of either fish soup or pea soup and fried fish (traditionally carp) served with potato salad. The recipe for potato salad differs slightly among every Czech family. The main ingredients are: potato cooked with jacket, canned peas, onions, cooked carrots, parsley and celery, pickled gherkins, cooked eggs and mayonnaise. Some families may add grated apples or salami. The best potato salad is prepared a day before Christmas Eve so that all the ingredients can "mellow" for a day. The Christmas dinner should be the first food consumed that day. Those who do not break the Christmas shrove are believed to be able to see a golden pig on a wall.

Before the Christmas holidays, many kinds of sweet biscuits are prepared. The Christmas cookies are then served during the whole Christmas period and exchanged among friends and neighbours. Very popular is also a preparation of small ginger breads garnished by sugar icing.

Denmark

Danish Christmas meal

• Æbleskiver - traditional Danish spherical pancakes (a type of doughnut with no hole), sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with raspberry or strawberry jam
• Roasted chestnuts with salt and butter
• boiled whole potatoes
• Brun sovs (brown sauce) - a traditional dark gravy, used to cover meat dishes like roasted pork and duck (flæskesteg, andesteg) and the boiled potato
• 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. A dish made from rice, whipped cream and almonds, served cold with cherry sauce (kirsebærsauce)
• 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
• Ensalada verde - Iceberg lettuce, onions, cucumber and tomatoes salad
• Russian potato salad
• Macaroni salad
• Pasteles de hojas - a root tamales recipe and Christmas tradition adopted from Puerto Rico
• Pig roast
• Pollo al horno - roasted chicken
• Telera - Dominican bread similar to Mexican telera

Drinks:

• Anís del Mono - a Spanish anise-flavored liquor that's very popular around Christmas time
• Eggnog - with rum rather than brandy
• Jengibre - ginger tea is popular all over the Caribbean on Christmas (except Cuba and Puerto Rico). It is traditionally served hot with cinnamon
• Red wine

Desserts:

• Vaniljekranse - classic Christmas butter cookies from Denmark
• Fruit platter - consists of oranges, apples, bananas, grapes, and mangos
• Cheese and guava platter - a platter with squared white cheese, yellow potato cheese, soda crackers, and guava paste chunks
• Bread pudding
• Majarete - corn pudding made with coconut milk, fresh corn, cornstarch, milk, water, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar

Finland

A Karelian pasty

Mulled wine

Christmas smorgasbord from Finland, "Joulupöytä", (translated " Yule table"), a traditional display of Christmas food served at Christmas in Finland, similar to the Swedish smörgåsbord, including:

• Christmas ham with mustard (almost every family has one for Christmas)
• turkey (kalkkuna)
• Freshly salted salmon (gravlax graavilohi) and whitefish graavisiika
• Pickled herring in various forms (tomato, mustard, matjes or onion sauces)
• Lutefisk and Béchamel sauce
• Whitefish and pikeperch
• Liver casserole
• Potato casserole (sweetened or not, depending on preference)
• Boiled potatoes
• Carrot casserole
• Rutabaga casserole (lanttulaatikko)
• Rosolli (salad from boiled beetroots, carrots, potatoes, apples and pickled cucumber. If served with herring, it becomes herring-salad, sillisalaatti)
• Various sauces
• Assortment of cheese, most commonly (leipäjuusto) and Aura (aura-juusto)
• Christmas bread, usually sweet bread (Joululimppu)
• Karelian pasties, rice pasties, served with egg-butter (Karjalanpiirakka)

Other meat dishes could be:

• Karelian hot pot, traditional meat stew originating from the region of Karelia (Karjalanpaisti)
• Reindeer (in northern Finland) (poro)
• Cold smoked salmon (kylmäsavulohi)

Desserts:

• Rice pudding or rice porridge topped with cinnamon, sugar and cold milk or with mixed fruit soup (riisipuuro)
• Gingerbread, sometimes in the form of a gingerbread house or gingerbread man (piparkakut)
• Chocolate (given as presents, eaten in-between meals, called suklaa)
• Prune jam pastries (Joulutortut)
• Mixed fruit soup or prune soup (sekahedelmäkiisseli, luumukiisseli)

Drinks:

• Glogg or mulled wine (glögi)
• Christmas beer (Jouluolut); Koff and Lapin Kulta have Christmas versions
• Home beer (non-alcoholic beer-like drink) (kotikalja)
• Red wine (punaviini)
• Marski's tipple (akvavit, vermouth and gin) (Marskin ryyppy)
• Sour milk (often drunk by older people)

France

Foie gras en cocotte

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

Kouglof

• Kouglof (Alsace)
• Thirteen desserts (Provence): The thirteen desserts are the traditional Christmas dessert in the French region of Provence. The Christmas supper ends with 13 dessert items, representing Jesus Christ and the 12 apostles. The desserts are traditionally set out Christmas Eve and remain on the table three days until December 27.
• • Walnut
• • Quince cheese
• • Almond
• • Raisin
• • Calisson of Aix-en-Provence
• • Nougat blanc
• • Nougat noir au miel
• • Apple
• • Pear
• • Orange
• • Winter melon
• • Fougasse (Provençal bread)

Germany

A Christmas Stollen

• Christstollen Stollen is a fruitcake with bits of candied fruits, raisins, walnuts and almonds and spices such as cardamom and cinnamon; sprinkled with confectioners sugar. Often there's also a core of marzipan.
• Pfefferkuchenhaus - a gingerbread house decorated with candies, sweets and sugar icing (in reference to the gingerbread house of the fairy tale Hänsel and Gretel)
• Printen
• Oblaten Lebkuchen
• Springerle
• Weihnachtsplätzchen (Christmas cookies)
• Carp
• Roast goose
• Venison - e.g. meat of roe deer usually served with red cabbage, brussels sprout and lingonberry sauce
• Herring salad - salad of pickled or soused herring, beetroot, potatoes, apple
• Kartoffelsalat (potato salad) with Wurst (sausages) is traditionally eaten in northern Germany for supper on Christmas Eve
• Schäufele (a corned, smoked ham) usually served with potato salad in southern Germany for dinner on Christmas Eve.
• Weisswurst - sausages with veal and bacon, usually flavored with parsley, lemon, mace, onions, ginger and cardamom
• Feuerzangenbowle
• Glühwein (hot spiced wine)

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 (Prepared with different stuffings and accompanied with various side dishes such as salads or rice)

Hong Kong

• Ginger bread
• roasted turkey
• roasted chicken

Hungary

Töltött káposzta

• Fish soup (halászlé) various recipes
• Stuffed cabbage (töltött káposzta)
• Roast goose
• Roast duck
• Pastry roll filled with walnut or poppy seed (bejgli)
• Bread pudding with poppy seed (mákos guba or bobájka)
• Szaloncukor

Iceland

Möndlugrautur

• Hamborgarhryggur, a smoked, cured pork roast.
• Ptarmigan, gamebird in the grouse family.
• Hangikjöt
• Oven-roasted turkey
• Möndlugrautur - a Christmas rice pudding with an almond hidden inside (the same as the Swedish Julgröt)
• Caramelised potatoes, Icelandic. Brúnaðar kartöflur (same as in Danish cuisine).
• Pickled red cabbage
• Smákökur - small cookies of various sorts
• 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

• Allahabadi cake.
• Christmas cake - a type of fruit cake.
• Mathri - a traditional flaky biscuit.
• Gulab Jamun - A traditional sweet prepared with khoa.
• Jalebi
• Kheer Boiled rice cooked with milk, sugar, saffron and is garnished with nuts such as almonds and pistachios. It can also be made with barley.
• Chhena Poda - A dessert made with Chhena (cottage cheese) which is slightly roasted and soaked in sugar syrup. It is garnished with cashew nuts and served. Chhena Poda is popular in the Odisha state of India. It is eaten during the Christmas season but is available throughout the year.
• Neureos - a kind of dumpling made of semolina, khoa and nutlet.

Italy

• Panettone (Milan)
• Pandoro (Verona)[clarification needed]
• Panforte (Tuscany)[clarification needed]
• Prosecco (Veneto)[clarification needed]
• Spumante (Piedmont)[clarification needed]
• Struffoli (Naples)
• Pastiera (Naples)

Jamaica

• Christmas (fruit) cake or black cake - a heavy fruit cake made with dried fruit, wine and rum.
• sorrel - often served to guests with Christmas cake; Sorrel is made from the same sepals as Latin American drink "Jamaica," but is more concentrated and usually flavored with ginger. Adding rum is traditional at Christmas time.
• Curry goat
• Rice and peas - a Sunday staple, at Christmas dinner is usually made with green (fresh) gungo (pigeon) peas instead of dried kidney beans or other dried legumes.
• Christmas ham
• Chicken

Japan

• Christmas cake - Different from a UK Christmas cake or American fruitcake, the Japanese style 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, though yule logs are also available.
• 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

• Twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper - twelve dishes representing the twelve Apostles or twelve months of the year - plays the main role in Lithuanian Christmas tradition. The traditional dishes are served on December 24.
  • Poppy milk (aguon? pienas)
  • Slizikai ( or k??iukai) - slightly sweet small pastries made from leavened dough and poppy seed
  • Ausel?s (Deep fried dumplings)
  • Herring with carrots (silk? su morkomis')
  • Herring with mushrooms (silk? su grybais')
  • Spanguoli? kisielius - cranberry and milk sauce dessert

Malta

• Panettone from the Italian tradition
• fruit cake
• Christmas log a log (similar to a tree's) that is made from chocolate and candied fruits

Mexico

Christmas roast

• pavo - Stuffed, roasted turkey served with gravy.
• Ensalada de Noche Buena - Christmas Eve salad
• Russian potato salad - Side dish to turkey, particularly popular in northern states.
• Bacalao - clipfish or cod, traditionally eaten in the central and southern states of Mexico.
• Romeritos - also a Christmas tradition of the central region, romeritos are small green leaves of a particular type mixed generally with mole and potatoes; generally accompanied with "tortitas de camarón" (shrimp bread)
• Tamales - Tamales can sometimes replace the traditional turkey or Bacalao with romeritos, particularly in northern and southern parts of Mexico.
• Menudo - A Christmas morning tradition in northwestern states, menudo is a tripe and hominy soup, not to be confused with southern 'panzita'. Menudo is often prepared the night before (Christmas Eve) as its cooking time can take up to 5 hours.
• Ponche Navideño - a hot, sweet drink made with apples, sugar cane, prunes and tejocotes. For grown-ups, ponche is never complete without its "piquete" - either tequila or rum
• Marshmallow fruit salad - marshmallow with fruit cocktail, sugar and sour cream. Sometimes dried coconut, ground cinnamon or nuts are also added.
• Pineapple upside-down cake - Turned-over cake with cherries and pineapples.
• Glazed ham - Ham glazed with honey or sugar with cherries and pineapples on top.
• Pozole- Mexican soup
• Champurrado-Mexican hot chocolate
• Atole
• Bunuelos
• Chile Rellenos
• Capirotada
• Rompope
• Pan dulce
• Rosca de reyes

New Zealand

A homemade Christmas pavlova decorated with pomegranate seeds and Chantilly cream.

• Pavlova
• Sausages
• Ham
• Turkey
• Strawberries
• Christmas Pudding
• Christmas mince pies
• Wine
• Chocolate
• Trifle
• Brandy Snaps
• Potato Salad

Norway

Scandinavian-style gingerbread

• Akevitt - Akvavit, a spirit 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, rather than spare ribs
• Julegrøt - Christmas rice porridge with an almond hidden inside
• Julebrus - is a Norwegian soft drink, usually with a festive label on the bottle. It is brewed by most Norwegian breweries, as a Christmas drink for minors.
• Sossiser - small Christmas sausages
• Medisterkaker - large meatballs made from a mix of pork meat and pork fat
• Rødkål - sweet and sour red cabbage, as a side dish
• Kålrabistappe - Purée of rutabaga, as a sidedish to pinnekjøtt
• Pepperkake - gingerbread-like spice cookies flavoured with black pepper
• Lussekatter - St. Lucia Buns with saffron
• Multekrem – A dessert consisting of cloudberries and whipped cream

Panama

• Arroz con Pollo
• Tamales
• Ham
• Turkey
• Grapes
• Fruit cake
• Egg nog
• Potato salad
• Pan de Rosca
• Pan Bon

Paraguay

• Apple cider
• Roasted chicken
• Potato salad
• Roast pork
• Sopa paraguaya

Philippines

Large bibingka from the Philippines

• Ham
• Queso de bola (edam cheese)
• Puto bumbong - a purple-coloured Filipino dessert made of sweet rice cooked in hollow bamboo tubes placed on a special steamer-cooker. When cooked, they are spread with margarine and sprinkled with sugar and grated coconut.
• Bibingka - traditional dessert made with rice flour, sugar, clarified butter and coconut milk. baked in layers and topped with butter and sugar.
• Lechon
• Salads(either fruit, coconut or garden)
• Pancit - Filipino style noodle dish made with sliced meat and vegetables
• Morcon
• Mechado
• Caldereta

Poland

12 dishes are served as a reminder of the 12 Apostles on Christmas Eve, 24 December. Polish people don't eat meat on this day, instead they choose from variety of fish and vegetable dishes. The meal begins when the first star is seen. An extra place is left at the table for an unexpected guest, and some hay is put under the table cloth as a reminder of the stable where Jesus was born.

Barszcz with Uszka

Makowiec

• barszcz (beetroot soup) with uszka (small dumplings) - a classic Polish Christmas starter.
• Carp with potato salad, carp in aspic etc. Carp provides the main component of the Christmas Eve meal across Poland.
• ?ledzie - pickled herring
• Rollmops
• Pierogi with sauerkraut and forest mushrooms; filled with cottage cheese and potatoes
• Zupa rybna - fish soup
• ?urek - soup made of soured rye flour and meat
• Zupa grzybowa - mushroom soup made of various forest mushrooms
• Bigos - savory stew of cabbage and meat
• Kompot - traditional drink a light, refreshing drink most often made of dried or fresh fruit boiled in water with sugar and left to cool and infuse.
• Go??bki - cabbage rolls
• Pieczarki marynowane - marinated mushrooms
• ?oso? - salmon, often baked or boiled in a dill sauce.
• Kopytka - potato dumplings
• Kartofle gotowane - simple boiled potatoes sparkled with parsley or dill
• Kulebiak - with fish or cabbage and wild mushrooms filling
• Ryba sma?ona or ryba po grecku - fried fish laid under lyers of fried shreded carrots, onions, root celery and leek
• Sa?atka jarzynowa - salad made with boiled potatoes and carrots with fresh peas, sweetcorn, dill cucumber, and boiled egg, mixed with mayonnaise
• Galaretka - jellied pig's feet or cold legs.
• Faworki - angel wings
• P?czki
• Kutia - sweet grain pudding with dried fruits and various nuts / in the eastern regions (Bia?ystok)
• ?amaniec - type of flat and rather hard pancake that is soaked in warm milk with poppy seeds. Eaten in eastern regions such as around Bia?ystok
• Sernik - cheesecake
• Makowiec - poppy seed cake roll

Portugal

Bolo-Rei

• Bacalhau – codfish
• Cabrito assado - roasted goat
• Borrego assado - roasted lamb
• Polvo cozido - boiled octopus
• Carne de Vinha d' Alhos - Mainly served in Madeira - Pork dish
• Bolo de mel - Mainly served in Madeira - Cake made with molasses
• Bolo Rei (king cake) - a beautifully decorated fluffy fruitcake
• Bolo-Rei escangalhado (broken king cake) - it is like the first one, but has also cinnamon and chilacayote jam (doce de gila)
• Bolo-Rainha (queen cake) - similar to Bolo-Rei, but with only nuts, raisins and almonds
• Bolo-Rei de chocolate - it is like the Bolo-Rei, but has less (or no) fruit, nuts, chilacayote jam and lots of chocolate chips
• Broa castelar - a small, soft and thin cake made of sweet potato and orange
• Fatias douradas - golden slices, known as french toast - slices of pan bread, soaked in egg with sugar, fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon
• Rabanadas - they are like fatias douradas, but made with common bread
• Formigos - a delicious dessert made with sugar, eggs, pieces of bread, almonds, port wine and powdered with cinnamon
• Filhós / Filhozes / Filhoses - depending on the region, they may be thin or fluffy pieces of a fried dough made of eggs, honey, orange, lemon, flour and anise, sprinkled - or not with icing sugar
• Coscorões - thin squares of a fried orange flavoured dough
• Azevias de grão, batata-doce ou gila - deep fried thin dough pastries filled with a delicious cream made of chickpea, sweet potato or chilacayote, powdered with sugar and cinnamon
• Tarte de amêndoa - almond pie
• 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
• Lampreia de ovos - a sweet made of eggs, well decorated
• Sonhos - an orange flavoured fried yeast dough, powdered with icing sugar
• Velhoses - they are like the sonhos, but made with pumpkin
• Bolo de Natal - Christmas cake
• Pudim de Natal - Christmas pudding, similar to flan
• Vinho quente - eggnog made with boiled wine, egg yolk, sugar and cinnamon
• Turkey - On the island of Terceira, turkey has recently taken over as the traditional Christmas dish over Bacalhau, due to the influence of American culture on the island, home to the United States Air Force's 65th Air Base Wing.

Puerto Rico

• Arroz con gandules - yellow-rice and pigeon peas with olives, capers, and pieces of ham.
• Ensalada de pulpo - octopus salad
• Escabeche - boiled green bananas and chicken gizzards in Puerto Rican style escabeche.
• Macaroni salad - with tuna and peppers
• Morcilla
• Pasteles
• Pasteles de guineo
• Pasteles de yucca
• Pastelón - sweet plantain "lasagna".
• Pig roast - Puerto Rico is famous for their pig roast. It is also a part (along with arroz con gandules) of there national dish
• Potato salad - made with chorizo and hard-boiled eggs.

Drinks:

• Coquito - Puerto Rican spiced coconut eggnog.
• Piña colada
• Rum punch - dark or light rum, pineapple rum, orange liqueur, grenadine, ginger ale, grapefruit juice served with lemon and lime slices.
• La Danza - Champagne with passion fruit juice, orange liqueur, lime juice, lemon juice, and strawberry juice.

Dessert:

• Arroz con dulce - coconut rice pudding with spices and raisins.
• Bread pudding - soaked in coconut milk and served with a guava rum sauce.
• Dulce de cassabanana - musk cucumber cooked in syrup topped with walnuts and sour cream on the side.
• Dulce de papaya con queso Boricua - spiced papaya candy in heavy syrup served with Puerto Rican white cheese.
• Flancocho - Crème caramel with a layer of cream cheese and Puerto Rican style spongecake underneath.
• Majarete - rice and coconut custard, made of coconut milk, milk, rice flour, sugar, and vanilla or sour orange leaves with cinnamon served on top.
• Rum cake
• Tembleque - a pudding made with cornstarch and coconut milk.
• Turrón - Sesame brittle or almond brittle
• Mantecaditos - Puerto Rican short bread cookies. Made with shortening, coconut butter, flour, almond flour, vanilla, nutmeg and almond extract. They are usually filled with guave jam or pineapple jam in the middle.

Romania

Cozonac

• Piftie - pork and beef based aspic, with pork meat, vegetables and garlic
• Cârna?i - pork-based sausages
• Tob? - various cuttings of pork, liver boiled, diced and "packed" in pork stomach like a salami
• Sarmale - rolls of cabbage pickled in brine and filled with meat and rice (see sarma)
• Cozonac, sort of Romanian equivalent of panettone
• Strong spirits:
• • Palinka
• • Rachiu
• • ?uic?

Serbia

• Fish soup for Christmas Eve
• Koljivo - boiled wheat which is used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic churches
• ?esnica - Christmas 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)
    • Shrimp
    • Lobster
    • Crab
    • Dorado
• Sweets

Turrón

* Turrón
* Yema - egg-based dessert
* Mantecados and polvorones - crumbly cakes
* Marzipan, almond cakes
* King cake known as roscón de Reyes in Spanish and tortell in Catalan.
* Churros

Sweden

Julbord Christmas dinner in Sweden

• Julbord - Christmas smorgasbord (" Christmas table"), a catch-all term for all the dishes served during Christmas Eve:
  • Köttbullar - Swedish meatballs
  • Julskinka - Christmas ham
  • Dopp i grytan ("dipping in the kettle") - dipping bread slices in the ham broth after boiling the Christmas ham.
  • Prinskorv - small hot dog sausages
  • Fläskkorv - big pork sausage
  • Isterband - smoked fresh pork sausage
  • Revbensspjäll - spare ribs
  • Inlagd sill - pickled herring (usually of different types)
  • Gravad lax - lox
  • Janssons frestelse (" Jansson's Temptation") - warm scalloped potato casserole with anchovies
  • Vörtlimpa - Swedish rye bread with grated orange peel made for Christmas, with or without raisins.
  • Knäckebröd - dry crisp bread
  • Rödkål - sweet and sour red cabbage, as a side dish
  • Grönkål - sweet and sour kale as a side dish
  • Smörgåstårta - a sandwich cake made with creamy fillings (mainly involving salmon and vegetables)
  • Brunkål ("brown cabbage")- cabbage flavoured with syrup hence the name
  • Rödbetor - sliced beet root
  • An array of cheeses - bondost, herrgårdsost, prästost, mesost (hard goat milk cheese)
• Lutfisk - Lye-fish (whitefish) that has been boiled served with white gravy
• Julmust - a traditional, very sweet, stout-like, Christmas soft drink, originally intended as an alternative to alcohol beverage called Mumma
• Glögg - mulled wine
• Knäck - Christmas toffee
• Pepparkakor (Gingerbread) - brown cookies flavoured with a variety of traditional Christmas spices
• Julost - Christmas cheese
• Julgröt - Christmas rice pudding with an almond hidden inside
• Lussekatter - Saint Lucy saffron buns.

Trinidad and Tobago

In Trinidad and Tobago traditional meals consists of generous helpings of baked ham, pastelles, black fruit cake, sweet breads, along with traditional drinks such as sorrel, ginger beer, and ponche de crème. The ham is the main item on the Christmas menu with sorrel to accompany it.
Christmas ham
Sorrel
Pastelles also known as Hallacas
Ponche de crème a version of eggnog
Black Cake
Sweetbread

United Kingdom and Ireland

Christmas pudding

In the United Kingdom, what is now regarded as the traditional meal consists of roast turkey with cranberry sauce, served with roast potatoes and parsnips and other vegetables, followed by Christmas pudding, a heavy steamed pudding made with dried fruit, suet, and very little flour. Other roast meats may be served, and in the nineteenth century the traditional roast was goose. The same carries over to Ireland with some variations.

• Brandy butter
• Bread sauce
• Brussels sprouts
• Chocolate yule log
• Christmas cake
• Christmas ham - Usually a honey or marmalade glazed roast or boiled gammon joint.
• Christmas pudding
• Dundee cake, traditional Scottish fruit cake
• Mince pies
• Nut roast (a popular vegetarian alternative)
• Pigs in a blanket - Chipolata sausages wrapped in bacon
• Roast turkey
• Roast beef
• Roast duck
• Roast goose
• Roast pheasant
• Roast potatoes - roasting with goose or duck fat is becoming more popular
• Stuffing
• Trifle
• Tunis Cake

United States

Roast turkey

Christmas ham

• Apple cider
• Boiled custard
• Candy canes
• Champagne, or sparkling apple cider
• Chocolate fudge
• Christmas cookies
• Cranberry sauce
• Dungeness crab, primarily in California
• Eggnog
• Fish as part of the Feast of the Seven Fishes
• Fruitcake
• Gingerbread, often in the form of a gingerbread house or gingerbread man
• Christmas ham
• Hot buttered rum
• Hot chocolate
• Lefse rolled with butter and sugar, particularly in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota
• Mashed potato
• Mixed nuts
• Oyster stew, composed of oysters simmered in cream or milk and butter.
• Persimmon pudding
• Pie
  • Apple pie
  • Mince pie
  • Pecan pie
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Sweet potato pie
• Prime Rib
• Plum pudding
• Russian tea cakes
• Tamales
• Tom and Jerry
• Roast turkey, less often roast duck, goose, or pheasant
• Stuffing, also known as dressing, particularly in the Southern U.S.

See also: Thanksgiving (the dishes tend to be similar)

Venezuela

Hallaca

• Hallaca - rectangle-shaped meal made of maize, filled with beef, pork, chicken, olives, raisins and caper, and wrapped in plantain leaves and boiled to cook.
• Pan de jamón - ham-filled bread with olives and raisins and often sliced cheese.
• Dulce de lechosa - dessert made of cooked sliced unripe papaya in reduced sugar syrup
• Ensalada de gallina - salad made of potato, carrot, apple and shredded chicken (hen usually home or locally raised as opposed to store bought chicken)
• Pernil - Commonly referred to as "Muchacho" - roast pork shoulder

External links

• Christmas recipes at DMOZ

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TRANSLATION

Lista de platos de Navidad

Un pavo asado empapado en salmuera.

Pastel de frutas

Esta página es una lista de platos de Navidad que se comen en todo el mundo. Estos alimentos se comen tradicionalmente en o asociados a la época de la Navidad.

Albania

• Pastel tradicional albanés de calabaza y nuez - Byrek me kungull dhe arre.

Este es un pastel tradicional de Albania cocinado normalmente en vísperas de Navidad, especialmente en familias católicas. Los ingredientes son harina de trigo, calabaza, nueces, aceite vegetal (si se está ayunando) o mantequilla, una pizca de sal y pimienta negro. A veces se le añade orégano. Las capas de los pasteles son tradicionales y caseras, rellenas de una mezcla de calabaza hornada que contiene mantequilla, sal y pimienta. Encima de la mezcla se rocían nueces picadas. Luego, las capas se pliegan, se ponen en una fuente de horno plana en disposición circular y se hornean. Se trata de un plato secundario muy delicioso y ligero para Navidad o cualquier otra ocasión.

Argentina

Vitel toné

• Vitel toné
• Turrón
• Pan dulce
• Asado (carne de res, pollo, ternera, cordero, cochinillo)
• Sidra (manzana, piña) y vino espumoso
• Budín
• Ensaladas
• Pionono
• Ensaladilla rusa
• Matambre
• Lengua a la vinagreta
• Garrapiñadas
• Ensalada Waldorf
• Sandwiches de miga

Australia

Bastón de caramelo que se puede colgar como decoración comestible.

• Navidad blanca, una rodaja dulce hecha con aceite de coco hidrogenado y frutas variadas.
• Jamón y pavo frío
• Mariscos y ensaladas
• Pollo asado, jamón y pavo
• Carne rellena
• Pastel de Navidad o pudín de Navidad
• Natillas
• Pan de jengibre con formas navideñas.
• "Damper' de Navidad: en forma de corona o de estrella, que se sirve con mantequilla, mermelada, miel o jarabe de oro. Hecho en el bush australiano en el siglo XIX.
• Piruletas, así como "Rocky road", bolas de ron; bastones de caramelo
• Champán [cita requerida]
• Bagatela
• Pavlova
• Langostinos
• Pasteles de carne

Bélgica

• Cougnou (con varios cougnolle similares), pan dulce en forma del NiñoJesús

Brasil

• Lomo de California - lomos de cerdo
• Rabanada - pan francés
• Pernil - cerdo asado
• Perú - pavo asado
• Bacalhau - bacalao
• Farofa - harina de mandioca cruda asada con mantequilla, sal, tocino o carne ahumada y especias, con un sabor ahumado y ligeramente salado
• Nuez de Brasil
• Panettone

Canadá

Casita de jengibre

• Sidra de manzana
• Bûche de Noël
• Tartaletas de mantequilla
• Bastones de caramelo
• Pudín de Navidad
• Satsumas
• Donas
• Ponche de huevo
• Pastel de frutas
• Pan de jengibre, a menudo en forma de una casa de pan de jengibre o de hombre de jengibre
• Nueces con cáscara y nueces aderezadas con especias
• Tourtière (pastel de carne y variedades de Laguenay-Lac-St-Jean)
• Pastel de calabaza
• Pastel de carne picada
• Pavo asado
• Shortbread (mantecada)
• Carne rellena
• Bagatela
• ## Chile

Pan de Pascua

• Cola de mono - (literalmente, "cola de mono") una bebida de Navidad chilena, con aguardiente, leche, café, y con sabor a vainilla y clavo de olor.
• Pan de Pascua - Pastel de Navidad chileno, esponjoso, con sabor a clavo de olor y con trozos de frutas confitadas, pasas, nueces y almendras.
• Pavo asado
• Ponche a la romana - bebida de estilo rompope hecho de champán y helado de piña con sabor.

Colombia

Buñuelos de Colombia

Natilla de Colombia

Los platos de Navidad colombianos son, en su mayoría, dulces y postres. Entre los platos más populares se incluyen:

• Buñuelos
• Natilla
• Manjar blanco
• Hojaldres
• Postre de brevas con queso
• Galletas de Navidad
• Pan dulce relleno de frutas como uvas pasas y frambuesas.

Cuba

• Crema De Vie - rompope cubano, elaborado con leche condensada, ron, jarabe de azúcar, cáscara de limón, canela y yema de huevo.
• Majarete - pudín de maíz elaborado con leche de coco, maíz fresco, almidón de maíz, leche, agua, vainilla, canela y azúcar.
• Platillo Moros y Cristianos
• Lechón asado
• Turrón

República Checa

Galletas de Navidad (váno?ní cukroví)

• Váno?ní rybí polévka - sopa de pescado Navidad
• Carpa
• Ensalada de papas con mayonesa, huevos duros y verduras hervidas
• Váno?ní cukroví - galletas de Navidad
• Pastel de frutas
• Pan de jengibre

La comida tradicional (servida la cena en Nochebuena) consiste en sopa de pescado o sopa de guisantes y pescado frito (tradicionalmente carpa) servido con ensalada de patatas. La receta de la ensalada de patatas difiere ligeramente entre cada familia checa. Los ingredientes principales son: patatas cocidas con piel, guisantes enlatados, cebollas, zanahorias cocidas, perejil y apio, pepinillos en vinagre, huevos cocidos y mayonesa. Algunas familias pueden agregar manzanas ralladas o salami. La mejor ensalada de patatas se prepara un día antes de Nochebuena para que todos los ingredientes puedan "suavizarse" durante un día. La cena de Navidad debe ser el primer alimento consumido ese día. Se cree que los que no rompen el ayuno de Navidad son capaces de ver un cerdo de oro en una pared.

Antes de las vacaciones de Navidad, se preparan muchos tipos de galletas dulces. Luego, se sirven las galletas de Navidad durante todo el período de Navidad y se intercambian entre amigos y vecinos. Una preparación de pequeños panes de jengibre adornado con azúcar glaseado es también muy popular.

Dinamarca

Comida de Navidad danesa

• Æbleskiver - pancakes daneses tradicionales (un tipo de rosquillas sin agujero) que se espolvorean con azúcar en polvo y se sirven con mermelada de frambuesa o de fresa
• Castañas asadas con sal y mantequilla
• Patatas enteras hervidas
• Brun sovs (salsa marrón) - una salsa oscura tradicional, utilizada para cubrir los platos de carne como el cerdo asado y pato (flæskesteg, andesteg) y la patata hervida
• Brunede kartofler - patatas caramelizadas
• Julebryg - cerveza de Navidad
• Gløgg - vino caliente rojo combinado con especias, azúcar, pasas y almendras picadas normalmente servido caliente.
• Risalamande - arroz con leche. Un plato a hecho de arroz, crema batida y almendras, servido frío con salsa de cerezas (kirsebærsauce)
• Flæskesteg - cerdo asado con chicharrones
• Andesteg - pato asado con manzana y el relleno de ciruela
• Rødkål - col roja en escabeche, col roja agridulce, se sirve caliente como guarnición
• galletas de Navidad - Vaniljekranse, klejner, jødekager, pebernødder, honningkager og finskbrød.
• Konfekt, mazapán, frutas caramelizadas, turrón y nueces cubiertas de chocolate

República Dominicana

• Moro de guandules con coco - arroz con gandules y leche de coco
• Ensalada verde - lechuga de iceberg, cebolla, pepino y los tomates de ensalada
• Ensaladilla rusa de papas
• Ensalada de macarrones
• Pasteles de hojas - una receta de tamales de raíces y una tradición de Navidad adoptada de Puerto Rico
• Asado de cerdo
• Pollo al horno - pollo asado
• Telera - pan dominicano similar a la telera mexicana

Bebidas:

• Anís del Mono - un licor español con sabor a anís que es muy popular en toda la época navideña
• Rompope - con ron en vez de coñac
• Jengibre - té de jengibre es popular en todo el Caribe en Navidad (excepto en Cuba y Puerto Rico). Tradicionalmente se sirve caliente con canela.
• Vino tinto

Postres:

• Vaniljekranse - galletas danesas de mantequilla, típicas de Navidad.
• Plato de frutas - consta de naranjas, manzanas, plátanos, uvas y mangos
• Plato de queso y guayaba - un plato con queso cuadrado blanco, queso de papa amarilla, galletas de soda y trozos de pasta de guayaba
• Pudín de pan
• Majarete - pudín de maíz elaborado con leche de coco, maíz fresco, almidón de maíz, leche, agua, vainilla, canela y azúcar-

Finlandia

Una empanada de Carelia

Vino caliente

Smorgasbord de Navidad de Finlandia, "Joulupöytä ", (traducido" Mesa de Yule"). una presentación tradicional de la comida de Navidad servida en la Navidad en Finlandia, similar al smörgåsbord sueco, que incluye:

• Jamón de Navidad con la mostaza (casi cada familia tiene uno para la Navidad)
• Pavo (kalkkuna)
• Salmón fresco con sal (graavilohi gravlax) y pescado blanco graavisiika
• Arenque en escabeche de diversas formas (tomate, mostaza, matjes o salsas de cebolla)
• Salsa de Lutefisk y Bechamel
• Perca pescado blanco y de lucio
• Cazuela de hígado
• Cazuela de patatas (azucarada o no, dependiendo de la preferencia)
• Papas hervidas
• Cazuela de zanahoria
• Cazuela de nabo (lanttulaatikko)
• Rosolli (ensalada de remolachas hervidas, zanahorias, patatas, manzanas y pepinos en vinagre. Si es servido con arenques, se convierte en ensalada de arenque, sillisalaatti)
• Varias salsas
• Surtido de quesos, generalmente con leipäjuusto y aura (aurajuusto)
• Pan de Navidad, pan generalmente dulce (Joululimppu)
• Empanadas de Carelia, empanadas de arroz, servido con huevo mantequilla (Karjalanpiirakka)

Otros platos de carne podrían ser:

• Pote de carelia caliente, estofado de carne tradicional procedente de la región de Carelia (Karjalanpaisti)
• Renos (en el norte de Finlandia) (puré)
• Salmón ahumado en frío (kylmäsavulohi)

Postres:

• Arroz con leche o crema de arroz cubierto con canela, azúcar y leche fría o con sopa de fruta mezclada (riisipuuro)
• Pan de jengibre, a veces en forma de un hombre de pan de jengibre o de una casa de pan de jengibre (piparkakut)
• Chocolate (dado como regalo, comido entre comidas, llamado suklaa)
• Pasteles de mermelada de ciruela (Joulutortut)
• Sopa de frutas mixtas o sopa de ciruela (sekahedelmäkiisseli, luumukiisseli)

Bebidas:

• Glögg o vino caliente (glögi)
• Cerveza de Navidad (Jouluolut); Koff y Lapin Kulta tienen versiones de Navidad
• Cerveza casera (cerveza como bebida no alcohólica) (Kotikalja)
• Vino tinto (punaviini)
• Marski's tipple (akvavit, Vermut y ginebra) (Marskin ryyppy)
• Leche agria (a menudo bebida por las personas mayores)

Francia

Foie gras en cocotte

• Ostras
• Foie gras
• Salmón ahumado
• Crepes (Bretaña)
• Chapon (pollo asado)
• Dinde aux marrons (pavo relleno de castañas)
• Ganzeltopf (ganso) (Alsacia)
• Bûche de Noël

Kouglof

• Kouglof (Alsacia)
• Trece postres (Provenza): los trece postres son el postre tradicional de Navidad en la región de la Provenza francesa. La cena de Navidad termina con 13 artículos de postre, que representan a Jesucristo y los 12 apóstoles. Tradicionalmente los postres se ponen (en la mesa) en la Nochebuena y permanecen sobre la mesa tres días hasta el 27 de diciembre.
• • Nuez
• • Queso membrillo
• • Almendra
• • Pasa
• • Calisson de Aix-en-Provence
• • Nougat blanc
• • Nougat noir au miel
• • Manzana
• • Pera
• • Naranja
• • Melon de invierno
• • Fougasse (Pan Provençal)

Alemania

Un stollen de Navidad

• Stollen de Christstollen es un pastel de frutas con trozos de frutas confitadas, pasas, nueces y almendras, y especias como cardamomo y canela; espolvoreado con azúcar pastelero. A menudo también tiene corazón de mazapán.
• Pfefferkuchenhaus - una casa de pan de jengibre decorada con caramelos, dulces y azúcar glas (en referencia a la casa de pan de jengibre del cuento de hadas de Hänsel y Gretel)
• Printen
• Oblaten Lebkuchen
• Springerle
• Weihnachtsplätzchen (galletas de Navidad)
• Carpa
• Ganso asado
• Venado - .e.g. carne de corzo generalmente servida con col roja, col de Bruselas y salsa de arándano rojo
• Ensalada de arenques - ensalada de arenques en escabeche o en vinagre, remolacha, patatas, manzana
• Kartoffelsalat (ensalada de patata) con Wurst (salchichas) que se come tradicionalmente en el norte de Alemania para la cena de la Nochebuena
• Schäufele (jamón ahumado en conserva) que, por lo general, se sirve con ensalada de patatas en el sur de Alemania para la cena de Nochebuena.
• Weisswurst - salchichas con ternera y tocino, por lo general con sabor a perejil, limón, maza, cebolla, jengibre y cardamomo
• Feuerzangenbowle
• Glühwein (vino caliente con especias)

Guatemala

• Tamales
• Ponche (ponche de frutas de Navidad se sirve caliente con muchas frutas)
• Pavo (pavo)
• Buñuelos (postre dulce esponjoso hecho con maíz con jarabe de arce)
• Pollo (Preparado con diferentes rellenos y acompañado con varios platos como ensaladas o arroz)

Hong Kong

• Pan de jengibre
• Pavo asado
• Pollo asado

Hungría

Töltött káposzta

• Sopa de pescado (halászlé) varias recetas
• Col rellena (töltött káposzta)
• Ganso asado
• Pato asado
• Rollo de hojaldre relleno de nuez o semilla de amapola (beigli)
• Pudín de pan con semillas de amapola (Makos guba o bobájka)
• Szaloncukor

Islandia

Möndlugrautur

• Hamborgarhryggur, un asado de cerdo ahumado y curado.
• Ptarmigan, ave de caza de la familia del urogallo
• Hangikjöt
• Pavo asado al horno
• Möndlugrautur: un arroz con leche de Navidad con una almendra escondida dentro (lo mismo que el Julgröt sueco)
• Patatas caramelizadas, en islandés: Brúnaðar kartöflur (igual que en la cocina danesa).
• Col roja en escabeche
• Smákökur: galletas pequeñas de diversos tipos
• Laufabrauð: tortas redondas y muy finas con un diámetro de unos 15 a 20 cm (de 6 a 8 pulgadas), decoradas con forma de hoja y patrones geométricos, y fritas poco tiempo en grasa o aceite caliente.

India

• Torta de Allahabadi
• Pastel de Navidad - un tipo de pastel de frutas.
• Mathri - una tradicional galleta de hojaldre.
• Gulab jamun - un dulce tradicional preparado con khoa.
• Jalebi
• Kheer de arroz hervido y cocido con leche, azúcar, azafrán y que está adornado con frutos secos, como almendras y pistachos. También se puede hacer con cebada.
• Chhena Poda: Un postre hecho con chhena (requesón) que es ligeramente asado y empapado en jarabe de azúcar. Se adorna con anacardos antes de servirse. El Chhena Poda es popular en el estado de Odisha en la India. Se come durante la época de Navidad, pero está disponible durante todo el año.
• Neureos: una especie de bola de masa hecha de sémola, khoa y pipas.

Italia

• Panettone (Milán)
• Pandora (Verona) [aclaración necesaria]
• Panforte (Toscana) [aclaración necesaria]
• Prosecco (Veneto) [aclaración necesaria]
• Spumante (Piamonte) [aclaración necesaria]
• Struffoli (Nápoles)
• Pastiera (Nápoles)

Jamaica

• Pastel (de fruta) de Navidad o pastel negro: un pesado pastel de fruta hecho con frutos secos, vino y ron.
• Sorrel: a menudo se sirve a los huéspedes con el pastel de Navidad; el sorrel se hace de los mismos sépalos que la bebida latinoamericana "Jamaica", pero es más concentrado y por lo general sazonado con jengibre. La adición de ron es tradicional en Navidad.
• Cabra con curry
• Arroz y guisantes: un elemento básico del domingo, en la cena de Navidad se hacen generalmente con gungos (gandules) verdes (frescos) en vez de con frijoles secos u otras legumbres secas.
• Jamón de Navidad
• Pollo

Japón

• Pastel de Navidad: A diferencia de un pastel de Navidad de Reino Unido o pastel de frutas de Estados Unidos, el estilo japonés de pastel de Navidad suele ser un pastel de crema blanca, bizcocho helado con crema batida, cubierto con fresas y con una placa de chocolate que dice Feliz Navidad, aunque los logotipos de yule están también disponibles.
• Pollo frito KFC: Como el pavo es un plato prácticamente desconocido en Japón la popularidad de este artículo en Navidad es tal que los pedidos se hacen hasta con dos meses de antelación.

Lituania

• Doce platos de la cena de Nochebuena: doce platos que representan a los doce apóstoles o doce meses del año; juegan el papel principal en la tradición lituana de la Navidad. Los platos tradicionales se sirven el 24 de diciembre.
  • Leche de amapola (aguon? pienas)
  • Slizikai (o k??iukai): pequeños pasteles un poco dulces hechos de masa con levadura y semillas de amapola
  • Ausel?s (albóndigas fritas)
  • Arenque con zanahorias (silk? su morkomis')
  • Arenque con setas (silk? su grybais')
  • Spanguoli? kisielius: postre de arándanos y salsa de leche

Malta

• Panettone de la tradición italiana
• pastel de frutas
• Tronco de Navidad: un tronco (similar a un árbol) que está hecho de chocolate y frutas confitadas

México

Asado de Navidad

• Pavo - pavo asado servido con salsa.
• Ensalada de Noche Buena - ensalada de Noche Buena
• Ensalada de papa rusa- plato de pavo, particularmente popular en los estados del norte.
• Bacalao - pescado deshidratado y salado o bacalao, se come tradicionalmente en los estados del centro y sur de México.
• Romeritos: también una tradición de la Navidad en la región central, los romeritos son pequeñas hojas verdes de un tipo particular que se mezclan generalmente con mole y patatas; generalmente acompañados de "tortitas de camarón"
• Tamales: los tamales a veces pueden reemplazar al tradicional pavo o bacalao con romeritos, particularmente en las partes norte y sur de México.
• Menudo: Una tradición de la mañana de Navidad en los estados del noroeste, el menudo son callos y sopa de sémola de maíz, no debe confundirse con la 'panzita' del sur. El menudo se prepara, con frecuencia, la noche anterior (Nochebuena) pues su tiempo de cocción puede tardar hasta 5 horas.
• Ponche Navideño: una bebida caliente y dulce hecha con manzanas, caña de azúcar, pasas y tejocotes. Para los adultos, el ponche nunca está completo sin su "piquete"; ya sea de tequila o de ron
• Ensalada de frutas de malvavisco: malvavisco con cóctel de frutas, azúcar y crema agria. También se agregan a veces coco deshidratado, canela molida o nueces.
• Pastel de piña al revés: pastel con cerezas y piñas al que se le ha dado la vuelta.
• Jamón glaseado: Jamón glaseado con miel o azúcar con cerezas y piñas en la parte superior.
• Pozole - sopa mexicana
• Champurrado - chocolate caliente mexicano
• Atole
• Bunuelos
• Chile Rellenos
• Capirotada
• Rompope
• Pan dulce
• Rosca de reyes

Nueva Zelanda

Un pavlova de Navidad hecho en casa adornado con semillas de granada y crema chantilly.

• Pavlova
• Salchichas
• Jamón
• Pavo
• Fresas
• Pudín de Navidad
• Pasteles de carne de Navidad
• Vino
• Chocolate
• Bagatela
• Encaje de brandy
• Ensalada de papas

Noruega

Pan de jengibre al estilo escandinavo

• Akevitt: Akvavit, un alcohol con sabor a especias como el comino y el anís
• Gløgg: vino caliente
• Julepølse: Salchicha de cerdo hecha con polvo de jengibre, clavo, semillas de mostaza y nuez moscada. Se sirve al vapor o al horno.
• Lutefisk: pescado conservado con lejía que ha sido lavado y hervido
• Pinnekjøtt: costillas de cordero saladas, secadas, y a veces ahumadas, que se rehidratan y luego se cuecen al vapor, tradicionalmente sobre ramas de abedul
• Svineribbe: costillas de cerdo asadas enteras con la piel, en lugar de solo las costillas
• Julegrøt: gachas de arroz de Navidad con una almendra escondida dentro
• Julebrus: es un refresco de Noruega, por lo general con una etiqueta festiva en la botella. Es elaborada por la mayoría de las fábricas de cerveza de Noruega, como una bebida de Navidad para menores.
• Sossiser: pequeñas salchichas de Navidad
• Medisterkaker: grandes albóndigas hechas de una mezcla de carne y grasa de cerdo
• Rødkål: col roja agridulce, como plato de guarnición
• Kålrabistappe: puré de nabo, como un acompañamiento del pinnekjøtt
• Pepperkake: galletas picantes como de jengibre sazonadas con pimienta negra
• Lussekatter: Bollos de Santa Lucía con azafrán
• Multekrem - Un postre que consiste en moras y crema batida

Panamá

• Arroz con Pollo
• Tamales
• Jamón
• Pavo
• Uvas
• Pastel