Christmas is the biggest Christian holiday. It is considered a family celebration. A table is laid in every house. Christmas menu everyone chooses at their own discretion. But kutya and uzvar are obligatory this evening. Well, you can diversify the preparation with salads, hot, dessert, which "Very tasty" has prepared for you.

Duck with apples

No holiday is complete without meat. On Christmas Day, Very Tasty invites you to decorate your table with a duck with apples. This hot dish will look great on the table. The taste of roasted duck is simply amazing.

Ingredients:

• duck of small size;
• kilogram of apples;
• two tablespoons of butter;
• spices to taste.

Duck with apples. Step by step recipe

1. Rinse the duck well.
2. Grate with salt and black ground pepper to taste. Let it lie down for a bit to marinate.
3. Peel apples and cut into thick slices.
4. Melt butter and mix with apples.
5. We stuff the duck with apples and sew up with cooking thread.
6. Pour a little water on a baking sheet and put the duck.
7. We send it to a preheated oven to 180 degrees. Bake until fully cooked.
8. With the fat that will stand out during frying from the duck, pour over the entire bird. We do this several times.

When serving, garnish with slices of juicy lemon or fresh herbs. Fragrant and tender duck will bring pleasure to you and your family.

Uzvar

The most important drink that should undoubtedly be on the table is uzvar. It is very beneficial for our body. It can be drunk by both adults and children. The uzvar recipe that "Very Tasty" offers you today is incredibly tasty, seasoned and fragrant.

Ingredients:

all 50 grams:

• dry apples;
• dry pears;
• raisin;
• prunes;
• orange peel;
• sugar to taste.

Uzvar. Step by step recipe

1. Wash all components well in warm water.
2. Then fill with water and let stand for one hour.
3. We put a pot of water on the fire and put the pears, after 6-7 minutes - apples, and then raisins, prunes, and only now orange peel. Sugar to taste and optional.
4. Uzvar bring to a boil and let it boil for 10 minutes over low heat, and then remove from heat.
5. We cover the saucepan with a lid. Leave the drink, let it infuse.

The taste also depends on how well it is infused. Can be served both warm and cold. But the aromatic smell of the drink is simply excellent.

Salad Fantasy

No holiday is complete without delicious salad. Since Christmas is a big holiday, the best things should also be on the table. The salad is very tasty and tender.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 300 grams;
• one potato;
• three eggs;
• champignon mushrooms - 300 grams;
• 150 grams of prunes;
• 200 grams of green canned peas;
• mayonnaise.

Salad Fantasy. Step by step recipe

1. Boiled chicken fillet cut into thin strips.
2. Onions - half rings.
3. Mushrooms cut into small slices.
4. Combine mushrooms and onions and fry until golden brown.
5. Cut prunes finely.
6. Grate eggs on a fine grater.
7. Grate boiled potatoes on a coarse grater.
8. Drain liquid from canned peas.
9. We form the salad in layers, grease each layer with mayonnaise.
10. We spread in the following sequence: meat, potatoes, mushrooms, peas, prunes and eggs.
11. Send to the refrigerator for impregnation.

You can decorate with fresh herbs and peas. Serve the salad straight from the refrigerator. The taste is just amazing. You'll love it o-o-o-o.

Honey kutya

This dish should definitely be on the table. There are a lot of recipes for making kutya. But what should it really be? Since the table on such a day should be magnificent, then the kutya should also be rich. Honey kutya from "Very tasty" is so tender that it is simply impossible to convey in words.

Ingredients:

• a glass of wheat;
• 150 grams of walnuts;
• poppy - 100 grams;
• two tablespoons of honey;
• sugar - three tablespoons;
• raisins - ½ cup.

Honey kutya. Step by step recipe

1. Boil wheat in water until fully cooked. When cooked, rinse well in warm water.
2. Poppy fill with boiling water and let stand for 30 minutes.
3. Then we drain the water from the poppy seeds and grind it in a mortar.
4. In the finished poppy, add liquid honey, nuts, raisins, sugar and mix well.
5. Pour dressing into boiled wheat. Mix.
6. Send to the oven, preheated to 160 degrees, for 15 minutes.

Honey kutya should be served warm. A cold knot goes very well with it. Our kutya is so tender and fragrant that it makes you salivate.

Cakes Snowballs

Well, at the end of "Very tasty" offers you delicious dessert in the form of cakes. And his name is winter - Snowballs. It will take you very little time to prepare. And the taste is just amazing.

Ingredients:

• 350 grams of Artek chocolate wafers;
• 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
• coconut shavings.

Snowball cakes. Step by step recipe

1. Skip waffles through a meat grinder.
2. sour cream room temperature combine with crushed wafers and mix.
3. Then we roll small snowballs from this mixture and roll in coconut flakes.
4. We send it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

When you serve it, you can decorate as you like. The cakes just melt in your mouth.

Cook goodies together with "Very tasty", set a full table and invite guests to your place. After all, when there is laughter and joy in the house, then everyone is fine. What if you cook. In order to fully prepare for such a bright and joyful day, be sure to help you enter New Year right.

Ingredients: egg, sugar, butter, cream, flour, baking powder, apple, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, dates, nuts, cognac, seasoning, powdered sugar

Ingredients:

- 2 eggs;
- 140 grams of brown sugar;
- 140 grams of butter;
- 50 ml. cream 20%;
- 150 grams of wheat flour;
- 70 grams of almond flour;
- 10 grams of baking powder dough;
- 1 apple;
- 65 grams of dried apricots;
- 65 grams of raisins;
- 30 grams of prunes;
- 50 grams of dates;
- 60 grams of walnuts;
- 100 ml. cognac;
- ground cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, dried ginger;
- powdered sugar.

09.02.2019

Duck with sauerkraut in the oven

Ingredients: duck, sauerkraut, onion, salt, pepper

Quite often, I cook poultry dishes for the festive table. duck with sauerkraut absolutely everyone in my family likes it in the oven. It turns out the duck is tasty and tender.

Ingredients:

- 1 duck;
- 400 grams of sauerkraut;
- 150 grams of onion;
- salt;
- black pepper.

27.03.2018

Wheat kutia with poppy seeds and nuts

Ingredients: wheat, poppy, honey, raisins, walnuts

If you are planning to set the table on Christmas night in accordance with all the rules, then do not forget about kutya - you cannot do without it. it can be cooked in different ways, one of the best options is wheat kutya with poppy seeds and nuts.
Ingredients:
- wheat - 1 glass;
- poppy - 2 tablespoons;
- honey - 2 tablespoons;
- raisins - 1 handful;
- walnuts - 1 handful.

06.02.2018

Salad "Christmas wreath" with candles

Ingredients: crab sticks, corn, eggs, cucumbers, dill, mayonnaise, salt

bright and festive salad in the form of a Christmas wreath with candles will be a real decoration of the menu for New Year's celebrations. It is prepared from crab sticks, corn and fresh cucumber, so it turns out very tasty too.

Ingredients:
- crab sticks - 150 gr;
- canned corn- 150 gr;
- eggs - 2-3 pieces;
- cucumber - 1 pc (about 150 gr);
- mayonnaise - 150 gr;
- salt - a small amount;
- dill - for decoration.

31.12.2017

Salad "Shishka" with almonds

Ingredients: chicken fillet, eggs, cheese, mayonnaise, almonds, salt, potatoes, pickled cucumbers

ON the festive table, be sure to cook this very tasty and beautiful salad in the form of a bump. Toasted almonds in this salad add a delicious flavor to the salad.

Ingredients:

- chicken fillet - 300 grams,
- potatoes - 3 pcs.,
- pickled cucumber - 2 pcs.,
- eggs - 3 pcs.,
- hard cheese- 150 grams,
- mayonnaise or sour cream - 150 grams,
- roasted almonds - 200 grams,
- salt.

31.12.2017

Salad with herring - tastier "Herring under a fur coat"

Ingredients: beets, eggs, marinated mushrooms, herring, mayonnaise, dill

I want to offer you a recipe for a new herring salad, which I like even more than herring under a fur coat. Be sure to try it.

Ingredients:

- 2 beets,
- 1 carrot,
- 2 eggs,
- 1 herring,
- 150 grams of pickled mushrooms,
- 250 grams of mayonnaise,
- dill - sprig.

29.12.2017

Italian Christmas cake or Easter cake Panettone

Ingredients: milk, sugar, eggs, butter, yeast, raisins, candied fruit, olive oil, wheat flour, cardamom, vanilla sugar, nutmeg, salt

- 1 glass of warm milk;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 150 g of butter;
- 30 g fresh yeast;
- 1 glass of raisins and candied fruits;
- 3 tbsp. l. olive oil;
- 600-700 g of wheat flour;
- vanilla sugar, cardamom, ground nutmeg;
- a little salt.

29.12.2017

Salad "Champagne bottle" with shrimps

Ingredients: shrimp, cucumber, carrot, potato, eggs

The more salads prepared for the New Year, the better. Especially if they all carry a thematic "charge". That is, they are prepared in the form of a Christmas tree, snowflakes or, like today's salad, bottles of champagne.

For the recipe you will need:

- 200 grams of shrimp,
- 1 cucumber,
- 1 carrot,
- 1 potato,
- 2 eggs.

28.12.2017

Baked turkey in the oven with soy sauce

Ingredients: turkey fillet, sauce, mustard, sauce, adjika, oil, garlic, salt, pepper, sugar, paprika

Baked turkey in soy sauce will be the main dish of your holiday table. The recipe is simple. Be sure to check out how to make it.

Ingredients:

- 600 grams of turkey fillet,
- 70 ml. soy sauce,
- 1 tbsp mustard,
- 1-2 tsp chili sauce,
- 1 tbsp adjika,
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oils,
- 2 cloves of garlic,
- salt,
- black pepper,
- sugar,
- paprika.

25.12.2017

Duck with tangerines in the oven

Ingredients: duck, tangerine, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, vorchesky sauce, salt, honey, jam, ground pepper mixture, potatoes

If you have not yet decided what to cook for the New Year, then we advise you to bake a duck with tangerines in the oven: this excellent dish which looks just great! And the taste of such a duck will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients:
- 1 duck of medium size;
- 2-3 pieces of tangerines;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 1-2 tsp ginger root;
- 50-75 ml of soy sauce;
- 50 ml of creative sauce;
- 2 tsp salt;
- 1 tbsp honey or orange peel jam;
- 1 tsp mixtures of ground peppers;
- potatoes for garnish - to taste.

24.12.2017

Pork leg jelly

Ingredients: hoof, carrot, onion, garlic, celery, laurel, pepper, salt, dill

Inexpensive ingredients, not too much difficult process cooking, hearty and beautiful result - this is about jelly from pork feet. This dish is perfect for new year holidays, so you will definitely need his recipe.

Ingredients:
- 2 kg of pork hooves;
- 200 gr carrots;
- 140 gr of leeks;
- 1 head of garlic;
- 1 dried celery root with herbs;
- 3 pieces of bay leaves;
- black pepper;
- dill greens;
- salt to taste.

24.12.2017

How to cook jelly

Ingredients: knuckle, pork leg, onion, pepper, garlic, parsley, laurel, egg, dill, salt, paprika

An invariable component of the New Year's menu is jelly. It is prepared from different meat, but it is tastiest of all from pork legs and knuckles. There is nothing complicated in its preparation, you will see for yourself by reading our recipe.

Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg shank;
- 1 kg of pork legs;
- 2 onions;
- 10 peas of black pepper;
- 6 cloves of garlic;
- 1 parsley root;
- 3 bay leaves;
- 3 gr ground red paprika;
- 10 quail eggs;
- dill;
- salt.

23.12.2017

Christmas roll with raisins

Ingredients: milk, sugar, sour cream, yeast, eggs, butter, margarine, vegetable oil, vanillin, raisins, flour

To bake a delicious Christmas kalach, you will have to work hard, but it's worth it, the holiday pastries are beautiful and appetizing. Such a treat will delight relatives and guests on New Year's Eve. holidays.

Ingredients:
- flour - 700 g,
- milk - 250 ml,
- sour cream - 100 g,
- vanillin - 2 pinches,
- eggs - 3 pcs.,
- dry yeast - 1.5 teaspoons,
- margarine - 50 g,
- vegetable oil - 40 g,
- butter - 50 g,
- raisins - 70 g,
- sugar - 200 g.

23.12.2017

Christmas baked carp with champignons

Ingredients: carp, champignons, onion, lemon, butter, white dry wine, salt pepper

For the Christmas holiday table, I suggest you cook this very tasty and satisfying a fish dish- carp in Czech. It's easy to prepare and fairly quick.

Ingredients:

- carp - 1.2 kg.,
- champignons - 250 grams,
- bow - 1 pc.,
- lemon - a third,
- butter - 80 grams,
- dry white wine,
- salt,
- black pepper.

15.12.2017

New Year's salad "Snowballs" with chicken breast

Ingredients: chicken fillet, corn, cucumber, mayonnaise, cottage cheese, cheese, garlic, dill, sunflower oil

As soon as the holidays are approaching, many housewives think about what to cook. I do not want to repeat familiar recipes. Cooking something original and new is scary, suddenly they won’t appreciate it. There are a lot of recipes on the Internet, but it is difficult to choose something that is beautiful, inexpensive and tasty. I propose to do this: take the products that everyone loves and make them simple and delicious salad. And to make it look beautiful - decorate with cottage cheese balls, which will make it spicier.
After all, everyone eats meat, right? Almost. Canned corn and fresh cucumbers are held in high esteem by almost everyone?
This salad is perfect for Christmas. So if you haven't made up yet new year menu Feel free to include this salad there. So, the salad recipe for the New Year.

For 2 servings of Snezhki salad you will need:

- large chicken fillet;
- half a glass of canned corn;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 2-3 tablespoons light mayonnaise;
- 2 tablespoons cottage cheese, preferably low-fat, but as you like;
- 70-100 grams of hard regular cheese;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- greenery;
- vegetable oil for frying.

15.12.2017

Salad "Gift"

Ingredients: potatoes, yolk, carrots, grapes, beets, green pea, chicken liver, mayonnaise

Layered salad "Gift" will undoubtedly become the main decoration at your festive feast, no matter what holiday you celebrate. Solemn decoration of this delicious dish will definitely not go unnoticed by your guests!

Ingredients:

- potatoes - 5 pcs.;
- 4 yolks (boiled);
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- seedless grapes - 300 g;
- beets - 1 large;
- green peas - 100 gr.;
- chicken or beef liver- 300 g;
- some mayonnaise.

12.12.2017

Korean homemade carrots

Ingredients: Carrots, garlic, vegetable oil, herbal vinegar 6%, ground coriander, red spicy ground pepper, ground black pepper, sugar, salt, parsley

Carrots in Korean - it's cold vegetable snack with spicy taste and wonderful spicy aroma. This is savory dish can be used as self-dish, and as an ingredient for making delicious salads.

For home cooking Korean carrots would need:

- 400 g of carrots;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 50-60 ml vegetable oil;
- 1.5-2 tbsp. l. vinegar 6%;
- 2-3 tsp ground coriander;
- 1/4 tsp red hot ground pepper;
- a little black ground pepper;
- a pinch of sugar;

Gingerbread house - photo recipe

Ingredients: powdered sugar, eggs, honey, sugar, margarine, cocoa, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg

There is very little time left before the long-awaited holiday - the New Year. And we are in a hurry to offer you the idea of ​​a dessert for the New Year or Christmas table. Namely, we propose to cook Gingerbread house along with your children. There is nothing more wonderful than joint creative work. It develops the skills and abilities of children, it brings people together, it brings joy. And so, to make such a gingerbread house, the following products are needed:
For glaze:
- sugar or powder - 150 gr,
- egg - 1 piece.
For test:
- egg - 2 pcs,
- honey - 400 gr,
- sugar - 400 gr,
- cocoa - 50 gr,
- margarine - 300 gr,
- flour - 1000 gr,
- cinnamon - 1 teaspoon,
- baking powder - 2 teaspoons,

Gray winter days in our country are colored by long New Year and Christmas holidays. How much imagination and culinary skills do our hostesses need to show in order to prepare a festive table for each holiday, so as not to repeat itself and surprise households and friends, striking them with another masterpiece!

The Christmas meal is different from the usual in this regard. festive feast. And the point is not only in a completely different mood, and not even in the fact that strict Orthodox Christians complete the long Philippian fast on Christmas Eve. The Christmas table is prepared in accordance with centuries old traditions. About how these traditions developed, what dishes should be on holiday table on Christmas Day, we have already told on our website. And we will tell you how to cook not only traditional dishes, sweets and drinks, but also about modern curiosities of culinary thought.

It is believed that on the Christmas table there must be such dishes: pancakes, fish, jelly, aspic, fried chicken or goose, suckling pig, pork head with horseradish, roast, homemade sausage, carols, bread with poppy seeds and honey, honey gingerbread. Complicated? Of course, few people will cook suckling pig or pig's head, but sochivo (kutya, in other words), Christmas goose and homemade sausage are quite within the power of any culinary specialist.

Sochivo (Kutya)

Ingredients:
1 stack wheat grains,
50-100 g raisins,
50-100 g dried apricots,
50-100 g prunes,
50-100 g poppy,
50-100 g of nuts (several types are possible),
3-5 tbsp honey.

Cooking:
Determine the amount of dried fruits and nuts according to your taste. Pre-wash and steam raisins, prunes and dried apricots in boiling water. Soak nuts and poppy seeds. Sort the wheat, rinse well and put in a thick-walled pan, pour three glasses of water. Place in preheated oven for 2-3 hours. Wheat should be completely boiled, the grains will become soft. Cool down in a saucepan. In the meantime, chop the dried fruits and nuts, grind the poppy seeds in a mortar until homogeneous mass(poppy milk). Mix all the ingredients and pour honey full (dilute honey 1: 1 with water and boil).

Kutya from rice

Ingredients:
1 stack rice,
1.5 tbsp honey,
100 g raisins,
100 g dried apricots,
100 g almonds
100 g hazelnuts,
2-2.5 stack. orange juice.

Cooking:
Boil rice with orange juice. Cut the prepared nuts and dried fruits and mix with rice. Decorate large pieces dried apricots.

On the Christmas table, there must certainly be a dish of poultry. We will talk about how to cook a Christmas goose in a separate article. Now we will talk about duck or chicken. The sourness of apples and dried fruits favorably sets off the taste of the bird. Try it!

Duck in prune sauce

Ingredients:
1 medium duck (about 2 kg),
400 g pitted prunes,
3 sweet and sour apples,
1 tbsp honey,
1 tbsp dry thyme,
6 tbsp dry red wine
1 tbsp starch,
salt, black ground pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Carefully inspect the duck for any remaining feathers and, if necessary, pluck them out with tweezers. This is very important, otherwise all your work may go to waste. Now prepare the filling: peel and core the apples, cut them into thin slices, combine with 300 g of steamed and dried prunes and add thyme. Put the resulting mixture into the belly of the duck and sew it up with a harsh thread or stab it with toothpicks. Lay the duck on its back, prick the entire surface with a knife, making fairly frequent cuts. Rub duck with salt and pepper and brush with honey. In an oven preheated to 180-190 ° C, place a baking sheet with a duck and bake for about 1.5 hours. Do not forget to water the duck with the resulting juice, about once every 10 minutes. For the sauce, soak the remaining prunes in boiling water for about half an hour, dry and finely chop. Pour wine into a saucepan, put on a slow fire. Meanwhile, stir the starch into 2 tbsp. water and add to wine. Stir and add prunes. Boil the sauce over low heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly. Then wipe through a sieve or chop in a blender and leave in a saucepan, wrapping it. Serve the duck by slicing it into portioned pieces, laying the apple-prune minced meat and pouring over the sauce. Use as a garnish fresh vegetables and mashed potatoes.

chicken in beer

Ingredients:
1 plump chicken (preferably chilled)
1 bottle of beer (not filtered)
2 green apples
5-6 tbsp soy sauce (good!)
3-4 tbsp redcurrant jelly,
ground black pepper, ground paprika - to taste.

Cooking:
Carefully inspect the chicken and remove the remaining feathers, cut off the “butt”. Dry and pack. Sprinkle with spices, pour soy sauce and refrigerate overnight. Then pour a little vegetable oil on a baking sheet, place the chicken on it breast side up, place apples cut into thin slices around the chicken and place the baking sheet in the oven, heated to 180-190 ° C. As soon as the skin is browned, start pouring the beer over the chicken, about once every 10-15 minutes. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, pour the beer over the chicken last time and put currant jelly on it. Put the finished chicken on a dish, and chop the apples and juice released during frying in a blender. It turns out spicy sauce. Fried rice can be served as a side dish.

Prepare traditional meat dishes. For example, stewed meat in pots.

Meat in pots "Merchant"

Ingredients for 4 pots:
500 g pork or beef,
8 medium potatoes
16 large champignons,
500 ml beef broth
150 g heavy cream,
2 heads of onions,
100 g hard cheese,
Provence herb mix
salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Cut the meat into small pieces, potatoes, onions and mushrooms into cubes. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Put a layer of onions on the bottom of the pots, then a layer of potatoes, on it - meat and mushrooms. Salt, pepper. Pour in the broth, pour over the cream, sprinkle with cheese and seasonings. Put the pots in a cold oven, cover with lids and turn on the fire. Bring the temperature to 200-230°C and cook for 1-1.5 hours. This is very hearty meal so serve it with large quantity fresh vegetables.

In Argentina, baked fish is prepared for Christmas. Place 500 g of chopped carrots, 4 chopped onions, parsley on the bottom of the pan. Salt, pepper. Place pieces of fish on vegetables, pour oil, pour 1 stack. water and close the lid tightly. Place the pan in hot oven and keep until the fish is ready (about half an hour).

If you want to surprise your family and guests, prepare a real homemade sausage. If fussing with washing the intestines seems unpleasant to you, then try to find a replacement for them. For example, a baking sleeve or cling film. True, with them you can only boiled sausage. Our site will share one such recipe with you.

Boiled sausage

Ingredients:
2 kg pork
500 g beef,
500 g unsalted lard,
50-70 g of dry white wine,
100-150 g pistachios,
1 tbsp zira,
½ tsp white ground pepper,

2 tsp black peppercorns,
1 tbsp Sahara,
2 tbsp salt.

Cooking:
Pass the meat separately through a meat grinder with a large grate, mix 1 tbsp into the pork. salt and all sugar, in beef - 1 tbsp. salt, mix thoroughly, wrap in a film and put in the refrigerator for 12 hours. After standing, combine both types of minced meat and pass 4 times through a meat grinder. Each time, passing the minced meat through a meat grinder, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. In the process of grinding, add wine 1 tbsp. In a dry frying pan, heat the zira until a smell appears and immediately pound in a mortar. Soak pistachios in hot water, discuss. Add all seasonings to minced meat and knead thoroughly. Frozen lard cut into cubes and also mix into minced meat. Fold cling film 4-5 times to make a 30 x 40 cm rectangle. Make 2-3 of these rectangles. Put the minced meat on a film, form loaves and twist tightly. Tie the ends and tie the sausages with thin twine. Take a saucepan that is the right size for your sausages, fill it with water and put the sausage in. Bring to a temperature of 80-85 ° C, reduce the heat and cook the sausages for 2 hours. Soak the finished sausages in the cold for a day.

Finnish liver soufflé

Ingredients:
600 g beef liver,
100 g round rice,
250 ml milk
1 egg
2 yolks,
1 tsp salt,
1 onion
100-150 g raisins,
butter.

Cooking:
Chop the onion. Boil rice in boiling water until soft, strain and add milk. Grind the raw liver in a blender, combine with rice, add the egg and yolks, salt and mix well. The mixture should be fairly liquid. Lubricate portion molds with oil (ideally silicone ones), pour the mixture into them by ¾ and place in an oven preheated to 160 ° C for 1-2 hours, depending on the size of the molds. The finished souffle remains moist, juicy, and its color changes from pinkish to grayish brown. Serve the soufflé with lingonberry jam or fresh lingonberries mashed with sugar.

Greek Christmas bread

Ingredients:
8 stack flour,
1 ½ tbsp dry yeast,
1 stack warm water,
1 stack warm red wine
¼ stack. orange juice
¼ stack. brandy,
½ stack olive oil,
1 stack Sahara,
1 ½ stack raisins,
1 ½ stack walnuts,
1/3 stack. pine nuts,
1 tbsp ground anise,
1 tsp ground cinnamon,
1 tsp ground cloves,
¼ tsp ground nutmeg,
zest from 2 oranges
glazing milk,
2 walnuts in shell
sesame seeds for sprinkling.

Cooking:
Mix yeast with ½ stack. warm water and 2 tbsp. flour, stir and leave until bubbles appear. Sift 2/3 of the flour into a large bowl, add salt, make a well and pour in the risen yeast, the remaining water and wine. Stir, cover with waxed paper and a damp towel and leave to rise in a warm place. The dough should double in size. Then mix the dough thoroughly, sift the remaining flour into it, add butter, Orange juice, cognac and orange zest. In a separate bowl, combine sugar, raisins, chopped walnuts, pine nuts, anise and all spices, mix and add to the dough. Knead the dough so that it does not stick to your hands, put it in a warm place and let it rise. Divide into 2 greased round tins, cover with parchment paper and a damp towel and let rise to double again. Before putting the bread in the oven, cut it crosswise with a knife sprinkled with flour, put the unpeeled one in the center Walnut and brush the surface of the bread with milk. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Preheat the oven to 230 ° C, put a frying pan with water on the bottom of the oven. Put the forms with the dough in the oven for 15 minutes, then reduce the heat to 200 ° C and bake for another 25-30 minutes. Lubricate the finished bread with water, cool slightly, then remove from the mold and cool on a wire rack.

Uzvar (Russian old drink)

Ingredients:
800 ml of water
120 g honey
100 g dried apples
100 g dried pears,
100 g dried cherries
100 g prunes,
100 g raisins.

Cooking:
Put well-washed dried fruits in boiling water and cook until soft. In this case, pears and apples should be cooked separately (they take longer to cook). Then combine the decoctions, boil, season with honey and leave in a cold place for 2 hours. Serve in a clay pot or pitcher.

Christmas log (French traditional dessert)

Ingredients:
100 g flour
70 g sugar
4 eggs,
1 sachet of baking powder
250 g chocolate without filler,
250 ml heavy cream
100 g butter.

Cooking:
For the dough: beat eggs with sugar until white, add flour, baking powder, mix gently and pour onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. Turn over the finished layer on a wet towel, roll it into a roll and leave to cool. In the meantime, prepare the cream: heat the cream with butter to a boil, add the chocolate broken into pieces, refrigerate and stir vigorously until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Set aside a little cream for decoration, spread the roll with the rest of the cream, roll it up, brush the “log” on the outside with cream and apply patterns in the form of a bark with a fork. Trim the roll at both ends and attach the cut pieces to the "log" in the form of knots.

As you know, there is Catholic Christmas and Orthodox Christmas, and at the same time it is difficult to find even two Catholic or Orthodox countries that would have absolutely identical Christmas dishes and Christmas menus. The Christmas table should not only satisfy the family, but also symbolize abundance, the beginning of a new life. Traditional Christmas food in different countries very diverse, in connection with the end of the fast, a variety of products are allowed. For example, from the end of November until January 7, the Orthodox Christmas fast lasts, the menu of the Christmas fast is great way not only to be cleansed spiritually, but also bodily. Eating at Christmas excludes fatty animal food, fish can be eaten several times a week. But after Lent, the recipes for Christmas dishes are more diverse, there are meat, fish, and dairy products.

For the countries of Western Europe, from sweet dishes, Christmas baking recipes are especially characteristic. At this time, houses and bazaars are really flooded with Christmas pastries. The Christmas Bake Recipe is Christmas cookies and Christmas gingerbread. Christmas cupcake and Christmas candy recipes are also very popular. England even has a special English Christmas cake. The recipe for Christmas cookies is simple, the main thing is beautiful decoration. To please loved ones and especially children, we offer you a recipe for Christmas gingerbread. You will need flour, sugar, soda, eggs, butter, cocoa, honey, spices. After mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough, it should be put in the refrigerator overnight so that it is infused and saturated with spices, in this case you will get especially fragrant Christmas gingerbread cookies. The recipe for Christmas gingerbread will also require a certain artistic taste from you, because you will need to fashion figures of a person, animals, or some kind of geometric ones from dough. After that, the cookies are baked in the oven and decorated with icing. The same is true for Christmas cookies. The Christmas cake recipe is very popular in England. It is cooked with dried fruits and nuts, soaked in some kind of alcohol. For the Orthodox, Christmas sweets are primarily Christmas kutia and Christmas pastries, such as Christmas cake. The recipe that creates a holiday for children is lollipops in the form of cockerels. The ideal option there will be Christmas tea for Christmas baking. It is made from black tea, ginger, cinnamon and orange peel.

Also, in many European countries, the mandatory christmas dish, this is a Christmas goose, a Christmas duck or a Christmas turkey. The Christmas goose is prepared in Germany, Denmark, Greece, Russia. You will definitely not regret if a Christmas goose appears on your table. The Christmas goose recipe usually uses apples and prunes. Christmas turkey is a recipe that is typical for England and the USA. To meat dishes Christmas salad is often served, the recipe of which may differ in different countries.