Overseas exotica: New Year's dishes from different countries. What does the New Year's table look like in different countries of the world?

The New Year is accompanied by a cheerful fizz of champagne, parties and midnight kisses. However, few people realize that New Year is meant for food.

As the new year begins its march across the planet, tables around the world are bursting with long noodles, field peas, herring and pork, symbolizing long life, money, abundance and good luck.

The details vary, but the goal is the same: to gather family and friends around the holiday table to celebrate the coming year.

We invite you to take a look at the kitchen different countries to get acquainted with the traditions and find out what dishes New Year's holidays are celebrated with around the world.

Galloping John, American South

The main traditional dishes in the southern states of the United States are "Jumping John" - a bean stew with pork, field peas or beans, symbolizing money, and rice with cabbage and other green vegetables and cornbread, symbols of luck and money. The dish is believed to bring good luck in the new year.

The history of this dish varies depending on folklore, but today's version most likely originates in African and West Indian traditions and was brought by slaves to North America. The recipe for Galloping John first appeared in 1847 in the book Caroline Housewife by Sarah Rutledge and has been modified several times by professional cooks over the years.

Twelve Grapes, Spain

While Americans watch the fall New Year's ball in Times Square, Spaniards watch a broadcast from Puerta del Sol in Madrid, where revelers gather before the clock on the tower announces the start of the New Year.

Regardless of where the Spaniards celebrate the coming year - at home or in the square - they adhere to an ancient tradition: they eat one grape for every stroke of the clock. Some people prepare the grapes in advance - peel them and remove seeds - to make them more pleasant to eat at midnight.

The custom began at the turn of the 20th century among grape growers in the southern part of the country during harvest. Since then, the tradition has spread to many Spanish-speaking countries.

If you decide to celebrate the New Year in Madrid, then go to Puerta del Sol before midnight. A lively square surrounded by bars, restaurants and shops - perfect place for celebration.

Tamale, Mexico

Tamales, minced meat coated with salted corn kernels and corn husks and steamed, are a traditional Mexican dish prepared for any special occasion. But on Christmas and New Year it is the main dish on the table.

In many families, women get together to make hundreds of small tamales for friends, family and neighbors. It is often served on the New Year's table with menudo, a stew that helps cope with a hangover.

Residents of large Mexican cities will have no difficulty finding restaurants selling tamales on New Year's Eve. But foodies who want to try real traditional tamales head to Mexico City, where the dish is sold day and night on street corners. They can also be found in famous restaurants- for example, Pujol.

Dutch donuts Oliebollen, Netherlands

A traditional Dutch New Year's dish sold at Christmas markets is Oliebollen donuts. They are made from air test, stuffed with raisins and currants and deep fried.

Those who want to enjoy donuts should look for small street trailers and Oliebollenkraams bakeries in Amsterdam.

Marzipan pigs, Austria and Germany

Austrian revelers on New Year's Eve - Sylvesterabend, or St. Sylvester's Day Eve - drink red punch with cardamom and spices, eat for dinner suckling pig and served to the table with little pink marzipan piglets called marzipanschwein.

Good luck pigs, or Glücksschwein, made from sundries, are also popular gifts in Germany and Austria.

Viennese bakeries offer... great amount sweets in the form of piglets. Head to Julius Meinlto if you want to try piggy truffles, chocolate and marzipan in all colors, sizes and flavors.

Soba noodles, Japan

On New Year's Eve, Japanese families eat buckwheat noodles soba to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one. The tradition dates back to the 17th century, and the long noodles symbolize longevity and prosperity.

Another custom, mochitsuki, involves friends and family spending the day before New Year's Eve making mochi, or rice cakes. Sweet glutinous rice is washed, soaked, steamed and ground in homogeneous mass. Then small pieces are pinched off from the dough, from which buns are made, served later for dessert.

If you're celebrating the New Year in Tokyo, visit professional soba master Honmura Anin in Roppongi.

Holiday Pie, or King's Pie, Around the World

The tradition of making New Year's pie spans countless cultures: the Greeks have vasilopita, the French have galette de roi, the Mexicans have the bread of the three kings, and the Bulgarians have banitsa.

In most cases, cakes are eaten in New Year's Eve, although in some cultures they are only cut at Christmas or Epiphany. Pies are usually hidden with figurines or coins, symbolizing good luck and money to those who find them in their piece.

Cotecchino, Italy

Italians celebrate the New Year with a traditional dish - cotecchino, or lentils with pork sausages, which is believed to bring good luck, and in some households comes from stuffed pork leg.

The dinner ends with chiacchiere - Italian firewood - and Prosecco. The tradition originates in Modena, but over time has spread throughout the country.

Pickled herring, Poland and Scandinavia

Since Poland and the Scandinavian countries are famous for their herring, and because of their silvery color they are considered a symbol of prosperity and wealth, many families serve pickled fish on the table on New Year's Eve. Some serve it with onions, others - cream sauce.

One of the popular New Year's dishes made from pickled herring - Sledzie Marynowane - is prepared from fish soaked in water for 24 hours, cut into pieces, compacted in a container in layers with onions, spices, sugar and white vinegar.

Kransekake, Denmark and Norway

Kransekake is a pyramid cake made up of several circles with the addition of candies and other sweets, and is prepared for various holidays and special events in Norway and Denmark.

The cake is made from marzipan, and often a bottle of wine or Aquavit is placed in the center with decorations in the form of flags and firecrackers.

Those who can't make it to Copenhagen to try the pyramid cake can visit Larsen's Danish Bakery in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. They have been delivering orders all over the world for a long time and are ready to package each layer of the cake separately so that the cake can be easily assembled right before the holiday.

What will be on your holiday table?

Decorate the New Year's menu 2012 with dishes from France, Poland, England, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Prepare a colorful meat, fish dish or dessert for the New Year's table from the New Year's menu from around the world. Choose a New Year's recipe

New Year's recipes from around the world

1.France

Turkey is the main dish of the New Year's table in France. The French joke: “If there is no turkey, then New Year may not come."

New Year's recipes 2017 with photos © Shutterstock

Turkey in French

Ingredients

0.5 kg turkey fillet, 5 small onions, 2 tomatoes, 300 g cheese, mayonnaise, spices, salt to taste.

Preparation

Cut the turkey fillet into thin layers and place in a bowl, sprinkle with spices and salt. Cover with a lid, place a load on top and leave for 20-30 minutes to marinate in its own juice.

Wash the tomatoes and cut into slices, cut the onion into rings. Grate the cheese coarse grater. Place a sheet of foil on a baking sheet and tuck the edges in. Arrange the layers of turkey evenly in one layer, lightly coat with mayonnaise on top. Then add a layer of onions and a layer of tomatoes. Top everything with cheese.

Bake in the oven for about an hour. First over high heat, then low heat. Serve the dish hot, garnished with herbs.

2.Poland

On the New Year's table in Poland there is always fish, which is considered a symbol of prosperity and family happiness.

Fish in Polish

Ingredients

300 g pike perch fillet with skin, 1 carrot, 4 g parsley root, 2-3 boiled eggs, 20 g butter, 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice, parsley, salt - to taste.

Preparation

Cut the fish fillet in portioned pieces, boil in salted water with the addition of carrots and parsley root.

For the sauce, combine melted butter with chopped eggs, lemon juice, chopped herbs and 2 tbsp. l. fish broth.

When serving, place the fish on a plate and pour over the prepared sauce. Alternatively, garnish with mashed potatoes and carrots.

3.Czech Republic and Slovakia

In these countries New Year's table can't do without aromatic national dessert- apple strudel.

Apple strudel

Ingredients

250 g flour, 1 egg, 150 g butter, 1 tsp. vinegar, 1 kg apples, 80 g sugar, 30 g raisins, 100 g bread crumbs, ground cinnamon, lemon zest - to taste.

Preparation

Sift the flour, then pour in the beaten mixture with 6 tbsp. l. warm water egg, 1 tbsp. l. melted butter, vinegar, add salt and knead into a soft shiny dough. Roll into a ball and leave for 30 minutes, covered with a damp cloth.

Cut the dough in half and roll out each half on a linen towel dusted with flour. Stretch the dough from the center in all directions, being careful not to tear it, sprinkle with melted butter, place a layer of peeled and chopped apples on it, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, washed raisins, chopped zest and bread crumbs fried in 30 g of butter.

Lifting the edge of the towel, roll the dough into a roll. Transfer to a baking sheet and bake in a moderately preheated oven for 30 minutes, brushing occasionally with oil. Ready strudel cool and cut into slices. Serve, garnish to taste. For example, nuts, mint sprigs, cinnamon or powdered sugar.

4.Germany

In this country, pies and other dishes with raisins, apples and nuts are always served on the New Year's table. Moreover, each ingredient has its own meaning. For example, nuts are the ability to learn secrets and overcome the difficulties of life, and raisins are a symbol of abundance.

Brownies with nuts - recipe from Germany

Ingredients

2 eggs, 2 egg yolks, 200 g sugar, 6 tbsp. l. crackers, pinch of salt, 2 tsp. dry yeast, 1 tbsp. l. flour, 0.5 tbsp. chopped raisins, 1 tbsp. nuts, 200 g butter, 0.5 tbsp. milk.

Preparation

Beat eggs and sugar, add salt, crackers, yeast mixed with flour, raisins and 0.5 tbsp. nuts Knead the dough, roll it into a layer 0.7 cm thick, place it on a baking sheet covered with oiled paper and bake in the oven for 15 minutes at medium heat.

For the cream, beat the yolks with sugar, pour in the hot milk, stirring. Heat, whisking continuously, in a water bath until thickened. Cool the resulting mass, combine with the whipped butter and beat everything together until fluffy. Add 0.5 tbsp. chopped nuts and mix.

Immediately cut the baked cake into rectangular cakes, let them cool, then cover with cream and decorate to taste.

5.England

The traditional dessert on the New Year's table in this country is pudding. Before serving, the festive pudding is poured with rum and set on fire. A very impressive decoration for the New Year's table, especially in the Year of the Dragon 2012!

The British put Christmas plumpudding on the table. It is prepared from lard, bread crumbs, flour, raisins, eggs and various spices. Before serving, the pudding is doused with rum, set on fire and placed on the table flaming.

In addition to pudding, turkey is served with gooseberry sauce. In general, for any holiday in England it is served stuffed turkey With vegetable side dish.

America

Pies with cheese. Often a coin is placed in a pie or pies; it is believed that wealth (or a broken tooth) awaits the finder.

Vietnam

Germany

In Germany, on New Year's Eve, herring must be on the table; it brings happiness in the coming year. Still cooking New Year's cupcake, pork with stewed cabbage.

In contrast to Protestant Lutheran Denmark, where they do not fast, Catholics Lithuania on the eve of Christmas they only eat lean food. Their Christmas table consists of kusoch (kutya), salads, fish dishes and other lean dishes that do not contain meat. Only the next day, on Christmas Day itself, after a family visit to the church, is it possible to taste roast goose.

Israel

Italy

Netherlands

Poland

Scotland

Today in Scotland they bake a large round cake for the New Year's table. sand cake, topped with sugar-cooked almonds, nuts, candies, sugar and marzipan figures. They are usually decorated with national emblems: heather, Scottish cross, arms crossed over the sea, mountains and others.

Sweden

“Lutefix” - a fish dish made from dried cod, pork.

China

Finland

Japan

In general, housewives in Japan prepare food for the New Year from products that, as they believe, bring happiness: seaweed gives joy roasted chestnuts- success in business, peas and beans - health, boiled fish- calmness, good spirits, herring caviar - a happy family, many children. Japanese families eat their food, sitting on their knees around a low table, sedately without noisy conversations or drinking songs - nothing should distract from thoughts about the future, about what awaits in the coming year.

Well Russia · Ukraine · Belarus…

in 1936, along with night dances. The Soviet New Year's table did not become elegant - even sausage cut into circles could decorate it. However, Eliseev’s former stores still sold hazel grouse and caviar. On the tables appeared: jelly, herring under a fur coat, Baltic sprats. The second coming of the Olivier salad has arrived - with

On New Year's Eve they always try to eat what the animal after which the year is named likes. Once upon a time, “Goose in apples” was considered a traditional dish on the table. Today, this half-forgotten tradition is, unfortunately, a rarity, but “Olivier” and “Shuba” have become familiar and, truly, folk!

Have a bountiful New Year's table!

Sources: newyear.redday.ru, kulinarochki.ru

Photos are from the Internet.

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

China

Dumplings, noodles, peach broth and dishes made from five types of vegetables or grains, symbolizing 5 separate types of happiness, certainly appear on the Chinese New Year's table. Chestnuts represent profit, a whole fish - abundance, shrimp - joy and happiness, chicken - prosperity.

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

Dumplings are made with pork filling, cabbage and onions. Usually a coin or a precious stone is placed in one, and the finder 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 the colors of the festive New Year's table - only rice can be white on it. You must try all the dishes, otherwise you will not be happy.

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

On New Year's Day, the Chinese always eat a vegetarian dish called “yai”, with the addition of various seasonings.

Japan

To welcome the deities who bring good luck and happiness, oshogatsu is prepared on Japanese New Year. original dishes, which the gods prefer and approve. Special New Year's kitchen, "osechi ryori", includes not only offerings to deities, but also simple dishes which all Japanese eat during the three-day traditional holiday.

There are different 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 “hozonshoku” - preserved food.

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

Philippine Islands

?On the Philippine Islands, people prepare a wide variety of food on New Year's night; the more food, the better, since a rich New Year's table is considered to be the foundation for an equally rich and well-fed coming New Year.

Tibet

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

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

England

In England, the traditional Christmas food is pudding and stuffed turkey with a vegetable side dish of Brussels sprouts. The turkey is traditionally stuffed with chestnuts, grated breadcrumbs and sage, and served with wonderful sauce from 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 placed 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, 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.

But the traditional New Year's 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 southern United States, they believe that to be happy and rich in the New Year, you need to eat peas or beans. New Year's hours. You can often hear that peas, greens, and cabbage symbolize money.

Mexico

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

Mexicans usually serve a lot of vegetables and leaf salad, as well as paciyo, serano and jalapeño stuffed with hard cheese. For dessert - simple pastries from corn flour. Mexicans stuff turkeys the same way. Beans, corn and other vegetables and, naturally, do not skimp on the fiery hot chili sauce. Other specialty of the house They have chocolate covered turkey.

Italy

?Among traditional dishes The New Year's table must include homemade cappelletti, truffles, smoked salmon, campone, turkey, almond pies, 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 is homemade sausage from pork "cotecchino". It is cut into small circles and served with a side dish of corn grits And lentil stew. For dessert, Italians prepare a pannetone cake with dried fruits inside, reminiscent Easter cake, decorated with raisins and candied fruits.

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

Spain

?The Spaniards set a rich table, on which sweets are a must: cookies with cumin, almond cakes. They eat roast lamb, shellfish, turkey, suckling pig, and sherry. In Spain, it is customary to eat twelve grapes at the strike of the clock at midnight - according to the number of strokes of the clock. With each grape they make a wish - twelve cherished wishes for every month of the year, which will definitely 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 this: the apple is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, the nuts with their hard shell and tasty core symbolize the mysteries and difficulties of life.

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

Poland

In Poland, traditionally there are 12 dishes on the table, and none of them should be meat. Definitely fish! Basics holiday treat- a symbol of family happiness and prosperity - carp. And also mushroom soup, borscht, barley porridge with prunes, dumplings with butter, and chocolate cake for dessert.

Strudel will definitely be on the table - puff roll with apples, the pride of every good housewife.

Norway

According to tradition, at Christmas in Norway you need to have 7 baked goods. The most common Norwegian flour products:


Kransekake - a pie made from rings folded into a pyramid
Julekake - Christmas round bun with raisins, Fattigman - brushwood, Krumkaker - waffles, Mandelkake - almond cake.

Pepperkaker - gingerbread cookies.
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India

In India, New Year is celebrated with biryani pilaf and okroshka. Biryani pilaf is, of course, made from lamb. Kishmish, cashew nuts are added to rice and carrots, green pea, pineapples, green peas and a large number of local spices - cumin, cloves, coriander, turmeric, cardamom. Spices give the rice several colors, which is why the dish looks very festive and “elegant”.

The pilaf is served with raita - an Indian okroshka made from kefir, tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers. For dessert they prepare lasi - curdled milk whipped with ginger and sugar.

Every day the New Year holidays are approaching, when close relatives and friends gather around the festive table. Every country in the world has its own culinary traditions– housewives spare no effort and time to prepare traditional dishes, wanting to please their loved ones and guests. What do they cook for the New Year in overseas countries? I'll tell you about culinary New Year's traditions different countries of the world and will share some recipes. Maybe from these you will choose the dishes that you want to prepare for the holiday table 2017. And don’t forget

Original dishes for the New Year 2017

Christmas table in an English family it is impossible to imagine without traditional pudding made from pieces wheat bread, candied fruits, cherries, apples and raisins with the addition of nuts, citrus zest And aromatic spices. It takes a whole month to prepare Christmas pudding - the finished dessert is doused with rum, set on fire and impressively served on the festive table.

A must-have attribute for the New Year's meal in Poland is a fish that symbolizes prosperity and family well-being. Remember? There are always twelve dishes on the New Year's table, among which there is not a single meat dish. This evening the hostesses serve or, dumplings, barley porridge with prunes, and for dessert - chocolate cake or puff strudel with apples.

In Bulgaria The main New Year's dish is considered to be moussaka - a huge layered casserole of meat, vegetables and various spices.

The main decoration of the New Year's meal for residents U.S.A- traditional stuffed turkey. Any ingredients can be used as filling - potatoes, apples, oranges, grapes, nuts and anything else you have in the refrigerator.

In Scandinavian countries the first thing on New Year's Eve is served hot salmon soup with cream . IN New Year's menu must include fish dishes and braised short ribs or roasted poultry with mashed potatoes.

Salmon soup with cream

Compound:

• Salmon 500 g
• Potatoes 4-5 pcs.
• One onion or leek
• One carrot
• 3-4 tomatoes
• Cream 500 ml
• Fresh herbs
• Salt and pepper
• Vegetable oil
• Water 1.25 l

1. Slice the fish in small pieces. Dice potatoes and onions, coarsely grate carrots or whatever you wish, scald tomatoes with boiling water, peel and cut into cubes.
2. Pour oil into the pan. Sauté onions and carrots until soft. Add tomatoes, simmer for 3-5 minutes.
3. Pour water, bring to a boil, then add potatoes + salt and pepper, cook until tender for 10 minutes.
4. When the potatoes are almost ready, add the fish and pour in the cream, cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add finely chopped herbs.

Traditional hot snack Italians for the New Year - pork sausage"Kotekino" from pork meat and lard, which is baked with Mediterranean herbs, juniper berries, shallots and pear slices. It is customary to serve steamed perch or cod baked in white wine .

Cod baked in white wine

Compound:

• cod fillet 800 g
• butter 50 g
• white dry wine 100 ml
• parsley
• salt pepper

1. Grease the baking dish with oil. Place cod fillets. Salt and pepper.
2. Place pieces of butter on top and pour wine.
3. Finely chop the parsley and sprinkle on the fish.
4. We put in hot oven t=200 degrees, bake for 25-30 minutes. Keep an eye on the process, as everyone's oven is different.

On New Year's Eve German housewives serve fragrant salmon baked with cream and spinach in puff pastry And fried carp with a side dish of potatoes mustard sauce. The festive table is decorated with a dish of pies, apples, nuts and raisins, as a symbol of family well-being in the coming year. For dessert, German families usually serve a cake filled with marzipan or a nut pie.

Baked salmon with cream and spinach in puff pastry

Compound:

• Salmon fillet 600 g
• Fresh or frozen spinach 400 g
• Cream 50 ml
• Salt pepper
• Lemon juice
• Puff pastry 450 g
• Egg for brushing dough

1. Season salmon fillet with salt, pepper and lemon juice
2. Pour cream over spinach and simmer until liquid evaporates
3. Roll out the dough, place half of the spinach with cream in the middle, and salmon fillet on this layer. Top with another layer of spinach.
4. Wrap the dough in a tight envelope. Place seam side down on a baking sheet. Brush with beaten egg.
5. Pierce the dough with a fork in several places
6. Place in a preheated oven t=200 degrees for 25-30 minutes

In the Netherlands New Year's celebrations are not complete without traditional snack– salted beans. For main course, they prepare rabbit stewed in wine sauce, to which lard, chopped shallots, spices and sour cream are added.

New Year's table in France literally bursting with gourmet snacks and hot dishes. IN holiday menu this includes snails, oysters, pate goose liver, sliced ​​from several types of cheese. Also served on the table on New Year's Eve is spicy onion soup and turkey baked in white wine with herbs and vegetables.

Onion soup

Compound:

• 1 kg onion
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp salt, pepper
• 2 cloves garlic
• 250 ml dry white wine
• 2 sprigs thyme
• 1 Bay leaf IR
• 1 liter chicken broth
• French baguette (loaf)
• 150 g hard cheese

1. Cut the onion into half rings. Melt in a frying pan butter, add olive + salt and pepper. Add the onion, stir and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
2. After 20 minutes, add finely chopped garlic, wine, thyme sprigs, bay leaf. Cover with a lid and simmer for another 10 minutes.
3. Remove from heat, remove thyme sprigs and bay leaves.
4. Add hot broth, stir and leave covered for 15-20 minutes.
5. Cut the bread into pieces and toast in a toaster, oven or dry frying pan until golden brown. Cut into cubes.
6. Pour the soup into ceramic pots, add bread and sprinkle with grated cheese.
7. Bake in the oven until the cheese melts.

Spanish New Year's meal can't do without roast lamb or suckling pig. As a snack, you can find shellfish and fish delicacies here. When the clock strikes, it is customary here to eat 12 grapes, making wishes for each month of the new year.

In Bulgaria, Romania and others European countries It is customary to bake pies with surprises for the New Year - some products hide a coin, a nut or a pepper pod for good luck. Anyone who finds a surprise in their pie will have good luck all year long.

Long season New Year's holidays provides an opportunity to escape from the everyday hustle and bustle and pay attention to loved ones and friends. Take your time and prepare for festive table one of the dishes of European cuisine - surprise your guests culinary skills. If you have experience in preparing unusual New Year's dishes, please share in the comments.

We wish everyone a happy New Year holidays and new culinary discoveries!

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