5 European Christmas dishes you should try

No good Christmas without a good Christmas dinner! If you want to try something new this year or are still at a loss as to what to cook – we have five European Xmas recipe ideas for you: Roast goose from Germany, pierogi from Poland, Christmas ham from Sweden, cheese fondue from Switzerland and Christmas pudding from the UK. Ho Ho Ho!

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:12 German roast goose
01:38 Polish pierogi
03:00 Swedish Christmas ham
04:11 Swiss cheese fondue
05:38 British Christmas pudding
06:30 Outro

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Have you not yet decided what to cook for a Christmas dinner this year or maybe you’d like to try something new we’ve selected five European holiday favorites we start out with Germany’s quintessential Christmas dish roast goose with red cabbage and Dumplings H kilo for the stuffing we take apples onions celery stocks and finely chopped Ginger then we rub the goose with salt and pepper inside and out add the stuffing and put it in the oven to bake for at least 3 hours in the meantime we chop the red cabbage called blout in

Southern Germany and mix it with apples we grate the potatoes for the dumplings this type of dumpling is typical of Northern Bavaria only a quarter of the mixture is made of boil boiled potatoes the rest of the potatoes are stirred in raw then it’s rolled into dumplings and

Boiled in salted water to keep the goose from drying out while in the oven it has to be repeatedly basted in stock this dish is in season mainly in December the roast goose is best when served as soon as it comes out of the Oven in Poland it’s all about pirogis they’re an unofficial symbol of Polish Cuisine the Serena Irena restaurant in Warsaw specializes in these stuffed Dumplings just right for the holiday season are pirogis with mushrooms and sauerkraut the dough is made of flour eggs oil and water to achieve a more intense flavor some of the dried mushrooms are ground to a fine powder the mushrooms sauerkraut and mushroom powder are briefly roasted and mixed well now the

Progis can be pinched together by hand and boiled in water no more than 3 or 4 minutes so they don’t get Soggy Now we move on to Sweden where a juicy Christmas ham is an essential part of the Christmas buffet called the U board the Christmas table is the most important thing for the Swedish Christmas we eat herrings we eat salmon and of course we eat the ulinka the Christmas

Ham included in the broth with the pickled ham are onions studded with cloves bay leaves and white pepper depending on the size it can take about an hour and a half to bake to a temperature inside the ham of 72° C The Baked Ham has to cool for an hour or two

Before it can be coated with a mixture of egg yolk sweet and sour mustard and sugar but first the outermost layers of fat have to be cut away from the ham I always do some breadcrumbs before the coating cuz otherwise it won’t stick traditionally the Yu hinka carved

In thin slices is the main event of every Swedish Christmas buffet a glass of piping HUD glug heated spiced wine goes best with it when it’s cold out the Swiss warm up with a cheese fondue traditionally it’s served in a Calon a pot usually a ceramic one that’s kept heated the

Diners spear Ryan wheat bread on Long fondu forks and dunk them in the melted cheese you’ll need cheese from the Alps white wine cornstarch lemon garlic Cherry Brandy and pepper for a classic cheese fondue first it’s a good idea to grate the cheese this recipe calls for various Kinds the pot is coated with garlic to give it some extra flavor next the cornstarch white wine and lemon juice are mixed together and poured onto the grated Cheese it’s G We top it off with the dessert from Britain Christmas pudding no holiday dinner is complete without it you’ll need flour SE um sugar eggs and then you put in whatever fruits you kind of want um and then alcohol traditionally you just put in brandy but in there I just

Put Brandy some Stout and um Pedro himz which is to Cherry many families whip up the Christmas pudding weeks in advance so it’ll be well steeped if you give it a stir is supposed to give you good luck and Fortune so yeah each person in the

Family would give one stir with a spoon clockwise the Christmas pudding is steamed and then flambeed in brandy so what kinds of dishes will you have for your holiday Dinners