What Americans cook for Christmas: 5 recipes for holiday dishes

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Christmas in America is celebrated on December 25th. A traditional U.S. Christmas dinner includes stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and vegetables like carrots, turnips, parsnips, and Brussels sprouts. Other poultry, roast beef or ham are also served.

For dessert, eat pumpkin or apple pie, raisin pudding or fruit cake. Among the drinks, Egg-legs should be distinguished - a thick creamy cocktail of eggs with spices.

Christmas turkey in the oven

Cooking time: more than 3 hours

Ingredients:

• 4–4,5 kg turkey (8,8–10 pounds)
• Pinch of sage
• 2 carrots
• 1 big orange
• 50 g butter (1,7 ounces)
• Pinch of nutmeg
• 12 stems of rosemary
• 1 head of garlic
• 4 medium red onions
• 2 celery
• 12 strips of bacon
• A handful of breadcrumbs
• A handful of dried apricots
• 300 g minced pork (10,5 oz)
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 1 egg
• Sea salt
• Ground pepper
• Olive oil
• 2 Art. tablespoons flour
• 1 liter of chicken or vegetable stock (4 American cups)

Method of preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C (390 F). Heat olive oil in a small saucepan, add sage, six strips of bacon, two chopped garlic cloves and one chopped onion.
2. Fry until golden brown. Remove from heat and add breadcrumbs and chopped dried apricots.
3. Cool the mass well. Add minced pork, lemon zest, egg, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Mix everything thoroughly.
4. Wrap in the remaining bacon one finely chopped clove of garlic and rosemary. Pierce the hips and legs of the turkey with a knife and evenly insert the resulting bacon rolls.
5. Chop the carrots and remaining onions. Place the turkey on the dish so that the neck is facing you.
6. Wipe the bird with a paper towel. Gently pull on the edge of the skin that fits the breast and begin to free it from the meat towards you.
7. Having built a “pocket” between the skin and the meat, fill it with the resulting minced meat, gently tucking the ends of the skin so that the filling does not fall out.
8. Weigh the stuffed turkey to calculate the baking time (20 minutes per 500 g / 1 lb). Rub turkey with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
9. Around the turkey lay the chopped onions, carrots, and the remaining garlic. Cover with foil and place in the center of a preheated oven.
10. Lower the temperature to 180 ° C (360 F) and bake for the calculated time, or until juice begins to stand out from the hips.
11. In the last 45 minutes of cooking, the foil can be removed so that the turkey acquires a characteristic crisp.

Serve the turkey with mashed potatoes or vegetables. Spicy cranberry sauce is also suitable for her.

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Turkey Cranberry Sauce

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• 680 g fresh or frozen cranberries (6 American cups)
• 1 1 / 4 cups of sugar
• 4 wide strips of orange zest
• 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 / 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Salt
• Water

Method of preparation:

1. In a saucepan, combine cranberries, sugar, orange zest and juice, cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 cup of water.
2. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until the cranberries burst and the mixture thickens, 12-15 minutes. During cooling, the sauce will become even thicker.
3. Remove from heat; let it cool completely.

Cranberry sauce can be transferred to a sterilized jar with a lid and kept in the refrigerator for about a week.

Brussels sprouts with cheese and white sauce

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• A large pinch of grated or ground nutmeg
• Olive oil
• Salt, freshly ground black pepper - to taste
• Fresh Brussels Sprouts - 500 g (1 lb)
• Hard Cheese - 50 g (1,7 oz.)
• Milk - 400 ml (1,5 cups)
• Butter - 50 g (1,7 oz.)
• Wheat flour - 40-50 g (1 / 3-1 / 2 cups)

Method of preparation:

1. Pour 2-2,5 liters of boiling water (8-10 cups) into a large pan, add 1 tbsp. l salt. Put on a strong fire. Sort out Brussels sprouts, remove damaged and brown leaves. When the water boils and the salt dissolves in it, carefully place the cabbage in a pan. Let it boil, reduce heat to a minimum, cover and cover with sauce.
2. Put the stewpan on medium heat, immediately sprinkle flour on its bottom, and scatter the butter cut into small pieces on top. Wait until the butter has melted by about half, and start mixing flour and butter with a wooden spoon.
3. When flour and butter form a single mass, pour in half the milk and continue to mix. Add nutmeg and 1-2 pinches of salt.
4. When the mixture regains unity, pour in the remaining milk, mix again, let it boil and remove from heat. Cover and leave for exactly a minute, and meanwhile, grate the cheese on a medium grater. Pour the cheese into the sauce, stir - until completely dissolved.
5. Throw the cooked cabbage into a colander. Shake several times so that the glass is excess water. Put the saucepan with sauce on low heat, add cabbage. Stir for a minute so that the cabbage is more or less covered with sauce. Remove from heat, arrange on plates, season with pepper, lightly pour with olive oil.

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Christmas cupcake with dried fruits

Cooking time: more than 3 hours

Ingredients:

For the dough:

• 4 eggs
• 200 g butter (7 ounces)
• 150 g of light brown (2/3 cups) and 50 g of dark brown sugar (1/4 cup)
• 250 g flour (2 cups)
• 50 g ground almonds (1,7 ounces)
• 1/2 tsp spice mixtures (nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves)

For a mixture of dried fruits:

• 200 g light raisins (7 ounces)
• 200 g dark raisins (7 ounces)
• 150 g Dried Cranberries (5,3 oz)
• 150 g Dried Cherries (5,3 oz)
• 100 g Lemon Candied Fruit (3,5 oz.)
• 100 g candied orange (3,5 oz)
• 100 g melted candied fruit (3,5 ounces)
• Impregnation Alcohol

Method of preparation:

1. Rinse and soak overnight in 100 ml (0,4 cups) of rum or brandy.
2. Measure the flour. From this amount, separate a tablespoon and roll separately candied fruit and raisins.
3. Beat softened butter with two kinds of sugar. Add one egg each, whisking well.
4. Pour in flour and mix thoroughly with a mixer. Add spices and almonds, mix well. Pour dried fruits, gently mix with a spoon.
5. Put the dough in a mold oiled and sprinkled with flour. In the middle, make a recess so that after lifting, the surface of the cake is flat.
6. Bake the cupcake in an oven preheated to 150 ºС (300 F) for about 2 hours. Remove from oven. Soak a hot cupcake with a glass of alcohol.
7. Cool, wrap in parchment paper and store in a cool place for 2 weeks, occasionally lubricating the surface with alcohol. The finished cupcake can be coated with a layer of marzipan or mastic.

Egg-toe for Christmas

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• 150 ml of milk (5 ounces)
• 150 ml (5 ounces) cream 10-20%
• 2 eggs
• 100 ml (0,4 cups) dark rum, whiskey or bourbon
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• Nutmeg
• Vanillin - to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Separate the egg yolks from the proteins. We need only the yolks.
2. Add sugar and vanillin, mix thoroughly. Pour in cream and milk.
3. Put on low heat and heat, stirring with a whisk, making sure that the yolks do not curl.
4. Add cinnamon and cook for 15-20 minutes or until desired consistency. Remove the cinnamon stick.
5. Pour in alcohol and remove from stove. Pour into glasses and sprinkle with nutmeg. Serve the drink warm or chilled.

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