Christmas table - what dishes to serve?

Christmas is the first day when you can serve delicious dishes on the table. After the lean dishes prepared for Christmas Eve, the Christmas table should be rich in meat and delicacies.

Undoubtedly, pork chops are a good idea for part of the Christmas menu.

For the festive evening, you can roast a turkey with cabbage. The table will feature sarmi, chops, banitsa, pickles. Better cooks can prepare pumpkin stuffed with meat, kapama with pork or veal.

One of the traditional Bulgarian dishes on the Christmas table is kapama. It contains sauerkraut, minced meat, meat rolls, sausage or lukanka, black pudding, bacon.

A loaf of bread is prepared for the festive table, which can be decorated with motifs from the birth of Christ or with folklore motifs - leaves, wreaths, branches, birds, etc.

Red wine is a suitable drink for the holiday.

For dessert, you can serve Christmas cookies, gingerbread or cake.
The table is decorated with fir branches, and the owner incenses it for health and prosperity in the new year.

The Christmas table is not set all day, you sit down straight to dinner. The Christmas holidays last 3 days, until December 27 - St. Stephen's Day.