What is the food for Thanksgiving in China?

What does China eat for Thanksgiving? What does China eat for Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving Day is not a holiday in China, so China's Thanksgiving diet is mostly based on western countries. The following are the delicious foods of western countries during Thanksgiving.

Classic food recommendation for traditional Thanksgiving dinner

Turkey 1

How did the turkey become the main "mascot" of Thanksgiving today? There is a saying that at a harvest festival in the16th century, Queen Elizabeth was eating a roasted goose. At this time, it was reported that the Spanish Armada sank on the way to attack her beloved England. The queen was very happy. She asked for a goose to celebrate the good news. Therefore, geese have become the most popular birds in the British harvest season. When Puritans came to America from England, roast turkey became the main course instead of roast goose, because turkeys were more abundant in North America and easier to find than geese.

Turkey attracts people's attention because of its large size, fast growth, strong disease resistance and high lean meat rate. It can be compared with broilers and is known as "meat making machine". Turkey is not only tender and light in meat, but also has the advantages of "one high and two low" in nutritional value. One is that the content of protein is high, above 30%; Erdi is considered as an ideal health food for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases abroad. At the same time, turkey is also a good food for invigorating qi and spleen. At present, many countries in the world use turkey instead of beef, pork, mutton and duck.

2, cranberry sauce

Sweet and sour cranberry sauce was the first food on the Thanksgiving table, and it is also on the table today. Cranberries are small, sour wild berries that grow in swamps in Massachusetts and New England. Indians use its fruit to treat all kinds of inflammation, and dye red carpets and blankets with juice. They taught Puritans how to cook cranberries and make cranberry sauce with sugar and water.

Indians call cranberries "Ibimi", which means "bitter berries". Immigrants call these "crane berries" because the flowers of cranberries will drag the grass stems down, much like a crane with a slender neck. Cranberries still grow in New England today.

3. Sweet potato

Sweet potato is one of the main foods for Thanksgiving. Sweet potato contains dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E, potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium and so on, and has high nutritional value. As we all know, sweet potato is very nutritious. What is even more commendable, however, is that in the list of 20 kinds of anti-cancer vegetables recently released by the National Cancer Research Center of Japan, sweet potato also won the championship in one fell swoop.

Don't eat sweet potatoes that are too sweet. Sweet potato itself is sweet. If you eat sweets together at this time, the possibility of reflux will double, so don't eat sweet potatoes with things that are too sweet.

4. Corn bread

Corn bread is a favorite food for both British and Indians. According to the origin of Thanksgiving, when the English Puritans immigrated to America without food, the local Indians gave them their own food. In order to express their gratitude, Thanksgiving Day was born. As a result, this kind of corn bread continued like this and became a necessary food for Thanksgiving.

It is said that almost all corn bread is made by American mothers. The biggest advantage of simple bread is that it is very convenient and fast to make, and it does not need to be as time-consuming and laborious as making yeast bread, nor does it need to consider the gluten of flour. Almost all kinds of flour will do. Baked corn bread is soft and sweet, and has the unique fragrance of corn granules. Those who love coarse grains may wish to have a try.

5. Mashed potatoes

Traditional Thanksgiving food and sweet mashed potatoes. Potatoes are rich in protein, which is better than soybeans and closest to animal protein. Potatoes are also rich in lysine and tryptophan, which are incomparable to ordinary grains. Potatoes are also foods rich in potassium, zinc and iron. The potassium contained in it can prevent cerebral vascular rupture. It contains 10 times of protein and vitamin C, and the contents of vitamin B 1, B2, iron and phosphorus are much higher than those of apples.

Peel potatoes, cut into large pieces, cook in salt water until soft, take out, filter and mash. Add hot milk, most butter and egg yolk to taste. Gently stir the egg white until it is shaped, and mix it into the potato mixture; Spoon the mixture into a 5-pint heat-resistant shallow dish, sprinkle the remaining butter on it and sprinkle with black pepper. Put the shallow dish on the lower shelf of the oven and bake at 200℃ for about 45 minutes. Finally, sprinkle with decorative side dishes.

Customs other than eating food.

Send food: Since18th century, the United States has the custom of sending a basket of food to poor families. At that time, a group of young women wanted to choose a certain day of the year to do good deeds and thought Thanksgiving was the most suitable day. So as soon as Thanksgiving comes, they put a basket full of food and send it to the poor families. It was widely known, and soon many people followed their example.

Set the table: The layout of the Thanksgiving table is also very distinctive. Housewives don't put flowers as usual, but fruits and vegetables. There is often a big pumpkin in the middle, and some apples, corn and dried fruits are piled around. Sometimes, people empty apples or pumpkins, put dried fruits with shells in them or light candles. Usually, the hostess can let guests into the living room after dinner, but she won't do so on Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving dinner is sweet. Everyone wants to stay at the table for a while. They are happy to recall the past while eating until the last candle burns out.

Play games: After the Thanksgiving party, some families often play some traditional games, such as dancing and competitions. Some of them have survived to this day.

Cranberry competition: put a big bowl with cranberries on the ground, and 4 to 10 contestants will sit together, and each of them will send a needle and a thread. At the beginning of the game, they thread the needle first, and then string the cranberries one by one. When three minutes arrive, whoever has the longest string will win the prize. As for the person who dresses the slowest, everyone jokingly gave him the worst prize.

Corn game: It is said that this game has been handed down to commemorate the distribution of five corn to each immigrant in the case of food shortage. During the game, people hid five corns in the house, and everyone looked for them separately. Five people who found corn participated in the game, while others watched. At the beginning of the competition, five people quickly peeled corn kernels in a bowl, and whoever peeled them first won the prize. Then people who didn't take part in the competition guessed around the bowl how many corn kernels were in it, and the prize for the closest guess was popcorn.

Pumpkin race: Participants push pumpkins with small spoons. The rule is never to touch the pumpkin with your hands. The first person to reach the finish line wins the prize. The smaller the spoon used in the game, the more interesting the game is, which often makes everyone laugh.

Americans are also used to calling the Friday on the second day of Thanksgiving "Black Friday". On this day, all kinds of shops in the United States will discount their goods, which has become more and more serious in recent years. Some merchants even advance the discount date to Thanksgiving Day, which sets off a shopping frenzy every year in the United States.