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What to eat for Thanksgiving dinner

Turkey is the most popular food on Thanksgiving Day. Do you know what food is eaten for Thanksgiving dinner? I believe many people are not very clear about it. The editor of SmartView will tell you below Introducing the food for Thanksgiving dinner, if you are interested, let’s take a look!

The first dish of food for Thanksgiving dinner: Roast turkey

Ingredients: One turkey , a little chicken liver, a bunch of spices (cinnamon leaves, thyme, French spice) 200 grams, 6 slices of bread, 10 grams of black pepper, 15 grams of salt, 25 grams of shallots, a little red wine, a little chicken stock.

Method:

1. Chicken liver, slices of bread (cut sides, soaked in milk until soft), stir-fry with shallots until fragrant, add some chicken stock and cook, add thyme and red wine , cook the juice over medium heat to make the filling.

2. Wash the turkey, stuff the belly with spice bundles, fill with stuffing, sprinkle pepper and salt on the skin, and bake in the oven at 220°C for about 2 hours. It’s best to turn the chicken over halfway through so it can be heated evenly. Remove the roasted turkey to a decorated plate, sprinkle with black pepper and salt, and serve.

Second dish: Pumpkin cake

Ingredients: pumpkin, sugar, glutinous rice flour, Chengfen, bean paste filling.

Method:

1. Remove the seeds from the pumpkin, wash it, wrap it in plastic wrap, and heat it in the microwave for about 10 minutes (subject to the pumpkin flesh being completely cooked). Use a spoon to scoop out the pumpkin flesh. , add glutinous rice flour, orange powder, sugar, and make a dough.

2. Divide into small pieces and fill with bean paste filling to form a cake. Carve pumpkin pictograms on the surface of the cake to decorate the pumpkin skin. Steam in a steamer for 4-5 minutes to determine the ratio of pumpkin to flour. Can be mixed into dough.

The third dish: Milky Apple Pie

Ingredients: 200 grams of low-gluten flour, 2 eggs, 1 apple, 40 grams of salad oil, 60 grams of sugar, 100 grams of milk gram.

Method:

1. How to make milky apple pie. Beat the eggs, add sugar and salad oil, and add cake flour. Knead into a ball and refrigerate for about 1 hour until ready to use. Add milk and sugar to the eggs, and after boiling, add the flour and stir continuously.

2. Make a slightly dry batter, cut the apples into thin slices, and soak them in water to prevent discoloration. Take out the refrigerated pie crust, roll it out into a sheet, and put it into the mold. Put the prepared pie filling, place the apple slices, put a sugar in the middle, dip the surface with honey, preheat the oven to 180 degrees, middle layer, for about 30 minutes.

The fourth dish: pumpkin pie

Ingredients: (for a 6-inch pie) Pie crust: 100 grams of low-gluten flour, 15 grams of fine sugar, 50 grams of butter , 8 grams of egg yolk, 25 grams of water, 1 gram of salt. Pie filling: 125g cooked pumpkin puree, 120ML milk, 25g coconut, 30g sugar, 1 egg.

Method:

1. Make the pie crust: Mix flour and fine sugar and sift, add butter softened at room temperature, and knead the butter and flour evenly into crumbs with your hands. Mix egg yolks, water and salt evenly into the flour, knead into a smooth dough, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

2. Make the filling: Peel and remove the seeds from the pumpkin, cut into small pieces or thin slices, steam in a steamer over water, and mash with a spoon into pumpkin puree. Mix all the ingredients for the pie filling and stir evenly (you can also put it in a food blender and stir evenly).

3. Take out the refrigerated pie dough, roll it into a sheet slightly larger than the pie plate, cover the pie plate with the dough sheet, and remove the excess corners. Use a fork to poke holes in the bottom of the pie crust to prevent it from puffing up during baking. Pour the prepared filling into the pie plate about 8 minutes full; preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake for 10 minutes, then adjust the temperature to 170 degrees, continue baking for 15-20 minutes until the filling is solidified, and then take it out of the oven.

Classic delicacies of traditional Thanksgiving dinner 1. Turkey

How did turkey become the main thing of Thanksgiving today? The mascot? There is a saying that in At a harvest festival in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth of England was eating roast goose. When news came that the Spanish Armada had sunk on its way to attack her beloved England, the Queen was so delighted that she ordered another goose to celebrate the success. Therefore, geese have become Britain’s favorite bird during the harvest season. When the Pilgrims came to America from England, roast turkey replaced roast goose as the main dish because turkeys were more plentiful on the continent and easier to find than goose.

Turkeys have attracted much attention because of their large size, rapid growth, strong disease resistance, and high lean meat rate. They are comparable to broiler chickens and are known as "meat-making machines". Turkey meat is not only tender and light, but also has the advantages of "one high and two low" in nutritional value. The first is that the protein content is high, more than 30%; the second is that turkey is considered an ideal health food for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases abroad. At the same time, turkey is also a good dietary supplement for replenishing qi and spleen. Currently, many countries in the world use turkey instead of beef, pork, mutton and duck.

2. Cranberry jam

Sweet and sour cranberry jam was the food on the first Thanksgiving table, and it is also on the table today. Cranberries are small, tart wild berries that grow in swampy areas in Massachusetts and the New England states. The Indians used its fruit to treat various inflammations and used the juice to dye red carpets and rugs. They taught the Pilgrims how to cook cranberries with sugar and water to make cranberry jam.

The Indians call cranberries "ibimi", which means "chokeberry". Immigrants call these "craneberries" because the cranberry flowers drag the grass stems down, resembling a white crane with a slender neck. Cranberries still grow in New England today.

3. Sweet potato

Sweet potato is one of the main foods on Thanksgiving. Sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E, potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, etc., and have high nutritional value. As we all know, sweet potatoes are very nutritious. However, what is even more valuable is that sweet potato also won the first place in the "ranking list" of 20 anti-cancer vegetables recently announced by the National Cancer Research Center of Japan.

Don’t eat sweet potatoes with anything too sweet. Sweet potatoes themselves are sweet. If you eat them with sweets at this time, the possibility of reflux will double. Therefore, try not to eat sweet potatoes with anything that is too sweet.

As we all know, Thanksgiving shopping in the United States has become an American custom. The month from Thanksgiving to Christmas is the traditional discount season for various merchants. At this time of year, most shopping malls will put up slogans and promotions ranging from 30-70 off to attract customers.

The first day after Thanksgiving each year is usually considered to mark the official start of the Christmas shopping season. It is regarded as a barometer of Christmas sales performance in the retail industry every year, and is also the most important time of the year for various businesses. One of the busiest days.

On this day, most stores will open at five or six o'clock in the morning, and some even earlier. Merchants will even take measures such as placing advertisements in newspapers a few days before Thanksgiving, issuing coupons, and slashing prices on goods to attract customers. Many consumers regard this day as a golden moment to prepare Christmas gifts or buy bargains. Due to the limited number of price-cut products, long queues will form in front of many popular stores (such as Wal-Mart) the night before. When a store opens, there will occasionally be a stampede due to overcrowding and competition.

Since merchants often wait until the last minute to announce their list of price-reduced products and regard this as a trade secret, news of price reductions from various channels often appears on the Internet a few weeks ago. , thus triggering some legal disputes.