Hungarian families get together on 24

December and eat their traditional dishes, which

in Hungary are the following:

GingerbreadGingerbread is prepared before Christhmas and it is usually a great family prgram. It’s a very tasty cookie with honey and cinnamon.

BejgliPreparing bejgli with poppy seed

or walnut is a tradition in Hungary. According to popular belief

Walnut has to be eaten against being cursed , and poppy seed ‘brings fullness to the house’.

‘Zserbó’

There’s no Christmas without ‘zserbó’. It is the second most popular dessert, it’s hard to prepare it, but it is worth making it!

Fisherman-soup Fishsoup is a real Hungarian meal. There is much paprika and carp in it, namely fish plays a great role in this traditional meal. The most popular fishsoup is prepared in Baja and in Szeged.

Stuffed cabbage

Typical main course at Xmas. It can be cooked in many ways.

Poppy seeded doughThis dish is also favoured by people with sweet tooth. It is prepared from ‘kifli’(something like croissant), which you can get only in Hungary. It is very tasty and the symbol of ‘getting rich because of poppy seed appears here too, namely lots of superstitions are connected to meals.

Christmas fondantChristmas fondant is a kind of Hungarian sweets, which usually used to be hung on Xmas tree.

Nowadays you can buy it in any flavour, for example with jelly, marzipan, walnut,etc.