New Year's Eve dinner: lucky foods – Italian Cuisine

New Year's Eve dinner: lucky foods


Lentils, pomegranates, grapes, bubbles, walnuts, chestnuts, capitone: the list of essential ingredients to ensure a new year of prosperity is really long

Lentils, cotechino, desserts, Great company is cards game. These are just some of the ingredients most important of the new Year's Eve dinner. What else must absolutely not be missing?

Lentils and lucky pomegranate

The lentils occupy a firm place in this short list. They are traditionally synonymous with luck is wealth. They are good, rich in iron, carbohydrates, fibers is salts minerals and they are also excellent as a side dish for it zampone or the cotechino, also inevitable at the table for new Year's Eve dinner. Another auspicious food for the new year is the pomegranate, a red and sweet fruit which, according to tradition, should be immersed in a nice glass of wine to really bring luck. Lentils and pomegranates are fine as a side dish or as a magical ingredient for a drink of good luck, but they are also excellent alone: ​​the first in humid, the latter as low calorie snack.

Twelve grapes for good luck

Another good luck food, and therefore not to be forgotten when shopping for the last of the year, isgrapes. According to popular tradition, on the stroke of midnight it is necessary to eat at least twelve berries, one for each month of the new year, to ensure prosperity and good fortune. Could it be true?

Walnuts, chestnuts and dried figs to taste

Synonymous with safety, prosperity and the antidote against bad luck is the nuts and the chestnuts, while regarding the dried figs (perhaps with a filling Crisp of almonds) there is no ancient tradition that evokes them among the lucky foods. But it does not matter: at the table, when the arrival of the new year is to be greeted, it is difficult to do without it.

Spaghetti, bubbles and capitone

Perhaps it is due to their elongated shape, but among the inevitable foods for the New Year's Eve dinner there are also the spaghetti, which in some countries even rhymes with longevity. Alternatively: bucatini, fettuccine or noodles however, they are just fine. The important thing is that short pasta is not consumed to challenge fate just before the midnight celebrations. And, by the way, at the most important turn of the hands of the evening it is impossible not to welcome the new year with bubbles, champagne, sparkling wine or prosecco they are. Also noteworthy is the capitone, common name of the female eel, which is prepared to embers especially in the South.

Marzipan or gingerbread?

In addition to the classics Pandoro is panettone, also the Marzipan is one of the desserts not to be forgotten. Shaped like men, Christmas trees, houses: the solutions to use this almond, sugar and egg white paste with imagination are endless. In the United States, in its place, for the last of the year the gingerbread, which finds more and more admirers also in Italy.

Country you go, traditions you find

Among the things that must not be missing for the New Year there are also the black beans and the mistletoe, a sprig with white or yellow berries under which you can kiss your partner at the stroke of midnight and wish you another happy year together. In Germany is Ireland it is instead the cabbage the lucky ingredient par excellence, while in France there dried fruit.

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