Finland
Christmas smorgasbord from Finland, "Joulupöytä", (translated "Yule table"), a traditional display of Christmas food) served at Christmas in Finland, similar to the Swedish smörgåsbord, including:
- Christmas ham with mustard (almost every family has one for Christmas)
- turkey (kalkkuna)
- freshly salted salmon (gravlax graavilohi) and whitefish graavisiika
- pickled herring in various forms (tomato, mustard, matjes or onion sauces)
- lutefisk and Béchamel sauce
- whitefish and pikeperch
- liver casserole
- potato casserole (sweetened or not, depending on preference)
- boiled potatoes
- carrot casserole
- rutabaga casserole (lanttulaatikko)
- rosolli (salad from boiled beetroots, carrots, potatoes, apples and pickled cucumber. If served with herring, it becomes herring-salad, sillisalaatti)
- various sauces
- assortment of cheese, most commonly (leipäjuusto) and Aura (aura-juusto)
- Christmas bread, usually sweet bread (Joululimppu)
- Karelian pasties, rice pasties, served with egg-butter (Karjalanpiirakka)
Other meat dishes could be:
- Karelian hot pot, traditional meat stew originating from the region of Karelia (Karjalanpaisti)
- reindeer (in northern Finland) (poro)
- cold smoked salmon (kylmäsavulohi)
Desserts:
- rice pudding or rice porridge topped with cinnamon, sugar and cold milk or with mixed fruit soup (riisipuuro)
- gingerbread, sometimes in the form of a gingerbread house or gingerbread man (piparkakut)
- chocolate (given as presents, eaten in-between meals, called suklaa)
- prune jam pastries (Joulutortut)
- mixed fruit soup or prune soup (sekahedelmäkiisseli, luumukiisseli)
Drinks:
- glogg or mulled wine (glögi)
- Christmas beer (Jouluolut); Koff and Lapin Kulta have Christmas versions
- home beer (non-alcoholic beer-like drink) (kotikalja)
- red wine (punaviini)
- Marski's tipple (akvavit, vermouth and gin) (Marskin ryyppy)
- sour milk (often drunk by older people)
Read more about this topic: List Of Christmas Dishes