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Top 10 Most Popular Food Consumed on Christmas Day: See How To Prepare Them
In this Season of Love, Trying to Figure out what meal to serve to your loved ones can be daunting. Here are the most popular food highly consumed on Christmas
Christmas is a time when family and friends get together to celebrate. It’s a time for gift-giving, careful planning, and of course, FOOD! Delicious food is an important part of any Christmas celebration.
Picking out meals to go along with the merry can be a daunting task. But, I have decided to save you all that stress. I have gathered the list of highly consumed Christmas meals. I included some helpful cooking tips and recipes to help make your celebration easier.
So, what are the most popular foods consumed on Christmas Day? Here is a list of the top 10 most popular Christmas foods.
Below is the list of the top 10 most popular foods consumed On Christmas Day.
1. Nigerian Fried rice
2. Jollof Rice
3. Pounded Yam
4. Roasted Chicken
5. Roast Potatoes
6. Roasted Turkey
7. Meat pie
8. Egg Roll
9. Puff Puff
10. Buns
1. Nigerian Fried Rice
Arguably, rice is everyone’s favorite meal and is widely consumed globally. It is also the most popular food consumed during festive periods, especially Christmas.
Fried Rice is a dish made with rice that has been fried in oil. It is usually served with chicken or beef and a variety of vegetables. Fried rice is a popular dish in many African countries and is often served on special occasions.
If you want to show love to your families and friends during this season, Nigerian Fried Rice would help you achieve just that.
WATCH: How to Prepare Nigerian Fried Rice
2. Jollof Rice:
Jolof rice is a popular West African dish made with rice, tomatoes, and onion. The dish is traditionally served with chicken or fish. It is also popular in other parts of Africa, such as Nigeria and Ghana.
Jolof rice is usually made with long-grain rice, but it can also be made with Basmati or Jasmine rice. The dish is usually very spicy and can be made milder by reducing the amount of chili pepper used.
One of the things that make Jolof rice so popular is that it is very easy to make. The dish can be made in less than an hour, and it can be made ahead of time and reheated.
If you are looking for a delicious and easy-to-make dish for your Christmas dinner, look no further than Jolof rice!
How to Cook a Perfect Jollof Rice?
3. Pounded Yam
Pounded yam is one meal that some families cannot do without during this festive period, even my family can’t do without it during this period and I have a simple way of making this easy to prevent you from sweating while pounding. All you need is the mixer, just boil the yam very well after that use your mixer then the pounded yam is ready! And also pounded yam can be served with Vegetable soup, Egusi soup, Ogbono soup, and Okro soup.
4. Roasted chicken
I believe everyone likes roasted chicken and that’s why is on the list of most popular food consumed on Christmas day, you can just buy your chicken with simple lemon and thyme which works wonderfully together and it’s super easy to prepare and cook alongside any other food.
5. Roast potatoes
One of the most popular Christmas foods is roast potatoes. This dish is typically served with roasted meat, such as turkey or chicken. It is often accompanied by gravy, stuffing, and other side dishes.
Roast potatoes are a simple and delicious way to enjoy the holiday season. If you’re looking for a traditional Christmas dish to add to your holiday menu, then look no further than roast potatoes!
6. Roasted Turkey
Is number 6 on the list and is also one of the most popular food prepared on Christmas, you can eat it with potatoes or carrots, and serve everyone this is very simple to do and it will help you wow your friends family, and visitors.
7. Meat pie
This can also help to save time, you can prepare ahead for this by buying your beef or mincing your own meat a day before Christmas and freezing it, you can fill the pie a day before Christmas. Put it into a container, freeze it, and bring it out when you’re ready to use it.
8. Egg Roll
Egg rolls are one of the most popular food items that are consumed on Christmas day.
They are basically rolls made of unleavened dough that is filled with a variety of ingredients like eggs, vegetables, meat, etc. Egg rolls are deep-fried or baked and are served hot.
This is a simple snack to make and it can be served as breakfast.
9. Puff Puff
Everyone knows how to do this buy your flour, yeast, oil, sugar, and the rest, and be ready to fry, make it spongy, and believe me you will be glad you did.
10. Buns
we can’t talk about Christmas and not talk mention buns. It’s easy to mix and fries in no time.
Conclusion
These are the most popular food you can prepare on Christmas day, try and prepare ahead so you can spend less time in the kitchen on Christmas day and spend more time with family and friends, all you should do on that day is just warm the food or finish up the food you prepared a day before, all the baking, dicing, slicing, boiling should have been done a day before Christmas.
Meanwhile, I bet that  Only Nigerian foodies will score 10/10 on this food quiz.