The Traditional Christmas Meal in Germany

A traditional Christmas Meal in Germany starts normally with a soup. There is a wide variety of different soups, some families make a kind of chicken soup others are asparagus soup or sometimes just a tomato soup.

After the appetizer most of the families in Germany eat meat, which is mostly goose and as a side dish you usually have dumpling and red cabbage. But there are many different ways to modify your Christmas Meal.

The dessert is more or less not existing. Some families prepare something, some don’t. But in every household there is at least one plate with many different sweets like marzipan, chocolate or cookies.