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Christmas, the biggest festival of the largest religion of the world, Christians is celebrated on 25th of December every year. As the month of November comes, the remembrance of Christmas becomes impossible to forget. The town is decorated with coloured lights on centres and shops, with shiny decoration of artificial snow on the windows shops. The markets and the shopping centres in the Christmas season become busier day by day and open till late regularly. You can always hear the traditional Christmas Christian song, Christmas ‘carols’ through the speakers of the shopping centres. Also often the groups of people sing carols on the streets to produce funds for the noble charity cause. Also in several countries the people had a provision to express the Christmas feeling through a greeting card. Just about a week from Christmas various work places used to have some party tradition which includes traditional foods and drinks.

The Christmas has an exotic feeling related to food. The people’s craze for good food has made the Christmas a festival of food with enormous variety. Apart from the normal food recipes, various special drinks, dishes, cakes and various varieties of chicken has made this festival a real treat for the exclusive food lovers. Without food the Christmas cannot be thought to be complete, it is partial without it.

The recipes on Christmas include Beetroot Wine, Carrot Cake, Chicken Fry, and Chicken Soup etc. Beetroot Wine contains ingredients like Finely Chopped beetroot, Sugar, Water, Cinnamon, Clove, Lemon Juice and Yeast. Chopped beetroot, cloves, sugar, cinnamon and water are chopped well. After this, it is kept aside. After being cooled, it is squeezed and strained through a fine cloth number of times. The mixture is stirred well and filtered once more and stored in mud vessel. And after 40 days of storage, it is ready for use. Carrot Cake contains ingredients like Egg White, White Sugar, Skim milk, Vanilla extract, Cloves powder, Nutmeg powder, Cinnamon powder, Baking soda, Whole wheat flour, All-purpose flour, Crushed pineapple, Shredded carrots, Chopped walnuts and Raisins.

A large bowl is taken and egg is beaten to white, then milk is skimmed. Clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda, flour are added one by one in order to the mixture and stirred. Now one by one add and stir the following ingredients, pineapple, carrots, walnuts, and raisins. The whole mixture is poured into lightly greased pan. The mixture is now baked in preheated 350 F for 35-40 minutes. The cake is now ready for garnishing. Chicken Fry contains ingredients like Chicken, Red Chilly Powder, Black Pepper powder, Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder/ Paprika powder, Turmeric, Salt, Garlic, and Oil. The chicken is sliced and slit them at both side of each piece. All the ingredients are mixed together in a bowl. The chicken pieces are marinated for 15-30 minutes. Take a large frying pan and chicken is fried in enough oil. The chicken is fried to fully cook till browned on all sides. Now it is allowed to cool down. Now the meal is served with French fries and a salad.