Christmas 🎄
Christmas traditions in Portugal
It's the spirit of the season 🎅
Following tradition, Portuguese families gather on the 24th of December for dinner and cod dishes are served at the table, although roast turkey and other meat dishes, which were usually savoured in the following days, also begin to integrate the menus.
For dessert, you can not miss the Bolo-Rei, filled with candied fruits or dried fruits, in addition to other typical cakes of the time such as broas castelares and traditional fritters such as filhoses, sonhos and rabanadas (french toast).
Christmas gifts are exchanged after midnight or the following morning, depending on each family habits. In days gone by, before Santa Claus was animating Portuguese Christmas and leaving the gifts on the tree, it was the Child Jesus who delivered them.