OK Google, which is the typical recipe for the Italian Christmas dinner? You may try asking this to Google or to your Italian friends, but you will be probably surprised to get dozens or even hundreds of different answers to this question. The right answer is that there is no particular Christmas dish in Italy that can be found on the table in every single Italian family.

The key to understand this Italian peculiarity is not to think of the whole country but of every single region. The Christmas eve menu differs from one region to another reflecting the characteristics and flavours of the local environment.