What do other countries have as traditional Sunday food?

[AtlasPine]

I know loads of Brits don’t have a roast on Sunday but it’s definitely a traditional Sunday meal.

We wondered today as we tucked into our roasties whether other countries traditionally have Sunday specials?

When I grew up we had the Sonntagsbraten - a roast (pork or beef or horse ) with potatoes / dumplings / noodles and several kinds of vegetables and / or salad. Usually a boullion for starters.
For example this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerbraten

Now it is all more international, traditions are no longer that important. We (my family) no longer prepare special meals for Sundays.

I'm in Italy and where we are it tends to be pasta, often tortellini or lasagne with possibly a second course of meat and vegetables too. For dessert we have pasticcini which are mini patisserie style cakes.

When we lived in Germany it seemed Brunch was the major meal on Sundays

I miss them.

Rice or 'Sunday rice' is the traditional Sunday meal in Nigeria.

Typically Rice and Stew (White rice and tomato stew (with peppers, onions and seasoning) with meat or fish or Jollof rice with meat or fish.

My Jamaican mum always did rice and peas with either chicken or beef on Sundays. Guinness punch or pineapple punch to drink. Or carrot juice, Jamaican style!

North East coast of Spain my mother's family would go to a restaurant for a paella.

Living in Italy we always had pizza and beer on Sundays, in a restaurant. Not sure if that is a wider tradition but what most people in my social circle did, but I was mid-20s then rather than living as a family.

I think probably ‘Sunday’ food is either good that is fiddly to prepare (as have more time on a Sunday) or in Christian societies food that could be put in the oven while they went to church.

This thread makes me want to start having a special Sunday meal...

@BrieAndChilli - Right for my tradition / upbringing + food that was a little bit out of the ordinary:
So potatoes + vegetables (carrots, kale, savoy, cabbage, beans) plus a little bit of sausage for weekdays and meat for Sundays. Kept you slim, too.

Here in Portugal roast suckling pig or goat are common traditional Sunday lunch out dishes, also Portuguese stew made with various cuts of meat, smoked sausages and veg.

Punjab - northern India. Stuffed Parathas, usually stuffed with potatoes, fenugreek, or radish. A side of pickle to go with it, and some home made yogurt. And a hot cup of chai. Many Punjabis have that here on a Sunday too.

I’m in Australia and I’m afraid ours is a rather cliched barbecue! I don’t know if it’s everyone but we love a relaxed Sunday barbie.

Always a Sunday roast when I was a kid we often had chicken or that Birds Eye beef in gravy was either boil in the bag or in a silver tray. The gravy was lush.

I do a roast every Sunday usually chicken or pork. Today though we had braising steak done in the slow cooker

My Italian friends (and all their family) make a massive pan of Sugo with meat - usually pork. Have tried to recreate but doesn't taste the same. Basically tomatoes, red wine, stick, garlic, onions and lots of herbs in a huge pan in the oven for hours. Pasta with the sauce to start and the meat second.

With the pork obviously!

Clear beef, chicken or vegetable soup as a starter and fried chicken as the main, with potato (usually mashed) and salad as sides. Nobody does better fried chicken than my mother and her soups are out of this world too.

Grew up in Australia with a British father he'd make Sunday roasts in 40° heat in summer ☺

@Ozgirl75

I’m in Australia and I’m afraid ours is a rather cliched barbecue! I don’t know if it’s everyone but we love a relaxed Sunday barbie.

I was going to say Bunnings Sausage Sizzle! 😂

For those not in Oz, Bunnings, a big DIY store, allows charities and local groups to raise funds by selling sausages and soft drinks at the weekend. The shops provide a bbq, umbrella and customers. The groups provide the labour, sausages, sauces, bread rolls and drinks.

The weekend pilgrimage is akin to to church going in some households (side eye to DH).

In fact, it was when sausage sizzles were cancelled that people started taking COVID seriously.

Bunnings

SA. Sundays are braai day (BBQ)

But yesteday we had curry.

I do roasts sometimes but usually not on a Sunday. I do it in the week as I can shove the meat/pots in and leave it while I get on with work, then do the veg later.

For those not in Oz, Bunnings, a big DIY store, allows charities and local groups to raise funds by selling sausages and soft drinks at the weekend. The shops provide a bbq, umbrella and customers. The groups provide the labour, sausages, sauces, bread rolls and drinks.

Oh yes! I'm in NZ and I've never see one of these outside Bunnings, but other stores have them. I'm always disappointed if I go into town on a weekend day and no-one has one.