Catholic Easter in 2017 coincides with Orthodox Easter, which we will celebrate on April 16. There is very little left before the end of Lent; it’s time to decide on the choice of Easter recipes and think through the menu of the Easter table.

The festive meal symbolizes the feast of the Resurrection of Christ and is the end of a multi-day fast. After the service, it is customary to break the fast with colored eggs, Easter cake and Easter cottage cheese.

On Easter, the whole family will gather at the festive Easter table, and every housewife strives to please her loved ones with Easter cakes, Easter cottage cheese, jellied meat, boiled pork, painted eggs, fish and homemade liqueur. We hope that our selection of Easter recipes will help you with your choice.

Crumbly unusual cookies with lemon flavor in a sweet and sour glaze are an excellent option for Easter dessert.

Plyatsok is a confectionery product popular in Western Ukraine, a multi-layer cake-dessert served on holidays and celebrations. Plyatski are very similar to a cake, but, as a rule, they are baked in a rectangular shape. In cross-section, the dance is bright and multi-colored, thanks to the various layers, fillings and creams.

Cottage cheese Easter is a traditional dish on the Easter table. Usually this Easter is prepared with butter and eggs. If you do not have a special form for curd Easter - a pasta box, then you can put the curd mass in a sieve lined with gauze, a flower pot or in a plastic bucket, just make a hole in it to drain the whey. From this amount of ingredients you get one Easter cake 10 cm high.

Easter cake according to this recipe It turns out lush, porous, aromatic. Wonderful recipe! Makes approximately 20 medium-sized Easter cakes.

Delicious. Airborne. Easy to prepare. An ideal recipe for those who don’t want to spend the whole day baking cakes, but want perfect cakes!

Jellied eggs are original and beautiful. This appetizer will decorate any holiday feast. Suitable for both the Easter table and the New Year's table. You can make sweet eggs in the same way -.

Liquid Easter Kulich novice housewives will like it. Baking it is not difficult and does not take as long as other recipes. Moderately sweet, so those with a sweet tooth can safely increase the amount of sugar.

Incredibly tasty: tender, soft, moderately sweet cake that does not go stale for a long time. People with a sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar. From the described amount of ingredients you get 8 Easter cakes of different sizes.

Chicken saltison is a good substitute for sausage. It can be served on the table with mustard, like jellied meat, or as a sandwich, putting a piece of saltison on gray bread.

You can also bake Easter cake in a slow cooker - this will save you a little time, and the result will be in no way inferior to the classic one!

Easter is a great Christian holiday that gathers parishioners under church domes in common prayer, and family, friends, and neighbors around the Easter table. Every housewife tries to prepare a lot of delicious dishes so that the entire Easter week (Bright Week) the table is full of dishes, so that they themselves can break their fast and not offend the guests. In this article we will discuss what to cook for the Easter table.

Our ancestors took a thorough approach to the celebration of Easter. Wealthy families put on the table, in addition to colored eggs and Easter cakes:

• aspic and jellied meat
• baked poultry
• boiled pork and sausages
• vegetable salads
• pickles
• pies with a wide variety of fillings
• homemade wines
• sbitni

Those who did not have such an opportunity prepared simple recipes for the Easter table, but of course, Easter cake, Easter cottage cheese and colored eggs.

After the night service, the family returned from church, the owner with a bowl of consecrated food walked around the table three times, and then the family began to eat. The first thing everyone tried was pieces of food sprinkled with holy water.

Easter table menu, recipes for preparing holiday dishes

A modern family carefully prepares for the bright holiday, groceries are purchased in advance, the housewife takes out a cookbook or a cooking notebook, and selects the best recipes for the Easter table, which are passed down from generation to generation.

Easter table: Easter cake recipes

At the head of the table is Easter cake; it is baked from choux or rich yeast dough, less often from unleavened dough.

Anyone who has cooked Easter cake knows what a complex dish it is, the preparation of which must be approached responsibly. Easter cakes are baked during the week on Maundy Thursday before Easter, as a last resort - on Saturday, but not on Good Friday, if you adhere to traditions.

For Easter cakes we buy only fresh and high-quality products. Before starting work, the housewife crosses herself so that God will give a blessing. The room where we prepare the dough and bake the cakes should be clean, quiet, warm, and without drafts.

Products for Easter cakes :

• Peasant butter with a high percentage of fat content - 400 g
• Yolks - 15 pcs (from home eggs only)
• Country milk - half a liter
• Flour - 1 kg premium
• Sugar - 500 g
• Semolina - half a glass
• Vanillin or vanilla sugar
• Candied fruits 50 g, raisins 200 g, half a lemon with thick skin
• 80 g wet yeast

1. In 250 g of warm milk, dilute yeast and mix with a glass of flour, sifted through a sieve.
2. We wrap it in a warm scarf or blanket and put it in a warm place, near the stove or radiator.
3. As soon as the dough rises, beat it down and add the remaining milk (after dissolving the sugar in it), then the flour and yolks. After that, back into the warmth - under a fur coat for three hours.
4. As soon as the dough has risen, we begin to actively knead, adding butter, vanillin, raisins and lemon zest. Knead the dough until it starts to squeak and easily separates from the walls of the dishes and hands.

Baking Easter cake

Grease the inside of the baking dish with margarine and sprinkle with semolina; it is even better to use special paper that protects from burning and decorates the baked goods. Place a little less than half of the slightly liquid dough into the mold, cover and let rise.

1. We turn on the oven to 180º in advance, as soon as the cake has doubled in size, very carefully set it to bake for 30 minutes.
2. We check readiness with a thin wooden stick by piercing the cake - it should remain dry.
3. Carefully remove the baked goods and after 10 minutes, gently shake them out of the mold.

Easter cake decoration

Traditionally, the Easter cake was greased with sugar syrup and sprinkled with dyed millet. Now housewives mainly use sugar icing, buy it, or make it themselves. Preparing the glaze does not require much effort:

1. Take one protein and one glass of sugar
2. Beat with a mixer until a homogeneous thick mass retains its shape when transferred to the product.
3. Sprinkle with colored powder

Easter table: Easter cottage cheese recipes with photos

Cottage cheese Easter is a fragrant and very tasty dish that quickly disappears from the holiday table and is eaten with pleasure. Cottage cheese Easter happens:

• raw
• custard
• boiled
• baked in the oven

Raw cottage cheese Easter is made, or rather, takes the form of a special stepson in the shape of a pyramid, on which a convex pattern of a cross or other church symbols is embossed.

1. We make the main dish of the Sunday table from cottage cheese pureed until smooth with the addition of cream, powdered sugar, vanillin, cardamom, and yolks.
2. It is better not to add raisins to cottage cheese if you are going to store it for several days, so as not to sour.

Custard Easter

1. Brew the yolk-cream mixture
2. Mix cottage cheese and sugar, cream or butter into it.
3. At the end, add vanillin, raisins, candied fruits (preferably multi-colored), walnuts (finely ground)

Baked Easter is different from preparing traditional Easter, but no less appetizing and beautiful. Cottage cheese Easter cooked in the oven will require more effort than previous options. For this you need to take a springform pan with a large diameter.

Products for Easter baked in the oven:

• Fat, dry, strained cottage cheese 1.5 kg
• Sugar 400 g
• A packet of vanilla and lemon zest
• Raisins 200 g
• Country cream 200 g
• Butter 50 g
• Peasant eggs 6 pieces
• Semolina 100 g

The process of preparing cottage cheese Easter baked in the oven:

1. Separate the yolks from the whites, beat separately until foamy.
2. Mix the yolks into the cottage cheese and add cream, in which semolina was previously added for swelling.
3. Then pour in the melted butter and add powdered sugar.
4. At the very end, carefully stir in the raisins, vanillin and lemon zest, and lastly add the whites.
5. Grease the mold with margarine and sprinkle with semolina.
6. Transfer the curd mass into a mold and place in the oven, preheated to 180º, leave to bake for 20 minutes.
7. Carefully remove the finished Easter from the springform pan.

Decoration of cottage cheese Easter:

• whipped cream with powdered sugar
• fresh berries
• caramel
• powder

You can use other decorations for the holiday dish - it all depends on the flight of your imagination.

Easter table: recipes for meat dishes

A festive table is not complete without rich jellied meat, which is served with seasonings: horseradish and mustard.

Poultry jellied meat

Products for chicken jellied meat:

• Rooster carcass
• Homemade chicken carcass
• Chicken or turkey breast 1 kg
• Gelatin – 3 packs of 25 g each
• Garlic, onion, carrots, pepper, salt

The process of preparing jellied poultry:

1. On Wednesday, the week before Easter, soak the meat in a large saucepan overnight.
2. In the morning, on Clean Thursday, we drain the water, rinse the carcasses well, add new water and start cooking.
3. After it boils, drain the first water, add new water, and bring to a boil.
4. We turn the heat to very low so that the meat simmers.
5. Add bay leaf, carrot, 2 large peeled onions.
6. Cook until the bones begin to separate from the carcass.
7. Turn off the heat and leave to cool, and then remove the meat with a slotted spoon and cut it, removing the skin and bones.
8. Chop, salt, pepper and arrange on plates.
9. Soak two packets of instant gelatin for an hour and pour into a saucepan, heat to 90º.
10. Squeeze the garlic, previously squeezed out through a garlic press, into the water through cheesecloth and pour it into plates, set it in the cold.

Decorating the jellied meat

We take out the prepared jellied meat, laid out on plates, to cool, and decorate on top:

• sprigs of greenery
• boiled carrot figurines
• pickled cucumber slices
• pieces of egg

Easter table: recipes for meat dishes with photos

In addition to jellied meat, they serve a variety of meat snacks for the Easter table:

• smoked hams
• bird
• brawn
• meatloaf
• sausages
• Blood sausage was especially popular in the old days

All this can be bought in a store, at the market, or prepared yourself.

Pork or young beef

1. Take a ham or, better yet, a loin and soak it in water.
2. Marinate in a saline solution with seasonings (garlic, onion, juniper leaves, bay leaf, allspice, paprika), the more time the better.
3. Place in foil and in the oven until ready at 200º.

Chops fried in a pan

1. Cutlet meat (loin) mode, portioned into cutlets
2. Beat, salt, pepper
3. Dip each side in flour and egg
4. Fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil or lard

The dish is to die for!

Beef or chicken liver cake

Salads for the Easter table recipes

On the festive table on Easter Sunday there are many high-calorie and heavy flour and meat dishes. Therefore, it is best if there are light vegetable salads on the table. Now vegetables are in stores all year round and you can indulge in light, healthy salads.

Salads for the Easter table: recipes with photos

Light and tasty salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes and herbs. The dressing can be olive or vegetable oil.

Spring salad An excellent addition to meat dishes. Delicate and vitamin-rich with radishes, the first spring greens, seasoned with olive oil and sprinkled with vinegar - it will decorate the holiday table with bright colors.

Goes great together green beans, green peas, egg and greens, and if we add hard cheese and garnish with lettuce leaves, it will be an original holiday dish.

Boiled new potato salad with herbs, seasoned with garlic, mustard and unrefined aromatic vegetable oil.

Easter wreath for eggs made from dough

Painted eggs occupy an important place on the Easter table - it is impossible to imagine Easter Sunday without them. Each housewife chooses her own way of coloring and creatively decorating eggs: onion peels, greens, food coloring, decals, beads, balls and flowers.

In order for the eggs to look beautiful on the table, a wreath is specially baked from rich yeast dough. It is convenient to place eggs in such a roll, and it will also decorate the Easter table with dignity.

Easter is a big, bright holiday with the All-Night Liturgy, the blessed ringing of bells and the divine aromas of Easter dishes, with which Bright Sunday is celebrated in every home..

Video: Easter table recipes from Yulia Vysotskaya

Easter is a holiday for which it is customary to prepare in advance and preferably with the whole family: bake and decorate Easter cakes, prepare cottage cheese Easter, paint eggs and consecrate all this wealth in church. You also need to cook something tasty and easy to break the fast. In general, there are enough worries before Easter, and many housewives simply do not have time to take care of setting the table and decorating the dishes, but a beautiful, tastefully decorated table is half the festive mood. Try to make Easter 2017 a truly bright and joyful holiday in your family. And the Culinary Eden website will help with ideas and original solutions.

In Russia, it is customary to prepare Easter pastries and eggs separately, but in Greece there is a beautiful custom of baking sweet Easter bread together with colored eggs. To do this, form a braid or wreath from the dough and insert eggs into the weave of the strands. Such pastries in themselves can become a decoration for any Easter table.

Easter bread can also be prepared in the form of a lamb, that is, a lamb. Molds in the shape of a lamb can be found in stores, but even without them you can bake a cupcake or Easter cake in the shape of a fluffy lamb. Dust it with powdered sugar or thick glaze, tie a colored ribbon around its neck and place it on a platter lined with fresh herbs.

Easter cakes and colored eggs can become interesting table decorations in themselves. Cover the Easter cakes with colored icing in delicate pastel colors, tie them with matching satin ribbons, paint the eggs in the same colors - and your Easter 2017 will be very stylish.

If you do not follow the rules of color combinations, but simply decorate the Easter cake with colored candied fruits and place eggs painted in all the colors of the rainbow next to it, it will also turn out very attractive. Flowers and colored ribbons will help complete the picture.

By the way, flowers, real or artificial, are always a win-win way to decorate a holiday table. Place a flower on small Easter cakes and they will immediately be transformed.

Easter cakes can be decorated with halves of canned peaches or apricots - they are very similar to the bright yolks of country eggs. For Easter cake with peaches, choose blue or green surroundings: napkins, cups, colored eggs.

Painted eggs are also a surefire way to decorate the Easter table. Make a cozy nest for them using fresh herbs or thinly cut strips of green paper.

More luxuriously colored eggs will look better in a basket. Cover a basket with lace napkins, put a pile of eggs in it, alternating them with toys, sweets and flowers.

A very original way to decorate the Easter table is to paint eggs with onion skins so that they are covered with a colored mesh. To do this, lightly break the boiled eggs, tapping them on the table on all sides, and leave them in the onion or tea broth for several hours. Serve the eggs peeled and surrounded by shells. With a dish of these eggs, your Easter 2017 will take on an oriental flavor.

Who said that Easter eggs must be real? They may well be made from cookies or gingerbread. Paint them with colored glaze and place a beautiful composition in a vase or nest.

Cottage cheese Easter can also serve as a table decoration. Lay out patterns on its surface using candied orange peel or colored candied fruits, place eggs painted in the same colors next to it, complement the composition with fresh mint and fresh flowers.

Craftswomen who know how to bake and decorate muffins can not limit their imagination for Easter. Miniature cupcakes with a cream cap in delicate spring colors and flowers made of mastic or marzipan will completely replace the traditional Easter cake. Painted chicken eggs will not fit in size, but you can paint quail eggs.

Another way to decorate small Easter cakes in an original way is to lay out chocolate cream in the form of a nest and fill this nest with colored mastic eggs or dragee candies.

When setting the table for Easter, try to use colors in the same range or the same shades. Pastel colors look tender in spring - purple, pink, cream. They go well with young spring greens.

For those with more traditional views, there is also a way to stylishly decorate the Easter table. Cover the table with a lace runner and place Easter cakes of different sizes and colored eggs on it. For the largest cake, use a cake stand. If you don't have one, you can place the plate on an inverted bowl.

Owners of samovars and homespun towels can decorate their holiday table in the traditional Russian style. Select paper molds with appropriate designs for baking Easter cakes - they will complement the picture and allow you to keep the Easter cakes fresh longer. Such a still life with Easter cakes and a samovar can be built a few days before Easter on a separate table or in a corner of your dining table - it will remind you of the upcoming holiday.

What to do with the other dishes that will be on your Easter table? How to make them festive? We also have several ideas on this matter. See how regular boiled eggs make a cute spring flower-like snack. You will need some fresh herbs and flowers. If there are no flowers, cut them from carrots or bell peppers.

If you plan to have ham rolls on your table, add a spring feel to them by tying them with onion arrows. You can do the same with stuffed eggs. A soft green tablecloth or napkins will support your mood.

Another version of decorating stuffed eggs uses traditional Easter colors - red and green. Garnish the deviled eggs with thick tomato sauce and fresh herbs, and add fresh tomatoes, lettuce or other vegetables. Such a bright appetizer will decorate any table.

Snack tartlets for Easter can be prepared in the shape of rabbits - fill them with white cheese cream, decorate with fresh vegetables, and make ears from thin sweet onion rings.

Layered salads provide a lot of room for imagination. In honor of Easter, your favorite salads can be decorated with images of a candle or the letters XB. Use pomegranate seeds, corn, egg yolks and whites, cranberries, olives, nuts, and fresh herbs for this. In an effort to decorate the Easter table, remember that all products should go well with each other. This is especially important for those who have fasted for the entire 7 weeks.

May your Easter 2017 be joyful, tasty and beautiful!

Easter is a bright and joyful holiday for Orthodox Christians. On this day it is customary to go to visit or receive guests at home. The Easter table should contain the obligatory traditional dishes, as well as those prepared according to the housewife’s own recipes. It should be noted that many today observe or at least fast the last, Holy Week. This fact should definitely be taken into account when creating a menu for the Easter table.

Since ancient times, we have come to believe that the Easter table should be rich and literally bursting with all kinds of dishes. Previously, more than forty dishes were prepared, depending on the number of days of fasting. Now this rule, of course, is not observed, but, nevertheless, you want to surprise your guests with something tasty and unusual.

Traditional dishes

There are a number of dishes that no one can do without. Easter table.

1. Painted eggs. This is a symbol of Easter, without which it is impossible to imagine this holiday. Initially, eggs were painted exclusively red, but today there are a huge variety of ways to decorate them. Single-color food dyes and stickers are popular, and the method of coloring eggs in onion skins is still very common. Needlewomen decorate boiled eggs with decoupage, quilling and even knitting.
2. Kulich. Not a single Easter feast is complete without Easter cake. Of course, you can buy it in a store, but it’s much nicer to try your own baked Easter cake. Traditionally, a lot of eggs are used to bake it; the dough turns out to be quite heavy. You can add raisins, any nuts, and candied fruits to the dough. An indispensable decoration of any Easter cake is a protein glaze sprinkled with multi-colored crumbs on top.
3. Easter. This curd dish is also necessary on the table. It is prepared from sour cream or cottage cheese over several days. The fattier the product from which Easter is prepared, the heavier and higher in calories it turns out. For Easter there are special springforms, usually made of wood or plastic. Traditional Easter toppings include raisins and walnuts. Although there are many Easter recipes with candied fruits, almonds and other nuts, and chocolate chips.

These dishes are prepared in advance and on the day before the holiday they are taken to church for consecration.

Traditionally, fish is not cooked on Easter, but today this rule is gradually becoming a thing of the past, because among the guests there may be vegetarians who eat fish on holidays. Also, if among your guests there are those who do not eat meat, you definitely need to take care of them and prepare something exclusively from vegetables.

If you and your loved ones have been fasting for all seven weeks, then you should not immediately put a lot of fatty and heavy dishes on the holiday table. The body can react unpredictably to such stress. An abundance of fatty foods can have an extremely negative impact on the digestive system, because over a long period of fasting, the body has become accustomed to completely different foods.

Sample menu for Easter 2017

In addition to traditional Easter cakes and eggs, you can prepare the following dishes:

1. Snacks. Light and tasty, your guests will definitely like them and add variety to the table. Excellent options are tomatoes cut into slices with cheese and garlic; fried eggplant rolls with cheese and nuts; herring with vegetable oil or in an interesting sauce.
2. Salads. Usually we are used to preparing quite hearty salads with mayonnaise, for example, Olivier salad, herring under a fur coat, chicken salad with pineapple, mimosa are always appropriate. But don’t forget that in spring you really want freshness and vitamins! Surprise your guests with an original salad of radishes and tomatoes, prepare a light Greek salad or a spring salad of Chinese cabbage.
3. Hot. Easter is a great time for a barbecue. However, in an apartment you can prepare other hot dishes. Meat baked in foil or a sleeve is perfect for the Easter table. It could be beef, pork, chicken or even rabbit. If there are fresh cut vegetables or light vegetable salads on the table, then you can do without a side dish.

A carefully thought-out menu will allow you to surprise your guests and please each of them.

In 2020, Easter is celebrated by the Orthodox Church on April 19. For this bright day, it is customary to prepare traditional Easter dishes and richly set the festive table.

However, it is not enough to prepare delicious dishes for Easter, you need to serve them beautifully. We offer original ideas for decorating the Easter table that will help you cope with this task in the best possible way.

When deciding how to decorate the Easter table, consider the symbolism of flowers. White is a symbol of purity and divine light, red is the color of love, which personifies the boundless love of Christ for people. Yellow is a symbol of joy and light, green is the awakening of nature and freshness.

To liven up the interior of your kitchen or dining room, hang on the wall several crafts in the form of painted eggs on bright ribbons or a garland of cardboard eggs, chickens, lambs and other holiday attributes. Put an elegant cover in the shape of a chicken or lamb on the teapot.

Another Easter table decoration idea is to decorate with an Easter wreath. It can be placed in the center of the table, placing an Easter cake in the middle, and laying out colored eggs around the perimeter. Or hang such a wreath on the wall, window opening, furniture doors.

What's the best way to decorate the Easter table?

You can place a large glass vase in the center of the table, placing cut corrugated green paper in it, and colored eggs on it. Or place them on a nice big platter with some red beans or lentils on top.

You can also serve eggs in stands, placing small bouquets of flowers in them. An equally effective option is to place a bunch of fresh herbs in a bright rosette or small decorative bucket, and place a painted egg in the center.

Miniature quail eggs in bird nests made from twigs and straw will look original.

How to properly set the table for Easter? Place blooming willow branches and spring-blooming shrubs in vases.

You can crochet several bright flowers from colored yarn and string them on dry twigs or decorate the branches with paper flowers, hang decorative painted eggs or other figures made of paper, fabric or beads on the branches.

What should be on the table on Easter?

On this day, ritual dishes are served to the table - Easter cottage cheese, Easter cakes, larks in the form of birds, Easter lambs, baked goods in the form of crosses, cookies with the inscription “XV” (Christ is Risen), etc.

For serving, it is better to use colored dishes, a tablecloth and napkins. The table is decorated with fresh or bright paper flowers, fresh herbs, figurines of cockerels, larks, doves and lambs.

Easter table settings can be decorated with paper napkins, cutting out chickens, hares or flowers from them. Please note that cutlery and dishes are not removed from the table all day, because on Easter it is customary to go to visit friends and relatives until the evening, treat yourself and treat others.