Easter is coming soon, so you can already create a festive menu. Naturally, the main dishes of the table always are and will be Easter cottage cheese, Easter cake and colored eggs, while the rest of its components you can choose to your liking.
As you know, the main dishes of the festive Easter table are kulich, cottage cheese Easter and boiled colored eggs, but these dishes are often its decoration and the dishes are almost always untouched. Therefore, the question of what to cook for Easter is very relevant. Previously, a lot of dishes were always prepared for Easter, and in non-poor families the number of dishes was equal to the number of days of Great Lent - 48. The basis of the table was meat dishes, for example, homemade sausage and boiled pork, baked duck or goose stuffed with apples or prunes, suckling pigs and etc. The food was always served cold, and the first meal took place immediately after the arrival from the church at night. After defending the service, people came home, ate thick oatmeal jelly, seasoned with vegetable oil, and always ate one egg, a slice of Easter and a slice of sweet cake. A richer table was collected in the morning and was not cleaned all day, since on the Bright holiday it was customary to visit relatives and friends, without an invitation to sit down at the table and feast on treats.
What to cook for the Easter table: salads
For Easter, you can cook many different types of dishes, including the meat ones described above. If you are not a meat lover or are preparing a table for such people, then be sure to serve it with various salads. Below are the salad recipes.
Easter salad with pineapple
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of smoked meat;
- one bell pepper;
- 200 grams of canned pineapple;
- 100 grams of hazelnuts;
- half a fresh, medium-sized cucumber;
- two eggs;
- greens;
- mayonnaise.
Boil and peel the eggs. Cut all other ingredients into strips, chop the nuts in a coffee grinder. Put everything in a deep bowl, salt and mix with mayonnaise. Put the resulting mass in a shallow wide plate, put grated eggs on top and brush with mayonnaise. Garnish the salad with herbs.
Easter salad with croutons
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of cabbage;
- 200 grams of smoked meat;
- a bunch of green onions;
- a pinch of sugar;
- 50 grams of white bread;
- salt and mayonnaise to taste.
Chop the cabbage thinly, salt, add sugar and remember with your hands. Cut the meat into strips, chop the onion. Cut the bread into cubes, dry in the oven. Mix cabbage, onion and meat, season with mayonnaise. Decorate the dish with croutons.
Easter salad without eggs
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of radish;
- a bunch of green onions, cilantro, parsley and basil;
- a bunch of lettuce (it should be the same as all the greens);
- a tablespoon of wine vinegar;
- pepper and salt to taste;
- 1/3 cup olive oil.
Rinse the radishes and cut into thin slices. Finely chop the greens, tear the lettuce at random with your hands. Place everything in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the vinegar, oil, pepper and salt, pour the mixture over the salad and stir gently. This dish goes well with baked goose or duck.
What to cook for the Easter table 2016
In addition to the above salads for Easter, you can prepare all kinds of snacks. For example, canapés are currently popular in all sorts of variations. As for the snacks themselves, choose your favorite ingredients, experiment and find the most appealing combinations for you. For example, canapes have interesting taste, which include cucumber, shrimp soaked in soy sauce, and olive. The variation is no less tasty: dried rye bread, boiled carrots, red fish and dill.
