Ukrainians have traditionally cooked many different dishes for the Easter celebration. While Easter bread and eggs play an essential ceremonial function, there are other recipes to include in your festive menu. Festive meat and dairy dishes Generally speaking, Easter dishes fall into two groups — meat and dairy. Dairy dishes may vary from region to region. Still, the most common are cottage cheese Easter cake, sweet casserole, pleskanka (baked cottage cheese), butter (sometimes shaped like a lamb using a unique metal mold), and cottage cheese pyrizhky (hand pies). There is...
Ukrainian Easter dishes
Easter is considered to be the most important day in the annual calendar of church holidays. This bright day symbolizes the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion and the unconditional victory of life over death. Like many other holidays in the Ukrainian culture, the celebration of Easter is accompanied by the preparation of a large feast with peculiar dishes. Ukrainian custom to set the table on Easter Each region and village in Ukraine has peculiarities of celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord. But the basis is always the traditional...
Traditional Easter dinner meals
Easter dishes are church-consecrated meals eaten during the family's Easter breakfast. Ukrainians consecrate mostly dishes that were not eaten during Lent: ham, sausage, cheese, butter, eggs, etc. Eggs are of special importance: there are krashanky (one-colored Easter eggs) and pysanky (hand-painted Easter eggs). Bitter herbs (such as horseradish), which are served at the Easter table in the memory of the bitterness of Christ's passion, were and are the must of a festive menu. Beetroot seasoned with horseradish is also consecrated in some Ukrainian regions. But the centerpiece of the Easter...