What to cook for the bright holiday of Easter, except for Easter cake? TOP 5 recipes with photos of the Easter menu at home. Video recipes.
Easter is the most joyful Christian holiday, and the first and main dish on this day is Easter cake and dyes. However, the Easter table menu is not limited to ritual rich bread and colored eggs. The hostess sets a festive Easter table and various other exquisite and tasty treats. We will find out the TOP-5 of the most popular and interesting dishes for the holiday of the bright Sunday of Christ.
Meatloaf with spinach and mushrooms
The juicy and tasty stuffed meatloaf will make you tinker a little in the kitchen, but the result will be stunning! This dish diversifies the menu, will delight you with its appetizing appearance and excellent taste.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 159 kcal.
- Servings - 1 roll
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Mixed minced meat - 750 g
- Champignons - 225 g
- Chili sauce - 70 g
- Worcester sauce - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Frozen spinach - 300 g
- Celery stalk - 2 pcs.
- Pitted olives - 125 g
- Oat flakes - 60 g
- Small onion - 1 pc.
- Salt to taste
- Eggs - 1 pc.
Cooking the spinach and mushroom meatloaf:
- Peel the onions and cut them into small cubes together with the celery. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and fry vegetables until soft.
- Put the onion and celery from the pan and send the thinly sliced mushrooms into the same pan. Fry them until golden brown and remove from heat.
- Squeeze the spinach out of excess moisture and chop, and chop the olives in medium pieces. Combine the filling products: spinach, olives, mushrooms and mix everything.
- For a roll, combine minced meat, egg, onion-celery mixture, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, chili sauce, oatmeal and 60 ml water. Mix everything well and line the minced meat in a rectangle on parchment paper.
- Spread the filling evenly on top of the minced meat and roll into a roll. Directly with the parchment, transfer it to a baking sheet and send it to bake in a preheated oven to 200 ° C.
- Bake the meatloaf until tender, 45 minutes.
"Nest" salad
Fried potatoes, pickled cucumbers, chicken, sausage and … "Nest" salad for the Easter table. This is a delicious, satisfying and nutritious dish.
Ingredients:
- Sausage cervelat - 150 g
- Chicken fillet - 1 pc.
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- Pickled champignons - 100 g
- Dill - bunch
- Mayonnaise - 5 tbsp l.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Salt to taste
- Quail eggs - 3-5 pcs.
Cooking salad "Nest":
- Boil chicken fillet until tender, and hard boiled chicken eggs. Cool the food. Peel the eggs and cut into cubes along with the chicken fillet and cervelat.
- Add finely chopped mushrooms and cucumbers to the food. Season the food with mayonnaise and stir.
- Peel the potatoes, wash, cut into thin strips, dry with a paper towel and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
- Shape the salad and place on a nest-shaped platter. Place the fried potatoes on top. Garnish the top of the salad with finely chopped dill, on which put hard-boiled quail eggs.
Easter cookies
Easter cookies are a flight of culinary fantasy, where there is no limit. It is important that the cookies are not only tasty, but also beautifully decorated in the Easter theme. It can be shaped like eggs, rabbits, cockerels, animals, flowers, etc. The offered cookies are made from shortcrust pastry, it turns out to be tender and crumbly.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 250 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Icing sugar - 100 g for dough, 100 g for icing
- Egg yolks - 2 pcs.
- Egg whites - 1 pc.
- Food colors - 4 drops.
Making Easter Biscuits:
- Place soft butter in a bowl and mash with a fork.
- Add powdered sugar to the butter and grind everything.
- Whisk in the chicken yolks and stir until smooth, like a cream.
- Add the sifted wheat flour in two steps and quickly knead the dough with a fork to make a coarse oily crumb.
- Gather the dough with your hands in a ball, without interfering, wrap with cling film and send to the refrigerator for an hour.
- After the required time, roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment paper 5-7 mm thick and cut out the blanks with the figures you like best.
- Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 15 minutes until browning.
- Cool the finished cookies and decorate with sugar icing. To prepare it, pour the egg white into a bowl, add the icing sugar, dyes and mix everything, rubbing, until the icing becomes thick enough.
- Transfer the frosting to a plastic bag, cut off the tip 1mm and paint over the cookie. Leave the decorated cookies to set the icing.
Cookies "Easter egg yolks"
Such wonderful cookies will decorate the Easter table. It is prepared from shortcrust pastry, but you can knead your favorite dough. Decorate baked goods with canned apricot halves, which will mimic egg yolks.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Egg yolks - 2 pcs.
- Butter - 100 g
- Sugar - 80 g
- Vanilla sugar - 2 tsp
- Lemon juice - 2-3 tablespoons
- Powdered sugar - 6-7 tablespoons
- Canned apricots in juice (halves) - 12-14 halves
Making Easter Egg Yolks Cookies:
- Mash the yolks with sugar, add vanilla sugar and softened butter. Beat the products with a mixer until smooth.
- Add sifted flour into the egg-butter mass and knead an elastic shortbread dough.
- Place the dough on a floured surface, roll it out about 6 mm thick and cut out the circles with a glass.
- Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 12-15 minutes. Gently transfer the finished cookies to a wire rack and cool.
- Place the apricot halves on paper towels to dry out and remove all excess moisture.
- Mix the powdered sugar and lemon juice to form a viscous, light mass. Cover the cookies with the resulting icing, and in the center lay the half of the apricot, cut down.
Easter nests made of straw
A great idea to beautifully decorate a three-ingredient Easter table. At the same time, everyone will like Easter nests made of straw with their appearance and taste. It is beautiful, elegant, and very simple.
Ingredients:
- Black chocolate - 100 g
- Straws - 100 g
- Colored pills - 20-25 pcs.
Making Easter nests from straw:
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath or microwave. Do not bring it to a boil, otherwise it will acquire bitterness, from which it will be impossible to get rid of.
- Break the straws into pieces of different lengths, put them in the melted chocolate and stir gently so that they are covered with glaze on all sides.
- Spoon the straws into nests on parchment paper and use your fingers to trim to shape. Leave them to stand for the chocolate to freeze completely.
- Transfer the nests to a clean sheet of baking paper and place a few dragees or iced peanuts inside that look a lot like real nests and eggs.
