What to cook for Shrovetide besides pancakes? TOP-6 recipes with photos of traditional dishes for Shrovetide. Video recipes.
Shrovetide is an ancient Orthodox holiday. To this day, from ancient times, the custom has been preserved at this time to cook pancakes, which symbolize the sun. However, in addition to pancakes, other traditional dishes are also prepared for Shrovetide. According to the church charter, in the last week before Great Lent, you can eat all food, with the exception of meat dishes. During Shrovetide, milk, sour cream, cheese, eggs, fish are welcome on the table. The richer and more varied the table is set, the more successful the year will be. The most popular dishes for Orolet Week after pancakes are pancakes, dumplings, pies, donuts, cheesecakes, cheesecakes, pancakes, buns and other pastries. This material offers TOP-6 recipes for cooking dishes for Shrovetide except pancakes.
Honey gingerbread
Wednesday of Pancake Week is called "Gourmet". On this day, sons-in-law came to the mother-in-law for pancakes. But in addition to pancake dishes, mother-in-law often treated her son-in-law with honey cakes on Shrovetide.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 389 kcal.
- Servings - 20
- Cooking time - 12 hours
Ingredients:
- Flour - 2 tbsp.
- Water - 0.25 tbsp.
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
- Egg white - 0, 5 pcs.
- Lemon juice - 0.5 tbsp
- Powdered sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
- Oil - 80 g
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Cloves - 0.25 tsp
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
- Ground ginger - 0.25 tsp
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
Cooking honey gingerbread:
- Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour in water and add honey. Put the food on a moderate heat and, while stirring, heat to dissolve the sugar.
- Remove the sweet mass from the heat, add the oil with spices (cinnamon, ginger, cloves) and stir to melt the butter.
- Combine the flour, baking soda and baking powder and pour in the warm, creamy honey mixture.
- Stir and knead the dough. Form it into a ball, wrap with cling film and refrigerate for 10 hours.
- Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator and leave to return to room temperature. Then roll it out and cut the gingerbread cookies using a special mold.
- Put the cut semi-finished products on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and send to a preheated oven to 200 degrees. Bake the gingerbread for 5-6 minutes.
- Whisk the egg white, icing sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Put the resulting glaze in a pastry bag and paint the gingerbread. Leave the baked goods to set.
Winter sbiten
Sbiten is a traditional Shrovetide dish. This is an old East Slavic drink made from water, honey and spices. Often, medicinal herbal preparations were included in the recipe. It is not only non-alcoholic, but also alcoholic, and also has different variations. For example, spicy sbiten, intoxicating, winter, molasses …
Ingredients:
- Water - 4 tbsp.
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Honey - 5 tablespoons
- Carnation - 1 pc.
- Cinnamon - 1 pc.
- Allspice - 1 pea
- Cardamom - 2-3 pcs.
Cooking winter sbitn:
- Pour water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil.
- Add sugar, honey and spices (cloves, cinnamon, allspice, cardamom) to boiling water.
- Stir the food, boil for 10-15 minutes and strain through a fine sieve.
- Serve the winter sbiten hot.
Jerk off or Brawl
Drochena or Drachenka is made from flour, milk and eggs. Sometimes it looks like an omelet, and sometimes the product is tougher, like baked cakes. Drochena also had ritual significance: they went with her to the cemetery on commemoration days.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Egg yolks - 10 pcs.
- Egg whites - 5 pcs.
- Cream (fatty) - 1 tbsp.
- Butter - 20 g
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Powdered sugar - 3 tablespoons
Cooking Jerk Off or Brawler:
- Mash the yolks with powdered sugar until white.
- Slowly pour the cream into the mixture and stir until smooth.
- Gradually add the sifted flour to the liquid mixture and add salt.
- Knead the dough and beat it well with your hands.
- Whisk the whites with a pinch of salt until a dense and stable white foam is formed.
- Add the protein mass to the dough and stir slowly from top to bottom.
- Grease a baking dish with butter and pour the dough into it.
- Send the jerky to bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
Kurnik
The Saturday evening of Maslenitsa is called “sister-in-law's gatherings”. On this day, flour dishes were prepared, like chicken, this is a certain type of cake. Kurnik is also called festive, royal and king of pies.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 100 g
- Sour cream - 110 g
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Flour - 2 tbsp.
- Sausage - 500 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
Cooking chicken coaster:
- Melt the butter in the microwave and cool to room temperature.
- Beat the egg with a mixer until fluffy and add to the butter mass.
- Add sour cream, salt, soda to the products and mix everything with a mixer.
- Add sifted flour to the sour cream-butter mixture and knead a light dough.
- Cover the dough with cling film and leave for an hour.
- For the filling, peel the potatoes and onions, wash and chop very finely together with the sausage. Add salt and pepper to the food and stir.
- Divide the dough into 2 parts in proportions: 2/3 and 1/3. Roll out most of it with a 5 mm rolling pin and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Step back 5 cm from the edges of the dough layer and lay out the filling, evenly distributing it.
- Roll out the second part of the dough, place on top of the filling and fasten the edges of the pie.
- Make cuts in the center and edges of the product with a knife so that steam escapes during heat treatment.
- Beat the egg with a fork and brush over the chicken. Send it to a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.
Varenets
Varenets is a fermented milk drink made from baked cow's milk (fermented baked milk). And sour cream is usually used as a leaven.
Ingredients:
- Milk - 1 l
- Sour cream - 0.5 tbsp.
- Cream - 250 ml
- Egg yolk - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
Cooking varenets:
- Pour milk from the cream into a saucepan and send it to the oven, turning on the heating to 180 ° C.
- When air peaks appear on the surface of dairy products, lower them to the bottom with a tablespoon and shake them. Set aside one spade on a plate.
- Bake the milk until it has a light caramel hue and is reduced by 1/3 part.
- Remove the baked milk from the oven and cool to 40 ° C.
- Whisk sour cream with yolk and sugar, add to stewed milk and stir.
- Pour the mass into cups and put a piece of foam on top, which was set aside in a plate at the beginning of cooking.
- Send the varenets to a warm place (30-40 ° C) and keep there until it turns sour.
- Then send it to the refrigerator to cool down.
- Serve with sugar, cinnamon and croutons.
Curd cheese pancakes
Shrovetide has a different name - cheese week, because on this holiday various dishes were prepared from cottage cheese, in particular, cheese cakes.
Ingredients:
- Homemade cottage cheese - 500 g
- Flour - 2/3 tbsp.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Ground white crackers - 50 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons
- Raisins - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - a pinch
- Powdered sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Jam - 3 tablespoons
- Sour cream 20% fat - 0.5 tbsp. to serve
Cooking curd cheese pancakes:
- Rub the cottage cheese through a fine sieve and mix with sugar.
- Add eggs (2 pcs.), Salt and flour to the curd. Mix everything until smooth and smooth. You can beat the mass with a blender so that there is no graininess in the curd.
- Rinse the raisins, dry with a paper towel and boil together with the jam until thickened. Cool the mass.
- Divide the curd mixture into pieces, which are rolled into round cakes 5 cm thick. Put the boiled jam on them and mold the cheese pancakes in a round shape so that the filling is inside.
- Shake the remaining egg with a fork and dip the cheese cakes in it one by one. Then bread them in ground breadcrumbs and fry in a pan in a large amount of oil.
- Serve with icing sugar and sour cream.
