Easter is one of the most significant religious holidays in our country, and not only in it. Many believers have been fasting for some time and now provide chic tables with food to celebrate this magnificent holiday. On the table should be a lot of delicious dishes. Usually housewives cook everything in advance, as the number and volume of dishes are quite large, and there is no desire to stand at the stove until the last moment. In addition, you need to know the recipes for Easter, so that everyone is satisfied.
What is usually cooked for this holiday? First of all, Easter cake is traditionally baked, and almost always - Easter cottage cheese. They also paint eggs, and then everything that is enough for imagination: jellied meat, home-made boiled pork and sausages, baked bird and piglets, Olivier salad, honey gingerbread is baked for children.
Consider the best recipes for Easter dishes.
Easter cake
To make a cake, you need : 15 eggs, 15 yolks, 200 g butter, 200 g margarine, 1 liter of good milk, 100 ml of sunflower oil, 5 stacks. sugar, 100-120 ml of sour cream, 150 g of
pressed yeast, raisins, vanillin.
When studying recipes for Easter, special attention should be paid to this one, since Easter cake is the main dish of the festive table.
We boil and cool the milk. It should be a little warm. Knead with a spoon of yeast, salt, add a spoonful of vanillin and sugar - and in milk. For 10 minutes we set in a warm place. Then add softened butter and margarine, eggs, sugar, sour cream and yolks. The resulting composition is mixed well. Add the flour until the mass does not pester. Again - in a warm place so that the dough comes up. Add raisins, pre-steamed, knead. We lay out the forms, 1/3 of the volume, give another approach. Bake for about 40 minutes at medium temperature. After cooling, grease with proteins (whipped) with sugar. Everything turns out very tasty!
Boiled pork
The main recipes for Easter are meat recipes. Consider one of them, which is simpler, baked ham.
Ingredients : 1.5-2 kg of pork tenderloin, salt, mustard, bay leaf, black pepper, possibly - garlic, carrots.
For 2-5 hours, marinate the meat in a sealed container, in a mixture of mustard, salt, pepper, chopped bay leaf. After you consider that it’s enough, - in a preheated oven, at an average temperature of 1.5-2 hours. Do not forget to pre-wrap in aluminum foil or film for baking. You can also make cavities in the meat and stuff with carrot or garlic, cutting them into strips.
Chicken jellied
A variety of Russian culinary. Recipes are for every taste. Each hostess prepares jellied in her own way, at her own discretion. We offer you one of the options.
Ingredients : water - a glass, gelatin - 20-30 g, one carrot, chicken - half a kilo, salt, onion - 1 pc. For decoration, we will use
pickled cucumbers, herbs and boiled carrots.
Dissolve gelatin in cold water and leave it to swell for up to two hours. From chicken, adding whole carrots and onions, cook the broth, salt. Separate the meat from the bones. Filter the broth and add the gelatin. Heat until it is completely dissolved, but not boil. Cut the meat and pickled cucumbers into small pieces, we make figures from carrots.
Pour a little of the resulting broth into the form, let it thicken a little, then spread the greens, slices of cucumbers, carrots, etc., put in the refrigerator completely. Then spread the meat, cucumbers and pour another layer of jelly. And to freeze. In this way we use all the meat, making several layers.
In conclusion, after complete solidification, we lower the form with the aspic in the hot water for a minute and turn it upside down on the dish. Done!
We will tell you the rest of the recipes for Easter next time. There are a lot of them.