With the approach of the great holiday of the Resurrection of Christ, the hostesses are wondering what to cook for the festive table. Great Lent, preceding Bright Sunday, ends, so you can cook a wide variety of dishes. But on the festive table must be present symbols of Easter: colored eggs, cakes and cottage cheese Easter. They should be consecrated in the temple, and only after that they should be placed on the table.
Traditional Easter dishes
Sacred Easter dishes - Easter cakes, Easter and colored eggs. In every family, they will definitely be present at the festive table. Coloring eggs is easy, even kids can handle it. They are dyed mainly in onion peels or use food dyes. As for the baking of Easter cakes, this is a long and demanding process that requires a lot of time and effort. Easter cakes are made from yeast dough using a large amount of eggs and butter. Candied fruits, dried fruits, raisins, nuts are also put in Easter cakes, and they are decorated with sugar icing or melted chocolate.
Easter is a recipe made from whipped cottage cheese with dried fruits, nuts and other additional ingredients. The mass is laid out in a special form and put under oppression in a cold place for 12-24 hours, and then taken out of the pasochny and decorated.
The curd is laid out in the shape of a pyramid with a sloping top, which symbolizes the Holy Sepulcher. On the sides there may be images of a cross, a dove, willow twigs and other symbols of the great holiday.
There are a lot of recipes for cottage cheese Easter, here are just a few of them:
- Easter, a classic recipe;
- Custard curd;
- Oven baked;
- With condensed milk;
- With poppy filling;
- With sour cream and dark chocolate;
- From homemade milk;
- Curd with honey;
- Low-calorie Easter, etc.
Choose your favorite Easter recipes based on your taste and preferences.
Easter recipe without eggs
Easter cottage cheese recipe without eggs. Required products:
- 2 high-fat cottage cheese;
- Half a glass of granulated sugar;
- 120 grams of butter;
- Half a glass of fat sour cream;
- Salt.
Easter cottage cheese without eggs is prepared like this:
- The curd is wiped several times through a sieve. Additionally, you can beat it with a mixer. The lighter the texture of the curd, the better.
- Pour granulated sugar into the butter, which has lain for several hours at room temperature. Beat until fluffy with a mixer.
- Without stopping whisking, gradually pour in sour cream.
- Add a mass of butter, sour cream, sugar to the grated cottage cheese. Add a small pinch of salt.
- Moisten a double layer of gauze with water and line the bottom and walls of the Easter mold (pasochny). Fill to the top with curd mass, cover with gauze edges.
- Put the pasochny on a plate so that the milk whey drips onto it. Install oppression on the top of the form, and put it in the refrigerator. It is better for the mass of cottage cheese to stand in the refrigerator for a day, but you can put it from evening to morning.
- The final touch is to get the mass out of the mold and gauze, decorate with multi-colored sprinkles, nuts, candied fruits if desired.
This is considered a fairly simple Easter recipe that even a novice cook can easily make.
Baked Easter recipe
For lovers of cottage cheese casseroles, a simple recipe for cottage cheese Easter is suitable.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of fatty cottage cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 grams of semolina (can be replaced with premium flour);
- 100 grams of butter;
- Half a glass of thick sour cream;
- ¾ glasses of sugar;
- Raisins, prunes, walnuts;
- Vanilla sugar;
- A pinch of salt;
Preparation:
- Grind the cottage cheese well.Additionally, you can skip it twice through a meat grinder or beat it with a blender.
- Add two eggs, sugar, soft butter, sour cream to the curd. Mix the mixture thoroughly.
- It's time to add semolina to the dough.
- Pre-steamed dried apricots and prunes cut into pieces, add together with softened raisins into the dough. Add chopped walnut kernels.
- Season with salt and vanillin.
- Put the resulting dough in a muffin tin, greased with vegetable oil. Bake at 180 degrees until golden brown.
- The finished dish can be covered with icing made from powdered sugar and garnished with colored sprinkles.
Preparing Easter using this recipe is quick and easy, but at the same time very tasty. The dish should appeal to both adults and children.
On a note! You can rub 1 peeled apple into the curd dough. It will acquire an interesting taste and become softer in consistency.
Classic Easter recipe
A special pasochna will help to give Easter the desired shape.
In order to prepare a classic Easter, you must follow the recipe and do not put too much orange peel, otherwise a slightly bitter aftertaste may develop. Required Ingredients:
- 900 grams of cottage cheese 20% fat;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 180 grams of butter;
- 100 grams of dark raisins;
- Several spoons of brandy;
- Cardamom on the tip of a knife;
- 1 tsp orange peel.
How traditional Easter is prepared, recipe:
- The raisins should be thoroughly rinsed, dried, poured into a container and filled with cognac.
- Grind cottage cheese with a blender, passing it twice through a meat grinder before that. The more airy the cottage cheese is, the tastier the dish will be.
- Beat the soft butter with sugar until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved. Add raisins, stir.
- Add orange peel grated on a fine grater to the curd.
- Connect both masses. Put the well-kneaded dough into the prepared pasochnitsa, put it in the refrigerator under oppression until morning.
On a note! In order for children to taste delicious cottage cheese Easter, raisins must be soaked not in cognac, but in hot water.
Recipe for royal curd custard Easter
Even in the old days in Russia, each housewife prepared Easter from cottage cheese, and cooking recipes were passed down from generation to generation. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used the recipe for custard Easter. Why is the dish called royal? His recipe includes many different ingredients, including dried fruits, nuts, candied fruits. Previously, only very wealthy people could afford to cook according to this recipe, hence the name - "royal".
Prepare the required ingredients:
- 5 fat cottage cheese;
- 220 grams of thick sour cream;
- 3 yolks;
- 100 grams of butter;
- 100 grams of granulated sugar;
- Raisins, dried apricots, prunes, walnuts, almonds - optional;
- Vanilla sugar, salt.
Cooking the dish according to the classic recipe:
- Rinse raisins, dried apricots, prunes, pour boiling water over, let stand for 20-30 minutes, then put dried fruits on a paper towel.
- Grind cottage cheese thoroughly, add whipped yolks, sugar, vanillin. Mix well with a wooden spatula.
- Add sour cream and soft butter to the dough, continuing to knead.
- Finally, beat the curd dough with a mixer.
- Put the curd dough into a saucepan with thick sides and bottom. Put the saucepan over low heat. Stir the contents continuously with a wooden spatula. As soon as small bubbles begin to appear on the surface, the fire should be turned off.
- Remove the pot from the stove and place in an even larger pot of cold water.
- While the mass is cooling, it is necessary to constantly stir it.
- When the curd mass begins to thicken, close the pan with a lid, remove it from the water and send it to the cold.
- After a few hours, remove the pan from the refrigerator. Pour chopped nuts and dried fruits with raisins into the mass.Put the curd mass in the prepared pasochny, put it under oppression and send it back to the refrigerator for a day. As oppression, you can use a regular glass jar of water.
- Remove the prepared curd mass from the mold, decorate with almond petals and candied fruits.
Recipes for Easter can be different, and each housewife chooses the recipe that will be to her liking. After all, Easter dishes should be prepared with joy and pleasure, and guests and relatives should be treated with an open mind.
