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Easter basket
Easter basket

Easter basket

 

Prepare the Easter basket on Holy Saturday. Put the serviette into the basket. Put all „ingredients” into the basket. Take the basket to the church so that the priest could bless the food.

 

 


 

Ingredients:

• a piece od cheese
• a piece of ham
• a piece of sausage
• a pinch of salt
• a chocolate egg
• an Easter egg
• a bar of chocolate
• a jar of minced horseradish
• a piece of Easter cake
• a chocolate bunny/ lamb
• a white serviette
• a wicker basket

 
Blessing the food

On Holy Saturday morning people decorate hard-boiled eggs and prepare some food items, such as pieces of ham and sausage, some cake, salt and pepper. Then, they put the food in decorated wicker baskets and go to church to have the food blessed. The food can be blessed throughout the day. On Sunday morning people in Poland have a traditional big Easter breakfast and the first thing they eat is a piece of the blessed egg.

Bringing baskets with food to be blessed

Waiting for the food to be blessed

The food being blessed

   
Easter recipes

Eggs with mayonnaise

For four people you need:
• four eggs
• two spoonfuls of mayonnaise
• a pinch of salt
• a pinch of pepper

How to prepare
1. First, boil the eggs for six minutes.
2. Then, shell and cut the eggs into halves.
3. Put some mayonnaise on top.
4. Sprinkle them with salt and/or pepper.

Serve it with a few slices of tomato or cucumber.

Eggs and mayonnaise

Kashubian salad

Ingredients
• a jar of dice carrot and peas
• a tin of sweet corn
• one big apple
• one onion (or half of a white onion and half of a purple one)
• 6-8 big sour cucumbers
• four boiled potatoes
• five boiled eggs, shelled
• four spoonfuls of mayonnaise
• two spoonfuls of mustard
• a pinch of salt and pepper
• a pinch of sugar

How to prepare
1. First, put the carrots, peas and sweet corn into a big strainer.
2. Then cut the apple and onion into small pieces.
3. Then, cut the cucumbers into cubes. Leave them in the strainer to get rid of the juice. Cut the boiled potatoes and eggs.
4. Put all the vegetables into a big bowl. Stir them gently.
5. Then, add the mayonnaise and mustard. Stir.
6. Add the salt and pepper and sugar. Stir again.
7. Finally, put the bowl into the fridge for at least 10 minutes.

Serve with a roll.
 

Kashubian salad

White sausage

For four people you need:
• Four white sausages
• Eight spoonfuls of minced horseradish (or wasabi)

How to prepare
1. Boil the sausages for 20 minutes. Then put them on a plate and let them cool a little.
2. Boil them again.

Serve with minced horseradish (or wasabi).

 

White sausage
   

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