Easter

When you think of Easter what food springs to mind?

Fish (if eating on Easter Friday) and hot cross buns will no doubt be top of your list but you know by now that we always prefer to take a worldwide view on all things food related, so, what will be getting served up in other parts of the world at Easter?

We’ll start in Russia where a wonderful dessert known as Pashka is made. This is custard cheesecake without the biscuit based and is traditionally shaped in a pyramid mould with the letters XB on top, which stands for ‘Christ is Risen’.

If you live in Germany, the chances are that you will eat something green. This is because Maundy Thursday is known as Green Thursday in Germany so think green (pea soup anyone!) and you really can’t go wrong.

Easter is a major occasion in Orthodox Christian countries and many families will bake a Kulich cake to eat before breakfast each day. The cake, whose main ingredients include sultanas, rum, eggs, flour and almonds, is baked in tall cylindrical tins.

If you are in India this Easter (and the weather is amazing this time of the year), chances are you will be tucking into something with meat in it as many Indian people become vegetarian for lent, so by the time Easter comes around, the carnivores are getting restless.

In Italy, especially in the South, the main Easter dishes are the casatiello or tortano, a salty pie made with bread dough stuffed with various types of salami and cheese.

In Greece, the traditional meal is mageiritsa, a hearty stew of chopped lamb liver and wild greens seasoned with egg-and-lemon sauce – yes we’re not sure about that one either.

We’ll finish back here in the UK, so on Good Friday at least, why don’t you pop to the seaside and treat yourself to a good old fashioned bag of fish and chips?

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