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Ukrainian Easter Recipes

Published: Mar 31, 2023 by Terri Gilson · Modified: May 6, 2023 · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

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4 photos of Ukrainian Easter recipes (bread, poppy seed cake, perogies and borscht) with white text on black background in the middle

Growing up, Easter Sunday at Baba's was always a special time. In addition to the Easter chocolate we got at home Easter morning, we were also treated to a special Ukrainian feast! It was indeed, a great day. For Ukrainians, Easter is a time filled with rich traditions and delicious food. If you're looking to celebrate Ukrainian Easter in style, I've got you covered. I have rounded up a great selection of Ukrainian Easter recipes from my own recipe collection and from my fellow food bloggers.

collage of 4 photos (borscht, butter lamb, babka and poppy seed cake) and a black circle with red text in middle

I have many popular dishes, including traditional Ukrainian bread, other traditional Ukrainian Easter foods, as well as new favorites. There are recipes for cottage cheese Perogies, sweet yeast bread (paska and babka), kovbasa (Ukrainian sausage), and holubtsi (cabbage rolls) as well.

Jump to:
  • Appetizers
  • Main Dishes
  • Side Dishes
  • Desserts
  • 🥘Ingredients
  • 🌡️Storage
  • 🍽Equipment
  • 👪 Serving Size
  • 🦺Food safety
  • ⭐ Reviews

Appetizers

📋 Ukrainian Borscht Soup Recipe (with beef) Recipe
This homemade Ukrainian Borscht soup (with beef) is a shortcut recipe using canned beets with no chopping required. It's easy, quick (cook time of 15 minutes), healthy, low fat, WW friendly and delicious!
Check out this Borscht recipe!
borscht soup in a beige bowl on a Ukrainian patterned tablecloth

Easter eggs symbolize integrity. They are the basis of everything, the symbol of the Universe, spiritual fullness, prosperity, and movement.

Dill Deviled Eggs recipe
These Dill Deviled Eggs are a special family recipe and a family favorite! They are a simple, yet different devilled egg recipe made with hard-boiled eggs, dill, mayonnaise and a secret ingredient. They are both gluten-free, Weight Watchers friendly and the perfect appetizer or snack.
Check out this Dill Deviled Eggs Recipe
deviled egg with paprika sprinkled on top on black serving tray

Main Dishes

Ham and sausage symbolize a fattened-up calf, which the father ordered to be slaughtered after his prodigal son returned home. It’s a symbol of forgiveness.

📋 Smoked Picnic Ham (picnic pork shoulder) with Orange Glaze Recipe
This Picnic Ham with Orange Glaze is the perfect Easter ham or dinner any time of the year. Includes simple directions on how to score, baste and cook a picnic shoulder.
Check out this ham recipe!
Picnic ham on a platter with a red checkered towel in background
📋 Air Fryer Kielbasa (Kovbasa) Recipe
This air fryer kielbasa (kovbasa) recipe is a quick and easy way to enjoy Ukrainian kubasa. You don't have to heat up your house with the oven or stovetop and the air fryer saves electricity.
Check out this Kovbasa recipe!
several pieces of kielbasa on a white plate with a small white dish of mustard
Buzhenina (Herb Roasted Pork Tenderloin)
Succulent, Herb Roasted Pork Tenderloin (Buzhenina) that hardly takes any effort to make. It's a traditional Ukrainian recipe that uses 4 ingredients and never disappoints.
Check out this Ukrainian Roast Pork (Buzhenina) recipe!
Ukrainian pork roast (Buzhenina) on a foil covered pan, sliced

Side Dishes

📋Potato and Cottage Cheese Perogies Recipe
This Potato and Cottage Cheese Perogies recipe is from the master perogy maker, Grandma Mary Rudy! Made with dry cottage cheese, potatoes and a simple perogy dough, boiled, fried in butter and smothered with onions, bacon and sour cream, these homemade, traditional perogies are both delicious and authentic.
Check out this Perogy recipe!
Ukrainian perogies covered in bacon and onion in a ukrainian print dish
Garlic Mushrooms in Sour Cream
Garlic Mushrooms in Sour Cream ~ perfect easy to make side dish or topper - a winner for all garlic & mushroom lovers.
Check out this Mushroom recipe!
mushrooms in sour cream in a beige bowl on a concrete surface, with springs of green onion on the side of the dish
📋 Healthy Potato Salad Recipe
This Healthy Potato Salad is easy to make and chock-full of healthy ingredients like potatoes, eggs and vegetables. It's made with light/low-fat mayonnaise to lower the calories.
Check out this recipe
potato salad on plate with ribs
📋 Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls Recipe (with ground beef and rice)
These hearty, meaty cabbage rolls (holubtsi is the Ukrainian word) are Scottish -style Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls stuffed with ground beef, rice, mushrooms, and smothered in tomato sauce! The cabbage is cooked in the microwave so these stuffed cabbage rolls quicker and easier!
Check out this Cabbage Roll recipe!
stacked cabbage rolls in a triangular Ukrainian print dish, on a blue surface
Ukrainian Beet Salad (Vinegret)
Learn how to make this vibrant and nutritious Ukrainian beet salad. It is is made with boiled vegetables, pickles, onions and olive oil.
Check out this Ukrainian Beet Salad recipe!
Ukrainian beet salad in a glass bowl
Ukrainian Egg Noodle Casserole
Ukrainian Baked Egg Noodle Casserole
Baked Egg Noodle Casserole is a recipe from my childhood. Egg noodles baked with milk and eggs produce a custard like centre with a crunchy top. This was my favourite after school snack.
Check out this Baked Egg Noodle Casserole recipe!
egg noodle casserole in glass dish with paper towel in background
📋 Lazy Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls Recipe
These Lazy Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls taste exactly like regular meat and rice cabbage rolls, but in cabbage roll casserole form and without all the work. They are also Weight Watchers friendly!
Check out this Lazy Cabbage Rolls recipe!
lazy slow cooker cabbage rolls in bowl

Ukrainians regard bread as one of the holiest of foods- it is a symbol of life. Not only is it brought to church on Easter Sunday as an offering, but bread is also used to greet honored guests at home; sweet breads are an Easter tradition.

📋 Ukrainian Babka Recipe (Bread Machine)
This tender, cakelike Ukrainian Babka is a sweet traditional Ukrainian Easter bread recipe, made with golden raisins. The dough is made right in your bread machine, then baked to perfection in the traditional was (in tin cans!)
Check out this Babka recipe!
Babka on a white plate, with Ukrainian Easter eggs. on a Ukrainian print tablecloth
📋 Paska Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)
This traditional Paska bread is made the easy way - in the bread machine! It's then decorated with simple decorations and baked for a short time.
Check out this Paska recipe!
Paska bread in a round white casserole dish on red patterned surface

Candles symbolize light and God's grace and doves are a symbolic celebration of spring!

🕊️Ukrainian Easter Bread Doves Recipe (Holuby)
Learn how to make Ukrainian Easter Bread Doves (Holuby) with this easy to follow tutorial (with recipe) ! These cute edible ornamental doves are used to decorate Ukrainian Easter Baskets, Ukrainian Easter bread, Korovai (wedding bread) and symbolize spring.
Check out this Holuby recipe!
Ukrainian Bread Doves in an Easter basket with candle

Desserts

📋Lemon Poppy seed Torte (with Raspberry Curd filling) Recipe
This Lemon Poppy Seed torte is a traditional Ukrainian cake with poppy seeds, filled with a tangy raspberry curd and a creamy white chocolate whipped cream frosting. It's easy to decorate, but looks elegant and is perfect for any special occasion!
Check out this Poppy Seed Torte recipe!
a slice of lemon poppy seed cake with raspberry filling
Ukrainian Cheesecake (Easter Syrnyk)
A traditional Easter dessert made with dry curd cottage cheese instead of the typical cream cheese. Also called Ukrainian sweet cheese or Syrnyk.
Check out this Ukrainian Cheesecake recipe!
square Ukrainian cheesecake on a round wooden serving board with sauce to the right and a bowl of Ukrainian Easter eggs
🍩 Pampushky - Ukrainian Doughnuts
This Pampushky (Ukrainian Doughnut) recipe is a light and airy raised doughnut without filling. These traditional Ukrainian donuts are made into modern mini (Stampede-style) doughnuts and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar just the way my Baba used to make them when I was a kid. 
Check out this Pampushky recipe!
Ukrainian style donuts (pampushky) in a paper bag on Ukrainian patterned tablecloth
📋 Ukrainian Walnut Torte Recipe
Step-by-step photo instructions for making a traditional Ukrainian Walnut Torte (flourless) with a coffee whipped cream frosting and filling.
Check out this Ukrainian Walnut Torte Recipe!
Ukrainian Walnut Torte on a plate with Ukrainian patterned tea towel and blue cake stand in background

🥘Ingredients

In addition to the Ukrainian foods above, here are a few other foods that have significant symbolic meaning for Ukrainian people at Easter dinner:

Butter and cheese symbolize the connection between people and Jesus Christ. As a child receives life, strength, and energy from the mother’s milk, so Christians are enriched by Jesus with sacred energy.

Butter, often shaped into a lamb or a cross, is a symbol of Christ and reminds us of the goodness of Christ, and the importance of sharing with others.

My friend Susan has been carving these amazing butter lambs for Easter for years and hers are the best I have ever come across!

lamb carved out of butter on blue floral patterned material with slice of green onion in front
Lamb art and photo credit: Susan Berthiaume

If you want to make your own butter lamb, check out this How to make a butter lamb video!

Salt is a symbol of the bitterness that every Christian should experience in cleansing themselves from sin. Salt consecrated at Easter is a protector from evil. It is believed that if the threshold is sprinkled with holy salt, no evil person will be able to enter the house.

Horseradish is a symbol of strength and health. It symbolizes a strong root that gives faith in the resurrection.

🌡️Storage

See each recipe for specific storage instructions.

🍽Equipment

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Did you know that temperature is the BEST way to check for doneness? This thermometer (affiliate link) is a game-changer!

  • It's more than just a meat thermometer! I use my Thermapen for everything from baking pie and bread to eggs, casseroles, candy making, and more! It's ideal for baking babka.
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  • And it comes with a handy little chart that gives you chef-recommended temperatures and the minimum done temps for food safety. 
and orange Thermapen - Mk4 thermometer

👪 Serving Size

The serving sizes are listed in each recipe, but with my recipes, you can half, double, or triple the recipe by clicking on the blue serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.

🦺Food safety

  • Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
  • Wash hands after touching raw meat
  • Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
  • Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
  • Never leave cooking food unattended

    See more guidelines at USDA.gov 

So if you're looking for the perfect recipes for your Easter table, you'll love this recipe roundup!

And if you love Ukrainian food, be sure to check out my 25 Delicious Modern Twists on Traditional Ukrainian Recipes!

collage of 4 photos o Ukrainian recipes with white text on black circular background (in the middle)

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  1. Iryna Woloshyn

    April 14, 2023 at 6:55 am

    Ihad a recipe for Easter Egg Sauce (that you put on meats/cold cuts). Can't find it. Would you share with me your recipe? Thank you.

    Reply
    • Terri Gilson

      April 14, 2023 at 6:59 am

      Hi Iryna,
      I'm sorry but I don't know that recipe. Can you give me an idea what's in it/what it tastes like? Maybe I can see if I can find out somewhere (in one of my cookbooks).
      Thanks,
      Terri

      Reply

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