Easters in Estonian ” Lihavõtted”. which mean in direct transaltion: take a meat, have a meat. Probably because after long winter was again possibility to eat some meat.
As probably everywhere we have tradition to paint eggs. My generations do not use synthetic colors, we paint eggs with onion skins or birch leaves.
And one more interesting fact. In Estonia we have day off only 14th of April. We want to work so much..:)…
Filled Eggs can not miss from Estonian festive menu.
You can keep eggs simple, as in my picture. Or you can make them fancy, add some shrimps, caviar, fill eggs by using squirt.
Filled Eggs
Filled Eggs are Mandatory snack in Estonian Festive menu
Ingredients
- 3 hard-boiled eggs (15 min in cold water)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
Directions
- Boil the eggs for 10 minutes and pour cold water on to boiled eggs so that the shells can be removed more easily
- Take butter in to room temperature
- Peel the eggs and cut them in to half
- Remove very carefully the egg yolks
- Smash yolks with butter
- Mix with mayonnaise while mixture is light and creamy
- If needed, season with additional mustard, pepper or salt
- Fill egg whites, Decorate.
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Also in Hungary they use onion skins to paint the eggs 🙂 or at least in my wife family they do that.
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I believe this. Before syntetic colours probably everywere used plants and flowers . Thank you sharing. This is interesting to know.
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I am a food lover. And I love your blogs. The picture is so yummilicious!
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Thank you for comment! You are welcome 🙂
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Great work. Good luck !!
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I love that you use natural dies to paint eggs! Last year for Easter we used 1/2 a red cabbage to make the eggs blue, beets for pink, and turmeric for yellow. It was so much fun.
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red cabbage is the most ineresting thing. It is seems purple, but result is blue 🙂 🙂
Turmeric is not very common in Estonia, but one more option is to use yarn, to get for example this yellow color 🙂
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Yarn is a great idea too 🙂
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I have never tried putting butter in with the mayo and yolk – I will need to try it. I love butter in anything! 🙂
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Yes, you right. This is never too much butter 🙂
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This is exactly how my grandmother used to make stuffed eggs. They taste amazing!
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Yes. I love stuffed eggs 🙂
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take a meat, have a meat sounds direct. i like it (: easter isn’t a major holiday in america, and i don’t think many people get it off (i definitely don’t get off from school!).
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I have some statistics, that estonians are less religion people in the world :).. But anyway, this is good to have day off and holiday. So, I will celebrate thinking about you 🙂 🙂
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