Meal planning for Easter
I'm not quite sure what I'm doing for Easter this year, especially since we have visitors over the holidays, and maybe friends will come over spontaneously, so everything is still changing constantly - but I'm already collecting ideas for Easter dinner.
In fact, unlike Christmas, there are no fixed culinary traditions surrounding Easter food in Iceland.
So you can think to your heart's content what you would like for Easter. Many Icelanders like to eat poultry dishes at Easter, especially turkey, which has been the most popular Easter food in Iceland in recent years, or duck or chicken.
The second best-seller at Easter has recently been the leg of lamb. However, the lambing season in Iceland doesn't actually begin until the end of April; most lambs are usually born in May - by then Easter is already over. Furthermore, the lambs are not slaughtered then, but in autumn. In this respect, lamb is not traditionally a typical Easter meal here.
I'm still undecided, but at the moment I'm thinking about the following dishes for lunch together on Easter Sunday:
I made this dip for Easter two years ago, as a sort of "starter" for Easter dinner, and it was a real hit with everyone, even my youngest was very enthusiastic about it. I've made the dip several times since then and it's always been a hit. Maybe it'll be available again this year...
I don't know yet what the main course will be. Maybe we'll just grill, I got a (not so small) travel grill from a dear friend for my birthday. If the weather cooperates, it would be nice to be together in a larger group!
In Iceland, "Malt og Appelsín" is a very popular drink - a mixture of malt beer and Appelsín (= very sweet, very colorful orange lemonade). The mixture is usually available ready-made all year round; at Christmas it is available as "jólaöl" (= non-alcoholic Christmas beer) and at Easter as "páskaöl" (= non-alcoholic Easter beer).
Not only can you drink it, but you can also use it in the kitchen - for example in this delicious rye bread soup, which is less of a thin soup and more of a fairly thick dessert. The soup is still warm and served with whipped cold cream.
In any case, we wish you a happy Easter with these impressions from the last few years, a happy and blessed Easter.
Gleðilega páska!
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