Easter Feast

Prepare for the Holiday with Easter Eggs and Kozunak

Easter or VelikDen /Great Day/ is one of the biggest spring holidays. Orthodox Easter usually is celebrated just a week after the Catholic Easter and lasts for 3 days. People put an end to the fasts, celebrate the risen of the Christ, “fight” with their egg champions to gain health and happiness and eat Kozunak (sweet Easter bread).

Prepare for the Holiday with Easter Eggs and Kozunak

Make Easter bread or Kozunak on Great Friday or Great Saturday. It is a rich sweet bread covered in sugar and shaped in a form of a plait.

Serve the Traditional Easter Feast

Easter is incomplete without the traditional recipes. Festive dishes, served on VelikDen are Easter bread, Kozunak, Eggs, Lamb stew, Drob sarma /lamb, rice and spices/ and Spring Green salad. Some of the traditional recipes are prepared beforehead and some on Easter Sunday.

Everything is served and eaten on Sunday, as some people celebrate their Name Day. The entire family is gathered around the table and join in the feast.

Start Easter Holiday with Good Luck Crack

“Good luck crack” is a unique Easter tradition in Bulgaria. Eggs are cracked after the midnight on Sunday and over the next few days. People take turns in tapping their eggs against the eggs of the others. The “loosers” get to eat hard boiled eggs :). The winner who ends up with the last unbroken egg is considered as the luckiest one for the rest of the year.