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The full collection of traditional Eastern and Central European recipes, alongside their healthy modern adaptations — browse by cuisine below, or jump straight to the kind of dish you are cooking.
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Rosh Hashanah
Jewish New Year
Hanukkah
Festival of Lights
Wigilia
Polish Christmas Eve
Sviata Vecheria
Ukrainian Christmas Eve
Kūčios
Lithuanian Christmas Eve
Rizdvo
Ukrainian Christmas
Malanka
Ukrainian New Year’s Eve
Maslyana
Ukrainian Butter Week
Passover
Festival of Freedom
Velykden
Ukrainian Easter
Shavuot
Feast of Weeks
Shabbat
The Weekly Sabbath
Ukrainian Recipes
Polish Recipes
Jewish Recipes
Traditional Tzimmes Recipe: Carrot, Sweet Potato and Prune Stew
Healthy Cholent Recipe: Two Lighter Ways to Make the Overnight Stew
Traditional Cholent Recipe: The Sabbath Stew That Cooks Itself Overnight
Healthy Sufganiyot: Lighter Hanukkah Doughnuts, Baked or Air-Fried
Traditional Sufganiyot Recipe: Jelly-Filled Hanukkah Doughnuts
Healthy Babka Recipe: Whole Wheat and Dark Chocolate
Traditional Babka Recipe: Chocolate and Cinnamon Loaves
Healthy Holishkes Recipe: Leaner Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
Traditional Holishkes Recipe: Sweet-and-Sour Stuffed Cabbage
Traditional Gefilte Fish Recipe: Sweet or Peppery
Traditional Beet Borscht Recipe for Passover
Healthy Latkes Recipe: Air-Fried Potato and Zucchini Pancakes
Traditional Latkes Recipe: Crispy Hanukkah Potato Pancakes
Traditional Matzo Ball Soup Recipe (Kneidlach)
Healthy Noodle Kugel Recipe: A Lighter Dairy Kugel for Shavuot
Traditional Noodle Kugel Recipe: The Sweet Egg Noodle Casserole for Shavuot
Healthy Challah Recipe: Whole Wheat Braided Bread
Traditional Challah Recipe: The Braided Bread of the Sabbath Table
Healthy Blintzes Recipe: Lighter Cheese-Filled Crepes for Shavuot
Traditional Blintzes Recipe: The Cheese-Filled Pancake of the Shavuot Table
Lithuanian Recipes
Traditional Spurgos Recipe: Lithuanian Cottage Cheese Donuts
Traditional Kisielius Recipe: Cranberry Kissel for Lithuanian Christmas Eve
Traditional Kūčiukai Recipe: Poppy Seed Biscuits for Lithuanian Christmas Eve
Traditional Silkė Recipe: Pickled Herring with Onions for Lithuanian Christmas Eve
Traditional Grybų Sriuba Recipe: Mushroom Soup for Lithuanian Christmas Eve (Kūčios)
Healthy Kibinai Recipe: Chicken Hand Pies with Whole-Wheat Dough
Traditional Kibinai Recipe: Meat Hand Pies with Lamb
Traditional Balandėliai Recipe: Stuffed Cabbage Rolls with Pork, Rice and Potatoes
Traditional Bulviniai Blynai Recipe: Crispy Potato Pancakes
Healthy Koldūnai Recipe: Lighter Meat Dumplings with Whole Wheat Dough
Traditional Koldūnai Recipe: Small Pork Dumplings, Plus Mushroom Koldūnai for Lithuanian Christmas Eve
Traditional Cepelinai Recipe: Potato Dumplings with Meat or Curd Cheese Filling
Traditional Šaltibarščiai Recipe: Cold Beet Soup with Kefir, Cucumber, and Dill
