But when Eastertide comes, Russian usually have rich dinners with a lot of delicious foods.
There are some special traditional meals that are to be eaten at Eastertide.

In the morning Russians usually eat eggs of red colour. Russian women cook them the day before Eastertide. They make eggs red using onion peel for it. Red colour of eggs symbolizes Christ’s blood.

Second traditional Easter dish in Russia is paskha. It is made of curds.
There is hardy can be found Russian hostess that does not cook Easter cake for this day.
Traditions suppose that at Eastertide people gave coloured eggs as a present to each other , visit their relatives and have fun.
Of course, Easter is holiday of all cristians. Catholics, protestants have there own traditions of Eastertide celebration. But all the cristians cook eggs for this day. So you can try to cook them in Russian traditional way.
The simpliest recipe is:
Put onion peels into the water and boil till water get red.
Then add eggs and boil them in red water for 10 minutes. Eggs for Eastertide are ready!

The most popular first dish in Russia is red-beet soup. Every hostess in Russia keeps her own secret of cooking this dish. Red-beet soup has the opputunity to ripen – it becomes more tasty in some hours after it was cooked and on the second day.

To cook Russian red-beet soup you will need:

200-300 grams of beef or 2 beef ribs

3 red beets

4 potatoes

half of the cabbage

1 carrot

2 onions

2 spoons of tomato paste

salt

pepper

1 quart half-and-half

sour cream

greens
Directions

* Place beef short ribs or beef meat, salt and pepper in a stock pot.
* Cover with water (at least 3 quarts) and bring to a boil. Cook until meat will be ready. Skim off any visible fat. Take meat or ribs off the pan and put it to the plate will some bouillon you have got.
* Add cut very small red beets. Simmer until red beets are tender.
* Add cumbled up cabbage and boil everything under the cover.
* Using sunflower oil, fry in the pan clumbled up onions and carrot.

* When vegetables will be tender, add fried onions and carrot to the pan with bouillon, in 5 minutes add tomato paste there.

*  Cut beef to the pieces and add to the soup or put ribs to the soup.
* In the plates serve soup with sour cream and greens.

Enjoy red-beet soup!