What to Cook for Christmas

Edaku — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0300

Orthodox Christmas, celebrated on January 7, marks the end of a forty-day fast — which is exactly why the holiday table on this day tends to be especially generous. After weeks of limited meat and dairy, there’s a real appetite for a genuinely festive spread, and this roundup gathers ideas for building one.

After the fast, an appetite for richness

The main thing that sets a Christmas table apart from a New Year’s one is the craving for rich, indulgent dishes — meat, butter, cream — that people have gone without for over a month. It’s the right occasion to make the kind of food that usually gets saved for special days: a deeply flavored broth, fatty roasted poultry, cream-based sauces.

Orthodox Christmas on Edaku

What to Cook for Christmas

After the fast, an appetite for richness