What is the traditional Polish Easter basket blessing called?

The traditional Polish Easter basket blessing is called Święconka.

Święconka is the blessing of baskets of food on Holy Saturday in Polish and some neighboring Central European traditions. Families prepare a basket containing symbolic foods, commonly including decorated eggs, bread, salt, sausage, horseradish, and a lamb-shaped cake or butter figure. A priest blesses the baskets, and the food is eaten during the Easter breakfast.

Each item can carry religious or cultural meaning. Eggs represent new life, bread recalls nourishment and Christ, salt can signify preservation and purification, and horseradish may suggest the bitterness of suffering followed by joy. The exact contents vary by family and region.

The custom is especially important among Polish Catholics and Polish communities abroad. It is not simply a picnic basket or a general Easter meal: the defining feature is the Holy Saturday blessing. In English, the word is often rendered as “Easter basket blessing.”