Mix and match these Easter (or dinner) recipes for an impressive shared meal over the long weekend.
For canapés or an excellent side dish, try Dan Pepperell’s devilled Easter eggs for a retro throwback, or the anchovy and tomato bruschetta by Pinbone. For the mains, we’ve made a choice selection of lamb, rabbit and fish dishes; and we bring the humble carrot to life with Ester‘s recipe for carrots with garlic, ginger, and smoked chilli butter. For more excellent Easter recipes, we have fish dishes for Good Friday, our best baking recipes for Easter and a selection of our all-time favourite Easter recipes.
For dessert, we’ve included traditional Easter dessert recipes such as Russian kulich and Greek Tsoureki, plus some crispy hot cross bun-inspired cannoli. For more decadent desserts, check out our best Easter dessert recipes, Easter-appropriate cakes, and chocolate recipes for Easter — from a decadent ganache tart to Flour & Stone’s flourless wonder. Of course we have recipes for hot cross buns, too.
Here are out best Easter lunch recipes to impress your guests over the holiday long weekend.
If you’d rather go out for an Easter meal, check out what’s open this Easter around the country.
Soft garlic and poppyseed pretzels with wholegrain beer mustard
Saint Peter’s cured ocean trout, fennel crème fraîche and brioche toast
Slow-cooked ocean trout with peas, and Meyer lemon and fennel salsa
Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad
Eight-hour lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne
Ester’s carrots with garlic, ginger, spring onion and smoked chilli butter
Freekeh and shaved cauliflower salad with herb dressing
Cuddura Cull’ova (Sicilian Easter biscuits)
How to make a chocolate ganache tart for Easter
