If you are wondering what to cook for Easter this year, this collection of Easy Easter Food Ideas has got you covered. Whether you are planning a relaxed Easter brunch, a traditional family dinner, or just looking for a few simple desserts, you'll find plenty of inspiration here. From classic roast mains to comforting side dishes, quick appetizers and showstopping Easter desserts, recipes are all easy to make and perfect for feeding a crowd.
Easter is such a lovely time to slow down, gather around the table with your family and friends, and celebrate the return of Spring and nature reborn. Whether you are planning a big family get-together, or a simple meat at home, it can be tricky to choose what to cook.
That's why I put together this list of Easter recipe ideas to help take the stress out of planning for the big day. These are all tested, failproof dishes that I cook for my family every year, and they always go down a treat!
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How to Build your Easter Menu
- Choose one or two main dishes
- Add 2-3 side dishes
- Pick 2-3 desserts
- Optional: include a starter or brunch dish
My Most Popular Easter Recipes
Classic Deviled Eggs
One of the most popular Easter recipes, these deviled eggs are simple, quick and easy to make, and a guaranteed success this Easter.
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Gammon in Coca Cola
Gammon in Coca Cola, a fantastic recipe full of rich, deep flavours. The gammon joint is first cooked in coca cola, cloves and star anise, then nicely brushed with a mustard maple glaze and cooked in the oven. No fuss, simple ingredients and maximum flavours!
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Whole Roasted Chicken
Not quite a fan of lamb? Me neither. Why not have a fantastic chicken roast instead? It's juicy and moist, cooked to an absolute perfection, and perfect for feeding a crowd.
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Crispy Roast Potatoes
Beautifully golden and crunchy on the outside, and perfectly soft and fluffy on the outside, these are the ultimate roast potatoes that will steal the show this Easter.
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Potato and Egg Salad
A traditional Easter salad for us, this potato and egg salad is comforting and delicious, and it goes down a treat every single year.
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Chocolate Rice Krispie Easter Nests
One of the most popular no-bake Easter dessert on my blog, these rice krispie nests are really easy to make with just a handful of ingredients.
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Mini Lemon Curd Chesecakes (No Bake)
Scrumptious mini cheesecakes with a silky cream cheese filling, tangy and zesty lemon curd topping and mini chocolate eggs, this really is a crowd-pleaser!
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Easter Brunch Ideas
If you are hosting a relaxed Easter morning, these recipes will go down a treat with everyone.
Roasted Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce and Poached Eggs
A brilliant brunch recipe, my roasted asparagus is light and delicious, and so easy to make that even kids will love.
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Crustless Broccoli Cheddar Quiche
A light, high-protein dish to start your day right, this crustless broccoli and cheddar cheese quiche will be a smashing success this Easter.
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Mini Quiches (3 Ways)
A scrumptious selection of mini quiches that is perfect for feeding a crowd. They cater for all tastes and ages, and are super easy to make.
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Cheesy Carrot and Courgette Muffins
These cheesy carrot and courgette muffins are moist and delicious, and perfect for your Easter celebrations.
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Pancake Skewers
Mini mini pancake skewers served with fruit and melted chocolate are the ultimate brunch experience. They look as good as they taste, and go down well with the whole family.
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Ham and Cheese Waffles
Start your Easter morning right with these delicious savoury ham and cheese waffles. They are quick and easy to make, and perfect for your celebration.
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Cottage Cheese Pancakes
These cottage cheese pancakes are not only delicious, but also food of goodness. Top them with your favourite fruit, drizzle the syrup of your choice over, and you are in for a treat.
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Cheese, Ham and Potato Quiche
A colourful dish that goes down a treat with kids and grown-ups alike, this potato quiche is such a treat. You can enjoy it either hot or cold; and it's better than any ready-made quiche.
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Deviled Egg Sandwiches
If you like deviled eggs, you will absolutely love these deviled egg sandwiches, they are delicious and a big win for Easter.
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Asparagus, Mushroom and Leek Quiche
Asparagus, Mushroom and Leek Quiche, a delicious vegetarian Spring dish that uses fresh seasonal produce. It’s a great Easter recipe that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
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Easter Appetizers
Start your Easter meal light with easy appetizers that will tantalise your taste buds and get you ready for the mains. They can be made ahead and be served as part of a buffet.
Red Dyed Eggs
One of the best Orthodox Easter traditions in dying eggs red for the Easter Sunday. It's fun and super easy to do it at home with a few simple ingredients that are safe to use, and it's guaranteed to get a lovely red colour every single time.
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Dyed Eggs with Red Cabbage
Despite its purple / redish colour, this cabbage turns eggs into beautiful shades of blue or green, depending on the colour of the egg shells.
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Tuna Dip
A super easy tuna dip recipe with cream cheese, spring onions, and a lemon kick. Quick, tasty, perfect for a hungry crowd.
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Roasted Asparagus Soup
A light and healthy soup that screams perfection - this is the ultimate soup for the warm season.
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Broad Bean Dip
Healthy, with a lovely vibrant colour, this broad bean dip is the best appetizer for your Easter celebrations.
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Creamy Hummus Recipe
My take on the classic hummus recipes, really easy to make with canned chickpeas. Serve it with veggies, breadsticks, or crostini, it's so good!
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Air Fryer Bruschetta with Prosciutto and Mozarella
This bruschetta is bursting with incredibly rich, deep flavours that absolutely everyone will love.
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Easter Main Dishes
The main dish is often the centrepience of any Easter meal. It doesn't have to be complicated to be delicious. These are easy mains ideas that the whole family will love.
Traditional Easter Mains
Roasted Spatchcock Chicken
As delicious as the whole roasted chicken, but cooked in way under an hour. The perfect roast for the whole family, this is a straightforward recipe that goes down well no matter the occasion.
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Roast Pork with Crackling
Learn how to make the ultimate roast pork with crackling to impress all your loved ones this Easter.
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Easy Roast Beef Recipe
Achieving perfection is pretty easy when you have a simple recipe to follow. This roast beef is so easy to make, and it can be the centerpiece of your Easter menu.
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Honey Mustard Gammon Joint
Make your own delicious ham this eater following this super easy recipe that will make everyone's mouth water.
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Roasted Pork Belly
A very easy recipe that requires minimal prep, but a guaranteed success every single time.
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Turkey Meatloaf
Turkey Meatloaf stuffed with hard-boiled eggs is my absolutely favourite Easter main dish. It's easy to make, delicious and so seasonally perfect!
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Slow Cooker Meatloaf
Packed with protein, made in slow cooker for an easy prep, this meatloaf is all you need this Easter.
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Easy Alternatives
Fish Pie with Mashed Potato Topping
Fish pie with mashed potato topping, an all-time favourite classic British recipe that brings all the family together around the table.
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Chicken and Mushroom Pie
Simply delicious, a classic pie l can never have enough of. And so easy to make at home with real ingredients that won't break your bank.
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Salmon Wellington
Salmon Wellington or Salmon en Croute, a gourmet dish made to impress. Take your dinner to the very next level, and impress your party guests this Easter with this restaurant-style salmon recipe.
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Traditional Toad in the Hole Recipe
A comfort food no matter the season, it is usually served with gravy and vegetables for the perfect family meal. So easy, and delicious, and made with a few simple ingredients!
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Baked Sea Bass with Lemon Butter Sauce
A healthy, delicious and nutritious dish that the whole family will love -and ready in 20 minutes.
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Lemon Ricotta Pasta with Spinach
A light and creamy dish that is deliciously refreshing and super easy to make. It's ready in under 15 minutes, and it makes a perfect meal this Easter.
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Easter Side Dishes
Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
These cheesy scalloped potatoes make a delicious side dish for any roast. Very easy to make, rich and flavourful, they are a great alternative to the traditional roasted potatoes for your Easter meal.
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Cheesy Ham Broccoli Casserole
Cheesy Ham Broccoli Casserole with eggs, filling, jam-packed with fantastic flavours, the perfect recipe for an epic feast like Easter.
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Grilled Halloumi Salad
Made with a simple honey lemon dressing and fresh vegetables, a healthy and delicious salad that makes a great side dish for a bbq or any roast.
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Salmon Nicoise Salad
Made with baked salmon, boiled potatoes, cooked green beans, tomatoes, olives and lettuce, drizzled with a light lemon, olive oil and dijon mustard dressing, a healthy and hearty salad recipe that can be served either warm or cold.
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Crispy Roasted Lemon Potatoes with Wild Garlic
A wonderful side dish for your Easter roast, these wild garlic potatoes are crispy on the outside, and gorgeously tender and fluffy on the inside.
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Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
The perfect side dish for your Easter roast, these mashed potatoes are creamy, smooth and so comforting!
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Easter Desserts
No Easter meal is complete without something sweet. From classic bakes, to chocolate treats, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
Classic Easter Desserts
Simnel Cake
the iconic British cake that goes down wonderfully well for Easter, this fruit cake is rich and indulgent, and it goes down well with the whole family.
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Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Carrot cake with walnuts and a scrumptious vanilla cream cheese icing, a family-favourite dessert not only for Easter, but also all year round.
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Romanian Easter Bread - Pasca
Romanian Easter Cake or Pasca is a traditional dessert eaten on Easter Day. So easy to make, and so delicious!
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Traditional Hot Cross Buns Recipe
Hot cross buns are traditionally served on Good Friday and are extremely popular in the UK. Sweet, lightly spiced and containing either currants, raisins or sultanas, they can be easily recognised by the cross on top, which symbolizes the crucifixion of Jesus.
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Classic lemon drizzle cake, one of the most loved cake recipes. And most probably the easiest one to whip up. I
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Chocolate Treats
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
This is seriously one yummy dessert! Kids will have fun trying to get to the hidden egg inside each cupcake. Rich, decadent, hard to resist not having one too many.
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Creme Egg Brownies
Rich and decadent, a delicious Easter dessert for all the chocolate lovers. It’s a simple dessert that can be ready in about half an hour, and that from scratch. No need for the box stuff, these are scrumptious brownies that taste like heaven.
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Easter Chocolate Cake
Made with chocolate mascarpone buttercream, Cadbury creme eggs and mini chocolate eggs, a beautifully moist and fudgy cake that is so indulgent and perfect for your Easter menu.
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Easter Chocolate Traybake Cake with Chocolate Buttercream
Chocolate Traybake Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, mini chocolate eggs, mini creme eggs and sprinkles, rich, buttery, moist and decadent, perfect for your Easter baking. It might be an easy traybake, but it looks like a proper showstopper, ready to impress your family and guests.
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Easter Chocolate Bark
A fantastic no-bake chocolate dessert for Easter, this recipe is incredibly delicious, and versatile too.
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Chocolate Cornflake Squares
A divinely rich and indulgent no-bake Easter treat that absolutely everybody will love!
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Mini Egg and Caramel Fifteens
A delicious variation of the classic Northern-Irish no-bake dessert, this Easter Fifteens is such a treat!
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Lemon Desserts
3-Ingredient Lemon Posset
A luxurious no-bake dessert full of zesty flavour. It's a lovely light and creamy dessert that reminds me of sunshine and happiness, and it's the perfect addition to your Easter dessert menu.
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Easter Lemon Curd Pavlova
Lemon Curd Pavlova with Mini Chocolate Eggs, a delicious dessert for your Easter menu. It’s crunchy and crisp on the outside, and soft, marshmallow-like inside, so light and delicate, perfect to impress your guests.
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Meringue Nests with Lemon Curd
Meringue nests with lemon curd, a fantastic treat for your Easter dessert menu. Nothing beats a homemade lemon curd and some scrumptious meringue nests that are crunchy on the outside, but soft and chewy on the inside.
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Lemon Buttercream Cake
Decorate it with Easter chocolate eggs, and you have a spectacular dessert that will go down well with everyone.
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Moist Lemon Drizzle Muffins with Lemon Curd Filling
Moist Lemon Drizzle Muffins with Lemon Curd Filling, a little treat for Easter. If you like the classic lemon drizzle cake, you will absolutely love these little beauties. Super easy to make, great for kids and grown-ups alike.
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Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze
Wonderfully moist, sweet and scrumptious, these cookies will go down a treat with everyone.
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Mini Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cakes with Lemon Icing
Mini lemon drizzle loaf cakes are look impressive, taste wonderfully, and are perfect for your Easter celebrations.
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Easy Bakes
Mini Egg Cookies
The cookies are chewy and rich, buttery and chocolaty, and super easy to make with a few ingredients. It's a great recipe to make for the big day, but also after Easter when there are lots of chocolate eggs leftover.
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Simnel Cupcakes
A delicious twist on the classic Easter cake recipe, but so much quicker and easier to make. A light sponge packed with dried fruit and hidden marzipan eggs, and topped with a layer of marzipan and marzipan balls- this really is the ultimate Spring treat.
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Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Filling
If you like the classic carrot cake, you will love these delicious muffins. They are a great hit with big and little tummies, and are out of the oven in no time.
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I wish you all a Happy Easter, I hope you will have fantastic sunny day with lots of fun! Enjoy the recipes!
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