Easter lunch recipes
Be inspired by our best Easter lunch recipe ideas, including traditional menu favourites such as roast lamb, asparagus and spring soups.
- Traditional Easter Sunday lunch: We’ve everything you need for a classic menu, including roast leg of lamb with mint sauce, rosemary roast potatoes and delicious cauliflower cheese.
- Buffet inspiration: Share the love with a grazing table of crispy potato canapés, crab and feta quiche and a side of salmon. Then everyone can dig into this chocolate meringue tower!
- Spring starters: Lemony asparagus salad, pea soup or ricotta bruschetta with tenderstem broccoli would make a bright start to your meal.
- Vegetarian ideas: Treat veggies to these hearty fried artichokes with chickpeas and mascarpone or our pear and walnut salad with hot cross bun croutons.
Time for dessert! Browse our best Easter baking ideas and show-stopping Easter cakes.
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Potatoes
Ottolenghi’s potato salad
Try this German potato salad from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen. Waxy potatoes are cooked until tender before soaking up a delicious broth.
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Easter lamb
Lemon, garlic and rosemary leg of lamb with mint sauce
You just can’t beat the flavours of lamb leg roasted with lemon, garlic and rosemary. Our method rewards you with perfectly tender pink meat.
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Carrots
Steamed carrots with spring onion and chive butter
Toss steamed carrots in a punchy spring onion and chive butter and sprinkle with toasted seeds for an easy side dish bursting with flavour.
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Easter
Four cheese, leek and walnut gratin
This multi-layered leek gratin is the ultimate creamy, cheesy side dish. Prep ahead then bake and serve with Easter lunch or a spring roast.
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Easter lamb
Slow-cooked orange wine lamb shoulder with shallots
Slow cook lamb shoulder in orange wine with anchovies and shallots. This is the easy-but-impressive Easter roast you've been looking for.
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Easter lamb
Lamb saddle stuffed with a herby chicken mousseline
Spring lamb saddle is stuffed with a light-as-air chicken mousseline made bright green with fresh herbs. The perfect dish for Easter Sunday
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Carrots
Ottolenghi’s roasted carrots with curry leaf dukkah
These roasted carrots with curry leaf dukkah from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen are the perfect side dish for Easter lunch or a springtime roast.
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Asparagus
Asparagus caesar salad
Asparagus is a glorious side for any springtime Sunday dinner, and this pretty caesar salad with quails eggs makes the most of its flavour.
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Easter
Pear and walnut salad with hot cross bun croutons
Try our pear and walnut salad with hot cross bun croutons and give classic panzanella (Italian bread salad) an Easter makeover.
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Chicken thighs
Ottolenghi’s jerk chicken
Give chicken thighs the Ottolenghi treatment with this easy spiced jerk chicken traybake recipe from Yotam and his test-kitchen team.
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Roast potatoes
Rosemary roast potatoes
Roast potatoes are everyone's favourite part of Christmas dinner. This rosemary roast potatoes recipe is both foolproof and flavourful.
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Pork recipes from around the world
Chinese pork, drunken potatoes and nashi pear sauce
Chinese roast pork is a classic. Pairing it with nashi pear sauce and ‘drunken’ potatoes in shaoxing wine gives it a Sunday roast vibe.
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Caribbean
Andi Oliver’s Caribbean roast pork (vinidaloush)
Looking for an impressive roast for the weekend? Andi Oliver shares a tongue-tingling recipe for vindaloush, Caribbean roast pork.
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Carrots
Roast carrots with shatta butter
Ravinder Bhogal gives classic roast carrots a Middle Eastern twist in this side dish recipe, serving them with pistachios and shatta butter.
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Easy starters
Smashed potatoes with crème fraîche and roe
Smashed potatoes with crème fraîche, chives and roe make for a decadent starter or sharing dish. They're salty, creamy and very moreish.
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Roast beef
Rib of beef with onions, goat’s cheese and broccoli
Richard Corrigan's rib of beef dinner with goat's cheese onions and broccoli makes a spectacular spring Sunday roast or Easter lunch.
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