My Favorite Easter Dinner Recipes All In One Place!
This is your one-stop shop for Easter dinner recipes- everything you need to make a delicious Easter dinner!
Every year as Easter approaches, I like to give a quick peek at some of my favorite Easter recipes. Not much has changed over the last decade – we still love cheesy potatoes and ham. Roasted asparagus and a good, fluffy dinner roll.
I know tradition varies person to person, but below are some of my favorite Easter dinner recipes!
If you have a second, I’d LOVE to know what you traditionally serve for Easter dinner if you celebrate the holiday!
As much as I’m a chocolate girl through and through, I’m really only there for the carrot cake. It’s my fave.
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Other Delicious Sides
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If I wanted to add shredded coconut to your carrot cake recipe, how much should I add? 🙂
I’ve never added it, so I can’t say for sure, but I think you could try a cup and see how that goes.
We do popovers and orange juice for Easter breakfast, then symbolic foods for our Easter dinner: broiled fish, honeycomb, unleavened bread (whole wheat tortillas rolled thick), olives, grape juice, water. We eat/drink them and read the scriptures that talk about each one. We could do lamb too but I haven’t been brave enough for that one yet.
I need to figure out something easy for lunch on Sunday because there’s no way I’m doing three special meals in one day. Too much! 🙂
I love that symbolic meal, Anna!
We love it too, it’s been such a meaningful tradition and my kids look forward to it every year. (Parts, anyway. None of them are terribly fond of fish…but they love the honeycomb!)
I think our “easy” lunch may be your sweet baked ham and baked potatoes. Or ham and biscuits. Or something like that. I love that the ham is mostly made-ahead…I love having special foods for conference and Easter but I do not love spending the whole day in the kitchen. So I’m still working out the details. Boiled and shredded the ham yesterday and I think I’ll make a carrot cake cheesecake today.
That’s romaine salad is the best. I keep making it whenever I’m assigned to bring a salad. 🙂
We have a family party the day before Easter that includes ham salad sandwiches, bbq baled beans, deviled eggs, various salads and chips. For Easter day we either have ham and some form of cheesy potatoes or we just eat leftovers from the day before. Love this holiday. Thanks for your fun ideas!
I’m roasting a leg of lamb with lots of garlic and herbs and making gyros with it. I’ll be trying your soft wrap bread. We’re also serving falafel and tahini for our vegan son-in-law. Tzatziki sauce, roasted asparagus, petite peas, arugula salad, Greek salad, rice pilaf, a fresh fruit platter (no dressings or dips for us!), and a chocolate hazelnut torte filled with a chocolate cream cheese layer and ganache will round out the menu.
By the way, I tried your Best Ever White Bread recipe and it is accurately named. I usually make 100% whole grain bread with tons of seeds in it, but my son asked if we could have white bread for once. So now I alternate between white, whole grain, and sometimes sour dough breads. I eat the whole grain stuff and my husband and son eat the white bread and we’re all happy. Thanks for the great recipes.
Oh my goodness, Ann, I wish I was eating at your house! That Mediterranean-inspired menu sounds amazing!
I recently read on a blog (livefreecreative.co) that she likes to have a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean themed dinner for Easter to celebrate Christ with food from Christ’s region. I’m super excited to start that tradition this year!
I love this idea! I’m getting recipes together for our Mediterranean Easter dinner now.
Hi, Mel. I was on last week to put together my ingredient list. Making your Sweet Baked Ham, Chantilly Potatoes, Creamy 5-Cup Fruit Salad, Deviled Eggs, and Lemon Blueberry Cup. Pulling in Ina Green Beans Gremolata for something green. Thanks again for helping us celebrate! My whole family knows your name. 🙂
LOVE that menu lineup!
Our Easter dinners vary a lot from year to year because we do it potluck style. However, for dessert for the last maybe eight years we have done family cupcake wars. Everyone brings one dozen cupcakes, everyone eats a least a bit of each kind of cupcake (we usually cut them into smaller pieces), and then we vote. My son was the overall winner a couple years ago with a modified cupcake version of your apple dapple cake.
I love love love your cupcake wars Easter tradition!! I am going to try to incorporate it into one of our big family get-togethers this year.
Oh my goodness, I love that cupcake wars tradition SO much!!!!
While I usually am not the one whipping up the giant meal on Easter day itself, my kids remembered and requested your homemade marshmallow eggs again this year! So I guess that is my Easter food tradition 🙂 But I do love your sweet baked ham, crescents, and the au gratin potatoes, for sure.
I love those marshmallow eggs! Thanks for reminding me…I’m going to make them this weekend!
Always got a sec for you girl..appreciate all the time you put in. Happy Easter to you and your impressive family. For the last few years i have been making easter breakfast and then hunt follows. Including some form of sweet roll (made your overnight cinn sugar rolls 1st year)and my moms sausage breakfast casserole. Then Easter dinner always your rasberry ribbon salad,pea salad, corn casserole very similar to one of yours lol, and a few things vary. We had bbq ribs 1st year and a ham that was outstanding last year. Pretty serious about holidays and food. For sure making your fruit salad to go with my breakfast this year!
Ah, thanks, Stacy! I love it when people let me know what they are making! You’ve reminded me I need to add that raspberry ribbon salad to the Easter menu. Happy Easter!
We make perogies, baked ham, pickled beets, turnip casserole (like a souffle) and lemon pudding a lot.
Fun compilation! It will be so hard to choose! Thanks for putting this together, Mel!
Conference and Easter on the same day isn’t my favorite. Our conference traditions trump the Easter ones. I can’t watch tv do four hours eating snacks and then turn around and eat a big meal, so we are kind of skipping Easter this year and going with conference traditions.