However you celebrate Easter Sunday, there’s invariably a hearty feast to be had. Find inspiration in our Easter lunch ideas collection.
We’ve gathered together some of our best starters, main dishes like roast chicken and lamb, tasty side dishes, and some decadent desserts for your Easter long weekend planning.
Crusty cob loaf with garlic butter prawns
This cob loaf recipe combines two favourites – crusty garlic bread AND garlic prawns. Yum!
Prawn Caesar salad
Plate the salad with all the elements separated on a large platter. This way guests can build their own and add as much or as little dressing as they like.
Easiest-ever ocean trout
Roasting a whole side of fish is perfect for entertaining and an oily fish like ocean trout is very forgiving. If you happen to over cook it by a few minutes, it’s still moist and juicy.
Baked salmon with watermelon & pomegranate salsa
A festive alternative to turkey and ham, that’s fresh, light and super easy to prepare.
Roast pork loin with nam jim dressing and mango salad
The perfect roast pork with a summery salad and zingy Thai dressing.
Slow roasted lamb shoulder
Slow roasted to tender perfection, this gorgeous lamb shoulder dish is the ultimate comfort food for a hungry family. Served with crisp baked potatoes, it’s a dinner dish the whole family will love.
Spice-crusted lamb racks and roasted carrots
Jazz up dinner time with these delicious lamb racks. They are rolled in a delicious seed and spice mix, and served with juicy roasted carrots for the ultimate family meal.
How to make the perfect roast lamb
It doesn’t need to be Sunday to cook a roast.
Homemade mint sauce
Nothing like the kind you buy in a jar.
Slow-cooked Greek lamb with chilli garlic broccolini
Tender and completely delicious.
Greek roast lamb with skordalia and lemony potatoes
This lamb roast recipe is cooked low and slow until the meat is tender. It’s not just the meat that’s spectacular, the sides are too!
Roast vegetable salad with garlic mustard dressing
This roasted vegie salad is the easiest and tastiest way to get your five a day!
Cauliflower cheese with leek and fennel
Take cauliflower and cheese to a new level.
Broccoli steaks with quinoa and ricotta
Looking for ways to cut down on meat in your diet? Try these tasty grilled broccoli ‘steaks’ from The Australian Women’s Weekly’s ‘Super Foods and Power Juices’ cookbook – lovely served with a zesty ricotta quinoa salad.
Roasted cauliflower with miso glaze
Whether you’re following a meat-free diet or are just looking for creative ways to up your vegie intake, try this delicious whole roasted cauliflower.
Mushroom-stuffed butternut pumpkin
Serve this stunning plant-based dish at your next dinner party or as a Christmas main.
Perfect potato salad
Creamy, fresh and completely delicious.
Double cheese potato bake
Better make extra because this one will be popular!
Crispy roast potatoes
It’s crunch time.
Roast pumpkin wedges with walnuts & fetta
This tantalising pumpkin side will add colour, variety, and pizzazz to any main course.
Honey roasted carrots with labne
Sweet honey-roasted carrots pair perfectly with creamy labne for a Mediterranean-style side dish
Crunchy noodle coleslaw
This crunchy noodle coleslaw is a great dish for picnics, just pack each salad ingredient in a separate sandwich bag, take the dressing in its jar and toss it all together when ready to eat.
Orzo pasta salad
It’s a fresh & vibrant addition to any casual (or not so casual) gathering.
Rice salad
This rice salad is perfect for hot summer days – it’s refreshing, crunchy and very simple to prepare.
Cauliflower steaks
Vegies never tasted so good.
Cauliflower and cheese pasta bake
Bake it till you make it! A creamy cauliflower and pasta bake everyone will love.
Easter egg sundaes
An egg-cellent way to use up those choccie eggs, and serve up a festive dessert this Easter.
Hot cross bun tiramisu loaf
An epic Easter dessert for the grown-ups.
Chocolate Easter egg cake
How can you improve on chocolate cake?
Cheat’s hot cross bun dessert
Use up leftover hot cross buns (if such a thing exists).
Hot cross bun bread and butter pudding
Save some hot cross buns just for this!
Double Biscoff cheesecake with white chocolate
Make our decadent Biscoff cheesecake your festive finale.
Easter trifle
This recipe is a great way to use the abundance of hot cross buns available around Easter time.
