Easter lunch

Enjoy a delicious Easter lunch with your friends and family. We've got a great collection of tasty recipe ideas for roast lamb, flavoursome fish and gorgeous, fresh sides.

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Get your chops around this speedy midweek meal – a great way to enjoy this classic cut of lamb. Simply grilling lets the meaty flavours shine and serving with sweet, roasted broccoli, mixed quinoa and a herb-packed salsa verde gives a light supper

Grilled lamb chops with roasted broccoli, quinoa and salsa verde

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For an Easter lunch with a difference, try this spiced roast pork recipe with tangy orange and rhubarb sauce.

Spiced roast pork with rhubarb sauce

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This tasty potato bake with tangy cherry tomatoes and fragrant oregano is the ideal side dish recipe for an Easter feast or Sunday roast

Tomato and oregano potato bake

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Pepper and aubergine baklava

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This one-tray roasted salmon recipe is a great way to celebrate spring flavours and is an inspiring alternative Easter lunch idea

One-tray roasted salmon with spring veg

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Look no further for the perfect Easter lamb recipe – deliciously marinated leg of lamb is stuffed with tangy feta, olives and pistachios before roasting, resulting in a rich, tender lamb centrepiece with fresh Greek flavour

Roasted leg of lamb stuffed with feta, olives and pistachios

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This speedy roast dinner side dish is bursting with fresh spring flavour – toss together green beans, broad beans and peas with fragrant dill and mint before crumbling over tangy feta

Spring beans and peas with feta

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This striking filo wreath makes an ideal centrepiece to an Easter buffet if you are feeding a crowd. Crisp buttery filo hides a succulent spiced lamb and spring greens filling, best served warm with generous dollops of cooling minted yoghurt alongside.

Lamb and spring greens wreath

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Popular Easter lunch recipes

Spring roasted chicken with tarragon

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Keep it classic for your Sunday roast with this succulent roast chicken. With fragrant tarragon, fresh spring veg and smooth gravy, just add new potatoes for a complete family meal.

Serves 4
85 mins
454 calories

Jon’s ‘laid-back’ Easter lamb

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Jon is almost as devoted to cooking as he is to a lie-in. Luckily he’s found a way to do both...

Serves 8
480 mins
562 calories

Whole roasted cauliflower with garlic and paprika

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Try this whole spiced cauliflower as an impressive alternative to your traditional Sunday roast

Serves 4
40 mins
281 calories

Christmas ham

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Give this traditional Christmas ham a go – simmered in bay-infused cider and roasted with a mustard and demerara glaze, it it makes for a magnificent centrepiece

Serves 8
130 mins
350 calories

Slow cooked lamb shanks with roasted root vegetables

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Cooked slowly, this easy lamb shanks recipe makes a great alternative to a Sunday roast or Easter lunch. Simmered in sweet, tangy pomegranate juice, the lamb shanks become meltingly tender and the sauce develops a rich, meaty flavour

Serves 4
250 mins
812 calories

Hasselback potatoes

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Swap your classic roasties for these simple hasselback potatoes. Baby potatoes are sliced thinly down the middle, drizzled with plenty of garlic butter and roasted until crisp on the outside and perfectly fluffy in the centre – the ideal side dish for your

Serves 4
70 mins
348 calories

Spiced slow-roasted lamb shoulder

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A recipe like this means only one thing, spring is here and the sun is coming out

Serves 6
5 hrs plus 6 hrs marinating
413 calories

Helen's 'homecoming' lamb

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Helen used to love cooking a roast and getting the family round the table. It’s something she misses now that her boys are grown up and have left home

Serves 6
150 mins
706 calories

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