Easter lunch recipes (2024)

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March 20, 2024

Mix and match these Easter lunch ideas – they run from festive canapés through to show-stopping Easter mains, sides and traditional Easter desserts.

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Mix and match these Easter (or dinner) recipes for an impressive shared meal over the long weekend.

For canapés or an excellent side dish, try Dan Pepperell’s devilled Easter eggs for a retro throwback, or the anchovy and tomato bruschetta by Pinbone. For the mains, we’ve made a choice selection of lamb, rabbit and fish dishes; and we bring the humble carrot to life with Ester‘s recipe for carrots with garlic, ginger, and smoked chilli butter. For more excellent Easter recipes, we have fish dishes for Good Friday, our best baking recipes for Easter and a selection of our all-time favourite Easter recipes.

For dessert, we’ve included traditional Easter dessert recipes such as Russian kulich and Greek Tsoureki, plus some crispy hot cross bun-inspired cannoli. For more decadent desserts, check out our best Easter dessert recipes, Easter-appropriate cakes, and chocolate recipes for Easter — from a decadent ganache tart to Flour & Stone’s flourless wonder. Of course we have recipes for hot cross buns, too.

Here are out best Easter lunch recipes to impress your guests over the holiday long weekend.

If you’d rather go out for an Easter meal, check out what’s open this Easter around the country.

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Soft garlic and poppyseed pretzels with wholegrain beer mustard

Soft garlic and poppyseed pretzels with wholegrain beer mustard

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Bodega’s hot cross buns

Bodega’s savoury hot cross buns

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Pinbone’s anchovy and tomato bruschetta

Pinbone’s anchovy and tomato bruschetta

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Dan Pepperell’s devilled Easter eggs

Dan Pepperell’s devilled Easter eggs

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Automata’s pickled eggs and onions

Automata’s pickled eggs and onions

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10 William St’s kingfish ham

10 William St’s kingfish ham

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Saint Peter’s cured ocean trout, fennel crème fraîche and brioche toast

Saint Peter’s cured ocean trout, fennel crème fraîche and brioche toast

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Slow-cooked ocean trout with peas, and Meyer lemon and fennel salsa

Slow-cooked ocean trout with peas, and Meyer lemon and fennel salsa

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Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad

Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad

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Eight-hour lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne

Eight-hour lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne

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Pinbone’s lamb shoulder ragù with gnocchetti

Pinbone’s lamb shoulder ragù with gnocchetti

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Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill

Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill

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Braised rabbit with sauce pearà

Braised rabbit with sauce pearà

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Torta Pasqualina

Torta Pasqualina (Italian Easter pie)

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Mushroom parcels

Mushroom parcels

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Ester’s carrots with garlic, ginger, spring onion and smoked chilli butter

Ester’s carrots with garlic, ginger, spring onion and smoked chilli butter

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Freekeh and shaved cauliflower salad with herb dressing

Freekeh and shaved cauliflower salad with herb dressing

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Potato, leek and silverbeet gratin

Potato, leek and silverbeet gratin

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Pumpkin, fennel and olive ring loaf

Pumpkin, fennel and olive ring loaf

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Tsoureki (Greek Easter bread)

Tsoureki (Greek Easter bread)

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Cuddura Cull’ova (Sicilian Easter biscuits)

Cuddura Cull’ova (Sicilian Easter biscuits)

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How to make kulich

How to make kulich

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Dan Pepperell’s hot cross cannoli

Dan Pepperell’s hot cross cannoli

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Chocolate and almond simnel cake

Chocolate and almond simnel cake

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How to make a chocolate ganache tart for Easter

How to make a chocolate ganache tart for Easter

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