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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.
The Gourmet Traveller Team
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.
Tuscan rosemary buns
Tuscan rosemary buns
Soft garlic and poppyseed pretzels with wholegrain beer mustard
Soft garlic and poppyseed pretzels with wholegrain beer mustard
Bodega’s hot cross buns
Bodega’s savoury hot cross buns
Pinbone’s anchovy and tomato bruschetta
Pinbone’s anchovy and tomato bruschetta
Dan Pepperell’s devilled Easter eggs
Dan Pepperell’s devilled Easter eggs
Automata’s pickled eggs and onions
Automata’s pickled eggs and onions
10 William St’s kingfish ham
10 William St’s kingfish ham
Saint Peter’s cured ocean trout, fennel crème fraîche and brioche toast
Saint Peter’s cured ocean trout, fennel crème fraîche and brioche toast
Slow-cooked ocean trout with peas, and Meyer lemon and fennel salsa
Slow-cooked ocean trout with peas, and Meyer lemon and fennel salsa
Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad
Roast ocean trout with cucumber and preserved lemon salad
Eight-hour lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne
Eight-hour lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne
Pinbone’s lamb shoulder ragù with gnocchetti
Pinbone’s lamb shoulder ragù with gnocchetti
Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill
Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill
Braised rabbit with sauce pearà
Braised rabbit with sauce pearà
Torta Pasqualina
Torta Pasqualina (Italian Easter pie)
Mushroom parcels
Mushroom parcels
Ester’s carrots with garlic, ginger, spring onion and smoked chilli butter
Ester’s carrots with garlic, ginger, spring onion and smoked chilli butter
Freekeh and shaved cauliflower salad with herb dressing
Freekeh and shaved cauliflower salad with herb dressing
Potato, leek and silverbeet gratin
Potato, leek and silverbeet gratin
Pumpkin, fennel and olive ring loaf
Pumpkin, fennel and olive ring loaf
Tsoureki (Greek Easter bread)
Tsoureki (Greek Easter bread)
Cuddura Cull’ova (Sicilian Easter biscuits)
Cuddura Cull’ova (Sicilian Easter biscuits)
How to make kulich
How to make kulich
Dan Pepperell’s hot cross cannoli
Dan Pepperell’s hot cross cannoli
Chocolate and almond simnel cake
Chocolate and almond simnel cake
How to make a chocolate ganache tart for Easter
How to make a chocolate ganache tart for Easter
The Gourmet Traveller Team
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