Every family has its own unique Easter traditions from egg hunts to church services to making many different types of traditional Eastern foods! Sure, you will think about the glazed ham and hot cross buns that will come to your mind. But, there are loads of different Easter Sunday recipes that you can try for the Easter feast. These delicacies may have deep roots but you may find them a fun addition to your feast this year!
Easter is one of the prominent festivals of the Christian Church, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection happened three days after his crucifixion. The records have found that the earliest celebration of Easter was done around the 2nd century. This year, Easter will be celebrated on Sunday, 17th of April.
Effortless Easter Sunday Feast Recipes!
While planning for the Easter Feast, people often go the traditional route and make recipes that have been there for centuries. However, let’s try something new this year. Let’s make some recipes that are not only easy to make but delicious to eat as well.
For that, we are happy to present you with these delicious Easter recipes. These recipes are effortless to make, have amazing taste, and can feed a crowd easily. Plus, you need not have to do extensive shopping to make these recipes. Just ingredients present in your home will work.
So, without any further delay, let’s make these delectable and trouble-free Easter recipes and enjoy the feast with your friends and family:
- Blueberry Jello Salad
- Fried Mac n Cheese Balls
- Roasted Pork with Hasselback Potatoes
- Spring Chicken Pot Pie
- Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Blueberry Jello Salad
A gelatin salad or congealed salad is an essential part of the Southern holiday menu. This gelatine blueberry salad will present you with a nice change of pace from the traditional cranberry gelatine salad and can prove to be a perfect side dish or dessert for the Eastern Sunday feast. It is light and refreshing and can be enjoyed by all, no matter when it’s served!
Quick Stats
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Servings: 8 serves
Ingredients
- 1 can of crushed pineapple in juice
- 2 packages of blackberry gelatin
- 3 cups boiling water
- 5 ounces frozen blueberries, drained
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 package of cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- Chopped walnuts and pecans, for garnishing
Method to Prepare
- Gather all the ingredients and start the recipe by draining the pineapple. Don’t throw the juice.
- Now, dissolve gelatin in boiling water and stir in the reserved pineapple juice.
- Slide it into the fridge and chill it until set. You will want your gelatine to achieve the consistency of unbeaten egg white.
- Now, stir in pineapple and blueberries and pour them into a pan. Slide it into the fridge once again and let it chill until firm, for 5 hours.
- Meanwhile, take a bowl and add sour cream, cream cheese, and sugar. Mix everything well until smooth and well blended.
- First, spread the blueberry and pineapple mixture. Top it with cream cheese mixture and garnish it with chopped pecans and walnuts.
- Serve and enjoy!
Fried Mac n Cheese Balls
Mac n cheese is something that is loved by all – be it children, adults, or oldies! So, what about we give this delicious breakfast dish a twist and fry them to perfection? Yes, this recipeChicken Pot Pie Recipe: Cook Holiday Special Meal for Family! being part of Easter Sunday recipes will provide you with the crunchiest mac n cheese balls that you can make for family gatherings like an Easter feast!
Quick Stats
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 3 hours 15 minutes (includes freezing time)
Servings: 25 balls
Ingredients
- 5 cups macaroni(500 g)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons flour
- 1 ¾ cups milk(400 mL)
- 2 ½ cups cheddar cheese(250 g)
- 2 ½ cups red Leicester(250 g)
- salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 2 eggs, for egg wash
- breadcrumb, as needed
Method to Prepare
- Take a pan, pour water, and bring it to a boil. Then, add macaroni and cook it until al dente.
- Meanwhile, melt butter in a pan and mix two teaspoons of flour into it.
- Then, gradually add milk. Here, you will need to keep stirring otherwise lumps will be formed.
- After that, add the kinds of cheese you are using and cook until the cheese is melted and the sauce is thick. We have used cheddar and red Leicester cheese here.
- Season the thick sauce with salt and pepper as per your liking.
- Then, add cooked macaroni and combine thoroughly. Ensure that macaroni is well-covered with the sauce.
- Once done, slide the pan into the fridge and let it refrigerate for an hour.
- After an hour, take the pan out and form it into balls, and put them on another plate.
- Slide the macaroni balls into the fridge again and let it refrigerate for a couple of hours.
- After 2 hours, take them out and heat the oil in a pan.
- Dip the solid Mac n Cheese balls in egg wash and then breadcrumbs.
- Fry them until golden brown from both sides.
- Enjoy!
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Roasted Pork with Hasselback Potatoes
How can you miss potatoes when making an Easter Sunday celebration feast! This show-stopping recipe is one of the dishes that will enhance your party with amazing flavors. The slow-roasted pork belly dish along with Hasselback potatoes will present you with a dish that is easy to make but delicious to eat! Here, you will also know how to make a quick gremolata to add dashes of color.
Quick Stats
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours
Servings: 6 serves
Ingredients
- 2kg boneless pork belly, skin well scored in a crosshatch pattern
- sea salt
- 2kg of medium sized floury potatoes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- a large knob of butter
- 1 bulb garlic, broken into cloves
- a few sprigs of thyme
- 150ml white wine
For gremolata
- a small bunch of curly parsley, finely chopped
- 1 lemon, zested
- 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
Method to Prepare
- If you are preparing the pork ahead, put the pork belly uncovered, skin up on a large plate.
- Sprinkle it with sea salt and slide it into the bottom shelf of the fridge overnight. Doing this will help dry out the skin and give better crackling to the meat.
- When you are ready to cook, just take the pork out of the fridge and leave it at room temperature for at least an hour before you slide it into the oven.
- Begin the recipe by taking out the pork belly from the fridge. Keep it aside at room temperature.
- Now, preheat the oven to 160C. Get a sharp knife and cut down into the potatoes at half-centimeter intervals. Do not cut all the way through.
- Pour two tablespoons of olive and butter into a large roasting tin. Choose a tin that can fit all the potatoes. Then, slide it into the oven for a quick 3-minute melt.
- After 3 minutes, add potatoes, garlic, and thyme into the pan and toss to coat well. Sprinkle sea salt flakes.
- Pat the pork belly with kitchen paper to completely absorb the moisture and make it dry. Rub a little olive oil on the skin and sprinkle it with sea salt.
- Place the pork belly on top of the potatoes and pour white wine around.
- Cover the potatoes with foil but keep the pork skin uncovered to the heat of the oven.
- Slide it into the oven and cook the pork and potatoes for at least 1 ½ hours. After that, take it out and remove the foil.
- Increase the heat to 220 degrees. Bathe the potatoes with the pan juice, then slide the tin back into the oven for 45 minutes to one hour.
- Bake the potatoes until they are crisp and pork skin has turned to crackling.
- Take it out of the oven and let the pork rest for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, mix all the gremolata ingredients and scatter over the pork and potatoes.
- Serve and enjoy!
Spring Chicken Pot Pie
One-pan recipes will help you spend less time in the kitchen washing several pans while presenting you with crown-feeding dishes. Similarly, this spring chicken pot pie will help you feed your friends and family when they visit your place for the Easter Sunday feast. It is delicious and one of the easiest Easter Sunday recipes as the crispy phyllo pastry will be perfect for a hearty meal with all the fresh flavors of spring.
Quick Stats
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Servings: 4 to 6 portions
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil plus
- 1 tbsp of butter
- 2 leeks with white and light green parts, thinly sliced
- 250g frozen spinach
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 cup of sliced cremini mushrooms
- 6 ready-cooked skinless chicken thighs, chopped or shredded
- ¼ cup white wine
- 1 cup of chicken stock
- Zest of one lemon
- ½ tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 cups frozen peas
- 1 tbsp of flour
- ¾ cup of sour cream
- 2 tsp thyme leaves finely chopped
- ¼ cup small bunch parsley finely chopped
- 250g pack phyllo pastry
Method to Prepare
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Then, add butter and olive oil into a shallow dutch oven and heat it over medium heat.
- Then, add leeks, garlic, and mushrooms and sauté everything for 2 minutes. If you are using white wine, deglaze the pan with it.
- Stir through the frozen spinach and cook for around 2 minutes, until it starts to wilt.
- Then, add chicken and sprinkle flour. Give it a good stir. After that, pour chicken stock and mustard along with the lemon zest.
- Now, bring to a simmer and cook veggies for about 10 minutes, uncovered, until liquid is reduced and slightly thickened.
- After that, add peas, sour cream, and herbs. Remove the pot from the flame.
- Taste the chicken pie mixture and add salt and pepper according to your taste.
- Curl up the phyllo pastry sheets over the mixture and brush it with little olive oil.
- Slide the pot into the oven and bake it for half an hour, until golden brown and bubbling on the sides.
- After half an hour, let the pie cool out of the oven.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Easter celebration is incomplete without making these special bunny cupcakes. These cute and delicious Easter bunny cupcakes just don’t look fabulous but taste fantastic as well! Here, flake bars are scattered all over the cake mixture to give you an added chocolatey surprise to your friends and family. These cupcakes are one of the favorite Easter Sunday Recipes.
Quick Stats
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 340g packet golden butter cake mix
- 30g flake chocolate bars, roughly crushed
- ¾ cup shredded coconut
- 24 strawberry and cream lollies
- 24 blue mini M&Ms
- 12 red mini M&Ms
- 12 white mini marshmallows, halved crossways
- 24 white tic tacs
- Rich chocolate writing fudge
Buttercream icing
- 150g butter, softened
- 2 cups icing sugar mixture, sifted
- 1 ½ tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Method to Prepare
- First, preheat the oven to 180°C. Then, line a 12-hole muffin pan with paper cases.
- Now, make the cake mixture as per the direction. Stir in the crushed flake bars and divide the mixture between cases.
- Then, slide the pan into the oven and bake for 25 minutes, until golden.
- Let the pancakes rest for around 2 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack for further cooling.
- Meanwhile, prepare buttercream icing. Get an electric mixture and beat the butter until it is light and fluffy.
- Then, add the icing sugar mixture, milk, and vanilla to the butter gradually. Beat the mixture well and reserve around ¼ cup of icing in another bowl.
- Spread the cupcakes with the remaining icing and sprinkle shredded coconut. Press very lightly to secure the icing.
- Now, trim around 5mm from one short end of each strawberry and cream lolly.
- See the above picture for guidance. With the help of a little bit of icing, fix these strawberries and cream lollies on top of one cupcake to form ears.
- Then, press two blue M&Ms on the cake to give it eyes. Then, fix one red M&M to form a nose.
- Use two marshmallows and press them below the nose to form cheeks and 2 tic tacs for making teeth.
- With the help of chocolate writing fudge, pipe dots in the center of the eyes to form pupils.
- Set the cupcakes aside for 10 minutes until they are set.
- Now, repeat the process with the remaining cupcakes.
- Your Easter special cakes are ready to serve and enjoy!
Final Words
Are you already feeling hungry? Well, Easter Sunday is not so far away! These Easter Sunday Recipes will help you create a delicious lineup of Easter treats that your friends and family will love. So, try these Easter Sunday recipes and fill your feast with delicious and mesmerizing taste and aroma.
