20+ Easter Dinner Ideas

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Easter dinner is the perfect time to gather with family and friends around a table filled with delicious food. Whether you’re looking for a traditional ham, a unique twist on classic dishes, or easy one-pan meals, this list has something for everyone. These recipes are simple, flavorful, and sure to impress your guests. Let’s make your Easter dinner extra special this year! Need some dessert ideas? Check out my post with 30+ Easy Easter Desserts. You’re sure to find a few that hit the spot!

Easter Dinner Ideas

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Homemade Crescent Rolls (No Knead Recipe). Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Homemade Crescent Rolls
These Homemade Crescent Rolls are simple enough to make any weekday but fancy enough for any holiday (I’m looking at you Easter). They are the easiest recipe and require ZERO KNEADING! It’s a perfect, buttery roll that tastes simply amazing!
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A wooden bowl filled with six soft, fluffy dinner rolls is set on a marble surface next to a striped cloth, offering the perfect accompaniment to serve with your chicken and rice casserole.
Dinner Rolls
These classic Dinner Rolls are sure to be the best sidekick to any holiday or family dinner. Soft, light and pillowy, and oh so perfect for Easter dinner!
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Golden brown Sweet Potato Rolls nestle perfectly in a parchment-lined black skillet.
Sweet Potato Rolls
Sweet Potato Rolls are perfect for any occasion. Use simple ingredients, knead together and bake. Then spread with lots of cinnamon honey butter.
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A succulent lamb roast garnished with herbs, surrounded by roasted sweet potato wedges in a white dish.
Lamb Roast
Easter is just around the corner and there’s nothing more impressive on your dinner table than a beautiful Lamb Roast. I’ll show you step by step just how easy it can be to make fall apart tender lamb.
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A basting brush applies sauce to a crockpot ham, topped with pineapple slices and cherries, simmering in the slow cooker.
Crockpot Ham
This easy, 3-ingredient Crockpot Ham recipe is made with precooked spiralized ham and brown sugar. Just in time for Easter!
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Close-up of a sliced glazed ham with visible seasoning on top.
Baked Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze
Perfectly Baked Ham slathered with a homemade Brown Sugar Glaze is a tasty and easy dish you can make for any special occasion or holiday. It’s always a crowd-pleaser and makes Easter dinner extra special with no muss or fuss.
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sliced pineapple glazed ham on platter
Pineapple Glazed Ham
Elevate your Easter Ham game this year by using this amazing Pineapple Ham Glaze! Made with only 5 ingredients, it’s so easy and so yummy! It’s a classic recipe with those traditional sweet and spicy flavors that are synonymous with a perfectly baked ham.
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Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe With Potatoes. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Garlic Pork Loin Roast
This amazing Garlic Pork Loin Roast is served with gravied potatoes. Show stopping enough for your holiday table.
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Crockpot Cherry Balsamic Glazed Pork Tenderloin. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Crockpot Cherry Balsamic Glazed Pork Tenderloin
Crockpot Cherry Balsamic Glazed Pork Tenderloin is easy to throw together, delicious and kid-friendly. If you're not feeling like ham this Easter, this may be just the thing!
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A dish of cheesy scalloped potatoes with a golden-brown crust, served in an oval white baking dish with a spoon—one of the best Christmas dinner sides for ham.
Scalloped Potatoes
This easy recipe for Scalloped Potatoes is one you will make again and again. Extremely creamy and cheesy potato perfection! A staple at your Easter dinner table.
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Close-up of a serving of cheesy potato casserole, one of the best Christmas dinner sides for ham, topped with crispy cornflakes and garnished with parsley on a white plate.
Funeral Potatoes
Funeral Potatoes…everyone has a recipe for this popular casserole! Here is our family-favorite recipe for funeral potatoes that we’ve been making for years. Creamy, cheesy and onion-y. Perfect for Easter!
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crockpot mashed potatoes on a tablescape
Crockpot Mashed Potatoes
Crockpot Mashed Potatoes are smooth, silky, and extra creamy. They taste just as delicious as the stovetop version, but made easier because we used the crockpot! These are the perfect make ahead dish for Easter!
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twice baked potatoes on fork
Twice Baked Potatoes
Move over baked potatoes, Twice Baked Potatoes are here! The cheesier, creamier, fancier, cooler cousin. Filled with bacon, cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, and chives, these are the perfect appetizer or side dish for Easter!
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eggs on rivet in instant pot
Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
Instant Pot Hard Boiled eggs are quick, easy to peel, and come out perfect every time! Whether you’re dying eggs for Easter, making egg salad you need perfect hard-boiled eggs and this is just the ticket.
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Close-up of deviled eggs with creamy yolk filling, garnished with chopped chives, placed on a white surface—a delightful choice as one of the best Christmas dinner sides for ham.
Deviled Eggs
Get my simple, classic recipe for Deviled Eggs, just in time for Easter! This is the quintessential appetizer for Spring that everyone can’t get enough of.
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Deviled eggs, perfect for an elegant Easter dinner, are topped with chopped herbs, crumbled cheese, and drizzled with sauce on a white plate.
Buffalo Deviled Eggs
A new and spicy spin on the classic. Buffalo Deviled Eggs are made with blue cheese and hot sauce, so good for Easter!
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Creamy Potato Salad (No Eggs!). Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Creamy Potato Salad
This Creamy Potato Salad recipe is truly one of the best recipes I have. It’s such a crowd-pleasing classic in my book. Perfect for Easter gatherings and easy to make well in advance.
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Deviled Egg Potato Salad. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Deviled Egg Potato Salad
Deviled Eggs and Potato Salad are combined into this ultimate Deviled Egg Potato Salad recipe! Perfect as an Easter side dish.
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Homemade Macaroni And Cheese Recipe. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Homemade Macaroni and Cheese
There's nothing better than Homemade Macaroni and Cheese! Featuring three kinds of cheese and a crispy, salty topping, the kids (and big kids!) will love you this Easter!
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Oven Roasted Asparagus Recipe. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Oven Roasted Asparagus
Simple and quick this Oven Roasted Asparagus is the perfect Easter vegetable side dish! Easily prepared while your main dish is cooking.
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A bowl of sliced multicolored carrots mixed with herbs and almonds, with tongs on the side.
Colorful Carrot Salad
Crunchy, sweet, and zippy, this non-mayo Colorful Carrot Salad Recipe will be your new healthy, family-favorite Easter side dish!
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Roasted carrots topped with chopped nuts in a white baking dish on a striped cloth make one of the best Christmas dinner sides for ham.
Maple Glazed Carrots
Maple Glazed Carrots are the perfect, easiest side dish for Easter dinner. These glazed carrots won’t be forgotten anytime soon. Only one pan required!
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
This super easy Roasted Brussels Sprouts recipe is a delicious vegetable side dish. A brown, crispy exterior with a tender middle. They are a perfect and simple side for Easter.
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cooked roasted root vegetables on platter
Roasted Root Vegetables
Move over salad…make room for earthy, hearty, caramelized deliciousness in the form of oven Roasted Root Vegetables. These will be a show stopper on your Easter dinner table.
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Best Broccoli Salad With Sunflower Seeds And Bacon. Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Broccoli Salad
This is the best Broccoli Salad recipe ever! It’s sweet, creamy, and crunchy with fresh broccoli, homemade dressing, and lots of bacon! This salad pairs well with so many different meals. Make it for Easter this year!
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Ambrosia Salad Recipe (with Sour Cream). Photo credit Lauren's Latest.
Ambrosia Salad
If you want a salad that tastes just like dessert, Ambrosia Salad is the ticket! Made with fresh pineapple, mandarin oranges, maraschino cherries, coconut, mini marshmallows and stirred together with a whipped cream dressing, you will fall in love with this Ambrosia Recipe!!
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Easter egg shaped Rice Krispie Treats with colorful candy eggs on a white plate.
Easter Rice Krispie Eggs
Easter Rice Krispies Treats Eggs are an easy no bake dessert made from cereal and gooey marshmallows, packed with Cadbury Mini Eggs and then molded into an egg shape. Your Easter guests are in for a treat with this ooey-gooey dessert or snack that everyone is sure to love!
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Colorful cake pops with bite taken out of one, decorated with sprinkles, displayed on a plate.
Easter Cake Pops
Dive into these Easter Cake Pops! Whip up these delightful cake pops with a white cake mix, eggs, oil, and cream cheese frosting. Let your creativity run wild and decorate by dipping the cake pops into pastel chocolate candy coating and Easter sprinkles for a fun and festive touch.
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A slice of cake decorated with a pink marshmallow bunny and pastel sprinkles on a white background.
Easter Dirt Cake
Whip up this delightful Easter Dirt Cake (aka Chocolate Oreo Lasagna) made with an Oreo crust and layered with a creamy cheesecake filling, pudding, homemade whipped cream and decorated with cute little Easter peeps and coconut “grass”. It’s perfect for your Easter celebration!
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With so many delicious Easter dinner ideas, your holiday meal is sure to be a hit! Whether you’re hosting a large gathering or having a cozy family dinner, these recipes will make your Easter celebration extra special. Which dish are you most excited to try? Let me know in the comments!

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