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18 delicious things to do with your Easter leftovers, from lamb to chocolate eggs

If you’re lucky enough to have hot cross buns, Easter eggs, roast lamb or even roast veg leftover, we have just the recipe for you.

18 recipes
Turn leftover lamb roast into ragu.

The savoury stuff: Leftover lamb ragu with sun-dried tomato and olives

  • Katrina Meynink
Slow-cooked lamb topped with a nest of kataifi pastry.

Greek lamb and feta pie

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Spiced pumpkin soup with barley, labne and leftover lamb.

Spiced pumpkin soup with barley and leftover lamb

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Lamb gyros with tzatziki.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ shredded lamb gyros

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Love your leftovers: lamb and quinoa salad.
EASY

Leftover lamb and quinoa salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Green lamb shoulder shawarma and pea pie.

Lamb shoulder and pea pie with sumac butter filo pastry

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
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Adam Liaw’s vegetable frittata.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s adaptable roasted veg frittata

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s everything fritters.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s everything fritters

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Moussaka with leftover shredded lamb.

RecipeTin Eats’ pulled lamb moussaka

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Cheesy vegetable hash.
EASY

Cheesy vegetable hash

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Skip the bakery queues and make NYC-style Easter egg-loaded cookies at home.
EASY

The sweet stuff: NYC-style Easter egg-loaded cookies

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
With its filling of kataifi pastry and pistachios, the Dubai chocolate bar became a worldwide hit.
EASY

Dubai chocolate bar with Turkish delight Easter eggs

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Ice-cream sundaes with leftover Easter egg chocolate sauce

‘Magic’ Easter egg chocolate sauce (plus four more irresistible ideas)

  • Katrina Meynink
Hot cross bun pudding.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s bun-and-butter pudding

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
This colourful rocky road is also a great way to use up leftover Easter choccies.
EASY

Rainbow Easter egg rocky road

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Adam Liaw’s big, fat Easter egg cookies. Styling by Hannah Meppem.
EASY

Big, fat Easter egg cookies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Easter egg ice-cream sandwiches.
EASY

Easter egg hot cross bun ice-cream sandwiches

  • Adam Liaw
Hot cross bun pudding with apple.
EASY

Spiced hot cross bun and butter pudding with apples

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry