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Adam Liaw's 'crying' roast lamb with pumpkin, peas and potatoes.

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Easy Easter recipes

Serve a scaled-back feast this year with these simple, stress-free recipes.

20 recipes
Greek tomato-baked lamb with orzo.

Greek tomato-baked lamb with tinned tomatoes and orzo or risoni pasta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli.
EASY

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's fish finger sarnie.

Fish finger sarnie with chunky tartare sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Salmon and creamed spinach en croute.
EASY

Deceptively simple salmon and creamed spinach en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
DIY creme eggs filled with caramel and mascarpone.
EASY

Three-ingredient DIY creme eggs

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Just a handful of ingredients and a few hours in the fridge.

No-bake crunchy chocolate-almond tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Alison Roman
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Get cracking: Freestyle Easter egg chocolate bark.
EASY

Keep the kids entertained with Easter egg chocolate bark

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Use a cookie cutter to cut out discs of ice-cream for hot cross bun ice-cream sandwiches.
EASY

Store-bought hot cross buns become ice-cream sandwiches

  • < 30 mins
  • Phillippa Grogan
Crying roast lamb with pumpkin, peas and potatoes.

'Crying' roast lamb with pumpkin, peas and potatoes

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's garlic butter roast chicken

This garlic butter roast chicken is ready in an hour

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Whole roasted carrots with garlic, thyme and golden syrup.
EASY

Meaty whole roasted carrots with garlic, thyme and golden syrup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
This has to be the easiest cauliflower cheese recipe.
EASY

Cauliflower + parmesan = the easiest cauliflower cheese

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Moussaka meets shepherd's pie.

Greek baked lamb mince and rice with yoghurt topping

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Cucumbers, yoghurt and mint.
EASY

Andrew McConnell's three-ingredient tzatziki

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Lamb with haloumi and fast tomato sugo.

Lamb skewers with haloumi and fast tomato sugo

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
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Souvlaki-meets-taco: Lamb and feta wraps with mint salsa.
EASY

Or lamb and feta souva-tacos with mint salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Roasted new potato zucchini and red onion.
EASY

Roasted new potatoes, zucchini and red onion

  • < 30 mins
Silverbeet gratin.

Cheesy, seasonal silverbeet gratin

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
This colourful rocky road is also a great way to use up leftover Easter choccies.
EASY

Rainbow Easter egg rocky road recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Note: Children preferred the bars without the ganache, as pictured, and also sans cinnamon.
EASY

Crunchy chocolate hazelnut marshmallow slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh

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