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Home » All Recipes & Inspiration » A Full Easter Lamb Dinner

A Full Easter Lamb Dinner

Published: Feb 20, 2022 by Genevieve Morrison · This post may contain affiliate links

If you’re planning to have lamb at Easter, you’ll love this easy, colorful menu that comes with appetizers, sides, cocktails, and dessert! It’s a uniquely lovely menu with fresh, Spring flavors that will delight your entire family!

3 lamb chops in a bowl surrounded by flowers with a title that says "A Full Easter Lamb Dinner."

I love pairing Easter recipes together like they’re one, colorful work of art. You’ll see this delicious (and deceptively simple) menu is bright, colorful, and enchanting!

I also love this menu because almost everything can be made or prepped a whole day ahead of time, so I’m not toiling in the kitchen when family arrives. The lamb chops take just 8 minutes or less to sear right before serving, and the appetizers take no time at all to assemble once all the bits and pieces are prepared.

3 crostini on a small plate beside a marble appetizer slate, and napkin.

We’ll start with 3 kinds of pretty, vegetarian crostini appetizers. Then, a salad with asparagus, green apple, shaved parmesan, and deviled quail eggs. For the main course, we’ll have pan-seared rosemary lamb chops with pistachio-mint pesto served over a bed of lemon-turmeric pearl couscous with feta, cucumber, and fresh dill.

A lamb chop with mint pesto in a bowl with 2 others, on top of pearl couscous.

For our cocktail, a sparking raspberry-lemonade sake sangria, and for dessert, the most delightful lavender lemon bars!

1. Colorful Easter Crostini

14 brightly colored crostini on a marble slate.

These pretty Easter crostini will make everyone smile! They’re spring pea with mint and goat cheese, mushroom pâté with carrot roses, and white balsamic honey peach and ricotta!

5 brightly colored crostini on a plate, with a carrot rose crostini in the center.

They’re all vegetarian, in fact, the mushroom pâté crostini are vegan, so these appetizers are perfect for a family gathering with folks who don’t eat meat or dairy. But honestly, everyone will love them, vegetarian or not!

2. Easter Salad with Deviled Quail Eggs

A salad with 3 small deviled eggs in a white bowl.

This beautiful Easter salad includes gently seared asparagus, green apple, radish, and delightful, easy-to-make deviled quail eggs. Everyone loves deviled eggs for Easter, and your guests will be simply enchanted with these lovely, little salad-toppers! I also have a healthy, homemade salad dressing suggestion too!

6 deviled quail eggs garnished with flake salt on a marble table with baby's breath flowers in the corners.

If you have any trouble finding quail eggs, no worries! You can always simply add one single deviled egg to a salad, and it looks almost as pretty. You can even add a few edible flowers like pansies to really dress them up for Spring!

3.  Lemon Turmeric Pearl Couscous

A wooden bowl of turmeric pearl couscous beside flowers on a lace tablecloth.

This pearl couscous recipe is made bright with lemon, fresh with dill and cucumber, and exciting with feta crumbles! It’s a perfect side dish for any spring meal and takes just 20 minutes to make, with just a little cooling time for the couscous!

A metal bowl of turmeric couscous mixed with chopped vegetables.

I used turmeric couscous which gives the pearls a gentle, spiced flavor. Turmeric couscous is easy to find, but just in case you can’t find it already spiced, it’s simple to add a little turmeric to your plain couscous too.

4. Pan-Seared Rosemary Lamb Chops

3 seared lamb chops in a bowl with pearl couscous on a table cloth, with flowers in the background.

These pan-seared lamb chops are marinated in rosemary and garlic, have perfectly crispy edges, and take just 6-10 minutes to make (once they’ve been marinated, of course). 

These tender chops make such an elegant spring or Easter dinner and impress every guest! This recipe also includes a mint-pistachio pesto to serve on the side!

5. Sparkling Sake Sangria

A glass of sake sangria, full of fruit, on a table beside appetizers.

This sparkling sake sangria recipe is full of bright fruit and uses sparkling sake, instead of wine. Sake is, after all, a rice wine, so it’s not entirely breaking the rules. 

With raspberry lemonade and fruit soaked in white rum, it makes a lovely Easter or sun-shiny Spring cocktail that packs a bit of a punch, so sip those sparkles slowly, no matter how delicious they are!

The daisy and fruit garnish in a glass of sake sangria.

If you want a little more Easter cocktail inspiration, take a look at my 10 Delightful Easter Cocktails post!

6. Lavender Lemon Tart

A lavender lemon Easter tart, garnished with flowers, berries and chocolate eggs on a table with a lace cloth.

This rustically elegant lavender lemon Easter tart recipe is dairy-free, bright, floral, and such an original Easter dessert! It’s sweet and tart, can be made a full day ahead, and will make your entire kitchen smell like an enchanting field of lavender!

I hope you enjoy these recipes and have a lovely Easter!

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