Our Traditional Easter Dinner
Every year our family gathers together on Easter Sunday to enjoy a traditional ham dinner. On the side, we serve a potato dish, a salad, and hot homemade rolls. According to marthastewart.com, ham became the meat of choice for Easter dinner because it was more readily available than lamb. However, if ham isn’t your main dish of choice, lamb, pork, or a roast beef can also be served.
Easter Main Dish Recipes
As mentioned above, our go-to Easter main-dish is ham. However, we have enjoyed other main dishes as well. Check out all of our favorite Easter main dish ideas:
Honey Baked Ham (Copycat Recipe)
Oven Roast Beef
Crock Pot Pork Chops
Honey Baked Ham RecipeSlow Cooker Ham with Maple and Brown SugarHerb Crusted SalmonBaked Salmon with LemonInstant Pot Pork Chops with GravyCrock Pot Pork RoastCrock Pot Pork ChopsSunday Pot Roast (Instant Pot Recipe)Oven Roast Beef
Easter Potatoes
You can’t serve a ham dinner without a good potato side dish. Typically Easter potatoes are served “casserole-style” in a casserole dish with some kind of sauce and cheese. Some examples of this are funeral potatoes or potatoes au gratin. Our readers have commented saying that they have loved serving our creamy potatoes with peas or our parmesan potato halves with their ham dinners as well. Check them all out and decide for yourself what suits your family best! Any of these Easter dinner ideas will be a winner!
Cheesy Potato Casserole
Creamed Peas and Potatoes
Perfect Mashed Potatoes
Funeral Potatoes (aka “Cheesy Potato Casserole)Parmesan Baked Potato Halves Creamy Potatoes and PeasPotatoes Au GratinCrock Pot Potatoes Au GratinPerfect Mashed Potatoes
Easter Side Dish Ideas
The possibilities are endless when it comes to Easter side dishes. You can’t go wrong with just about any kind of salad. It was very tough narrowing down these side dishes to the few that we thought would complement a traditional Easter dinner the most. These are the ones we find ourselves using time and time again for our own Easter dinner:
Dinner Rolls
Blueberry Jello Salad
The BEST Oven Roasted Asparagus
Homemade Dinner RollsHomemade Crescent RollsOven Roasted AsparagusSautéed Sweet AsparagusHomestyle Potato SaladBlueberry Jell-O SaladFrozen Peas (The RIGHT way)
Easter Desserts
When it comes to Easter Desserts and Treats, we don’t mess around. In fact, we love Easter desserts and treats so much, we created an entire, separate post dedicated to them (click HERE). These tasty treats can be served along with Easter dinner or even as surprises in Easter baskets. They are as fun to make as they are to eat! Here are a few more of our favorites:
Easy Key Lime Pie
Coconut Cream Cake with Coconut Frosting
Very Best Lemon Bars
Lemon Bundt CakeCoconut Cream CakeCoconut Cream Pie Key Lime PieLemon Meringue PieFour Layer Banana PuddingLemon Bars
Bonus: Leftover Ham Recipes
I don’t know about you, but we ALWAYS seem to have leftovers from Easter dinner. Here are some ideas to help you use up that delicious leftover ham:
Ham and Bean SoupHomemade Macaroni and Cheese with Ham and PeasHam Fried RiceSlow Cooker Split Pea SoupApple, Ham, and Cheddar SandwichesSlow Cooker Red Beans and Rice
Easy Easter Dinner Menu with Recipes
Here is a sample menu plan for a delicious and easy Easter dinner. It features Slow Cooker Ham, Cheesy Potato Casserole, Sautéed Sweet Asparagus, and a Four Layer Banana Pudding for dessert. See the Recipe Notes for timing it all out perfectly. We are taking all of the stress out of it just for you! Please enjoy your beautiful, well-planned Easter Dinner! Share It on Instagram!
