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50 quick and easy last-minute Easter recipes

Left Easter cooking to the last moment? No worries. Mix and match a fast and easy feast using simple ingredients.

51 recipes
Shortcut Sunday roast lamb.
EASY

Shortcut Sunday roast lamb

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Roasted salmon with a citrus and soy dressing.

Karen Martini's roasted salmon with charred fennel and spring onion salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Jamie Oliver's pan-seared lamb with basil, new potatoes and pesto.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's pan-seared lamb with basil, new potatoes and pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Crowd-pleasing crumbed lamb cutlets with minted yoghurt.

Crumbed lamb cutlets with minted yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
A lighter topping for fish pie.
EASY

Speedy zucchini and smoked fish pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rachel Khoo
Risoni with cauliflower and preserved lemon.
EASY

Risoni or quinoa with cauliflower, preserved lemon and parmesan

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
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A speedy tomatoey stew inspired by Yotam Ottolenghi.
EASY

Tomato risoni with silverbeet, feta, walnuts and honey

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter.
EASY

Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's chicken pot pie recipe.

Family-size chicken pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Buttery almonds and toasted buckwheat add crunch to this charred vegetable salad.

Karen Martini's charred broccoli and spring onion salad with tahini dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Barbecued lamb cutlets with spicy mint and cucumber salsa.
EASY

Marinated lamb cutlets with spicy mint and cucumber salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Brown butter and citrus roasted carrots on a bed of labna.
EASY

Brown butter and citrus roasted carrots

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Potato roesti topped with spinach, blue cheese sour cream and bacon.
EASY

Potato roesti with blue cheese and bacon

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Jill Dupleix's kale colcannon.
EASY

Kale colcannon (mashed potato)

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Moussaka meets shepherd's pie.

Greek baked lamb and rice with yoghurt

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
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Fasolakia is a Greek favourite.
EASY

Greek green beans with tomato, onion and feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Persimmon, radicchio and comte salad.

Persimmon, radicchio and comte salad

  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken.

Classic roast chicken with buttered vegetables recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Choban salatasi (shepherd's salad).
EASY

Choban salatasi (shepherd's salad)

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Cultured mashed potatoes with chicken gravy.
EASY

Cultured mashed potatoes with chicken gravy recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Pan-fried salmon.
EASY

Pan-fried salmon with cucumber and radish relish

  • < 30 mins
Seafood pie with potato crust.
EASY

Seafood pie with potato crust

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Steamed snapper with fried ginger, chilli and Vietnamese mint.
EASY

Steamed fish with ginger, chilli and mint

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Make these mushroom stroganoff pot pies in any ovenproof dish you like.

Vegetarian mushroom stroganoff pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard dressing.
EASY

Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard

  • 1-2 hrs
Salmon and creamed spinach en croute.
EASY

Salmon and creamed spinach en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
This dish uses the important Spanish technique of slowly cooking a sofrito – a simple mix of onion, garlic and capsicum.
EASY

Marinated kipfler potato salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
These roast potatoes are simply smashing.

Jill Dupleix's crash-hot smashed potatoes

  • Jill Dupleix
Bitter greens with chicken, egg and hot bagna cauda dressing.

Bitter greens with warm roast chicken and bagna cauda

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Cucumber salad.

Cucumber salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Lynne Mullins
Neil Perry's farro salad.
EASY

Farro salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Barbecued lamb chops with sweet potato and rosemary butter.
EASY

Adam Liaw's barbecued lamb chops with sweet potato and rosemary butter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Jamie Oliver's peas, beans, chilli and mint.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's peas, beans, chilli and mint

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Grilled salmon fillets with salsa verde
EASY

Grilled salmon fillets with salsa verde recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Burrata with basil and capsicum salad.

Burrata cheese with capsicum salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Tomato trio salad.

Three tomato salad with sunflower seed puree and whipped feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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