Celebrate Easter with a delicious menu for a filling feast the family will adore! Here, we’ve pulled together a selection of our best traditional recipes that generally make an appearance on the Orthodox Easter spread.
There’s everything from the iconic red-dyed eggs to Greek-style roast lamb and koulourakia cookies. Why not start lunch with marinated olives and fried haloumi before chowing down on some lemon baked potatoes and lamb chops? It’ll be your most memorable Easter yet!
Tsoureki
How to make the traditional Greek Easter bread.
Marinated olives
Create your own delicious marinade that will suit either green or black olives.
Baklava
Go nuts for this sweet Middle Eastern dessert.
How to make rosemary haloumi
The best haloumi you will taste without travelling to Cyprus.
Dolmades
You’ll love this classic Greek starter.
Slow-cooked Greek lamb with chilli garlic broccolini
Tender and completely delicious.
Galaktoboureko (Greek custard pie)
You’ll just love this baked custard dessert.
Easter cheese pies (Flaounes)
These Cypriot-style pastries are an Easter tradition. They are best eaten fresh.
Grilled lemon chicken
Fall in love with the flavour.
Skordalia
It’s dipping good.
How to make perfect roast potatoes
Bright and zesty with the perfect amount of crunch.
Santorini tomato fritters
Perfect with the minty dipping sauce.
Grilled haloumi
Haloumi is a salty, stretched-curd Cypriot cheese available at delicatessens and most supermarkets. Serve on it’s own with fresh lemon juice, or in this pumpkin, spinach and haloumi salad.
Slow-cooker lamb kleftiko with potatoes
Let the slow cooker work its magic and come home to a meal that’s ready when you are.
Greek style roast leg of lamb
Add this greek spring to a leg of lamb by injecting aromatic herbs then slow cooking to perfection. Serve it as the hero of your next main dish or as a twist on the traditional Sunday family roast.
Greek shortbread
Suitable to freeze. Not suitable to microwave. Note
Greek lamb and potato soup
If you have an electric pressure cooker you won’t need to reduce the heat to stabilise pressure, your cooker will automatically stabilise itself. Always check with the manufacturer’s instructions before using. Note
Greek fetta salad
A classic mix of great flavours!
Greek Easter red eggs (kokina paschalina avga)
These classic red dyed eggs are traditionally enjoyed at Greek Orthodox Easter.
Greek-style lamb shanks
With the help of a pressure cooker, make these exquisitely spiced and flavoured Greek lamb shanks in no time.
Greek lamb meatballs with tomato and mint salad
Not suitable to freeze. Not suitable to microwave. Note
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