50 Cheap Easter Recipes

Easter is right around the corner, and I’m excited to celebrate the holiday with my family and cook a traditional meal.

Typically, I wait until the last minute to plan my Easter menu, scrambling the night before to find recipes and grocery shop. But this year, I’m ahead of the game. I’ve spent some time combing the web and browsing some of my favorite blogs for cheap Easter recipes. Here are some ideas – 50, in fact – to help you cook a fabulous Easter meal without spending a lot of money:

Breakfast and Brunch

• Apple-cinnamon overnight baked french toast
• Breakfast crisp
• Bacon corncakes with warm maple cream
• Healthy French hens (a cross between souffle, omelet, and a quiche)
• Glazed donut muffins
• Spring radish tart
• Easter bunny English muffin sandwiches
• Bunny butt pancakes
• Mini lemon monkey bread cupcakes
• Crescent roll breakfast pizza
• Breakfast empanadas
• Vegan Russian deviled potatoes
• Perfect scrambled eggs

Easter Main Dishes

• Ham and potato casserole
• Honey baked ham
• Grandma’s holiday ham
• Raisin glaze for ham
• Simple meatloaf (with oatmeal and veggies)
• Pineapple roasted chicken
• Extra creamy scalloped potatoes and ham

Vegetarian Easter Recipes

• Curried lentil burgers
• Pesto mac & cheese
• Southwest wild rice pilaf
• “Caviar” lentil salad with arugula, crispy shallots, and roasted garlic

Side Dishes

• Best-ever crock pot mashed potatoes
• Mashed carrot potatoes with bacon
• Honey-mustard roasted vegetables
• Easy twice-baked potato bake
• Roasted Brussels sprouts with Applewood smoked bacon
• Fully loaded Brussels sprouts
• Kristi’s cornbake
• Deviled eggs
• Zucchini-cheddar hush puppies
• Sweet corn spoon bread

Salads

• Spring salad with shredded root vegetables, chickpeas, goat cheese, and almonds
• Lentil, feta, grape, and walnut salad
• Strawberry pretzel salad
• Roasted vegetable salad
• Cooked carrot and radish salad
• Roasted carrot and Feta salad
• Layered Jello salad

Bread

• Perfect dinner rolls
• Dinner rolls shaped like little birds
• Cheddar drop biscuits
• Classic popovers
• Parmesan popovers
• Baking powder biscuits made with olive oil
• Buttermilk baking powder drop biscuits
• Hot cross buns
• Rainbow bread
• Gorgonzola cheese straws

Desserts and Easter Treats

• Peeps cake
• Cadbury Creme Egg brownies
• Easter bunny nests
• Easter muddy buddies
• Salted caramel Easter popcorn
• Strawberry pie
• Homemade peanut butter Easter eggs
• Carrot spice cake made with Greek yogurt
• Fondant carrots (to decorate carrot cake)

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