Traditional Foods to Add a Little Easter to Your Menu

Easter is just around the corner and with this period of tradition and festivities comes a few traditional foods, offering the perfect inspiration for creating a special menu. Taking a typical food or flavour from this time of year and adding it to an existing or new dish is a great way to get creative, so we’ve detailed a few Easter elements you could experiment with. 

Eggs 

This is what you think of when you think about Easter, however, we don’t mean the chocolate kind. Hardboiled eggs are a tradition in many homes, especially when the shells are dyed in pastel, spring colours.  

A common way that eggs grace our Easter tables is in the form of devilled eggs, this is a slightly different way to have your eggs rather than the standard scrambled or poached. Eggs hold a significant part in the history of Easter and symbolise the coming of Spring and new birth.  

Lamb 

This is the traditional meat of Easter and the meat of choice for many homes over the period. Christians have brought a new level of significance to this meat for Easter and this is why it has become a tradition in many households.  

There are a variety of ways that you can present and recipes that incorporate this meat so you can really be creative.  

Hot Cross Buns 

This is another stereotypical food for Easter that most people will expect, but this is a very traditional food for this time of year and rightly so. Traditionally these are eaten on Good Friday as a sweet treat however in modern day they are eaten over the whole of the Easter period.  

Traditionally these were made with currents but now modern flavours have been introduced such as toffee, chocolate or apple and cinnamon.  

Why not take a creative twist on an Easter tradition and incorporate the flavour into a dessert such as ice cream? Modern twists on the traditional foods are becoming more popular so try something new.  

Simnel Cake 

Although this is an extremely traditional aspect of Easter, it is not as well known as some of the other aspects of Easter. This cake is made with a layer of marzipan in the middle and on top and has 11 marzipan balls to represent the apostles. 

This is a favourite for the Lent period and usually a regular on Mothers Day as this falls over this period the majority of the time – this is not the case this year, as Mother’s Day was earlier.  

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