Easter Recipes and Food Traditions | Green Chef UK (2024)

Traditional Easter Foods

• Boiled eggs are traditionally served at breakfast, symbolising new life and rebirth. These can even come in the form of ‘devilled eggs’, which are hard-boiled eggs cut in half, then stuffed with a paste made from the yolk and other ingredients.
• Similarly, chocolate eggs are often given as gifts due to their symbolic meaning.
• Roast lamb or roast ham is the traditional meat for the main meal on Easter Sunday. Read on for more on what to serve with your traditional Easter roast.
• Hot cross buns, which are spiced tea cakes, are traditionally served on Good Friday.
• Simnel cakes are often made at Easter time. Simnel cakes are light fruit cakes containing dried fruit and marzipan, decorated with 11 balls of marzipan (representing Jesus’ 11 disciples).
• Easter biscuits, originating from the West Country, are traditionally given as an Easter food gift. They are made from flour, butter, egg yolk, baking powder, sugar, and light spice.