43 Spring Dinner Ideas That Will Bring You Back to Life

What comes to mind when you think of spring dinner ideas? Maybe an appetizer of simple, fresh spring vegetables with bagna cauda? A spring pea pasta recipe with some glazed shallots and crusty bread for the main event? Carrot cake for dessert? Whatever you’re craving, whatever course, we imagine it leans on spring produce—because why wouldn’t it? It’s the best, especially after months and months of root vegetables.

The main dishes you’ll find below do what we all want them to, which is to say they feature fresh herbs, asparagus, snap peas, artichokes, leeks, spinach, watercress… It’s almost an embarrassment, the riches of green things that come with the season. Almost.

So pour a glass of white wine and ready yourself, because here are our favorite veggie-forward spring dinner ideas.