67 Easter Dinner Ideas: Mains, Sides, and Salads for Your Holiday Feast

We love that Easter dinner ideas aren’t as limited or regimented as those for other food-central holidays (looking at you, Thanksgiving), but this freedom can make shuffling through recipes somewhat harder. Your guests certainly won’t mind if you go classic with a main dish like honey-baked ham or roast leg of lamb, but what’s to stop you from choosing something off-script, like a whole-roasted fish or welcoming spring produce with a bountiful vegetarian entrée? The many choices, the many strategies; it can be numbifying!

If there’s one thing we’ve learned through years of coming up with Easter dinner ideas, it’s this: Go big. There’s no need to winnow down the dinner menu to showstoppers only, so throw that anxiety out the window and load up the table with a variety of our best Easter recipes. Make it so there’s no way your guests can go home in any other state than deliciously full and happy.