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These are our favorite Easter recipes! Use your Instant Pot and air fryer to prepare your holiday meal faster and easier than ever before! From pressure cooker egg dishes to Easter mains, sides, and desserts, discover a new favorite for your holiday menu!
This year, make your Easter dinner easier and tastier in a fraction of the time!
We always rely on our Instant Pot (often more than one!) to prepare our Easter menu. On our table, we always serve spiral cut ham (warmed in the pressure cooker), creamy potatoes au gratin, and perfect hard boiled eggs.
We also couldn’t resist adding a few of our favorite baking recipes to make something sweet in the oven while your pressure cooker is working hard.
Update: I’ve updated this Easter recipe round-up with more Instant Pot recipes, plus a few air fryer and baking recipes. This list can be your one-stop shop for your entire holiday menu. Enjoy!
Is there an Easter recipe you love to make? Leave us a comment to tell us about it!
Easter Main Dish Recipes
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Sliced Ham in the Pressure Cooker
Bring a spiral ham to life! Heat it with your pressure cooker so you can enjoy warm, tender—never dry—ham for Easter dinner with your favorite sides.
Not a fan of ham on Easter? We've got several alternatives, starting with this Sunday supper favorite. This simple recipe for Pot Roast and Potatoes is the easiest way to make fall-apart tender meat, and you'll have it ready in a fraction of the time it takes in the oven.
This is a great option for dinner on Easter Sunday because the steaks can wait an extra hour or two on the Sous Vide setting if you have dinner guests running late from church or Easter egg hunt. Then finish by searing on a grill for a minute or two and serve immediately.
Need a quick Easter meal? Artichoke chicken is an easy Instant Pot recipe with tons of flavor as well as a pretty color—so it feels fancy even though it doesn't take a ton of time.
For a lighter, meat-free Easter meal, this simple springtime pasta is a great option, packed with lots of fresh veggies, lemon zest, and topped with Parmesan cheese!
Instant Pot Shepherd’s Pie can be made with ground beef or lamb, vegetables, and topped with crisped-up mashed potatoes. It's a filling comfort food recipe to feed your family.
If you want to prep your meal ahead of time, this Chicken Salad recipe is an excellent option. I like it best when it has plenty of time for the flavors to blend. Plus it's served cold, so you can pull it out whenever you're ready for it.
This recipe calls for ready to eat ham, cut into 4 pieces, which makes it easier to fit in your pressure cooker. This version has an awesome spice rub and glaze.
Every Easter dinner needs some carrots on the table! These Instant Pot Carrots feature crisp-tender veggies in a rich butter-maple glaze, topped with crunchy pepitas.
These simple rosemary potatoes complement just about any meat. Plus, they're on the table quickly, which would make them perfect for your Easter table.
Instant Pot Lemon Risotto has a fresh lemon flavor and creamy texture thanks to Arborio rice and melted parmesan cheese, plus bright green peas for color.
This is our absolute favorite side dish to pair with our Easter ham! These scalloped potatoes, coated in a rich, creamy, cheese sauce, and crowned with a crispy panko breadcrumb topping.
This classic springtime veggie cooks up perfectly in your air fryer, so your pressure cooker and oven are free to work on other things. We've flavored it really simply, but you can adjust the seasonings to your liking so it matches your Easter ham.
Make Instant Pot Green Beans with a cheesy parmesan-breadcrumb topping for a family-favorite side dish perfect for both weeknights and special occasions!
This Instant Pot Potato Salad Recipe is so easy, you’ll want to make it all the time! Cook hard-boiled eggs and potatoes together in the pressure cooker for quick, perfectly cooked eggs and potatoes every time. This is the best Instant Pot potato salad recipe!
Creamy, traditional Egg Salad Sandwiches—made in an egg loaf in the Instant Pot—make a crunchy, tangy, and satisfying lunch with mayonnaise, sour cream, and fresh chives.
Tangy Instant Pot Lemon Cheesecake with meyer lemons, a shortbread cookie crust and cream cheese filling is a light, fluffy and tart pressure cooker dessert to love.
This creamy Orange Cheesecake uses orange zest and just a bit of orange juice to create a delicately flavored dessert that is perfect on its own. Or topped with Cranberry Curd
Instant Pot Raspberry Orange Bread Pudding features orange and raspberry flavors in a creamy, custardy bread pudding, drizzled in a delicious vanilla cream sauce. If you want an over-the-top Easter dessert, you can't go wrong with this recipe. (Or, just skip the vanilla sauce and you've got an over-the-top breakfast!)
It's another baking recipe from Barbara Bakes that I had to include. These bright orange-and-lemon pull-apart rolls have been our Easter breakfast for over 20 years.
This is a pressure cooker, small-batch variation on our family-favorite oven-baked recipe. It's a great option when you don't want to use your oven but still want sticky ooey-gooey breakfast.
Make perfectly sized Instant Pot Cheesecake Bites in a silicone egg mold with a graham cracker crust and cream cheese custard filling for the perfect sweet treat.
This method works for all kinds of chocolates. Strawberries are in season, and you can add a cute little decorations to make your strawberries look like Easter eggs, carrots, or Easter bunnies this year.
While your Instant Pot is steaming away, use your oven to make these soft and pillowy homemade hot cross buns from Barbara Bakes. Orange zest adds just the right amount of bitterness to balance the buttery and sweet dough.
Though it's not technically a pressure cooker recipe, this fun Easter popcorn is a must-have at our Easter egg hunts! It's easy to make and always a crowd-pleaser. (Careful, though! I cannot stop once I start on this popcorn!)
For whatever reason, dried cranberries have always been part of our Easter breakfasts. This small-batch of banana bread would be a wonderful option to have for breakfast before church or your family's egg hunt.
If lemon curd is on your menu this year, consider making your own from scratch. This sous vide version cooks up so smooth and delicious and will take your Easter goodies to the next level.
Want an alternative to traditional rice pudding? This Cherry Almond Rice Pudding is full of sweet-tart dried cherries and is a wonderful twist on an old-fashioned favorite.
Rhubarb is a classic springtime flavor, and this Instant Pot recipe helps you make into a tender topping you can serve for Easter breakfast or dessert.
A sandy lemon shortbread cookie with a tart lemon curd filling in a fun Easter egg shape with a cute little chick cut out. You can make our pressure cooker lemon curd for the filling.
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Hi Sue – it’s a new recipe that will be posted soon! We had planned to have it posted before the roundup but the timing didn’t work out and we neglected to remove it from the list. It’s a fun tasty one that I think everyone will love. Stay tuned!
Jeannie – I used my steamer basket for boiling eggs. When done 6 min 6 MR after burning my fingers trying to get them to the ice water, I got smart and dumped them in – you want to crack them anyway before peeling. Works wonders.
Julia Child didn’t cook hers in a pressure cooker, but she marinated her lamb in mild oil, fresh lemon juice, soy sauce and rosemary. We take the roast apart, remove all the fat from the meat, marinate for a couple of days and cook the lamb on the grill. I’ve been doing this for 40 years and even lamb haters love Julia’s lamb.
Love the silicone cup idea – I’ve always set my eggs in and around small canning jar bands, which works great but the silicone cups would have more “give” to them and you can stack them up for storage. Thanks for the new idea!
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Where’s the recipe for the Coconut Bundt Cake?
Hi Sue – it’s a new recipe that will be posted soon! We had planned to have it posted before the roundup but the timing didn’t work out and we neglected to remove it from the list. It’s a fun tasty one that I think everyone will love. Stay tuned!
Thanks for the quick reply. I love coconut so I’ll definitely be watching for the recipe! 🙂
Jeannie – I used my steamer basket for boiling eggs. When done 6 min 6 MR after burning my fingers trying to get them to the ice water, I got smart and dumped them in – you want to crack them anyway before peeling. Works wonders.
Hi Jean – definitely don’t want burnt fingers. Sometimes I plunge the whole basket in the cold water.
How disappointing! I need a good lamb leg leg recipe.
Julia Child didn’t cook hers in a pressure cooker, but she marinated her lamb in mild oil, fresh lemon juice, soy sauce and rosemary. We take the roast apart, remove all the fat from the meat, marinate for a couple of days and cook the lamb on the grill. I’ve been doing this for 40 years and even lamb haters love Julia’s lamb.
Thanks for sharing Lindy!
Love the silicone cup idea – I’ve always set my eggs in and around small canning jar bands, which works great but the silicone cups would have more “give” to them and you can stack them up for storage. Thanks for the new idea!
I was skeptical until I tried it… now I’m a believer… They peeled so easy! I had one out of the 9 cracked… This will be how I cook them from now on.
Amazing! The eggs are gorgeous.