Easter is one of the most important holidays of the year and in many cultures, it is associated with traditional and delicious dishes. If you live in a shared apartment and if you are looking for new ideas to celebrate this holiday preparing easter dishes with your flatmates, then you are in the right place!

In this article, we offer you a collection of Easter recipes from around the world to try cooking together.

From a succulent baked ham to the Easter bunny, there are many delicious options for celebrating Easter. But don't just limit yourself to recipes from your own culture, experiment and discover the culinary delights of other countries.

Cooking is a great way to bring people together and share moments of conviviality, help discover new aspects of a culture, traditional easter dishes and have fun together. So why not take advantage of Easter to create a time to share with your housemates and discover the flavours of other culinary traditions together?

Whether you are an expert or a beginner in the kitchen, you will find here a variety of Easter recipes to suit all tastes. So, grab your apron, tell your housemates and get ready for a delicious culinary adventure.

Happy Easter and enjoy!

Recipes among roommates for Easter lunch

With the arrival of spring, the celebration of Easter also returns, a time of joy and community in which culinary tradition plays a key role. Tables are filled with delicious dishes, prepared with seasonal ingredients and according to recipes handed down from generation to generation.

In this article, we will explore traditional Easter recipes that will make your feast even more special and unforgettable, leaving your housemates speechless.

Traditional Easter first courses

Italian dishes are a certainty at any party, but if you have foreign housemates why not surprise them with some new flavour? Maybe from their own country?

Here is a series of Easter first course recipes from different parts of the world:

• Lasagne bolognese: a great Italian classic which is still good in spring when the air is fresh outside and you're happy to eat something warm, for Easter you can make a classic vegetable or meat lasagne with béchamel sauce, you can propose a lamb ragout to keep with the theme or a vegetarian version with artichokes, ricotta and capers;
• Magiritsa: we move on to Greece with a soup which was traditionally the dish used by the Greek Orthodox to break the Lenten fast, made with lamb entrails, onions, garlic, lemon and vegetables;
• Barszcz: we continue with the Easter recipes and go to Poland with another soup, but this time made with beets, served with boiled eggs and onions;
• Fanesca: another soup to try is one typical of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador, which can be a complete meal; it is made from pumpkin leaves, a wide variety of beans and cereals, hard-boiled eggs, cod, flavoured with peanuts and herbs;
• Zurek: Poland also offers its own Easter soup, which is made with rye flour and in which Polish sausage, potatoes, various other vegetables and hard-boiled eggs are added.

Around the world, traditional Easter dishes are centred around soups, which can be a way to vary from the classic pasta dish you eat every day.

Easter main courses

Any ideas for the main course to propose at Easter lunch? Do you want to go classic with a meat dish or do you prefer something lighter but still traditional?

Here are some Easter recipes for the main course:

• Cocido: we move to Spain, to Madrid, where this stew was born and is served as a soup with meat and vegetables, often accompanied by chickpeas and potatoes and eaten during Holy Week;
• Pot-au-feu: France also offers its boiled meat, much loved during the Easter festivities, so a dish of often beef served with spices;
• Ham and scalloped potatoes: let's fly across the Atlantic to the United States, where they are very fond of cooking meat dishes during the holidays (such as the famous Easter Ham, the glazed baked ham), with this alternative dish of ham and potatoes sliced and scalloped in the oven that is usually cooked in the family;
• Bacalhau à Gomes se Sá: a typical Portuguese dish in which cod is soaked and served with potatoes, boiled eggs, onions and parsley;
• German Boiled Eggs: In Frankfurt, on Maundy Thursday, it is traditional to have something green on your plate to eat. If you want to create a tasty but not too heavy second course, you can prepare these boiled eggs with boiled potatoes dipped in a sauce made from yoghurt and herbs that give them their much-loved colour;
• Drob de Miel: let's go to Romania, where Easter is particularly celebrated, and discover an elongated meatloaf prepared with lamb offal and hard-boiled eggs; alternatively, it can also be made with pork or chicken.

As you can see, international Easter cuisine offers plenty of choice. On the second course, you can therefore indulge more according to your tastes and those of your housemates with whom you will be sharing the meal.

Festive desserts for Easter

Festive desserts are a must-have on your table. Let's take a look at some recipes from around the world to inspire you:

• Osterlamm: let's stay in Europe, in Germany, with the sweet Easter lamb based on a simple mixture of flour, butter and sugar baked in a lamb-shaped mould to grace the table and bring a smile to everyone's face;
• Osterchüechli: without moving too far we go to Switzerland with the famous Easter cakes, small shortcrust pastry tarts that can be garnished with lemon peel and almonds;
• Bozi milosti: we go to the Czech Republic, where most of the old Easter traditions are still in vogue, with these sugary pancakes made of a sweet dough;
• Pinca: we move on to the Easter recipes of Croatia with the traditional pinca, a sweet bread that is soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside and can be eaten either for breakfast or as an accompaniment to a meal;
• Folar de Páscoa: we return to Portugal with one of its typical sweets, a sweet bread with an aftertaste of fennel seeds which has a very unusual shape, ideal for making a good impression with your housemates or involving them in the preparation and decoration;
• Mämmi: we fly all the way to Finland to try this typical Easter cake made from rye flour and flavoured with orange peel, often served with cream or ice cream on the side;
• Flaouna: in Cyprus, it is customary to prepare this dessert filled with cheese, sultanas and mint for Good Friday;
• Paskha: leaving aside Russia in Easter recipes, from this part of the world comes a dessert made from a cheese called tvorog which is garnished with candied fruit, spices and a sweet icing;
• Capirotada: we end with Mexico and its sweet bread stuffed with fresh fruit and sultanas, flavoured with cinnamon and cloves.

Among the Easter dishes, sweets are king, but we all want to end the meal with a bit of sweetness.

Easter-themed cocktails

You're cooking with your housemates, the atmosphere is cheerful and relaxed, and you definitely need something to drink to make it a real party.

Here are some Easter-themed cocktail ideas:

• Carrot Cake Martini: this sweet and creamy cocktail is made with Irish cream, vanilla syrup, carrot syrup and vodka;
• Peeps Martini: a cocktail made with vanilla vodka, marshmallow syrup and pineapple juice;
• Bunny Mary: an Easter version of the Bloody Mary, with a touch of carrot and fennel;
• Chocolate Bunny: a creamy cocktail made with white cocoa cream, Kahlua and vanilla vodka;
• Jellybean Martini: a sweet cocktail made with vanilla vodka, vanilla syrup and fruit juice;
• Spring Fling: cocktail made with gin, lemon juice, elderflower syrup and soda;
• Lavender Lemonade: a slightly sweet cocktail made with gin, lemon juice, lavender syrup and soda;
• Lemon Drop Easter Basket: vanilla vodka with lemon juice, sugar syrup and lemon candy pieces.

Our journey through the world's Easter recipes ends here. It's time to get to the cooker and spend a fun and carefree day with your housemates preparing something good to eat.