Feature Best vegan Easter recipes 2025: your ultimate guide to a more plant-based Easter

Author: Liv Published: April 4, 2025

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Your vegan Easter menu is officially sorted! From Easter brunch and breakfast ideas to show-stopping mains and indulgent desserts, here are our fave festive dishes to help you impress…

The blissful Easter season is all about getting together with your favourite people, goofing around in the kitchen, and let’s be honest, eating way too much chocolate (not that there’s any such thing, in our humble opinion).

Whether you’re having friends and family over for a big plant-based feast or bringing a dish to someone else’s, we’ve got you covered with this ultimate round-up of easy vegan Easter recipes – all tried, tested, and wholeheartedly approved by vegans and meat-eaters alike.

Grab your apron and appetite, and let’s hop into it! 🐰

Easter breakfast & brunch ideas

Because why should Easter lunch and dinner get all the love? 🥰 Get the day’s festivities off to an egg-stra special (and 100% egg-free) start with these mouthwatering plant-based brunch options.

From golden vegan French toast to bright berry muffins and even crispy potato rostis and bagels, your recipe for a laid-back, food-filled Easter morning starts here.

Sweet breakfast treats

Vegan easter recipes: vegan French toast

Savoury breakfast ideas (to balance out the Easter eggs 😉)

Vegan savoury breakfast idea: Tomato Lox & Schmear Bagels

Main dishes & centrepieces for your vegan Easter feast

No matter what Easter meal traditions you’ve grown up with, you can rest assured that there’s an easy (and delicious!) vegan alternative for every classic centrepiece – from hearty roasts to rich, savoury bakes, pastas, pies, and yes, even seafood dishes.

Egg-free quiches & tarts

It’s not only possible to make mouthwatering quiches and vegetable tarts without eggs, but it’s also super easy and satisfying. And with so many different bursts of flavour – from creamy fillings to caramelised veggies – no one will ever guess they’re egg-free.

Crowd-pleasing comfort meals

Simple, cosy dishes like pastas, pies, and potato bakes are Easter staples for a reason. Familiar favourites like these can be easy wins, especially if you’re catering to a mixed crowd. We love a quick, indulgent main that everyone can enjoy.

Plant-based ‘seafood’ dishes perfect for Aussie Easter

Salt & Pepper Mushroom ‘Calamari’

Seafood is a staple on many Australian Easter menus, and the great news is you can still enjoy all those same ocean-inspired flavours while going meat-free. From tender vegan scallops and crispy calamari to plant-based salmon and prawns – we weren’t kidding when we said there’s a vegan option for literally everything.

These innovative (yet surprisingly easy) vegan Easter recipes bring all the seafood flavours you love – just with none of the fishy business 😉

Hearty vegan ‘chicken’ dishes

Image: Made with Plants

Since chicks and chickens are such iconic symbols of Easter, it only seems right to leave them off the menu! Meet the quickest shortcut to replacing roast chicken in your Easter spread: Made With Plants Vegan Roast Chicken from Coles.

Just pop this juicy vegan alternative in the oven or frying pan, serve it with some vegan-friendly gravy, and you’ve got yourself a winner-winner no-chicken dinner.

But it doesn’t stop there! There’s a whole range of store-bought vegan chicken products to explore, including schnitzels, tenders, nuggets, and more. Or you can whip up your own plant-based chicken using the recipes below:

Vegan Roast Chicken Sandwich (made with banana blossom)
Vegan Seitan Whole Roast Chicken
Vegan Tofu ‘Chicken’ Piccata

Lamb-inspired vegan Easter recipes

Lamb shish kebab

Swap out the roast lamb this Easter and opt for these uncannily realistic Birds Eye Plant-Based Greek Lamb-Style Strips. These juicy strips are easy to find in the vegan freezer section at Coles and Woolworths – and they taste ridiculously lamb-like when fried up with vegan butter, dried rosemary, and a pinch of salt.

Feeling inspired to make your own lamb-free centrepiece? Try one of these hearty, homemade vegan ‘lamb’ recipes! They bring all of the festive flavour while leaving our adorable woolly friends to keep frolicking in the fields where they belong 🐑

Festive veggie sides to round out the menu

Fill out the rest of your Easter spread with vibrant sides and finger food – like our favourite vegan sausage rolls (always a hit!) or simple, wholesome trays of crispy potatoes and roast vegetables.

Pastries & Scrolls

Flavour-packed veggies

Fresh, filling & flavourful vegan salad recipes

Roasted Beetroot & Pumpkin Salad

The key to picking a hit salad for Easter is to find one that feels cosy yet fresh at the same time, with plenty of bright ingredients and textures to balance out those rich and indulgent flavours. These herby, nourishing salads are amazing go-tos for any festive occasion:

Decadent desserts & easy vegan Easter treats

Chocolate eggs aside, no Easter celebration is complete without an extra dessert or two to share! Whether you double down on the chocolate theme or pick something fresh and fruity for some contrast, these easy vegan Easter recipes are bound to impress.

Chocolatey vegan Easter recipes and other sweet treats

Fruity vegan desserts

Store-bought treats & vegan Easter eggs

Image: NOMO

Hot (cross bun) tip: The classic fruit hot cross buns and Biscoff-filled hot cross buns at Woolworths are both vegan-friendly! Check out our list of vegan butter to find a melty dairy-free spread to go with them.

And if you need last-minute Easter chocolates, there are baskets of dreamy dairy-free chocolates and vegan Easter eggs just waiting to be found at your local shops. Keep an eye out for the following treats:

Ready to curate your own showstopping 2025 Easter feast? Hop to it!

With so many incredible vegan Easter recipes at your fingertips, you’re ready to crack on and get cooking 🐣 Whether you’re bringing a plate to a family gathering or hosting your own vegan feast, this guide is choc full of ideas for putting together an utterly delicious plant-based spread.

After all, that’s half the fun of these festive celebrations: impressing the pants off your family and friends with how ridiculously tasty vegan food can be!

Here’s to more of that this year, and Happy Easter, friends! You’ve got this

Meet Liv!

Having grown up in a “meat and 3 veg” kind of household, Liv’s embarrassed to admit that she was a bit of a one-note chef until she began exploring the world of plant-based food. Vegan cooking has given her a whole new appreciation for the symphonies of flavours that simple, nourishing wholefood ingredients can create. (Even eggplant, once her greatest nemesis, is now — in a delicious, miso-glazed redemption arc — her all-time favourite veg.)