Best Easter Appetizer Recipes
Gearing up for an Easter party includes making a menu of delicious treats for your guests. Sometimes, the main dish will be inspired by the occasion like Crown Roast for Easter. But what about those appetizers, which keep your guests happy before the main meal is served? This essential menu item is often ignored in the mad dash to guarantee all is ready.
However, with some easy ingredients, you can serve your guests with Easter appetizer recipes that will not just keep them satisfied and their fingers out of the bowls until the meal is prepared, they’ll surely spark conversation and establish the mood for fun.
What are appetizers?
Appetizers are essential if you are hosting a crowd. If you do not serve a little something prior the meal, people get starving. You need to keep all your Easter visitors happy with some mouth-watering finger foods.
Few of such festive Easter appetizer recipes are simple, but some are a bit more difficult. What you will create will vary on how much effort and time you wish to put into it. It’s also great to serve a variety – veggies, dips, eggs, chips, meats, fruits, cheese – to keep things more interesting.
Texas Style Pimento Cheese
Create this cheese spread before your party begins and serve this Easter appetizer recipe with Masa Biscuits for a flavor-loaded combo.
Ingredients:
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Kosher salt
- 4 oz. Queso fresco cheese
- 12 oz. Monterey Jack Cheese
- ½ Tsp. ground cumin
- ½ tsp. chili powder
- ½ tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 2 scallions, Chopped
- 2 canned chipotles in Adobo
- 1 jar diced pimentos
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
How to Cook
- Combine together cumin, chili powder, Worcestershire, scallions, chipotles, pimentos, and mayonnaise in a bowl. Combine in cheeses until mixed. Season with pepper and salt.
- Cover and freeze at least four hours or up to three days.
Tomato Manchengo Tartlets
These miniature tarts make the ideal savory Easter appetizer recipes to enjoy your porch.
Ingredients
- Chopped chives
- Freshly ground pepper
- Kosher salt
- 4 tsp. virgin coconut oil
- 4 small to medium tomatoes
- 3 oz. Manchego cheese
How to Cook
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Then line 2 baking sheets along with a parchment paper.
- On a floured surface, roll the puff pastry into 2 10”x13” rectangles. Slice twenty-four rounds with the help of 3 inches’ cookie cutter. Hole rounds all over with a fork. Assemble on the arranged baking sheets and freeze it for ten minutes.
- Dab the middle of every pantry with mustard and dust it with cheese, slicing evenly. Top it with tomato cuts and brush with oil, cutting evenly.
- Season it with salt and pepper to taste.
Cheddar Popovers
Trade in conventional bread rolls for a cheddar popover. You can serve these cheese Easter appetizer recipe during breakfast, lunch, dinner or even as a pleasant snack.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 1 can finely grate sharp aged white Cheddar
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 ¾ cup milk
- 2 egg whites
- 4 large eggs
How to Cook
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. In the meantime, in a medium bowl, whip together flour, salt, milk, eggs and egg whites. Stir in cheddar and set it aside.
- Put 2 six cups popover pans in oven for ten minutes. Eliminate pans and working faster, brush the cups along with butter. Evenly slice reserved batter among cups and then return the pan to the oven.
- Bake it until the popovers are puffed over the pain rims and deep golden, at least 25 to 30 minutes. Divide a small slit into the top of every popover toe discharge steam. Bake it more for ten minutes. Serve right away with butter on the side.
Pastry-Covered Asparagus With Balsamic Dipping Sauce
Pastry-covered asparagus combined with herb-infused balsamic vinegar is surely a match made in heaven Easter appetizer recipe. Serving this delicious pastry-covered asparagus with balsamic vinegar is an easy, classic way to recreate your tried-and-tested asparagus dish.
Ingredients
- ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ¾ cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Flaky sea salt
- 24 asparagus spears
- ¾ cups grated Parmesan cheese
- Flour for work surface
How to Cook
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line the 2 rimmed baking sheets along with paper and set it aside.
- In the meantime, slice puff-pastry sheets into 3 with the folds to make 6 5×10 inches rectangles. On the other hand, on a lightly floured work surface, you can start rolling one rectangle to 6 ½x10 inches. With the help of a sharp knife, trim the edges and cut into for 2 ¼ x6 inches strips. Dust every strip with ½ tbsp. Parmesan and middle an asparagus spear over the strip. Do it again with the remaining pastry, asparagus, Parmesan, spacing appetizers at least two inches apart.
- Slightly brush tops of the pastry-wrapped asparagus along with water and dust each with a bit of sea salt. Bake it until golden brown for at least 15 to 18 minutes.
- For now, in a small skillet on a medium-high heat, bring thyme, bay leaf, sugar, and vinegar to a gentle boil and cook it until liquid is reduced to one-half cup for at least 12 to 15 minutes. Drain, reserving sauce and removing herbs. Serve the asparagus warm with a balsamic dipping sauce.
Conclusion
There you have it, these are only some of the best Easter appetizer recipes you can serve to your guests this coming Easter month. With a little of advanced planning and less than an hour, you can easily put out a tray of various crowd pleasers. Once you have the ingredients ready, the assembly is fast.
If you have kids in the house, cheer them to help you. They will be proud to bring the tray of Easter appetizer recipes they helped make and urge everybody to try a taste. Happy cooking folks!
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Great timing, only a few days to go. I’ll be trying the manchengo tartlets.
Appy recipes are always welcome.
Thanks
Michael
I hope you enjoyed it Michael. Thanks for commenting
Delicious ideas…might have to try one! 🙂
Enjoy Tricia. enjoy your Easter
Ok, I am really loving the Texas style pimento cheese ( I am from Texas ! ), along with the cheddar popovers and the pastry covered asparagus….yummy. It is just me and my son for Easter, so just making these appetizers and nothing else seems perfect! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Cheers leahrae. I put more up in the future, I’m just happy I found a recipe name that is where you a from. enjoy and have a great Easter
Hi Michael, What scrumptious looking dishes. Great ideas. Made me so hungry have begun to think of lunch. Have posted them to my other platforms. Thank you.
All the best,
Jill
Cheers Jill. happy those ideas will come to some use, cheers for sharing 🙂