Easter is on the way and while most of us associate this religious holiday with chocolate eggs, there are plenty of other traditional, and non-traditional, dishes that you and your family can enjoy at this time of the year.

Good Housekeeping recently picked out a selection of healthy Easter recipes that you might want to explore with your family.

For example, if you’re planning to have a roast dinner on Easter Sunday, consider turkey as your meat of choice. The publication pointed out that turkey is low in fat and has very high protein content, making it an excellent option for a healthier roast dinner.

It’s also good to look at how you can include seasonal produce in your meals, with artichokes one of the vegetables that’s in season around Easter in the UK. The recipe suggested by the magazine is skillet lemon chicken with artichokes, which sounds fresh and delicious.

Not all of the recommendations involve meat either. If you, or someone in your family, is vegetarian or vegan you could try whipping up a cauliflower ‘steak’. This is a large slice of cauliflower that’s cooked in a marinade and topped with a green sauce made of cilantro, parsley, garlic, jalapeno and red wine vinegar.

Salmon is another healthy and tasty option for your Easter table, with the publication suggesting several salmon-based recipes, including roasted salmon served with green beans and tomatoes, and almond-crusted creole salmon.

If you’re after finger food, rather than a sit-down meal, you could have a go at the likes of pimiento-cheese deviled eggs or a sweet potato and kale frittata that you can slice into manageable pieces for everyone in the family to tuck into.

Good Housekeeping also has plenty of salad suggestions for an Easter feast, including the classic Waldorf salad, or the more hearty cayenne grilled aubergine and fresh tomato salad. Another one to try could be a spring green salad accompanied by an apricot vinaigrette.

Of course, not everything you eat at Easter is healthy – often it’s the opposite. One staple of this time of year is hot cross buns. But it seems that UK consumers are looking for a growing number of options from the humble hot cross bun.

An article for Bakery Info revealed that consumers are increasingly looking for premium hot cross buns in stores. People are also looking for new flavour combinations for this Easter classic, so if you’re going to have a go at making your own hot cross buns consider how you could make them a little bit different to usual.

You also don’t just have to stick to making individual buns, with insight manager at Macphie Kirsty Matthews telling the news provider that the hot cross bun has “discovered its versatility”.

She pointed out that you can see giant hot cross buns, as well as hot cross bun loaves on sale, while people are getting increasingly creative about how they’re including them in their cooking, creating desserts based around the traditional sweet bun.

People are also experimenting with different kinds of fillings for their hot cross buns, which could be a simple and innovative way to mix up what’s on offer as we move towards Easter. One suggestion is a hot cross bun filled with chilli and cheese, mixing sweet and savoury flavours.

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