Roast dinner accompaniments

[hauntedvagina]

So last year I cooked my first Christmas dinner. I'm not normally one to brag, but it was bloody amazing. So much so that the family has tasked me with cooking Easter Sunday lunch.

I'm looking for inspiration for Spring style sides, something to replace the more Christmassy pigs in blankets, sprouts, braised red cabbage.

And firm family favourites? We'll be having roast lamb if that helps...

Potato & celeriac dauphinoise or potatoes boulangere. Or minted new potatoes.
Spring greens.
Carrots
Leeks - either in a cheese sauce or sweated in butter.

Cauliflower cheese

I think lamb goes really well with sweet roasted vegetables like parsnips, carrots and sweet potatoes. My DC are horrified at sweet potato with a roast but I like it.

Dauphinois potatoes
Leeks in a cheese sauce (topped with breadcrumbs)
Savoy cabbage with pancetta
Honey roasted carrots

Leg of lamb port jus, potato dauphinois and spring greens

Loving these ideas. Cauliflower and broccoli cheese is a standard with any roast, like the idea of the buttered leeks, sweet potato in with the parsnips and carrots is a fab shout too.

Mint sauce
Red currant sauce
Greek style herbed roast potatoes
Mixed green vegetables, asparagus, romanesco cauliflower, snap peas
Green beans al a Greque
Stuffed baked mushrooms
Roasted asparagus
Shredded stir fried spring cabbage
Fresh peas cooked with lettuce & cream
Grated courgette cooked with garlic

This is making me so hungry 😋

Hasselback sweet potatoes, bubble and squeak cakes

Celeriac mash
Asparagus griddled with a drizzle of olive oil
Sautéed kale or spring greens
Jersey royals with butter and mint

I'm hungry now 😂

I was waiting for the cauliflower cheese. I have never met anyone who has this with a roast in real life. Cauliflower cheese with gravy? Bleurgh...

@dementedma I put mine in a small side bowl to avoid cross contamination.

If you're looking for more Spring-appropriate stuff, I love roast salad potatoes with wedges of lemon and rosemary. You don't need to parboil them, and they go sort of gooey and delicious. You put the lemon in part way through. Something like Co-Op Celandine potatoes would be really nice.

I'd do spring cabbage stir-fried in butter with caraway seed and a dash of either balsamic or tarragon vinegar at the end. Maybe courgettes cooked with tomatoes and a spoon of creme fraiche and lots of basil (I like tomatoes and lamb).

My vote would also be for @AdaColeman's peas with lettuce and cream and courgette with garlic - those both sound amazing!

If you want to vary it a bit from a standard roast, a nice thing with roast lamb at easter is to do Greek-style flatbreads with nigella seeds, and huge salad with rocket and lettuce and herbs. It's a lot lighter than a full-on roast, and you mop up the lamb juices with the bread. Plus you are technically eating the lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread, which is quite appropriate.