Easter Special Recipes

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Baked Chicken Recipe

Ingredients:

• One 3-4 pound fryer, cut into serving pieces
• 6 Potatoes, peeled & quartered
• 1 c- Crushed tomatoes
• 2 tb- Parsley
• 1 ts- Basil
• 2 Cloves garlic, minced
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1/4 c- Grated Parmesan cheese
• 3 tb- Vegetable oil

Method:

• Wash chicken and wipe up it dry with the help of paper toweling.
• Pour adequate oil in a large roasting pan to cover full base of the pan.
• Put chicken pieces in pan and then place potatoes in between the chicken pieces.
• Add tomatoes, parsley, basil, garlic, salt and pepper over the matter (chicken and potatoes).
• Finally, spray with the grated cheese and the oil.
• Bake in 375 degree F. oven for about 1 1/4 hours, or until chicken becomes dark brown.

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Roast Spiced Leg of Lamb Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1 leg of lamb, about 6 pounds
* 2 1/2 teaspoons salt
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 2 teaspoons cinnamon
* 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1 small bay leaf
* 1 tablespoon dried minced onion

Method:

* Wipe lamb with a damp cloth. Do not remove fell. Combine salt, pepper, and cinnamon; rub all over leg of lamb. Insert a meat thermometer into fleshy part of the leg of lamb, avoiding bone.
* Place lamb on a rack in a shallow roasting pan and roast for about 3 to 3 1/2 hours, or until thermometer reads 160° to 165° for medium, 175° for well done.
* Remove lamb to a heated platter and keep warm while making sauce.
* Pour off cooking juices, reserving 2 tablespoons in the roasting pan. Stir flour into roasting pan juices. Gradually stir in 2 cups cold water; add bay leaf and minced onion. Reduce heat; simmer for 5 minutes

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Jelly Bean Nest Cookie Recipe


Ingredients:

* 2 cups miniature marshmallows
* Butter
* 1 (6-ounce) package (4 cups) chow mein noodles
* Jelly beans

Method:

* Combine marshmallows and butter in 2-quart saucepan; cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted (6 to 8 minutes). Stir in noodles until very well coated.
* Press mixture on bottom and up sides of each buttered 12 cup muffin pan cup with buttered fingers. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or until firm.
* Remove from cups; fill with jelly beans.

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Gingerbread Easter Bunny Cookie Recipe



Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup (c) margarine
• 1/2 c brown sugar
• 1/2 c dark molasses
• 3 1/2 c flour
• 1 teaspoon (ts) baking soda
• 1/4 ts cloves
• 1/2 ts cinnamon
• 1 ts ginger
• 1/2 ts salt
• 1/4 c water

Method:

• The first step begins with the preheating of oven to a temperature of nearly 350 ° F
• Take the margarine and sugar in a bowl and blend them nicely till it turns creamy and then beat in the molasses.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, powdered cloves, powdered cinnamon, and powdered ginger.
• Pour these dry ingredients to the mixture of margarine and then put water into it so as to prepare the dough. Knead it until it is soft.
• The next step consists of rolling the dough directly on the cookie sheet.
• With the help of cookie cutter, cut the cookies in the shape of bunny rabbits.
• Then bake the cookies for about 8 minutes and your Gingerbread Easter bunny cookies recipe is ready to serve.

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Easter Dream Bar Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1-cup margarine
* 1-cup brown sugar
* 1 egg
* 2-cup flour
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 12 ounce chocolate morsels
* 1 cup nuts, chopped

Method:

* Take a bowl and put margarine, brown sugar and egg in it. Now mix well.
* Add on 2 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon Vanilla to it.
* Stir until everything gets properly mixed.
* Spread the mixture on to the greased cookie sheet.
* The next step consists of baking at a temperature of 350 ° F for about 15-20 minutes. Keep baking till the color turns light brown.
* Take 12 ounce chocolate morsels and melt them.
* Do the topping with these melted chocolate morsels on the baked mixture.
* Spread chocolate nuts on it. Seeking the help of spatula, insert these nuts deep into the chocolate.
* Let the baked nutty mixture cool down and later on, cut bars out of it. And the yummy cookies are ready to be served.

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Apricot Squares Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup (c) shortening
* 1/2 c sugar
* 1 ea Egg, well beaten
* 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
* 1 1/2 c flour
* 1 1/2 ts baking powder
* 1/2 ts salt
* 1/2 ts cinnamon
* 1 pn cloves
* 2 tablespoon milk
* 3/4 c apricot preserves

Method:

* Take about 1/2 cup shortening and cream it.
* Add on sugar to it and continue creaming till it becomes fluffy.
* Add eggs and lemon juice and beat them well.
* Take a bowl and put all the dry ingredients in it for sifting with milk.
* Take a well-greased pan and spread the batter prepared but only half the quantity.
* Add on apricot preserves to it for covering purpose.
* Put the remaining half batter into it.
* Bake the batter for nearly half an hour at a temperature of 400 degrees.
* When the color of the mixture has turned golden, take it out from the oven for cooling it. Once the batter has cooled down, cut them in the shape of squares.