85 Mother's Day Lunch Recipes!
Eggs Benedict for a Mother's Day lunch
You weren't planning on really making (or requesting) the same Mother's Day menu again this year, now were you? Time to switch things up for Mom—or yourself! Have you thought of how you want to celebrate May 12, 2024, in the best possible way, with delicious Mother's Day lunch recipes?
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If you're wondering "What shall I make for lunch on Mother's Day?" here are our thoughts: This occasion calls for not only spending time with the ones you love, but cooking a special lunch that requires a little more thought and effort than the usual suspects. And these 85 best Mother's Day lunch ideas and recipes are up for the task.
What Do You Serve at a Mother's Day Lunch?
Anything goes—although we'd like to suggest something with fish and seafood such as honey garlic sauce salmon or prawns mango avocado salad, but it could also be a plate full of savory pancakes or a generous bowl of pasta.
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Best Mother's Day Lunch Recipes & Ideas
When it comes to easy Mother's Day lunch recipes, how about pairing crunchy veggie spring rolls with pineapple teriyaki chicken wraps? Or, try rainbow pinwheels and a gluten-free quiche.
Maybe she's into chicken parmesan, pesto pasta salad or eggplant caprese stacks? We have recipes for all of these and more.
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Whether Mom loves salads, stir-fries, pasta or grilled fish, there's definitely an idea or two here for you to make for her. And by all means—do the dishes after! What a fail Mother's Day lunch would be if she had to clean the kitchen afterward.
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Here are 85 easy lunch ideas for Mother's Day you can make at home. Browse through them, save your favorites and show Mom just how much she truly means to you this year.
All you need is five ingredients (plus salt, pepper and oil) to put this satisfying cheesy pasta with sausage and spinach on the table—fast!
Get the recipe: Cheesy Pasta with Sausage and Spinach
This cheery weeknight-friendly pasta recipe, from Milk Street: The New Rules, is proof that you don’t always need cream or cheese for creamy results.
Get the recipe: Campanelle Pasta with Sweet Corn, Tomatoes and Basil
Affordable eggs are transformed into Dutch Babies, pancake-popover mashups perfect for brunch or dinner. The salty, garlicky seasoning from your favorite bagel adds crunch to this savory baby.
Get the recipe: Everything Bagel Dutch Baby
Try this lightened-up take on the comfort food classic: oven-fried chicken on a four-bite mini waffle sandwiches.
Get the recipe: Mini Chicken and Waffle Sandwiches
A classic breakfast—bagels and lox—gets an easy one-dish spin with just a handful of ingredients in this savory smoked salmon bagel bake.
Get the recipe: Savory Smoked Salmon Bagel Bake
A crustless spinach quiche that's tasty, low-carb, and delicious. Perfect for a light lunch or dinner, this quiche is gluten-free, dairy-free and paleo.
Get the recipe: Crustless Spinach Quiche (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
Skip Chipotle and try these burrito bowls right at home. It’s easier, healthier and 10000x tastier!
Get the recipe: Easy Burrito Bowls
Ham and cheese croissant with honey mustard glaze—a simple but delicious Mother's day's brunch.
Get the recipe: Ham and Cheese Croissants with Honey Mustard Glaze
Grilled pineapple teriyaki chicken Wraps filled with juicy, seasoned, grilled chicken topped with tart pineapple and tangy teriyaki sauce all wrapped in soft pita bread.
Get the recipe: Grilled Pineapple Teriyaki Chicken Wraps
This simple pumpkin, spinach and walnut spaghetti makes an ideal lunch. It's light, quick to prepare and tastes delicious.
Get the recipe: Pumpkin, Spinach and Walnut Spaghetti
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This pesto pasta with grilled chicken is an easy and delicious weeknight meal. Serve it cold as a summer pasta salad or hot as a delicious winter entree!
Get the recipe: Pesto Pasta with Grilled Chicken
These veggie pinwheels are a rainbow of colorful fresh veggies with ranch flavored cream cheese, all rolled up inside a spinach tortilla wrap.
Get the recipe: Rainbow Veggie Pinwheels
These antipasto salad kabobs are a perfect party appetizer because there’s something for everyone!
Get the recipe: Antipasto Salad Kabobs
A buttery pie crust filled with a delicious but light filling of kale, spring onions, onions, eggs, yogurt, milk and a hint of salt and pepper.
Get the recipe: Kale and Spring Onion Quiche
This gluten-free caprese pizza is the combination of a perfect crust topped with simple ingredients that carry big, bold flavors. Dairy-free and vegan too.
Get the recipe: Easy Caprese Pizza (Gluten-Free, Vegan)
Drizzle these mashed potato and spring onion waffles with an amazing roasted red pepper sauce and you’ve got a power-packed snack!
Get the recipe: Mashed Potato and Spring Onion Waffles with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Crispy, tender and juicy parmesan crusted chicken over the most incredible creamy lemon garlic pasta! This is a must make meal!
Get the recipe: Crispy Parmesan Chicken with Creamy Lemon Garlic Pasta
Impossibly crispy outside and amazingly juicy inside, these air fryer chicken tenders are finger-licking good. Gluten-free and dairy-free.
Get the recipe: Crispy Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
This low-carb chicken salad is literally every craveable ingredient mixed into one easy-to-eat dish that comes together in less than 20.
Get the recipe: Rotisserie Chicken Salad
This is a refreshing, vibrant and beautiful dish made in under 30 minutes.
Get the recipe: Zucchini Noodles with Minced Beef and Mini Heirloom Tomatoes
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A healthy egg salad without mayo. With fresh dill, crunchy celery and Greek yogurt, it's creamy, cool and packed with flavor!
Get the recipe: Healthy Egg Salad
Mushroom spaghetti aglio olio: a simple but incredibly tasty and fulfilling meal that you can make from scratch in just 40 minutes. Best of all, it's gluten-free and vegan too!
Get the recipe: Mushroom Spaghetti Aglio Olio
These Thai meatball lettuce wraps are bursting with flavor and perfect for any celebration!
Get the recipe: Thai Lettuce Meatball Wraps
Use store-bought or homemade hummus in this fast, fresh and healthy vegetable-filled lunch and add even more flavor by using your favorite vegetable-flavored wrap or tortilla.
Get the recipe: Hummus Veggie Wrap
A fuss-free, super simple recipe for mini caprese eggplant pizzas. I’m talking about a meal that can be whipped up in less than 30 minutes – and is tasty and delicious too.
Get the recipe: Mini Caprese Eggplant Pizzas
Italian pasta salad is always a winner with tri-color rotini pasta loaded with sliced cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, black olives, quartered salami and diced mozzarella cheese.
Get the recipe: Italian Pasta Salad
These easy, peanut chicken wraps are a simple and healthy lunch recipe, but they're delicious any time of day.
Get the recipe: Asian Chicken Wraps
Vietnamese healthy spring rolls with creamy peanut butter sauce are a perfect treat for Mom.
Get the recipe: Vietnamese Healthy Spring Rolls
This super easy, grilled chicken margherita is incredibly tasty and is ready in less than 30 minutes!
Get the recipe: Grilled Chicken Margherita
This honey soy sauce glazed salmon recipe is quick and simple to make with a handful of everyday ingredients. You'll love the addictive savory-sweet sauce!
Get the recipe: Honey Glazed Salmon
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These easy and quick lamb chops with mustard-thyme sauce make an amazing family favorite dinner!
Get the recipe: Lamb Chops with Mustard-Thyme Sauce
An easy recipe for baked chicken breasts covered in melty mozzarella cheese and layered with deliciously caramelized mushrooms.
Get the recipe: Baked Chicken Mushrooms
Full of flavor, thanks to shallots, wine and creamy spinach, this is a delicious way to serve basic boneless skinless chicken thighs.
Get the recipe: Creamed Spinach Chicken
A delicious and easy orzo pasta recipe served warm or chilled and makes fabulous leftovers too!
Get the recipe: Lemon Garlic Orzo with Roasted Vegetables
These vegan cauliflower tacos with vegan yogurt garlic sauce are the perfect comfort food! They’re super crispy, easy to make and sooo delicious!
Get the recipe: Vegan Cauliflower Tacos
This sun-dried tomato pesto pasta salad is a delicious, easy summer side dish or simple, vegetarian lunch or dinner plus it can be made ahead!
Get the recipe: Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Pasta Salad
This vegetarian broccoli quiche is comfort food at its best – with a flaky, buttery pie crust and a delicious cheesy filling. It’s easy to make and absolutely delicious.
Get the recipe: Broccoli Cheese Quiche
Crunchy vegetables wrapped in a thin, translucent rice paper wrapper, served alongside with a thick and chunky spicy peanut sauce...finger-licking good!
Get the recipe: Rainbow Vegetable Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce
Mayonnaise—in the filling and the crust, is the secret ingredient that lends delicious tang to this delicious quiche made with sun-dried tomatoes, goat cheese and spinach.
Get the recipe: Sun-Dried Tomato, Goat Cheese and Spinach Quiche
Quick-pickled cucumbers add a bright, tangy flavor to salmon that’s easily baked in the oven.
Get the recipe: Tender Salmon with Quick-Pickled Cucumbers
This is a colorful, vibrant summer salad that’s bursting with contrasting flavors.
Get the recipe: Peach, Arugula and Tomato Salad with Honey Olive Oil Dressing
These balsamic roasted mushrooms with herby kale mashed potatoes are a vegetarian meal that will please any "meat and potatoes" style meal lover.
Get the recipe: Balsamic Roasted Mushrooms with Herby Kale and Mashed Potatoes
Light, healthy omelet wraps filled with sliced button mushrooms, spinach and lettuce – a tasty vegetarian meal that surprisingly takes up very little time.
Get the recipe: Omelet Wraps with Spinach, Lettuce and Mushrooms
This easy tomato spinach feta quiche is made with puff pastry, cheese, eggs and plenty of fresh ingredients.
Get the recipe: Easy Tomato Spinach Feta Quiche
A mouthwatering salad with fresh strawberries, cranberries, goat cheese and almonds. The strawberry balsamic dressing gives it the perfect flavor and is one amazing summer salad!
Get the recipe: Strawberry Chicken Salad with Strawberry Balsamic Dressing
Made with a flavourful sauce and topped with crunchy peanuts, this easy vegan Pad Thai together in under 15 minutes. Gluten-free and oil-free.
Get the recipe: Easy Vegan Pad Thai
This honey garlic sauce salmon recipe makes crispy and tender salmon that’s so delicious!
Get the recipe: Honey Garlic Sauce Salmon
This spiralized, noodly, sweet and tangy sesame vinaigrette cucumber salad is great to add to your Mother's Day lunch!
Get the recipe: Asian Sesame Cucumber Salad
Salmon patties are perfectly crisp on the outside and deliciously tender and flaky on the inside! Made with fresh salmon instead of canned and full of flavor. A hearty salmon dinner that’s sure to impress!
Get the recipe: Salmon Patties
These quick and easy Greek potato rosti fritters are super easy to make and have Greek flavoring plus extras like feta and chickpeas to make them more substantial and a healthy, filling tasty meal.
Get the recipe: Greek Potato Rosti
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These blackened chicken brown rice bowls are packed with spicy seared chicken, sweet potatoes, black beans and hearty brown rice. They’re tossed with plenty of cilantro and then drizzled with an easy avocado cream sauce.
Get the recipe: Blackened Chicken Brown Rice Bowls
This incredibly delicious grilled lime salmon with mango salsa and coconut rice is a restaurant-quality meal that you can make and enjoy in the comfort of your own home. It’s packed with fresh, irresistible flavors that will leave you craving more!
Get the recipe: Grilled Lime Salmon with Mango Salsa and Coconut Rice
Quinoa bowl topped with vegetables, hummus and more! A healthy, easy and fresh meal.
Get the recipe: Mediterranean Quinoa and Vegetable Bowls
Crispy and flavour-packed falafels with fresh salad, rich and smooth homemade baba ganoush and light and fluffy chickpea flour wraps.
Get the recipe: Baba Ganoush Falafel Chickpea Flour Wraps
A Spring pea pasta with lemon, mint and truffle oil – keep it vegan or add goat cheese. Serve warm as an entree, or chill and serve as a salad…either way its delicious.
Get the recipe: Spring Pea Pasta with Truffle Oil, Lemon and Mint
Celebrate spring by serving this fresh prawns mango avocado salad, drizzled with a light, tangy lime dressing! Perfect for lunch or dinner.
Get the recipe: Prawns Mango Avocado Salad
The mushrooms cook in some tangy balsamic vinegar and just before it’s time to serve it, a little cream is added at the end that adds a touch of richness. Garnish it with parmesan cheese and this is ready in about 30 minutes.
Get the recipe: Balsamic Mushroom Pasta
Buffalo chickpea salad paired with veggies and rolled into a wrap equals the best lunch! This chickpea salad is the ultimate vegan sandwich filler!
Get the recipe: Buffalo Chickpea Wraps
This roast tomato and thyme risotto with basil pesto really is a celebration of beautiful seasonal tomatoes.
Get the recipe: Roast Cherry Tomato and Thyme Risotto with Basil Pesto
This recipe is so simple, it takes just 6 ingredients but is bursting with flavor from roasted tomatoes, balsamic and rocket. It is the epitome of a delicious lunch!
Get the recipe: Balsamic Pasta Salad
This bright broccoli pasta salad recipe is chock full of fresh veggies and coated with a tangy no-mayo tahini dressing.
Get the recipe: Broccoli Pasta Salad
Strawberries, blackberries, arugula and mini mozzarella balls and pasta are all tossed together with an easy pesto dressing. Simple, delicious and sure to be a hit!
Get the recipe: Berry Pesto Pasta Salad
These asparagus puff pastry bundles make a perfect quick and easy Mother's day lunch!
Get the recipe: Asparagus and Cheese Puff Pastry Bundles
This easy and elegant recipe for tomato and feta tart uses store-bought puff pastry to make a mouth-watering open-face pie crust that gets topped with creamy mustard, caramelized onion, tomato, feta cheese and fresh herbs.
Get the recipe: Tomato and Feta Tart
Zucchini and sweetcorn quiche is both a breakfast and a savory dinner. It can be the fuel for your daily activities as well as a filling and satisfying meal at the end of the day.
Get the recipe: Zucchini and Sweet Corn Quiche
Make the perfect asparagus frittata is just 30 minutes. Featuring a handful of simple, fresh ingredients, it’s excellent for light meals like lunch and brunch or make-ahead meal prep.
Get the recipe: Asparagus Frittata
This spinach quiche made with a sweet potato crust is a healthy, gluten-free, delicious, way to serve up brunch!
Get the recipe: Sweet Potato Crust Quiche
These cheesy spinach mini frittatas are quite possibly the easiest, tastiest make-ahead brunch recipe!
Get the recipe: Cheesy Spinach Mini Frittatas
Make these parmesan hash brown cups as a fun side dish for lunch that everyone is going to love!
Get the recipe: Parmesan Hash Brown Cups
Inspired by Ottolenghi's cauliflower cake, this cheese and onion savoury cake is filled with cheese, herbs and red onion. It is the perfect elegant yet easy lunch recipe.
Get the recipe: Cheese and Onion Savory Cake
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Toast is topped with cream cheese, avocado and Everything Bagel seasoning. You will love this easy avocado toast for breakfast, lunch or snack time.
Get the recipe: Everything Bagel Avocado Toast
Creamy, lemony fava bean puree tops crispy toasted bread and finished with sharp, salty Pecorino cheese and fresh mint. It's simple, seasonal and sooo delicious.
Get the recipe: Fava Bean Crostini
This vanilla French toast with strawberry sauce makes a simple, yet gorgeous breakfast for all of your holiday entertaining needs!
Get the recipe: Vanilla French Toast with Strawberry Sauce
These individual quiches are perfect for a special occasion brunch, thanks to their frilly-edged phyllo pastry crust and a luxurious filling of smoked salmon, cream cheese and dill.
Get the recipe: Dilled Smoked Salmon Quiches with Phyllo Crust
These tasty sauteed chanterelle mushrooms in soft crepes are the perfect lunch!
Get the recipe: Chanterelle Crepes
Grilled cheese is the ultimate comfort food. Made with a panini press and smothered with pesto even better!
Get the recipe: Pesto Mozzarella and Tomato Panini
Burrata appetizers with peaches and pistachios are perfect for summer happy hour. Just toast the bread, assemble and serve! The combination of flavors and textures is irresistible.
Get the recipe: Peach and Burrata Toasts
Brunch truly does not get better than eggs benedict! With perfectly poached eggs, luscious and silky hollandaise sauce, and toasty bread to soak it all up, it’s the ultimate indulgence.
Get the recipe: Easy Eggs Benedict
This okonomiyaki recipe proves that weeknight dinners don't have to be boring! It cooks in a flash and it's healthy, delicious and super fun to make.
Get the recipe: Okonomiyaki
Savory bacon, chive, and cheddar cheese ricotta pancakes make a great savory start to the day!
Get the recipe: Savory Bacon Chive and Cheddar Ricotta Pancakes
These are Chinese-style savory breakfast pancakes filled with a mix of scrambled tofu and veggies!
Get the recipe: Chinese-Style Savory Stuffed Breakfast
Cream cheese pancakes are the thickest, fluffiest pancakes you’ll ever eat. They’re just as easy as making traditional breakfast pancakes but 10x fluffier and just as delicious.
Get the recipe: Cream Cheese Pancakes
Pancake tacos with caramelized peaches and pancetta are a dream, alongside lashings of whipped cream.
Get the recipe: Pancake Tacos with Caramelized Peaches and Pancetta
Deliciously spicy with hints of sweetness, these thai noodles are an amazing addition to your table.
Get the recipe: 20-Minute Spicy Thai Noodles
This Asian Noodle Salad with thinly sliced red cabbage, julienned carrots and radishes in spicy peanut dressing is ideal for picnics, barbecues or a delicious lunch.
Get the recipe: Asian Noodle Salad with Peanut Dressing
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