3 Non-Traditional EASTER SIDE DISHES!

Looking for some newer, *lighter* side dishes to go with Easter dinner? This video was made with you in mind!!

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0:30 Roasted Asparagus & Carrots with Lemon Dressing https://mandyinthemaking.com/recipes/roasted-asparagus-carrots
5:50 Grape Salad https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/creamy-grape-salad/
8:45 Easter Salad with Honey Lemon Vinaigrette https://www.fivehearthome.com/easter-salad-spring-recipe-strawberry-goat-cheese-almonds-lemon-honey-vinaigrette/

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While traditional sides for Easter are always a great thing sometimes you’re looking for something a little different and that’s what this video is for today I’m going to be sharing with you some sides that would be perfect to go with your traditional Easter dinner but it

Just changes it up a little bit hey y’all I’m Mandy and this is Mandy in the making for our first one if you were looking to get some more veggies in there because I know at least at our house we love us some mashed potatoes macaroni and cheese you know all the

Carbs if you’re looking for some more veggies this is a perfect one for Easter this is roasted asparagus and carrots with a lemon dressing first things first let’s preheat our oven to 400 I’m going to rinse my asparagus I’ve got a pound of asparagus here and then we’re going

To peel and cut our carrots to about the same length and width as our asparagus I mean I feel like this is very Easter is just with the carrots and then the Green from the asparagus that’s easy now I just need to peel these and we’re going to cut them

To be about this length so my little attempt to make these the same width and all of that it’s going to be Loosely translated okay definitely not a professional at this that’s not bad right it’s it’s pretty close just don’t look too close you know do you want to grab a baking

Sheet you can cover it in parchment paper if you’d like I’m not going to worry with that and then we’re just going to spread this out to an even layer as much as possible and we’re going to toss it in a little bit of olive oil doesn’t have to be a lot I’m

Just going to do a couple of passes over top and then just kind of toss them around we’re going to Salt and Pepper these and the magic is really going to come into this dressing that we’re going to make while these are in the oven these are going to go in the

Oven at 400 for 20 to 25 minutes and you know you probably could just do this in the air fryer as well just as easily for this next step you need a blender it would be nicer if you had a smaller blender but I don’t I just have my big

Blender and it’s a miracle that it’s clean right now cuz I use it every single day for my protein shake but it’s clean so let’s make this dressing okay we need a four of cup of lemon juice that’s that’s about right yep good job myy probably about 1 and 1/2 lemons

Just depending on the size of your lemon of course all right so let’s add that into our blender we need a couple of tablespoons of olive oil I’m just going to eyeball that that’s about one that’s about two we need two cloves of garlic oh what happened in there I broke it

That’s what happened and then we need some salt and pepper about half a teaspoon of salt what you in here making something you probably ain’t going to like oh okay and then about 1/4 teaspoon of pepper okay so I’m just going to blend this it says for about 90 seconds

Okay that’s what it looks looks like I’m going to pour it into a little measuring cup and just let it sit at room temperature until our carrots and asparagus come out of the oven feel like there’s still some chunks in mine let’s check on that there is still some chunks look at

That look at that let’s try again friends in all fairness I only blended it for like 20 seconds cuz I was like oh it’s done it it’s not though okay it’s better this time so maybe do it for the 90 seconds like it is okay all right it

Is time to take these out and check on them oh yeah they’re done so let’s go put them on a platter and now we’ve got the Finishing Touch which is this lemon garlic dressing that we’re going to just drizzle over the top there’s still a few pieces of garlic in there it’s just

Going to have to be okay I take it back Cole seems pretty excited to try this well you can go ahead and grab you one went on that first oh he needs to get him a fork a fork get you a fork thank you it’s very spring it’s for Easter happy

Easter nothing says Easter like asparagus and carrots and carrots okay well we see this thing is caked full of flavor look at that that’s got to be butter and garlic do this number here it’s so good I’m having problems you are having problems I don’t know what you’re

Doing man oh wow really fresh that may be my favorite way I’ve ever made asparagus yeah oh really good and carrots for that matter yeah wow very tasty I think people would love this as a side dish at Easter like Cole was saying it’s very fresh because of that lemon m going be

Good presentation with this mhm be like some grilled chicken on top M mhm that would be good wouldn’t it Y and grilled chicken with this would be fantastic C you could definitely do this in the air fryer I did it in the regular oven but

You could for sure do this in the air fryer M 10 out of 10 mhm that is amazing if you need a simple side dish for your Easter table that includes more veggies do this one you did good thanks bab I’m just going to sit here and eat this so

Okay yeah me too okay we going we’re going to stop recording because y’all don’t want to just watch us sit here and eat this but it’s not mukbang keep cooking this food here it ain’t good for my dad B what’s a dad B it’s where you look kind of frat oh kind of

Frump looking frumpy this yeah this ain’t going to help the dad bom M that’s going to slim me up start tightening things up we a allow that to happen okay for our next recipe that might not be a traditional Easter side we’re going to make a grape salad it’s

Not traditional to me but I know this is traditional to a lot of people so you’ll have to let me know in the comments below do you make this salad if you do make this salad do you make it a variation of it or exactly like I’m

Making it I want to know I think the recipe calls for 2 lbs each I’ve got a little over a pound or around a pound pound and a half each of red and green grapes I just need to rinse these really good so I’ll be right back and while

Those are draining I’m going to go ahead and throw this into my microwave it says to use the whole 8 oz block because I don’t have the full amount of grapes I may use about o of this but I need to soften it and I have a soften cream

Cheese button on my microwave so I’m going to do that real quick I’m going to use my hand mixer today I don’t feel like pulling out the kitchen aid so I’ve got this large bowl we need about a cup of sour cream I might do a little less

Okay like I said I’m going to do about 6 oz of cream cheese so I took about 2 oz off that’s softened the recipe calls for about a third a cup of sugar I’m doing a little bit less and I think it’s two tpoon yeah of vanilla extract

So we’ll just eyeball that and we’re just going to cream this until it’s smooth if you are looking for some traditional Easter food make sure you come back on Friday hit the Subscribe button below if you’re already subscribed but you aren’t getting notified there’s a little bell right

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Okay and I’m going to throw my grapes here on this paper towel kind of dry them off a little bit I don’t want the cream cheese sugar mixture to get too watery we’re just going to toss in grapes these are some big grapes see how big these

Are whoa I mean I guess I could cut them in half but I’m not going to and we are just going to toss these in the cream cheese mixture okay I still may have too much cream cheese cuz my grapes were so large that even though they weighed that

Much there’s still fewer grapes because you know we’re just going to cover and refrigerate this until it’s time to serve and then at that point we will sprinkle the top with brown sugar and some chopped or chipped pecans that’s going in the fridge let’s make our next

Easter side this next recipe is just basically a spring salad but we’re making our own very simple vinegarette it is a lemon honey vinegret this is very simple but it’s a great light side when a lot of times a lot of the food we’re eating at these big holiday

Dinners are kind of heavy something I forgot that I was going to have to do is we are going to to toast up these slivered almonds just brings out the flavor a little bit more so I’m going to go preheat the oven to 350 I’m not

Making quite as big a salad as the original recipe that I found online so this is about a half a cup of slivered almonds that I can’t open good gracious okay um if you’re doing the full recipe a bigger salad you would need two of these bags or a whole cup these are

Going to toast for like 5 minutes at 350 while that is in the oven we’re going to make our vinegrette and even though only making half of the salad I’m going to make the full vinegarette because we have enough salad stuff here for a while

So I thought why not we need about a/ a cup of olive oil we need 5 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon that’s right on the money there we go we need a couple of tablespoons of Honey sir can can we cooperate it’s coming it’s just slowly coming oh good Gran these okay we’re going to leave that probably put a little bit of salt and pepper in Here okay I’ll be right back I put it in the microwave for like 3 or 4 seconds we’re just down to the wire on this one okay there’s one tablespoon isn’t this entertaining okay you my friend are done okay let me wash my hands okay so that’s all that’s

Going in here going put my lid on it make sure this is sealed up and we’re just going to shake it real good looks pretty good okay set that to the side and let’s get our what are those called let’s get our almond out of the oven one other thing

We need to do is rinse our strawberries we just got a big old thing of grass in there okay I’m going to rinse these really good and we’re going to take the tops off of them and slice them I’ve got about 5 oz of the mixed spring greens

I’m going to layer some strawberries on here next we’re going to add on our toasted slivered almonds M quality control those almonds are good and then lastly you could use feta cheese but I’m going to go with the original recipe I’ve got CR crumbled goat cheese and

Then of course when it’s time to serve we’ll shake this back up cuz it’s kind of separated a little and we’ll put this on our individual servings now just to give you the real situation of what’s going on here it is lunchtime and if you can hear

That that is our air fryer going I’m doing the just be chicken strips I know they make the chicken nuggets and possibly spicy ones I can’t remember I feel like somebody told me that they make spicy ones too but I get this large bag at Sam’s Club for it’s $14.98 or

$15.9 I can’t remember um but these are so good and when we’re craving Zach be or Chick-fil-A I just pop these in the air fryer and it’s a whole lot cheaper and this has no antibiotics no added hormones or steroids no artificial ingredients it’s good stuff so not

Sponsored just like tell you these are really good if you ever see them in the grocery store and you want to try them it’s a good buy so those are in the air fryer we’re going to be having lunch we’re going to taste test our salad and

Our grape salad along with lunch so we’re going to take just a little bit of brown sugar I honestly don’t want to do too much I don’t want it to be too sweet it calls for chopped pecans but my grocery store had a really large bag of

Chopped pecans or you could get these the smaller bag of chipped all right I’m going to eat my Easter grape salad these are Easter grapes aren’t they they are they’re special kind of grapes they’re in a different area of the grocery store yeah whatever that is on top the cream

Whatever it’s cream cheese and sour cream and a little bit of sugar okay yeah it’s really it’s like a dessert yeah it really does taste like a like a almost like candy really that’s awesome does it I wonder if it’s if it kind of gives the whole cotton candy Cy grape it

Does okay M all right next you’re going to dig into the Easter salad not the Easter grape salad but the Easter salad it’s kind of is that your description yeah that is delicious very light right which is what it’s kind of what I was going for

Because kind FR yeah a lot of the sides that we have at Easter are heavy so this would be a great side for Easter this definitely changes things up the toasted almonds make it that is delicious I know I know good job okay so both of these

Are delicious he’s right this is very much like a little dessert on your plate which is great and then I agree with him the toasted almost just make this salad mhm all right so there are three sides for your Easter table that you might not normally make I’ll see you back here on

Friday where I’m going to have an entire Easter dinner with more traditional sides and if you want to catch up with me before then you can check me out over on Facebook find my Mandy and the making page there I’m also on Instagram I’m on Pinterest is that all the

Places I think that’s it thank you for being here I appreciate you and I’ll see you again on Friday bye y’all