Jerusalem Easter Dinner (Holy Week Tradition)

Start a new Holy Week tradition with our Jerusalem Easter dinner! You’ll learn the foods Jesus could have eaten during His last week on earth as you celebrate the Easter holiday with your family.

$22.23 per recipe / $3.71 per serving

I’ll be honest but Easter has never been a big holiday for me. Of course I love getting baskets for my kids and letting them hunt for eggs, but Christmas has always been a bigger deal for me.

Which is pretty sad because Easter is truly the most important holiday.

So when leaders in our church asked us to start making Easter a more important holiday, I found the idea for this Jerusalem dinner.

It’s a simple and fun way to bring the spirit of Easter during Holy Week.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Line a small baking sheet with parchment paper and place the 4 herb tilapia fillets on the sheet.

Bake for 20 minutes.

While the fish is cooking, rinse 2 bunches of grapes, cut 1 loaf of sourdough bread, slice 6 figs, peel and slice 3 hard boiled eggs, spoon honey and preserves into a small bowl and add balsamic vinegar and olive oil to a shallow dish.

When the fish is done cooking, arrange all of the foods on a cutting board including cashews and pieces of fish.

Serve immediately.

Recipe Tips and Substitutions

I loved using The Faithful Preppers Dinner in Jerusalem cards to teach our kids as we ate our dinner. They are super affordable and a great addition to your dinner.

This dinner can be customized to include whatever you have on hand or what your family enjoys; use flatbread or naan instead of sourdough; use almonds or walnuts instead of cashews; if you can’t find tilapia use carp, tuna, or cod.

I chose to buy herb crusted tilapia, but you can create your own herb breading with flour, garlic, salt, basil, thyme, pepper, chives, and parsley.

Recipe Costs

This dinner costs $22.23 to make which is $3.71 per serving. You can save money by buying the tilapia plain and adding your own breading (I chose to buy the breaded fillets for convenience). You can also save money by making your own bread!

• Tilapia fillets – $10
• Red grapes – $1.75
• Sourdough bread – $4 (you can make this yourself for much cheaper!)
• Figs – $1.62
• Hard boiled eggs – $0.83
• Cashews – $0.57 (buy these snack packs from Costco to save money!)
• Honey – $0.75
• Apricot preserves – $2
• Olive oil – $0.33
• Balsamic vinegar – $0.38

Serve This With

This dinner is pretty filling on its own, but if you don’t have or like all of the foods mentioned, here some other foods Christ may have eaten:

• Beans and lentils
• Olives
• Milk
• Butter and cheese
• Lamb
• Mustard
• Cucumbers
• Leeks
• Onions
• Garlic
• Pears
• Pomegranates
• Melons

Here are a few recipes that include those foods:

• Winter Green Salad
• Cilantro Chickpea Salad

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