Festive Lamb Recipes for Christmas Dinner
on Oct 21, 2025
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Welcome to the holiday season! Below is a roundup of Festive Lamb Recipes for Christmas Dinner that are sure to impress any crowd! They vary from different types of flavors, seasonings, and more for the holidays. The recipes below are showstopping mains, braises, and simple appetizers such as lamb meatballs.
If you’re looking for more Christmas Dinner Ideas, be sure to check out our Christmas Archives
Our Top Festive Lamb Recipes for Christmas Dinner
Lamb is always a special centerpiece dish for the holidays; we oftentimes serve it with our Creme Fraiche Mashed Potatoes, Creamed Spinach with Parmesan, and Radicchio Salad with Chives and Hazelnuts.
It can also act as an appetizer, like with our Herb Lamb Meatballs with a Horseradish Dipping Sauce. Below are some of our favorites.
- For an appetizer, try out Herb Lamb Meatballs with a Horseradish Dipping Sauce. This is a great one to set up with toothpicks to dip into the horseradish sauce.
- For a showstopping main, the Moroccan-Inspired Rack of Lamb with Turmeric Couscous is a great complete meal with the couscous.
- If you’re looking for something a little different, maybe a cozy pasta, such as our Braised Lamb Ragu Rigatoni.
Christmas Lamb Appetizers
Spiced Lamb Pita Chips with Whipped Feta
These spiced lamb pita chips with whipped feta are set to be in your holiday menu! They are easy, quick to assemble, and pack so much flavor. It starts out with a quick whipped feta filled with lemon + honey, homemade pita chips, and a spiced lamb blend with onions and all my favorite spices.
Herb Lamb Meatballs with a Horseradish Dipping Sauce
I am absolutely dreaming of these herb lamb meatballs paired with a horseradish dipping sauce. It is just the perfect, easiest, no-fuss mess recipe that is filled with flavor. You need this for your next weeknight dinner ASAP.
You can serve alongside some fluffy rice, salad, pita bread, and vegetables such as cucumber and tomato, or you can go ahead and serve this as an appetizer with toothpicks to dip at the table! Then you add in a zingy, tangy, spicy horseradish dipping sauce and POW.
Lamb Chops for Christmas
Grilled Lamb Chops with Charred Jalapeño Chimichurri
These grilled lamb chops with charred jalapeño chimichurri are the perfect dinner! Served with grilled zucchini, the heat of the chimichurri complements the fresh vegetable for a delicious summer meal. For more grilling recipes, try our Adobo Grilled Steak with Chimichurri, and Lemongrass Grilled Chicken Skewers next.
Rack of Lamb
Za’atar + Sumac Rack of Lamb with Herb Yogurt Sauce
THIS za’atar + sumac rack of lamb with herb yogurt sauce may be my new favorite recipe. Super tender and a tangy marinade from the sumac – this recipe is my new go-to for rack of lamb. See below for the full recipe!
Thai Basil & Lemongrass Rack of Lamb
Introducing my new go-to way to eat rack of lamb – marinated racks in soy sauce and Thai seasoning sauce and charred on the grill to perfection! It’s then tossed in a tingly, tangy sauce and Thai basil.
Moroccan-Inspired Rack of Lamb with Turmeric Couscous
This beautiful, and delicious Moroccan-inspired rack of lamb with turmeric couscous is just so perfect, I am obsessed. This is hands down one of my favorite racks of lamb recipes. It’s a marinade made with herbs and spices, tossed over the lamb, seared, and finished in the oven – it is filled with so much flavor.
Pasta Recipes with Lamb
Swooning over this amazing braised Lamb Ragu rigatoni recipe! This ragu is the ultimate comfort food, easy to prep ahead, and is an amazing weeknight dinner. It begins with a prep of a slow-braised lamb shoulder with tons of aromatics. We prepped each dish by heating the ragu with the pasta and a tad of heavy cream and pasta water. Then served with pecorino cheese and chopped parsley.
Christmas Lamb Recipes FAQs
A leg of lamb or a lamb shoulder is a great cut of lamb for a bigger Christmas dinner. If you are braising it, then this is the way to go. If you are preparing in another way, and for fewer people, a rack of lamb or lamb meatballs using ground lamb are a great option.
You can serve a Christmas lamb with anything from mashed potatoes, salads, creamed spinach, and more!
A lamb shoulder is a great option if you want to slow-cook and braise to shred, and a lamb leg is leaner, meaning you can get some nice thin slices, so it just depends on how you are preparing your lamb.
Even More Lamb Recipes
Find all our Lamb recipes in the full Lindsey Eats lamb index!
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