Mother's Day menu – 7 gorgeous recipes to treat the wonderful Mom in your life this year

Composite image showing a woman at a dining table on the left with plates of food, a plate of lamb and rice in the middle and some pink floral drinks on the right.

This Mother's Day menu celebrates the moment when spring stops being coy and bursts joyfully into full bloom. This change in the calendar is accompanied by a sudden abundance of delicious seasonal produce – the greenest shoots and stalks, sweet peas and beans, edible flowers in every hue and armfuls of soft, fragrant herbs. It’s an exhilarating time for keen cooks.

This menu for a perfect Mother's Day lunch, which falls on 11th May 2025, has been written with those ingredients and eating outdoors on longer, warmer days in mind. You might also be thinking amping up your al fresco entertaining spaced with Spring tablescaping ideas and outdoor dining ideas.