Christmas chicken recipes
Fancy a break from turkey? Try one of our delicious Christmas chicken recipes instead.
Whether you’re planning a small celebration, or trying to cut down on costs this Christmas, chicken makes a brilliant budget alternative to pricey turkey, goose or beef. After all, what is Christmas dinner but a super-sized Sunday roast?
These festive recipes include our popular Christmas roast chicken, birds stuffed with traditional flavours or simmered with cranberries. For an intimate celebration try our special chicken supremes or poussins. Serve your Christmas chicken with the family’s favourite trimmings and no-one will miss the turkey. Happy holidays.
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Christmas air fryer recipes
Air fryer cranberry-glazed chicken wings
These festive chicken wings are sweet, savoury and sticky, plus super quick to cook in the air fryer. Perfect for a Christmas buffet spread.
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Easy dinner party mains
Classic saltimbocca
Italian saltimbocca sees thin tender slices of veal wrapped in sage leaves and prosciutto and served with a white wine pan sauce.
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Alternative Christmas roast recipes
Brioche and thyme butter-stuffed chicken crown
Chicken crown, slathered in butter and whizzed up with thyme and brioche, makes an incredible Christmas main for four. Who needs turkey?
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Roast chicken with comté mushroom sauce
Take Sunday roast up a level with this incredible creamy roast chicken. It has a fondue-like Comté sauce, boosted by umami-rich mushrooms.
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Roast chicken recipes
Roast chicken with garlic, sherry and almond
Roast chicken with garlic, sherry and an almond crumb is a wonderful, deeply savoury twist on classic roast chicken for wintry days.
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Cranberry recipes
Chicken cosmopolitan
Could this be our easiest chicken traybake recipe yet? Our one-tray Chicken Cosmopolitan is baked with cranberries and a slosh of vodka.
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Roast chicken recipes
Lemon thyme roast chicken and bread sauce stuffed onions
This lemon thyme roast chicken with stuffed onions is a beautiful way to present the best bits of Sunday roast. Just add potatoes.
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Roast chicken with lemon, garlic and thyme
Thomasina Miers' cooks up her favourite family recipe: a classic roast chicken flavoured with lemon, caramelised garlic and thyme.
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Roast stuffed chicken with mustard fruits and green sauce
This roast stuffed chicken is full of vibrant festive flavours, with a sweet-spicy accompaniment of mustard-preserved fruit taking it to the next level.
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Roast chicken recipes
Pomegranate and za’atar roast chicken
A chicken roasted in za'atar and pomegranate juice – served with a cucumber, radish and walnut salad – makes a surprising difference to your usual Sunday roast recipe.
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Roast chicken recipes
Paprika-roast chicken with potatoes and peppers
You can’t go wrong with roast chicken, but when it incorporates the glorious colours and flavours of chorizo and fresh peppers, it raises the bar.
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Creamy chicken recipes
Chestnut and leek stuffed chicken supremes
Chestnuts are paired with iron-rich greens, bacon and cream and then stuffed inside chicken supremes in this wintry dinner party dish.
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Chicken thigh recipes
Roast chicken, sage and onion traybake
Soft and caramelised chunks of pumpkin are roasted with onions, chicken thighs, bacon and gravy in this easy traybake recipe.
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Roast chicken with buttery stuffing balls
Serve up this succulent roast chicken with buttery stuffing, by Dan Doherty, for a classic and crowd pleasing Sunday dinner.
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Alternative Christmas roast recipes
Christmas roast chicken
Instead of turkey, try our Christmas chicken recipe. It's a beautiful-looking bird that will steal the show as the centrepiece of your festive table.
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Easter recipes
Roast chicken with bread stuffing
Chef and food writer Alan Rosenthal shares one of his favourite recipes: a springtime roast chicken that's perfect for an Easter lunch.
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