Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
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Bread sauce recipes
The best bread sauce
A classic bread sauce recipe with onion, bay leaf and nutmeg. Serve as part of our zero-waste Christmas dinner, where everything gets used up.
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Carrot recipes
Orange and honey-roast carrots and parsnips
Carrots and parsnips are a key part of a roast dinner because they add colour and sweetness – especially with a good drizzle of honey.
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Red cabbage recipes
Braised red cabbage with pickled walnuts and tarragon
Red cabbage is an essential element of the festive plate, thanks to its sweetness and acidity. Make this Christmas side dish ahead.
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Brussels sprouts recipes
Sprout and anchovy gratin with porcini crumb
This gratin, with the sprouts baked in anchovy-infused cream, will be the dark horse of your Christmas dinner. Just wait until you taste it...
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Stuffing recipes
Goose liver and sausagemeat stuffing
This rich sausagemeat stuffing for roast goose is bolstered with the goose’s liver and given zing with pickled walnuts.
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Gravy recipes
Goose gravy
When there’s roast goose in the mix, it’s easy to make great gravy. This recipe uses veg trimmings and roasting juices for a rich result.
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Christmas peas
Buttery peas flecked with pink grapefruit provide a flash of green at the Christmas table. Not traditional, but zingily flavoursome.
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Sprouts in blankets
Two Christmas icons combine to make sprouts in blankets. Even sprout haters will change their beliefs when they taste them wrapped in bacon.
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Celeriac recipes
Celeriac, sage and black garlic gratin
Celeriac, sage and black garlic create the ultimate winter gratin. This flavour-bomb of a side dish is sure to liven up your Sunday roast.
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Tahini recipes
Tahini roast potatoes with figs
OK, these tahini spuds aren’t the prettiest roast potatoes you’ve ever seen. Believe us, this incredible side dish makes up for it in taste.
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Best of the best recipes
Best of the best gratin dauphinois
The side dish of dreams – gratin dauphinois is France’s creamy gift to the world. This recipe ensures a firm and sliceable dauphinois.
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Stuffing recipes
Savoy cabbage and pork stuffing
This pork stuffing is one of Matt Tebbutt's go-to Christmas recipes, as the deeply savoury notes complement the delicate flavour of turkey.
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Brussels sprouts recipes
Garlic butter sprouts
Gently cook sprouts in butter until crisp and caramelised, then add garlic. This is how we cook our sprouts every Christmas.
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Devil pigs on horseback
Devils on horseback meet pigs in blankets for this ultimate mash-up of bacon-wrapped goodness that’s our hero Christmas side dish.
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Christmas recipes for four
Root veg in blankets
Fresher and lighter than their sausagey counterparts, these roots in blankets are the best side dish you can serve up at Christmas dinner.
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Budget Christmas party food recipes
Prawns in blankets
A great festive canapé that’s ready in a flash, prawns in blankets also taste incredible in a sarnie with mayo and rocket.
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