Easy Christmas recipes
Take the cooking stress away from Christmas with our round-up of easy, speedy recipes. These snacks, mains and sides can be whipped up with hardly any effort.
We’ve got elevated classics like devil pigs on horseback, cheesy dreams like this baked camembert bread bowl, and traditional favourites like easy Christmas cake.
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Prawn cocktail recipes
Prawn cocktail platter
Create the ultimate prawn cocktail platter with proper marie rose dip made with homemade mayo, prawns and crisp lettuce leaves.
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Harissa recipes
Harissa, feta and filo cigars
Tangy feta meets fiery harissa and sweet honey, in this filo cigars recipe. The perfect pre-dinner bite or fancy snack – no humidor required.
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Easy starter recipes
Smashed potatoes with crème fraîche and roe
Smashed potatoes with crème fraîche, chives and roe make for a decadent starter or sharing dish. They're salty, creamy and very moreish.
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Budget Christmas party food recipes
Pickled walnut and cheese rolls
These moreish walnut and cheese rolls are a perfect no-fuss nibble for Christmas parties. Make them ahead, then pop in the oven on the night.Â
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Boxing Day recipes
Turkey kofte with cranberry-tahini dip
These turkey kofte are easy to make and can be cooked from frozen, before serving with a cranberry-tahini dip at your Christmas bash.
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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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Halloumi recipes
Halloumi in blankets
Firm halloumi gets wrapped up in a snug bacon blanket, with sweet honey and a little oregano as a nod to this festive canape's Cypriot roots.
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Christmas buffet recipes
Cheesy Marmite puff pastry swirls
These simple but sophisticated cheese scrolls keep for 2 months in the freezer. Have a batch on hand ready for Christmas parties and nibbles.
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Christmas canapés
Pigs in blankets sausage rolls
What do you get if you cross a pigs in blankets with sausage rolls? These Christmassy sausage-and-bacon puff-pastry bites (ideal as canapés).
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Recipes using sourdough bread
Baked camembert bread bowl
This camembert bread bowl works as a hearty starter, informal tear and share lunch, or perhaps as part of a vegetarian Christmas buffet.
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Canapé recipes
Cheesy polenta fritters
There are so few ingredients in these little cheesy morsels and yet they’re so tasty. Serve them as a canapé or snack before a dinner party.
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Alpine recipes
The ultimate Swiss cheese fondue
We've tried and tested numerous recipes in search of the ultimate swiss cheese fondue – and we think we've finally cracked it.
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Canapé recipes
Mini crayfish and crab brioche bites
We've given the seventies-style prawn cocktail an update with these crayfish and crab brioche bites. They make an elegant canapé at a dinner party.
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Christmas cake recipes
Quick and easy Christmas cake
Christmas cakes usually take about 3 hours to cook, but our quick Christmas cake recipe is ready in half the time – perfect for a last-minute fix!
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Sausage roll recipes
Blue cheese, date and walnut sausage rolls
These cook-from-frozen blue cheese and walnut sausage rolls make entertaining a breeze. We love the combo of salty sausagemeat and blue cheese with sweet dates.
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Quick pudding recipes in under 20 minutes
5-minute chocolate banana split
We've put a healthy spin on banana split by swapping ice cream for frozen yoghurt, chocolate sauce for dark chocolate and dousing it all with almond butter
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