Picnic recipes
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Picnic recipes
Potted pork rillettes with gooseberries and tarragon
Gill Meller's fancy picnic recipe is served with a quick gooseberry and tarragon chutney which cuts through the richness of the rillettes perfectly.
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Salami and sun-dried tomato pretzel rolls
If you like sausage rolls, you're going to love these spicy 'nduja and salami pretzel rolls.
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Spiced beef and chorizo empanadas
A little like a Cornish pasty, these beef and chorizo empanadas are a boldly spiced and filled South American pastry – a wonderful snack or starter.
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Bacon recipes
Bacon and egg pie
A creamy bacon and egg filling encased in crisp pastry: our classic bacon and egg pie recipe is perfect as part of a picnic or buffet spread.
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Roast beef recipes
Pangrattato-topped beef with slow-roast tomato, garlic and basil lentil salad
Picnics are more than soggy sandwiches: pack up this beef, slow-roast tomato and lentil salad combo and enjoy a summer roast al fresco.
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Savoury bread recipes
Cheddar rolls
Serve this tear-apart 'crown' of wholemeal rolls, topped with mature cheddar cheese, as part of a lunch spread or at a picnic.
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Pesto, pea and watercress tartlets
These seasonal spring tartlets filled with peas and watercress are a great make-ahead starter or savoury nibble at afternoon tea.
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Ham hock recipes
Ham hock, sausage and cider raised pie
A combination of mushrooms, ham hock, sausages and cider make up the filling for this robust pie. Serve alongside a seasonal slaw for lunch.
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Picnic recipes
Pork pie
The keys to this perfect pork pie recipe? Top-quality pork filling, hot-water crust pastry and a proper savoury jelly. Enjoy.
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Savoury tarts
Three-cheese and chive tart
That's right! Three cheeses go into this gorgeous tart – cheddar, cheshire and red leicester all encased in a crumbly pastry.
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Filo pastry recipes
Squash, spinach and chickpea filo pie
Donal Skehan's fantastic vegetarian pie, made with squash, spinach and filo, would make a great centrepiece at a dinner party.
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Pie recipes
Sausagemeat pies with flaky pastry
Move over sausage rolls, we're taking these sausage pies on our next picnic. Plus, Eric Lanlard reveals his secrets for achieving a perfectly flaky pastry.
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Recipes in partnership with Breast Cancer Care
White bread loaf
Master the dough for this white bread loaf recipe and you can then go on to experiment with lots of different flavours and techniques.
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Chicken pie recipes
Chicken and smoked ham pie
GBBO contestant Kate Hendry shares her childhood recipe of a chicken and ham pie that's best served cold on picnics or for lunch.
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