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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Alternative Christmas roast recipes
Brioche and thyme butter-stuffed chicken crown
A top-quality chicken makes a great alternative to turkey for a small Christmas gathering. It’s cheaper and less prone to...
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Roast chicken with comté mushroom sauce
Everyone loves a simple roast chicken but, as with most things in life, it’s made even better with lashings of...
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Roast chicken with garlic, sherry and almond
Clare Thomson’s chicken with garlic, sherry and an almond crumb is a wonderful, deeply savoury twist on a classic roast....
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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...
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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 a Sunday...
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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. She...
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Roast stuffed chicken with mustard fruits and green sauce
A main-event showstopper, follow this recipe for a roast stuffed chicken full of vibrant festive flavours. The sweet-spicy accompaniment of...
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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...
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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...
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Creamy chicken recipes
Chestnut and leek stuffed chicken supremes
We’ve used whole chestnuts and chestnut purée to really hero this earthy, nutty ingredient. Paired with iron-rich greens, bacon and...
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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 and bacon in this tempting traybake. The secret...
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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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Christmas roast chicken
Instead of turkey this year, try our Christmas chicken recipe. It’s a beautiful-looking bird that will steal the show as...
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Roast chicken with bread stuffing
Chef, food writer and cookery teacher Alan Rosenthal is known for his one-pot dishes but roast chicken with stuffing is...
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Pan-fried chicken supremes in mustard, cream and prune sauce
If you can’t find chicken supremes, you can use skin-on chicken breasts instead – both taste incredible when cooked in...
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Roast chicken with squash and sourdough stuffing
Sourdough bread, squash, sherry and fresh thyme make the stuffing for this crispy, golden-skinned chicken. Try it as an alternative...
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