Impressive recipes for a special occasion
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Christmas fish
Roast trout with clementine, ginger, spring onion and herbs
Fancy an alternative to all those heavy festive mains? Try this spectacular whole roast trout, served with a crisp and bright winter salad.
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Impressive recipes for a special occasion
Cornish fruits de mer
Push the boat out this Christmas and serve your guests an extravagant fruits de mer platter, piled high with the best Cornish seafood.
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Puff pastry
Giant seafood vol-au-vent
This giant vol-au-vent makes a spectacular centrepiece for New Year's Eve or a festive buffet. Pile it high with prawns, scallops and fish.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and pink grapefruit possets with poppy seed and pistachio shortbread
These possets make the most of winter’s citrus and the pleasant tang of rhubarb. An impressive make-ahead dessert for Christmas entertaining.
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Dark chocolate
Dark chocolate mousse with blood orange gel and hazelnut crumb
Dark chocolate mousse is a delight with toasted hazelnut crumb and sweet-sharp blood orange gel in this festive make-ahead dessert.
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Crab
Crab crumpet rarebit with pickled walnut ketchup
Crab raises welsh rarebit to the height of luxury in this impressive Christmas starter recipe. Make the rarebit and crab mixes a day ahead.
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Apples
Tamarind toffee apple cake
This showstopping toffee apple cake will impress your friends at Halloween or Bonfire Night. The tamarind caramel adds a fruity tang.
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Diwali
Hazelnut cocoa burfi
Sanjana Modha's cocoa burfi with roasted hazelnuts and salted brown butter is the perfect sweet treat for Diwali and special occasions.
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Chicken breast
Best-of-the-best chicken kyiv
Our best chicken kyiv sees amped-up garlic butter surrounded by tender chicken and encased in super-crunchy breadcrumbs.
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Italian desserts
Chocolate budino
With only five ingredients, this creamy Italian pudding – chocolate budino – is incredibly simple but beautifully smooth and indulgent.
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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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Creamy pasta
Chicken alfredo
Creamy and rich with a hint of garlic and dried herbs, this easy chicken alfredo pasta is the ultimate in Italian-American comfort food.
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Steak
Bistecca alla fiorentina (florentine porterhouse steak)
This iconic Italian dish – porterhouse steak with rosemary – is a staple of Florence restaurants. Serve with white beans and Tuscan red wine.
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Alternative barbecue
Smoked brisket buns with mustard barbecue sauce and pickled chillies
Smoked brisket is the pinnacle of low-and-slow barbecuing. This recipe by David Carter of Smokestak is perfect for a big summer get-together.
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Make-ahead summer desserts
Paul Ainsworth’s strawberry trifle
Top chef Paul Ainsworth shares a recipe from his debut cookbook, upgrading his dad's classic trifle with fresh peak-season strawberries.
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Fennel
Fennel tarte tatin
This fennel tarte tatin is a great vegetarian dinner or side for a roast. Fennel seeds temper the sweetness and goat’s cheese adds tang.
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