Impressive recipes for a special occasion
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Make-ahead Christmas starters
Potted duck with pistachio
This pimped potted duck starter is easy to make ahead of time and will lend a French bistro vibe to your next dinner party.
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Dinner party desserts
Frozen profiteroles with Neapolitan ice cream
This showstopping frozen profiterole dessert – filled with ice cream and topped with caramel – adds instant wow to your Christmas table.
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Vegetarian Christmas dinners
Porcini mushroom and vegetable nut roast
Forget those uninspiring veggie offerings of Christmases past – this updated porcini mushoom and vegetable nut roast is so satisfying.
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Classic cakes
Battenberg cake
Getting the signature chequerboard effect of a classic Battenberg cake requires a little know-how and a few tricks. Follow our expert guide.
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Impressive recipes for a special occasion
Pancetta-wrapped monkfish with lentils and salsa verde
This recipe combines meaty monkfish, salty pancetta and earthy lentils with a fresh burst of herby, caper and anchovy dressing from the salsa verde.
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Dinner ideas for two
Red wine spaghetti with tomato and goat’s cheese
Surprise your Valentine's Day date with this romantic, rose-tinted pasta dish. Cooking the pasta in red wine really elevates a simple dish.
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Pies
Slow-cooked lamb shank shepherd’s pie
We've taken a classic shepherd's pie up a notch with a rich, slow-cooked lamb shank filling and a crispy potato rösti-inspired topping.
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Sweet tarts
Apple, rose and pistachio tarts
These pink-hued tarts are pretty as a picture for Valentine's Day, date night, or other memorable occasions that require that extra effort.
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Pies
Beef bourguignon pies
These beef bourguignon pies by Georgina Hayden are the perfect comfort food when there's a chill outside. You can easily scale them up or freeze them too.
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Puff pastry
Potato, leek and stilton pithivier
Debbie Major puts a twist on a traditional sweet pithivier with this savoury cheese version. It's filled with potatoes, stilton, leeks and mustard.
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Vegan dinners
Shallot tarte tatin
Sweet shallots are caramelised in brown sugar, balsamic vinegar and brandy until gorgeously sticky in Gaz Oakley's vegan tarte tatin.
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Coronation
Coronation chicken pie with mango jelly
Use our step-by-step recipe by chef Calum Franklin to create an absolutely show-stopping raised coronation chicken pie
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Canapés
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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Canapés
Spiced paneer with quick-pickled cucumber
These paneer bites are the new cheese and pineapple. Give these Indian-inspired canapés a go at your next party.
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Roasts
Prune and apple stuffed pork belly with roast fennel and apples
This recipe for stuffed pork belly was created by the three 2017 Masterchef finalists Lorna, Alison and Giovanna, also known as Three Girls Cook.
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Potatoes
Ultimate dauphinois potatoes
There’s slicing, infusing and layering to be done, but the indulgently good finished result makes our dauphinois potatoes utterly worth it.
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