Vegetarian Christmas starter recipes
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Potato recipes
Michel Roux Jr’s Lyonnais potato cake
Michel Roux Jr’s Lyonnais potato cake is made with slowly cooked onions and potatoes baked with crème fraîche and a...
Vegetarian Christmas starter recipes
Wild mushroom and bulgur wheat cakes
This vegetarian starter is a celebration of mushrooms, using porcini, chanterelle and chestnut.
Blue cheese recipes
Roast pumpkin with toasted hazelnuts, blue cheese and thyme
This roast pumpkin recipe with toasted hazelnuts, blue cheese, fresh thyme and red chilli, makes a great dinner party starter...
Make-ahead Christmas starters
Spiced pea soup with cheddar sablés
This easy pea soup recipe is spiced with paprika and served with cheesy pastry sablés.
Celeriac recipes
Celeriac and apple soup with girolle mushrooms and cheesy toasts
This autumnal soup recipe uses seasonal ingredients such as celeriac, apple and mushrooms to make a rich starter. Browse easy...
Vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes
Baked sherry onions with nutty sourdough stuffing
These elegant, flavourful stuffed onions are a perfect vegetarian recipe to serve at dinner parties, cosy dinners à deux, or...
Make-ahead Christmas dinner recipes
Spiced parsnip and apple soup
Parsnip and apple are a marriage made in heaven, especially when combined in this soup recipe. A great festive starter...
Vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes
Mushroom and époisses pithiviers
These beautiful puff-pastry parcels filled with époisses cheese and mushrooms are irresistible. Serve them as a vegetarian Valentine’s meal or...
Christmas starter recipes
Pickled pear, caramelised pecan and stilton tartlets
These pear, caramelised pecan and stilton tartlets are made using ready-rolled puff pastry. They are great to make as a...
Christmas salad recipes
Carrot keftedes with pomegranate skordalia and carrot salad
These spiced carrot patties – served with a pomegranate and carrot salad – are a tasty vegetarian alternative for Christmas...
Vegetarian Christmas starter recipes
Chicory and walnut salad with tangerine dressing
This vegetarian winter salad recipe with chicory, walnut and tangerine dressing is crisp, tangy and quick to make.
Christmas starter recipes
Herbed lentil and beetroot ‘couscous’ with halloumi
This colourful and herby vegetarian dish is healthy, filling and tastes great too. The beetroot is blitzed in a food...
Vegetarian Christmas starter recipes
Caramelised leek, onion and Camembert parcels
Sweet caramelised leeks go beautifully with rich creamy cheese and buttery pastry to make this vegetarian main course perfect for...
Vegetarian Christmas starter recipes
Roasted beetroot, orange and goat’s cheese salad
This cumin-roasted beetroot salad recipe adds colour and freshness to any Christmas spread.
Italian starter recipes
Mozzarella bruschetta with rocket drizzle
Quick, easy and delicious. This mozzarella bruschetta recipe makes a speedy summer starter but could equally do for a simple...
Christmas canapés
Mozzarella stuffed risotto balls
These quick and easy mozzarella risotto balls make an enjoyable starter or canapé. You can also try them with taleggio...
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