Nigella Lawson’s pea and ham hock soup
Queen of Christmas Nigella Lawson shares a simple recipe for a satisfying, full-flavoured soup. Make her…
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🍽 Serves 4-6⏱ 10 min hands-on · 1 hour oven◆ Easy
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Christmas starter recipes
Looking for special Christmas starter recipes? From classic smoked salmon to an epic caramelised onion tart, we have a starter recipe for everyone.
Start things on a sophisticated note with our crab crumpet rarebit with pickled walnut ketchup, go cheesy with our baked camembert with harissa honey, or make a showstopper with our sausage and cheese brioche wreath.
Want to get pudding for Christmas sorted too? Browse our best festive desserts to make ahead.
Add some excitement to your Christmas starter with our Glow Up hacks: five simple, make-ahead ways to jazz up all kinds of Christmas dishes, including a savoury granola with cranberries and pistachios and festive orange and hazelnut chilli oil for drizzling.
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Paul Ainsworth’s The Mariners taramasalata on toast
Taramasalata on toast makes a winning dinner party starter, party nibble – or just-because snack. “This…
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🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Medium
Orange and clove Christmas tapenade
Tapenade is an olive-based dip from Provence in southern France – this version has an orangey…
🍽 Serves 4-6⏱ 5 min hands-on◆ Easy
Baked camembert with harissa honey
Who doesn’t love baked camembert? Here oozy, gooey cheese is drizzled with a fiery, sweet honey.…
Gluten-freeVegetarian
🍽 Serves 2-4⏱ 10 min. Oven time 10 min hands-on · 10 min oven◆ Easy
Crab crumpet rarebit with pickled walnut ketchup
Here, crab raises workaday welsh rarebit to the height of luxury. With the rich brown meat…
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 40 min hands-on◆ Easy
Beef carpaccio with pickled pear and parmesan mayonnaise
Carpaccio was invented in 1963 in Harry’s Bar, Venice, and named after a 15th century painter.…
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🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Medium
Pork rillettes
Learn the skill of meat potting with Debora Robertson’s rillettes recipe. A French classic, pork rillettes…
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🍽 Serves 12⏱ 30 min hands-on · 4 hours oven◆ Easy
Game terrine with brandy-soaked prunes
⏱ 1 hour 20 min hands-on◆ Medium
Tortellini in brodo
A Piedmontese classic, this dish from chef Chris Leach at Italian restaurant Manteca in London might…
🍽 Serves 6⏱ 1 hour 20 min hands-on◆ Medium
Blood orange, burrata and cinnamon-cashew salad with mulled wine glaze
A wintry blood orange and burrata salad gets a festive spin with a spiced mulled wine…
Gluten-freeVegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 25 min hands-on◆ Easy
Sausage and cheese brioche wreath with ’nduja cranberry dip
Looking for an easy festive starter or nibble for a party? Hidden inside each of the…
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 45 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Brown sugar-cured trout with easy wheaten bread
This dish sings with aniseed flavours, from the spices in the trout cure to the glorious…
🍽 Serves 6-8⏱ 25 min hands-on · 60 min oven◆ Easy
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