This collection of our best Christmas recipes is essentially a compilation of all our recipe collections of our best Christmas breakfast and brunch recipes, Christmas lunch recipes and Christmas dinner recipes, and our best recipes for starters, sides, roasts and alternatives to roasts, Christmas cocktails and dessert recipes, meal ideas for casual gatherings for non traditionalists, and recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.
I thought I’d compile all our Christmas recipe collections in one place for your convenience as much as my own. So you’ll find all our Christmas recipe collections below, covering everything from recipes for Christmas day breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner, as well as Christmas starters and sides, desserts and cocktails, as well as ideas for Christmas leftovers.
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Best Christmas Recipes for Christmas Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Cocktails, Dinner and Desserts
These are our best Christmas recipes for everything from Christmas breakfast through to dessert.
Christmas Breakfast Recipes for Elegant Light Christmas Breakfasts That Won’t Spoil Christmas Lunch
Our best Christmas breakfast recipes are some of my favourite Christmas recipes. They make elegant, light Christmas Day breakfasts for those who find Christmas casseroles too heavy. If you like Christmas morning to be a bit special and pop open a bottle of bubbly, then put one of our Christmas breakfast dishes on your Christmas Day menu and save the Christmas casserole recipe for New Year’s Day.
Christmas Brunch Recipes for that Languorous Meal That Straddles Breakfast and Lunch
These 16 Christmas brunch recipes make more of our best recipes for Christmas Day dishes for that languorous meal that straddles breakfast and lunch that we all know as brunch. Whether brunch is a big late breakfast cum early lunch or a casual buffet style meal that stretches from mid-morning into the late afternoon, we have Christmas brunch ideas for all of you.
16 Christmas Brunch Recipes for that Languorous Meal That Straddles Breakfast and Lunch
Best Dip Recipes for Crackers and Crudités for Parties over the Christmas and New Year Season
Our best dip recipes for crackers and crudités for parties this Christmas and New Year holiday season include everything from a homemade traditional hummus recipe and an authentic Mexican guacamole recipe to recipes for Southeast Asian dips such as a Cambodian dip called prahok k’tiss and recipes for nam prik ong and nam prik num from Thailand.
Best Dip Recipes for Crackers and Crudités for Parties over the Christmas and New Year Season
Christmas Starter Recipes for Holiday Appetisers from Devilled Eggs to DIY Mimosa Salads
Our best Christmas starter recipes make elegant appetisers to add to your holiday menus that we guarantee will whet the appetites of your guests and they’re some of our best recipes for Christmas. We have everything from dainty Thai miang kham and retro Russian devilled eggs to blini with smoked salmon, dill and sour cream and a Khmer raw fish salad that’s essentially a Cambodian style ceviche.
8 Christmas Starter Recipes for Holiday Appetisers from Devilled Eggs to DIY Mimosa Salads
Christmas Salad Recipes to Put On Repeat to Impress Your Guests These Holidays
These Christmas salad recipes make vibrant, delicious salads that we reckon you should put on repeat to impress your guests over the upcoming holidays. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas with loved-ones or cooking meals for family and friends during the festive period, make these vibrant, delicious salads once and I guarantee your guests will keep asking for them – and you’ll want to keep making them. They’re some of my favourite salad recipes.
7 Christmas Salad Recipes to Put On Repeat to Impress Your Guests These Holidays
16 Seafood Recipes for Christmas Eve Dinner and Christmas Day Menus
Our easy seafood recipes for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day menus for those of you celebrating the Feast of the Seven Fishes or Christmas lunch in the sun, include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.
16 Seafood Recipes for Christmas Eve Dinner and Christmas Day Menus
Best Christmas Roast Recipes – Roast Dinner Alternatives to Lamb and Ham
Our best Christmas roast recipes if you’re looking for roast dinner alternatives to a traditional roast lamb and ham include everything from an easy roast salmon tray bake with crispy-skin and a mouthwatering côte de bœuf from superstar French chef Pierre Gagnaire to our succulent spice-rubbed pork roast stuffed with garlic, herbs and spices that is as rich and delicious as it looks.
Best Christmas Roast Recipes – Roast Dinner Alternatives to Lamb and Ham
Christmas Dinner Recipes for Delicious Alternatives to Traditional Roasts
These Christmas dinner recipes are for those of you looking for alternatives to roasts. Our ideas for Christmas mains include everything from salmon with colcannon and cote de boeuf to five-spice pork belly, or brined pork chops with perfect mash. There are also recipes for braised chicken with olives and capers for incredibly succulent chicken legs in a Mediterranean style, which we love to serve with crunchy Hasselback potatoes, and a super easy French-style braised chicken in an addictively delicious chicken jus.
Christmas Dinner Recipes for Delicious Alternatives to Traditional Roasts
Best Vegetable Sides for Christmas and the Dishes to Serve Them With
Our best vegetable sides for Christmas include everything from crispy Hasselback potatoes with spiced butter and fresh herbs to an incredibly rich braised cabbage with bacon to a Middle Eastern inspired dish of cauliflower florets roasted in gently spiced extra virgin olive oil and served on creamy hummus.
Best Vegetable Sides for Christmas and the Dishes to Serve Them With
Traditional Russian Christmas Food Recipes for Orthodox Christmas Meals
My recipes for traditional Russian food recipes for Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas lunch will make you the dishes my Russian-Ukrainian baboushka spent days in the kitchen preparing for our family feasts, from borscht and piroshki to Russian pelmeni and Ukrainian vareniki to the Olivier salad and pink beetroot potato salad called vinagret.
Traditional Russian Christmas Food Recipes for Orthodox Christmas Meals
Best Dessert Recipes for the Holidays, Christmas, New Year and Beyond
Our best dessert recipes for Christmas, New Year and the holidays beyond feature more of our best recipes for Christmas, including an array of easy holiday dessert recipes, everything from a classic Australian pavlova to a very British Eton mess, albeit with a tropical twist, to an array of easy Asian dessert recipes and a sublime soft-centred chocolate cake.
Best Dessert Recipes for the Holidays, for Christmas, New Year and Beyond
Christmas Cocktail Recipes from Champagne Cocktails to Classic Cocktails with a Festive Twist
Our best Christmas cocktail recipes make Champagne cocktails, classic cocktails, and even a beer cocktail, which is perfect if you’re spending Christmas in the sultry southern hemisphere and enjoying Christmas lunch in the sun. Having a wintery white Christmas in the northern hemisphere? Turn up the heating or make our negroni with warming spices.
Christmas Cocktail Recipes from Champagne Cocktails to Classic Cocktails with a Festive Twist
Christmas Menu Ideas for Casual Gatherings for the Non-Traditionalists
Our Christmas menu ideas for casual gatherings for non-traditionalists include everything from a generous spread of Cambodian canapés, traditional Spanish tapas or Basque pinxos served with crusty bread and Mediterranean salads to a Tex-Mex cum Mexican fiesta featuring DIY tacos and big old bowls of chilli, a Middle Eastern barbecue of dips, salads and skewers, and a Southeast Asian style shared family meal of warming curries.
Christmas Menu Ideas for Casual Gatherings for the Non-Traditionalists
Christmas Leftovers Recipes – Best Ways to Use Up Christmas Leftovers
Our Christmas leftovers recipes offer ideas for using up leftovers, from leftover Christmas ham in omelettes, scrambled eggs, quiches, frittatas, and fried rice to using leftover roast turkey, chicken, beef or pork to make the best sandwiches, burgers, pies, rice soups, and noodles. What you can’t eat now can be frozen to avoid wastage.
Christmas Leftovers Recipes – Best Ways to Use Up Christmas Leftovers
Homemade Edible Christmas Gifts – Recipes for Hot Sauces, Pickles, Chilli Oils, Spicy Snacks and More
This collection of our best recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts includes recipes for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. While cheap to make, these are food gifts that are rich in meaning. We guarantee they’ll get used, rather than discarded or re-gifted.
Top Christmas Cooking Tips from the World’s Best Chefs, Cookbook Authors and Food Writers
Our best Christmas cooking tips from the world’s best chefs, cookbook authors and food writers include everything from keeping it simple on the day and not panicking to having your favourite curry joint on speed-dial. Many chefs suggest dishes as simple as “fresh seafood and salad” while our food writers provide whole menu ideas. Everyone recommends lots of booze if it all goes wrong!
Best Christmas Cooking Tips from the World’s Best Chefs, Cookbook Authors and Food Writers
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