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Christmas main course recipes
Browse our recipes for a traditional Christmas roast dinner with all the trimmings, plus plenty of other mouth-watering ideas to suit different tastes and dietary requirements. Then, add ingredients to your trolley straight from many of our recipe pages – or click here to shop our delicious range of Christmas dinner food.
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Sausages with lentils & pickled grapes
Coronation chicken & cauliflower puff pie
The best baked salmon
Pilpelchuma carrots with coriander & olives
Roast beef with date & tamarind
Spiced festive spritz
Beef, port & pickled walnut pie
Feta, chestnut & squash Wellington
Roast salmon with mussels, samphire & Champagne saffron broth
The best beef Wellington
Parsnip, butterbean, feta & cranberry loaf
Apricot, sausage, sage & almond stuffing
Brussels sprouts with hazelnut pangrattato
Angela Hartnett's turkey gravy
Roast turkey with rosemary, thyme & lemon butter
Haggis hodgepodge
Onion & chive bagel bread sauce
Cranberry & orange sauce
The best roast potatoes
Classic roast turkey crown
Mushroom & chestnut Wellington
Honey roast ham with Cumberland sauce
Dry-aged Aberdeen Angus wing rib with red wine gravy
Sticky five-spice gammon
Barbacoa gammon with black bean & mango salsa
Marmalade-glazed gammon with Savoy salad
Turkey & ham pie
Broccoli & blue cheese pie
Caramelised butternut, spinach & cheese rotolo
Sage & lemon braised turkey
Sweet & sour red cabbage
Roast beef with blackberry & port sauce
Roasted orange, maple & fennel seed glazed parsnips & carrots
Roast potatoes with rosemary salt
Cider-steamed Dover sole & clams
Christmas cranberry & sage stuffing
Clementine & cardamom cranberry sauce
Blanched sprouts with pecan & lemon brown butter
Vegan nut Wellington
Traditional honey-glazed gammon
Roast turkey with thyme & lemon
Roast salmon with orange
Turkey stock & gravy
Lemon & garlic butter turkey
Veggie Christmas pie
Glazed gammon with apples
Roast venison rack with Cumberland glazed shallots
Slow roasted brined wing rib of beef
Bay & thyme butter roast turkey
Gammon & onion marmalade mac ‘n’ cheese
Mustard roast beef with red wine gravy
Treacle and mustard baked gammon
Smoked paprika and maple glazed ham
Spiced Christmas roasties