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Easy Christmas recipes
Catering for Christmas doesn’t have to be a headache, even if the whole family’s in town. Our easy Christmas recipes collection is filled with fantastically simple and quick ideas for lower-stress festive fare so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your loved ones.
If you don't fancy cooking everything from scratch, see our delicious range of ready-prepared Christmas food.
Fast & fabulous
You can tell your guests you toiled for hours in the kitchen over this, and they'll believe you – just look at it. All that praise for very little effort, this impressive trifle is ready in just 25 minutes (we won't tell).
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Pigs in blankets breakfast bap
Sprouts fried rice with pigs in blankets
Mincemeat, apple, cheese & panettone toastie fingers
Gougères with Comté
Drunken devils on horseback
Chocolate salami
Limoncello panettone cake
Wagyu cheeseburger balls with dipping sauce
Mini crab & chive pikelets
Golden vanilla sparkle star biscuits
Ginger cake with maple-butter pears
Chestnuts in blankets with mustard
Roast potatoes with confit garlic
Roast turkey with rosemary, thyme & lemon butter
The best sweet grazing board
Rye with smoked salmon & cream cheese
Pancake blueberry stack
Christmas cranberry sorbet
Raspberry & limoncello trifle
The best chocolate bark
Quick classic mince pies
Smoked salmon blinis
Onion & chive bagel bread sauce
Cranberry & orange sauce
No pigs in blankets
Pigs in blankets
Chocolate & blackberry cream pots
Spiced chickpea croustades
Baked Tunworth with garlic, rosemary & vermouth
Paprika-spiced crab pâté
Honey-glazed roast carrots & parsnips with wholegrain mustard
Turkey & ham pie
Zingy prawn tostadas
Cardamom vanilla daiquiri
Sage & lemon braised turkey
Sweet & sour red cabbage
Roasted orange, maple & fennel seed glazed parsnips & carrots
Roast potatoes with rosemary salt
Simple cheese sauce
Hot chocolate on sticks
Stir fried sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta
Reindeer biscuits
Squash, rosemary and pine nut rolls
Hash browns with Welsh rarebit dip
Cheesy rosemary popcorn
Mini mortadella, pistachio & ricotta sandwiches
Clementine, cranberry & pecan Bircher muesli
Cranberry & garlic butter
Puff pastry with mushroom pesto & pears
Cinnamon old-fashioned
Croquettes with tomato frito sauce
Tapenade & sardine chicory cups
Winter el diablo
Fig, blue cheese & crispy prosciutto crostini