Delicious festive recipes for a Christmas feast!
Christmas is the perfect time to gather with family and friends around a table brimming with delicious food. To help out, here are some recipe ideas for a welcome drink, starter, main with all the trimmings and finished off with a delicious pudding!
Triple-tested Christmas Dinner!
Pear & Ginger Fizz
A festive recipe from Four Seasons Cookbook .The recipe uses ripe pears with a kick of ginger ale and rum. This makes a great welcome drink for your guests, try elderflower instead of rum to make a non-alcoholic version.
Brussels Sprouts, Stuffing & Bacon Soup
This makes for a great starter or the perfect way to use up any leftover sprouts. Full of festive flavours, this has become a Dairy Diary favourite!
Roast Turkey Crown with Chestnut,Pear & Bacon Stuffing
For smaller gatherings, a turkey crown is easier and quicker to cook than a whole bird. Latticed bacon keeps the breast moist during cooking. Use your autumn preserves to jazz up the turkey gravy and add sparkle to your Brussels sprouts.
Treacle-Glazed
Red Cabbage
The slow, gentle cooking brings out the flavour of the cabbage, with added sweetness and richness from demerara sugar and treacle.
Best-Ever Nut Roast
Packed full of delicious nuts, this high protein vegetarian Best-Ever Nut Roast is sure to delight all – including non-vegetarians
Make-Ahead Festive Gravy
Ease some of the Christmas cooking stress with this delicious Make-Ahead Festive Gravy. This recipe makes 1 litre of gravy that is freezable – it’s perfect to make in advance of the big day.
Christmas Pudding
A traditional Christmas Pudding recipe taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cookery. This is a rich, moist pudding that is great served with Brandy Butter.
Christmas Pudding Cake
An alternative to the traditional pudding – how about a chocolate version? With the gooey chocolatey centre, this cake is sure to go down a treat with children and adults alike.
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