If you wish to serve up one thing savoury, get ready for a marathon egg-cracking session. Choose your dishes correctly – beginning the day poaching dozens of eggs is not the way in which to go. Batches of muffins, pastries, breakfast buns or particular person omelettes are ideally suited options. Stack them excessive and let everybody dig in. Our gorgeous flower-shaped cherry and marzipan pastry could be made the evening earlier than, then reheated within the morning.
Breakfast casserole
Bitter cherry & marzipan chrysanthemum pastry
Really feel-good muffins
Fruitburst muffins
Banana & cinnamon whirls
Cake of kings
Mini smoked haddock omelettes
Christmas dinner
Starters
Sharing dishes work properly when feeding giant numbers. Strive making a big dip, pâté or terrine, or serve up a collection of nibbles and let everybody assist themselves – it saves plating up plenty of particular person dishes earlier than the chaos of the principle course ensues. Massive sharing platters with gooey melted cheeses, similar to camembert and raclette, are all the time a preferred alternative.
Sharers:
Vegan terrine
Luxurious hummus
Honeyed beetroot & carrot salad with feta & hazelnuts
Baked camembert dough ball platter
Seafood cocktail platter
Beetroot hummus celebration platter
Baked camembert pie for sharing
Spicy potted crab
Duck & pork terrine with cranberries & pistachios
Nibbles:
Beetroot & blackberry cured salmon
Smoked mackerel & horseradish cups
Spiced prawns with coriander mayo
Oysters with apple & horseradish
Smoked salmon & straightforward blinis
Rooster skewers with satay dip
Thai rooster skewers
Important course
Turkey is the last word roast for feeding a crowd. A 5kg turkey ought to comfortably serve eight folks.
Turkey for eight, plus leftovers:
Brown sugar & spice-glazed turkey with candied carrots
Roast turkey with lemon & garlic
Sluggish cooker turkey breasts with wine & bacon
Excellent pancetta & roast shallot-stuffed turkey
Scandinavian roast turkey with prune & juniper stuffing & caramelised apples
Roast turkey with pecan, sausage & chestnut stuffing
Turkey for 10:
Salt & pepper turkey
Prosciutto-wrapped turkey roll
Mustard butter-basted roast turkey with bacon
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If you happen to’re catering for a big group of vegetarian diners, attempt certainly one of our meat-free show-stopping mains:
Squash, winter herb & crispy butter bean pie
Butternut, sage & hazelnut quiche
Vegan Christmas wreath
Chestnut, spinach & blue cheese en croûte
Aspect dishes
Accompany your principal dish with a formidable unfold of crowd-pleasing sides, a number of of which could be made forward. We have got loads of inspiration for all of the trimmings, from purple cabbage, sprouts and potatoes to stuffing and pigs in blankets.
Stuffing pigs in blankets
Sizzled sprouts with pistachios & pomegranate
Crimson cabbage with port, prunes & orange
Apricot & hazelnut stuffing
Herb-infused roast potatoes
Triple pigs in blankets
Evenly spiced Christmas stuffing
Hasselback roast potatoes
Charred brussels sprouts with Marmite butter
Sticky spiced purple cabbage
Golden spiced roast potatoes
Winter root mash with buttery crumbs
Sauces
Take the stress out of sauce prep by making these flavourful blends forward, then chilling or freezing till the large day. Strive our conventional recipes for gravy, bread sauce and cranberry sauce – you possibly can add further substances for a particular twist.
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Cranberry sauce with port & star anise
Creamy bread & onion sauce
Simple purple wine gravy
Sloe gin cranberry sauce
Sourdough bread sauce
Vegetarian gravy
Desserts
Most of our festive truffles and puddings serve between eight and 10 folks. Whether or not you are going for a standard fruity Christmas cake or a lighter various, similar to a roulade, we have got loads of candy treats to select from.
Mince pie cheesecake
White forest meringue roulade
Festive cherry & raspberry tart
Rocky highway cheesecake pudding
Christmas pavlova
Fig & honey Christmas cake
Festive frozen chocolate parfait
Chocolate & walnut pavlova with madeira & tangerines
Glam trifle slice
Iced chestnut ripple cheesecake
Trifle cheesecake
Chocolate mint loaf cake
Bûche de Noël
Mild & fruity Christmas pudding
Drinks
Keep away from having to make particular person drinks by serving up giant jugs of cocktails and bowls of punch. Alternatively, get the gradual cooker out and let the gorgeous aromas of mulled wine or sizzling chocolate fill the home.
Gingerbread gin
Cranberry sea breeze punch
Chocolate eggnog
Christmas sangria equipment
Sluggish cooker mulled wine
Cranberry gin fizz
Sluggish cooker sizzling chocolate
Rumberry punch
Ginger, apple & vanilla punch
Winter Pimm’s punch
Need a plan that takes all of the stress out of Christmas dinner? Strive our best ever, subsequent degree or price range menu plans, full with timeplan, pre-loaded procuring listing (to print out or use for on-line procuring) and all of the recipes you will want for the large day.
Go to our Christmas part for recipes, suggestions and guides. Plus, try our different Christmas menus.
Vegetarian Christmas menu
Vegan Christmas menu
Gluten-free Christmas menu
Fast Christmas menu
2 hour Christmas dinner menu
Christmas menu for a crowd
Christmas menu for 2
