This collection of Easy Christmas Dinner Recipes has everything that you will need for your festive feast. If you’ve visited my website before, then you’ll know that my recipes have been developed to maximise flavour and minimise fuss.
Appetisers
Appetisers are the course in your celebratory meal where you can serve whatever you want. I tend to go with something small and light so that there plenty of room for the other courses. I also look for something that I can prepare ahead of time to make things easy.
Cucmber Bites with Smoked Salmon
Cucumber Bites with Smoked Salmon are a delicious party snack or appetiser. These slices of cucumber are topped with cream cheese and smoked salmon. They are so easy to make and a perfect one bite snack that your family and friends will love.
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Smoked Mackerel Pate with Greek Yogurt
A very simple recipe for a delicious light and creamy smoked mackerel pate that uses Greek yogurt instead of cream cheese.
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Pork and Sage Pate (Country Style Recipe))
Pork and Sage Pate is a delicious country style terrine made without liver. All the flavour comes from pork, bacon and herbs and it’s ideal to serve with crusty French bread as an appetiser or an informal lunch.
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If you like to keep things traditional, then a small bowl of homemade soup is always a winner, I’m featuring Scottish Cock-a-Leekie Soup here but I have many soup recipes for you to chooose from.
Scottish Chicken & Leek Soup (Cock-a-Leekie)
A simple traditional soup made with chicken stock, leeks and rice. Make it in your slow cooker or on the stove top.
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Whether you prefer turkey, chicken, ham or beef there’s an Easy Chistmas Dinner main course here to suit.
SLOW COOKER HERBED TURKEY CROWN
Slow Cooker Herbed Turkey Crown is a super simple stress-free way to cook a moist and flavourful turkey crown (breast) joint in your slow cooker.
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Slow Cooker Ham in Ginger Beer
Ham in Ginger beer has a sweet and spicy flavour, it's delicious warm served with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables or serve cold with salad and pickles.
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Roast Chicken Dinner for Two (Slow Cooker)
Tender chicken, potatoes, carrots and peas with sage and onion stuffing ALL cooked in one Slow Cooker.
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Slow Cooker Beef Pot Roast
This easy recipe cooks all your main meal in one pot for a delicious family meal.
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I think that the side dishes are some of my favourites. It’s a dinner that demands lots of different options and a chance to pimp up your favourites with some new flavours.
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Mustard Dressing
Take your brussels sprouts to the next level with this delicous bacon and mustard dressing.
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Cauliflower Cheese with cornflour sauce
Cauliflower Cheese with cornflour sauce is an easy version of a classic British side dish. There's no tricky bechamel roux to master but you can still enjoy delicious califlower florets combined with a rich cheese sauce baked until bubbling in the oven.
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Hasselback Carrots with Brown Sugar Glaze
Hasselback Carrots with Brown Sugar Glaze are delicious and impressive roasted carrots. The deep cuts allow the glaze to penetrate into the carrots making them caramelised on the outside and tender inside.
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Cheesy Parsnip Gratin
Cheesy Parsnip Gratin is a delicious savoury side dish of mashed parsnips flavoured with cheese and topped with crunchy breadcrumbs. This is my adaptation of a WW2 ration recipe that is very easy to make and ideal to serve with your Sunday roast.
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Slow Cooker Braised Red Cabbage with Apples & Ginger
Red Cabbage with Apples & Ginger is a classic braised red cabbage with apples and onions spiced up with sweet ginger preserves. Make it in your Slow cooker or in the oven, It's the ideal side dish for autumn and winter days.
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I love stuffing, it’s so easy to add a few ingredients to some sausagemeat and create a flavour packed accompaniment to your roast dinner.
Apricot & Sausagemeat Stuffing
Apricot & Sausagemeat Stuffing is a simple but delicious side dish to serve at Christmas, Thanksgiving or with any roast dinner.
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Lemon and Herb Sausagemeat Stuffing
This stuffing is packed full of fresh flavours and makes the perfect accompaniment to roast chicken, turkey and pork.
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Whether it’s Cranberry sauce for your turkey or a fruity apricot chutney to accompany a baked ham, these sauces and preserves are an important part of the overall meal.
Easy Cranberry & Red Wine Sauce
Easy Cranberry & Red Wine Sauce is super simple to make with only three ingredients. Serve warm or cold as the perfect accompaniment to turkey, ham, lamb, pork, and game.
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Christmas Chutney
A delicious relish packed with all the flavours of Christmas and perfect to serve with your festive cheeseboard, picky bits and cold cuts.
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Apricot and Apple Chutney
Apricot and Apple Chutney is a sweet chunky chutney packed full of fresh and dried fruit. It's easy to make with everyday ingredients and delicious with cheese and cold meats. Apricot and Apple Chutney also makes a great homemade gift.
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Make sure to leave a little room for some dessert. I love Christmas Pudding but not everyone does, so there are some alternative recipes included in the round up, there’s something to suit everyone.
Slow Cooker Christmas Pudding (serves 4)
Slow Cooker Christmas Pudding is a traditional Christmas Pudding full of delicious dried fruit and spices, and your slow cooker means no steam filled kitchen! This little pudding serves 4 generous portions or 6 small portions which is just enough after a large dinner.
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Slow Cooker Scottish Cloutie Dumpling
A Cloutie Dumpling is a sweetened fruit pudding, boiled in a cloth (clout), the cloth is floured giving the pudding a ‘skin’, this one is easily made in the Slow Cooker.
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Dried Fruit Compote with Clementines
A rich combination of dried fruits with orange and Cointreau sprinkled with pistacho nuts.
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Individual Raspberry Trifles
A layered dessert with sponge cake, raspberries, custard and cream. Simple to make and easy to serve in individual dishes.
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Sensational Strawberry Pavlova
The pavlova meringue recipe is from James Morton’s How Baking Works, but the strawberry and lemon pavlova variation is my own combination.
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It’s worth making the effort to make your own custard to serve with a warm dessert, it tastes incredible and is almost worthy of being it’s own dessert! Brandy butter is one of those sauces that only appears at Christmas but it’s so good when it melts over warm christmas pudding or mince pies.
Easy Vanilla Custard Sauce
A creamy vanilla egg custard sauce that is ideal to serve warm with comforting desserts. Or serve chilled in a trifle.
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Brandy Butter Recipe
Brandy Butter is a traditional British sweet brandy flavoured butter to serve with desserts. It's simple to make and delicious with mince pies, Christmas pudding or mincemeat scones.
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I know that these aren’t really part of Christmas dinner, but they are perfect to snack on over the holiday period.
Paul Hollywood’s Christmas Cake
This is a classic, richly fruited Christmas cake – deliciously moist and substantial. It tastes wonderful just as it is, but of course the addition of marzipan and snowy white icing make it much more festive and spectacular.
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Christmas Mini Mince Pies
Christmas Mini Mince Pies are small buttery pastry pies filled with a delicious mixture of dried fruit, warming spices. Enjoy these bite-sized versions of the traditional British mince pies as a holiday treat.
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Air Fryer Mincemeat Tart
Air Fryer Mincemeat Tart combines crisp shortcrust pastry with a deep filling of delicious spicy mincemeat. It's like a great big Christmas mince pie and you can bake it in your air fryer!
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Shortbread Biscuits (Cookies)
Buttery, crumbly Scottish Shortbread Biscuits, just three ingredients for the best biscuits of all.
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Sweet Gingerbread Men
Crunchy gingerbread biscuits (cookies) cut in the shape of little people.
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