Christmas Mains and Sides

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Nigella Lawson

Liquorice Nuts

Pineapple-Plus Salad with Rujak Dressing

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Perfect Roast Potatoes

Cocktail Sausages

Good Gravy

Christmas Sides

Allspice Gravy

ALLSPICE GRAVY Generally speaking, the best gravies are made by deglazing a joint’s cooking juices in the roasting tin, but, with a brined bird, the liquid it gives off is just too salty; you can’t use more than 2–3 tablespoonfuls.

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Essen

Christmas Side Dishes

Nigella Lawson Recipes

Brussels Sprouts With Chestnuts, Pancetta and Parsley

BRUSSELS SPROUTS WITH CHESTNUTS, PANCETTA AND PARSLEY The sprout recipe below is really only a slight detour from the traditional route. By all means, stick to the orthodox if you prefer by adding only buttery chestnuts to the Brussels sprouts, but what follows is now my own traditional way of cooking them. There is a lot of parsley, I know, but think of it as another vegetable ingredient rather than a garnish.

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Butternut Squash With Pecans

Blue Cheese Recipes

Courge Spaghetti

Roasted Butternut

Roasted Butternut Squash

Squash Recipes

Veggie Dishes

Blue Cheese

Butternut Squash With Pecans and Blue Cheese

BUTTERNUT SQUASH WITH PECANS AND BLUE CHEESE This has many strings to its bow: it serves as a vegetarian alternative to the Holiday turkey; it gussies up a plate of cold leftover turkey; it adds the right balance of mellow warmth and tang to any plain wintry dish; it is a good whole meal on days when you just feel fleshed-out.

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Brussels Sprouts

Brussel Sprout Pasta

Vegetarian Christmas Dinner

Buckwheat Pasta

Making Pasta

Whole Wheat Pasta

Christmas Food Dinner

Easy Vegetarian

Hearty Wholewheat Pasta With Brussels Sprouts, Cheese and Potato

HEARTY WHOLEWHEAT PASTA WITH BRUSSELS SPROUTS, CHEESE AND POTATO It is not quite normal to feel as joyous as I do when saying the words “Brussels sprouts”, but this recipe does not merely use said much-denigrated ingredient, it also celebrates it.

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Cranberry Sauce Recipes

Forgotten Cookies

Bread Sauce

Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Rachel Ray

Redder Than Red Cranberry Sauce

Redder than Red Cranberry Sauce: I have nothing against shop-bought cranberry sauce (and recommend it in various recipes), but I personally don’t quite see the point: it is ridiculously easy to make, and tastes so much better homemade that it feels like the wrong thing to cut out of your cooking schedule.

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Panettone Stuffing Squares

Panettone Stuffing Squares: I have written a recipe for panettone stuffing before: the sweet seasonal fruit bread was cubed, toasted and mixed with Italian sausage; this is very different, not least because I see it not as an accompaniment to the turkey but to be served, at parties or over drinks, in small squares, like savoury brownies.

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Nigella Lawson Recipes Christmas

Red Seasonal Salad

Red Seasonal Salad: For someone who’s never been to Vietnam, I am piling up quite a few recipes which are Vietnamese in inspiration if not origin. This is a festively toned take on what is sometimes referred to as ‘Vietnamese coleslaw’, according to the great Nicole Routhier in her introduction to the echt version, ga xe phay. This one has the virtue of being pronounceable for those of us who are ill-travelled

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Parsnips Recipes

Roast Parsnips

Parsnip Recipes

Christmas Dinner Menu

Roast Dinner

Christmas Cooking

Maple-Roast Parsnips

Maple-Roasted Parsnips: I’ve always roasted honeyed parsnips alongside a turkey but as a marker of the culinary special relationship celebrated in this chapter, I’ve remodelled slightly, adding intensity of sweetness to the already sweet parsnips, not with honey but with maple syrup. And actually, this is more than a change, it’s an improvement: there is more ambiguity about the maple syrup, it’s a sweetness less cloying.

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Christmas Turkey Recipes

Spiced and Superjuicy Roast Turkey

Spiced and Superjuicy Roast Turkey: For me the only turkey is a brined one. Not only does it tenderize and add subtle spiciness, but it makes carving the turkey incredibly much easier. You have only to try this method to be utterly convinced. And I mean to say: how hard is it to fill a pan or large plastic bin or bucket with water and spices and lower a turkey into it?

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Ham in Coca Cola

Ham in Coca Cola: Only those who have never tried this raise an eyebrow at the idea. Don't hesitate, don't be anxious: this really works. No one who cooks it, cooks it just once: it always earns a place in every repertoire.

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Roast Stuffed Pumpkin With Gingery Tomato Sauce

Roast Stuffed Pumpkin with Gingery Tomato Sauce: There is something so magnificent about a whole pumpkin stuffed with jewelled rice, that it doesn’t really need too many side dishes to detract: its starchy interior means you can forgo potatoes or the orzotto; and the vibrant sauce precludes the need for a pile-up of condiments.

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Italian Christmas Dinner

Turkey Breast Stuffed With Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries

Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries: I know it might sound a bit of a faff, but take it from me that stuffing a whole double breast joint is very much easier than stuffing and rolling a single breast joint, as is more commonly found in supermarkets. Basically, all you’re doing here is opening out your boneless turkey joint, smothering it with stuffing and folding it over.