Christmas trimmings recipes
The Christmas meal just wouldn't be complete without the traditional roasties, sauces and opinion-dividing sprouts.
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Slow cooked spiced red cabbage
- Ready in 2 hrs 20 mins
This can be made up to three days ahead and reheated for serving
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Sweet potato & parsnip bake
By Good Food
- Ready in 1 hr 30 mins
A make-ahead vegetarian side dish that's high in fibre and provides a good source of vitamin C
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Crisp honey mustard parsnips
By Good Food
- Ready in 30 mins
Dried mustard adds a slight heat to this sweet parsnip vegetarian side dish
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Maple & pecan carrots
By Good Food
- Ready in 50 mins
Sweet maple syrup and pecan nuts go brilliantly with roasted carrots in this festive vegetarian side dish
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Sprouts with orange
- Ready in 20 mins
If you've been tempted to give sprouts a miss for Christmas this year, give them one more go and try this recipe
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Sprouts with walnuts & bacon
- Ready in 15 mins
A great way to serve sprouts - don't save them for Christmas - make the most of them through their seasonal winter months
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Creamed sprouts
- Ready in 35 mins
Go on, add touch of crème fraîche and some juicy bacon to your sprouts and give them a wicked edge, it's Christmas
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Creamy parsnip & mustard gratin
- Ready in 1 hr 35 mins
This luxuriously creamy bake is the perfect partner to Sarah's veggie pie
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Pepper & honey-roasted roots
By Good Food
- Ready in 1 hr 5 mins
The perfect warming veggie dish for any roast dinner
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Roasted roots
- Ready in 1 hr 40 mins
Maximise your oven space by throwing everything into one dish and roasting with goose fat
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Ultimate roast potatoes
- Ready in 1 hr 10 mins
Make the most of your roasties with this scrumptious recipe
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All-the-trimmings roast potatoes
- Ready in 50 mins
Save space and time by throwing everything together in the same bowl. Perfect for people without a four-doored oven
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Buttery shallot bread sauce
- Ready in 45 mins
This bread sauce has flavour layered up from the very start ,with almost-melting shallots, herbs and spices
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Mashed carrots with Pernod
- Ready in 30 mins
This recipe from chef John Tovey sounds like an odd combination, but Sara wouldn't be without it for her Christmas lunch
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Chestnut & bacon cake
By Good Food
- Ready in 1 hr 20 mins
Festive, flavoursome and filling, this chestnut and bacon stuffing is a winner
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Right-every-time roasties
- Ready in 1 hr 10 mins
Goose fat, vegetable oil and polenta - the secrets to the perfect roast potatoes every time
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Glazed orange carrots
By Good Food
- Ready in 15 mins
These carrots have a zesty kick, for pepping up roast dinner
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Cranberry & red wine sauce
- Ready in 20 mins
This can be made two or three days ahead, and only gets better as the flavours develop
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Easy red wine gravy
- Ready in 10 mins
Christmas just wouldn't be the same without a full and flavoursome gravy on the table
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Chestnut & cranberry roll
- Ready in 1 hr 30 mins
Forget fiddly stuffing balls, this clever roll tastes delicious, plus its practical shape makes it ultra-simple to slice
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Madeira gravy
- Ready in 10 mins
A good gravy is an essential accompaniment for the festive meal. This one's enriched with Madeira (fortified wine)
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Bread sauce
- Ready in 25 mins
A Christmas feast staple. Where would the turkey be without it?
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Pork, sage & chestnut stuffing parcels
- Ready in 50 mins
It's fine to tweak Christmas lunch traditions, when they're this good and easy
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Apricot & hazelnut stuffing
By Good Food
- Ready in 45 mins
Fantasic as part of the meal - so much more than just a stuffing for the turkey
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Sage, leek & onion balls
By Good Food
- Ready in 1 hr 20 mins
Too good to be kept for Christmas, why not make double of these stuffing balls and keep some in the freezer?
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Lemon & herb stuffing
By Good Food
- Ready in 1 hr 10 mins
Add a citrus zing to your Christmas turkey this year with this zesty, fresh stuffing
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Caramelised shallot mash
- Ready in 50 mins
A low-fat, but creamy and delicious mash that's made to be eaten with sausages
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Creamy cheese & potato bake
- Ready in 1 hr 45 mins
A comforting cheesy potato bake is the perfect accompaniment to a hearty meat dish in winter
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Chilli cranberry sauce
By Good Food
- Ready in 25 mins
A tiny hint of chilli lifts this cranberry sauce to a whole new tastebud-tingling level
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Buttered sprouts with chestnuts & bacon
By Good Food
- Ready in 30 mins
A classic Christmas combination - and it counts as 2 of your 5-a-day
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Broccoli with chilli & crispy garlic
By Good Food
- Ready in 10 mins
Chilli and garlic will really add zing to an otherwise traditional vegetarian side dish
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Leeks & peas in lemon butter
By Good Food
- Ready in 20 mins
You get two veg for the price of one pan with this veggie side dish, and it's a good source of vitamin C
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Creamed spinach
By Good Food
- Ready in 25 mins
What can be better than a side of creamy, nutmeg-infused spinach? Perfect to accompany any roast and especially good at Christmas
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Red cabbage with beetroot
By Good Food
- Ready in 1 hr 30 mins
Add some colour and vitamins to your plate with this aromatic cabbage dish. Perfect with boiled Christmas ham
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