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Essential sauces, dressings and gravies to fancy up your Christmas feast

You’ve roasted the turkey, shucked the oysters, steamed the pudding and mixed the greens – now all that’s left is the final flourish. From Adam Liaw’s creamy seafood sauce to Neil Perry’s green goddess dressing, these classic accompaniments will complete your festive spread.

65 recipes
Marie Rose sauce is a classic accompaniment to seafood.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s classic seafood sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Prawns with sauce gribiche.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s sauce gribiche

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Vanilla custard

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
A simple leaf salad is the perfect partner to just about anything: a bit of salmon cooked in a pan for five minutes, a steak, roast chook or a cheese platter.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s parsley vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ go-to glazed ham.

RecipeTin Eats’ maple glaze

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats and Jean-Baptiste Alexandre
Peach mango barbecue sauce.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s peach mango barbecue sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Cos salad with tahini and molasses.
EASY

Two-ingredient salad dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's grilled scallops with herb butter.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s roasted scallops with tarragon butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Cultured mashed potatoes with chicken gravy.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chicken gravy

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Matt Moran's Christmas starter: Oysters with chardonnay dressing.
EASY

Oysters with chardonnay dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Matt Moran
A simple salad with creamy green goddess dressing.
EASY

Neil Perry’s green goddess dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Grilled prawns with chermoula.
EASY

Karen Martini’s chermoula

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Sichuan chilli oil.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Sichuan chilli oil

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
The Blue Ducks' blackened capsicum salsa recipe.
EASY

Three Blue Ducks’ blackened capsicum salsa

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Adam Liaw's super-easy cold Kilpatrick oysters.
EASY

Cold oysters Kilpatrick

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Three Blue Ducks' chimichurri recipe for Spectrum.
EASY

Three Blue Ducks’ chimichurri sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Don't blitz too much - it's not a green smoothie!
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Why not swap glazed ham for pulled pork?
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ Christmas barbecue sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Pumpkin puree
EASY

Neil Perry’s pumpkin puree

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Adam Liaw's Christmas red and green hot sauces.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s quick green jalapeno, peach and coriander hot sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Spice roasted chicken and chimichurri.

Katrina Meynink’s chimichurri sauce

  • Katrina Meynink
Salisbury steaks with mushroom and onion gravy.

Adam Liaw’s mushroom and onion gravy

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Serve this creamy, coconutty chicken curry with mint chutney, rice and roti.

Karen Martini’s mint chutney

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Cold roast beef carpaccio with tuna mayonnaise.

Adam Liaw’s tuna mayonnaise

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Charred herb salsa.
EASY

Three Blue Ducks’ charred herb salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
Mixed grill with salsa verde.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s salsa verde

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
This garlic aioli is a perfect addition to a contemporary rendition of a Provencal 'aioli garni'.
EASY

Jill Dupleix’s garlic aioli

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Good green salad with fried-onion vinaigrette.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s fried-onion vinaigrette

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Barbecue prawns with two brilliant sauces.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ chimichurri and Marie Rose sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Beef tagliata with tonnato sauce.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s tonnato sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
A cheeky gift for the hot one in your life.
EASY

Santa’s XXX-hot sauce recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Lettuce with very versatile buttermilk dressing.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s very useful dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Oyster platter with homemade hot sauce.
EASY

Hot sauce for oysters

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's roast turkey with stuffing.

Neil Perry’s roast turkey stuffing

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Danielle Alvarez’s grilled sausages with chickpea mash and chimichurri.

Danielle Alvarez’s chimichurri

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Green goddess dressing drizzled over lettuce with bonus bacon bits.

Jill Dupleix’s green goddess dressing (and dip)

  • Jill Dupleix