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What the Good Food team will be cooking this Christmas

We’ve selected our favourite recipes from the Good Food archives to inspire an epic feast. Swipe the dishes that ring your jingle bells. It’s time to get cooking!

29 recipes
Frank Camorra’s honey mustard dressing.
EASY

Frank Camorra’s honey mustard dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Frank Camorra
Adam Liaw’s dill and mint tzatziki.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s dill and mint tzatziki

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Dirty martini dip and mortadella olives.

Katrina Meynink’s dirty martini dip with mortadella-stuffed olives

  • Katrina Meynink
Eat the rainbow: Smoked trout dip with colourful crudites.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s smoked trout dip with crudites

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Watermelon, figs or nectarines would also work in this tomato salad.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s heirloom tomato salad with peaches, mint and almond

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Summer in a bowl: Peach salad.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ peach salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
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Lebanese fattoush meets Greek salad in this sunny summer dish.

Sarah Pound’s Greek-style fattoush

  • Sarah Pound
Cucumber, feta and apple salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s cucumber, feta and apple salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Asparagus tempura.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s asparagus tempura

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Jewelled potato salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s jewelled potato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Giant potato rosti.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s potato rosti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Ottolenghi’s humble golden spuds will shine alongside any meal.
EASY

Yotam Ottolenghi’s golden roast potatoes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Yotam Ottolenghi
Freekeh, harissa, roasted tomato and rocket salad is delicious on its own or with steak.

Kepos Street Kitchen’s freekeh, harissa, roasted tomato and rocket salad

  • Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley
Roslyn will serve Hetty McKinnon’s whole roasted cauliflower with a shower of dill.

Hetty McKinnon’s whole roasted cauliflower with a mountain of dill

  • Hetty McKinnon
Whole roasted cauliflower with hummus and honey.

Roasted cauliflower with hummus and honey

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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This spanakopita is a little time-consuming, but it is ultra satisfying.

Spanakopita

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Baked salmon with a pine nut, herb and chilli crust, served with dill and caper sauce.

Helen Goh’s baked salmon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s roast pork belly with a peach, mint and coriander salsa.
EASY

Slow-roasted pork belly with peach salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Andrew McConnell makes this ham every year.

Andrew McConnell’s ham with spiced maple and amaro glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Andrew McConnell
Ham with negroni glaze.

Katrina Meynink’s Christmas ham with negroni glaze

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Danielle Alvarez’s mustard and sherry vinegar-glazed ham.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s mustard and sherry vinegar-glazed ham

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
The lamb perfumes the vegetables as they roast.
EASY

Karen Martini’s roast leg of lamb on root vegetables

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Adam Liaw’s roast lamb shoulder with mint sauce and gravy.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s gravy

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Lasagne with Bolognese.

Bolognese lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Brigitte Hafner
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Helen Goh’s cherry pavlova.

Cherry pavlova with almond and yoghurt noyaux cream

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Custard, cake, fruit, booze – what's not to like?

Danielle Alvarez’s chocolate, coconut butterscotch and raspberry trifle

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Trifle with deeply flavoured blood plum jelly and thick brandy-spiked custard.

Dan Lepard’s plum pudding trifle

  • Dan Lepard
Rum baba, a signature dish at Cumulus Inc. in Melbourne.

Rum baba

  • 2 hrs +
  • Allan Eccles
Tip: Serve the rum balls with extra toasted coconut.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s rum balls

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink