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25 cracking Christmas mains (that aren't turkey)

If you're tired of turkey, there's plenty of other showstopping alternatives to make your Christmas meal special.

24 recipes
Why not swap glazed ham for pulled pork?
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Pulled pork with Christmas barbecue sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Serve this slow-roasted lamb shoulder with aioli.
EASY

Neil Perry's slow-roasted lamb shoulder

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Tomato and spiced feta tart.

Keep-things-spicy tomato and feta slab tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Spiced roast picanha with fig jam.

Picanha beef roast with fig jam and spices

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Christmas centrepiece: Whole-roasted spice-rubbed cauliflower sitting on romesco.

Slow-roasted spiced cauliflower with romesco

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
No soggy bottom: Spanakopita with puff pastry and haloumi.

Haloumi spanakopita

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Pork belly with pinot and plum sauce and saltbush. P

Pork belly with pinot and plum sauce and saltbush

  • Katrina Meynink
Roast salmon with garlic soy and Japanese slaw.

Roast salmon with garlic soy and Japanese slaw

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Sticky mulled wine roasted beef.

Sticky mulled wine roasted beef

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Roast crackling pork with mustard gravy and summer fruit chutney.

Roast crackling pork with mustard gravy and summer fruit chutney

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Coriander and mustard roasted salmon with coriander, finger lime and kohlrabi salad

Coriander and mustard roasted salmon with finger lime and kohlrabi salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli.
EASY

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz's Christmas centrepiece: Porchetta, served with chimichurri (top).

Christmas recipe: Porteno's Christmas porchetta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz
Adam Liaw's vegetable terrine on Turkish toast with whipped ricotta.

Vegetarian terrine recipe on toast with whipped ricotta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Rare roast beef with blackened green chilli salsa.
EASY

Rare roast beef with blackened green chilli salsa recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Rodney Dunn's brined and char-grilled whole chicken with cumin and lime.

Recipes for a barbecue Christmas

  • Rodney Dunn
Slow roasted lamb.

Christmas roast lamb

  • 2 hrs +
  • Carol, Sharon Salloum and Almond Bar
Roast chicken.
EASY

A great roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's glazed Christmas ham with bush herbs.
EASY

Glazed Christmas ham recipe with bush herbs

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Boeuf en croute with horseradish cream and pickled mushrooms.

Boeuf en croute

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
Italian-style roast pork.

Italian-style roast pork

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Brigitte Hafner
Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard dressing.
EASY

Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard

  • 1-2 hrs
Sticky pomegranate molasses helps to caramelise the onion, leek and fennel.

Caramelised onion, eschallot, leek and fennel tart with goat's curd

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink

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