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Chicken salad with cranberries and raisins.

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30 last-minute budget-friendly Christmas recipes to save the day

It’s not too late to serve up something special – yet affordable – this Christmas. Get savvy with these super ideas.

30 recipes
Chicken salad with cranberries and raisins.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chicken salad with cranberries and raisins

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s roast chicken with parmesan and sourdough sauce.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s roast chicken and cauliflower with parmesan and sourdough sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Barbecued glazed chicken for Christmas.

RecipeTin Eats’ maple Christmas glazed chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
This Christmas coleslaw is hard to beet.
EASY

Colourful Christmas slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Crispy smashed potatoes with maximum crunch factor.

RecipeTin Eats’ crispy smashed roast potatoes

  • RecipeTin Eats
Tomato and olive tapenade tart.

Danielle Alvarez’s tomato and olive tapenade tart

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Shortcut Sunday roast lamb.
EASY

Shortcut Sunday roast lamb

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Cracking crackling pork roast.

RecipeTin Eats’ cracking crackling pork roast

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Give a pumpkin half the Hasselback treatment.

Hasselback pumpkin with herb butter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Charred corn kernels coated in creamy, cheesy dressing.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ charred corn salad with creamy parmesan dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Paprika-dusted corn ribs with garlic butter.

RecipeTin Eats’ corn ribs with garlic butter

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Sticky Christmas glazed chicken.

RecipeTin Eats’ sticky Christmas glazed chicken

  • RecipeTin Eats
Potato and pickle salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s potato and pickle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
The roasted sweet potatoes are equally good served warm or cold
EASY

Helen Goh’s roasted sweet potato with chilli and maple

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s heirloom tomato salad with peaches, mint and almonds.
EASY

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

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Salmon and creamed spinach en croute.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s salmon and creamed spinach en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Cold green bean salad.

Katrina Meynink’s cold green bean salad with toasted almonds and spiced preserved lemon dressing

  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken.

Adam Liaw’s classic roast chicken with buttered vegetables recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
EASY

Dukkah-crusted salmon with sweet and sour braised red cabbage

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
This rustic galette is a great way to repurpose leftover roast pumpkin.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s roast pumpkin and goat’s curd galette

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Mushroom, tarragon and parmesan clafoutis.
EASY

Helen Goh’s gluten-free mushroom, tarragon and parmesan clafoutis

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Large field mushrooms remain extra juicy when baked in a parcel.
EASY

Andrew McConnell’s foil-baked field mushrooms with garlic, butter and thyme

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
This has to be the easiest cauliflower cheese recipe.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s roasted cauliflower and parmesan cheese

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's garlic butter roast chicken

Adam Liaw’s garlic butter roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard dressing.
EASY

Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard

  • 1-2 hrs
Burrata with basil and capsicum salad.

Neil Perry’s burrata cheese with capsicum salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Roasted eggplants stuffed with chickpeas.
EASY

Simple stuffed eggplants with chickpeas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
RecipeTin Eats’ new favourite Christmas pumpkin salad.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ favourite Christmas pumpkin salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats and Jean-Baptiste Alexandre
Summer fruit salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s summer fruit salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Watermelon and strawberry salad, pictured with my iced tea.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s watermelon and strawberry salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura

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