• Christmas

Christmas day SOS: How to fix dry turkey, rubbery crackling, soggy spuds and more common cooking fails

Rest your turkey before serving, par-boil your potatoes, blast your pork with a hair dryer if you have to - just don’t panic, Christmas dinner help is at hand.

• December 24, 2023
• Caroline Velik

• Recipe collection
• Christmas

Have a very merry RecipeTin Eats Christmas with these traditional recipes

This year’s menu includes a game-changing brined turkey breast, my signature glazed ham and a classic trifle.

• Christmas

Life of brine: RecipeTin Eats shares the simple secret to succulent roast turkey every time

JB’s secret brine recipe guarantees this will be a Christmas lunch gamechanger.

• 2 hrs +
• RecipeTin Eats and Jean-Baptiste Alexandre

• Poultry

Danielle Alvarez's spatchcocked roast turkey with caramelised onion gravy

Spatchcocking means that you remove the backbone, cooking the bird flat. You won't have that quintessential whole bird presentation, but I can guarantee it will be juicier and more flavoursome, and the bonus is that it halves the cooking time. I recommend brining the bird overnight, a step I've discovered over the years is essential. Once you eat this turkey, you won't want to cook it another way ever again.

• 1-2 hrs
• Danielle Alvarez

• Savoury pies & tarts

Turkey, bacon and cranberry sausage rolls

The bacon in these simple sausage rolls stops the turkey mince from becoming too dry, while the cranberries add a touch of tartness and sweetness to offset the bacon. Fantastic all year round, but perfect for Christmas.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Banquet

Curtis Stone's ultimate roast turkey

Curtis Stone shares his recipe for the perfect roast Christmas turkey with gravy - and it's less than 10 ingredients.

• 2 hrs +
• Brought to you by Coles

• Banquet

Turkey roll with chorizo, kale and lemon

Recipes like this are like a Christmas present for the cook of the family. It's the easiest roast turkey ever, roasted for an hour and sliced like a loaf of bread. Yet you still get all the good things – crisp skin, tender white meat, your favourite stuffing, and a big wow factor when you bring it to the table. Watch Jill's video here.

• 1-2 hrs
• Jill Dupleix

• Roast

Alison Roman's maple butter turkey with roasted garlic

A dry-brine is the secret to a perfectly juicy turkey: the salt helps retain moisture while the bird is cooking and tenderises the meat at the same time. Win-win!

• 2 hrs +
• Alison Roman

• Roast

Roast turkey with ricotta stuffing and balsamic cherries

Christmas cooking is really about keeping it simple and using the seasonal bounty we have here in Australia. Serve the turkey with a well-dressed green salad, or blanched green beans topped with chopped, roasted macadamia nuts. To finish, I usually boil potatoes, cut them and pan-fry them until they're crisp.

• 2 hrs +
• Neil Perry

• Roast

Hot orange glazed turkey with Scarborough Fair stuffing

The stuffing recipe here, inspired of course by the Simon and Garfunkle song, was a favourite of mine for roast chickens when I first moved out of home.

• 2 hrs +
• Adam Liaw