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The showstoppers: 50+ recipes for the finest festive feast

Add some 'wow' factor to your Christmas table with these impressive recipes and festive centrepieces.

53 recipes
Forget an extravaganza. Serve up something homemade and heartfelt.

Seafood boil with champagne, lobster and prawns

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Matt Moran's Christmas starter: Oysters with chardonnay dressing.
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Oysters recipe: Christmas oysters with chardonnay dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Matt Moran
Bloody Mary prawn cocktail
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Bloody mary prawn cocktail

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's Christmas starter: Smoked salmon mousse with herb jelly.

Jill Dupleix's smoked salmon mousse

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Poached shellfish

Dill-poached shellfish with brown butter mayonnaise

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Buffalo turkey with bacon burger stuffing

Buffalo turkey with bacon burger stuffing

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Neil Perry's roast turkey carved and ready to serve.

Roast turkey with ricotta stuffing and balsamic cherries

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
King prawn asparagus and avocado salad

Neil Perry's Christmas king prawn salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Fab fish: With its dramatic cucumber 'scales', this is no ordinary salmon.

Whole baked salmon stuffed with lemon and herb rice

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Let your guests DIY with this Swedish-inspired party platter.
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Adam Liaw's prawn party

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Freshly shucked oysters with finger lime and chilli dressing.
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Freshly shucked Sydney rock oysters with finger lime and chilli dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Sticky mulled wine roasted beef.

Sticky mulled wine roasted beef

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Whole salt-baked ocean trout

Whole salt-baked ocean trout

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Roast salmon with garlic soy and Japanese slaw.

Roast salmon with garlic soy and Japanese slaw

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's glazed ham with a tropical twist.
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Tropical fruit glazed Christmas ham recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Neil Perry's porchetta with summer fruits.

Porchetta with peaches and nectarines

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Scampi crudo with orange, pistachio and mint.
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Scampi crudo with orange, pistachio and mint

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Citrus-cured, Sichuan-crusted ocean trout.

Citrus-cured ocean trout with sesame mayonnaise

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
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
Porteno's Christmas recipe: Prawn and octopus salad with salsa golf.

Porteno's prawn and octopus salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz
Char-grilled whole prawns with watermelon and basil dressing.
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Char-grilled whole prawns with watermelon and basil dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Rodney Dunn
Turkey with apple and prune stuffing and glazed chestnuts

Maggie Beer's turkey with apple and prune stuffing and glazed chestnuts

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Maggie Beer
Whole baked ocean trout.
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Whole roasted ocean trout with lemon and thyme

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard dressing.
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Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard

  • 1-2 hrs
Burrata cheese balls with heirloom tomatoes and basil oil.
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Heirloom tomatoes with burrata cheese and basil oil recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Seafood platter.

Seafood platter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
Seared ocean trout with grilled cos lettuce and salsa verde

Seared ocean trout with grilled cos lettuce, peas and salsa verde

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Lobster alla plancha.

Lobster alla plancha with saffron aioli

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Christmas bombe
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Christmas bombe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
A summery Chrissamisu for dessert this year?
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Adam Liaw's part-tiramisu and part-trifle

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Mango and passionfruit Viennetta-inspired ice-cream cake.

Cheat's Christmas Viennetta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Christmas tuilles filled with Vin Santo cream, berries and cherries.

Christmas horns of plenty with Vin Santo cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Rachel Khoo's pomegranate pavlova wreath for Christmas.

Pomegranate pavlova wreath recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rachel Khoo
Plum pudding ice-cream with caramel sauce and hazelnut praline.
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Plum pudding ice-cream with caramel sauce and hazelnut praline

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Lemon and raspberry-cardamom pie topped with wispy clouds of torched Italian meringue.

Lemon raspberry meringue pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink

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