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Ham and cheese toasties are best reserved for the odd indulgence.

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A week’s worth of dinners and desserts using luscious Christmas leftovers

The Christmas ham, chicken, cheese and pud are the food gifts that keep on giving – if you know what to do with them.

14 recipes
Prawn rolls.
EASY

Neil Perry’s prawn rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Adam Liaw's chicken nicoise salad.

Adam Liaw’s roast chicken nicoise salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's individual egg and ham pies.

Jill Dupleix's little egg and ham pies

  • Jill Dupleix
Ham and four-cheese toasted sandwiches with parmesan crusts (chilli optional).
EASY

Neil Perry's ultimate ham and four-cheese toastie

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's ham omelette.
EASY

Neil Perry's ham omelette recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chicken noodle salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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This Swiss dish is basically just a cheese platter served with boiled potatoes and a few pickles.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s boiled potatoes with baked camembert

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
The beauty of prawns is in their versatility, says Hayden Quinn.

Hayden Quinn’s prawn nicoise salad

  • Megan Johnston
Cheesy vegetable hash.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s cheesy vegetable hash

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Turn leftover Christmas ham into spaghetti hamonara.
EASY

Jill Dupleix’s spaghetti hamonara

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
cheese platter pull-apart

Katrina Meynink’s cheese platter pull-apart

  • Katrina Meynink
Ice-cream-stuffed panettone.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s ice-cream-stuffed panettone

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw Christmas food.

Christmas pudding ice-cream with pavlova shards

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Christmas carnage blondies.

Katrina Meynink’s Christmas carnage blondies

  • Katrina Meynink

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