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Low effort, high impact recipes for Christmas get-togethers

Whether you're hosting or bringing a plate, these simple but effective recipes are guaranteed to impress the guests, while minimising your stress!

20 recipes
Raw and charred zucchini star in this textual salad.
EASY

Charred zucchini with harissa yoghurt and pistachio dukkah

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Beetroot cured salmon served with horseradish cream, rye bread and cucumber ribbons.

Beetroot-cured salmon with horseradish cream

  • 2 hrs +
  • Nagi Maehashi
Serve the lamb with its slow-cooked onions (top left) and rosemary vinaigrette (bottom right).

'Naked' lamb shoulder

  • Adam Liaw
Prawn cocktail, but make it a platter.
EASY

Prawn cocktail plonk plate

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli.
EASY

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
This Christmas centrepiece comes together in no time at all.

Roast ocean trout with summer tomato dressing

  • Adam Liaw
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Roast salmon with lemony salsa verde and crispy capers.

Roast salmon with lemony salsa verde

  • Katrina Meynink
Mango and chilli-glazed ham with tomato and mango sambal (top left).
EASY

Tony Tan's mango and chilli-glazed Christmas ham

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Tony Tan
A side of salmon with tahini cream.

Showstopping salmon tarator

  • Jill Dupleix
Burrata with basil and capsicum salad.

Burrata cheese with capsicum salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Baked ricotta topped with grapes and walnuts.
EASY

Karen Martini's baked ricotta with gorgonzola, grapes and walnuts

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Potato and pickle salad.
EASY

Potato and pickle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Christmas sausage rolls with turkey, bacon and cranberry.

Turkey, bacon and cranberry sausage rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Raid the deli cabinet for this adaptable pasta salad.
EASY

Deli cabinet pasta salad with chilli, parmesan and sunflower seed dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Karen Martini chops the tomatoes into different sizes for textural variety.
EASY

Karen Martini's tomato salad with buffalo mozzarella, pickled onions and guindilla peppers

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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Caramelised pineapple and cherry pavlova.

Simple pavlova with caramelised pineapple and cherries

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Grilled rockmelon, mozzarella and prosciutto salad.
EASY

Grilled melon, mozzarella and prosciutto salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Dive into this chocolate and nougat truffle bowl.
EASY

One bowl chocolate and nougat truffle

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Roasted carrots with a hunk of fresh honeycomb.
EASY

Roasted carrots with salted ricotta and honey

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Jill Dupleix's Basque-style baked cheesecake.

Basque cheesecake

  • Jill Dupleix

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