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Andrew McConnell’s duck fat roast potatoes

Christmas Day SOS: How to fix soggy spuds, dry turkey, rubbery crackling 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.

  • Caroline Velik
Showstopper potatoes: Crispy roast spuds on a bed of creamy fromage blanc.

Pure gold: 20 perfect roast potato recipes for your Christmas table

Everyone knows the best bit of your Christmas meal is the crisp golden roast potatoes winking at you from under the gravy. Here are some of the best.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s stuffed flatbreads with minted yoghurt. 

Stuffed flatbreads with mint yoghurt

These fluffy, fragrant flatbreads are perfect for lunch with a squeeze of lemon and some mint yoghurt for dipping.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
RecipeTin Eats’ beef schnitzel with mushroom gravy.
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Oh crumbs! RecipeTin’s secret to making cheap but chewy minute steak a juicy, tasty joy

Crunchy breadcrumbs turn an economical cut of beef into a cosy dinner that everybody loves.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Curried fish gratin.
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Fish pie Friday: Adam Liaw’s mash-up is pure comfort after a long week

In its most basic form, this fish and potato stew is the national dish of Iceland, but all well-loved dishes go through thousands of variations.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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RecipeTin Eats’ crispy smashed potatoes.

Treasure that winning feeling with these 18 golden recipes

From syrup-drenched desserts to crunchy roast spuds, these are the golden medal-worthy recipes also worth celebrating.

Potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream.
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Adam Liaw’s potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream makes the perfect Logies party snack

Potato skins are often treated as leftovers, but in my house they are the main event.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

When the chips are down, you can count on potatoes – plus the greatest spud dish of them all

The world belongs to potatoes – and we’re just living in it, writes Terry Durack.

  • Terry Durack
Spicy seafood and potato stew with fennel, tomatoes and saffron.
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Spicy seafood and potato stew with fennel, tomatoes and saffron

This hearty stew is a one-pot wonder for all seasons.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Serve with mashed potatoes and fennel to make an elegant but simple meal.
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When you have friends coming at 7pm and you finish work at 5ish – these lamb cutlets are the answer

Easy enough as a midweek meal but also special enough to serve if you’re entertaining.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez

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