Christmas roast

This festive stuffed turkey leg recipe is a great alternative to the whole roast turkey. Serve with our signature mash and Brussel sprouts!

Roast goose with black pudding apple and sage

This simple honey glazed ham recipe is cooked overnight to ensure it is meltingly tender.

Salty, crisp, juicy crackling ham makes a beautiful centrepiece for Christmas or Boxing Day. Maximum impact for minimum effort – just want you want during the festive season.

An invigoratingly sticky and worryingly moreish spiced ham recipe that should be added to everyone’s Christmas repertoire.

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a proper glazed ham to serve as the centrepiece of your buffet.

This ham is our favourite family recipe. Ask your butcher to skin the gammon for you before rolling and tying it. Use the skin to make crackling.

Take your pick from our best gravy recipes, including easy turkey gravy, chicken gravy and a great get-ahead gravy. Transform that roast...

Nathan Outlaw cures salmon with brandy in this Christmas-appropriate recipe – and a fabulous salmon centrepiece. Serve with seasonal slaw for some welcomed crunch – together it’s the perfect dinner party main.

Looking for a Christmas turkey with juicy meat and crisp skin? This buttered Christmas turkey with a flavourful porcini stuffing has it all. Or, for the juiciest meat, try parcel baking your Christmas turkey to retain all its moisture.

A Christmas roast with a spicy twist, if you want to simplify the recipe, just omit the spices and rub with fresh herbs and plenty of seasoning. Check out how to make proper gravy using the fat from the roast turkey tray, in the tips below.

This roast ham recipe is a wonderful addition at Christmas time and a good alternative to your typical Sunday roast.

Trust top chef Michel Roux to give the Christmas Day turkey an easy gourmet twist, with bags of pepper and a light boozy sauce. Or, to dial down the heat and up the warm Christmas spices, try this spice-rubbed Christmas turkey.

This roast chicken recipe is great served with wedges of roasted butternut squash, corn on the cob and green beans.

The stuffing in this Christmas turkey recipe has a Scandinavian twist: juniper, rye bread and aquavit add chic flavours to the turkey meat. Or, for a fruity, herby turkey lunch, try this bacon-wrapped, stuffing-filled turkey cushion for four.

We’ve given roast turkey a Scottish twist by stuffing it with haggis. It’s the ideal centre piece for Christmas, Hogmanay (New Year’s Eve) or Burns Night. Try serving it with this Burns Night-inspired whisky gravy.