Chef recipes

Try our showstopping recipes from the UK's best chefs – dinner party menus straight from the hottest restaurants, Sabrina Ghayour's Persian feast ideas, extracts from the most beautiful books and much more

A plate of green dumplings on a wooden table

Vegetable dumplings (jiaozi)

1 h 45 mins serves 4

A tray of chopped white chocolate bark sprinkled with nuts and dried fruit

Blonde chocolate Christmas bark

20 mins serves 8-10

A brown plate topped with fried tortillas and orange scrambled eggs

Spanish scrambled eggs

3 h serves 4 as a brunch

A cake stand topped with a pastry dessert filled with a chocolate mousse

Chocolate and hazelnut paris-brest

1 h 30 mins serves 6-8

A plate topped with buttery swirl biscuits and filled with a ginger buttercream

Clementine and ginger viennese whirls

50 mins makes 13-15

A tray topped with five golden buns filled with a thick cream filling

Mincemeat maritozzi buns

1 h makes 10

A white plate topped with two empanadas with crimped pastry

Argentinian cheese and onion empanadas

1 h makes 12

A plate topped with layers of chocolate pastry topped with mandarin pieces

Mandarin, chocolate and hazelnut millefeuille

45 mins serves 4

A caramelised duck breast on a bed of shredded green brussels sprouts

Meat and poultry

Molasses-glazed duck breast

45 mins serves 4

A shallow bowl filled with a layer of goat's curd, purple blackberries and golden beetroot slices

Heritage beetroot salad

40 mins serves 4 as a starter

A small speckled bowl filled with dark red cranberry sauce with a metal spoon in the bowl

Cranberry sauce

1 h makes 500g

A bowl of roast parsnips drizzled with honey

Roast parsnips with black seed honey

35 mins serves 2 as a side

A blue marble slate topped with little golden cheese biscuits

Spiced cheese biscuits

25 mins makes 40

A bowl filled with green sprout tops and topped with sliced red onion, green coriander with yogurt on the side

Besan bhaji with brussels sprout tops

25 mins serves 2

A stack of fluffy American-style pancakes with cubes of purple beetroot

Savoury sourdough pancakes with roast beetroot

1 h serves 2-3