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 arepas with a small bowl of lime wedges and a knife on a pink fabric background

Arepas reina pepiada

40 mins serves 4 as a snack or side

White bowl of salad with a creamy dressing on a stone background

Farm lettuce with caesar dressing

30 mins serves 4 as a starter

A fillet of beef on a white plate topped with a crispy deep-fried courgette flower

Meat and poultry

Fillet of beef with Café de Paris butter

45 mins serves 4

Close up of a bowl of sambol with samphire, sea beets and chilli

Samphire and sea beet sambol

15 mins serves 2 as a side

A bowl of fragrant yellow rice with a dark slate background

Yellow rice

35 mins serves 2-3 as a side

A plate of ravioli with nettles on top

Ravioli with ricotta and young nettles

1 h serves 4

A savoury crème brûlée with a chicory salad

Blue cheese crème brûlée

45 mins serves 6 as a starter

A bowl of crab kari topped with crab claws on a slate background

Fish and seafood

Sri Lankan crab curry (crab kari)

45 mins serves 2

A beef stir-fry in a metal wok with a wooden handle on a blue background

Taiwanese beef stir-fry

15 mins serves 2

A one-pan chicken dish with lemon

Vietnamese ginger chicken (gà nuong)

50 mins serves 4

Two crepes with salad and fillings and chopsticks

Fish and seafood

Bánh xèo tôm Vietnamese pancakes

30 mins makes 6

A chicken and squash curry

Vietnamese chicken curry (cà ri gà bí)

45 mins serves 3-4

A bowl of Cambodian soup

Samlor prahal (Cambodian soup)

1 h 30 mins serves 4

A plate of pink-coloured Chinese dumplings

Chinese chicken dumplings

1 h 30 mins serves 4

A chocolate cheesecake bar on a small plate

Baking and desserts

No-bake chocolate cheesecake

30 mins Makes 12-16 bars