Bring the sun to your table

Sun-drenched ingredients, sizzling grills and dishes made for passing around, this is casual entertaining at its best. Inspired by simple Mediterranean flavours, these vibrant sharing plates are all about celebrating fresh, seasonal produce, from chargrilled steak with herby mojo to garlicky prawns and smoky souvlaki spreads. Bring all these dishes to the table and let everyone help themselves. Then, put out extra bowls of olives, soft flatbreads and dips to make a real feast.

Discover more recipes for entertaining this season, including these spring show-off dishes for the long weekend or, for your plant-based friends, replicate Georgie Mullen’s elegant vegetarian spring menu.

Chargrilled steak tagliata with green mojo sauce

Buying a thicker piece of steak means you can control the cooking more easily, and slicing it thinly will make it go much further.

Roasted prawns with pil pil butter

This sizzling dish of prawns in a smoky, spicy butter is so simple but really packs a punch. Use a heatproof dish then you can bring it straight to the table. Make sure you have plenty of napkins and some dishes of lemony water for rinsing hands.

Smoky souvlaki platter with tzatziki potato salad

Souvlaki evokes holiday memories of sizzling chicken cooked over charcoal. Make the potato salad ahead and chill until you need it. If you're not barbecuing, the addition of smoked sea salt gives these skewers a little taste of the flames.

'Nduja meatballs in tomato sauce

A spreadable spicy Italian salume, ’nduja can be used to bump up the flavours in sauces or melted into butter and oil to dress fish and seafood. Here, we’ve used it to give juicy meatballs a spicy boost. Serve with lots of warm crusty bread as part of a sharing feast.

Crisp feta parcels with sesame and hot honey drizzle

Crisp filo parcels drizzled with golden honey and sesame gives a lovely salty-sweet contrast. Feta is lovely when cooked, breaking down into creamy softness. Here it’s wrapped in filo and fried to give a gorgeously crunchy contrast.