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

Sri Lankan black pork curry in a bowl topped with red onions, coconut flakes and green chilli

Meat and poultry

Sri Lankan black pork curry

Short cocktail glass filled with tequila, lime and sugar syrup, garnished with curry leaves

Cocktails and drinks

Sri Lankan tequila and curry leaf cocktail

Lettuce cups filled with mince, veg and chilli next to lime wedges and sauce

Meat and poultry

San choy bau

Miyan taushe (pumpkin stew) in three bowls topped with fish garnish

Fish and seafood

Miyan taushe (Nigerian pumpkin stew)

Turkey, leek and bacon pie on a plate covered in gravy with carrots on plate behind

Meat and poultry

Turkey, leek and bacon pie

Mushroom soup topped with roasted cauliflower, fried mushrooms, roasted hazelnuts and cress with a spoon inside

Swedish mushroom soup

Mulled wine and roast hazelnut loaf cake decorated with oranges, icing, figs and cranberries

Baking and desserts

Mulled wine and hazelnut loaf cake

Two bowls of mushroom, tofu and carrot hot and sour soup topped with coriander

Hot and sour soup

Two mugs of karak chai on a plate with cinnamon sticks and a bowl of cardamom pods

Cocktails and drinks

Karak chai

A bowl of muhammara topped with red onion, parsley and pomegranate seeds

Muhammara

A bowl of neeps and tatties with a spoon

Neeps and tatties

The interiors at Big Mamma's Ave Mario

Ave Mario recipes

A round white plate toped with Apple and almond galette scattered with flaked almonds

Baking and desserts

Apple and almond galette

Two white plates filled with Whole roast monktail, Anya potatoes and garlic ky sauce next to two classes of wine and silver cutlery

Fish and seafood

Whole roast monktail, Anya potatoes and garlicky sauce

close up of Butter-poached trout, burnt leeks and hazelnuts on a white plate

Butter-poached trout, burnt leeks and hazelnuts

A white plate of Buttermilk-fried chicken wings with chilli and sesame next to cutery on a wooden table

Meat and poultry

Buttermilk fried chicken wings

a silver plate of burrata covered in shavings of truffle

Burrata al tartufo

A green plate of cocktail sausages with cocktail sticks on a mottled brown background

Glazed cocktail sausages

Ave Mario's christmas pavlovawith passion fruit coulis being pouts over the top

Baking and desserts

Christmas pavlova

a plate of french toast with melted chocolate being poured from a spoon

Baking and desserts

Banoffee french toast

A Tiramis-choux tower on a cake stand with a green background

Baking and desserts

Tiramis-choux tower

A meringue-topped Gingerbread pie on a black plate and green tablecloth

Baking and desserts

Gingerbread pie

Lamingtons coated in desiccated coconut on a dark board with a green background

Baking and desserts

Christmas lamingtons

A block bowl filled with Punjabi mutton curry with a bowl of rice, raita and poppadoms

Meat and poultry

Punjabi mutton curry

A salted caramel popcorn soufflé in a ramekin on a plate with a small pot of sauce

Baking and desserts

Salted caramel popcorn soufflés

Spiced pumpkin tart on a grey plate with a red background

Baking and desserts

Spiced pumpkin tart

Bavette steak slices and served on a plate with greens

Meat and poultry

Bavette steak

Maria G's sage and anchovy fritters with a wedge of Amalfi lemon on a white plate

Fish and seafood

Sage and anchovy fritti

A red and white patterned bowl full of risotto with squid, clams and langoustines

Fish and seafood

Black seafood risotto

Chicken in a pot surrounded by vegetables an topped with herbs

Meat and poultry

Whole braised chicken with lemon and olives