Recipe Tin's Christmas pulled pork with holiday BBQ sauce.

Recipe collection

25 cracking Christmas mains (that aren't turkey)

If you're tired of turkey, there's plenty of other showstopping alternatives to make your Christmas meal special.

24 recipes

Why not swap glazed ham for pulled pork? — EASY

Roast

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Pulled pork with Christmas barbecue sauce

2 hrs +
Nagi Maehashi

Serve this slow-roasted lamb shoulder with aioli. — EASY

Roast

Neil Perry's slow-roasted lamb shoulder

2 hrs +
Neil Perry

Tomato and spiced feta tart.

Savoury pies & tarts

Keep-things-spicy tomato and feta slab tart

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

Spiced roast picanha with fig jam.

Meat

Picanha beef roast with fig jam and spices

2 hrs +
Katrina Meynink

Christmas centrepiece: Whole-roasted spice-rubbed cauliflower sitting on romesco.

Roast

Slow-roasted spiced cauliflower with romesco

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

No soggy bottom: Spanakopita with puff pastry and haloumi.

Savoury pies & tarts

Haloumi spanakopita

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

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Pork belly with pinot and plum sauce and saltbush. P

Banquet

Pork belly with pinot and plum sauce and saltbush

Katrina Meynink

Roast salmon with garlic soy and Japanese slaw.

Banquet

Roast salmon with garlic soy and Japanese slaw

1-2 hrs
Adam Liaw

Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

Banquet

Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

Sticky mulled wine roasted beef.

Banquet

Sticky mulled wine roasted beef

2 hrs +
Katrina Meynink

Roast crackling pork with mustard gravy and summer fruit chutney.

Banquet

Roast crackling pork with mustard gravy and summer fruit chutney

2 hrs +
Adam Liaw

Coriander and mustard roasted salmon with coriander, finger lime and kohlrabi salad

Christmas

Coriander and mustard roasted salmon with finger lime and kohlrabi salad

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli. — EASY

Pork

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

Adam Liaw

Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz's Christmas centrepiece: Porchetta, served with chimichurri (top).

Meat

Christmas recipe: Porteno's Christmas porchetta

2 hrs +
Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz

Adam Liaw's vegetable terrine on Turkish toast with whipped ricotta.

Healthy

Vegetarian terrine recipe on toast with whipped ricotta

1-2 hrs
Adam Liaw

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Rare roast beef with blackened green chilli salsa. — EASY

Meat

Rare roast beef with blackened green chilli salsa recipe

30 mins - 1 hr
Adam Liaw

Rodney Dunn's brined and char-grilled whole chicken with cumin and lime.

Recipes for a barbecue Christmas

December 8, 2015
Rodney Dunn

Slow roasted lamb.

Meat

Christmas roast lamb

2 hrs +
Carol, Sharon Salloum and Almond Bar

Roast chicken. — EASY

Poultry

A great roast chicken

1-2 hrs
Jill Dupleix

Adam Liaw's glazed Christmas ham with bush herbs. — EASY

Meat

Glazed Christmas ham recipe with bush herbs

1-2 hrs
Adam Liaw

Boeuf en croute with horseradish cream and pickled mushrooms.

Meat

Boeuf en croute

2 hrs +
Karen Martini

Italian-style roast pork.

Meat

Italian-style roast pork

1-2 hrs
Brigitte Hafner

Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard dressing. — EASY

Roast

Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard

1-2 hrs

Sticky pomegranate molasses helps to caramelise the onion, leek and fennel.

Savoury pies & tarts

Caramelised onion, eschallot, leek and fennel tart with goat's curd

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

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