5 simple Christmas entree recipes

Christmas dinner is arguably the most important meal you will cook all year and it’s vital you get it off to a great start. Here are five quick and easy Christmas entree recipes to whet your appetite.

Retro roulade

A spinach roulade filled with smoked salmon and Greek yoghurt can be made up to a day in advance, and needs only to be sliced and laid out on plates.

Hot haloumi with cranberry sauce

• Cut slices of haloumi cheese, dip in a little seasoned flour and fry in olive oil until golden.

Easiest ever starter - smoked salmon

• Fan or curl thinly sliced pieces of smoked salmon on a large serving plate, along with wedges of cucumber and lemon, and sprinkle with crushed blac

Monkfish in Parma ham with red onion and pepper marmalade

• Ask your fishmonger to fillet the monkfish so they are ready to go.
  

Nigel Slater's classic prawn cocktail

• Shred a gem lettuce heart and pile it into a couple of chilled glasses.
• Peel and dice a cucumber and add it to the lettuce.
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