The best Boxing Day recipes

The perfect winter warmer: Sweet glazed partridge with a rich, buttery parsnip purée

Surprisingly simple and incredibly delicious, this recipe will make your house smell like Christmas

This vegetarian cottage pie recipe uses meaty porcini mushrooms, nutrient-packed lentils and a nifty addition of marmite for something very special

A toad in the hole recipe from Mary Berry's 'Complete Cookbook', a classic British dish that's perfect for a filling meal

Aubergines are perfect for stuffing, because their flavour blends so well with other flavours

A vegetarian lasagne recipe by House & Garden’s food editor Blanche Vaughan that is easier to make than its meat alternative

A lasagne recipe with veal and spinach by Sybil Kapoor - a very easy recipe which can be prepared 2 days in advance

This well-known sauce is so simple and tastes so much better homemade

Transform the humble potato with a blast of traditional Indian flavours with this Bombay aloo recipe by Anjum Anand

So-called new season’s lamb in April has hardly seen a blade of grass and does not have much flavour. A good hogget or mature lamb will have a great deal more. Ask the butcher for a boned and rolled short saddle without the chump

Tim Wilson of the Ginger Pig presents his recipe for a perfect glazed Christmas ham

In an extract from The Exploding Bakery's new cookbook Bake It. Slice It. Eat It. we get the recipe for a Christmassy twist on classic bread and butter pudding

A classically simple and delicious salad, perfect as a side or a light lunch from chef Rowley Leigh 

Kick off your Christmas feast with this sophisticated starter

Enjoy this British classic as a salad, sandwich filing or jacket potato topping

A store-cupboard supper that is much more interesting than the norm...

This Boxing Day beauty makes the very best of turkey leftovers

There is a small Greek island that I go to in the summer where you can find a family-run restaurant on a beach. It serves a sharing plate of crisp-skinned chicken bathed in oil, juicy with lemons and fragrant with mountain oregano – flavours that I will always associate with hot summers on sun-drenched islands.

In this dish from Carole Bamford's Daylesford cookbook, potted shrimps are added to a butter sauce, flavoured with nutmeg and herbs to serve with the halibut

For an even easier version of this family-friendly pizza, you can use Lebanese flatbreads as a base and then it’s ready in no time