Classic family Christmas dinner

This shopping list includes the following recipes:

• Starters & nibbles: Prawn cocktail
• Main course: How to roast a turkey
• Side dishes: Brussels sprouts gratin with bacon, cream and almonds
• Desserts: Christmas pudding

Shopping list

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 2 small garlic cloves, crushed
  • 6 tbsp roughly chopped fresh coriander
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 red chilli, deseeded and chopped
  • 2 firm pink grapefruit, peeled and segmented
  • ½ small white cabbage, cored and shredded
  • 2 fennel bulbs, trimmed, quartered and thinly sliced
  • 2 Little Gem lettuces, thinly sliced
  • ½ lime, thinly sliced
  • small handful fresh coriander leaves
  • ½ red chilli, deseeded and cut into thin strips
  • 1 small onion
  • 900g/2lb Brussels sprouts, trimmed
  • 2½ tsp lemon juice
  • 1 orange, zest and juice
  • 1 lemon, zest and juice
  • 1 eating apple, cored and grated

• Tins, packets and jars

  • 275g/10oz mayonnaise
  • 2 tsp apricot jam

• Cooking ingredients

  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 4 cloves
  • 75-100g (2½ to 3½ oz) fresh white breadcrumbs
  • freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
  • cayenne pepper, for sprinkling
  • 4 tsp sunflower oil
  • 20g/¾oz flaked almonds
  • 5½ tbsp fresh white breadcrumbs
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 275g/10oz soft brown or white breadcrumbs
  • 100g/4oz dried apricots, chopped (to about the same size as the raisins)
  • 100g/4oz dried figs, chopped (to about the same size as the raisins)
  • 225g/8oz currants
  • 225g/8oz seedless raisins
  • 225g/8oz sultanas
  • 75g/3oz high quality candied peel, finely chopped
  • 50g/2oz almonds, finely chopped
  • 225g/8oz light or dark muscovado sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground mixed spice
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg

• Drinks

  • 4 tbsp brandy

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 175g/6oz unsalted or lightly salted butter
  • 450ml/15fl oz full-cream milk
  • 40g/1½oz butter or 2 tbsp double cream
  • 20g/¾oz butter
  • 400ml/14fl oz double cream
  • 4 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese
  • 225g/8oz shredded suet
  • 3 free-range eggs, lightly beaten
  • 150ml/5fl oz milk
  • butter, for greasing pudding bowls

• Meat, fish and poultry

  • 900g/2lb mixed cooked unpeeled prawns, shells removed
  • 1 free-range turkey weighing 4kg/8lb 11oz
  • 150g/5oz bacon lardons (or rindless back bacon, cut into short fat strips)

• Other

  • 150ml/5fl oz stout or similar dark beer

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