19 Festive Christmas Roast Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is a traditional Christmas roast dinner? ›

Traditional Christmas dinner features turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and vegetables. Other types of poultry, roast beef, or ham, are also used.

The secret to making tender roast beef:

It's all about cooking low and slow. With a cut of meat like this, a longer cook time will give you better, more tender results. Ideally, all roasted meats would be seared on all sides in a hot skillet to develop a golden, delicious crust.

An ordinary Sunday roast often is the only course served, roast meat, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, 2 or 3 veg and of course gravy. Maybe with a bottle of wine. Christmas dinner however will usually be 3 courses, starter, mains and a dessert.

The best dish to make on Christmas depends on personal preferences and traditions. Some popular dishes for Christmas include roast turkey or ham with stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Other traditional dishes include roast beef, prime rib, or lamb with roasted vegetables and gravy.

There are several beef cuts that work well for roasting. Beef fillet is expensive but 'a real treat' says Mary Berry (see her recipe below) and also works particularly well in a Wellington. Rib of beef and rump are all worthy contenders, or if you're looking for a cheaper cut to slow cook, then try brisket or topside.

The Top Contenders: Strip Loin & Sirloin

You can easily recreate nearly identical results of a ribeye with considerably less cost. The Strip Loin Roast already resembles Prime Rib's flavor thanks to its proximity to the ribeye. Additionally, Strip Roast has no large pockets of fat, making it easier to trim.

A perfectly cooked beef joint makes a wonderful centrepiece for a Sunday roast or Christmas dinner. To cook it until it's so tender it falls apart, you'll need to choose a joint like chuck and blade or beef brisket and either braise, slow roast or slow cook it for at least a couple of hours.

Roast potatoes

Of all the trimmings, a roast just simply would not be a roast without the icon of side dishes, and you put a perfect roast potato firmly in the top spot – ahead of even the turkey.

When roasting meat and poultry, set the oven temperature to 325°F (163°C) or higher. Explore the charts below to learn how to get great results every time you cook.

The meat will cook just fine without searing. (And any surface bacteria will die during cooking anyway.) But I really believe that the depth and complexity of flavor we gain in this searing step is well-worth the extra effort.

What can I add to my roast to make it taste better? ›

Mix together oil, rosemary, garlic, basil, salt, thyme and pepper in small bowl. Set mixture aside 5 to 10 minutes. Place beef Bottom Round Roast on baking rack in tall-sided roasting pan. Rub oil mixture on roast, covering all sides.

Although it can be consumed throughout the week, it is traditionally consumed on Sunday. It consists of roasted meat, roasted potatoes, mashed potatoes and accompaniments such as Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, gravy, and condiments such as apple sauce, mint sauce, or redcurrant sauce.

This traditional British holiday feast features classic dishes like holiday roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, braised red cabbage, and pureed parsnips, plus classic English Trifle and Christmas plum pudding.

Growing up Black in the South, just about every celebratory family meal consisted of the following menu, all cooked by my grandmother: marinated roasted turkey, glazed ham, collard greens with smoked ham hock, baked macaroni and cheese, candied yams, dressing (not stuffing, a big difference), black-eyed peas (also with ...