Chef recipes

Try our showstopping recipes from the UK's best chefs – dinner party menus straight from the hottest restaurants, Sabrina Ghayour's Persian feast ideas, extracts from the most beautiful books and much more

Bowls of chilli crab spaghetti

Fish and seafood

Chilli crab spaghetti

Chef Kaneda Pen with his signature dish

Kaneda Pen's sour pineapple curry

Shu Han Lee lifting a plate of meatballs

Shu Han Lee's ngoh hiang meatballs

Pablo Guatemala eating

Pablo Diaz's scallop tostadas

Salsa bandera in a pestle and mortar

Salsa bandera

Two bowls of chicken red hominy soup

Meat and poultry

Mexican pozole (pozole rojo de pollo)

A piece of Mexican flan on plate with a spoon

Baking and desserts

Mexican flan (flan mexicano)

Aishling Moore with her mussels and creamed watercress

Aishling Moore's mussels with creamed watercress and cider

Tom Zahir sitting in his garden

Tom Zahir's New Orleans-style chargrilled oysters

Karla Zazueta in her home kitchen

Fish and seafood

Karla Zazueta's prawn ceviche tostadas

Marie Mitchell's saltfish fritters

Marie Mitchell's Jamaican saltfish fritters

Mira Manek Ayurvedic chai

Mira Manek's Ayurvedic kadha chai

Truffle gougeres on a wooden board with a glass of bubbles in the background

Truffle gougères

Blood orange and black olive portokalopita from Morchella in Islington

Blood orange and black olive portokalopita. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.

Jug of Morchella house negroni with Cynar with a glass next to it

Cocktails and drinks

Morchella house negroni with Cynar

Bottle of pastis with shot glasses next to it

Cocktails and drinks

How to serve pastis

Tarragon and anchovy stuffed lamb shoulder on a wooden chopping board with sprigs of tarragon

Meat and poultry

Tarragon and anchovy-stuffed lamb shoulder with fennel and bone marrow crumble. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.

Hereford onglet, Cafe de Paris butter and spoonwort from Camille in Borough Market

Hereford onglet, Cafe de Paris butter and spoonwort

Asam boi sour cocktail garnished with a wedge of lime

Asam boi sour

Decorated red plate topped with Hainan Malaysian chicken and rice dish with fresh cucumber slices

Hainan chicken rice

Green tomato spicy margarita in a cocktail glass garnished with a slice of jalapeño

Green tomato spicy marg

Duck confit with slow-cooked broccoli and blood orange on a plate from Saltine in London

Duck confit with slow-cooked broccoli and blood orange

A Rotisserie chicken on a wooden board

Meat and poultry

Rotisserie chicken

A blue plate with lamb neck on top of a bed of white beans, topped with pomegranate seeds and a red sauce.

Meat and poultry

Lamb neck, preserved lemon, white beans and harissa

A short martini with an olive to garnish

Cocktails and drinks

Olive martini

A vibrant chicken dish on a sharing plate

Meat and poultry

French chicken with shallots and dates

A blue serving plate with crab and bread sticks on the side

Basque-style crab

Potatoes roasting in fat in a tin with thyme on the side

Beef dripping roast potatoes

A whole braised shoulder of lamb on a serving plate with someone sprinkling salt on top

Meat and poultry

Braised shoulder of lamb

A whole burrata ball on a small serving plate with romesco pepper underneath it and on top

Burrata, romesco and red chilli