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Adventurous roast recipes

Consider yourself a pro-roaster? Put your skills to the test with our adventurous roast recipes. If you're looking for new twists on traditional favourites, want to try out a new stuffing or marinade, or are just keen to expand your roast repertoire, we’ve got it covered.

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This slow-cooked, Greek-style roast lamb is full of fresh, seasonal flavour, served with flavoursome radish and mint tzatziki
Slow-roasted Greek-style lamb with radish and mint tzatziki
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This delicious roast lamb makes a fabulous centrepiece. Serve with sweet caramelised onions and zesty gremolata for a fresh and exciting flavour.
Roast lamb with caramelised onions
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For the ultimate Sunday lunch, try slow-roasting a succulent beef topside joint. Topping with a sugar and mustard mix and cooking in a foil parcel alongside plenty of fresh veg and stock gives super succulent meat and tender veg crammed with flavour
Slow-roasted beef with mustard potatoes
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Try something new and impress your guests this Christmas with an alternative roast dinner starring delicate, zesty salmon
Roast salmon with hasselback potatoes and beurre blanc
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Update your traditional Easter lamb with a bold herby stuffing using peppery watercress and anchovies for maximum flavour. Served with a tangy redcurrant gravy, this impressive roast will take your Easter lunch up a notch.
Roast leg of lamb stuffed with watercress and anchovies
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This roast beef with chorizo makes an impressive centrepiece to the Christmas table if you fancy a change from the usual turkey
Chorizo-stuffed beef with roasted garlic sauce
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Slow-cooked until tender and coated in a mouthwateringly sticky glaze, this duck is a stunning centrepiece to serve up on Christmas day. Serve with roasted shallots, juicy clementines and cinnamon sticks for a wonderfully festive main.
Spiced roast duck with clementines and a maple and mustard glaze
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Prepare this stunning centrepiece to impress your vegan guests on Christmas day. Roasting a whole butternut squash, scooping out the sweet flesh and then filling with layers of chargrilled peppers, mushroom, chestnuts and spinach is really easy to do
Stuffed roasted squash with pesto
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Vegan nut roast
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A nut roast is a fantastic alternative to a meat main course or traditional Christmas dinner. This delicious recipe is full of hearty veg – butternut squash, aubergine, red pepper – as well as nuts, herbs and green olives.
  • Serves 8
  • 40 mins to prepare and 1 hour 10 mins to cook
  • 393 calories
Roast pork with crackling
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Keep it simple at your next Sunday lunch with this classic roast pork recipe. For the perfect crackling, prepare the pork 2 hrs ahead of cooking and season with garlic and sage
  • Serves 8
  • 10 mins to prepare and 2 hrs 35 mins to cook, plus 2 hrs drying
  • 592 calories
Whole roasted cauliflower with garlic and paprika
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Try this whole spiced cauliflower as an impressive alternative to your traditional Sunday roast
  • Serves 4
  • 40 mins
  • 281 calories
'Not quite' Aunty's sumac chicken
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his Ramadan, we may not be able to enjoy the iftar meal with our friends and family, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still tuck in to our family favourite foods.
  • Serves 6
  • 20 mins to prepare and 1 hr 30 mins to cook, plus marinating and resting
  • 368 calories
Chicken en croûte with new potatoes and green beans
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This French classic is usually made with salmon but we've decided to give it a twist, let us know what you think
  • Serves 6
  • 45 mins
  • 675 calories
Roast beef and Yorkshire puddings
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There's nothing better than a classic Sunday roast complete with melt-in-the-mouth roast beef and scrumptious homemade Yorkshire puddings. A beautiful dish shared by SORTED Food and a crowd-pleasing meal for you to rustle up at home
  • Serves 6
  • 20 mins to prepare and 90 mins to cook
  • 709 calories
Beef brisket ragu with creamy mash
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This rich ragu recipe can be made in a batch and used again for other dishes - there's nothing like a cook once, eat twice dish!
  • Serves 4
  • 230 mins
  • 556 calories
Slow cooked lamb shanks with roasted root vegetables
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Cooked slowly, this easy lamb shanks recipe makes a great alternative to a Sunday roast. Simmered in sweet, tangy pomegranate juice, the lamb shanks become meltingly tender and the sauce develops a rich, meaty flavour
  • Serves 4
  • 250 mins
  • 812 calories
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