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🎄 Xmas Recipes: Festive Feasts Using Your Favourite Kitchen Appliances

🎄 Xmas Recipes: Festive Feasts Using Your Favourite Kitchen Appliances

Christmas cooking doesn’t have to mean queues for the oven or marathon stirring sessions. With the right gadgets, you can whip up festive favourites faster than you can say "pass the pigs in blankets!".

 

Air Fryer Pigs in Blankets

Serves: 6 • Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

  • 18 mini pork sausages

  • 9 rashers smoked streaky bacon

  • 1 tbsp honey

  • Fresh thyme (optional)

Method

  1. Halve each rasher and wrap around the sausages.

  2. Air fry at 190°C for 8-10 minutes.

  3. Brush with honey and cook for 2 more minutes.

  4. Sprinkle with thyme and serve.

Why use the air fryer? No oven juggling while the turkey’s in!

Blender Christmas Morning Smoothie

Serves: 2 • Time: 5 mins

A festive, energising drink perfect for Christmas morning, especially if last night's mulled wine was generous 🎅

Ingredients

  • 2 bananas

  • 200ml cranberry juice

  • 200ml Greek yoghurt

  • 1 tsp cinnamon

  • Handful of frozen berries

  • Honey to taste

Method

  1. Add everything to the blender.

  2. Blend until smooth.

  3. Pour into glasses and dust lightly with cinnamon.

Result: Christmassy flavour without any prep faff.

Food Processor Gingerbread Biscuits

Makes: 20 • Time: 30 mins + baking

Ingredients

  • 350g plain flour

  • 150g light brown sugar

  • 100g cold butter, cubed

  • 1 egg

  • 4 tbsp golden syrup

  • 2 tsp ground ginger

  • 1 tsp cinnamon

  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

  1. Blitz flour, sugar and butter until crumb-like.

  2. Add egg, syrup, and spices; pulse to form dough.

  3. Chill for 10 mins, roll, cut festive shapes.

  4. Bake 10-12 mins at 180°C.

Why the processor? Perfect dough in seconds, no arm workout required.

Pressure Cooker Turkey Crown

Serves: 6–8 • Time: Under 1 hour

Ingredients

  • 2–3kg turkey crown

  • 1 onion, halved

  • 2 carrots

  • 300ml chicken stock

  • Salt, pepper, herbs

Method

  1. Brown the turkey crown in the pressure cooker.

  2. Add veg, herbs and stock.

  3. Cook on high pressure for 35-40 mins.

  4. Transfer to a hot grill for crisp skin.

Why it’s genius: Moist turkey without hogging the oven.

🎅 Final Thoughts

With these appliance-driven recipes, your Christmas kitchen will run smoother than Santa’s sleigh. Less time cooking means more time eating, relaxing, and arguing over who’s in charge of the remote.