RECOMMENDATIONS

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  The perfect curry paste

  Everyone has their version of a curry paste, and Aaron Craze’s includes tomato puree, nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon for a twist

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  Orange and Brazil nut cake

  A magnificent cake from James Martin - moist, nutty and deliciously flavoured with citrus, with an optional creamy chocolate coating

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  Raspberry parfait

  Michal Caines' dramatic dessert combines raspberry parfait with shortbread, raspberry sauce and chantilly cream – it doesn't get better than this!

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  Pan-fried mango

  Silvana Franco's quick and easy mango dessert takes your tastebuds straight to the tropics

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  Fire roasted pequillo pepper hummous with crispy lamb mince

  Paul Bloxham's tempting pepper-spiked hummous marries beautifully with crispy lamb mince and caramelised onions, in this magical Middle Eastern style appetiser

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  Peanut butter and white chocolate blondies

  If you’re tired of ordinary brownies, try Rachel Allen’s rich peanut butter-based treats – great on their own or eaten with ice cream

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  Gateaux of carrots and Gruyère

  Anton Edelmann cloaks this elegant vegetable terrine in a spicy vegetable sauce

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  English ale-soaked Christmas pudding

  Let everyone in the family have a stir and make a wish when you prepare Diana Henry's fabulous traditional Christmas pudding on 'Stir-up Sunday'

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  Pan-grilled scallops with baby spinach and pine nut salad

  Rachel Allen serves sweet tender scallops with a tasty salad of spinach leaves, pine nuts and lemon zest

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  Bacon chop with laver bread and cockles

  The fresh, briney flavour of the cockles are perfect with bacon. Mop up the juices with savoury laver bread to complete this traditional Welsh dish by Mark Hix