Brett Stevens
If you want the best for your dinner guests, craft your holiday menu from only new Christmas recipes for 2025. Consider this collection your definitive guide to creating a festive feast that feels fresh, modern and undeniably luxurious.
Our new Christmas recipes collection brings together modern dishes, seasonal Australian produce, and chef-created classics to elevate your celebrations this year. Discover new twists on traditional Christmas recipes (including a new pavlova!), vibrant share plates and fresh salads featuring summer’s best ingredients.
Whether you’re hosting an intimate gathering or long-table feast, let these recipes inspire your menu, bring joy to your guests, and add a little extra magic to your 2025 Christmas celebration.
Want more Christmas hams and turkeys? Or are you on the hunt for desserts and sides? We’ve got you covered.
New Christmas Recipes 2025
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New Christmas starters
Our new Christmas starter recipes for 2025 include some festive-looking barbecued scallops, butterflied prawns, fresh oysters and two instant Neil Perry classics.
Barbecued scallops with pickled chillies
Neil Perry’s bresaola and ricotta on rye
Butterflied prawns with cherry and lime leaf sambal
Neil Perry’s anchovies and roast garlic on toast
Swordfish and chorizo skewers with macadamia romesco
Potato and thyme tortilla with crème fraîche, salmon roe and bottarga
Oysters with pickled pineapple and pink peppercorn granita
Fig leaf-baked brie with pickled figs and fennel seed fougasse
New Christmas mains
Neil Perry’s roast pork is the ultimate Christmas main in 2025. But we wouldn’t blame you for going with a whole smoked salmon or glazed ham, of course. (Author’s note: We didn’t have many meat-free Christmas mains this year, but fortunately we have an entire collection of scrumptious vegetarian and vegan Christmas recipes that will look a treat on your holiday table.)
Neil Perry’s roast pork rack with mustard fruits
How to master an easy glazed ham this Christmas
Ōra king salmon with tomato and peach salad
Cold roast beef with rocket and salsa verde
Chicken cooked in milk with buttered spinach
Roast baby snapper with potatoes, lemon and capers
Spiced lamb racks with roast vegetables, couscous and harissa yoghurt
Mediterranean-style whole flounder recipe with green olive salsa
Oregano and honey pork cutlets with watermelon salad
New Christmas sides and salads
Some may think the main dish is the hero meal, but when it comes to a Christmas plate—sides and salads make the meal! From crispy, crunchy roast potatoes to festive red-and-green salads, can there ever be too many sides?
Fig, fennel and grain salad with citrus dressing
Crunchy chilli and lemon potatoes topped with goat’s cheese
Grilled eggplant salad with freekeh, artichoke, tomato and labne
Grilled marinated artichoke and buffalo ricotta salad
Melon, prosciutto and stracciatella with chilli-fennel salt
Charred zucchini agrodolce with ricotta salata and basil
Tartiflette with bacon and sage
Neil Perry’s tomato, nectarine and basil salad
Neil Perry’s king prawn, mango and hazelnut salad
Neil Perry’s asparagus, green bean and pistachio salad
Radicchio salad with port-glazed figs and pickled beetroot
Roast onion tarte Tatin with apple and Comté salad
Heirloom carrot and mandarin salad
Neil Perry’s roast potatoes with whipped crème fraîche
New Christmas desserts
From Neil Perry’s preferred Christmas dessert, to wreath-shaped pavlovas and cakes, here are the new festive desserts to finish your meal.
Mango, macadamia and spiced white chocolate pavlova wreath
Neil Perry’s mascarpone, peach and Sauternes trifle with almond praline
Flourless fig leaf and pistachio cake with rose and raspberries
Panettone French toast with cardamom crème fraîche and berries
Vanilla-roasted strawberries with a mascarpone cream and pistachio crunch
Pistachio lamingtons
Roasted rhubarb and mandarin frangipane tart with thyme
