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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Rebecca Seal

From a showstopping pavlova to a £7 sherry: what top chefs bring to Christmas dinner

Feast your eyes: delight your hosts with something special – from olive oil and cheese scones to shocolate salami and spiced nuts. Food styling: Ellie Mulligan Prop and set styling: Vic Twyman. Photograph features a whole selection of different, delicious-looking foods from cheese and biscuits to champagne and sherry
Feast your eyes: delight your hosts with something special – from olive oil and cheese scones to shocolate salami and spiced nuts. Food styling: Ellie Mulligan Prop and set styling: Vic Twyman. All photographs: Steven Joyce/The Guardiab Photograph: Steven Joyce/The Guardian

Christmas is a time of overwhelming choice, especially when it comes to food. So, to help you navigate the festive feasting, we asked 16 top chefs and cooks to tell us what they buy or make to give to the people brave enough to invite them over.

Reassuringly, it turns out that even the most decorated chefs love a Ferrero Rocher, a nice glass of sherry, a good mince pie and a decent cheeseboard at this time of year. And everyone is attached to their own traditions, whether that’s the apple tart Matthew Ryle’s family loves in place of Christmas pudding, the hot chocolate-and marshmallow kit Yotam Ottolenghi’s kids can never resist, or Sabrina Ghayour’s favourite truffle-infused cheddar.

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