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How to make Maggie Beer’s Christmas buffet

Gather your friends as Maggie Beer cooks a sumptuous spread of festive dishes, from an all-Australian ham to a traditional berry jelly, all ready to help yourselves.
Maggie Beer

For Maggie Beer, her love of food, family and celebration was set at an early age.

Her book, Maggie’s Christmas, is all about the tradition, not just Christmas Day, but the lead-up to Christmas with a supper for her choir, drinks with friends and parties – just making the most of this time of year.

Then there are the leftovers – and what leftovers they would be!

This collection of recipes that make up Maggie Beer’s Christmas Buffet is one of our favourites.

With a delicious apricot glazed leg of ham, tea-smoked ocean trout with fennel, and pastry slabs with agresto and fetta, a Maggie Christmas offers the best of traditional and contemporary Australian food.

Simply click through the links in the gallery to find detailed recipes and instructions.

Apricot glazed leg of ham. Full recipe here.

Pastry slabs with agresto and fetta. Full recipe here.

Slow-cooked zucchini. Full recipe here.

Tea-smoked ocean trout with fennel. Full recipe here.

Eggplant salad. Full recipe here.

Raspberries in sparkling shiraz jelly. Full recipe here.

Neenish tarts. Full recipe here.

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