Dinner party recipes - 28 recipes
Find our beautiful collection of dinner party recipes to impress your guests and make your party a night to remember! We have dinner party starters, mains, desserts and nibbles and most of our recipes are a lot easier to make than you may think.
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Top rated Dinner party recipes
Sautéed haddock with summer veg

By Wackyjacky
Tasty fish and veg main course, perfect for making an impression at a dinner party
- For the summer veg
- 700g new potatoes
- 350g button onions
- peeled
- 5 tbsp olive oil
- 2 ½ tbsp lemon juice
- 24 asparagus spears
- 150ml half-fat crème fraîche
- 1-2 tbsp capers
- finely chopped
- knob of butter
- 250g punnet cherry tomatoes
- halved
- For the fish
- flour seasoned with salt
- for dusting
- 6 x 175g fillets of fresh haddock
- skinned
- 2-3 tbsp olive oil
- knob of butter
Gingerbread, pear and foie gras verrines

By Perrin du blog Chez la ch'tite Payette
Prepare the stewed pears. In a saucepan cook the pears with sugar, water and raisins
- 2 slices of gingerbread
- 1/2 block of foie gras
- 1 tbsp mascarponne
- 2 tbsp full of single cream
- 3 small pears
- peeled
- cored and diced
- 1 large pinch of brown sugar
- 1 small handful of raisins
- some water
Beetroot mousse with tuna and parsley emulsion

By Superbol , blog Jamais sans mon Superbol !!!
In the bowl, add the red beetroots (save 1/2 for the decoration), the drained tuna, cottage cheese, vinegar, garlic...
- For beetroot mousse:
- 200g cooked beetroot
- 1 tin tuna in brine (170 g drained)
- 170g cottage cheese
- 1 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
- 1 clove of garlic
- ½ tsp salt
- pepper
- For the emulsion of parsley
- 1 bunch of parsley
- A touch of garlic
- 5 tbsp olive oil
- 5 tbsp of water
- salt
- Decoration:
- Some diced cooked beetroot
- Some diced feta
- Pine nuts
- A few drops of balsamic cream
Stilton crusted fillet steak

By kathycakebread
Worth the effort! Tender and flavourful, great for a dinner party
- 15g butter
- 80g minced onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- minced
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 175ml beef stock
- 125ml port wine
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 4 fillet steaks (2cm thick)
- 100g crumbled Stilton or blue cheese
- 4 tablespoons dried breadcrumbs
Clonakilty Blackpudding And Scallops With Bacon And Colcannon

By Clonakilty Black Pudding, Visit the Clonakilty website
This fabulous recipe from the Hairy Bikers (known from their love of blackpudding!) is guaranteed to be a dinner pa...
- For the scallops
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
- 8 rashers smoked streaky bacon
- rindless
- 16 medium-sized scallops
- shelled
- coral removed and cleaned
- 200g/7oz Clonakilty Blackpudding
- cut into 12 thick slices
- 25g/1oz butter100g
- 3½oz chicken stock
- 3 tbsp Marsala
- Sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
- fresh flatleaf parsley
- to garnish
- For the Colcannon
- 750g/1lb 11oz potatoes
- preferably Maris Piper or King Edward
- peeled
- chopped
- 50g/2oz butter
- 1 onion
- finely chopped
- 100g/3½oz curly kale
- roughly shredded
- 200ml/2fl oz double cream
Scallops on a bed of foie gras with ceps

By fabienne
Clean the cep mushroom with a cloth
- 1 large cep mushroom
- 1 scallop with its coral
- a slice of foie gras
- 1 small shallot
- 2 tblsp of olive oil
- Maldon sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tbsp fresh low fat creme fraiche
- a sheet of brick pastry or filo pastry (optional)
Carpaccio rolls with rocket and Parmesan

By Aurore , blog Une fille en cuisine
Cut the Parmesan in shavings and the tomatoes into strips
- beef carpaccio (about 300g)
- 1 piece of parmesan
- 1 handful of rocket salad
- Some tomatoes
- 1/2 bunch of basil
- Olive oil
- Fleur de sel
- Ground pepper
- Lime or lemon juice
Mint Chocolate Pots de Creme

By shaziawahid, Cutchi Kitchen
A smooth, velvety , creamy dessert that can be prepared well in advance - perfect for parties
- Double Cream - 180 ml (3/4 cup)
- Whole Milk - 240 ml (1 cup) + 60 ml (1/4 cup)
- Sugar - 80 g (1/3 cup)
- Milk Chocolate - 180 g (3/4 cup)
- Dark Chocolate - 100 g (1/2 cup)
- Vanilla - 1 teaspoon
- Mint essence - 1 teaspoon
- Corn Flour - 2 tablespoon
- For garnishing:
- Mint Leaves
- Whipped Cream
- Grated Chocolate
Quail with dried fruit and mashed sweet potato stuffing

By LTH Laetitia
Boil water in a pan, peel the sweet potatoes and cut into pieces and put them in the pan
- 4 quails
- gutted
- a handful of raisins
- a handful of dried apricots
- a handful of dates
- a handful of figs
- some cashews + hazelnuts + almonds
- thyme
- rosemary
- cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons of honey
- salt
- pepper
- 10cl Muscat
- 15cl vegetable stock
- olive oil.
- Slivered almonds and chopped coriander.
- For the mashed sweet potatoes:
- 5 large sweet potatoes
- vegetable stock (30cl)
- 2 teaspoons of olive oil
- salt and pepper.
Mini Tortellini skewers with mustard and dill

By Thal Jantzen
Cook the tortellini pasta as directed on the packet
- 1 packet of fresh mozzarella Tortellini (350g)
- 200g mangetout
- Cherry tomatoes
- cut in 2
- For the vinaigrette:
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 3 large tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 large tbsp chopped dill.
- 2 cloves garlic
- crushed
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Pollock curry Shepherd's pie
- 1 small pollock fillet (or 1/2 large fillet)
- 200 ml single cream
- (3% fat)
- 1 heaped tsp curry powder
- 500g carrots
- 500g of potatoes
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Duo of panna cotta with feta cheese
- 250 ml of milk
- 150 ml single cream
- 150 g feta cheese
- 4 sheets of gelatine
- Espelette pepper jelly
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Stuffed conchiglionis pasta shells...
- 1 dozen conchiglioni
- 1 aubergine
- 100g of minced beef
- 50g feta
- 1 tomato
- peeled
- 1 half onion
- 1 clove of garlic
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Chocolate Marquise
- 145 g of dark chocolate
- 7 egg yolks
- 250 g of caster sugar
- 300 g butter at room temperature
- 165 g bitter cocoa powder
- 500 g of single cream
- 50 g icing sugar
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Rhubarb and Brie Canapes
- 4 stalks of rhubarb
- 3 tbsp of sugar
- A generous slice of ripe brie - Somerset Brie works a treat
- Any savoury biscuit of your choice
- or crostini
- toasted french bread
- you choose!
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Slimming guacamole
- 800 g small courgettes
- 150 g avocado
- ½ squeezed lemon
- 3 tbsp of olive oil
- 6 sprigs of dill
- 5 drops of Tabasco
- Salt.
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Verrine of foie gras and artichoke...
- 1 yellow curly salad
- 4 slices of foie gras pâté
- 4 large artichokes
- 1 litre chicken stock
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp cider vinegar
- Guérande salt and cracked pepper
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Mini potato gratins with Chaource...
- 750g new potatoes
- 150g Chaource cheese
- 30cl low fat single cream
- 1 clove of garlic
- Salt and pepper
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White pudding timbale with carrots...
- 2 white pudding
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 2 tsps cumin seeds
- 400 g mashed carrots
- juice of 1 orange
- salt
- pepper
- 3 tblsp of olive oil
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Organic strawberry macarons
- 500 g of organic strawberries
- Macarons:
- 125 g almond powder
- 125 g icing sugar
- 45 g of egg whites
- Syrup:
- 125 g sugar
- 35 g of water
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Trio of chocolate cakes with...
- 2 eggs
- 62 gr of sugar
- 55 gr of flour
- 1/2 sachet baking powder
- 30 gr of butter
- 50g dark chocolate
- 40g milk chocolate
- 40g white chocolate
- 70g of single cream
- 50 ml of milk
- 6 apricots
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