WITH two weeks to go until Christmas, it’s time to get your seasonal side dishes sorted.
From sprouts to sauces, stock up on all the essentials.
Help save costs by snapping up some special deals, and get your festive recipes lined up too – starting with the dishes below from morrisons.com.
Sprouts, roots & shoots
SHAKE up your veg offerings with these tasty ideas.
Add a splash of colour to your Christmas table with Morrisons The Best sprouts with chestnuts and butter, 500g for £1.75.
Get a whopping 2.2kg bag of Iceland’s luxury goose fat roast potatoes for £3.
Ring the festive changes with Iceland’s luxury sprouts with bacon and Stilton, 600g, £2.50.
The Co-op has a Christmas vegetable medley with pigs in blankets, £2.50, with potato, carrots, parsnips and spring greens and the sausages on top.
Tuck into Lidl’s deluxe spiced red cabbage, £1.79.
Asda has Aunt Bessie’s honey glazed roast parsnips, 500g, down from £1.75 to £1.
Get stuffed
MUCH ado about stuffing.
Whether you stuff the bird or serve on the side, there’s still thyme to get sorted.
For a taste of tradition, Morrisons The Best pork, sage and onion stuffing balls, 360g, are £3 or buy two for £5.
For a festive twist, the Co-op is offering Irresistible buttered onion, leek & maple stuffing baubles, £3.30 for a pack of six, or buy two for £6.
Fancy making your own stuffing?
Sainsbury’s has 90p off Merchant Gourmet whole chestnuts, 180g, now £1.50.
Paxo sage and onion stuffing tray bake is down from £1.90 to £1.49 at Ocado.
Season’s meatings
GET Christmas dinner all wrapped up with these festive bangers.
There’s a great deal on frozen pigs in blankets at Tesco – £2.50 for a pack of 12 or buy three for £5.
No meat is the key with Gro vegan pigs in blankets, £3, from the Co-op.
If you prefer meat, get four for £15 on pigs in blankets, stuffing and sausage meat at Waitrose, including eight honey and rosemary pork chipolatas in bacon, £4.
Morrisons The Best cheesy pigs in blankets, 210g, are £3 or buy two for £5.
Your sauces sorted
MAKE a good meal great with a dollop of delicious sauce.
Save 50p on 250g Ocean Spray cranberry sauce at Morrisons, was £1.50, now £1 .
Asda has a deal on its roast dinner essentials with five items for £3.88, including sage and onion stuffing mix, meat gravy granules and mint, apple and cranberry sauces.
Upgrade to the Extra Special roast dinner essentials, with five items for £5.49.
Get your festive spices right with four for £2 on Schwartz packets including roast turkey gravy, luxury bread sauce, braised red cabbage with apple and sauteed sprouts with bacon, all 90p each when bought singly.
Figgy pigs in blankets
Serves eight
HERE’S how to make a traditional Christmas favourite extra special.
Figs add a subtle hint of seasonal sweetness to this classic roast dinner side.
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 25 mins
YOU NEED:
- 4 rashers streaky bacon
- 2 figs
- 8 chipolata sausages
- 1 tbsp oil
METHOD: Heat the oven to 180C/160 fan/gas 4.
Cut each rasher of bacon in half and stretch it with the back of a knife.
Quarter each fig with a sharp knife.
Lay the bacon slices flat and place a fig quarter on each piece.
Top with a sausage, wrap it in the bacon.
Brush with oil and place on a baking tray to cook for 20-25 mins.
Maple-roasted roots
Serves 8
BRING out the sweetness of this classic roast accompaniment with maple syrup and sprigs of thyme.
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 50 mins
YOU NEED:
- 800g carrots
- 800g parsnips
- 300g shallots
- 3 tblspn maple syrup
- 3 tblspn sunflower oil
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- Thyme sprigs
METHOD: Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180/ Gas 6.
Place the vegetables in a large mixing bowl.
Drizzle the maple syrup and sunflower oil over the vegetables, sprinkle with ground cloves and season to taste.
Toss together well and transfer to a large roasting tin.
Roast for 40 minutes, turning the vegetables halfway through the cooking time.
Just before serving, scatter with the thyme.
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