Winter recipes

From breakfast to dinner to dessert, these top 10 recipes are guaranteed to bring warmth to chilly winter days.

Ben Dearnley

This winter-perfect compilation of top 10 hits allows you to go globe-trotting from your kitchen: you’ll discover French flavours, desserts from the Deep South and a punch with an English heritage. From cobbler to colcannon, pandowdy to pork costolette, there’s a dish ready for you to delve into on a winter’s day or night.

Rhubarb and raspberry cobbler with buttermilk ice-cream

Rhubarb and raspberry cobbler with buttermilk ice-cream

Punch recipe: Blow My Skull

Punch recipe: Blow My Skull

Char-grilled leek, chèvre and mint omelettes

Char-grilled leek, chèvre and mint omelettes

Pork costolette with cabbage and pancetta

Pork costolette with cabbage and pancetta

KFC, “Kat’s fried chicken”, with barbecue sauce

KFC, “Kat’s fried chicken”, with barbecue sauce

Bean, cavolo nero and pasta soup

Bean, cavolo nero and pasta soup

Crumpets with caramelised maple butter

Crumpets with caramelised maple butter

Colcannon

Colcannon

Slow-roasted lamb neck with rosemary salt-roasted potatoes

Slow-roasted lamb neck with rosemary salt-roasted potatoes

Apple and blackberry pandowdy

Apple and blackberry pandowdy

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