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Dinner party recipes and ideas

Dinner parties needn't be stuffy and formal. Get with the new informality and serve up these delicious dishes packed with flavour to be proud of.

Small plates of food are so fashionable, but we've got easy tapas recipes so you're not in the kitchen all night.

Recipes include

Pil pil prawns
Chorizo tapas
Easy patatas bravas

See all recipes in this collection (30)

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Vegetable lasagne

by Justine Pattison

Ricotta, honey and pistachio ice cream

by Georgina Hayden

Rhubarb, rosewater and cardamom kulfi

by The Hairy Bikers

Tiramisu

by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi

Mashed potato

by Poppy O'Toole

Air fryer baked cheesecake

by Poppy O'Toole

Cakes and baking

No-bake speculoos biscuit cheesecake

by Philippa Davis

Asparagus tart with honey mustard dressing

by Verity Genco

Light meals & snacks

Prawn and courgette linguine with broad bean salad

by Gennaro Contaldo

Chocolate matzo bark

by Rachel Phipps

Butterflied lamb with lemon and paprika

Spring panzanella

by Samin Nosrat

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Tuscan chicken

Lemon cheesecake

Leek and potato soup

by The BBC Food team

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Charred flatbreads with spiced lamb stew

by Ollie Dabbous

Eton mess

Tahini and chocolate dates

by Sumayya Usmani

Stuffed aubergine with lamb and pine nuts

by Yotam Ottolenghi

Coconut milk soufflé with hot buttered rum and spice-roasted pineapple

by Shivi Ramoutar

Labneh and crunchy nut stuffed dates

by Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed

Easy chocolate sauce

Rigatoni makhani with fried aubergine

by Sanjana Modha

Goan fish curry

by Maunika Gowardhan

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