Looking for new ways to do Christmas stuffing? Waitrose’s festive range has ideas

Mains and sides:

Old Fashioned Glazed Ham

£40/2kg

Inspired by the classic cocktail, this bone-in ham is hand-scored and dry-cured with demerara sugar in a ‘sugar pit’ style borrowed from the US barbecue tradition. Served with candied orange slices, smoke-flavoured cherries and a whisky and orange glaze to brush on at home before serving. 

 

Mini Pork Stuffing Panettone

£TBC/200g

Outdoor-bred British pork sausagemeat laced with panettone crumb, raisins, lemon, cherries, sultanas and caramelised orange zest for a classic panettone flavour. 

 

Melting Sage & Onion Stuffing

£TBC/500g

Outdoor-bred British pork sausagemeat with herby sage and onion and an oozy centre of bread sauce.

 

Plant-based:

Fruity Stuffing Christmas Trees

£2.50/233g

Plant-based stuffing bites made with apricot and topped with a cranberry. Serve on the Christmas dinner plate or as part of a buffet.

 

No.1 Ultimate Plant-based Festive Wellington

£7/400g

A mix of mushroom duxelle with ‘no beef’ plant-based beef braised in a shallot, garlic and thyme vegetable stock – with a hand-finished pastry holly decoration.

 

No.1 Ultimate Triple Nut Roast

£7/500g

With vegetables, pulses, chopped walnuts, citrus zest and just a touch of miso for a deep umami flavour – hand-finished with almonds and brazil nuts, and glazed with a spiced clementine and apricot chutney.

 

Party food:

Shimmering Salmon Mousse

£7/300g or £15/600g

Scottish smoked and poached salmon mousse with a shimmering bronze lustre finish. Available from Waitrose Entertaining as a sharing mousse which serves eight, or in store as individual servings to serve four.

 

Smoked Salmon Eclairs

£7/130g

Mini choux pastry éclairs filled with smoked and poached salmon, crème fraîche, soft cheese, single cream and butter, with a squeeze of lemon juice and a scattering of chives. Finished with a topping of soft cheese and a bronze lustre.

 

Feta Popcorn with Hot Honey

£5/200g

Bite-sized balls of feta, blended with soft cheese and goats cheese and coated with a quinoa-flecked crumb. Serve with the hot honey dip and pair with fresh figs.

 

Chorizo Whirls

£5/200g

Pork sausagemeat whirled with spicy chorizo on cocktail sticks. 

 

Desserts and chocolate:

Jolly Jack Russell

£8.50

Made from chocolate cake rolled with chocolate buttercream, finished with a milk chocolate ‘coat’ and sweet decorations. 

 

Cinnamon Bunettone

£8/500g

Panettone meets cinnamon bun – a light cinnamon-spiced Italian cake with pockets of sweet mascarpone sauce. It’s served with a sachet of cinnamon icing sugar to finish. Made in a family-run bakery in Piedmont, Italy, taking over 24 hours to create. 

 

No.1 Golden Bûche De Noël

£20/800g

A take on the classic French patissierie Bûche de Noël, with layers of rich blonde chocolate mousse and silky salted caramel and caramelised biscuit sauce, on a milk chocolate base speckled with crunchy caramelised biscuit. Hand-finished with a shimmering golden lustre, it comes with a sachet of sugar to make into caramel bark.

 

Merry the Mince Pie

£5/100g

‘Merry’ is made from hollow white chocolate with a touch of milk chocolate. Waitrose cites it as “smooth, sweet and rather fond of mischief” – perhaps a new Christmas advert star to challenge Aldi’s Kevin the Carrot?

 

Panettone Chocolates

£6/150g

Real Italian panettone mixed into smooth milk chocolate and given a shimmering lustre in indulgent panettone truffles. With tangy orange peel for extra fruitiness. 

 

Winter Village Chocolate Box

£15/158g

A 3D centrepiece with hidden drawers holding dark chocolate ganache made with Valencia orange, and milk chocolate salted caramels. 

 

Food to go:

Ham & Festive Slaw Sandwich

£4.75

Savoury glazed ham with orange and whiskey marmalade chutney, spinach and a crunchy sprout slaw on bread made with a mix of grains and seeds. 

 

Salt Beet & Emmental Sandwich

£3.75

Dark rye bread filled with sweet roasted spiced beetroot, mustard mayonnaise, gherkins, spinach and sliced emmental cheese. 

 

Vegan Bubble & Squeak Sandwich

£3.50

Crumbled bubble and squeak, roasted butternut squash, Christmas-spiced pickled red cabbage, chilli jam, vegan mayonnaise, crispy fried onions and spinach, all in malted bread.