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  • These quick and easy to make, tasty pastry starters are perfect to try for pre-dinner nibbles or as a light snack between meals

  • This veggie soup recipe is by Clare and Grace from Redditch - their mum, Ruth, a Woman's Weekly reader, suggested they send it in.

  • Award-winning chef Mitch Tonks shows you how to rustle up an easy dinner party scampi starter in seconds

  • Buy a pot of ready-prepared crabmeat and mix together with salmon to make this really easy dinner party treat that looks so impressive.

  • Cranberry and chicken bites
  • Carrot Soup
  • Crispy scampi with whisky mayonnaise
  • Crab tartare

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Christmas starter

Crab tartare

We've got lots of easy Christmas starters to help get your Christmas dinner started with bang! Christmas soup is always a popular starter or try a lighter smoked salmon starter recipe. Here are some great Christmas starter recipes to try:

Woman's Weekly smoked salmon tartare

Brussels sprouts soup

Luxury prawn cocktail


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