Starter Recipes, First Course Ideas

We keep many of our most popular starter recipes available online for users, just click on the link to go to the page.

If you're making more than a one course meal the starter is really important to the overall effect and you should look to compliment and/or contrast the courses together. Two simple rules for starters; avoid large portions and try to steer clear of strong flavours, the reasons beings you don't want to fill your diners up nor overpower their senses before the main course. As a tip if you have an interval between the starter and main or second course don't leave anything edible on the table (bread grissini etc, once people start to eat the body doesn't want to stop until it's full.

Here is a selection of some of our most popular starter recipes. If your favorite does not feature why not let us know?

All the successful recipes are stored in the Recipe Directory.

First Course Ideas

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