Boxing day food for 10

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I'm having 10 for food on Boxing day. What can I cook?
I don't want another roast dinner, but want to serve more than sandwiches.
Preferably things I can cook and freeze so I can just pop in the oven.
Any ideas?

Boxing Day here is jacket potatoes with cheese, leftover turkey and a cold ham, coleslaw, salad, leftover red cabbage and pigs in blankets with chutneys. I prefer it to Christmas dinner. Works well for lots of people and not too much work.

Boxing day buffet style food is what our MIL does, so salads, potato salad, cold meats, stuffing , bread sauce, coleslaw, boiled potatoes, chutneys etc

It always goes down a treat with everyone!

Cold meat. Salads, homemade coleslaw( with red cabbage , walnuts and dried cranberries added), stuffing pie( use leftover stuffing and any other leftovers or make up instant stuffing g and add a fried onion with bacon and wrap in shop bought puff pastry) , cheese board, crusty bread and crackers, pickles, crisps.

Cold meat, pickles and home made chips! Lovely.

I’m not sure why but a lasagne came to mind with the thread title.

I did a turkey curry last year and it went down very well! (We did have a lot of left over turkey)

Will you have Christmas leftovers? I’d buy a bigger turkey, ham etc this year and then do the leftover meat cold with jacket potatoes and lots of different salads. Plus cheese etc, chutneys. I like this more than Christmas lunch itself. No need to cook another big meal from scratch.

Pudding- trifle is good to make ahead plus some mince pies and chocs.

So we have about 30 over at our house on Boxing Day. Some are celiac and we have 1 dairy free as well. I prepare a couple of different curry bases and freeze well before Christmas time. On Boxing Day morning I pop the frozen curry sauces into slow cookers and when it’s defrosted and hot, I add the left over meat from the day before. I have a rice cooker so the only thing I have to cook on the day is rice. Everyone just helps themselves.
If it’s dry, I light the outdoor fire pit and the kids cook hotdogs and roast marshmallows on it but if it’s raining it would just be baguettes filled with leftover meat and cheese.
always goes down a storm with everyone and it’s so relaxed ☺️

Left overs, with bubble & squeak. My favourite meal of the year.

I think it depends on whether the 10 are with you from Christmas day or whether they are new arrivals.

If I was there from CD, I would be happy with leftovers - cold meat roast meal, cold meat with mash.

New arrivals - I'd be happy with the above too tbh, but MIL wouldn't have had Christmas dinner the day before so would expect me to cook the full shebang (she'd be disappointed!). I'd probably do something fresh and new like the suggestions from previous posters - cold meat (to get rid of it!), hasselback potatoes, salads.

Don't make too much work for yourself. You don't want to have to spend Christmas day peeling and prepping!

Chilli con carne with rice or baked potatoes.

A big pie such as chicken and leek or ham and mushroom etc. Green veg or salad

Risotto , salad

Any stew or casserole, crusty bread (the bought part baked kind)

So I'll be at my parents Christmas day so won't have any leftovers but also conscious that everyone has already had a roast dinner so probably won't want one again anyway.

Ham egg and chips is Boxing Day tradition

Have not heard of a roast dinner on Boxing Day. Don’t worry about that. Cook a ham or other joint before you go to your mums. Can be kept in fridge for when you’re back to serve cold.Then make sides on the day.

I’d do a buffet, laid out charcuterie board style - so plenty of meats / cheeses / breads / crackers / extras along with a massive ham (cook Christmas Eve), and I love the PP idea of a big pie. Also to this you can add on anything your family like, maybe a load of those party spring rolls, potato salad, coleslaw. Display it all the same way, lots of bowls etc, fill in the gaps with fruit, chocolate, nuts, it looks celebratory and is really easy.

I always make lots of curry dishes on boxing day (make some in advance and freeze, eg a slow cooked lamb one) then do a turkey curry and make flatbreads on the day as well.

Thank you some great ideas, think I'll cook a ham the day before and definitely something like a pie or lasagne that I can freeze and then just reheat.
Aiming for zero stress!

Good plan op. I’m a fan of do what you can ahead. My biggest fear is people being hungry so I whack a load of jacket spuds in the oven in the morning and serve lots of baguettes or similar alongside whatever you’re eating.

Leftover turkey, a ham, creamy mash, pickles, chutney, coleslaw, leftover pigs in blankets and stuffing balls, cranberry sauce, bread sauce and crusty bread.

I've done this for years and it's always a winner !

You've had some great ideas for main course, but don't forget some sweet things too for after.

Well, firstly, do your guests like cheese, so is a cheeseboard and crackers a good idea?

Mince pies can be made ahead and frozen. You could make a bowl of fruit salad the day before and keep int he fridge ((I chuck mine into a plastic tub that can be stacked to store and decant to a nice bowl for serving).

A cheesecake could also be made on 24th and put in the fridge. Or a key lime pie.

Jamie Oliver's Naked Chef has 2 good chocolate tart recipes (1 baked, 1 just melt and assemble style) and good pastry shells. You can make the shells and freeze, and the "melt and assemble" is not a lot of work the day before (again, should be fine on 24th).

Apple pie? Another freezeable option. Or I make a batch of crumble mix - sometimes freezing assembled crumbles, and sometimes just freezing the mix in a bag to pour on top of fruit and chuck in the oven. You can also have lots of different types of fruit already prepared and frozen (stewed rhubarb, diced/cinamonned apple, berries) to throw into a dish, add the crumble topping and put in to bake within 2 minutes.

Have a carton of cream to whip so people can add if they want. And maybe a bowl of raspberries to put on top if they want a little tartness.

Even just a nice box of chocolates that people can nibble at.

We do “Christmas Day With Friends” the weekend before Christmas and there’s 14 of us and we serve this sort of food, always goes down well:

A joint of ham done in the slow cooker with bread rolls and apple sauce.
Sticky sausages (pour over a glaze of equal parts sesame oil, honey and soy before baking- delicious!)
Huge cheese board (ft crackers and festive chutney)
Loads of “oven bits” (from freezer section in supermarket, mozzarella sticks, spring rolls, breaded chicken bites etc)
Crisps and dips

Oo thinking about all this is getting me so excited!

This is the correct answer.

Zero stress = cold ham and turkey, jacket pots, coleslaw, beets, toms and jars of pickles. And delicious!

An idea for dessert. We are just about to have loads of cooking apples so make and freeze loads of stewed apples with cinnamon. Defrost the day before, put crumble mix on top and pop in the oven.

I did two pies one year. A steak and a chicken and leek. I made the fillings before and then when people were due, popped them into oven dishes, topped with pastry and then made a load of mash potato and peas.

It was wintery, warming and hearty but not too much faff.