Christmas Day starters

[Bella1905]

Hi there, does anyone have any recommendations for a Christmas Day starter that is tasty but not overly complicated and will feed 10, Thank you!

Prawn cocktail. It’s super easy. Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, prawns and seafood sauce. Soup
Pate
Smoked salmon

Soup and/or pâté and crusty bread and butter.
Both can be made on advance and frozen. I use Delia's chicken liver pâté recipe and it is really easy.

We tend to do baked camembert with crusty bread. M&S have a wreath design one this year which we've bought to try.

Smoked salmon pate
soup
prawn cocktail
im found out on a limb and bough individual frozen starters from COOK . I have 10 to feed two so can pop the starters of choice in the oven when folk arrive .
choice of cheese soufflé , lobster soufflé, vegetable tart tatine , soup .

I'm a fan of pates as a starter - usually in pots along the table so people can select fish/chicken/mushroom and with breads/crackers as well as pickles etc. Works well for me.

If I was doing a plated starter (never going to happen - too many dietary requirements), I'd do something with smoked salmon. When it was just the four of us during covid I did a baked camembert which was fun - we had a sort of impromptu cheese fondue!

Lots of people say soup but I always feel that's too heavy.