Recipes : Starter

Soups, salads and starters to open the meal in style.

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Starter

Choosing and adapting your starter

A good starter whets the appetite without weighing the meal down. Velvety soups, crunchy salads, terrines and verrines: starters lend themselves especially well to allergen-free adaptations, because they often rely on fresh vegetables.

For a milk-free starter, go for vegetable soups thickened with potato rather than cream. For a gluten-free version, swap croutons for toasted seeds. The recipe cards flag these options directly.

Think of the starter, too, as a way to introduce flavours from around the world: hummus, gazpacho or spring rolls whet the appetite while taking you travelling.

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Shrimp with caramelized endives

Corn Fritters

Strawberry salad, arugula and parmesan

Taverna Tony's California Salad

Liver fat mid-cooked home and its chutney of dates with dried fruits

Mexican legumes: lentil salad and chickpeas

Moroccan Roasted Carrot and Date Salad With Honey Dressing

Light soup with carrots, coral lentils and pieces of tofu

Colourful lentil salad with seasonal vegetables

Lemony Orzo Pasta Salad

Mexican salad with ketchup

The Queen's Mouth with Smoked Salmon

Cauliflower soup

Slow-Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage (Irish Boiled Dinner)

Waldorf Salad

Algerian red soup with oriental spices

Arroz Imperial (Cuban Rice Casserole)

Indiana Fried Chicken

White beans toast with tomato sauce

Braised Beef

Cut with mascarpone strawberries

Pollo Guisado

Roasted Chicken Thighs With Bacon, Apples, and Cabbage

Liver fat terrine mid-cooked festive porto-armagnac

Choosing and adapting your starter