Great british chefs

March is a bit of an in-between month; not quite spring but definitely not winter. Here are some of our favourite recipes to cook during it, from some of the UK's best chefs.

Nothing beats the smell of freshly-baked bread in the kitchen. See how the UK's best chefs bake their own and follow these ten bread recipes for a loaf that's guaranteed to please.

This simple vegetarian fennel side dish is packed with flavour thanks to fragrant saffron and fiery harissa. With the bulb gently simmered until yielding and soft, it's the perfect small plate to serve as part of a larger Middle Eastern feast.

This simple pork belly starter recipe combines sweet and tart crab apples with the uniquely numbing heat of Sichuan peppercorns.

A collection of oxtail recipes from the UK's best chefs including oxtail and celeriac lasagne and sirloin of beef with braised oxtail

The flavourful marinade does all the hard work in this sticky soy and ginger pork fillet recipe from Mary Berry.

This isn't just any leek and potato soup recipe! Garnished with crispy potato, smoked haddock, parsley crisps and light-as-air potato doughnuts, this is a starter to impress.

Cooking sweetbreads sous vide is a guaranteed way to serve them at their best. After cooking them to perfection, chef George Farrugia fries them in breadcrumbs bolstered by Berkswell (a hard ewe's milk cheese from the West Midlands) and places them on a bed of green beans, hazelnuts and a verdant watercress velouté.

Richard Bainbridge serves up a stunning baked cod recipe, topped with seaweed butter before cooking for a pleasantly salty, umami finish. A simple lettuce and pea fricassee and new potatoes make great accompaniments, along with an unusual mint Hollandaise that he makes with rapeseed oil, instead of the customary clarified butter.

A beautiful little canapé that combines chef Kerth Gumbs' classical training with something he loved eating whilst growing up in the Caribbean. Johnny cakes (also known as Jonny cakes and Johnnycakes) are like a denser, less sweet doughnut, and here they're topped with a luxurious combination of mayonnaise, crab meat and caviar. Perfect for parties where you want to impress, or you could make the jonny cakes larger and serve them as a starter.