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There’s nothing more appetising than a Sunday roast.

There’s nothing more appetising than a Sunday roast. For the perfect taste, the meat must be sealed just right, trapping inside the flavoursome juices. Neff understands the passion for cooking required to make delicious food and has put that concept at the heart of its innovation for almost 40 years. And to this day, Neff is committed to helping cooks of all abilities rustle up the tastiest roasts in their very own kitchens.

With high-performance ovens at the heart of its range, Neff prides itself on its pioneering CircoTherm® technology, a method of forced-air cooking, which has set the benchmark for all fan ovens and helped deliver the most fantastic food to Britain’s kitchen tables.

Neff ovens are treasured in the kitchens of the best Sunday roasters up and down the country because of the way hot air is focused directly onto the food being cooked. CircoTherm® is great for roasting because of the way and speed at which the heat is delivered, sealing roasts quickly. This means the juices are retained, producing less shrinkage and moist, succulent joints.

Neff is also committed to doing away with precious time wasted slaving over a hot stove. CircoTherm® evenly distributes heat across three of the oven’s four shelves. This allows even the busiest of home cooks to find the time to conjure up a sumptuous three-course meal for all the family to enjoy simply by cooking it all in the oven at the same time. And the super-efficient technology reduces the need for unnecessarily high cooking temperatures, resulting in food splashing and spitting less, making the oven much easier to clean too.

So if your appetite for Neff has been suitably whetted, why not try one of its recipes (see opposite) and put CircoTherm® to the test?

Herby roast lamb with meatballs

Cook at 160˚C CircoTherm®
Serves 6-8
Prep time: 40 mins, plus marinating
Cook time: 90 mins, plus resting




Ingredients For the lamb 2kg whole leg of lamb; 4 cloves garlic, peeled; 1 tbsp chopped rosemary; 1 tbsp chopped thyme; 1 tsp salt; 4 tbsp redcurrant jelly; 1 tbsp olive oil

For the meatballs 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed; 1⁄2 red onion, peeled and chopped; 2 tbsp chopped mint; 2 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley; 30g breadcrumbs; 2 tsp plain yoghurt; 450g lamb sausages, casings removed

For the vegetables 2 red onions, peeled and cut into wedges; 560g swede, peeled and cut into chunks; 4 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks; 1 small celeriac peeled and cut into chunks; 250ml red wine

Clementine and almond cake
Cook at 160˚C CircoTherm®
Serves 8-10
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 1 hour 40 mins, plus cooling




Ingredients 450g clementines – about 7; 310g ground almonds; 140g unrefined caster sugar; 110g icing sugar; 6 large eggs; zest and juice 1 lemon; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tspground cinnamon; 1 tspground allspice; You will also need a deep, 20cm springform cake tin, base and sides lined with baking parchment

How the CircoTherm system works

The fan CircoTherm works by drawing air in from the oven via a powerful fan.