A versatile couscous salad that can use up all kinds of bits and pieces – add some more protein too if you like
Vegan Couscous Salad
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Dinners
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Mushroom Ragu Lasagna
A mushroom ragu lasagna for a budget family dinner. Swap the mushroom layer out for all kinds of different savoury mixes
Tomato Risotto – Risotto Pomodoro
Fresh tomato risotto made with cherry tomatoes from the garden, or use supermarket tomatoes, or a tin. Creamy and delicious, this simple to make recipe has 3.5 portions of your daily veg.
Easy Green Tomato Pasta Sauce
This is a delicious sauce made with green tomatoes, lemon zest and blitzed with thick Greek yogurt. Wonderful on pasta
Easy Red Lentil Nuggets / Patties / Fritters
Red lentils are packed full of protein, quick and easy to cook and very cheap to buy. So when I made this recipe, I couldn’t wait to try them. The red lentil nuggets are tasty just as they are, but you can dip them in good old tomato ketchup, mayonnaise or brown sauce. I like to make a dip of thick Greek yogurt and Pataks Brinjal pickle – yummy!
Chicken & Onion Pie
A chicken & onion pie with delicious short pastry and a gorgeous filling, from a series on how to make a chicken last a family a whole week
Chicken and Sun Dried Tomato Sandwich Paste
Chicken and sun dried tomato sandwich paste made with leftover roast chicken, or cooked especially. Simple, versatile and delicious.
Coronation chicken jacket potato
This Coronation chicken jacket potato recipe is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to stretch a medium chicken to last a family of four all week. Twenty eight portions!
Red cabbage and Chicken Waldorf Salad
An easy and adaptable salad using the classic flavours of a Waldorf using meat from a whole poached chicken that could last a family all week
Peperonata
Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things, can be used as a main dish or as a side.
Mixed Vegetable Roulade
A vegetarian recipe using cauliflower stalks and pumpkin. Shredded lettuce and egg mayonnaise combine to create a creamy filling wrapped in a savoury sponge.
Punjabi Cabbage
This is vegan and gluten free recipe is a Punjabi recipe, packed full of vegetables, pulses and spices. Make it hot if you like things that way. Personally, I like a lot of spice and hardly any heat