Batch cooking recipes
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Meatballs
’Nduja meatballs
Give meatballs a flavour boost by adding spicy nduja sausage. Batch cook the meatballs and freeze ahead ready to serve with polenta or pasta.
Batch cooking
Southern style slow cooker beef chilli with cornbread topping
Stick a batch of richly flavoured slow cooker beef chilli in the freezer and a range of gloriously satisfying meals are minutes away.
Slow cooker
Slow cooker gammon with soy and ginger
This slow cooker gammon joint, tender and suffused with Asian flavours, can be eaten as it is, then used for quick bao buns or noodle salads.
Aubergine
Caponata with couscous
Dale Pinnock's easy vegan caponata is packed with aubergine, courgette, tomatoes and olives. Serve with wholegrain couscous.
Slow cook
Slow cooker pulled pork
Learn how to make perfect slow cooker pulled pork with our easy recipe. No slow cooker? No problem. The recipe works in a low oven, too.
Easy vegan
Vegan minestrone soup
This vegan minestrone soup is a recipe of a thousand variations: throw in whatever's in your veg drawer, plus leftovers such as cooked pasta.
Beef mince
Spiced beef mince with jacket potatoes and yogurt
No jacket potato beats this one, which is stuffed generously with spiced beef mince, chickpeas, crunchy salad and yogurt.
Pies
Minced beef and onion pie
This traditional minced beef and onion pie recipe topped with crisp, golden pastry is a real treat on a winter (or bank holiday) weekend.
Blue cheese
Broccoli and stilton soup
Broccoli and stilton is a classic flavour combination, and this verdant green soup can be made as creamy or as cheesy as you like.
Chicken casseroles
Perfect coq au vin
Try this perfect French coq au vin with mash and a glass of red. It's the perfect meal to warm you up on a cold day.
Pizzas
Pinsa romana bases (Roman-style pizza)
The dough for this easy pinsa romana pizza base recipe requires no kneading or proving – just throw it together the night before
Burns Night
Haggis shepherd’s pie
Work your haggis, neeps and tatties into a rich, tasty haggis shepherd's pie this Burns Night – kids and adults alike will gobble it up.
Healthy soups
Curried lentil soup with kale and almond topping
This healthy and filling curried lentil soup is full of goodness and a real depth of flavour via korma spices and coconut yogurt.
Chicken curries
Punjabi chicken curry
Infused with beautifully balanced spices, this Punjabi chicken curry by Anjum Anand is one to add to your collecton of favourite recipes
Slow cook
Beef carbonnade
Beef and onions are slow-cooked for hours in dark beer sharpened with mustard in this classic Flemmish stew: beef carbonnade.
Pies
Cheesy sausage and mash pie
We've flavoured this meaty sausage and onion pie with Marmite, for a salty, tangy kick, then topped it off with cheesy mash.
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