Comfort food recipes
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St George's Day recipes
Beer-battered fish and triple-cooked chips
Debbie Major's ultimate British seaside treat is bought to the table with her brilliant beer-battered fish and chips recipe served with mushy peas.
Afternoon tea recipes
Jammy doughnuts
If you've ever wondered how to make jam doughnuts, this versatile recipe has tips for filled doughnuts, ring doughuts, and various flavours.
Afternoon tea recipes
Jam doughnuts
Follow our foolproof recipe for warm, pillowy, sugar-coated jam doughnuts – they're easier to make than you might think.
Macaroni cheese recipes
US-style mac ‘n’ cheese
This is mac 'n' cheese American-style. Gooey, filling and served with a bacon salad, there's no denying this is proper comfort food.
Risotto recipes
Mushroom risotto
Looking for some easy comfort food? Try this quick vegetarian mushroom risotto made with with oozy taleggio cheese for a midweek dinner.
Healthy makeover recipes
Healthier cassoulet
This is a classic, rib-sticking French cassoulet – sausages, chicken, haricot beans and all – but with a healthy, low-calorie makeover.
Savoury tarts
Gruyère and courgette tart
This summery courgette tart recipe is packed full of bright colours and cheesy flavours. It uses a luxurious all butter puff pastry - buy it ready-made.
Classic sauce recipes
Michel Roux Jr’s chicken jus
This chicken jus from Michel Roux Jr makes the ultimate sauce for a chicken supreme or chicken breast. The time it takes for the jus to reduce to the right consistency will depend on how gelatinous the stock is.
Sandwich recipes
The ultimate bacon and egg sandwich
A bacon and egg sandwich with a twist. Made with sourdough, mustard, cheddar, streaky bacon and a fried egg, it's the ultimate bacon sarnie.
Beef mince recipes
Comforting cottage pie
A traditional British cottage pie recipe with a baked bean twist - perfect for chilly evenings. Ready in 50 minutes, this is an easy family favourite.
Hangover recipes
Chocolate French toast
This chocolate French toast is perfect as an indulgent Christmas, Easter or Mother's Day breakfast – or as a pre-hangover midnight feast!
Comfort food recipes
Simple Sussex pond pudding
Add a touch of old-world glamour to your table with this classic British pudding. The intensely lemony sponge is ideal if you don't want too much sweetness.
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