Midweek meal recipes
Worked late? Need something not too challenging? Our choice of midweek meal recipes is what we like to cook on busy weekdays. They’re speedy, satisfying and easy to make. If you’re looking for weeknight dinner inspiration and bored of the same meals on rotation, you’re in the right place. Discover air fryer sausage stew, easy pasta dishes, speedy one-tray roasts and simple fishcakes. Whether you’re on the hunt for chicken dinners for weeknights, new ways with your jacket potatoes, or vegetarian recipes to please the whole family, we’ve got stacks of ideas for you. Our aim here is to offer up midweek meal recipes that won’t take hours to make or leave you with a tonne of dishes to wash up. And everyday dinners don’t need to be boring. Whether you’re a confident cook or a relative newbie, these weeknight dinner recipes have all been developed to fit into your busy routine, but still deliver big-time on flavour.
Dashing out the door or too exhausted to linger in the kitchen? Try dinner inspiration in 20 minutes. Trying to make healthy choices? You’ll love our healthy family dinners.
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Vegetarian curry recipes
Tamil egg curry
Food writer Shu Han Lee shares her recipe for a fragrant and creamy Tamil egg curry. Serve over steamed rice for a healthy midweek dinner.
Weekly pasta recipes
Norma al forno
Served warm, adorned with a crispy cheese crown, this aubergine pasta bake proves that even in hot weather, comfort food still rules supreme.Â
Weekly pasta recipes
Creamy sweetcorn and TajÃn pasta
TajÃn is a Mexican seasoning that combines lime and chilli, and when paired with sweetcorn it makes a wonderful sauce for pasta.
Lentil recipes
Puy lentil and tomato salad with jammy onions and crispy feta
This lentil salad combines the freshest tomatoes, lightly marinated, and red onions prepared two ways. Add crispy feta for creamy crunch.
Weeknight recipes
Sausages with braised celery and chickpeas
Braising celery is something you need to try. This easy, hands-off sausage stew combines it with sausages, creamy chickpeas and chilli.
July seasonal recipes
Halloumi and blistered tomato orzo
This 5-ingredient dinner is so easy. It's full of flavour from blistered tomatoes, grated halloumi, mint and lemon.
Easy vegan recipes
Cumin-spiced mushroom gyros
This plant-based gyros is stuffed with wedges of mushroom and crispy crinkle-cut fries, with the fresh tzatziki and tomato salad.
Tuna recipes
Sicilian tuna pasta
This quick and easy tuna pasta is ready in under half an hour and brings the fresh, vibrant flavours of the southern Italian coastline right into your kitchen.
Pepper recipes
Chinese chicken, prawn and lap cheong stuffed peppers
These Chinese stuffed peppers are packed with a bouncy, fragrant filling of chicken, prawns and nuggets of lap cheong (Cantonese sausage).
Favourite chicken recipes
Spring chicken one pan casarecce
Everything gets cooked in a single pan in this recipe, with the pasta soaking up the stock for extra flavour.
Paneer recipes
Paneer, tomato and pea curry
This speedy vegetarian curry combines tinned tomatoes and frozen peas with plenty of spices and sticks of paneer cheese.
Sausage pasta recipes
Sausage, courgette and watercress pesto pasta
Peppery summer watercress is a brilliant partner for silky courgettes in this easy sausage pasta dish with homemade, lemony pesto.
Dinner ideas for two
Lemongrass turkey mince noodle salad
A riff on a Vietnamese rice noodle salad, this turkey dish is bursting with fresh flavours from lemongrass, ginger, chilli, mint and lime.
Healthy fish recipes
Pollock, red pepper and olive stew
This easy fish stew has smoky depth. Lemon and briny olives add contrasting freshness, while potatoes and chickpeas make it a filling dinner.Â
Taco recipes
Chipotle black bean and broccoli tacos
These black bean tacos are a midweek winner. Quick-pickling the broccoli stem saves waste and helps make a piquant salsa.
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