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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Tamil egg curry

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.

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Norma al forno

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. 

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Creamy sweetcorn and Tajín pasta

Weekly pasta recipes

Creamy sweetcorn and Tajín pasta

Tajín is a Mexican seasoning that combines lime and chilli, and when paired with sweetcorn it makes a wonderful sauce for pasta.

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Puy lentil and tomato salad with jammy onions and crispy feta

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.

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Sausages with braised celery and chickpeas

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.

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Halloumi and blistered tomato orzo

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.

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Cumin-spiced mushroom gyros

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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.

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Sicilian tuna pasta

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.

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Chinese chicken, prawn and lap cheong stuffed peppers

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).

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Chickpeas with chorizo and herbs

Recipes using chickpeas

Chickpeas with chorizo and herbs

Dish up an effortless weeknight dinner of chickpeas with chorizo and fresh herbs. This dish can also be made ahead for a barbecue side dish.

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Spring chicken one pan casarecce

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.

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Paneer, tomato and pea curry

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.

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Sausage, courgette and watercress pesto pasta

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.

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Lemongrass turkey mince noodle salad

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.

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Pollock, red pepper and olive stew

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. 

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Chipotle black bean and broccoli tacos

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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