Weekend dinner recipes
The weekend is the time to flex your culinary muscles and make something that might take that little bit longer, but will reward you in the form of a delicious meal you can enjoy with family and friends. Our weekend dinner recipes include decadent treats like steak and chips, lobster mac and cheese and truffle chicken.
If you’re looking to potter about and take your time in the kitchen, we have all sorts in store for you. May we suggest a from-scratch fish pie, our best of the best lasagne, or homemade pizza and pasta? Then there’s our slow-cooked duck tacos or a Malaysian beef curry, layered with flavour that can only come from hours of cooking…
If you’re in the mood for a challenge, why not give homemade roti canai a go? Or some banging bao buns? Maybe today is the day you turn your mind to tortellini in brodo with a homemade meat stock that would make any nonna proud? Impress friends, family and most importantly yourself, with these stunning dinner ideas, or recreate your favourite Chinese, Indian or Thai takeaway.
What’s on the menu for your weekend cooking? Are you up for a challenge or looking for something low effort but packed with flavour? Either way, we’re here to help you celebrate with something delicious. Explore our weekend dinner recipes here…
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Homemade pasta
Homemade orecchiette (with mushroom sauce)
Learn how to make homemade orecchiette pasta with chef Jun Tanaka's step-by-step recipe, then serve it with a creamy mushroom sauce.
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Healthy fish
Hake with cider sauce and samphire
Celebrating the crisp, delicate flavours of cider, this simple yet cheffy-looking hake dish is served with a butter-enriched cider sauce.
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Pasta bakes
Blonde ragù pasta bake with prosciutto (nidi di tagliatelle al forno)
Swap out lasagne for this sophisticated yet satisfying blonde ragù pasta bake with prosciutto (nidi di tagliatelle al forno) by Rosie Mackean.
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Beef curries
Asma Khan’s first-class railway curry
Celebrated chef Asma Khan shares her recipe for railway curry, a mutton or beef coconut-based curry with a rich history.
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Pork recipes from around the world
Curried pork schnitzel with devilled egg gribiche and pickles
A fiery gribiche (the mustardy chopped egg sauce from France), pickled cucumbers and red onion enhance these curried pork schnitzels.
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Flatbreads
Moules marinières flatbreads
These flatbreads have a little pool of molten herby butter studded with plenty of plump, sweet mussels. It’s moules marinière in bread form!
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Midweek meals
Crispy chicken fajitas with charred spring onions and Tex-Mex slaw
This crispy chicken fajitas recipe amps up the crunch, then adds contrast with a piquant pepper slaw and charred spring onions.
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Chicken breast
Best-of-the-best chicken kyiv
Our best chicken kyiv sees amped-up garlic butter surrounded by tender chicken and encased in super-crunchy breadcrumbs.
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Easy dinner party mains
Classic saltimbocca
Italian saltimbocca sees thin tender slices of veal wrapped in sage leaves and prosciutto and served with a white wine pan sauce.
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Creamy pasta
Chicken alfredo
Creamy and rich with a hint of garlic and dried herbs, this easy chicken alfredo pasta is the ultimate in Italian-American comfort food.
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Favourite lamb
Fusilli con ragù d’agnello (fusilli with lamb ragù)
For midweek pasta with a difference, try this fusilli dish from Italy's Molise region. The fusilli is paired with a rich, herby lamb ragù.
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Best-ever side dishes
Steamed aubergine in a peanut and chilli dressing
Steaming delivers silky soft aubergine batons, dressed in a Chinese-inspired combo of crispy chilli oil, vinegar and peanut butter.
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Gnocchi
Caramelised fennel gnocchi
Slowly caramelising fennel in the same way you would onions renders it sweet and tender – an easy yet tasty topping for shop-bought gnocchi.
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Fennel
Fennel tarte tatin
This fennel tarte tatin is a great vegetarian dinner or side for a roast. Fennel seeds temper the sweetness and goat’s cheese adds tang.
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Chicken thighs
Chicken thighs in a mustard, tarragon and grape pan sauce
The sauce is the star of this easy bistro dish, made using all those delicious brown bits from the bottom of the pan for buckets of flavour.
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Aubergine
Creamy gochujang aubergine noodles
This moreish aubergine noodle dish is based on the southern Italian pasta alla norma but we’ve given it a few Korean touches.
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