Weeknight recipes
Get a delicious dinner on the table in next to no time with these easy weeknight recipes. Our best recipes for busy weeknights include noodles, pasta, speedy chicken dinners and dozens more family favourites.
Let the oven take the strain with minimal-prep pasta bakes or a healthy salmon traybake. Our weeknight chicken dinner ideas include Marmite chicken thighs and a quick chicken and mango curry . If you’ve got an air fryer, try this speedy macaroni cheese or air fryer meatballs with crispy potatoes. Throw together a healthy stir fry or indulge with comforting creamy pasta and hearty meatballs.
We’ve included plenty of vegetarian and vegan ideas, too. Whatever you’re in the mood for this week, plan your menu with our weeknight dinner ideas…
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Favourite lamb recipes
Lamb chops with chermoula and giant couscous
Treat yourself to a springtime lamb chop dinner. This giant couscous salad is packed with sun-dried tomatoes and olives, topped...
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30-minute meal recipes
Walnut and four-herb pesto pasta
Use our fabulous, freeze-ahead easy green sauce to make this delicious walnut pesto pasta in a flash. A great speedy...
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Creamy pork recipes
Creamy green skillet pork medallions
This easy creamy pork recipe is perfect when you want something special in a hurry. Golden pork medallions nestle in...
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Healthy fish recipes
Baked hake with green rice
Brush hake fillets with a slick of punchy harissa, then serve the flaky white fish on top of herby green...
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Weekly pasta recipes
Tuna puttanesca ragù
This tuna pasta isn’t your usual. Puttanesca is usually a fresh and zingy dish, but whizzing up the olives and...
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Chicken thigh recipes
Olive-brined chicken with dried apricots and garlic
Olive-brined chicken is a minimal-effort dish but the marinating is key – you have to give the chicken enough time...
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'Nduja recipes
’Nduja risotto with burnt lemon honey
This simple fiery ’nduja risotto is brought to life with a bittersweet charred lemon honey. It’s interesting, unusual and addictive!...
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Steak recipes
Peppered steak and charred radish salad
Steak and pepper is a match made in heaven – and this salad takes the combo to the next level...
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Pressure cooker recipes
Pressure cooker pea, mint and parmesan risotto
Silky risotto in 20 minutes?! You heard us right. Pressure cookers cook grains super quickly, saving you time and energy....
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Favourite warm salad recipes
Artichoke and barley salad with soft-boiled eggs
Combining hot and cold ingredients creates a robust warm salad, perfect for spring. Charred artichokes form the base of the...
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Chilli recipes
Indo-Chinese soya chilli
Chef Aktar Islam loves to make this flavour-packed vegan chilli at home. The Indo-Chinese chilli is made with soya chunks,...
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Chicken breast recipes
Perfect pan-fried chicken breasts
Pan-fried chicken breasts in a speedy yet devastatingly delicious sauce are the perfect starting point for a million different meals....
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Baked potato recipes
Chilli crab jacket potatoes
Combine the spice and fragrance of Singapore chilli crab with the simple charm of a baked potato for a weeknight...
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Pork chop recipes
Pork chops with preserved-lemon butter beans
Preserved lemon gives the classic combo of pork chops and beans a hit of tart, salty umami. Then, the simple...
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Healthy chicken recipes
Green chicken and lentils
Whizzed up watercress, spinach and dill provide a verdant green sauce for crispy skin chicken thighs, nutty lentils and charred...
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Tofu recipes
Balsamic tofu gnocchi
Gnocchi isn’t just for Italian dishes. Balsamic vinegar, soy sauce and maple syrup give the potato dumplings, crispy tofu, and...
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