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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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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Easy orzo recipes
One-pot harissa meatball orzo
This one-pot harissa orzo is turned into a comfort food winner with lamb meatballs and melty mozzarella. Try it tonight.
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Gnocchi recipes
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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Aubergine recipes
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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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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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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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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Weekly pasta recipes
Aubergine, ricotta and ’nduja paccheri
Fiery ’nduja and creamy ricotta are natural companions for meltingly tender roasted aubergine in this baked pasta dish.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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