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Easy dinner recipes and ideas

Make satisfying meals with 100+ quick and easy dinner recipe ideas. Get out of a midweek dinner rut with fresh ideas for pasta, rice, speedy chicken suppers, quick fish dishes and plenty of meat-free ideas. When dinner is needed fast, these are the recipes you need in your repertoire.

Favourites of ours include our ever-popular saucy romesco chicken (try it!). There’s oozing orzo carbonara, and a satisfying lamb meatball traybake too. Whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll find something to enjoy.

These easy dinner recipes are good value. We love them because they’re purse-friendly and so simple to make. Think thrifty cuts like chicken thighs, meatballs and sausages, where a little meat goes a long way. And simple doesn’t need to mean boring. Our super orzo carbonara, miso-roast chicken thighs and quick spinach and egg pizzas are proof of that. Have a browse and select a few new meals to cook this week, you’ll be glad you changed things up on your menu, we promise.

If your party is small, check out our dinner ideas for two. Having guests over? Take a look at our easy dinner party mains too, for something a bit more special but still stress-free to serve up.

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Camembert recipes

Baked camembert with harissa honey

Oozy, gooey cheese drizzled with a fiery, sweet topping; this easy baked camembert with honey recipe is perfect for entertaining.

Gluten-free Vegetarian

Easy

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Baking recipes

Easy banoffee sheet tart

Banoffee pie gets a glow-up in this simple tart recipe. Perfect for a mid-morning treat with a cuppa or an after-dinner dessert.

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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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Tomato pasta recipes

Pasta pomodoro

Pasta pomodoro is the original – and best – tomato pasta. This recipe is quick and easy but uses a few tricks to really amp up the flavour.

Vegetarian

Easy

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Italian pasta recipes

Classic pasta puttanesca

One of the most famous classic pasta dishes of all time, pasta puttanesca includes anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and tomatoes.

Dairy-free

Easy

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Ricotta cheese recipes

Baked ricotta with cherry tomatoes, chilli and sesame

Looking for an effortless summer supper recipe? Try this golden cloud of baked ricotta topped with a sweet-sharp chilli tomato dressing.

Gluten-free Vegetarian

Easy

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Easy vegan recipes

Smacked cucumber, tempeh and peanut salad

Crunchy peanuts are the ideal partner for equally nutty tempeh in a protein-packed smacked cucumber salad that’s light, fresh and speedy.

Dairy-free Vegan

Easy

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Fennel recipes

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.

Vegetarian

Medium

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Chicken thigh recipes

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.

Gluten-free

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Lamb curry recipes

Atul Kochhar’s lamb pepper fry

Atul Kochhar's Keralan lamb pepper fry is flavoured with curry leaves, cloves and plenty of black pepper. It's ready in just 30 minutes.

Dairy-free Gluten-free

Easy

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Quick and easy pork recipes

Michel Roux Jr’s pork steaks with summer vegetables

This summer-ready dish by Michel Roux Jr makes a hero of pork steaks, cooked simply alongside asparagus, courgettes and tomatoes.

Gluten-free

Easy

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Tomato pasta recipes

Anelli alla vodka (vodka spaghetti hoops)

This is spaghetti hoops – but for grown-ups! Far superior to the sickly-sweet tinned stuff, this is a twist on the penne alla vodka popular in Italian-American restaurants.

Vegetarian