Homemade dressings and sauces
If you tend to buy shop-bought – stop right there. It’s so easy to make your own dressings and sauces like vinaigrettes, dips and mayonnaises – and you can easily adjust the flavours to suit your taste. We’ve also popped in a homemade butter, you could try that in your homemade hollandaise!
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Caribbean recipes
Green seasoning
Green seasoning is a Caribbean cooking staple. This mix of herbs, aromatics, salt and pepper is used for marinade, in sauces and stews.
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Classic sauce recipes
Homemade mayonnaise
Homemade mayo is a completely different beast to shop bought, as you'll discover when you make our ultimate mayonnaise recipe.
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Fermented food recipes
Fermented hot sauce
Learn how to make fermented hot sauce with James Read's easy recipe. All you need are chillies, salt, a sterlised jar... and time.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Green sauce
Make a big batch of this green herby sauce, store it in the freezer and you’ll be able to create delicious dishes at the drop of a hat.
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Tomato recipes
Homemade tomato ketchup
Have a go at making homemade ketchup with our easy recipe. Packed with tomatoes, it contains less sugar and salt than shop-bought ketchup.
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Easy vegan recipes
Homemade herby salsa
Use any soft herbs to make this zingy green salsa. Drizzle over everything from everything from breakfast eggs and grilled chicken to salads.
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Spicy recipes
Sambal
Sambal is a fragrant chilli paste used as a condiment primarily in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore – and has countless variations. Try making your own!
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April seasonal recipes
Wild garlic oil
This bright green oil captures the intensely garlicky, slightly grassy flavour of wild garlic and lasts months in the freezer.
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Favourite chicken recipes
Homemade chicken stock
This base recipe for brown chicken stock is endlessly versatile. Freeze, or use immediately to add bags of flavour to sauces, stews and soup.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Homemade crispy chilli oil
Make your own full-flavoured, in-your-face chilli oil. This crispy chilli oil has plenty of fire, spice and floral notes from Sichuan pepper.
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Indian side dishes
Green coriander chutney
Whizz up a batch of green coriander chutney in just 10 mins. This zingy fresh chutney has a chilli kick. Spoon it over fish or chicken.
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Classic sauce recipes
Rhubarb and beetroot ketchup
Ketchup doesn’t have to be made from tomatoes! The beetroot gives this ketchup recipe an earthy flavour and its sweetness works well with the rhubarb.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Classic mayonnaise
Our classic mayonnaise recipe is quick and easy and so much more rewarding than serving shop-bought. It uses a touch of mustard powder and vinegar.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Homemade butter
Got into making your own bread? Then do the double, and slather it with your own homemade butter. It just needs one ingredient - Jersey double cream.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Basil vinaigrette
You're just one step away from creating this herby dressing. Perfect on grilled fish, chicken or meat as well as tomato or new potato salads.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Mayonnaise
The only basic mayonnaise recipe you will need. Good quality ingredients make all the difference to this quick sauce, with tips from our expert food team
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