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Midweek meal recipes

Worked late? Need something not too challenging? Our choice of midweek meal recipes is what we like to cook on busy weekdays. They’re speedy, satisfying and easy to make. If you’re looking for weeknight dinner inspiration and bored of the same meals on rotation, you’re in the right place. Discover air fryer sausage stew, easy pasta dishes, speedy one-tray roasts and simple fishcakes. Whether you’re on the hunt for chicken dinners for weeknights, new ways with your jacket potatoes, or vegetarian recipes to please the whole family, we’ve got stacks of ideas for you. Our aim here is to offer up midweek meal recipes that won’t take hours to make or leave you with a tonne of dishes to wash up. And everyday dinners don’t need to be boring. Whether you’re a confident cook or a relative newbie, these weeknight dinner recipes have all been developed to fit into your busy routine, but still deliver big-time on flavour.

Dashing out the door or too exhausted to linger in the kitchen? Try dinner inspiration in 20 minutes. Trying to make healthy choices? You’ll love our healthy family dinners.

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Sea bass recipes

Sea bass with pistachios, pine nuts and sun-dried tomatoes

Top sea bass fillets with a pistachio and sun-dried tomato crumb, and serve with discs of golden potatoes in this healthy dinner recipe.

Dairy-free Gluten-free

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Budget pasta recipes

Bigoli in salsa (caramelised onion and anchovy pasta)

Bigoli in salsa is a classic Venetian dish: thick pasta strands with a rich sauce of caramelised onions and anchovies. Simple yet luxurious.

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Healthy fish recipes

Vietnamese rice paper pizzas with eggs, spinach and sardines

Rice paper pizzas are a popular street food in Vietnam. Uyen Luu loads them with eggs, sardines and spinach and drizzles with garlic butter.

Dairy-free Gluten-free

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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

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Celeriac recipes

Celeriac schnitzels with brown butter, tomato and caper sauce

Classic schnitzel gets a vegetarian makeover. Roasted celeriac slices are drenched in seasoned buttermilk, breaded and fried until golden.

Vegetarian

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Courgette recipes

Tamarind chickpea stuffed courgettes

Roasting these stuffed courgettes enhances their sweetness. Tamarind and lime add brightness to the creamy chickpeas in this easy dish.

Gluten-free Vegetarian

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Courgette recipes

Smoky courgette and ricotta pasta

This smoky, creamy and lemony courgette sauce is incredibly versatile. Perfect folded through pasta, but it also works as a dip or spread.

Vegetarian

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30-minute meal recipes

Creamy mushroom egg yolk pasta

Adding an egg yolk to the centre of this rich mushroom pasta makes the most luxurious, silky sauce you could imagine – and stirring it in at the table feels oh-so sophisticated.

Vegetarian

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30-minute meal recipes

Orecchiette with burrata, chilli and anchovy

This easy Puglian-inspired pasta combines two of the region’s most famous products – creamy burrata cheese and orecchiette pasta. One to make when you want to impress without spending ages in the kitchen.

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Recipes with tinned beans

Butter bean cacio e pepe

Cacio e pepe is one of those classic pasta dishes that combines just a couple of ingredients but results in a meal that's so much greater than the sum of its parts. Here, we've added creamy butter beans for extra fibre and goodness.

Vegetarian