Easy dinner recipes and ideas
Make satisfying meals with 100+Â 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.
These easy dinner recipes are good value, too. 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 goes a long way. And simple doesn’t need to mean boring: find a super orzo carbonara, miso-roast chicken thighs and quick spinach and egg pizzas.
If your party is small, find 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.
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Midweek meal recipes
Herby haddock with salt and vinegar mash and curry mayo
This quick fish dinner has serious chip shop vibes. The mash tastes exactly like a perfect bag of chips, soggy...
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Quick midweek meals
Chicken thighs with curried leeks and lentils
This comforting bowl of creamy curried lentils, soft sweet leeks and juicy chicken thighs is just what you need on...
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Turkey recipes
Turkey schnitzel with cranberry ketchup
Weeknight dinners can be festive too! Dish up golden turkey schnitzels with old-school Russian salad and a tangy cranberry ketchup...
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Sweet potato recipes
Loaded sweet potatoes with sardines and cheese
This easy midweek meal is a delicious mismatch of some of our favourite ingredients – yet it works. The melt-in-the-mouth,...
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Lentil recipes
Parsnip, carrot and red lentil dal
Sweet root vegetables give a twist on coconut dal in this simple vegan supper. Parsnips and carrots are cooked with...
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Recipes with kimchi
Kimchi chicken noodle bowl
These noodles are by no means authentic, but there’s something about spicy, sour kimchi that works really well with cheese....
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Easy orzo recipes
Porcini orzotto
Packed with flavour but lighter than a regular risotto, this easy ‘orzotto’ switches out rice for orzo pasta and uses...
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Easy dinner recipes and ideas
Chicken, bean and orzo soup with walnut pesto
This hearty chicken and bean soup from food writer Debora Robertson is packed with nuggets of filling orzo pasta. Finish...
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Beetroot recipes
Beetroot and brie buckwheat galettes
Buckwheat galettes are a northern French stalwart: speedy to make, deliciously savoury and ready for any filling you throw at...
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Chicken thigh recipes
Chicken provençal with sticky garlic potatoes
This simple chicken provençal recipe hails from the south of France and is the ultimate minimal effort, maximum flavour meal....
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Air fryer recipes
Air fryer sausage and pepper stew
If you’ve never made sausages in the air fryer, we implore you to try it! They become perfectly browned (like...
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Air fryer recipes
Air fryer quiche
Air fryers can be used for so much more than just chips and chicken wings – as this air-fried quiche...
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30-minute meal recipes
Best pesto pasta
As far removed from any jarred pesto as you can get, this is the pesto pasta you wish you had...
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August seasonal recipes
Braised chicken with a runner bean fricassée
This is a simple and summery chicken dish which makes great use of seasonal produce (and plenty of garlic). Runner...
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Garlic recipes
Ajo blanco
Also known as white gazpacho, this southern Spanish chilled soup combines sweet grapes, creamy almonds and bread to create a...
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30-minute meal recipes
Steak, egg and sweet potato wedges with spicy bearnaise sauce
It’s hard to beat steak, egg and chips when you’re after a treat that’s quick to cook. Mix things up...
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