Family recipes
Free family recipes, from weeknight fakeaways to Sunday roasts and proper puddings: each with the full method, and how to adjust it for vegetarians, allergies and fussy eaters.
- Crumpet pizzas: Toasted crumpets spread with tomato, piled with cheese and grilled until bubbling. All the fun of pizza in about ten minutes, and the holes...
- Cuban black beans and rice with fried plantain: Smoky, garlicky black beans simmered with peppers, cumin and oregano and spooned over rice, as eaten in homes across Cuba. Sweet fried plant...
- Cullen skink smoked haddock soup: A thick, creamy smoked haddock and potato soup from the fishing village of Cullen on Scotland's north-east coast. Simple, warming and fillin...
- Dak galbi: Korean spicy chicken with sweet potato and cabbage: A big, bubbling pan of gochujang-marinated chicken stir-fried with sweet potato, cabbage and onion, loved in the Korean city of Chuncheon. I...
- Dan dan noodles with crispy pork: Chewy noodles in a nutty, savoury sesame and chilli sauce, topped with crispy fried pork mince and greens. A Sichuan street-food classic wit...
- Danish fishcakes with remoulade and dill potatoes: Fiskefrikadeller are soft, light Danish fishcakes made from blitzed white fish. Serve with a tangy curried remoulade, buttery new potatoes a...
- Doro wat-style Ethiopian chicken and egg stew: Inspired by Ethiopia's celebration stew: chicken and whole eggs cooked in a rich, spiced onion sauce. A mild pan made alongside without the...
- Easy chicken and prawn paella: A big one-pan rice supper with turmeric, paprika, juicy chicken and prawns.
- Easy tomato soup with cheese toasties: A big pan of smooth tomato soup with crunchy cheese toasties for dunking. Good all year round.
- Easy vegetable lasagne: Layers of roasted veg and tomato sauce with creamy white sauce and melted cheese. A proper family lasagne that happens to be vegetarian.
- Egg and chips: Oven chips, a couple of fried eggs each and a plate of bread and butter for dipping. Simple, cheap and always good.
- Egg fried rice with peas: The best use of leftover rice: crispy, savoury and ready in 15 minutes. Needs cold, properly chilled cooked rice from yesterday.
- Ethiopian beef tibs with peppers: Quick-sizzled strips of beef with onions, peppers, tomato and berbere spice butter, an everyday Ethiopian favourite. Serve with rice and war...
- Faggots with mash, peas and onion gravy: Shop-bought faggots baked in a rich homemade onion gravy, with fluffy mash and a heap of peas. A proper Midlands-and-Wales budget supper.
- Fakeaway crispy chilli beef: A takeaway favourite made at home: crisp-coated strips of beef tossed in a sticky sweet chilli glaze with peppers, served with fluffy rice.
- Family lasagne with a spare tray for the freezer: Cook one rich beef lasagne for tonight and one to freeze for a busy week. Both come from the same pan of ragù.
- Fårikål: Norwegian lamb and cabbage stew: Norway's national dish: layers of lamb and cabbage gently stewed with whole black peppercorns until tender and sweet. Only a handful of ingr...
- Feijoada: Brazilian black bean and pork stew: Brazil's great Saturday feast: black beans slowly simmered with pork shoulder, bacon and smoky sausage until thick and rich. Served the trad...
- Filipino pork menudo: A homely Filipino tomato stew of pork, potatoes, carrots and peppers, with a few raisins for sweetness. Mild, hearty and the sort of thing t...
- Fish and chips at home: Crisp breadcrumb-coated cod and chunky oven chips with mushy peas. All the chippy joy, a lot less grease.
- Fish finger sandwiches: Crispy fish fingers in soft bread with ketchup or mayo.
- Fish finger wraps: Crispy fish fingers rolled up in a soft wrap with crunchy lettuce and a ketchup mayo sauce.
- Fish fingers, chips and beans: Fish fingers, oven chips and beans, straight from the freezer and the cupboard. Nobody has ever complained.
- Fish pie with a cheesy mash top: Cod, smoked haddock and salmon in a gentle parsley sauce, topped with golden mash.