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.
- Hashweh: Lebanese spiced rice with lamb and toasted almonds: A Lebanese celebration rice cooked with lamb mince, cinnamon and allspice, crowned with toasted almonds and served with a cool yoghurt and c...
- Homemade chicken noodle soup: Gently poached chicken, carrot and leek in a clear, comforting broth, with soft noodles added to each bowl. The one to make when anyone's fe...
- Homemade chicken nuggets and chips: Crunchy golden nuggets made from chicken mince, with proper homemade chips and peas.
- Homemade lamb doner kebabs: A Friday-night takeaway rebuilt: a spiced lamb loaf baked then sliced thin and crisped up, stuffed into warm pittas with salad, garlic yoghu...
- Homemade naan night with spiced chickpeas: Soft, yeast-free naan cooked in a frying pan, with garlicky butter, spiced chickpeas and cooling raita. A fun build-your-own supper.
- Homemade sausage rolls with beans: Big, flaky sausage rolls straight from the oven with a pan of hot beans on the side. Teatime the way most of us grew up with it.
- Honey and mustard sausage traybake: Sausages, new potatoes, red onions and carrots roasted together in one tin with a sticky honey-mustard glaze. Minimal washing up, maximum fl...
- Hot dogs: Tinned hot dogs in soft rolls, with ketchup, mustard and fried onions to add.
- Hot roast beef rolls with onion gravy: Warm sliced leftover beef piled into soft rolls with sweet onion gravy.
- Huevos rancheros with refried black beans: Mexico's ranch-style eggs made into a hearty dinner: crisp corn tortillas, garlicky refried beans, fried eggs and a smoky tomato sauce, with...
- Hungarian beef goulash: A deep red, paprika-rich beef and potato stew from Hungary, slow-simmered until the meat falls apart. A dollop of soured cream on top is the...
- Hungarian mushroom and butter bean paprikash: Mushrooms and butter beans in a sweet paprika and soured cream sauce, served Hungarian-style with little homemade egg dumplings (nokedli).
- Hünkar beğendi: Turkish lamb stew on smoky aubergine mash: A slow tomato and pepper lamb stew spooned over a silky, smoky aubergine and cheese purée. Its name means "the sultan liked it", and it is a...
- Hunter's chicken with chips and peas: A pub-menu favourite: chicken breasts wrapped in smoky bacon, baked in BBQ sauce and topped with melted cheese.
- Imam bayildi with chickpea bulgur pilaf: The name means 'the imam fainted', supposedly at how good it was. Whole aubergines baked until meltingly soft, stuffed with sweet onion and...
- Indonesian beef rendang: A rich, slow-cooked dry curry from West Sumatra, where the beef simmers in coconut milk and spices until the sauce almost disappears and cli...
- Indonesian sweet soy tempeh with green beans: Tempe manis: crisp-fried tempeh and green beans tossed in sticky, sweet kecap manis with shallots, ginger and chilli. Tempeh is Indonesia's...
- Irish stew: Lamb, potatoes and carrots simmered in a light, fragrant broth, simple and warming.
- Ital stew: Jamaican squash and kidney bean stew: Rastafarian Ital cooking is all about fresh, plant-based food. This golden coconut stew of squash, carrots and beans is scented with thyme a...
- Jacket potato bar: Big fluffy baked potatoes with a table of toppings: butter, cheese, beans, tuna mayo and more.
- Jacket potatoes with beans and cheese: Crisp-skinned baked potatoes with butter, baked beans and melting cheese. Cheap, filling and endlessly customisable.
- Jacket potatoes with tuna mayo and sweetcorn: Crisp-skinned baked potatoes with fluffy middles, piled with tuna mayo and sweetcorn, with a bit of grated cheese and salad on the side.
- Jamaican brown stew chicken with rice and peas: Chicken browned in caramelised sugar, then stewed with thyme, allspice, peppers and a whole Scotch bonnet into a rich, dark gravy. A Sunday...
- Jamaican curried lamb with rice and peas: Jamaica's Sunday-best curry, made here with lamb, though goat (or mutton) is the traditional meat if your butcher has it. Slow-cooked with a...