Selin Kiazim’s recipe for butter beans, paprika and piquillo peppers
Simple, quick and bursting with flavour, you’ll find most of this dish’s ingredients in your store cupboardThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullI love this recipe and others of its kind because...
View ArticleMeera Sodha’s recipe for moong dal with a garlic and cumin tarka
An unassuming but gorgeous dal, this is nourishing, cheap and comforting home cookingThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis is an unassuming but gorgeous dal and one of my favourite lentil...
View ArticleClaudia Roden’s recipe for pan-grilled fish with garlic, vinegar and chilli
This simple fish dish is fabulous, and for a quick store-cupboard side serve with white cannellini beansThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis simple fish dish is fabulous. In Spain, I would eat...
View ArticleMeera Sodha’s recipe for moong dal with a garlic and cumin tarka
An unassuming but gorgeous dal, this is nourishing, cheap and comforting home cookingThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis is an unassuming but gorgeous dal and one of my favourite lentil...
View ArticleHsi jet khauk swe – garlic oil noodles recipe by Amy Chung and Emily Chung
You can use any leftover roast meat instead of the pork belly for this perfect midweek mealThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis is a really simple dish, perfect for midweek, and it doesn’t...
View ArticleQuick chicken, leek and chorizo pie recipe by Rukmini Iyer
A tasty pie that can be put together in no time, this will impress guests for a low-key midweek dinnerThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis chicken pie went through several elaborate variations...
View ArticleEating out is an indulgence – so is putting calorie counts on menus doomed to...
Yes, we need to do something about obesity. But this new legislation seems unlikely to helpEverything I am, I owe to calories, as Sophia Loren never quite said. I have built myself, one edible unit of...
View ArticleMy dream butchers opened at the end of the street. Why haven’t I been in yet?
The staff look more like bartenders than the butchers of my childhood. One day, I’ll pluck up the courage…First, the whole foods store shrank to half its previous size, then, in the premises it had...
View ArticleStacey Dooley: ‘I'm middle class now. I never used to eat olives’
The broadcaster on her childhood diet of Peperami, Pot Noodle and Pop-Tarts, eating Hobnobs for Strictly – and being useless in the kitchenIn my childhood, it was the three Ps: Pop-Tarts, Peperami, Pot...
View Article50 things we love in the world of food right now
Miso spaghetti and chorizo sausage rolls, Colombian brunch and a little restaurant in Venice, oysters from Somerset and filo pastries on Instagram: presenting Observer Food Monthly’s food favourites...
View ArticlePotato pie, mushroom stroganoff: Joe Woodhouse’s vegetarian recipes
‘My food is healthy but realistic’: the chef turned photographer shares dishes from his debut cookbook Your Daily Veg, including creamed corn, soft-boiled egg and garlic chilli crispWhen he was a...
View ArticleLopè Ariyo’s secret ingredient: uda pods
The cookery writer on the musky spice her grandmother brings her from Nigeria, and how she uses it in her scotch bonnet jamUda looks like a much thicker vanilla pod but instead of micro-seeds inside...
View ArticleHow vermouth got cool (after being naff, kitsch and then retro…)
The infusion of botanicals makes this the perfect post-gin boom drink – and there are some great small-batch producers to choose fromIt was only a matter of time before vermouth became fashionable...
View ArticleWelcome to February’s Observer Food Monthly
It’s the return of our list of 50 people, place and trends that we love, and Stacey Dooley tells us about her childhood food favouritesThe food and hospitality industry has had a tough time of late,...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s fish recipes to make a little go a long way
Crab toast, mussels and leaves, a comforting smoked haddock gratin – head to the fish counter as winter turns to springI enter the fishmongers with an open mind rather than a shopping list. There may...
View ArticleCumin butter tomato sauce recipe for noodles by Anja Dunk
A rich buttery sauce that takes minutes to prepare, after which the oven does all the workThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis sauce is a dream, made up of all my favourite things. As a child,...
View ArticleFregola with bacon and peas recipe by Rosie Sykes
A soupy dish made with the Sardinian pasta, plus peas and bacon, makes this a comforting weekend supperThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullFregola is a bobbly Sardinian pasta that I really like,...
View ArticleYasmin Khan’s recipe for lentils with preserved lemons and zhoug
Inspired by a conversation with a Yemeni refugee in Lesbos, this flavoursome dish is satisfying and comfortingThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThe inspiration for this recipe came from a...
View ArticleJoe Trivelli’s savoy pancakes recipe
Potatoes, cabbage, eggs, cheese – store-cupboard essentials combined to make a British classic with an Italian twistThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullAll of the joy I associate with bubble and...
View ArticleCumin butter tomato sauce recipe for noodles by Anja Dunk
A rich buttery sauce that takes minutes to prepare, after which the oven does all the workThe 20 best easy dinner recipes – in fullThis sauce is a dream, made up of all my favourite things. As a child,...
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