Budget-friendly dinners
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Budget-friendly dinners

Satisfying dinners built around economical staples such as rice, beans, lentils, pasta and potatoes.

Budget-friendly dinners

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Yakisoba Main
Main35 mins

Yakisoba

Yakisoba is a distinctive Japanese main rooted in twentieth-century festival and street food, celebrated for wheat nood…

Sundubu-jjigae Main
Main37 mins

Sundubu-jjigae

Sundubu-jjigae is a fiery Korean soft-tofu stew with pork, clams and egg in a red chilli broth. This version uses measu…

Nam Tok Moo Main
Main40 mins

Nam Tok Moo

Nam Tok Moo is grilled pork salad with lime, fish sauce, chilli, herbs and toasted rice powder.

Tiroler Gröstl Main
Main40 mins

Tiroler Gröstl

Crisp fried potatoes with beef, onion and bacon, topped with a fried egg.

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina Main
Main45 mins

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina

Sorrento and Campania. It is famous for delivering the flavours of Campania in a particularly comforting form: soft gno…

Milanesa Napolitana Main
Main45 mins

Milanesa Napolitana

Breaded beef topped with tomato, ham and melted mozzarella, usually served with chips.

Shiro Wat Main
Main45 mins

Shiro Wat

Shiro Wat is a smooth Ethiopian chickpea-flour stew seasoned with onion, garlic and berbere, one of the essential every…

Kumara and Chickpea Patties Main
Main45 mins

Kumara and Chickpea Patties

Crisp patties combining sweet kūmara, chickpeas, herbs and warm spices define this New Zealand main course, Kumara and…

Saba Shioyaki Main
Main47 mins

Saba Shioyaki

Saba Shioyaki is a distinctive Japanese main rooted in Japanese everyday fish cookery, celebrated for mackerel, salt an…

Aloo Gobi Main
Main50 mins

Aloo Gobi

Aloo Gobi is a distinctive Indian main rooted in North Indian vegetarian cooking, celebrated for potato, cauliflower, t…

Curried Sausages Main
Main50 mins

Curried Sausages

Sausages simmered with onion, apple and mild curry gravy, usually served with mashed potato.

Tuna Mornay Main
Main50 mins

Tuna Mornay

Tuna and pasta or rice baked in creamy cheese sauce beneath a golden crumb.

Krautfleckerl Main
Main50 mins

Krautfleckerl

Small pasta squares tossed with slowly caramelised cabbage, onion and caraway.

Kimchi Jjigae Main
Main50 mins

Kimchi Jjigae

Kimchi Jjigae is a bubbling Korean stew of well-fermented kimchi, pork, tofu and chilli, designed to be eaten with plai…

Dakgalbi Main
Main50 mins

Dakgalbi

Dakgalbi is spicy stir-fried chicken with sweet potato, cabbage and rice cakes coated in a gochujang-gochugaru sauce. T…