Pantry dinners
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Pantry dinners

Reliable meals built from ingredients many cooks already keep in the cupboard.

Pantry dinners

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Pad Pak Boong Fai Daeng Main
Main20 mins

Pad Pak Boong Fai Daeng

Pad Pak Boong Fai Daeng is water spinach flash-fried over fierce heat with garlic, chilli and fermented bean sauce.

Risotto Main
Main25 mins

Risotto

Northern Italy, especially Lombardy and Veneto. Risotto is famous for a texture that is creamy without needing large qu…

Gyudon Main
Main25 mins

Gyudon

Gyudon is a distinctive Japanese main rooted in late nineteenth-century urban Japan, celebrated for thin beef, onion, s…

Kaisen Don Main
Main25 mins

Kaisen Don

Kaisen Don is a distinctive Japanese main rooted in coastal fish markets and sushi culture, celebrated for sashimi arra…

Pad Krapow Moo Main
Main25 mins

Pad Krapow Moo

Pad Krapow Moo is fast-fried minced pork with holy basil, garlic and chilli, usually served with rice and a fried egg.

Oyakodon Main
Main30 mins

Oyakodon

Oyakodon is a distinctive Japanese main rooted in Tokyo donburi restaurants, celebrated for chicken and egg simmered wi…

Pad See Ew Main
Main30 mins

Pad See Ew

Pad See Ew is wide rice noodles stir-fried with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli.

Nasi Goreng Kampung Main
Main32 mins

Nasi Goreng Kampung

Nasi Goreng Kampung is a distinctive Indonesian main rooted in Indonesian home cooking, celebrated for rice, sweet soy,…

Tasmanian Salmon Main
Main33 mins

Tasmanian Salmon

Simply roasted or pan-seared Tasmanian salmon with crisp skin, lemon and seasonal vegetables.

Cacio e Pepe Main
Main35 mins

Cacio e Pepe

Rome and Lazio. It is famous because the ingredient list is extremely short but the technique is unforgiving.

Trofie al Pesto Genovese Main
Main35 mins

Trofie al Pesto Genovese

Genoa and Liguria. It is famous for the perfume of fresh basil and the creamy-looking emulsion produced without cooking…

Chicken Teriyaki Main
Main35 mins

Chicken Teriyaki

Chicken Teriyaki is a distinctive Japanese main rooted in Japanese glaze-and-grill techniques, celebrated for chicken,…

Yakisoba Main
Main35 mins

Yakisoba

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

Mince on Toast Main
Main35 mins

Mince on Toast

This New Zealand main course brings together savoury minced beef in thick gravy spooned over crisp toast.

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.

Psari Plaki Main
Main45 mins

Psari Plaki

Psari Plaki is a distinctive Greek recipe known for fish baked gently with tomatoes, onions, garlic and herbs.

Tom Kha Gai Main
Main45 mins

Tom Kha Gai

Tom Kha Gai is coconut chicken soup perfumed with galangal, lemongrass and makrut lime.

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…