What to make with your box contents w/c 19 January

Be creative and don’t be afraid to adapt the recipes to suit what you have in your fridge and store cupboard. Recipes based on a medium box.

Minestrone soup

Total time: 30 mins – 1 hour

Serves 4

This budget minestrone is the classic Italian soup made with cannellini beans and broken up spaghetti. Feel free to stir in extra vegetables, depending on what you have in the fridge. This is designed to be a low cost recipe.

Recipe Source: BBC Good Food find the recipe here

Butternut squash curry

Total time: 1 hour

Serves 4

This easy butternut squash curry will be a hit with the family and is easily adaptable with the addition of extra veg

Recipe Source: Olive, find the recipe here

Vegetarian chilli con carne

Total time: 30 mins

Serves 4

A delicious, quick and easy meal that all the family will enjoy. If you want a meaty version just replace quorn with 500G mince beef.
Recipe Source: BBC Good Food, find the recipe here

Chicken, bacon and mushroom pie

Total time: 1 hour 15 mins approx

Serves 1

Buttery, flaky and crisp on the outside, with a hint of delicious goo from where it’s slurped up a bit juice from the filling, a really good pie can stun a whole table into silence.

Recipe Source: Great British Chefs,  find the recipe here

Steak and sweet potato skillet

Total time: 45 mins

Serves 4

Steak and sweet potato skillet made in just 25 minutes with just 10 simple ingredients. Tossed in a smokey chipotle sauce to bring it all together for an easy and healthy one-pan dinner recipe. It’s packed with protein, complex carbs and veggies and is paleo, gluten-free, and Whole30.

Recipe Source: Eat the Gains,  find the recipe here

Leek and mushroom crumble

Total time: 1 hour

Serves 4

Whip up this quick loaf to go with soup, makes a small loaf.

Recipe Source: The Guardian,  find the recipe here (scroll down)

Ginger, mango and lime trifle

Total time: Less than 30 mins

Serves 2

Add some zing (and a dash of rum!) to your Jamaican ginger cake and mango trifle.

Recipe source: BBC, find the recipe here