Batch Cooking Recipes
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Batch Cooking Recipes
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Batch cooking is a fantastic way of ensuring a healthier and cheaper way of eating. It involves preparing all of your meals for the week, or even the month, in one go. This means that you have healthy meals available to hand after a long day at work, rather than reaching for a supermarket ready-meal or a takeaway for you and your family. Planning your food also means you waste less produce, since you use up all of the ingredients that you bought for a specific recipe, rather than odd ingredients here and there, bought for individual meals.
The use of the freezer is very helpful when batch cooking, in order to maintain variety in meals and enable as much forward planning as possible. Some recipes, like pies and lasagnes, can be taken up to the step before placing it in the oven, and then frozen, to be cooked through when needed. Other recipes, like curries and stews, should be cooked all the way through, cooled completely, and then frozen, to be re-heated when needed.
BATCH COOKING TIPS:
• Freezing things in individual portions can be very useful if you are cooking for 1 or 2 more frequently.
• Check the freezing times for individual ingredients.
• Vegetarian recipes will keep longer than recipes containing meat.
• Re-usable food bags allow for more efficient storage opportunity than freezer-safe boxes. Just try to freeze the full bags flat so they can be stacked neatly.
• Get rid of the air in reusable food bags before sealing to create more space in your freezer.
• Scale up the recipe if you can so you have lots of portions.
• Think about the re-heating of food and if an ingredient is supposed to be eaten cold, then don’t add this to the recipe until you’re ready to serve.
• Label everything clearly as all meals starts to look the same when frozen!
• If you have a big enough freezer, freeze things like lasagnes in a freezer-safe oven proof dish, to make it easier to reheat.
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Mixed Bean Stew with Salsa Verde
This warming stew is packed full of flavour, with a hearty base and fresh salsa verde topping. If you can’t find mixed beans, use any other tinned or combination of tinned of beans you like.
Recipe: Mixed Bean Stew with Salsa Verde
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Lime and Coriander Fish Cakes
These salmon and prawn fishcakes are zesty and fragrant in equal measure. You could swap the salmon for another meaty fish such as cod.
Recipe: Lime and Coriander Fish Cakes
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Rösti-Topped Fish Pie
Use any sustainably sourced fish you fancy in this crispy golden pie.
Recipe: Rösti-Topped Fish Pie
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Fragrant Lamb and Chickpea Stew with Spiced Flatbreads
If you like things a little more fiery, add a finely chopped red chilli to your stew along with the garlic and spices.
Recipe: Fragrant Lamb and Chickpea Stew with Spiced Flatbreads
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Smokey Vegan Porcini 'Meatballs' and Creamy Mash
Flaxseed is the secret to these protein-packed black bean and mushroom 'meatballs' – it helps bind and keep them moist in the absence of meat, eggs or cheese.
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Stromboli
The whole family will enjoy these rolled pizza breads, crammed full of flavour and oozing with cheesiness. If you’re cooking for veggies, omit the mortadella and pepperoni and make sure to use vegetarian mozzarella.
Recipe: Stromboli
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Haddock and Tomato Casserole
Recipe: Haddock and Tomato Casserole
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Moroccan Chicken Casserole
Recipe: Moroccan Chicken Casserole
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Chicken Tarragon
Recipe: Chicken Tarragon
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Chicken Molé
Recipe: Chicken Molé
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Chicken Casserole
Recipe: Chicken Casserole
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Chilli Con Carne
Recipe: Chilli Con Carne
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Vegetable Tagine
Recipe: Vegetable Tagine
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Creamy Seafood Lasagne
Recipe: Creamy Seafood Lasagne
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Slow Cooker Lamb Tagine
Recipe: Slow Cooker Lamb Tagine
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Shepherd's Pie
Recipe: Shepherd's Pie
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Vegan Samosa Pie
Recipe: Vegan Samosa Pie
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Turkey and Mash Pie
Recipe: Turkey and Mash Pie
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Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie
Recipe: Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie
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Mutter Paneer Vegetarian Curry
Recipe: Mutter Paneer Vegetarian Curry
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Aubergine, Chickpea and Sweet Potato Curry
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Vegan Korma Curry
Recipe: Vegan Korma Curry
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Keralan-Style Prawn and Coconut Curry
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Cock-a-leekie Pie
Recipe: Cock-a-leekie Pie
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Persian-Inspired Lamb Stew
Recipe: Persian-Inspired Lamb Stew
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Lamb Curry with Butternut Squash and Spinach
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Cardamom Butter Chicken
Recipe: Cardamom Butter Chicken
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Black Bean Cottage Pie
Recipe: Black Bean Cottage Pie
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Spanish Chicken
Recipe: Spanish Chicken
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Greek-Inspired Lamb Stew
Recipe: Greek-Inspired Lamb Stew
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Lancashire Lamb Hotpot
Recipe: Lancashire Lamb Hotpot
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Sausage and Fennel Lasagne
Recipe: Sausage and Fennel Lasagne
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Spaghetti Bolognese
Recipe: Spaghetti Bolognese
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Roasted Vegetable Lasagne
Recipe: Roasted Vegetable Lasagne
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