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This easy Mediterranean chicken recipe is a great meal to have bubbling away on the stove for a simple supper with friends or a family-friendly mid-week meal. This is designed to be a low cost recipe.

This recipe is perfect for batch cooking, cook the chicken sauce and divide it into portions and pop in the freezer, it will keep in the freezer for 2 months. You can cook the potatoes while you reheat the sauce. 

Mediterranean chicken with potatoes

olive oil

chicken

onion, diced

carrot, finely diced

garlic cloves, sliced

tin tomatoes

250 milliliters/9fl oz chicken stock

herbs

potatoes,

salt and pepper

Nothing tastes like homemade pesto on your pasta. Certainly not the supermarket jars! Lower in salt and fresh tasting, dollop generously on pasta or spread onto baked fish or chicken. 

This recipe makes a bit batch so try freezing it in ice cube trays to use whenever you need it.

Pesto

grams/4½oz pine nuts

grams/4½oz Parmesan (or

basil leaves

garlic,

200 milliliters/7fl oz extra virgin olive oil

salt and black pepper

lemon juice

Our step-by-step recipe video for fresh pesto packed with pine nuts, parmesan and basil.

How to make pesto

This budget vegetarian take on classic Italian puttanesca sauce is a store-cupboard saviour.

If you're making this recipe to serve two, cook half the pasta and freeze half the cooked sauce.

Each serving provides 504kcal, 12g protein, 65g carbohydrate (of which 12g sugars), 17g fat (of which 2.5g saturates), 7g fibre and	1.4g salt.

Veggie puttanesca

onions

garlic cloves,

grams/4½oz drained, pitted black olives, cut in half

capers

tsp dried chilli flakes

½ tsp fine sea salt

x 400 grams tins chopped tomatoes

150 milliliters/5fl oz red wine or vegetable stock

300 grams/10½oz dried spaghetti

black pepper

parsley

This fuss-free and thrifty pesto salmon tart is a doddle to prepare and uses ingredients from the freezer. Defrost the fish and pastry overnight for a speedy after-work supper.

Each serving provides 752kcal, 33g protein, 55g carbohydrate (of which 3g sugars), 43g fat (of which 14g saturates), 3.5g fibre and 1g salt.


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