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Kitchen Basics Recipes

These kitchen basics recipes are designed to make your life easier in the kitchen. From an easy white sauce, to a cheat’s white sauce recipe, the best simple pancake recipe, how to make an omelette and many more. Good cooking is not about complicated and fussy recipes, it all comes down to the kitchen basics.

lemon meringue tart with slice removed.

Easy Dessert Recipes

Lemon Meringue Tart

salmon omelette on white plate with fork

Breakfast & Brunch

Salmon Omelette

jam tartlets on a plate with edible flowers.

Easy Baking Recipes

Jam Tartlets

Slice of rainbow sprinkle iced sponge on a white plate with the rest of the cake in the background.

Easy Baking Recipes

School Cake Sprinkle Sponge with Custard

White shallow casserole with puttanesca dotted with torn burrata and fresh basil.

Easy Pasta Recipes

Penne Puttanesca

quick bolognese sauce with rigatoni 2quick bolognese sauce with rigatoni in a beige bowl

Easy Beef Recipes

Deliciously Quick Bolognese Sauce with Rigatoni

quenelles of tomato butter on a grey plate

Side Dishes

Tomato Butter: Good On Everything!

pasta al pesto in a white bowl

Easy Pasta Recipes

Pasta Al Pesto

courgette gratin with tomato and basil.

Weeknight Supper

Courgette Gratin (Gratin de Courgettes)

Chicken katsu cutlet in slices served over a bowl of rice with spring onions, chilli slices, lime wedges and coriander as a garnish.

Chicken Recipes

Chicken Katsu Curry

jar of pistachio pesto with spoon in it.

Kitchen Basics Recipes

Pistachio Pesto (Pesto Al Pistacchio)

pasta al pesto pistacchio on a plate

Easy Pasta Recipes

Pistachio Pesto Pasta (Pasta Al Pesto Pistacchio)

White bowl of butternut squash soup garnished with pumpkin seeds and chilli flakes with bread on the side.

Comfort Food

Roasted Butternut Squash and Chilli Soup

Close up of a white baking dish of cheesy leeks with a spoonful taken out.

Side Dishes

Easy Cheesy Baked Leeks

Chicken Katsu Wrap

Easy 30 Minute Meals

Chicken Katsu Wrap

Chicken Katsu Sandwich cut in half.

Lunch Recipes

Chicken Katsu Sandwich

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