Main dish recipes - 1181 recipes
More Main dish recipes
Your Ultimate Chilli
By Jonespe
Feast on this hearty one pot meal!
- ½ onion
- 1 stick celery
- 1 bell pepper
- 250g mushrooms
- 400g tinned chopped tomatoes
- 400g tinned red kidney beans or 400g tinned red kidney beans in chilli sauce, if you want a richer sauce.
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp tomato puree
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Salt and pepper to taste
Hungarian Plum Dumplings Recipe - Szilvas Gomboc
By MaryJanex
Makes 18 Hungarian Plum Dumplings
- 5 medium potatoes, peeled, boiled, mashed and cooled
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 18 damson or Italian prune plums, washed and pitted
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter
- 1 1/2 cups very fine bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup cinnamon sugar
Fuss Free Cottage Pie
By Jonespe
Perfect for big family meals!
- 250g lean steak mince
- 6 medium size potatoes
- ½ onion
- 2 sticks of celery
- 2 carrots
- 200g mushrooms
- 1tsp sage
- 1tsp cracked black pepper
- ½tsp dried parsley
- 1tbsp gravy granules
- 1tsp mustard
- 1tbsp butter
- Milk
Homemade Irish Stew
By hannahmufc
Traditional Irish stew - family recipe
- 1 pound of Beef Mince
- 1 pound of Steak pieces
- 1 large Onion
- 5 Fresh carrots
- 12 Potatoes
- 5 Oxo cubes
- Salt and Pepper
Doner Kebab
By Jonespe
A healthier version of a takeaway favourite
- 500g lean minced lamb
- 1-2 cloves crushed garlic
- ½ a small onion
- 3 tsp dried mint
- 2 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp mint sauce
- 1 tsp cracked black pepper
Veggie Kheema
By Sh33na
Kheema meaning mince, this recipe is a healthy and delicious way to include vegetables in your diet
- 1 medium size carrot, grated or minced or chopped finely
- 7-8 mushrooms, chopped finely
- 7-8 cauliflower florets, grated or minced or chopped finely
- 7-8 french beans, chopped finely
- 1/2 cup green peas, boiled
- 2 medium size tomatoes, finely chopped
- 1 medium size onion, finely chopped
- 1 green chilli, finely chopped
- 1/2 inch ginger and 2-3 garlic - crushed finely in a mortar-pestle or made into a paste
- 1 black cardamom
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 1/2 tp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 2 cups water
- 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil
- Salt as required
Lamb Bhuna
By marisab
In a heated pot of oil or ghee add Lamb Pieces Ginger paste 1 tbs Garlic Paste 1 tbs Tomatoes 2 medium Onions 3
- Lamb Pieces
- Ginger paste 1 tbs
- Garlic Paste 1 tbs
- Tomatoes 2 medium
- Onions 3 large
- bay leaves 4
- cardamoms 6
- cinnamon sticks 2 small
- salt to taste
- 1-1/2 tbs mixed masala
- 1/4 tbs tumeric
- 1/2 tbs coriander powder
- 1/4 tbs ground cumin
Vegetarian Sausage Cassarole
By queenselphie
A warming dish that will fill you up
- 6 Vegetarian Sausages
- Olive oil
- 1 large onion
- 1 tin of mixed beans and / or chickpeas
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 punnet cherry tomatoes
- 1 bag fresh spinach
- 2-3 cloves garlic
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 3-4 carrots, chopped (optional)
- 1 stock cube
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
Fajitas
By Animatebug
• Put your griddle pan on a high heat • Halve and deseed your pepper and cut it into thin strips • Peel,
- • 1 red pepper
- • 1 medium red onion
- • 1 skinless boneless chicken breast
- • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- • a small pinch of ground cumin
- • 2 limes
- • olive oil
- • freshly ground black pepper
- • 4 flour tortillas
- • good-quality low-fat natural yoghurt to serve
- • guacamole to serve
- • Cheddar cheese to serve
- For the salsa
- • ½-1 fresh red chilli, to your taste
- • 15 ripe cherry tomatoes
- • a small bunch of fresh coriander
- • freshly ground black pepper
- • 1 lime
- • extra virgin olive oil
Rib of beef with porcini and red wine gravy
By jeves
Pick out the larger mushrooms and put them in the hot stock
- 25g (1oz) dried porcini muchrooms
- 400ml (14fl oz) hot beef stock
- 2 thyme sprigs, finely chopped
- 3 Garlic cloves, crushed
- 3tbsp olive oil
- 2.5kg (5lb) beef bone in carvery rib
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 1tsp plain flour
- 200ml (7oz) red wine
Lamb Kofta's with Pitta Bread and Raita Dip
By wendymcc
Put the Minced Lamb into a mixing bowl
- 1 kilo of Ground Lamb Mince
- 1/2 Tsp Cumin
- 1 Clove of Garlic (finally chopped or pressed)
- 2 Tsp Ground Parsley
- 1 Small Onion (finally chopped or grated)
- Salt & Pepper to season
- 6 Pitta Breads
North African Stew with Tomato and Spices
By Freshandhealthy1234
Suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans, Gluten Free, Dairy Free
- 2 -3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 garlic gloves, crushed
- 1 tsp ground tumeric
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground cinammon
- 1cm piece fresh root ginger, grated
- Pinch saffron fronds
- 200g brown lentils, washed and drained
- 400g can chickpeas
- 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
- 700ml vegetable stock
- Large bunch of fresh coriander, chopped
- Large bunch of fresh parsley, chopped
- Fresh lemon juice
- Sea salt, black pepper for seasoning
Any burning questions? Ask our chefs below!