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Dinners that taste like you tried

8 recipes · by Trove

Eight dinners that look like more effort than they are. Most of them spend their time in the oven or on a low simmer while you get on with something else.

  1. Piri-piri chicken and slaw

    From Olivemagazine

    A whole chicken in a blitzed chilli marinade, roasted, with a beetroot and cabbage slaw made while it rests. From olive magazine.

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  2. Massaman Beef curry

    From BBC Good Food

    Beef, potatoes and peanuts in coconut cream, cooked in the oven until the beef is tender. Serve it straight from the dish with jasmine rice.

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  3. Chicken Basquaise

    From Rivercottage

    Chicken, peppers, chorizo and rice in one casserole, finished in the oven with lemon and olives. It comes from River Cottage.

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  4. Chicken Marengo

    From BBC Good Food

    Chicken legs, mushrooms, passata and olives in one casserole, simmered under a lid. The recipe says you shouldn't need salt.

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  5. Steak Diane

    From Saveur

    Steak in a pan sauce of mushrooms, brandy, cream and mustard. Lighting the brandy in the pan is most of the show. Originally from Saveur.

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  6. Sea bass with sizzled ginger, chilli & spring onions

    From BBC Good Food

    Crisp-skinned sea bass with ginger, garlic and chilli fried golden and spooned over the top. Seven ingredients and one frying pan.

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  7. Baked salmon with fennel & tomatoes

    From BBC Good Food

    Fennel, cherry tomatoes and salmon baked in one dish with lemon and parsley. Light, and it looks like you planned it.

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  8. Beef stroganoff

    From BBC Good Food

    Strips of beef fillet with mushrooms in a crème fraîche and mustard sauce. Serve it with pappardelle or rice, as the BBC Good Food original suggests.

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