Batch Cooking Recipes For Freezing

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Batch Cooking Recipes That Are Totally Delicious And Easy To Make

There's never been a better time to jump on the batch cooking trend.

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There's nothing worse than needing a speedy weeknight meal and discovering you've got nothing left in the freezer... And let's face it, we've all been there. But it doesn't have to be that way, you can cook up just as inventive and delicious meals ahead of the week, without having to worry about what time you'll be home. From Slow Cooker Bolognese to Broccoli & Stilton Soup and Sweet Potato & Chickpea Curry, there's plenty of easy, fuss-free recipes you can batch cook ready for the week ahead. For a selection of our faves, keep sliding...

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Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry

This chicken and sweet potato curry is absolute comfort food goals. Thanks to the spices, it's gorgeously fragrant, and the addition of coconut milk makes it creamy.

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Chicken Balti

The key to a brilliant chicken balti is marinating the chicken pieces in yoghurt, spices and lime juice the chicken gets tenderised, if you want to get ahead you could do this the night before!

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Broccoli & Stilton Soup

This delicious broccoli and stilton soup is a classic for a reason. The flavour of creamy broccoli works perfectly with tangy and savoury Stilton. You could also use a different cheese such as cheddar on the toasts, if you prefer.

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Sweet Potato & Chickpea Curry

If you've got a well stocked cupboard, you should have all these ingredients already in stock. This curry is seriously worth the TLC.

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Cottage Pie

Cottage pie is essentially a shepherd's pie but with beef. It's a meat pie, filled with beef and topped with cheesy mashed potatoes.

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Leek & Potato Soup

The trick is to cook those leeks and potatoes properly! Cut them small, and allow them to sweat in all that butter for about 20 mins altogether.

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Healthy Fish Stew

This Mediterranean-style fish stew is really easy, really flavourful, and most of all - super healthy. We left out traditional ingredients like saffron to make it cheaper, and mussels because it was just getting a bit too complicated. We kept it simple with cod and prawns, and it's delicious.

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Pork & Ale Casserole With Honey-Glazed Apples

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Pork Stroganoff

Pork stroganoff is such an easy, flavourful dinner to make. Using pork fillet is perfect because it's such a tender cut, and really easy to cook with. Load your stroganoff up with mushrooms, mustard and sherry for the most delicious meal.

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Cheesy Hasselback Shepherd's Pie

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Slow Cooker Bolognese

Bolognese is one of our favourite recipes to make during the winter: It instantly warms you up and makes you feel sooo cosy.

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Slow Cooker Chicken Casserole

This slow cooker chicken stew is comfort food at its best. We have cooked this one with salty and slightly smoky pancetta and added whole shallots which break down over the cooking time.

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Slow Cooker Mac & Cheese

Slow Cooker Mac & Cheese. Everything—including the pasta!—cooks in a slow cooker. And in the end you have just ONE DISH to clean.

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Turkey Curry

Turkey curry is hands down one of our favourite leftover meals. Plus, 45 minutes and it's on the table, packed full of spices and other store-cupboard staples.

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Beef Massaman Curry

The sauce is rich in flavour and the beef falls apart beautifully. The main ingredients of a Massaman curry include your meat, along with coconut milk, onion, peanuts, potatoes, palm sugar, tamarind sauce and a range of spices.

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Beef Stew

This recipe makes amazing leftovers. And yes, you can make it ahead! Cook all the way through step 6, then cool the stew to room temperature before refrigerating in a resealable container. Before serving, reheat in a large pot over medium-low heat.

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Bolognese Sauce

Bolognese is so much more than just a meat sauce. It's the ultimate way to transform a package of minced beef into something show-stopping. When the temperature starts to drop, what sounds better than pasta smothered in rich, hearty, umami-bomb bolognese?

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Bolognese Baked Tortellini

In this baked pasta recipe, there is no boiling. The tortellini magically bakes in the bolognese until it's perfectly cooked! Oh, you'll have your doubts for sure (as we did once).

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Butternut Squash And Sweet Potato Soup

Is there anything quite as satisfying when it's cold outside than a huge bowl of steaming soup, served alongside a buttered crusty roll? And this butternut squash and sweet potato version is SO healthy, and incredibly easy to make.

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Cauliflower Shepherd's Pie

Mashed potatoes are high in carbs so we replaced the potatoes with cauliflower for a low-carb swap everyone will love. Still creamy and buttery, you'll barely miss the potatoes.

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Chicken Biryani

Chicken biryani is such an easy and delicious dinner idea. Loaded with gorgeous chicken, onions and spices, we love the addition of raisins and almonds, too. YUM!

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Chicken Marbella

A nostalgic classic for many, chicken Marbella is briny, piquant, and incredibly flavourful. The chicken is tenderised (and flavoured by) a marinade dotted with prunes, olives, capers, and herbs.

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Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup

Homemade chicken noodle soup is already easy to whip up, but tossing all of your ingredients in a slow cooker makes it even easier.

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Chicken Piccata

This one-pan lemony chicken is a total winner.

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Chicken Stew

All of the comfort with none of the work.

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Chicken Tikka

If you're looking for a new Indian dish to perfect at home, you've got to try our chicken tikka recipe. The traditional dish consists of small pieces of marinated chicken, threaded onto skewers and grilled. Unlike a chicken tikka masala, this tikka dish is more like a tandoori - so no sauce!

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Coconut Chicken Curry

This quick and easy coconut curry might be a bit untraditional, but trust us, it's delicious. Don't forget to whip up some rice to soak up all that saucy goodness. Check out our step-to-step guide on how to cook rice for the fluffiest rice ever. (Catch ya later, dry takeaway rice!)

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Creamy Tuscan Chicken

When dinner is this good you'll actually want to cook for yourself. This skillet chicken is easy to make and comes together quickly. You'll have a sauce so delicious you'll want to drink it straight from the pan.

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Cumberland Pie

We love Cumberland pie, it's carby, meaty, cheesy and crispy all in one big dish. But there are some misconceptions with a Cumberland pie. Some people think it's basically the same as cottage pie (beef mince and mashed potato), but it's so much more than that.

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