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Recipes to impress

If you want to impress someone special, make them one of these (secretly quite simple) recipes and they'll be yours forever. Or at least until after dessert.

Spiced salmon and potatoes

by Poppy O'Toole

This salmon and potato dish has an explosion of flavours guaranteed to perk up your tastebuds and day.

Main course

Beef stroganoff

by Tom Kerridge

Stuffed chicken wrapped in bacon

by Ellis Barrie

Steak Diane with sauté potatoes

by The Hairy Bikers

Chicken and seafood paella

by Laura Wingrove

Mushroom bourguignon

Linguine alla puttanesca

by Anna Del Conte

Omelette Arnold Bennett

by Tom Kerridge

How to cook a steak

by Joseph Denison Carey

Eggs Florentine

Hake with chorizo and potatoes (Merluza à la Gallega)

Mushroom steak and fries with beurre-less blanc sauce

by Mary McCartney

Arancini with ragu (arancine al ragù)

by Rachel Roddy

Creamy mushroom chicken

by Deborah Reddihough

Vegan risotto with mushroom and leek

Duck stir fry

by Hattie Ellis

Chicken with creamy mushroom sauce

by Marcus Wareing

Tagliatelle with mushrooms and pancetta

by Gennaro Contaldo

Chicken tartiflette

Lobster thermidor

by James Martin

Stuffed mushrooms

by Ellis Barrie

Confit duck leg with celeriac mash

by James Martin

Orzo risotto with lemon and fresh oregano

by Rachel Phipps

Chicken parmentier

Wide noodles with lamb shank in aromatic broth

by Nigella Lawson

Stuffed chicken legs with mushrooms and cheese

Mussels with poulette sauce

Easy spaghetti carbonara

by Ellis Barrie

Steak tacos with burnt corn salsa

by Tom Kerridge

Pasta alla Norcina

by Angela Hartnett

Arroz verde

Thai noodles with cinnamon and prawns

by Nigella Lawson

Chicken Marsala

Monkfish, mussel and prawn stew with sourdough (cioppino)

Duck a l’orange

by The Hairy Bikers

Harissa-roasted cauliflower steaks

Light meals & snacks

Turkey birria tacos with guacamole

by Poppy O'Toole

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