Pinchos morunos are heavily spiced Spanish meat skewers with Moorish influences, I use pork tenderloin and they are cooked on a griddle pan.
Recipes that take over 2 hours to cook
Sometimes taking a while over dinner is very much needed; these recipes all take over 2 hours to cook.
Many of them are very easy to make and feature a lot of slow-cooked soups, stews and casseroles that you can get started and walk away. This means you can go about your day whilst your dinner cooks.
Many of these recipes are very easy to cook. Like all of my recipes, they come complete with a comprehensive and easy-to-follow set of instructions.
Chicken xacuti is a delicious and heavily spiced Goan curry that combines coconut, tamarind, dried Kashmiri chillies and white poppy seeds.
Lamb saag or saagwala is a gloriously meaty curry loaded with spinach, an almost ubiquitous stalwart on British Indian restaurant menus.
Chicken (galinha) cafreal is a Goan recipe with Portuguese origins that features bone in chicken legs in a delicious spicy coriander marinade.
Afelia, a gloriously delicious Cypriot/Greek recipe that features pork marinated and cooked in red wine and coriander seeds until tender.
Joojeh kabob are skewers of chicken that have been marinated in saffron, onion and yoghurt before being quickly cooked on a hot griddle pan.
Pork chops and sauerkraut is a popular German dish, my version cooks in a slow cooker & adds potatoes turning it into an easy complete meal.
Carbonnade Flamande is a classic and delicious Belgian (Flemish) beef and beer stew that is very easy to cook despite its long cooking time.
Slow cooker Irish stew is one of the easiest and tastiest classic stews to make, my version combines lamb or mutton with potatoes & carrots.
Scotch broth is an old-school British/Scottish recipe with centuries of history, my version features lamb cooked with pearl barley & veggies.
Lamb souvlaki are Greek lamb skewers, my version marinates neck fillet overnight before being quickly cooked & comes with a tzatziki sauce.
Butterflied chicken breast marinated and glazed in maple syrup, Worcestershire sauce & soy sauce before being quickly pan-fried until tender.
Crispy roast ham hock slowly baked with cider and onions, then glazed with honey & Dijon mustard is a glorious way to cook this cut of meat.
Quick and easy tandoori cod with a delicious spicy Indian-inspired marinade with cooking instructions for both the oven and the air fryer.
Bacon ribs slowly braised in the oven until tender then finished with a simple, sticky apricot & mustard glaze, these things are very moreish!
Oxtail and potato curry packed to the gunnels with spicy Indian influences, it is slowly cooked to deliver tender, melt-in-the-mouth beef.
Homemade chicken and bacon pie with a creamy crème fraîche, chive & thyme sauce all wrapped in a golden brown shortcrust pastry case.
Char siu chicken legs are a take on an easy Chinese "BBQ" dish featuring marinated chicken legs with air fryer & oven cooking instructions.
Greek lamb chops or cutlets (aka paidakia) marinated in oregano, dried mint, olive oil and lemon served with roasted potatoes and lemon.
Pork belly curry loosely based on a recipe from Sri Lanka that's loaded with black pepper, tamarind and whole slow-cooked garlic cloves.