Mì Bò Kho is a delicious Vietnamese beef noodle stew/soup, my version cooks shin with carrots in a coconut water broth with a little spice.
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.
Nawabi chicken curry, a relatively mild Indian recipe with a yoghurt and ghee-rich sauce thickened with cashew nuts, almonds and onions.
Keralan beef curry is a delicious dish slowly cooked in coconut oil, coconut flakes, fennel seeds, curry leaves, black pepper and chilli.
Slowly roasted lamb shoulder seasoned with anchovies, thyme and mint served with a port and red currant gravy is the perfect Sunday lunch.
Slow-baked pomegranate-glazed duck legs with delicious, sticky orange and star anise onions are a fantastic centrepiece to any meal.
Spezzatino di manzo is a gloriously delicious Italian beef stew with countless variants; it is simple slow cooking that proves less is more!
Korean gochujang, honey, soy and fish sauce form the basis of a simple yet delicious glaze for these superb oven-baked pork ribs.
Steak bavette or Flank, marinated in Worcestershire sauce, garlic and thyme, is the perfect "budget" steak dinner that tastes incredible!
Minted lamb stew with dumplings loaded with sweet swede and carrots in a rosemary and thyme gravy is the ultimate comforting one-pot dinner.
Pasta alla Genovese is a ragu from Naples in Italy, featuring tender shredded beef, loads of sweet onions, all balanced with white wine.
Beef kaldereta (caldereta) is a delicious, hearty Filipino stew loaded with veggies that bears a striking resemblance to European variants.
Thai crying or weeping tiger steak is marinated in fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar, then seared and served with a spicy dipping sauce.
Beef pastitsada is a delicious beef stew served with pasta from Corfu, big chunks of meat simmered in a thick tomato sauce with cinnamon.
Pinchos morunos are heavily spiced Spanish meat skewers with Moorish influences, I use pork tenderloin and they are cooked on a griddle pan.
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.