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Make cooking on a budget easy with Jamie's no nonsense recipes. You'll find easy to make family meals that taste pretty good too. Some of the tastiest cuts of meat can also be the cheapest, so why not try these incredible baked lamb shanks or 6 hour slow roasted pork shoulder.

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purple potato salad

starter | serves 6
I like to use a mixture of new potatoes and purple potatoes in this salad, but if you can’t find any purple ones then just use all new potatoes instead. But try to hunt them down — they’re great!

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quick salmon tikka with cucumber yoghurt
(17 minutes)

main courses | serves 2
I love this dish. If you’re a fan of chicken tikka masala, give this one a go. You might think it odd to use robust spice pastes on fish, but it’s very common in southern India. When buying your fish,...

quick sausage meatballs with a tomato and basil sauce, spaghetti and sweet raw peas

main courses | serves 4
This is a fantastic recipe that completely celebrates everything I love about peas. Even though they only make an appearance right at the end, it’s a star performance. I like to serve a pile of unpodd...

quick-time sausage cassoulet

main courses | serves 8
This dish was inspired by a builder called Dusty, who kept talking about a sausage casserole. So I made this one up very quickly, basing it on a French cassoulet-type thing. It's nice and easy to cook...

roasted squash

snacks and sides | serves 4
Over the years I’ve seen roasted squash cooked in many ways and I’ve got to say this particular way is one of my favourites. Even though it’s very Tuscan in style, the flavours remind me of English ch...