Use nuts to give heft to salsa, toasty flavour to lasagne or as a gluten-free alternative to breadcrumbs

I always keep a stash of nuts in my kitchen cupboard. I scatter them, roughly chopped, over my …

Three ways to use naturally sweet corn to elevate a dish: charred with a spicy prawn spaghetti, creamed in a cacio e pepe, and in a fiery croqueta filling

Sweetcorn is saturated with nostalgia and the…

Chinese-style sweet-and-sour pork with plums, chicken wings with plum ketchup and a chai creme caramel with tea-poached plums

There’s a windfall of delicious plums to be gathered in gardens and pick-y…

Put aside the mayo and make these spicy riffs on the classic summer salad: chaat and yoghurt, spicy peanut butter, and baked chips with whipped tofu

We are a family of potato lovers, so a summer salad…

Give it a squish to remove the moisture, then hard-fry in a robust coating – these are among the solutions our expert culinary panel suggests to achieving addictively crisp tofu

I want to like tofu, b…

Perfect for summer dining, these cooling bowlfuls will quench both appetite and thirst

When the thought of eating hot meals seems unbearable, chilled soups will help you beat the heat. Today’s ones ar…

Pea and mung bean pancakes with fried eggs and coconut coriander chutney, pea broth with bread dumplings, and pasta with lemony pea pesto

My earliest memory of kitchen duties is sitting on a stool i…

Three ways to enjoy this prince of the brassicas: in a pie with ricotta and preserved lemon, with sausage and noodles in a spicy sesame sauce, and charred with cheesy polenta and anchovies

Before we s…

Dried fruit three ways: a celebratory stunner of fish pilaf with green tahini sauce, a spicy apricot chicken traybake for weeknight show-offs, and a heady date and ginger cake for pudding

As well as c…

Praise the braise, and meld rich, fusion flavours into cosy winter comfort food

Braising is a transformative and uncomplicated way of cooking. It’s particularly suited to cosier cooking during the fri…