Soups

When cooking with minimal ingredients, flavour boosters like parmesan rinds are great for popping into soups and stews. It can make simple dishes like this one super satisfying.

Peas not only lend colour and sweetness to this soup – when roasted with spices, they add texture as a crunchy garnish too

A super-quick and easy soup using frozen veg as the base, with lots of fresh basil and a little Parmesan to give that pesto vibe

You can’t get much easier than this soup. There’s not even any need to sauté the onion – you simply dump all the ingredients in the pot and simmer until the lentils have softened

Proper pho is made with a time-intensive rich stock, but you can cheat the depth of flavour with dried mushrooms. The other beauty of this dish is that it tastes great with any leftover roast meat