Ah the main event – what everyone has been waiting for! Whether you’re looking for something quick and easy to feed the family or a grand banquet to impress friends and family, we’ve got something for all situations.
Got a sure-fire winner of a main course you’d like everyone to try out? Head over to our Submit Your Favourite Recipe page and let us know – if it looks good to us you just might see it feature below!
Beef stroganoff in 30 minutes with tender steak and a sour cream sauce that does not split. Serves 4, and the cut of beef that makes the difference.
Thai green curry with a properly cracked coconut cream and the sweet, salty, sour balance right. Serves 4 in 30 minutes, using what NZ shops stock.
Cottage pie with a filling thick enough to hold the mash up and a crisp forked top. Serves 6 in about 1 hour 20, plus the shepherds pie difference.
Lamb shanks slow cooked in red wine and rosemary until the meat falls off the bone, with a sauce reduced properly. Serves 4, 8 hours in the cooker.
The Christmas ham is the least stressful thing on the table, because it arrives already cooked. You are not cooking a ham. You are warming it through and putting a glaze on it, and the entire job is about ninety minutes of oven time you can do the day before.
Homemade pizza is usually let down by the base — pale, bready, and more like a scone than a pizza. Three things fix that, and none of them costs anything: the right flour, enough water, and an oven hotter than you think is sensible. Makes four 30 cm bases.
Fried rice is a fifteen-minute dish that exists to use up leftovers, and there is exactly one non-negotiable rule. Get it right and you have separate, slightly chewy, well-coated grains.
Nachos fail in a very specific way: the top layer is perfect, the bottom is a pale soggy raft of chips with nothing on them, and the middle is somewhere between. That’s a construction problem, not a recipe problem. Serves 4 as a main, 6 as a shared plate. Thirty minutes.
A perfect small meal or appetiser!
This recipe was submitted by a Facebook member Rachel Collins – a beautiful recipe to take advantage of when you have that lovely, delicate hoki. If you’ve got some great… [Continue Reading]
