Category: Sides

I've written in the past about how good air-fried chips are, but they're not the only potato dish that benefits from an air-fryer. Air-fried baby potatoes develop a nice crispy outer whilst remaining soft inside, because they can be seasoned in a ton

Known as dolphin potatoes in our house, these are rich, creamy and filling.

A Korean cucumber salad, essentially cucumber and carrot in a lightly spiced vinaigrrete. The spring onion can be replaced with chopped spinach to reduce the punch a little. Either way, works very well served alongside Beef Bulgogi

McDonalds closed all of it's restaurants as part of the Coronavirus response. However, they've shared a recipe card with The Mirror so that we can make their Sausage and Egg McMuffin at home - as an added "bonus" they included instructions to make a

Soda bread can be a bit heavy and flavourless, so I figured I'd try and sweeten it up and give it a little bit of flavour. Ginger takes some of that edge back off. You can use all Plain or all Self-raising if you don't have one or the other. Best ser

Dirty fries are awesome. If you're doing it properly then really you want to be slicing potatoes, lightly frying them into chips and then using those, but that takes more time and effort than I'd normally have spare on a weekday evening. But, for 10

Frying onions in a pan isn't that much hassle, but there are still days when it's still too much hassle Instead, you can cook them in the oven - perfect if you're making hotdogs as you can just oven-cook the sausages too

I love peppercorn sauce, and will eat it on pretty much anything. It's actually quite quick and simple to make from scratch too, and tastes a lot better than packet stuff To make this recipe lighter, instead of using cream you can use a small amount

Not as nearly as quick to make as taking some frozen ones out of a bag, but you can guarantee the quality of the meat rather than wondering if they contain MRM. Can be frozen for use later too

Makes a good side dish, lightly dressed asparagus is gorgeous!

Great as a starter, but also works quite well as a side. Everyone loves stuffed peppers!

The closest thing I could describe these as is Potato Bahjii's. Quite quick and easy to make, if a little messy, but ultimately well worth it If you want to freeze them, fry for a minute and then allow to cool before putting straight into the freez

Great as either a side or part of the main course

A lightly stir-fried vegan dish, though often best served as a side