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Shortcut dinners

Want a shortcut to something that usually takes an age? A few creative cheats with your ingredients will send you on your way.
Shortcut sausage meatballs
by Nigella Lawson

Instead of making up a meatball mixture with minced meat or meats, parmesan, garlic and egg, I simply squeeze the stuffing out of about half a kilo of Italian sausages and roll it into cherry tomato-sized balls.

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Easy chicken tetrazzini

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One-pan mushroom and leek orzo

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Simplest-ever pork stroganoff

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Tinned tomato soup chicken curry

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Tortilla pizza

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Veggie meatball orzo soup

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Grilled cheese and kimchi udon noodles

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Air fryer roasted tomato and pepper pasta

by Bianca Nice
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Easy no-yeast pizza

by Lisa Faulkner
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Quick sausage Bolognese

by Justine Pattison
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One-pan roast chicken dinner

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Air fryer aubergine parmigiana

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Hasselback garlic bread three ways

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Hash brown lamb hotpot

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