RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Courgette salad with sultanas and pine nuts

  This tasty vegetable salad from Tamasin Day Lewis couldn't be simpler to make

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  Stir-fried eel with black bean sauce

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  Potted sprats

  Mark Houghman’s recipe makes for a simple quick starter or light lunch – if you can’t get sprats, whitebait works well, too

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  Sausage and pea risotto

  Vary the sausages you use in Ainsley Harriot's risotto - top notch pork and leek or Toulouse sausages are both particularly good

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  Arroz a la Tumbada

  Thomasina Miers makes a traditional Mexican seafood dish, “Arroz a la Tumbada”, which means ‘tumbled up rice’ so quite literally it’s all thrown in

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  Delicious cocktail koftas

  Madhur Jaffrey's koftas make a wonderful snack on cocktail sticks or are equally tasty served as a main with spicy tomato sauce

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  Minted gnocchi with chicken and peas

  For a simple dish that’s bursting with flavour, why not tray Aaron Craze’s favourite gnocchi recipe

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  Salad of crab with buttered Norfolk samphire

  Galton Blackiston’s stunning dish takes crab salad into the 21st century

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  Honey and parsnip scones

  An unusual combination creates a sweet scone, perfectly complemented with honey cream

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  French onion soup

  Supposedly invented by King Louis XV of France when he only had onions, butter and champagne in his hunting lodge, Matt Tebbutt’s favourite soup is delicious - even without the champagne!