RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Chicken and shrimp noodles

  Jonathan Phang shares a treasured family recipe for a hearty noodle broth that is sure to become one of your family's favourites

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  Chicken som tum

  Allegra McEvedy translates the sharp and sour flavours of a traditional Thai salad, usually made with green papaya, into a rather more meaty affair

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  Pistachio and cardamom rice pudding

  This creamy spiced rice pudding, Mewa Ki Kheer, makes a delightful ending to an Indian meal, from Marwari cook Gunjan Goela

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  Banana tarte fine with rum

  Matt Tebbutt uses bananas to make a delicious banana tarte fine with rum – perfect for weekend entertaining.

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  Rice and spinach cake

  Clodagh McKenna’s rice cakes use creamy goats’ cheese, parmesan and nutmeg, and are perfect with a red pepper salsa

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  Baked rice pudding with poached rhubarb

  Michael Caines shares a warming, and quintessentially English, dessert from his childhood

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  Swedish meatballs with cranberry sauce

  Diana Henry makes a saucy dish of lightly spiced pork and beef meatballs swathed not only in a fruity accompaniment but with herb gravy too

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  Nasturtium salad with pickled cockles and bream

  Aiden Byrne's pretty and colourful floral salad can still pack a punch with its sharp seafood accompaniment

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  Provencal chicken

  Rachel Allen makes easy work of a French classic of a comforting chicken dish with a tomato, garlic and olive sauce

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  Boiled eggs and soldiers

  What better way to start the morning than with Eleanor Smallwood's soft boiled eggs and buttery toast soldiers?