RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Poulet forestière

  Fanny Craddock’s classic chicken and mushroom casserole is enriched with cognac and double cream

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  Baked field mushrooms with tapenade on garlic croûtes

  Full-flavoured and deliciously garlicky, Rick Stein's baked mushrooms are simple to put together and tasty too...

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  Rump of lamb with spiced aubergine and courgette

  For a delicious Mediterranean dinner, try Matt Tebbutt’s fragrant, lightly-spiced lamb and vegetables with yogurt dressing

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  'Trini' prawn curry

  A quick store cupboard Caribbean curry from Gary Rhodes and Fazil Bacchus

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  Roast lamb with lentils

  Henry Herbert’s recipe for lamb combines the best of full, earthy flavours for a comforting meal

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  Shahi maanh daal (creamy black lentils)

  India's staple vegetarian dish of black lentils in a spiced sauce from Punjabi chef Manjit Gill Watch the video recipe

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  Bacon chop with laver bread and cockles

  The fresh, briney flavour of the cockles are perfect with bacon. Mop up the juices with savoury laver bread to complete this traditional Welsh dish by Mark Hix

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  Mustard crust cottage pie

  Brian Turner cooks a frugal family favourite that feeds four for a fiver

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  Paella

  Mario Batali uses pimentón to give a wonderful smoky flavour to the traditional Spanish seafood dish

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  Roast pheasant with bread sauce and baby spinach

  An impressive dish from Curtis Stone - pheasant legs slowly braised in garlicky goose fat, with succulent quick-roasted breasts