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Katrina Meynink

Katrina Meynink

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Katrina Meynink is a cookbook author and Good Food recipe columnist.Connect via Twitter.

This parma swaps schnitzel for cauliflower steak.

Five throw-together recipes to make the most of bargain cauliflower (featuring easy cheesy parma)

Embrace the glorious cauli and all the wondrous ways you can call it dinner with these roasty-toasty ideas.

  • Katrina Meynink
This Persian-style stew relies on sumac in place of hard-to-find black limes.

Persian-inspired eggplant, chickpea and beef stew

Traditionally, this stew gets its superb but subtle sourness from dried black limes, but you can achieve a similar taste using a combination of lemon and sumac.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this coconutty curry with rice and naan.
EASY

Slow-cooked beef and sweet potato coconut curry

This is the kind of “yes, I have those ingredients” curry that has an engrossing, soothing power.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this coconutty curry with naan and rice.

Cheap (cut) thrills to ward off winter chills: Four ways to transform chuck steak into fall-apart glory

Katrina Meynink’s recipes showcase beef chuck at its slow-cooked best.

  • Katrina Meynink
Quick red curry and noodle soup.
EASY

Quick red curry and noodle soup

This is the most glorious throw-it-in-and-call-it-dinner slurpy, soupy goodness.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Budget-friendly and comforting carrot and lentil soup.
EASY

Spiced carrot and lentil soup

This soup is soul-restoring, simple, uses cupboard staples, is cheap and healthy. Winning on all fronts.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Rustic mushroom, potato and bacon soup.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s mushroom, potato and bacon soup

I don’t like the grey colour that so many cream of mushroom soups can turn, so I prefer to leave a lot of the fungi large and lovely.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Cauliflower, thyme and potato soup topped with mini cheese toastie bites.
EASY

Cauliflower, thyme and potato soup with cheesy mustard croutons

The mustard cheese toastie bites are a wondrous addition, brining a touch of the old cauli bake flavour profile to this soup.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Cauliflower, thyme and potato soup topped with mini cheese toasties.

Katrina Meynink remixes five old-school soups from mushroom to creamy cauliflower (with the ultimate crouton upgrade)

These comforting bowls feed the belly and bathe the soul, achieving both goals on a relatively tight budget.

  • Katrina Meynink
Crunchy chilli oil.

Katrina Meynink’s top 10 favourite condiments to dress up your cooking

Add instant oomph to any dish with a dollop of these ready-made flavour bombs.

  • Katrina Meynink