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Leftover beef miso udon

This easy beef udon noodle dish turns leftover brisket into a brand new meal. It’s packed with flavour from mirin, soy and miso.

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Start this recipe by making this simple, slow-cooked beef brisket – it’s rich with onion, ale and bay. Portion it out and freeze what you don’t use immediately and you’ll have some great future meals ready at short notice. Use a quarter of it in this flavour-packed ragù, for an easy way to reinvent your leftovers.

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Leftover beef and bean chilli

Using leftover slow-cooked brisket in this chilli fast-tracks the flavour, which is then amped up with chipotle and cumin.

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Pot roast beef brisket with ale and onions

This simple slow-cooked beef brisket is meltingly tender and rich with onion, ale and bay. The whole lot will feed up to 10, but if there’s only a couple of you, freeze the leftovers to make one or more of our exciting variations later in the month, including rigatoni ragù, miso udon noodles and chipotle beef and beans.

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Sloppy joes with coleslaw potato salad

A sloppy joe (saucy beef mince in a burger bun) is the perfect dish for when you want some all-American comfort food but it’s too cold to light the barbecue. Even better, the filling is ready in just 25 minutes. Serve them up with our barbecue side hybrid: coleslaw potato salad.

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Beef short rib bourguignon

Beef bourguignon is a comforting red wine stew from Burgundy in France and is one of the country’s most iconic dishes. We’ve created a great sauce for the dish by braising short ribs in wine for hours before adding the traditional bourguignon vegetables and shredding the meat back in for a final braise. You couldn’t ask for anything more on a cold winter night.

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Bollito misto Italian mixed boiled meats

Italy’s bollito misto (‘mixed boiled meats’) is a big platter of meats gently simmered in a simple stock until incredibly tender, and can include beef ribs and cheek, spiced sausage and chicken. Despite its humble name and look, this dish is a real treat – especially with the crucial side sauces (see Tips).

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Beef stew with orange and chestnuts

Rich, hearty and full of flavour, this is the perfect winter supper with the sweet earthy flavour of the chestnuts combined with cinnamon and orange. Serve with creamy mashed potato.

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Best of the best chilli con carne

Full of layered complexity, satisfying texture and, a robust, thick sauce and a fruity heat, this chilli con carne is the best example of the one-pot classic. It’s got enough beans in it to be served as is, but you can pair it with rice or – even better – a piece of cornbread to make it go further.

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Red wine braised short ribs and beans

Beef short ribs are one of those cuts that take a long time to cook, but have an incredible flavour and fall-apart texture when ready. They’re now available in supermarkets too, making them much easier to find. Gently simmered in a red wine-rich stew alongside plenty of beans, this is a hands-off dish with knockout results.

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Rib eye steak banh mi

Vietnamese bahn mi boast a perfect combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, tangy, fresh and rich flavours served inside a French-style baguette. It’s not something you can knock together in five minutes, but it’s definitely worth the effort. Thuy Diem Pham’s version – including British sandwich favourites like fried egg and cheddar inside toasted Italian panini rolls – adds even more deliciousness into the mix.

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Bulgar köftesi

This family recipe for Turkish-Cypriot meatballs takes food writer Yasemen Kaner-White back to the first time she visited Cyprus, aged nine. “My first night in Cyprus, batches of warm, crispy bulgar köftesi were waiting at my auntie Sidika’s home – ready to be snapped open, finished with a squeeze of lemon straight from the garden and devoured instantly.”

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Blue cheese and bacon smash burger

This blue cheese and bacon smash burger consists of two caramelised beef patties – each topped with a rich blue cheese sauce – on a bed of earthy beetroot and finished off with sticky, salty bacon jam. It’s the smash burger of dreams!

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Smash burgers

Our smash burgers are the best burgers you can make at home: simple yet offering a perfect balance, of salt, sweetness and tang. The smashing boosts that all-important caramelisation and crispiness at the edges, while letting the burger rest for a few minutes melds everything together.

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Lemongrass beef pear and chicory salad

Thuy Pham’s lemongrass beef salad is inspired by one of her favourite Vietnamese lunches, a beef noodle dish called ‘Bún bò nam bộ’: “A light meal with incredible flavours on every bite, and my go to when I’m looking for a quick and tasty option that packs a punch. Salads are definitely not boring in Vietnam!” This beef salad works beautifully with noodles, rice or even new potatoes if you want something more substantial.

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Steak with lentils beetroot and pickled shallots

Slicing a steak before you plate it always seems to make it go further. Serve slices of juicy sirloin on a generous bed of garlicky caper-flecked lentils, beetroot and rocket, making it the centrepiece of a nourishing salad.

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