CLEVER COOKS

With just five ingredients, plus basic staples, we’ve created recipes that show how less can often be so much more. Bringing a slow cooker into the equation creates the perfect scenario for saving time, while building the biggest flavours.

And if slow cooking with just very few ingredients sounds like an impossible idea, it’s not. We went back to the drawing board in our Test Kitchen to develop recipes using no more than five ingredients, working hard to make them not just convenient for you but delicious too. Certainly, you need to provide a few basics, but these are standard pantry items and are the types of things you’re unlikely to run out of. Butter, oils, vinegars and salt and pepper – we’ve kept it to these simple items.

At their heart, these recipes are structured around quality ingredients and fresh, seasonal produce, with nothing included that’s esoteric or hard to source. To keep ingredient lists strictly to five, we began the development of each dish by choosing a single hero ingredient,