Casserole
Beef, chicken, pork, sausages, lamb - even vegetables - all lend themselves brilliantly to casseroling, which also offers the advantage of being able to use cheap cuts of meat for slow-cooked succulence.
Serves 4Boeuf Bourguignon Easy
No fiddly browning of the meat here: just throw it all into a casserole and three hours later you'll be swooning at the wonderful aromas that escape from this classic stew.
Serves 6Beef in Cider
A classic boeuf bourguignon, but made with cider instead of red wine. Although this is a frugal recipe, it's so good you could easily serve it when entertaining.
Serves 2 (so double it for 4)A Provençal Winter Stew
With temperatures still at freezing, it was time to tuck into a robust stew filled with flavours of the Mediterranean - and discover what Delia's cats enjoy doing most to keep warm!
Serves 1Boboutie
This just goes to show you can make something really special with ordinary minced beef. The recipe comes from Africa, but seems to me to have an interesting mixture of European and Oriental overtones.
Serves 6Beef and Vegetable Stew with Crusted Onion Dumplings
A wonderful traditional stew, slowly cooked so that all the flavours develop into a whole that's quite irresistible. All you need with it is crusty bread to mop up the juices.
Serves 4-6Black Bean Chilli with Avocado Salsa
Surely one of the nation's most popular family supper dishes, chilli con carne is a spicy treat, especially if you make Delia's version, with lime, coriander and black beans.
Serves 4-6Boeuf Bourguignon
This may seem like a retro recipe, but in fact Boeuf Bourguignon has never really gone away: classic, hearty, wintry and totally irresistible, it just can't be beaten on a cold day.
Serves 4Boston Baked Beans
Canned baked beans definitely have their culinary place but if you want to eat the real deal, this frugal recipe is in a totally different league - a really nutritious dish.
Serves 4-6Beef in Designer Beer
In the 1960s, every other restaurant was a bistro and every other bistro served carbonnade de boeuf à la flamande, a traditional Flemish recipe that translates as beef in beer. But, like other once-hackneyed 1960s' recipes, I think it's now been negl
Serves 4-6A Bit of the Irish Stew with Crusted Dumplings
Irish Stew is one of the best casserole dishes in the entire world. If you top it with dumplings, then bake it in the oven so that they turn crusty and crunchy, you will have a heavenly banquet on your plate.
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