Weekly meal planner: Spice up your batch cooking

Weekly meal planner: Spice up your batch cooking

All that increased home cooking got you feeling ho-hum? Spice up your meals with these spice pastes, rubs and marinades. Many of these recipes allow for extras or better yet, make double - your future self will thank you.

Neil Perry's spicy lamb and vegetable soup with chickpeas.

Fresh ginger gives this vegan curry a nose-clearing kick.

EASY

Freezer-friendly red lentil, ginger and coconut curry

< 30 mins

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Pumpkin rendang curry.

MEDIUM

This pumpkin rendang makes double the curry paste you need

1-2 hours

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Skip the weird ingredients lists and make enchilada sauce from scratch.

EASY

Batch-freeze these easy chicken enchiladas

1-2 hours

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Put traditional pastrami spices to work on a midweek fresh salmon fillet.

EASY

Pastrami salmon with horseradish mash - make a double batch of the spice mix and use on chicken thighs, lamb chops, pork ribs, eggplant...

1-2 hours

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Grain bowls are an easy, healthy and delicious choice.

EASY

Black pepper and kaffir lime beef bowls with coconut rice (freeze extra marinade)

30 mins - 1 hour

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Vietnamese chicken served with red rice and coleslaw.

EASY

...or RecipeTin Eats' Vietnamese chicken - keep a stash of marinated meat in the freezer ready to thaw, then cook on demand

< 30 mins

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Lamb and harissa pizza.

MEDIUM

Adam Liaw's spicy Middle Eastern lamb pizza - the dough freezes for 3 months

1-2 hours

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A jumbo marshmallow bobbing in spiced hot chocolate.

EASY

Spicy dark hot chocolate

< 30 mins

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Bloody mary inspired beef sausage rolls with vodka spiked relish.

MEDIUM

Bloody Mary sausage rolls for brunch (freeze some for another day)

30 mins - 1 hour

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Helen Goh recipe: fig, rosemary and chorizo shortbread.

MEDIUM

Fig, rosemary and chorizo shortbread - keep a log of dough in the freezer

30 mins - 1 hour

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Spicy lamb and vegetable soup.

MEDIUM

Spicy lamb and vegetable soup with chickpeas

1-2 hours

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Helen Goh's Moroccan spiced tea loaf recipe.

EASY

This Moroccan spiced tea loaf keeps for a few days and is lovely toasted with butter

1-2 hours

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Bill Granger's beef massaman curry.

MEDIUM

Bill Granger's freeze-ahead beef massaman curry

1-2 hours

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