This outrageously delicious saucy dinner is your one-pan answer to chicken satay

Sydney look writer Nicole Maguire’s speedy weeknight lifesavers and low-cost household favourites person earned her much than a cardinal followers astatine her online hub Simple Home Edit.

Now she’s released her debut cookbook, The Simple Dinner Edit, a postulation of much than 80 casual and achievable dinners utilizing mundane ingredients.

Here, Maguire shares 3 casual one-pot recipes to effort astatine home.

This affluent and saucy one-pan peanut chickenhearted needs lone immoderate accompanying greens.Jeremy Simons

One-pan peanut chicken

A mates of months agone I had immoderate coconut beverage successful the freezer that I needed to
use up, and a hankering for chickenhearted satay. I made this astonishing one-pan peanut
chicken and we haven’t been capable to halt eating it since. Chicken thigh cutlets
are an fantabulous speedy meal hole astatine the champion of times, arsenic they’re inexpensive and
relatively hands-off to prepare. In this recipe, the luxurious peanut and coconut
sauce is poured straight onto the chicken, which is roasted until juicy and crispy
skinned. It’s outrageously delicious and I’m near with lone 1 cookware to lavation up.
The condiment is affluent and there’s a batch of it (high sauce-to-chicken ratios are non-negotiable astatine my place!), truthful a large sheet of steamed greens is the perfect
accompaniment. I’ve gone with bok choy; take whatever’s successful season.

INGREDIENTS

• 1.2 kg bone-in, skin-on chickenhearted thigh cutlets (5-6 pieces)
• 1½ tsp oversea brackish flakes
• 1 tsp saccharine paprika
• 1 tsp bulb powder
• ½ tsp freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• 3 tbsp olive oil

Sauce

• 1 tsp freshly grated garlic
• 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
• 250ml (1 cup) coconut milk
• 90g (⅓ cup) earthy creaseless peanut butter
• ½ tsp acheronian soy condiment
• 2 tbsp tamari oregon soy sauce
• 2 tbsp runny honey
• 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lime
• juice (or atom vino vinegar)

To serve

• crushed peanuts
• coriander leaves
• sliced bird’s oculus chilli (optional)
• steamed bok choy
• steamed jasmine rice
• lime wedges

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180C fan-forced (220C conventional).
2. Pat the chickenhearted adust utilizing insubstantial towel. Place it successful a ample vessel and sprinkle it with the salt, paprika, bulb pulverization and pepper. Drizzle with the olive lipid and usage your hands to guarantee the chickenhearted is evenly coated.
3. Arrange the chickenhearted connected a large, heavy baking tray and cook for 35 minutes. Spoon out/drain distant immoderate excess abdominous successful the tray.
4. For the sauce, harvester the ingredients successful a bowl, past determination the substance into the cookware astir the chicken. Bake for a further 15 minutes.
5. Top with the peanuts, coriander and sliced chilli (if using). Serve with the steamed bok choy and jasmine atom with the lime wedges connected the side.

Serves 4

One-pot Greek chickenhearted and rice: speedy and delicious.Jeremy Simons

One-pot Greek chickenhearted and rice

I’m not 1 to walk hours successful the kitchen. As overmuch arsenic I bask leisurely cooking,
most days I’m focused connected getting meal connected the array earlier I’m excessively bushed to
cook oregon the kids are excessively bushed to eat! I origin that successful erstwhile I’m repast planning, and meals similar this 1 swoop successful and prevention the time each time. Chicken fillets are
marinated successful classical Greek flavours – deliberation garlic, citrus and oregano – before
being cooked successful 1 cookware with rice. The atom steals the show, being cooked in
garlic and chickenhearted banal portion mingling with the chickenhearted juices. Generous
handfuls of spinach apical it off, truthful determination is nary request to fuss with immoderate additional
sides. This is my favourite benignant of location cooking. Anyone who eats this stares
at maine bewildered astatine however delicious it is, and I look backmost astatine them knowingly,
already getting acceptable to walk connected the recipe.

INGREDIENTS

• 600g chickenhearted thigh fillets, tegument connected (about 5-6 chickenhearted thighs)
• 1 tsp finely chopped garlic
• 1 tbsp dried oregano
• ½ tsp saccharine paprika
• ½ tsp oversea brackish flakes
• ½ tsp freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• zest of 1 lemon, positive 3 tbsp
• freshly squeezed citrus juice
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Rice

• 1 onion, finely diced
• 1 tsp finely chopped garlic
• 300g (1½ cups) achromatic atom (jasmine oregon basmati)
• 750ml (3 cups) chickenhearted stock
• 130g (2 cups) astir chopped spinach leaves (see note)
• ½ tsp freshly crushed achromatic pepper

To serve

• 1 tbsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley oregon oregano leaves
• lemon slices and citrus zest (optional)
• crumbled feta (optional)

METHOD

1. Place the chickenhearted thigh fillets successful a ample vessel with the garlic, dried oregano,
   paprika, salt, pepper, citrus zest, citrus foodstuff and olive oil. Use your hands to overgarment the chickenhearted evenly.
2. Heat a large, heavy-based oven-proof sauté cookware implicit mean heat. Cook the chickenhearted for 5–8 minutes until golden. Remove the chickenhearted from the cookware and acceptable aside.
3. For the rice, adhd 1-2 tablespoons h2o to the aforesaid cookware and disturbance to deglaze
   and loosen each the sticky bits, past adhd the bulb and garlic. Cook, stirring for 2 minutes, until softened. Add the rice, chickenhearted stock, spinach and pepper.
4. Return the chickenhearted to the pan. Cover, trim the vigor to the lowest setting
   and navigator for 20 minutes.
5. Remove the cookware from the vigor and fto basal with the lid connected for 10 minutes.
   This volition let for immoderate residual liquid to beryllium absorbed.
6. Top the chickenhearted and atom with the parsley oregon oregano, citrus slices, citrus zest and feta (if using), past serve.

Note: You tin substitute the vegetables to suit your family’s tastes. Spinach,
kale, silverbeet, sliced greenish beans, diced zucchini, peas oregon broccoli florets each enactment well.

Rich reddish vino and herb beef ragu: precocious wow factor, debased maintenance.Jeremy Simons

Rich reddish vino and herb beef ragu

I americium a monolithic instrumentality of one-pot recipes arsenic they mean little washing up, which
I ever appreciate. But this 1 is other special. Beef ragu has a wow factor.
Beef is dilatory cooked successful a luscious herb and reddish wine-based condiment before
being piled connected apical of pasta and sprinkled with (a lot!) of parmesan. The best
part astir this crockery is that determination are nary analyzable instructions oregon specialty
ingredients needed. I take to marque this connected days erstwhile I’m pottering around
the house. I tin enactment this connected and person it blipping distant successful the inheritance and
then travel backmost to a big, delicious vessel of comfort. A bonus is that
this beef ragu tin beryllium made successful bulk and frozen successful batches, acceptable for whenever
it is needed.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 onions, finely diced
• 2 ample carrots, peeled and finely diced
• 2 celery stalks, finely diced
• 2 ail cloves, astir chopped
• 800g-1kg chuck steak, chopped into astir 2cm cubes
• 125ml (½ cup) reddish wine
• 125g (½ cup) herb paste
• 700g jar passata
• 500ml (2 cups) beef stock
• 1 tsp oversea brackish flakes
• ½ tsp freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 2 bay leaves
• cooked pasta of your choice, to serve
• freshly grated parmesan, to serve

METHOD

1. Heat the olive lipid successful a deep, heavy-based frying cookware with a lid implicit medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrot, celery and ail and cook, stirring, for 3–5 minutes until softened.
2. Increase the vigor to high, adhd the beef and cook, stirring, for 2–3 minutes until browned. Add the reddish wine, herb paste, passata, beef stock, salt, pepper, thyme and bay leaves and disturbance them through.
3. Bring the ragu to a simmer, past screen and trim the vigor to the lowest setting. Cook for 2½ hours oregon until the beef is tender capable to beryllium easy shredded with 2 forks (see Note below). Shred the beef and service with your favourite cooked pasta and the parmesan.

Note: If the beef is inactive pugnacious aft 2½ hours of cooking, it needs to navigator for longer. Make definite the condiment is bubbling mildly (you should inactive beryllium capable to spot bubbles appearing successful the condiment – if not, the vigor is excessively low, and the beef volition instrumentality a batch longer to cook). The quality of chuck steak is that it is astir impossible
to overcook. The longer it cooks, the much it volition soften and interruption down into
the sauce. Continue cooking successful 30-minute intervals; if the condiment seems too
thick and is sticking to the basal of the pan, adhd 125ml (½ cup) of water.

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This is an edited extract from The Simple Dinner Edit by Nicole Maguire, published by Plum/Pan Macmillan Australia, RRP $39.99. Photography by Jeremy Simons. Buy now

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