Easy Seasonal Recipes To Impress Your Friends and Family
My go-to easy dinner party meals!
Need an easy but delicious meal for your next dinner party, or just want to impress your family with a yummy meal?
Look no further, I have some tried and tested crowd pleasers!
Article written by Mimi
Lazy girl starters
When I think of starters my mind goes straight to nibbles.
This way you can feed your guests upon arrival while also not putting in to much effort. It also warms them up for the rest of your food and buys you a bit of time to do the last minute prep for your main course.
The frozen section of supermarkets will be your friend here. You can get the most delicious appetisers. Sausage rolls, sausages, spring rolls, tempura prawns are some of my go-to’s.
Little appetisers partnered with some bubbles are the perfect combination to wow your guests upon arrival.
Main
The main is the centrepiece of your supper so lets make it delicious. There are so many easy recipes that don’t require hours of preparation but are packed with flavour.
This recipe is perfect if you are hosting, it requires very little effort on the night. You can prepare and cook the curry in the day of the dinner party or the night before. Then all you have to do is pop it on the hob to heat up and you are ready to go! You can also make it veggie or vegan so it’s a crowd pleaser for all!
Chicken/ Veg red curry
This is a perfect dish if you are cooking for lots of people. I took inspiration from Jamie Oliver for this recipe. You can make it the day before if you wish as well so its super easy on the night. I promise its a crowd pleaser! Recipe is for 4 people.
Ingredients
Lemongrass paste (2 tbsp,) a bunch of fresh coriander, 5 jarred peppers, 5 cm bit of ginger, 5 garlic cloves, 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp fish sauce, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp tomato puree, a pack of chicken, a pack of mangetout, a pack of baby sweetcorn, 1 400g tin of coconut milk.
Method
Firstly you want to make the curry paste! It is super simple, all you do is pop the lemongrass paste, coriander, peppers, ginger, garlic, oil, fish sauce, soy sauce, tomato puree in a blender until it forms a paste.
Then cook the chicken for about 7 minutes.
I always pop the curry paste in with the Chicken give it a stir then chuck the veg in.
You then want to pop in the coconut milk give it all a good mix around.
Leave it to bubble on a low heat.
The curry is then ready to serve when you are!
Top tip; Coriander is always a nice touch for serving.
ENJOY!!!!
PUDDING
My fave part! There is something so fun about making a delicious pudding for people. This cheesecake is bound to impress you’re loved ones. Its also super easy ad requires no cooking! We are saving the planet one cheesecake at a time.
Lime Cheesecake
Ingredients:
200g of digestive biscuits, 100g melted butter, 500g soft cheese, 100g icing sugar, 3 limes zested and juiced, 250g double cream.
Method
crush up all the biscuits, i always do this by popping them into a food processor.
melt the butter and mix the biscuits in.
pop the biscuit and butter mix into a cake tin about 20cm. Pressing it down with the back of a spoon so it’s all firm.
Pop the base in the fridge.
whisk the soft cheese, icing sugar, lime juice and zest and double cream until thick.
The consistency should look like the picture to the left.
Once it is whisked put it into the cake tin and pop it back in the fridge for at least 3 hours !
When you are ready to serve grate some more lime onto the top and you have it… a very tasty lime cheesecake.
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