Best Comfort Food Recipes (2024)

This hearty supper dish fills you up and keeps out the cold. You can replace the spring greens in this recipe with any variety of green cabbage. Vegetarians can omit the bacon.

Try this Potato, bacon and greens cheesy bake recipe

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The ultimate comfort food, this fish pie can be on the table in less than an hour.

Try this classic fish pie recipe

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Is it a brunch or is it a lunch? Or even a midweek meal? Whichever you decide it's clear this dish, from the Leon cookbook, is comfort food at its most pure. A rich, runny yolk cascading over the salty flavours of the ham and the soft mush of the broad beans. Glorious.

Try this broad beans, kale and ham recipe here

Hearty ingredients, satisfyingly tasty and a real crowd pleaser – add this one-pot wonder to your repertoire.

Try this classic beef stew recipe

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Serve piping hot straight from the oven. No need for vegetables on the side, it comes all in one.

Try this chicken, leek and bacon pot pie recipe

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James Tanner says: ‘This reminds me of my childhood. Serve hot, with peas, mashed potato and thick onion gravy, or however your mum used to serve it.’

Try James Tanner's toad in the hole recipe

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This is a classic, hearty lamb dish which originates from Lancashire. Perfect on a cold winter’s evening.

Try this lamb and potato hotpot recipe

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Tom Aikens' Macaroni cheese is the ultimate comfort food, which can be on the table in less than an hour.

Try Tom Aiken's Leicestershire Red macaroni cheese recipe

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The cheesy creamy mash, onion gravy, and succulent sausages make for a quick and easy comfort food classic with a twist.

Try this bangers and Stilton mash recipe

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The classic pasta and bacon combo. Italians frown upon the use of cream in carbonara, preferring an emulsion of eggs, butter and pasta water.

Try this spaghetti carbonara recipe

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This classic topping of mashed potato is given a twist by adding parsnips.

Try this cottage pie with parsnip mash recipe

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There is something rather comforting about chicken soup at any time of the year.

Try Mark Hix's creamed chicken and mushroom broth recipe

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There’s nothing like treating yourself to moist and buttery home-made crumpets on a lazy Sunday morning.

Try this delicious home-made crumpets recipe

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Chef Jamie Oliver suggests serving this fantastically flavoursome peri peri chicken recipe with dressed potatoes, rocket salad and quick Portuguese tarts.

Try Jamie Oliver's peri peri chicken recipe

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