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Jamie's 30-Minute Meals: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast by Jamie Oliver

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  • Broccoli orecchiette

    • Categories: Pasta, doughs & sauces; Quick / easy; Main course; Italian
    • Ingredients: Parmesan cheese; broccoli; purple sprouting broccoli; canned anchovies; capers; dried chiles; garlic; thyme
    • Accompaniments: Courgette salad; Prosciutto & melon salad

  • Courgette salad

  • Prosciutto & melon salad

  • Pregnant Jools's pasta

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pasta, doughs & sauces; Main course
    • Ingredients: spring onions; carrots; celery; red chiles; sausages; fennel seeds; oregano; penne pasta; garlic; balsamic vinegar; canned tomatoes; basil
    • Accompaniments: Crunchy chicory & watercress salad

  • Crunchy chicory & watercress salad

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: red leaf chicory; rocket; watercress; Parmesan cheese; lemons
    • Accompaniments: Pregnant Jools's pasta

  • Little frangipane tarts

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert
    • Ingredients: eggs; ground almonds; butter; caster sugar; oranges; vanilla paste; raspberry jam; crème fraîche

  • Cauliflower macaroni

    • Categories: Pasta, baked; Quick / easy; Main course
    • Ingredients: pancetta; cauliflower; macaroni pasta; cheddar cheese; country bread; rosemary; garlic; crème fraîche; Parmesan cheese
    • Accompaniments: Chicory salad with insane dressing

  • Chicory salad with insane dressing

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish
    • Ingredients: red leaf chicory; fresh chicory (Britain); basil; store-cupboard ingredients; canned anchovies; yogurt; red wine vinegar; capers
    • Accompaniments: Cauliflower macaroni

  • Lovely stewed fruit

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Baked & steamed desserts; Dessert
    • Ingredients: plums; vanilla paste; golden caster sugar; oranges; cinnamon sticks; brandy; vanilla ice cream

  • Trapani-style rigatoni

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pasta, doughs & sauces; Main course; Italian
    • Ingredients: ciabatta bread; rigatoni pasta; Parmesan cheese; blanched almonds; garlic; red chiles; basil; anchovies; cherry tomatoes; dried thyme
    • Accompaniments: Griddled chicory salad; Rocket & Parmesan salad

  • Griddled chicory salad

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: red leaf chicory; fresh chicory (Britain); balsamic vinegar; rosemary; garlic
    • Accompaniments: Trapani-style rigatoni

  • Rocket & Parmesan salad

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: wild rocket; Parmesan cheese; lemons
    • Accompaniments: Trapani-style rigatoni

  • Limoncello kinda trifle

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Mousses, trifles, custards & creams; Dessert
    • Ingredients: oranges; limoncello; sponge fingers; mascarpone; icing sugar; milk; lemons; vanilla paste; raspberries; dark chocolate

  • Wonky summer pasta

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pasta, doughs & sauces; Main course; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: egg yolks; Parmesan cheese; lemons; basil; fresh lasagne pasta
    • Accompaniments: Herby salad

  • Herby salad

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish
    • Ingredients: pancetta; garlic; fennel seeds; rocket; tarragon; grapes; balsamic vinegar; lemons
    • Accompaniments: Wonky summer pasta

  • Pear drop tartlets

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert
    • Ingredients: raspberry jam; canned pears; egg whites; caster sugar; vanilla paste; vanilla ice cream; pastry tartlet cases

  • Summer veg lasagne

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pasta, baked; Main course; Summer
    • Ingredients: spring onions; canned anchovies; garlic; asparagus; frozen peas; mint; cream; lemons; vegetable stock; cottage cheese; fresh lasagne pasta; Parmesan cheese; thyme; frozen broad beans
    • Accompaniments: Tuscan tomato salad

  • Tuscan tomato salad

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish; Italian
    • Ingredients: ciabatta bread; fennel seeds; oregano; capers; canned anchovies; basil; garlic; cherry tomatoes; tomatoes; red wine vinegar; Parmesan cheese; jarred red peppers
    • Accompaniments: Summer veg lasagne

  • Quick mango frozen yoghurt in baby cornets

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Ice cream & frozen desserts; Dessert
    • Ingredients: frozen mangoes; honey; limes; mint; yogurt; ice cream cones; chocolate

  • Spaghetti alla puttanesca

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pasta, doughs & sauces; Main course; Italian
    • Ingredients: spaghetti pasta; canned tuna in olive oil; garlic; capers; canned anchovies; red chiles; parsley; black olives; ground cinnamon; tomato passata; lemons
    • Accompaniments: Crunchy salad; Garlic bread

  • Crunchy salad

  • Garlic bread

  • Silky chocolate ganache

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Mousses, trifles, custards & creams; Dessert
    • Ingredients: chocolate; butter; cream; clementines; palmiers

  • Cheat's pizza

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Pizza & calzones; Main course
    • Ingredients: self-raising flour; canned tomatoes; basil; garlic; red wine vinegar; buffalo mozzarella cheese; Parmesan cheese; salami; fennel seeds; red chiles
    • Accompaniments: Mozzarella salad; Tomato salad; Rocket salad

  • Rocket salad

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads; Side dish; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: rocket; lemons; olive oil
    • Accompaniments: Cheat's pizza

Notes about this book

  • Janemac on June 13, 2011

    Great recipes and meal ideas, quick to prepare but usually take more than 30 minutes. Excellent when cooking after work suppers for friends.

Notes about Recipes in this book

  • Piri piri chicken

    • clo4cb94 on June 03, 2011

      Amazing

    • alisa on May 23, 2012

      Fantastic flavours

  • Dressed potatoes

    • Cheesepiggy on June 08, 2011

      Leave out the corriander

  • Chicken pie

    • rbarathan on August 01, 2011

      amazing recipe - I have cooked this dish at least 5 times (that is saying something - as I usually don't repeat a recipe!) - really easy and quick - perfect for a mid week supper!

    • redjanet on August 25, 2011

      I have made this a couple of times now and it has come out well each time. A bit messy, but worth it.

    • coontey on November 25, 2011

      One of the many bomb-proof recepies in this book. V fast and the kids love it!

    • sharifah on December 12, 2011

      Nice and easy - would make this again

  • Sea bass & crispy pancetta

    • redjanet on September 09, 2011

      This tasted really great, although I'm not very adept at pan-frying fish fillets and it all fell apart a bit in the pan. Worth it for the flavour, though. I just served this with new potatoes and a green salad and it all went very well with a crisp Sauvignon Blanc.

  • Wonky summer pasta

    • coontey on November 25, 2011

      This is fab!: - Just put on the pasta and THEN start the sauce. One of the few genuine 10m recepies from start to finish. Don't overdo the lemon juice tho'.....

  • Sweet carrot smash

    • sharifah on December 12, 2011

      A bit watery, make sure carrots are drained properly and left to dry for a minute - had to add a bit of butter to add flavour

  • Limoncello kinda trifle

  • Pregnant Jools's pasta

    • Melanie on February 20, 2012

      This pasta definitely passed the test! Tasted great – we used chorizo sausages and skipped the celery & basil (none at hand) and chillies (cooking for non spicy food eaters). If making just for myself I would add the chillies back in. Note that I had it slightly easier as my sister had already thrown the meat and veggies into the food processor and I just had to cook it later on. I still let the sauce cook for about 40 minutes though, pushing this dish way past the overall 30 minute meal mark. I think the flavour made up for it though so I would leave it to cook for a while next time anyway. I served this with garlic bread and a salad of rocket, parmesan and lemon juice and would probably do the same again next time.

  • Super-fast beef hash

    • sharifah on May 09, 2012

      Followed this recipe to the letter, except that I didn't have any celery so I doubled up on the carrots. The flavour was nice, and the addition of Worcestershire sauce made it tasty but I found it quite a dry dish. If I were to make it again, I would add a splash of beef stock and covered the pan to keep moisture in.

  • Spinach & feta filo pie

    • alisa on May 23, 2012

      Great way to get lot's of spinach in one meal - I used 4 bags!

  • Mustard chicken

    • sarahcooks on May 29, 2012

      I didn't think I liked mustard, but this was delicious, and the mustard is so mild in the cream. Cooked this whole meal in 35 minutes.

  • Quick Dauphinoise

    • sarahcooks on May 29, 2012

      This was as quick as he says, and delicious. I didn't include the anchovy and it was still very good.

  • Black Forest affogato

    • sarahcooks on May 29, 2012

      So good for so little effort. I was serving this to small children so I used strong hot chocolate instead of coffee and it was delicious.

  • Sweet potato mash

    • anneskitchen on July 20, 2012

      Whilst I liked the recipe overall, it took a lot longer than I thought to mash it up on the board and as a result it cooled down very quickly.

  • Chicken skewers

    • sarahcooks on September 05, 2012

      I grilled these instead of broiled them. The satay sauce was really good, but I felt the meat would have benefited from a longer soak in the sauce. Not the point of 30 minute meals I know, but still. I made the whole meal and it took me an hour with my husband doing the grilling. I have made his meals in closer to the 30 minute mark, but doing this one in that amount of time is laughable. Not to say it's not a great meal, but keep in mind it's not the quickest in the book.

  • Fiery noodle salad

    • sarahcooks on September 05, 2012

      I really liked this. I think I will be making this again, but instead of doing the whole meal, I will just grill one chicken breast with my favorite store bought thai peanut sauce and add it to this noodle dish. Maybe throw some peapods or other vegetable in to make a one dish meal. The cashews are phenomenal, don't skimp on them.

  • Fruit & mint sugar

    • sarahcooks on September 05, 2012

      I didn't have any mint so I used pineapple sage from my garden. Maybe it was less potent, but I couldn't really taste it in the sugar. I think to simplify in the future I would just serve the pineapple and blueberries with the coconut yogurt. I used So Delicious yogurt made from cultured coconut milk, not sure if he meant that or coconut flavored yogurt, but I really liked it and it went brilliantly with the fruit. Made the fruit more "dessert-like" without making it unhealthy.

  • Roasted baby new potatoes

    • saladdays on September 09, 2012

      A very easy way of cooking roast potatoes if you are already using the oven for the main course. Pre-cooking the potatoes in the microwave makes for 20 minutes cooking time. Be generous with the lemon juice and herbs to make them really tasty.

  • Seriously good fish tagine

    • sharifah on September 27, 2012

      As per the name, this was seriously good! Because I had to clean the mussels, (Jamie's instructions said get your fishmonger to do it), I did the dish in 40 minutes, with the couscous, yogurt & a different simpler salad. One of his instructions I thought was daft; he said roughly chop 2 tomatoes, and finely chop the other 2 tomatoes - why? So I did a rough chop for all tomatoes. And I used cod instead of monkfish - cheaper, still lovely.

  • Rogan josh & fluffy rice

    • Jane on November 02, 2012

      Like many recipes in this book, this is not as fast as suggested. Prepping and cooking 2 onions, a butternut squash, a cauliflower, some spinach and coriander is never going to be done in 30 minutes. And I didn't do all the other components of the meal like rice, salad, bread, poppadoms. It was good though, I liked the combination of vegetables and I will make it again.

  • Sweet chilli rice

    • Cheri on March 24, 2013

      This was one of those recipes that seemed like a good idea, but... We did not like the texture or the flavor. I followed the recipe exactly and usually have good results with his recipes. I will not repeat this, threw out the mushy mess.

  • Goddess salad

    • Cheri on March 25, 2013

      Too much lemon. This dressing is quite bland. I did have a ripe avacado, but 1/2 avacado to the entire juice of one lemon is too much/little. Sour cream makes it blander. I would not repeat. I'm sure there are many superior goddess salad dressing recipes.

  • Broccoli orecchiette

    • Cheri on March 26, 2013

      This was dry and dull. I will not repeat. Nothing special here.

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Reviews about this book

  • My Recipe Book Blog

    ...all the food turned out well and was extremely tasty. A very good read, with lots of information about the type of kitchen implements and utensils you will need to complete the recipes.

    Full review

  • Oregonian

    ...consolidating recipes into 50 master recipes for entire meals, which he says you can make in 20 to 30 minutes. His method is based on organization, efficiency and cooking quickly.

    Full review

Reviews about Recipes in this Book

  • Strawberry slushie

    • My Recipe Book Blog

      The strawberry slushie was fresh tasting and totally yummy , and actually would make brilliant ice lollies for children if you were to pour some into lolly moulds and freeze.

      Full review

  • Broccoli orecchiette

    • My Recipe Book Blog

      The pasta dish had a heady complex garlic taste, it was satisfyingly filling, without being too heavy for a meal on a hot summers day.

      Full review

  • Beetroot salad

    • My Recipe Book Blog

      So really it was a win-win situation for the recipe, I couldn't really go wrong.....could I ? No I couldn't it was delicious, complex tastes and soooo easy to do.

      Full review
  • ISBN 10 0718154770
  • ISBN 13 9780718154776
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  • Published Sep 30 2010
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Michael Joseph Ltd

Publishers Text

In his new book, "Jamie's 30-Minute Meals", Jamie proves that, by mastering a few tricks and being organized and focused in the kitchen, it is absolutely possible, and easy, to get a complete meal on the table in the same amount of time you'd normally spend making one dish! The 50 brand-new meal ideas in this book are exciting, varied and seasonal. They include main course recipes with side dishes as well as puddings and drinks, and are all meals you'll be proud to serve your family and friends. Jamie has written the recipes in a way that will help you make the most of every single minute in the kitchen. This book is as practical as it is beautiful, showing that with a bit of preparation, the right equipment and some organization, hearty, delicious, quick meals are less than half an hour away. You'll be amazed by what you're able to achieve.

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