Pizza-style penne with salami crisps
We’ve taken two popular Italian staples and created this epic pizza-style pasta dish, complete with all…
🍽 Serves 4 ⏱ 30 min oven◆ Easy
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Easy student recipes
Student recipes needn’t be boring. We’ve selected easy recipes that are cheap, quick and tasty, to help you eat well as you study or if you’re heading off to university for the first time. Some of our favourite cheap student meals include tuna and broccoli pasta bake, spaghetti bolognese and a warming veggie chilli.
Get some basic student recipes under your belt, including a classic tomato sauce, smashed avocado on toast and traditional pancakes for Shrove Tuesday – plus chocolate cookies to share with new friends.
With a few ingredients, you can transform cheap student meal staples like rice, pasta and eggs into dishes like sausage, fennel and mascarpone orzo, smoky jollof or turmeric eggs with spinach. Lentils are another great option – try our red lentil dal or coconut dal – and you can swap the packaged stuff for the real deal with our easy chicken ramen bowls.
Lucky enough to have an air fryer at university? Our air fryer chicken breast salad is a must-make, along with a speedy marinated air fryer salmon.
If you need to stretch that student budget, check out the rest of our budget recipes and cheap healthy ideas, too.
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Air fryer chicken breasts with crispy new potato salad
The recipe combines spiced air fryer chicken breasts and a crispy new potato salad for a…
Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 20 min hands-on · 35 min oven◆ Easy
Air fryer crispy chickpea-stuffed aubergines with whipped feta
Air fryer crispy chickpeas are stuffed into aubergines and served with whipped feta in this delicious…
Gluten-freeVegetarian
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 20 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Fruity chicken curry traybake
Take a pack of chicken breasts and make our easy chicken curry in the oven –…
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 10 min hands-on · 25 min oven◆ Easy
Air fryer orzo puttanesca
This easy air fryer orzo puttanesca takes one-pot cooking to the next level. Recipe writer Louise…
VeganVegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 4 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Air fryer Singapore noodles
“You don’t need a wok to make these Singapore noodles – the air fryer does all…
VeganVegetarian
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 10 min hands-on · 13 min oven◆ Easy
Pao bhaji (Mumbai street food)
Pao bhaji (or Pav bhaji) is an iconic Mumbai street food dish of spicy vegetable curry…
VeganVegetarian
🍽 Serves 4-6⏱ 10 min hands-on · 35 min oven◆ Easy
Pulled crispy mushroom udon noodles
Crispy mushrooms, toothsome udon noodles and an addictive peanut sauce combine forces in this easy midweek…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 10 min hands-on · 25 min oven◆ Easy
Toasted pasta with smoky tomato sauce
Have you ever toasted your pasta? Try it in this simple vegan pasta recipe with smoky…
Dairy-freeVegan
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 5 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Air fryer salt and pepper tofu
A mixture of white pepper and sichuan pepper with red and green chillies gives salt and…
Dairy-freeGluten-free
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 10 min hands-on · 15 min oven◆ Easy
Base overnight oats recipe (ratio), with flavour ideas
Overnight oats are similar to porridge but rely on time rather than heat to become creamy…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 1⏱ 5 min hands-on◆ Easy
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