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The creamy, korma-inspired sauce for this vegan dream dish swaps cream for smooth almond butter and almond drink. It makes for a velvety, hearty vegetable curry, with golden raisins adding pockets of sweetness and flaked Californian almonds bringing the crunch. A pouch of green speckled lentils is indispensable for speed, and the cauliflower florets cook in the sauce.

Proving pasta needn’t be tomato-based to come together quickly, this warming autumnal recipe combines three ingredients that were born to be together on a snug, dark evening: a jar of golden butternut squash and sage soup, a pack of pork, truffle and parmesan sausages and a bag of kale. Plus, there’s soup left for lunch tomorrow.

Add some tang and pep to your midweek stir-fry by whisking up a glossy teriyaki-style sauce using garlic, ginger, pineapple juice, soy and honey. Just add juicy Honduran prawns, Tenderstem broccoli, spring onions, red pepper, and frozen edamame for a colourful, balanced meal in minutes.

Colder evenings are crying out for comforting sausages and lentils, but few of us think we have time on a regular Thursday. The shortcuts in this recipe change everything: just pop cooked Beluga lentils in a roasting tray with prepared Mediterranean vegetables, sherry vinegar, tomato paste, sausages and Capella Combo tomatoes (no need to remove them from the vine, even) – and hand over to the oven.

A lemony green salad is all it takes to make a golden and sumptuous Friday night dinner out of this rich, buttery frittata. It’s made using M&S Collection free-range golden yolk eggs and M&S wild Scottish kiln smoked haddock fillets, plus whole milk, chives and gruyère. All the good stuff for the end of a busy, flavour-filled week.