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The best store cupboard ingredients

Want an easy way to elevate your midweek meals? Discover our senior food editor's top 10 go-to Foodhall flavour-boosting ingredients to add to your pantry, plus quick and easy recipe ideas for how to use them.

Senior Food Editor

Heather Taylor

Your top 10 midweek ingredient heroes

On busy weeknights, getting dinner on the table can feel like a daily battle. But a cupboard kept stocked with ingredients designed to add instant flavour, without the fuss, is one way of winning the war against mundane midweek meals.

From punchy pastes to expertly balanced spice blends, discover our pick of must-have store cupboard ingredients, and how to use them to add maximum flavour to your weeknight cooking with minimum fuss.

Published 6.4.2024