Our Top Storecupboard Recipes (2024)

This crumble is made purely from storecupboard ingredients and tastes delicious. It also happens to be vegan.

Recipe: Storecupboard Peach Crumble

A few store cupboard staples are all you need to make this protein-packed meal.

Recipe: Peanut Butter Noodles

Wonderful as a weekend brunch recipe or cheap midweek meal.

Recipe: Corned Beef Hash

We've made this tasty pasta dish even simpler, by cooking everything in one pan - and there's less washing up, too!

Recipe: One-Pan Puttanesca

Transform storecupboard favourites into a traditional Sicilian meal.

Recipe: Pasta Con Le Sarde

If you don’t have tinned crab, any tinned fish or fresh or frozen seafood would work just as well.

Recipe: Chilli Crab Noodles

This curry is ready in just 20min and you’ll have many of the ingredients in your store cupboard already. Any nut butter can replace the peanut butter in this recipe - we particularly like it with cashew butter.

Recipe: Speedy Prawn Peanut Curry

This is an easy traybake recipe. Perfect for a midweek meal. The cod fillets and the vegetables all go in the same pan so it also saves on the washing up.

Recipe: Grown-Up Fish Finger Traybake

A satisfying burger, sure to placate even the most demanding meat eaters.

Recipe: Lentil and Quinoa Burger

If you’re after a fiery vegetarian soup, omit the crab and use vegetable stock (you’ll still be getting protein from the chickpeas). If using tinned crab meat, look for lump ather than shredded.

Recipe: Crab Harissa Chickpea Soup

You can add a few basic ingredients to transform a plain omelette into a feast.

Recipe: Store cupboard omelette

You’ll likely have most of these economical ingredients in your store cupboard already, making it the perfect student meal.

Recipe: Tuna Pasta Bake Pie

Slow cooking the lentils gives this dhal layers of delicious flavour and texture. Try to use chana dall lentils (we used the ‘East End’ brand, which are found in many supermarkets): they hold their shape well when cooking for a long time, yellow split peas can be substituted but be aware they will turn mushy quicker so cook for less time.

Recipe: Slow Cooker Sweet and Sour Dhal

This comforting recipe uses two store cupboard favourites - Baked Beans and Worcestershire Sauce.

Recipe: Sausage and Bean Hotpot

This pasta dish traditionally makes the most of your store cupboard ingredients – we’ve added chicken breasts to make it more substantial.

Recipe: Chicken Puttanesca

This homemade pea soup recipe couldn't be simpler and tastes much better than shop bought.

Recipe: Simple pea soup

Harissa paste is a great flavour enhancer to keep in your fridge for whenever you need some spice.

Recipe: Fragrant Fish Tagine Traybake