Each Valentine’s Day, steak is the overwhelming favorite of Good Meals customers. 1000’s of you need to know how you can prepare dinner the right steak (high tip: the key is fast cooking and fixed consideration). Browse our greatest steak recipes and Valentine’s Day steak recipes for concepts utilizing all cuts together with sirloin and rib-eye, plus get concepts for leaner suppers and steak salads.
The recipe pictured above is our smoky steak with Cajun potatoes & spicy slaw. For a traditional steak & chip combo, see our recipe for rib-eye steak with pink wine & pastrami sauce, whereas our bavette steak with chips, tarragon & mushroom sauce & watercress salad makes a budget-friendly steak supper.
And let’s not neglect in regards to the steak sauces and sides. Peppercorn sauce is your favorite accompaniment, carefully adopted by bistro traditional, shallot & pink wine sauce. Our information to facet dishes is full of inspiration for extra sauces, potatoes and different accompaniments (mac ‘n’ cheese, anybody?).
2. Dauphinoise potatoes
For those who’re going try to make a spud romantic, giving it the French remedy isn’t a nasty concept. It appears loads of you’re taking that route as this creamy gratin is the most well-liked facet dish on Valentine’s Day.
Take it up a notch with our subsequent stage dauphinoise potatoes recipe, or work it right into a most important course in its personal proper, by utilizing it to high a lamb hotpot, or including smoked salmon and celeriac.
3. Spaghetti carbonara
One other wealthy and creamy dish that our customers can’t get sufficient of on Valentine’s Day is carbonara. With its heady mixture of cheese, eggs and crispy pancetta, plus the truth that it solely takes about half an hour to prepare dinner from begin to end, it’s hardly shocking.
For those who’re in search of a fail-safe choice that’s certain to impress, try our 5 star-rated traditional carbonara. For an much more indulgent spin, add a couple of drops of truffle oil or swap for smoked salmon.
4. Cupcakes
As a substitute of shopping for candies, a few of you select to make your individual edible presents. Final yr, hundreds of you mentioned ‘I really like you’ with cupcakes. Your favourites have been our straightforward vanilla buttercream cupcakes, adopted by chocolate and carrot & tender cheese cupcakes.
Get extra Valentine’s concepts for candy treats you can also make your self. See our high 10 Valentine’s cupcakes and all our greatest Valentine’s baking recipes.
5. Fast & straightforward cocktails
Plenty of you have been in search of cocktail inspiration final yr – our information on 10 fast and simple Valentine’s Day cocktails notched up hundreds of views.
See our Valentine’s Day cocktail for a romantic ruby-red tipple, or uncover extra Valentine’s Day cocktail recipes.
And our customers appear notably a fan of a martini, with recipes for passionfruit martini and espresso martini amongst our hottest all yr spherical. Browse our greatest cocktail recipes for extra concepts. We’ve additionally obtained numerous mocktail recipes together with gin-free G&T, fake fizz and a mock mojito.
6. Pork chops
Serve up a easy dinner with a distinction with these straightforward pork chops, served with mustardy butter beans and spinach. It is a flavour-packed dish which additionally delivers three of your five-a-day, leaving you with room to indulge on dessert.
For extra fast and simple Valentine’s meal concepts, see our fast and simple Valentine’s Day menu, in addition to our price range Valentine’s Day concepts for pocket-friendly recipes. Brief on time however need to impress your sweetheart? Try our last-minute Valentine’s Day menu.
7. Tomato & mascarpone risotto
A comforting risotto for 2 is ideal for a Valentine’s night wind-down. You’ll be able to simply double the portions, providing you with leftovers for the times that observe, plus you can throw some solar dried tomatoes in for a richer, decadent flavour.
Veggie and vegan recipes have turn out to be more and more common on the positioning over the previous couple of years, and Valentine’s Day is not any exception. Final yr, you liked our straightforward veggie Valentine’s Day menu, with dish solutions together with courgette carpaccio to start out, hazelnut & oregano pasta for most important and a boozy chocolate fondue for pud.
See our vegetarian and vegan recipe concepts for Valentine’s Day.
8. Strawberry cheesecake
Strawberries won’t be in season in February however that doesn’t cease you craving our no-bake cheesecake topped with strawberry purée. For a extra seasonal different, do that contemporary and citrusy lemon cheesecake or our wealthy chocolate hazelnut cheesecake.
Cheesecake requires a little bit of ahead planning – many recipes want you to organize it the night time earlier than to provide it loads of time to set. However for the organised amongst you, the outcomes are price it.
9. Seafood
Not all of you plump for a meat-heavy most important. Our customers are venturing into seafood dishes for 2, whether or not it is a creamy salmon, leek & potato traybake or spicy prawn & harissa spaghetti.
Sea bass searches have been steadily rising over time and on 14 February it appears our customers love scanning our sea bass recipe assortment to seek out one thing totally different for his or her Valentine’s unfold. Attempt it Italian-style, en papillote, steamed with Asian flavours or baked with a lemon caper dressing.
For extra spectacular seafood recipes, from pastas and paellas to creamy chowders and curries, see our complete seafood recipe assortment.
10. Valentine’s biscuits
After cupcakes, biscuits are your favorite Valentine’s Day bake. There are such a lot of totally different decorations to select from, together with these jammy coronary heart drops and caption cookies, however our slice and bake biscuits have been your best choice final yr. Try our greatest Valentine’s Day biscuit recipes for extra inspiration.
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