We’ve all been there. You arrive back after a long day at the office (or perhaps you slam your laptop shut after working from home) and you’re absolutely starving. You’re in the market for something delicious, but you simply don’t have the time – or the patience – to begin a night of peeling, chopping, dicing and grating.

Enter Cook Clever: One Chop, No Waste, All Taste, the new cookbook from Shivi Ramoutar. You might recognise food writer and presenter Ramoutar from her TV work, cropping up on shows like Martin And Roman’s Weekend Best, Garraway’s Good Stuff, Saturday Kitchen and This Morning.

Her previous cookbooks have tackled modern Caribbean cooking and freezer-friendly dishes, but Ramoutar’s latest offering is all about saving time and effort without compromising on taste, using affordable ingredients and supermarket shortcuts.

Just as the title suggests, the emphasis is on no-mess preparation (minimising the washing up, which is always a bonus), making the most of what you have through carefully selected ingredients and high-impact flavours. Essentially, Ramoutar’s proving that easy, speedy meals don’t have to scrimp on taste.

If you’re in the market for a fast weekday dinner, her 15-minute spin on Bibimbap is a must-try, using microwaveable rice and mixed stir-fry veg to speed things along, with plenty of gochujang paste, a mainstay of Korean cooking, to amp up the flavour.

Her harissa roast gnocchi heaven is perfect for vegetarians, with feta providing a delicious creaminess and the harissa paste providing a real kick. And if you’re after something truly comforting after a long, hard day? The chicken cobbler, comprising scone-like ‘clouds’ of pastry on top of a warming chicken and vegetable casserole, should shoot to the top of your to-cook list.

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