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Upgrade your mealtimes with easy, delicious and inspiring recipes that are destined to become everyday favourites. Featuring recipes from Rukmini’s ‘Quick and Easy’ column in the Guardian, with simple but elevated flavour combinations and shortcut techniques to get tasty food on the table in under 30 minutes.

With 90 winning recipes, you’ll discover:
- Hands off heroes such as White bean & kale cassoulet
- New ways with pasta including Courgette linguine with trout, lemon & dill
- One-tin wonders like Harissa-spiked gnocchi fish pie
- Storecupboard saviours such as Crispy butterbean salad with cos, coriander & chorizo
- Throw-together meals like Black pepper & bay leaf chicken curry

All ready to be pulled together on a weeknight with as little hands-on time as possible – these are the recipes for when you’re short on time but still want something nourishing, flavour-packed and low effort.

By Rukmini Iyer, author of the 1.75 million copy bestselling series, The Roasting Tin.


Praise for Rukmini Iyer:
'So clever and fantastic for families' Daily Telegraph

'Earned a place in kitchens up and down the country' Nigella Lawson

'Simple, stress-free dinner ideas’ Evening Standard

'The beauty of this kind of cooking is it requires so little preparation' Daily Mail

'It's a boon for any busy household' Jay Rayner

'Rukmini just keeps pulling all these absolute bangers out of the bag' India Knight

Thirty: Simple Half Hour Recipes

  • By Rukmini Iyer

    Upgrade your mealtimes with easy, delicious and inspiring recipes that are destined to become everyday favourites, from Rukmini Iyer, author of the 1.75 million copy bestselling series, The Roasting Tin.

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    Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing l Pub date: May 2027 l Format: 241 x 176mm l Extent: 256 pages l 

  • About the Author

    Iyer Rukmini was born in Cambridgeshire, read English Literature at Edinburgh University, after which she moved to London to study law. Whilst working as a trainee solicitor, Iyer realised cooking was her true passion and went onto retrain as a chef. She worked for Tom Kitchin at The Kitchen and was in the final seven of MasterChef in 2013. Iyer is the author of several bestselling cookbooks, including the hugely popular Roasting Tin series, based on the ethos of cooking delicious, healthy and quick one-tin mid-week meals, with minimal washing up. The series includes The Roasting Tin (2017); The Green Roasting Tin (2018), The Quick Roasting Tin (2019), The Roasting Tin Around the World (2020) and The Sweet Roasting Tin (2021).

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