The Roasting Tin: Simple One Dish Dinners (Rukmini’s Roasting Tin)

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Dough is often seen as one of the more challenging areas of baking, but with the simple instructions and handy tips Rukmini includes in her chapter on dough-based creations, you’ll soon master everything from buns to bread with ease. Decades earlier, her parents began a courtship on the 1,000-mile-long, 24-hour railway journeys between Kolkata on India’s east coast, where her mother lived, and Chennai in the south, her father’s home region. I mostly cook just for me (no family, no dinner parties etc), so mainly interested in main dishes with leftovers as needed. With a topping made from oats, spelt and fresh ginger, this is a lighter, fresher take on this favourite dessert all round. Driven by occassion rather than ingredient (I did miss those infographics, but that's what her other books are for), it is a worthy companion to both The Roasting Tin: Simple One Dish Dinners and The Green Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners (my personal favourite, and the one that has found a home on my bookshelf).

The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer | Waterstones The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer | Waterstones

Everyone will feed you more than a full meal, be really offended if you don't eat right, then try and feed you more. The perfect way to experience your favourite international flavours flavours and bring the world to your dinner table this summer. With their focus on fuss-free flavour, clever ingredient combinations, and leaving the hard work to the oven, it is by no means an exaggeration to say that The Roasting Tin series has totally transformed the nation’s cooking, particularly on busy weeknights.

There have been several iterations of this recipe throughout the Roasting Tin series, but we especially love this version with roast peppers, rosemary, and ricotta. Arriving into our lives earlier this year in a flurry of icing sugar and fragrant spices, The Sweet Roasting Tin aimed to do for baking what Rukmini Iyer’s previous books. Covering all of the baking bases, chapters span traybakes, muffins, loaf cakes, brownies, cookies, crumbles, tarts and cobblers, bread and butter puddings, minimal baking, cupcakes, dough, high days and holidays, and gluten-free, vegan and diabetic-friendly recipes. These quick, clever and delicious recipes are for anyone who wants to eat nutritious food made from scratch that fits around their busy lives. Judy Murray, OBE | ' Earned a place in kitchens up and down the country' Nigella Lawson | ' A boon for any busy household' Jay Rayner | ' This book has changed my life' Juno Dawson | ' So delicious.

RUKMINI IYER

In 2017, she released her first book, The Roasting Tin: Simple One Dish Dinners; since then, more than a million copies of the resulting series – The Green Roasting Tin, The Roasting Tin Around the World, The Quick Roasting Tin and The Sweet Roasting Tin – have sold, changing dinnertimes around the country as people realised nutritious, healthy and interesting food really was possible to put on the table, often with just 30 minutes' hands-free cooking time. Find recipes from Jamie Oliver’s 2023 Channel 4 cookery TV series 5 Ingredient Meals and accompanying cookbook 5 Ingredients Mediterranean. Rukmini is also the author of The Green Barbecue, a collection of vegetarian and vegan barbecue recipes. Alongside family news they would include recipes, comforting normalities from home that have become the most precious of heirlooms. These speedy oven meals embrace both meat and meat-free diets alike, put emphasis on flavour and are easy to adapt depending on what you have in the fridge and cupboards.Behind the scenes, Iyer was devising a way to combine those legacies: “I've sort of been plugging away at it for years,” Iyer says. The perfect gift for any baker, our limited edition The Sweet Roasting Tin gift set includes a copy of the book and a stylish yet practical baking tin from the iconic enamelware brand, Falcon. I haven't found the ones I did to be a faff - I like just putting everything in a pan and being done with it. With every meal in this book, you simply pop your ingredients in a tin and let the oven do the work.

The Quick Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer | Waterstones The Quick Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer | Waterstones

I was drawn to the Rainbow Tabbouleh with Avocado, Radishes and Pomegranate, to the Mediterranean Courgettes with Olives, Feta and Tomatoes, to the Beetroot, Chick Pea and Coconut curry - a ruby beauty! Rukmini’s cookbooks always promise plenty of inspiration for our vegan friends and The Sweet Roasting Tin is no different.In her latest cookbook, The Sweet Roasting Tin, this ethos endures as Rukmini ventures into the wonderful world of baking. India Express blends the no-fuss approach that has catapulted Iyer repeatedly to the top of the bestsellers chart with the kind of South Indian cooking that, as she says, “isn't really well represented in books. The Roasting Tin Around the World’ was named in The Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Daily Mail’s Best Cookbooks of 2020, with ‘The Green Roasting Tin’ listed as a The Sunday Times Bestseller of the Year in 2019. There are pages dedicated to stuffed parathas, and others to chaat, with instructions on how best to tackle a chaat station should you be fortunate enough to attend an Indian wedding with one in place. Reading this thread with interest as my DC aren't veggie and I've been wondering whether to get one of the other books too.

The Roasting Tin | Easy One-Dish Cookbook from Rukmini Iyer

After 20 minutes, stir through the Puy lentils, crème fraîche and another good scatter of sea salt, then top with the feta cheese and breadcrumbs. It’s helpful seeing people react to the Tin books, saying how they love making something on a weeknight,” she says. All 75 recipes in The Quick Roasting Tin take less than 10 minutes to prepare and a maximum of 30 minutes in the oven.She’d make bread and butter pudding, do whole roast chickens, things that you wouldn't expect, really. There is an abundance of nostalgic favourites with a twist, like sticky date gingerbread, alongside recipes from Rukmini’s own childhood, including her mother’s pineapple upside-down cake and coconut burfi. It’s good for batch cooking for the week ahead, as any leftovers will keep well for a couple of days in the fridge. They suit me as everything is pretty basic and straightforward, it’s easy to leave out any particular ingredient if I don’t have it or it’s something one of my kids don’t like, etc.