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10 nourishing dishes to make if you're craving comfort food

These meals are like a belly hug in a bowl.
These meals are like a belly hug in a bowl.

With the sudden cold snap, we're all craving comfort food more and more.

Cheesy pastas, rich lasagnes and rice bakes, hearty stews and more, the best kinds of dishes are the ones you throw into a pot and leave to cook away. Thankfully, these are also often the easiest to make.

We've rounded up some of our favourite comfort dishes for those chilly nights.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's chicken and chorizo rice

Turkey chilli

Beef stroganoff with tagliatelle

Mags Roche's Tartiflette

Prue Leith's chicken tikka with yoghurt on naan

Kevin Aherne's slow cooker chicken tacos

Donal Skehan's braised beef shin lasagne

Lilly's one pan sausage gnocchi

Melissa Thompson's peanut and sweet potato stew

Brian McDermott's beef & stout casserole