Pinch of Nom Express: Fast, Delicious Food

Book Preface

We feel incredibly lucky to be bringing you a brand-new cookbook, and we know that we owe it all to the wonderful Pinch of Nom community. When we sat down to plan Express, we spent a long time looking through your emails, messages and feedback, to make sure we built the recipes around what matters the most to you. With this in mind, we’ve created a collection of low-effort, big-flavour recipes that prioritise saving time in the kitchen, without compromising on enjoying healthy, home-cooked food. From meals that are on the table in a flash, to quick-prep recipes that can be left to do their thing in the oven, every dish in this book comes with our ‘Express Promise’.

Our ultimate aim with this book is to put the trademark Pinch of Nom flavour on your table, with minimal disruption to your day. Inside these pages, you’ll find all the familiar types of dishes that you’re used to, with breakfast, fakeaways, snacks, sides and sweet treats covered. The big difference? This food comes with the ‘Express Promise’. At its heart, this promise is all about making good, nutritious, tasty meals that work around your day, your life and your family. That’s why you’ll find that we’ve separated out the recipes in the book into two main chapters: Quick Cook and Quick Prep.
When you need food on the table in a hurry, flick to the first chapter, where any of our Quick Cook recipes require less than 20 minutes of cooking time. Proving it doesn’t take hours to create big flavours, turn to here and simmer our Yellow Thai-style Curry for just 20 minutes. Plus, you won’t want to miss the super speedy Garlic, Chilli and Parsley Spaghetti here.

If you don’t want to spend ages in the kitchen, but you don’t mind leaving things to simmer, sizzle or roast, you’re going to love the recipes we’ve saved for chapter two. The Quick Prep pages are brimming with dishes that take less than 15 minutes of peeling, chopping and assembling. We’re talking about mouth-watering food like our Lemon and Ginger Chicken (here), Chimichurri Baked Cod (here) and Biscoff Sponge Traybake (here).

Just like in all our previous books, we’ve designed these recipes to only ever use simple ingredients and adapt to the equipment that you’ve already got in your kitchen. This is about making your life easier, after all! We’ve also added specific multi-method sections at the end of each chapter that include recipes for air fryers and slow cookers as well as more conventional cooking methods.
All that’s left to say is thank you so much for being here for this book, no matter if you’re new to Pinch of Nom, or you’ve been with us since the beginning. Whether it’s a quick win for a midweek meal, a fast, flavourful fakeaway or a speedy, spur-of-the-moment dessert you need, we hope you turn to Express time and time again.