What to Make Next if You Love Bolognese and Garlic Swirl Pie
Ever since we first shared the recipe, you lot have gone wild for our Bolognese and Garlic Swirl Pie – and we love to see it! Sometimes a recipe just ticks every single box, bringing all the comforting flavours you’re craving, in one satisfying dish.
Just like tucking into bolognese with a side of garlic bread, this family-friendly recipe is always a dinnertime winner. If you’ve been eating it on repeat and fancy switching things up with something similar, we’ve made a list of what to make next if you love Bolognese and Garlic Swirl Pie.
What to make next if you love bolognese recipes
If it’s the rich, tomatoey layer of bolognese that keeps you coming back for more, you could always take things back to basics with our classic Spaghetti Bolognese.
Everyone has their own version of a spag bol, but we’ve worked and reworked ours over the years until we reckon it’s perfect! There’s more veg than you’ll find in most bolognese recipes, which makes it super healthy, and thrifty too! You’ll find a smaller amount of mince goes a lot further to feed the whole family.
Don’t forget to add some Cheesy Garlic Bread on the side…
When you mix together pasta and bolognese, top it off with cheese and bake it in the oven, magic happens! This Pasta Bolognese Bake is an easy win any day of the week, especially since it’s on the table in under an hour, for just 422 calories.
It’s all the familiar flavour you know and love, with a bubbling layer of golden melted cheese on top.
We’re all for a two-in-one recipe that gives you the best of both dishes, which is why we’re obsessed with this easy Bolognese Risotto. A nice change from pasta, we’ve stirred our tomatoey beef mince mixture into creamy Arborio rice.
Some risottos take lots of time and effort – but not this one! You can make the whole thing from scratch in just half an hour. Despite how luxurious and creamy it tastes, each portion comes out at only 333 calories.
What to make next if you love garlic recipes
We’re not ashamed to admit it – we’re fiends for garlic! If you fully believe garlic is measured with the heart, not the number of cloves it says in the recipe, you’re our kind of people.
Since there’s bags of garlic flavour in our Bolognese and Garlic Swirl Pie, we reckon you’ll also love this Creamy Garlic Chicken.
It’s one of our most popular recipes, so we’ll be surprised if you haven’t tried it already – but, if it’s new to you, you’re in for a treat.
It’s all about tender pieces of chicken and mushrooms, simmered in a garlicky sauce that’s creamier and dreamier than you’d think – especially when you hear it’s only 260 calories per serving.
Psst…we have a whole roundup of What to Make Next if You Love Creamy Garlic Chicken too!
How can we talk about garlic without mentioning a glorious chicken Kyiv? The traditional dish is usually a crispy chicken fillet, stuffed with garlicky butter. As always, we’ve worked some Pinch of Nom magic to come up with our own take on things – and this unmissable Chicken Kyiv Pasta Bake is the result.
Underneath that crispy, golden breadcrumb topping you’ll find juicy chicken and pasta in a velvety garlic sauce. What more could you want from a midweek meal?
Calling all garlic lovers! Level up your Sunday roast with these glorious Garlic and Parmesan Potatoes. They’re a flavour-packed upgrade to your standard spuds, with fragrant fresh garlic and salty, savoury Parmesan cheese.
Make sure your potatoes are roughly the same size when they go into the oven, so they all get equally crispy – you don’t want anyone fighting over the best ones!
What to make next if you love pie recipes
Maybe what you like about Bolognese and Garlic Swirl Pie is that it’s not your typical pie! With an unusual filling (and an even more unusual topping!), it’s a dinner that adds a little something extra to your weekly meal plan.
The good news is that, if weird and wonderful pies are what you’re after, there’s more where that came from. How about rustling up our Fish and Chip Pie one night? Bringing together all the best bits of a chippy tea, we’ve packed flaky fish and mushy peas under a ‘pie lid’ of golden homemade chips.
The fun doesn’t stop there, because we also have this Chicken Korma Pie recipe on our website! The slimming-friendly, creamy, mild curry is buried underneath a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes, and baked in the oven until it smells too good to resist.
If you’re thinking that sounds like hearty, filling comfort food, you’re not wrong! Yet despite all that delicious stodge, it works out at only 492 calories per portion.
Hear us out on this one: Bangers and Mash Pie. We promise it works! You can use your favourite sausages (just adjust the calories accordingly) to make the filling, since they’ll always taste incredible when they’re mixed into the rich, savoury gravy inside the pie.
Dollop mashed potatoes all over the top, and let the oven turn them golden and ever-so-slightly crispy. It’s so satisfying to dig your fork into!
What to make next if you love pastry swirl recipes
If it’s the crunchy pastry swirl topping that you can’t stop thinking about, you’ll be glad to hear we love puff pastry swirls too. They can be sweet or savoury, and they always give a satisfying crunch to snack time.
With a tomato, cheese and ham filling, this Pizza Swirls are too tasty to resist. At 102 calories per swirl, you don’t have to stop at just one! In fact, why not serve 2 or 3 with a side salad for an easy-peasy lunch?
For these Samosa Swirls, we’ve bundled all the flavour of a fakeaway inside light, flaky, ready-rolled puff pastry. Delicious with a dollop of chutney, you can nibble on one in-between meals, or add them as a side or starter for an Indian-inspired fakeaway feast.
Whatever you decide, we’re betting they won’t last long once everyone discovers how crunchy and delicious they are!
You’ll find a few different sweet swirls on our website, but there’s one that we can’t help but shout about. We’ve been banging on about Biscoff for ages, but we’re not bored of it yet! It’s impossible to ever get enough of these caramel-y Biscoff Swirls.
It takes just 25 minutes to turn 3 ingredients into the little golden treats, so we guarantee you’ll be making them time and time again!
What’s going into your meal plan next week?
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