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Our recipes are the perfect accompaniment to our diverse range of meat boxes, allowing you to experiment with different cooking styles and flavour combinations. From hearty stews and grilled masterpieces to gourmet roasts and comforting casseroles, our recipes cover a spectrum of dishes that promise to satisfy every craving and dietary preference.
We believe that cooking should be a joyous and creative endeavour, and our recipes aim to ignite your culinary imagination. Let your creative juices flow as you explore new ways to cook, present, and enjoy our high-quality meats. Whether you are preparing a meal for your family, hosting friends, or simply indulging in a personal gourmet experience, our recipes are here to guide you every step of the way.
Cidered Gammon and Potato Casserole
A great mid-week dinner, chuck everything in the slow cooker in the morning, this wonderful gammon dish is ready and rearing to go in the evening. Cooking time: 6-7 hours Serves: Serves 4 Cooking Temp: Med-High Ingredients 500g or 1lb unsmoked gammon joint, trimmed of fat 625g or 1 ¼ lb potatoes, cut into 2cm…
Cajun Style Turkey Escalopes with Chilli, Mango Salsa
Healthy, flavoursome and extremely easy to make. Our latest recipe in the Healthy and Hearty range uses turkey escalopes, which are naturally lower in fat and calories then a chicken breast but still packed with taste. Ingredients 2 x 200g turkey escalopes – rubbed with the cajun spices 1 tbsp olive oil for cooking Method…
Slow Cooker Chicken & Sage Hot Pot
This slow cooker chicken and sage hot pot is such a lovely wholesome meal. Everything you need in one pot and ready when you are. Great for a comforting dish. Cooking time: 8 hours Serves: Serves 4 Ingredients Fry light or 1 tbsp rapeseed oil 500g skinless, boneless chicken, preferable legs 1 onion, sliced 4…
Pan Fried Venison Loin Steaks with a Tangle of Greens and a Yogurt, honey, roasted garlic and mustard dressing
Venison is one of the most underrated sources of protein and its not only low in fat, each steak is only 250 calories (170g steak). This recipe perfectly complements the mild gamey taste of the Venison loin, helping to emphasise and elevate the sweet notes from the honey and roasted garlic. Preparation time: 15 mins Cooking…
Supporting The Country Food Trust this Winter
The Country Food Trust is a charity founded in 2015 which produces food and donates it to people in need. Since its inception The Country Food Trust has supplied over 350 tonnes of food which has been donated to 1900 charities across the country. Our parent company, MC Kelly, is extremely proud to support this…
Gluten Free, a quiet revolution in meat
We mainly sell meat; it has no gluten. However, as soon as you start adding value and variety, you are into all sorts of potential allergens. Sausages! Every butcher produces sausages, and traditional rusk or breadcrumb has gluten, that bit’s obvious. Burgers, unless they are 100% meat, the likelihood is there will be gluten or…
To Build the Perfect Burger
Burgers are simple, yet complicated. That’s a contradictory start to any blog. What I mean to say is, the principle of a burger is that it’s a ball of minced meat which has been flattened. That’s a simple idea. How you do this and whether you add anything, that’s where the complication starts. The Meat…
Chefs Corner
Wow, what gorgeous weather we are having! The upturn in the weather is tempting us all outdoors and encouraging us to fire up the barbie. Burgers and sausages are the staple but there are many other types of meat which, with just a touch of TLC, can be transformed to enhance your outdoor cooking experience.…
Chefs Corner
The Meat Box Company would like to welcome a new contributor to our newsletter and website. Dominic Bryant, the Head Chef at The Old Rydon Inn in Kingsteignton funnily enough has found himself with a bit of spare time during the Covid 19 outbreak due to the lockdown and temporary closure of the business. With…
Do we deliver to London?
Meat box Delivery to London….And the Rest of the UK Do we deliver to London? Interesting question! We actually deliver meat boxes to all the mainland UK except Highland and Islands next day delivery 6 days a week. This information is splashed across our website in many places, so why do we get asked the…
We Love Woolcool Insulation (and so do many of our customers)
Sheep are what is known in agricultural terms as dual-purpose animals. (They were triple purpose back in time, but I will come back to that.) The dual part is meat, as we all know. They are solar engineers, the sun grows grass, which we don’t eat, the lambs turn grass into meat as lamb and…
The NHS Discount Scheme
In times like this, there is always an urge to be helpful and useful. Most of us have limited opportunities, we are in the wrong profession or have the wrong skill set. Just at the moment, one of the most useful things to do is nothing, stay at home and sit it out. However, we…
Why we are where we are
Meat box deliveries to your home! This is a new venture for us. We have always supplied meat to the best hotels and restaurants in the southwest of England. Coronavirus closed them all over night, so my management team and the excellent web design people we have been working with (they set up our dog…
Glazed Gammon Steak
This week I thought I would deal with an old classic, “Gammon Steak”, and perk it up a little bit with a lovely sweet and slightly tangy sauce – beats a slice of pineapple and a fried egg! Preparation time: less than 30 mins Cooking time: approx 20 mins Serves: 4 Ingredients • 4 Gammon…
BBQ Sauce
Forget the shops – hear is an easy recipe you can adapt and play with, simply a perfect accompaniment for any barbecue – slather it on our amazing sausages, our tasty chicken or our range of meaty burgers. Delicious. Preparation time: less than 30 mins Cooking time: less than 10 mins Serves: Makes ½pint Ingredients…
Barbecue Sausages with Tasty Onions
What’s not to love? Charcoal smoked and juicy Pork, meet in a finger roll frenzy. Simply add mustard and roasted onions for the full flavour experience. Wow. Preparation time: less than 30 mins Cooking time: 30 mins to 1 hour Serves: Makes 8 Ingredients • 4 large onions, thinly sliced • 150ml/5fl oz dark ale…
Steak and Chips
Chips glorious chips and the perfect guide to make succulent steak- Just add your favourite sauce and you will be transported to steak heaven! Preparation time: less than 30 mins Cooking time: 10 to 30 mins Serves: Serves 1 Ingredients • 2 large Maris Piper potatoes • vegetable oil, for deep frying and drizzling •…
Pepper Crusted Steak
Cooking for yourself does not have to be a chore, it’s an excuse to go wild. Whatever steak you choose from our meat boxes, this powerful pepper-crusted juicy steak will be a delight in under ten minutes. Preparation time: less than 30 mins Cooking time: less than 10 mins Serves: Serves 1 Ingredients • 200g/7oz…
Rib Eye Steak Salad
With our Award winning Rib eyes guaranteed to pack in meaty flavours, why not add in a taste bud twist with mustard and croutons, get the pan smoking hot and the steaks will be sizzlingly succulent in just minutes. Preparation time: less than 30 mins Cooking time: 10 to 30 mins Serves: Serves 2 Ingredients…
Lamb Tagine
Melt in your mouth lamb and the flavours of a Moroccan souk, our meltingly tender lamb tagine is packed with shallots and dates to transport your taste buds to a distant land. Cooking time: 1 to 2 hours Serves: Serves 6 Ingredients • 1.5kg/3¼lb leg of lamb, cubed • 2 tsp ground coriander seeds •…
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