This Cajun pot roast chicken with lentils is an easy way to roast a chicken and cook your vegetables at the same time—well most of them anyway. It's a great way to cook a meal for a group without slaving over a hot stove for hours. Though slow-cooked, you'll have time to kick back before impressing everyone with a Louisiana-style dinner.

A riff on the British Sunday roast, this Eastern Mediterranean roast lamb is served with autumnal veggies and spätzle dressed in the fresh flavours of spinach, feta and parsley. It's a nod to the food culture that Turkish immigrants brought with them to Germany. But, don't let the highfalutin concept get in the way: it's a delicious meal and, importantly a slow-cooked treat that won't stress out whoever is cooking the Sunday roast.

A distinctly Greek take on the British tradition of Sunday roast lamb served with roast tatties, carrots with sesame and minted broad beans

Roast pimentón chicken with apricots is a delicious dish from the northwest of Spain served with a number of delicious side dishes,

A reworking of poussin and a scaled-back walnut and spinach lasagne side dish from Northern Italy with contemporary fusion twists