She wowed the judges of BBC's Best Home Cook and now Suzie Lee is back on our screens with a first-class menu of new recipes to tantalise your taste buds and inspire us to get cooking.
In her new series Suzie Lee: Home Cook Hero, The Lisburn lady is on a mission to show that home cooking needn’t be a chore, and everyone can make lovely lunches, delicious dinners and perfect puddings.
Suzie believes that everyone can cook and advises everyone to use their “instincts” and “tastebuds”.
“Practice makes perfect. Each person's tastebuds are different, so I always tell people to taste and adjust to what they like - add more seasoning, salt/pepper, sharpness with vinegar, sweetness with sugar or honey.
“Cooking from a recipe is a guide, so use your gut and keep tasting while you are cooking. If it tastes good, then you have done it.”
This series has something for every occasion, from dinners with friends and weekend brunches to show stopping festive spreads.
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It covers everything from fish to street food and finds creative ways to make the most of store cupboard staples.
Always keen to stretch her budget, Suzie is full of hacks and tips for viewers to get more for their money, be it from using cheaper cuts of meat to foraging for ingredients.
When it comes to choosing her must have store cupboard ingredients. Suzie recommends tinned tomatoes, rice, flour and a selection of dried spices, such as garlic, ginger, chilli, paprika, oregano and basil.
Recipes in Suzie Lee: Home Cook Hero span cuisines from Greek and Mexican to Chinese. With dishes inspired from her own heritage, Suzie is keen to use the Asian flavours we’ve all come to know and love and encourage viewers that they too can be home cook heroes.
“This is the most exciting and varied series yet for me. There are dishes from a full spectrum of genres but all still with my home cook spin on them. I hope the breadth and ease of my dishes will draw people to this new series and entice them to try out new recipes for themselves.”
Her favourite meal from the series is Turkey Noodle Bowl.
“It is delicious and quick and packed full of flavour, but it also lends itself to being made with literally any meat leftovers or veggies. Yet again, it reflects how I like to cook and eat, using up odds and ends and being mindful of food waste,” she explains.
Suzie Lee: Home Cook Hero is a Waddell Media production for BBC Northern Ireland, and begins on BBC One Northern Ireland, Monday October 30 at 7.45pm.
