Trying to find a mid-week meal that’s quick, tasty and nutritious can be difficult, especially if you don’t enjoy cooking.

Pasta dishes are usually an easy option as they involve cooking pasta and adding sauce and other extras such as vegetables, meats, fish and cheese.

Nigella Lawson‘s recipe includes just five ingredients and is from her cookbook, FEAST.

Nigella said of the recipe: “When my children were younger, this was always one of their favourite teas and is now one of their favourite suppers.

“It serves two or three children — double quantities for teenagers and above.”

Fans of Nigella who have cooked the recipe claim it’s “easy”, “delicious” and “amazing”.

One reviewer said: “Simply delicious! Everybody loved the meal, even my youngest, who is a bit fussy with food. Thank you for a wonderfully quick and easy recipe.”

Another wrote: “This is a nice meal when you’re short on time. A nice comfort food.”

How to make pasta with ham, peas and cream

Ingredients:

200 grams farfalle pasta (or other short pasta)

100 grams frozen petits pois

150 millilitres double cream

150 grams diced ham

Two tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

Method:

1. Firstly, cook the pasta according to the packet instructions in salted boiling water. After five minutes, add the peas to the pasta water.

2. Once the pasta is cooked, drain the peas.

3. Put the dry pan pack on the heat and add the cream, ham and parmesan. Warm it through.

4. Add the pasta and peas back to the pan and toss it all together.