6 tasty recipes that make the most of tinned tomatoes

It only takes thirty minutes to prepare this beautiful salmon dish, which makes it perfectly suited to either a quick midweek dinner or a satisfying lunch at the weekend. While the salmon fillets are baking in the oven you simply fry off onion and mushrooms before adding tinned tomatoes, mascarpone and dill to create a creamy sauce. With some boiled new potatoes and seasonal greens on the side, this is a dish that’s ideal for any time of year.

In Sicily they make pizza a little different to their Neapolitan friends further north. Rather than a super-thin crust, the dough is more like a focaccia – thick yet light and fluffy. It also sees the cheese added before the sauce, allowing the tomatoes to take on a slight char in the oven (the sauce is the star of the show with this style of pizza). This recipe calls for salami and chillies to be added for a true southern Italian flavour, but feel free to swap these for something else if you’re looking to make the dish vegetarian or don’t like spicy food.

Spaghetti and meatballs is one of those classic Italian-American dishes that, while not technically authentic (you’ll never really see it served in Italy), is so tasty and easy to make it’s become nearly as popular as that other inauthentic classic spaghetti Bolognese. In this recipe, the meatballs are made with lamb mince, studded with pieces of umami-rich anchovy and fragrant fennel seeds. Their deeply savoury flavour is the perfect partner to sweet tomato sauce, flavoured with chilli, onion, white wine, chicken stock and bay leaves. It’s also ready in under an hour, making this dish a great midweek dinner.

If you’re after a truly knockout dish that’s simple to prepare, look no further than this stunning risotto from chef Luke Holder. The risotto itself is flavoured with stock, butter, Parmesan and plenty of passata, giving it a bright red glow, but the genius comes in the dressing you add at the last minute. Punchy anchovies and slices of raw garlic are mixed with plenty of tangy vinegar, olive oil and chopped parsley. The contrast between the rich rice and the tangy dressing makes this one of our favourite all-time risotto recipes.

We love recipes where you can simply prepare your ingredients and use just one pan to cook it, and this beautiful stew conjures up the flavours of the Mediterranean brilliantly. The combination of luxurious monkfish and tiger prawns are stirred through rice in a tomato sauce flavoured with fennel and celery before being simmered together until perfectly cooked.