WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS...

Quick and healthy recipes shouldn't compromise on flavour. Celebrate the taste of summer with these dishes centred around one hero ingredient, lemons, from Anna Jones' new cookbook, Easy Wins

- Anna Jones

Bored with the same dishes on repeat? It might be time to take yourself on a flavour adventure. Anna Jones' new cookbook, Easy Wins, features 125 flavour-packed recipes, each based on one of 12 hero ingredients that are guaranteed to make your food taste great from lemons to olive oil, onions to peanut butter, mustard to tahini and more.

With summer upon us, we're bringing some zest to your kitchen with three lusciously lemony dishes. Time to get juicing...

ONE-POT PASTA AL LIMONE

Lemony lunch

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 400g spaghetti or linguine

• 2 large unwaxed lemons

• 1 clove of garlic, peeled and bashed but kept whole

• 100ml olive oil

• 1 tsp flaky sea salt

• 50g salted butter or vegan butter

• 40g Parmesan or Parmesan-style vegan cheese, grated

• 1/2 a bunch of basil (15g), leaves picked and torn (optional) 

Method

1. Put 400g spaghetti or linguine into a large lidded saucepan. Grate in the zest of 2 large unwaxed lemons and add 1 clove of garlic, peeled and bashed but kept whole, 100ml olive oil and 1 tsp flaky sea salt.

2. Add 1 litre boiling water, cover with a lid and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, remove the lid and simmer for 8 minutes, using a pair of tongs to turn the pasta in the thickening pasta water every 30 seconds or so as it cooks.

3. After 8 minutes, squeeze in the juice of 1 lemon and simmer for 2 minutes with the lid off.