Mother's Day meal kits
Serving up a home-cooked meal is one of the best ways to celebrate with family, but creating delicious dishes from scratch can be more than a little daunting – which is why the meal kits offered by the capital’s top chefs and restaurants are such a godsend. Whether it’s a treat box of oysters, a Hawksmoor steak feast or a selection of Tom Kerridge’s British favourites, there are plenty of ways to spoil the most important woman in your life this Mothering Sunday. Here we’ve rounded the best Mother’s Day meal kits that are bound to impress. Â
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Wright Brothers Mother’s Day Oyster Treat Box
There’s nothing more decadent than a platter of fresh oysters, something the folk at Wright Brothers clearly understand as they’ve made them the star of their Mother’s Day meal kit offering. As well as a box of a dozen fresh unshucked oysters, every kit comes with a long cut of smoked salmon, which has been specially smoked over oak, and two homemade desserts with a choice of chocolate fondant, sticky toffee pudding with caramel sauce or vanilla cheesecake with raspberry and Prosecco coulis. You can even order a Carlingford oyster knife, so you can shuck in style.Â
£38 for two people, with delivery available from Tuesday – Saturday from 10 March. Available for delivery to mainland UK
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Tom Kerridge’s British Favourites
British ingredients are at the heart of this menu devised by Tom Kerridge, which were inspired by dishes from his Michelin-starred gastropub in Marlow, The Coach. Start off by snacking on truffled Tunworth cheese gougères, before moving on to potted shrimp with grilled sourdough and dill cucumber pickle. The main event is the ale-braised beef short rib, which is marinated for 24 hours in Marlow-based Rebellion ale before being slow-braised overnight and served up with creamy English mustard mash. To finish there’s date and toffee pudding with Jersey clotted cream – a delightfully decadent way to end this feast of British favourites.Â
£79 for two people, order for delivery on Friday 25 March. Available for delivery to mainland UK
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Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Mezze
When it comes to flavoursome food, Ottolenghi reigns supreme. This feast (and we mean feast, portions are super generous) of mezze includes a selection of favourites from Shelf Love, the latest cookbook from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen team. There’s smoky marinated labneh, smooshed carrots with coriander and pistachio pesto and a moreish caramelised onion and green herb dip, with flatbreads for mopping them all up, as well as chaat masala chickpea and polenta chips. But standout is the punchy black lime skewers, which can either be made with free-range chicken thighs or Portobello mushrooms. For those with a sweet tooth there’s muhallabieh (a Lebanese milk pudding) to finish, served with burnt honey orange syrup, kataifi and pistachio sugar. Everything is easy and quick to assemble (prep and cooking time is 45 minutes from start to finish) – and looks particularly pretty when plated up. Enclosed with the instructions is information on how to recycle all the various parts of the packaging – a welcome touch.Â
From £65 for two people, order for delivery on Friday 25 March. Available for delivery to mainland UK
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Finish & Feast Mother’s Day Menu
The USP at Finish & Feast is that they work with a selection of top chefs to come up with dishes that you can mix and match for the perfect menu. For their Mother’s Day offering, you can choose from a starter of spiced duck salad with peanut crumb, peppered watermelon and crispy shallots by Tom Aikens, before moving on to brill and scallop mousse en croute with cider sauce by BBC Great British Menu Finalist Ruth Hansom. For pudding, try Finish & Feast’s own banoffee pie, which is finished off with chocolate soil and lacquered pecans.Â
£75 for two people, order for delivery on Friday 25 March. Available for delivery nationwide
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Hawksmoor at Home Mother’s Day Steak Feast
When it comes to their cook-at-home offerings, Hawksmoor never disappoints. For Mother’s Day they’ve created a special steak feast as the ultimate alternative to a Sunday roast. Each box serves up to six people and comes with three of Hawksmoor’s finest cuts – one fillet steak, one rib-eye steak and one 35 day dry-aged Porterhouse steak – along with a range of sides including creamed spinach, garlic mushrooms and Matt Brown’s ultimate oven chips. Every kit includes a How to Cook the Perfect Steak guide, along with a QR code for their masterclass videos with Executive Chef Matt Brown. Wash it all down with one of their in-house sour cherry Negronis and a bottle of Spanish Real Rioja Agrado.Â
From £150 for four to six people, order for delivery on Thursday 24 March, Friday 25 March or Saturday 26 March. Available for delivery to mainland UK
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Hoppers Family Feast Kit
This crowd-pleasing meal kit from award-winning Sri Lankan Hoppers – part of their cleverly named ‘Cash and Kari’ at-home offering – centres around their signature melt-in-the-mouth lamb shoulder kari, and comes with plenty of sides to keep the whole family happy. Start with Jaffna mix before moving onto mutton rolls (a must-order for Hoppers regulars) and bone marrow varuval. Alongside the lamb shoulder you’ll get a side of dhal kari and carrot and coriander sambol, as well as a pile of rotis.
£115 for four to six people, order for delivery on Friday 25 March. Available for delivery nationwide
