£1 meals: Tom Kerridge’s budget recipes for peanut noodles and cheesy spaghetti

Filling and cheap recipes for cheesy, creamy spaghetti with veg strips, and a punchy noodle bowl with crisp tofu and peanut sauce

Spring is full of vibrant, colourful veg, such as beetroot, carrots, rhubarb, rocket, spring onion and watercress. Today’s dishes are great for impressing vegetarian friends or family, or if you simply want a meat-free dish without feeling as if you’re missing out. If you don’t want to use tofu, swap it for crunchy veg, such as carrot, asparagus or spring cabbage, to create a contrasting texture for the noodles.