Plot Synopsis

Jamie Oliver cooks a complete meal -- with entree, side and dessert -- while showing viewers how to stay organized, work fast, use shortcuts and rely on clever tricks so they replicate the full full-course menu in only 30 minutes at home. The series supports Jamie's continuing mission to improve people's lives through food by tackling the issues of kitchen confidence and lack of time. In this series, Jamies cooks up: piri piri chicken with dressed potatoes, rocket salad and quick Portuguese tarts; Thai red prawn curry with jasmine rice, cucumber salad and a papaya platter; roast beef with baby yorkies, little carrots, crispy potatoes and super-quick gravy; spinach and feta filo pie, cucumber salad, tomato salad, and coated ice cream; rogan josh curry with fluffy rice, carrot salad, poppadoms, and flatbread; and 35 other 30-minute meals. BBC America aired the U.S. premiere of this series on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 1pm, by airing back-to-back episodes, and then showed two episodes daily (Tuesday through Friday) at 1pm through June 1, 2012.