Students have long had a reputation for not being the best of chefs, barely managing to rustle up beans on toasts without burning it. So why not do your bit to dispel this urban myth by cooking up a storm with inspiration from these top 5 recipe sites?

1. Supercook

Supercook is an excellent website if you always find yourself staring blankly into your cupboard and just can’t seem to find anything which goes.

Simply enter in what you have and it’ll generate some simple and tasty recipes for you.

2. My Recipes

My Recipes is a great web ite with all of the recipes categorized so you can find something perfect for any occasion. You can even chose to exclude certain ingredients or select quick and easy, entertaining, or freezable meals to make it as easy as possible.

3. BBC Recipes

BBC recipes have a great range of instructional videos to help guide you through the recipe from some of the BBC’s top chefs. You can search through the range of recipes and chose to challenge yourself with a master class recipe, or keep it simple with something quick.

4. Desktop Cookbook

The Desktop Cookbook is an excellent source of recipes. Although it does require a free registration, you can browse through the directory of thousands of different recipes submitted by users and save your favourites.

5. Group Recipes

Group Recipes is a 100% user generated recipe sharing website. It’s extremely easy to browse through the thousands of recipes by tags, main ingredient, flavours, popularity etc. and as all of the recipes are submitted by real users they have been tried and tested. There are even a number of different specialist groups where members can share and discuss recipes.