Can you stretch a fiver to feed six?

Forget the lavish spreads of Masterchef and The Great Irish Bake-Off — the true test of a great cook is how to make mouth-watering magic from one very humble ingredient, the fiver.

The call is out to kitchen conjurers who can serve up a meal for a family of six for €5 to put their recipes to the test in a countrywide contest.

Entries must be nutritious, filling, tasty and within budget, and the five most tempting will be recreated during a cook-off between their creators in October after which they will be released for the rest of the public to try.