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Revealed: Our 30 most popular winter recipes. You’ll love them in spring too

Ease into spring with the cosy dishes you’ve loved this winter, including two variations on marry me chicken, oodles of noodles, and comforting bakes.

30 recipes
Crispy salmon and miso carbonara.
EASY

30. Crispy salmon and miso carbonara

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Japanese-style chicken schnitzel curry.
EASY

29. Adam Liaw’s Japanese-style chicken schnitzel curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Baked chickpeas with eggplant.
EASY

28. Baked chickpeas with eggplant

  • 2 hrs +
  • Carolina Doriti
Roasted scalloped potatoes.
EASY

27. Adam Liaw’s roasted scalloped potatoes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Sticky pomegranate and cous cous chicken tray bake.
EASY

26. Sticky pomegranate and cous cous chicken tray bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Emelia Jackson’s Basque cheesecake.

25. Emelia Jackson’s Basque cheesecake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
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Bang bang tater tots.

24. Katrina Meynink’s bang bang tater tots (and two more potato gem recipes)

  • Katrina Meynink
Bacon puttanesca.
EASY

23. Adam Liaw’s bacon puttanesca pasta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
The beef, Guinness and marrow pie at the Builders Arms Hotel in Fitzroy.

22. The Builders Arms’ beef, Guinness and marrow pie

  • 2 hrs +
  • Leon Smith
Salt and pepper chicken noodles.
EASY

21. Adam Liaw’s salt and pepper chicken noodles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Grill-striped oyster mushroom “steaks” are served with sauce au poivre.

20. Rosheen Kaul’s oyster mushroom ‘steak’ au poivre

  • Rosheen Kaul
Danielle Alvarez’s bean and pasta stew with pancetta and rosemary.
EASY

19. Danielle Alvarez’s bean and pasta stew with pancetta and rosemary

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Sticky date pudding with rich caramel sauce is a perfect treat for those avoiding gluten.
EASY

18. Emelia Jackson’s gluten-free sticky date puddings

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Ruben’s Deli mac and cheese bake.
EASY

17. Ruben’s Deli’s New York-style mac and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Amanda Ruben
Chicken coconut curry.

16. Chicken coconut curry

  • Chelsea Goodwin
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The perfect Swiss roll.

15. Emelia Jackson’s chocolate Swiss roll

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Chicken broth from Food You Want to Eat by Thomas Straker.

14. Feel-good chicken broth

  • Thomas Straker
Helen Goh’s Dubai chocolate brownies.

13. Helen Goh’s Dubai chocolate brownie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Traditionally, this dish is made with a long Japanese onion called negi, but spring onions are a wonderful substitute
EASY

12. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Japanese chicken noodle soup (tori nanban udon)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s one-pan chicken with pumpkin, coriander and chickpeas.
EASY

11. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s one-pan chicken with pumpkin and chickpeas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Helen Goh’s apple cake with maple oat crisp.
EASY

10. Helen Goh’s simple apple cake with maple oat crisp

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Chicken and pumpkin curry.

9. Chicken and pumpkin curry (plus two more healthy make-ahead meals)

  • Sarah Pound
Very short lemon shortbread.

8. Lemon shortbread biscuits

  • Tilly Pamment
Creamy marry me chickpeas has the big flavours of the original, minus the meat.

7. Katrina Meynink’s marry me chickpeas (plus two other meat-free meals)

  • Katrina Meynink
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Chicken noodle soup.

6. Chicken, corn and noodle soup (and two more flu-fighting soups)

  • Sarah Pound
Adam Liaw’s coq au vin.

5. Adam Liaw’s coq au vin

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
The secret to a great stir-fry is frying the noodles, not stewing them.
EASY

4. Adam Liaw’s Singapore noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
The famous one-pot marry-me chicken.

3. Sarah Pound’s one-pot marry me chicken (and two other bangers)

  • Sarah Pound
Pumpkin soup.
EASY

2. Adam Liaw’s pumpkin soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Zucchini slice.
EASY

1. Adam Liaw’s zucchini slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

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