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Winter warmer

Super-green pasta rotolo.
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Super-green pasta rotolo

This vegetarian pasta bake is swanky enough for a dinner party but simple enough to pull off on a weeknight.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Give the Italian-American classic of pasta alla vodka a shake-up by adding fudgy roasted eggplant.
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A classic vegetarian pasta dish gets some extra va-va-voom

Fudgy roasted eggplant adds a little “something something” to this creamy Italian-American pasta dish – roasted eggplants alla vodka.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Kale rolls with spicy merguez sausage and rice.

Kale rolls with spicy merguez sausage and rice

Usually made with cabbage, these comforting parcels are instead wrapped with cavolo nero leaves.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosheen Kaul
Quattro formaggi pasta.
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Quattro formaggi pasta

A speedy take on pasta bake, this cheesy sauce works with any short shape.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Danielle Alvarez’s chicken, pumpkin, chickpea and rice soup with spiced chilli oil.

Chicken, pumpkin, chickpea and rice soup with spiced chilli oil

The spices in the chilli oil give this comforting whole-chicken soup a slightly different feel.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
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This rich, comforting and easy rigatoni makes the perfect midweek meal

Recruit sausages as meatballs for this rich, comforting and easy dinner.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Icelandic rice pudding.
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Adam Liaw’s Icelandic rice pudding

Icelandic rice pudding is a dessert, but salty rather than sweet. The contrast between the slightly salty pudding and the sweet cinnamon sugar is lovely.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Curried fish gratin.
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Fish pie Friday: Adam Liaw’s mash-up is pure comfort after a long week

In its most basic form, this fish and potato stew is the national dish of Iceland, but all well-loved dishes go through thousands of variations.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Baking in an ovenproof serving dish makes for a beautiful dessert to serve at the table on Father’s Day.

Sticky date pudding with tahini butterscotch sauce

The sesame paste imparts a deliciously nutty flavour to this classic dessert.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Home-made bone broth is inexpensive to make and nourishing to eat.

This pot of gold is one of the most nourishing things you can eat, plus it’s cheap and easy to make

A rich, long-simmered bone broth is the secret to these nourishing, big-flavoured dishes.

  • Rosheen Kaul

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