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Good Food’s favourite cookbooks of 2025.

These are the essential recipes from 40+ of the best cookbooks of 2025

From a deliciously saucy meatball curry to the most addictive chocolate treat you can make, it’s been a big year for cookbooks.

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Rick Stein is getting into the Christmas spirit.

Two favourite recipes from Rick Stein’s first-ever Christmas cookbook

Try a vibrant green-and-red pastry for two, and Japanese-inspired canapes with oomph, from the British chef’s new festive recipe collection.

  • Rick Stein
Chicken caesar pasta salad is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

‘Everything summer food should be’: Three sunny salads for your December menu

These bold, abundant salads, from nutritionist Sarah Pound, will steal the show at any summer gathering.

  • Sarah Pound
Meatball curry from Lankan Filling by O Tama Carey

Spice up your meatballs with this Sri Lankan-inspired recipe from O Tama Carey

The chef and owner of celebrated Sydney eatery Lankan Filling Station shares her recipe for meatball curry from her latest cookbook.

  • O Tama Carey
“I first made these meatballs after a not-so-tragic break-up. For better or for worse, the name stuck,” says Roman.

These are your basic, very good meatballs and to Alison Roman, they are perfect

The controversial bestselling author takes on pantry staples in latest cookbook, using a “high-low” method to create simple (but impressive) wine bar fare.

  • Alison Roman
Make this Puy lentil and pearl barley salad your own by adding extras such as soft-boiled eggs or green chilli.

This prepare-ahead grain salad might just become your new summer go-to

Hearty and versatile, this puy lentil and pearl barley salad is fragrant with herbs and rich in grains and pulses. Just top with a jammy boiled egg for the perfect meal.

  • Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley
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Classic Thai fried rice.

Fried rice is Thailand’s go-to comfort food. Here’s how to make it at home

MasterChef winner Nat Thaipun shares her recipes for classic Thai fried rice and a flexible, flavourful rice salad you can easily customise.

  • Nat Thaipun
Strawberry iced finger buns.

Bake yourself happy: Helen Goh’s secret to making soft and fluffy finger buns

The quiet force behind Yotam Ottolenghi shares four simple recipes from her solo cookbook.

  • Helen Goh
You can mix and match toppings on the Salada crack.

This chocolate crack is the easiest (and most addictive) treat you can make this Christmas

Using a Salada cracker for its base, this recipe is half-way done before you’ve even started.

  • Vanessa Horton
Cookbook author Samin Nosrat with her dog, Fava.

Salt Fat Acid Heat author’s simple home cooking (plus a genius egg-peeling trick)

In her new cookbook, Good Things, former Chez Panisse chef and Netflix star Samin Nosrat shares smart tips, including a recipe for amazing roast chicken.

  • Samin Nosrat

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