Stuffing recipes to take your meals to the next level

Stuffing food need not be limited to meat. You can put your favourite ingredients into anything - from eggplants to doughnuts. The team at Taste.com.au have compiled 20 of their greatest stuffing adventures for your cooking (and eating) pleasure.

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September 6, 2023 - 5:00AM

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From desserts with secret centres to chicken with a cheesy filling, these are all the occasions when the Taste.com.au foodies have filled one type of food with another type of food - with great success.

Now it’s time for you to give it a go.

Here’s 20 of our favorite stuffing recipes.

1: Rice and fetta stuffed pumpkin

Impress your guests this Christmas with our show-stopping stuffed pumpkin, the perfect centrepiece to your vegetarian feast!

2: Jalapeno poppers

Fuel footy fever with these easy spicy bites.

Custard-stuffed Danish apples.

3: Custard-stuffed Danish apples

We’ve just reimagined the Danish pastry by making an apple the star of the show. Stuffed with warm, gooey custard and sprinkled with cinnamon, we can’t think of a better winter dessert. And that puff pastry lattice casing? Stunning!

4: Air fryer potato Kyiv

Potato and cheese dough, rolled into balls and oozing with melted garlic butter. This air fryer recipe is simply irresistible.

5: Smoky chicken stuffed sweet potatoes

Give the traditional baked potato recipe a healthy update with these 5-ingredient baked sweet potatoes topped with delicious smoky baba ganoush and shredded BBQ chicken

6: Pie maker Caramilk custard-filled doughnuts

Gooey, creamy caramilk custard in the centre of light fluffy doughnuts.

Air fryer burrito-stuffed chicken.

7: Air fryer burrito-stuffed chicken

It’s exactly what it sounds like! A burrito-style filling (think rice, beans and cheese), inside a thinly pounded chicken breast, then crumbed and air-fried! It’s an instant new family favourite dinner.

8: Fondue pie

Gather a crowd and get stuck into this amazing pastry parcel, oozing with melted cheese!

Chicken and broccoli Alfredo-stuffed pasta shells.

9: Chicken and broccoli Alfredo-stuffed pasta shells

If we were to describe this pasta bake in two words, they’d be ‘creamy’ and ‘cheesy’. Not your typical chicken dinner, these broccoli and Alfredo-stuffed conchiglione shells make pasta night a whole lot more exciting. Oh, and it’s a great way to get the kids to eat their greens!

10: Air fryer Scotch eggs

The scotch egg is a traditional British recipe often enjoyed at picnics, pubs, parties or as a snack. They feature a hard-boiled egg, wrapped in mince meat (we used pork sausages in our recipe) and a coating of breadcrumbs. While the traditional recipes sees them deep-fried, we’ve used the ever-popular air fryer to give them a modern update - and make them slightly better for you.

Lasagne-stuffed capsicums.

11: Lasagne-stuffed capsicums

We’ve combined classic beef lasagne and stuffed capsicums to create this easy dinner winner.

12: Air fryer Caramilk Danish

Cooked in an air fryer, we wrap an entire block of Cadbury Caramilk in puff pastry for a decadent dessert best served with plenty of caramel sauce.

13: Mac ‘n’ cheese stuffed chicken schnitzel roll-ups

Mash-up two family faves — schnitzel meets mac ‘n’ cheese — and combine into one tasty meal.

Baked stuffed eggplant alla norma.

14: Baked stuffed eggplant alla norma

With salty bursts of capers, sweet roasted peppers, this super-easy vegetarian delight is packed full of flavour. The little morsels of risoni soak up all of the flavours of the sauce to create a hearty vegetarian dinner. Best of all, with the addition of cheat-time saving ingredients, there is no need to chop any onions or garlic!

15: One tray creamy spinach-stuffed chicken

Chicken breast stuffed with three cheeses and spinach then baked in even more creamy cheesy goodness.

Stuffed recipes: Air fryer Gaytime custard doughnuts.

16: Air fryer Gaytime custard doughnuts

Featuring a whole block of Caramilk, four sticks of Gaytime ice-cream and Arnott’s TV Snacks, this dessert is not for the faint-hearted. However, being made in an air-fryer, it’s not oily like other doughnut recipes. Instead, you are left with soft, pillowy balls, oozing warm Golden Gaytime custard.

17: Air fryer garlic bread croissant roll-ups

We will never stop finding new ways to reinvent garlic bread and here’s our latest version. Using just three ingredients easily found at Coles, we’ve created our crispiest and the most moreish garlic bread roll-ups yet. Simply flatten slightly defrosted croissants, top with garlic butter and cheese, roll up and pop in an air fryer for 10 minutes. That stringy cheese and the hit of garlic make this an irresistible starter or snack.

18: Ricotta-stuffed chicken rolls

For a budget-friendly festive main, try our super moist spinach and ricotta stuffed rolls. At just $4.20 per serve, we’ve kept the costs down by butterflying a whole chicken. The Greek-style lemon and oregano marinade pairs perfectly with the sweet and sour tang of the cranberries, it’s like Christmas on a plate!

19: Creamy Tuscan stuffed capsicums

Who doesn’t love the Mediterranean flavours of capsicums, garlic and basil. They are at the fore in this creamy Tuscan capsicum recipe. Roasted until meltingly soft, the capsicums provide a perfect vessel to hold the creamy risoni stuffing. Adding the Italian favourites of sun-dried tomato and parmesan complete this super tasty vegetarian main. I love to serve with crusty bread and a green salad and would highly recommend for some added texture and freshness!