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Katrina Meynink

Katrina Meynink

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Katrina Meynink is a cookbook author and Good Food recipe columnist.Connect via Twitter.

Tip: tear the burrata straight onto the platter.
EASY

Burrata with cucumber and cumin herb oil

This side dish achieves the winning formula of plenty of oomph for little effort.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Cold green bean salad.
EASY

Green bean salad with toasted almonds and spiced preserved lemon dressing

This make-ahead cold bean salad with a zingy dressing is simple, but special enough for big occasions.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Sumac and charred lemon chicken thighs with tzatziki.

One magic marinade for chicken thighs, plus multiple great meals to make from them

Pan-roast a big batch of thighs, then serve it all week in different dishes (including the ultimate crisp-skinned chicken). Your future self will thank you.

  • Katrina Meynink
Make your own pork “sausages”, and let everyone assemble their own banh mi.

Fire up the barbie for these four big-flavoured dishes with just six(ish) ingredients

Flavour without the faff, with new recipes for barbecued sausage banh mi, halloumi with dukkah, honey and pomegranate, sticky gochujang chicken and steak with herby lime salsa.

  • Katrina Meynink
A slab of cheesy pepperoni goodness.

Sheet pan pizza of the gods

There’s nothing greater than piping hot pizza fresh from the oven, indecently laden with mozzarella, olives and pepperoni.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
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Patatas bravas with roast garlic aioli (right) and kind-of brava sauce (left).

This saucy, flavour-packed patatas bravas will make you friends any day of the week

Offering aioli and romesco sauces with a spread of duck fat-roasted potatoes will make you friends every day of the week.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Spring roll crunchy rice salad.
EASY

Spring roll crunchy rice salad

This tray bake has everything we need: freshness; crisp, crunch and contrast; a wisp of spice; and a touch of take-out vibes.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
This is the right kind of vanilla slice, says its creator Katrina Meynink.

Vanilla slice with caramelised pastry and passionfruit

Katrina Meynink’s version of the Aussie bakery classic is a thing of beauty.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Katrina Meynink’s two-tone jelly and panna cotta.

Raspberry, moscato and elderflower jelly with yoghurt and white chocolate panna cotta

On our hot Christmas days, this light and refreshing pudding is the kind of dessert we all need.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Tip: Serve the rum balls with extra toasted coconut.
EASY

Follow these six rules to take your rum balls to the next level this Christmas

Katrina Meynink gives the festive favourite a toasty, tasty upgrade. Pa-rum, pum-pum, pum.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/by/katrina-meynink-hvecu