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Salmon and dill lettuce cups.

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40 fast and fresh Friday night feeds

Friday nights don't always have to be about greasy burgers and takeaways. Keep it light and fresh this week with these speedy yet health(ier) dinner ideas.

40 recipes
Simple and elegant: Lettuce cups with celeriac remoulade and raw salmon.

Adam Liaw's salmon and dill lettuce cups

  • Adam Liaw
Chilled silken tofu dressed with ginger and crispy chilli sauce.
EASY

Karen Martini's chilled silken tofu

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Kylie Kwong's vegetable and noodle soup.
EASY

Fresh vegetable and udon noodle soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
A soft, yielding burger bun offers contrast to the meaty patty, but what about trying it within a crispy lettuce leaf instead?
EASY

Low-carb cheeseburger lettuce wraps recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Use this recipe as a starting point for whichever protein you choose.
EASY

Neil Perry's sang choy bao

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
This noodle dish, using traditionally long noodle strands, represents longevity.

Chilled noodles with sesame dressing recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
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Prawn oil noodles.

Adam Liaw's prawn oil noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Picnic-friendly noodle salad with nuoc cham dressing.
EASY

Vietnamese rice noodles with nuoc cham

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
In less than 100 years, this simple dish from San Diego has taken over the world.
EASY

Waldorf Caesar salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Hail kale! Adam Liaw's winter Caesar salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's reinvented classic Caesar salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Peanut butter noodles with roast chicken.
EASY

Peanut butter noodles with roast chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken noodle salad.
EASY

Chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
This sticky stir-fry should convert tofu skeptics.
EASY

Maple, soy and sesame tofu with brown rice and greens

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Chanchan salmon.
EASY

Chanchan salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pasta sciue sciue.
EASY

Pasta sciue sciue

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
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Speedy teriyaki salmon.
EASY

Teriyaki salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's salmon oyakodon (salmon and roe rice bowl).

Salmon oyakodon (salmon and roe rice bowl)

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pick up a cooked chook for this stir-fry.
EASY

Roast chicken stir-fry

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chicken and broccoli linguine.
EASY

Chicken and broccoli linguine recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Fried eggs with nahm jim.
EASY

Fried eggs with nahm jim recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chicken and prawn spicy sesame noodles
EASY

Neil Perry's chicken and prawn spicy sesame noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's seared tuna salad is colourful and nutritious.
EASY

Seared tuna salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Quick, healthy dinner: Salmon fillets with caramelised onion and wilted greens.
EASY

Salmon fillets with caramelised onion and wilted greens

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken larb with roasted rice.
EASY

Chicken larb with roasted rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Thai-style beef with sugar snap peas
EASY

Neil Perry's Thai-style beef with sugar snap peas

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Gochujang chicken bibimbap bowl.
EASY

Shredded chicken bibimbap bowl of sorts, with quick spicy barbecue sauce and slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Crumbled chorizo sausage on an omelette.
EASY

Spiced cauliflower and feta omelette with chorizo and almond dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
This anchovy sauce is great on a variety of vegetables.
EASY

Grilled steak, asparagus and anchovy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Tuna, avocado and tofu with wasabi cream

Tuna, avocado and tofu with wasabi cream

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Vietnamese prawn and chicken coleslaw.
EASY

Vietnamese chicken and prawn coleslaw

  • < 30 mins
Cool salmon noodles for summer.
EASY

Salmon and avocado soba noodle bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Beef espetada skewers with peri peri and warm bean salad.

Portuguese beef espetada skewers with peri peri and warm bean salad

  • Jessica Brook
Smoky mushroom and pineapple tacos.
EASY

Smoky mushroom and pineapple tacos

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Rainbow salad.
EASY

Rainbow salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Eat your greens: Green tea noodle bowl with broccoli and edamame.
EASY

Green noodle bowl with broccoli

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Haloumi, zucchini, Israeli cous cous salad.
EASY

Haloumi, zucchini and cous cous salad with tomato chutney dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook

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