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Portuguese beef espetada skewers with peri peri and warm bean salad.

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Back to work: 30 quick 'n' easy dinners that make weeknight cooking a breeze

Holidays already a distant memory? Take the pain out of returning to work with these speedy dinners that make work-day cooking a cinch.

30 recipes
Soba noodles with cheat's crunchy chilli oil and avocado.
EASY

Crunchy chilli oil soba noodles with avocado

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Beef espetada skewers with peri peri and warm bean salad.

Portuguese beef espetada skewers with peri peri and warm bean salad

  • Jessica Brook
Schnitty meets karaage chicken.
EASY

Ginger chicken schnitzel

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Umami lamb cutlets with miso butter and cabbage.
EASY

Umami lamb cutlets with miso butter and cabbage

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Salmon fillets with buttered garlic corn.
EASY

Salmon with buttered garlic corn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tuna pasta with gremolata.
EASY

Tuna pasta with rocket gremolata

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Speedy salmon pitas with hummus.
EASY

Salmon pitas with hummus

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli.

Katrina Meynink's Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Mexican-inspired nachos schnitzels with quick pickled tomatoes and avocado.
EASY

Mexican-inspired nachos schnitzels with quick pickled tomatoes and avocado

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Add a splash of vodka to your pasta sauce.
EASY

Pasta with tomato vodka sauce, chilli and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pho in a flash: This cheat's pho is faster than any delivery app.
EASY

Cheat's beef pho with lemongrass, ginger and garlic

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this chicken noodle stir-fry with soft-boiled eggs and chilli oil.
EASY

Slurpy peanut butter miso chicken noodle stir-fry

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Prawn pasta, heavy on the herbs, with 'pretend fancy sauce' and optional zucchini flowers.

Prawn pasta with pretend fancy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Potato and asparagus pizza with sauce gribiche.
EASY

Potato and asparagus pizza with sauce gribiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Pho noodle 'salad'.
EASY

Pho noodle 'salad'

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Quick Vietnamese caramel pork stir-fry.
EASY

Quick Vietnamese caramel pork stir-fry

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Smoky mushroom and pineapple tacos.
EASY

Smoky mushroom and pineapple tacos

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Ploughman’s bruschetta.
EASY

Adam Liaw's ploughman’s bruschetta

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce.
EASY

Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Haloumi, zucchini, Israeli cous cous salad.
EASY

Haloumi, zucchini and cous cous salad with tomato chutney dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Lemongrass prawn noodles.
EASY

Adam Liaw's lemongrass prawn noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pantry pasta: Bigoli in salsa.
EASY

Bigoli in salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Turmeric, ginger and coconut create a brightly coloured, flavour-packed dressing.

Chickpea and tomato salad with coconut dressing

  • Danielle Alvarez
Speedy teriyaki salmon.
EASY

Teriyaki salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Mushroom larb.
EASY

Adam Liaw's mushroom larb

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad.
EASY

Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata.
EASY

Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
If you like your salmon saucy, make a double portion of the dressing.
EASY

Green chilli and ginger grilled salmon skewers

  • < 30 mins
  • Donna Hay
This Christmas centrepiece comes together in no time at all.

Adam Liaw's roast ocean trout with summer tomato dressing

  • Adam Liaw
Chanchan salmon.
EASY

Chanchan salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw

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