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Cheat eats: 10 easy recipes that make you look a better cook

Want to impress without the stress? Here are 10 simple recipes that make cheating perfectly acceptable.

10 recipes
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
Melissa Leong's mapo tofu.

Cheat's mapo tofu

  • < 30 mins
  • Melissa Leong
Indian lamb curry with spinach.
EASY

Cheat's Kashmiri lamb curry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Cheat's samosas.
EASY

Cheat's samosas (vegetable curry puffs)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Cupboard cookie and coffee ice-cream sandwiches.

Cupboard cookie and cheat's coffee ice-cream sandwiches

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Thai times two: Larb meets khao soi.

Cheat's khao soi with herbs and charred pineapple

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Quick red curry of chicken.
EASY

Quick red chicken curry recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Mango and passionfruit Viennetta-inspired ice-cream cake.

Cheat's Viennetta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
One-pot lamb and quinoa biryani.

One-pot lamb and quinoa biryani

  • 2 hrs +
'Cheat' fruit pavlova

'Cheat' fruit pavlova

  • < 30 mins
  • Frances Randall

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