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It may be April 1, but these 20 easy recipes are entirely foolproof

Forget April Fool’s Day. With these impossible-to-mess-up recipes in your back pocket, you’ll be cooking like a pro, no matter how basic your cooking ability.

20 recipes
Steak with store-bought crispy chilli oil and simple sides is a midweek favourite.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ steak with crispy chilli oil

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s baked chicken with capsicum, olives and garlic.
EASY

One-pan chicken with garlic, capsicum, oregano and olives

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Chicken meuniere.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chicken meuniere

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ easy chicken pot pies.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ creamy chicken pot pies

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Danielle Alvarez’s green pea and spinach fritters.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s green pea and spinach fritters

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Satay roast chicken salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s satay roast chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Pasta shells with zucchini and corn.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s pasta shells with zucchini and corn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ 20-minute Thai chicken satay curry.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ 20-minute Thai chicken satay curry

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Neil Perry’s bruschetta with cherry tomatoes, basil, olives and feta.
EASY

Neil Perry’s bruschetta with cherry tomatoes, basil, olives and feta

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato.
EASY

Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
One-pan sausage and vegetables with gravy.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ easy-peasy sausage and vegie one-tray wonder

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Tuna pasta with gremolata.
EASY

Tuna pasta with rocket gremolata

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Peri peri chicken wings with crispy roasted fries with feta and oregano.
EASY

What’s for dinner? Wing it with speedy peri-peri chicken wings and oven-baked feta fries

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Pea, chilli and dill pasta.
EASY

Break out the frozen peas for this perfect meat-free Monday pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Crispy tofu and lemongrass larb.
EASY

Crispy tofu and lemongrass larb is a vegetarian’s dream salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Neil Perry's ham omelette.
EASY

Neil Perry's ham omelette recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Spicy coriander and pork frying pan enchiladas
EASY

Spicy coriander and pork frying pan enchiladas

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
An easy chicken salad with loads of flavour.
EASY

Coconut and coriander chicken with corn and cucumber salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
15-minute preserved lemon and tomato pasta.
EASY

An unexpected ingredient adds zing to this speedy 15-minute pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/it-may-be-april-1-but-these-20-easy-recipes-are-entirely-foolproof-20250331-p5lnt8.html