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Gyros loaded fries with whipped feta.

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Sofa so good: 50 of the easiest (and tastiest) meals to eat in front of the TV

Fun, delicious and lap-friendly food for when you're too busy soaking up the action on the telly to juggle what's happening right under your nose.

50 recipes
Everything you love about souvlaki, minus the pita.

Gyros-loaded fries with lamb and whipped feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Pork and prawn donburi.

Pork and prawn donburi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chorizo hot dog with red peppers and onions.
EASY

Chorizo hot dog with red peppers and onions

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Build-your-own souvlaki bowls.
EASY

Chicken souvlaki bowls with haloumi

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Bloody mary inspired beef sausage rolls with vodka spiked relish.

Bloody mary sausage rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
popcorn
EASY

Salted caramel popcorn

  • < 30 mins
  • Kristy Komadina
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You won't miss the meat in these mushroom hand pies.

Mushroom and leek hand pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Step aside garlic bread, hello cacio e pepe pull-apart.
EASY

Easy cheesy cacio e pepe pull-apart bread

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Healthy school lunches by Wholefood Simply.
EASY

Crunchy chicken nuggets

  • < 30 mins
  • Bianca Slade
Prawn rolls with hot celery salt.
EASY

Prawn rolls with homemade hot celery salt

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Green lamb shoulder shawarma and pea pie.

Lamb shoulder shawarma and pea pie with sumac butter filo pastry

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Potato gem-studded frittata with a stripe of tomato salsa.
EASY

Potato gem and cheese frittata with speedy spicy tomato salsa

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Share-friendly reuben sandwich drizzled with Russian mayo.
EASY

Reuben pull-apart loaf

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Souvlaki-meets-taco: Lamb and feta wraps with mint salsa.
EASY

Lamb and feta tacos with mint salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Beef nachos with coriander salsa.
EASY

Beef nachos with coriander salsa

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Gochujang chicken bibimbap bowl.
EASY

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

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
When garlic bread meets cheese toastie.
EASY

Garlic bread and cheese toastie recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
This dessert toastie uses buttery brioche bread.

Apple pie and salted caramel toastie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Banh mi meets meatloaf.

Vietnamese chicken and lemongrass meatloaf with spicy glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Who can resist a wholesome, crisp and golden home-made chip?

Home-made hot chips

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Cuba's second most famous sandwich.

Cuban fish sandwiches

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Sticky mustard beef stir-fry.
EASY

Sticky mustard beef and noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
The RPG Sandwich.
EASY

RPG sandwich: Roast pork and garlic bread roll recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken tikka curry with smooth and creamy sauce.
EASY

Cheat's chicken tikka

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Middle Eastern chicken and spice roasted pumpkin rice bowl

Middle Eastern chicken and spice roasted pumpkin rice bowl

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Frank Camorra's mac and cheese jaffle.

Mac and cheese jaffle

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Frank Camorra
Tuna, nori and avocado poke bowls.
EASY

Adam Liaw's tuna, nori and avocado poke bowl recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Toasted jamon and tomato roll.
EASY

Toasted jamon and tomato roll

  • < 30 mins
Chicken skewers with jalapeno jam and corn. Footy food recipes for Good Food September 2018. Please credit Katrina Meynink.

Chipotle caramelised chicken with jalapeno jam, corn and manchego cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's taco and hot dog mash-up.
EASY

Taco dogs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Miso grilled chicken rice bowl.
EASY

Miso grilled chicken rice bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Donna Hay
Beef taco rice with creamy, spicy avo dressing (top left).

Beef taco rice traybake with spicy avocado dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Chicken adobo for tacos

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Lamb gyros with tzatziki.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Shredded lamb gyros

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Slurp to it: Sichuan dan dan noodles.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Dan dan noodles

  • RecipeTin Eats
Moussaka, meet tacos.
EASY

Moussacos (moussaka tacos)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

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