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80 budget-friendly recipes for everyday cooking

Forget baked beans in a tin. Save money while you eat well with these easy-on-the-hip-pocket recipes.

78 recipes
This simple chicken roast is a one-tray wonder.
EASY

Roast chicken thighs with potato, garlic and rosemary

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Adam Liaw's chicken and egg curry.
EASY

Adam Liaw's chicken and egg curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Crumbed chicken with herb and garlic butter pasta.
EASY

Crumbed chicken with herb and garlic butter pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Spice up your soup and sandwich combo with kimchi and gochujang.
EASY

Tomato and kimchi soup with chilli cheese toasties

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Budget-friendly and filling fried rice.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Beef mince fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
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EASY

Scrambled curried tofu with spinach and peas

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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Super green pantry pasta.
EASY

Super green pantry pasta

  • Jessica Brook
Chicken fricassee.

Adam Liaw's chicken fricassee

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Six ingredient frying pan quiche.
EASY

Six-ingredient frying pan quiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Chilli beef and corn pie.
EASY

Chilli beef and corn pie

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Julia Busuttil Nishimura's chicken dish is a one-pot winter wonder.
EASY

Chicken with mushrooms and creme fraiche

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Rice malt and soy baked chicken.
EASY

Adam Liaw's rice malt and soy baked chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Zucchini lasagne.

Adam Liaw's zucchini lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Bacon, egg and pea fried rice.
EASY

Adam Liaw's bacon, egg and pea fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Calabrian Carbonara recipe
EASY

Calabrian carbonara

  • < 30 mins
  • Vanessa Gordon
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Sticky honey soy chicken.
EASY

Honey, soy and ginger drumettes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Pea and ham soup, but make it pasta.

Ravioli 'pea 'n' ham' bowls

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Briefly steaming the charred broccoli helps retain its green colour.
EASY

Charred broccoli pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Swap the standard spag bol for this showstopping pasta pie.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Torta di rigatoni (upright pasta pie)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Mushroom and spinach frittata.
EASY

Adam Liaw's mushroom, spinach and zucchini frittata

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Cheesy one-pan eggplant bake with 'nduja.
EASY

Fast skillet eggplant and spicy salami bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Hetty McKinnon says frozen spinach is the magic ingredient in this simple vegetarian pasta.
EASY

Hetty McKinnon's spinach and walnut pesto pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Hetty McKinnon
A humble bag of frozen peas adds freshness to this pantry braise.
EASY

Hetty McKinnon's spicy tomato and coconut braised peas

  • < 30 mins
  • Hetty McKinnon
Pantry spaghetti with 'poor man's cheese' (crispy breadcrumbs).

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's pantry spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Hearty ham, bean and red capsicum soup.
EASY

Ham, bean and capsicum soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Duncan Welgemoed
Lamb sausage stew with red butter.

Adam Liaw's lamb sausage stew with red butter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Joe Jones' cacio e pepe gnocchi.

Cacio e pepe gnocchi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Joe Jones
One-pot chicken, spinach and orzo stew.

Danielle Alvarez's lemony chicken and orzo stew

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Budget-friendly beans on toast, pictured with pan-fried kale (optional).
EASY

Benjamin Cooper's turmeric spiced butter beans

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Benjamin Cooper and executive chef at Chin Chin
Blueberry and banana cake.
EASY

Vegan banana and blackberry bread

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Shannon Martinez
Melissa Leong's mapo tofu.

Cheat's mapo tofu

  • < 30 mins
  • Melissa Leong
Shannon Martinez's corn and spring onion congee.
EASY

Corn and shiitake congee

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Shannon Martinez
Kylie Kwong's cheap and cheerful chicken wings.
EASY

Honey and ginger chicken wings

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Roast chicken fried rice.
EASY

Roast chicken fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Yeast-free apple and ricotta frittelle.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's apple and ricotta frittelle

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Shannon Martinez' $4 crumble cake.
EASY

Vegan apricot crumble cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Shannon Martinez

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