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Crisp pork belly with coriander peanut nam jim.

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The hot 40 countdown: Most popular summer recipes 2020-2021

Smashed and smushed potatoes, cracking pork crackling and pasta and salads aplenty. Here's what you clicked, cooked and fired up the barbie for, this season.

40 recipes
Serve this fish-fragrant eggplant with sliced chicken breast, pictured, or other protein.

40. Chicken with fish-fragrant eggplant sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Spicy lamb skewers with cucumber yoghurt and cherry tomatoes.
EASY

39. Spicy lamb skewers with cucumber yoghurt

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Crumbed sausage meets parmigiana.
EASY

38. Snag parmy (crumbed sausage meets parmigiana)

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Swipe these sticky lamb ribs through smoky eggplant sauce.

37. Beer and miso lamb ribs with smoky eggplant yoghurt sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Katrina Meynink is on a mission to bring back the iceberg lettuce with this chicken salad.

36. Buttermilk crisp chicken and crunchy salad with sriracha mayo dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Summer lamb stew.

35. Summer lamb stew

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Serve these Middle Eastern meatballs hot or cold.

34. Beef and pork meatballs with tomato and saffron sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Eggplant, brown rice and quinoa salad with caramel dressing.

33. Eggplant, brown rice and quinoa salad with quick pickled onion and a date and ras el hanout dressing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Smushed potato salad with honey mustard dressing.
EASY

32. RecipeTin Eats' Smushed potato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Serving suggestion: Add some asparagus spears to this grilled fish dish.
EASY

31. Grilled salmon with tomato and oregano dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
If your caesar salad dressing doesn't burn your tongue, it's not good, and that's a fact.

30. Canadian chef Matty Matheson's punchy caesar salad

  • Matty Matheson
Crisp pork belly with toffeed peanut nam jim.

29. Crisp pork belly with coriander peanut nam jim

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Charred corn kernels coated in creamy, cheesy dressing.
EASY

28. RecipeTin Eats' charred corn salad with creamy parmesan dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Tacos for breakfast? It's a thing now.

27. Four fresh recipes from California to brighten your summer

  • Vivian Lui
Pumpkin and pesto pearl cous cous salad.
EASY

26. Pesto cous cous with maple roasted pumpkin and almond

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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This crostini is a great way to make prawns go further for an entree.
EASY

25. RecipeTin Eats' crostini with prawns on parmesan pea puree

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Adam Liaw's cauliflower nachos.

24. Cauliflower nachos

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Potato and pickle salad.
EASY

23. Adam Liaw's potato and pickle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Yeasted buns filled with rhubarb compote and vanilla cream.

22. Rhubarb and vanilla cream splits

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
This chicken noodle salad is a riot of colour and flavour.

21. Thai coriander chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate mousse adorned with chocolate-covered freeze-dried berries.

20. Five-ingredient blender chocolate mousse

  • Katrina Meynink
Take your desserts to the next level.

19. Adam Liaw's avocado, lime and macadamia meringue pie

Create a sophisticated salad combination that heroes deliciously creamy Aussie avocados.

18. Adam Liaw's avocado seaweed salad with sesame and onion dressing

Perfect summer pasta: Linguine with spanner crab and coriander seeds.
EASY

17. Spanner crab linguine with crushed coriander seeds

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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This peanut and lime sauce works well with other proteins.
EASY

16. Beef rice bowls with Thai peanut and lime sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Calum Franklin's Ultimate Sausage Roll.

15. The secret to the ultimate sausage roll

  • Calum Franklin
A showstopping vegetarian centrepiece.

14. Vegetarian Wellington with roasted spiced pumpkin, feta and grains

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Prawn pasta, heavy on the herbs, with 'pretend fancy sauce' and optional zucchini flowers.

13. Prawn pasta with pretend fancy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Mexican salad with coriander, lime and black pepper dressing.
EASY

12. Mexican salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Slow-roasted chicken drumsticks with butter and sage.
EASY

11. Slow-roasted drumsticks with butter and sage

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Sticky Christmas glazed chicken.

10. RecipeTin Eats' sticky glazed chicken

  • RecipeTin Eats
There's no shortage of avocado in this grain salad.
EASY

9. Farro, corn, chickpea and avocado salad with chipotle lime dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Italy with a detour to Spain: Chicken amatriciana one-tray wonder with chorizo and potatoes.
EASY

8. Chicken amatriciana traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
This coriander rice and coriander sauce combo checks all the boxes.

7. Salmon with coriander sauce and coconut rice

  • Ann Maloney
Flatbread with coffee spice rubbed lamb with honey and feta. Katrina Meynink's summer flatbread toppings for Good Food February 2020. Please credit Katrina Meynink. Good Food use only.

6. Four fully loaded flatbreads (plus a basic base recipe)

  • Katrina Meynink
RecipeTin Eats' no-bake Nutella cheesecake.

5. RecipeTin Eats' no-bake Nutella cheesecake

  • RecipeTin Eats

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