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Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato.

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The hot 40: Good Food's most popular recipes of summer 2021/22

From RecipeTin's perfect fries to colourful Christmas mains, desserts and sides, with plenty of fresh flavours, salads and sweet treats besides, this is what we plated up through the summer of 2021/2022.

40 recipes
'Better than Maccas': Crispy triple-cooked fries.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Crispy homemade fries

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Mango and berry trifle with cranberry jelly.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Mango and berry trifle

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato.
EASY

Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Tomato and spiced feta tart.

Keep-things-spicy tomato and feta slab tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Relaxed summer eating at its finest.

Katrina Meynink's crispy chicken with ranch dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Soba noodles with cheat's crunchy chilli oil and avocado.
EASY

Crunchy chilli oil soba noodles with avocado

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Chilli con corn.
EASY

Chilli con carne tray bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Beetroot cured salmon served with horseradish cream, rye bread and cucumber ribbons.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Beetroot-cured salmon with horseradish cream

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Crispy pasta nests with chickpeas and kale.
EASY

Katrina Meynink's one-pan tagliatelle with chickpeas, greens and lemon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Lamington Fingers by Nagi Maehashi.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Lamington fingers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Zaatar spiced cous cous, nuts and green bean salad with date dressing.

Zaatar spiced cous cous, nuts and green bean salad with feta and date dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli.

Katrina Meynink's Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Quick Vietnamese caramel pork stir-fry.
EASY

Quick Vietnamese caramel pork stir-fry

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Peach trifle with raspberries and sweet riesling custard.

Helen Goh’s peach trifle with raspberries and sweet riesling custard

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Lobster rolls with yuzu mayo and potato chips.

Boxing Day yuzu mayo lobster rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Why not swap glazed ham for pulled pork?
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Pulled pork with Christmas barbecue sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
These crispy-creamy potato stacks will be the star of your festive spread.

Gunpowder potato pave (spiced potato-bake stacks)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Deli pasta salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's deli pasta salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
The components for this Christmas salad can be prepped ahead and tossed together on the big day.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Festive pomegranate salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Filet mignon with creamy peppercorn sauce, garlic spinach and Paris mash.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Steak with creamy peppercorn sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Chargrilled chicken with grilled lettuce hearts, lemon and chipotle mayo.

Karen Martini's chargrilled chicken with fennel, lettuce and chipotle mayo

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Pho noodle 'salad'.
EASY

Pho noodle 'salad'

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce.
EASY

Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Mango and chilli-glazed ham with tomato and mango sambal (top left).
EASY

Tony Tan's mango and chilli-glazed Christmas ham

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Tony Tan
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Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata.
EASY

Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Spiced roast picanha with fig jam.

Picanha beef roast with fig jam and spices

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Summer sunshine on a plate: Barbecued fish with sauce vierge.

Neil Perry's barbecued coral trout with sauce vierge

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Buttermilk fried chicken burgers with pickle slaw and chipotle mayo.
EASY

Buttermilk fried chicken burgers with pickle slaw and chipotle mayo

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Tomato spaghetti marinara.
EASY

Adam Liaw's tomato spaghetti marinara

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
This savoury tart is light, lovely and relaxed.
EASY

Katrina Meynink's filo, greens and salumi tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Summer fruit salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's summer fruit salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
These sweet, sticky sesame rice balls often roll around on yum cha trolleys.

Helen Goh's jian dui (crispy sesame balls)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Seafood all'acqua pazza (cooked in "crazy water").
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's seafood all'acqua pazza

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Adam Liaw's Christmas red and green hot sauces.
EASY

Adam Liaw's fermented red chilli-cherry hot sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Grilled sardines with a fresh salsa.
EASY

Neil Perry's barbecued sardines with spicy mint and cucumber salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chermoula prawn skewers with quick tomato relish and aioli.

Chermoula barbecued prawns with quick tomato chermoula relish

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink

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