Cookbook extracts

Meatball curry from Lankan Filling by O Tama Carey

Curry

Spice up your meatballs with this Sri Lankan-inspired recipe from O Tama Carey

The chef and owner of celebrated Sydney eatery Lankan Filling Station shares her recipe for meatball curry from her latest cookbook.

O Tama Carey

“I first made these meatballs after a not-so-tragic break-up. For better or for worse, the name stuck,” says Roman.

Picnic

These are your basic, very good meatballs and to Alison Roman, they are perfect

The controversial bestselling author takes on pantry staples in latest cookbook, using a “high-low” method to create simple (but impressive) wine bar fare.

Alison Roman

Serve burghul salad in baby cos lettuce leaves as a finger food or a side dish.

Substantial salads

Four new Mediterranean salad recipes (plus the secret to perfect jammy boiled eggs)

There’s nothing “garden variety” about the salads in the latest cookbook from Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley.

Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley

Comfort food

Fried rice is Thailand’s go-to comfort food. Here’s how to make it at home

MasterChef winner Nat Thaipun shares her recipes for classic Thai fried rice and a flexible, flavourful rice salad you can easily customise.

Nat Thaipun

Baking

Bake yourself happy: Helen Goh’s secret to making soft and fluffy finger buns

The quiet force behind Yotam Ottolenghi shares four simple recipes from her solo cookbook.

Helen Goh

You can mix and match toppings on the Salada crack.

Baking

This chocolate crack is the easiest (and most addictive) treat you can make this Christmas

Using a Salada cracker for its base, this recipe is half-way done before you’ve even started.

Vanessa Horton

Cookbook author Samin Nosrat with her dog, Fava.

Cooking

Salt Fat Acid Heat author’s simple home cooking (plus a genius egg-peeling trick)

In her new cookbook, Good Things, former Chez Panisse chef and Netflix star Samin Nosrat shares smart tips, including a recipe for amazing roast chicken.

Samin Nosrat

Lamb kofta bowl with turmeric rice and tzatziki.

Healthy

Game-day fuel: Footballer Christian Petracca’s easy, healthy ‘balanced bowls’

AFL star Christian Petracca takes his game-day discipline from the field to the kitchen, sharing three nutritious, no-fuss recipes that fuel his success.

Christian Petracca

Healthy eating

Jamie Oliver’s ‘truly spectacular’ spring soup is loaded with greens and ready in 30 minutes

The superstar chef shares tasty and nutritious hits from his new health-focused cookbook.

Jamie Oliver

Healthy eating

One-in-three Australians have this condition. This soup can help reverse it

Do your liver a favour with this flexible and ultra-nutritious recipe from clinical nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo.

Sarah Di Lorenzo

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