• Recipe collection
• Midweek dinner

Hit ‘Save’: 18 midweek-friendly recipes the Good Food team has on standby

Meal planning rut? Shake things up. The Good Food team has picked recipes that promise fresh flavours and exciting techniques to banish midweek monotony.

• Substantial salads

Adam Liaw’s cordon bleu salad

This salad takes staples like ham, cheese and bread and combines them with a roast chook to produce the flavours of a French classic – chicken cordon bleu.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Cookbook extracts

‘A love letter to your future self’: Make-ahead meals you’ll be excited to eat

When life is busy, prepping ahead creates order out of chaos. These four dishes combine flavour, diversity and convenience in one neat package.

• April 30, 2025
• Katrina Meynink

• Midweek dinner

Pork cutlets with spring onion butter and potato and burrata salad

Swap creamy mayo for burrata in this elevated potato salad recipe, served with pork cutlets and spring onion butter.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Jessica Brook

• Fruit desserts

Adam Liaw’s Indian fruit custard

This popular Indian dessert is usually made with powdered custard. I’m not a huge fan, so here’s a version that starts with a crème anglaise.

• 2 hrs +
• Adam Liaw

• Comfort food

Adam Liaw’s chicken korma

Korma comes from the Urdu word for “braised”, and most modern varieties include a rich gravy of browned onions, yoghurt and nuts.

• 2 hrs +
• Adam Liaw

• Winter warmer

Pumpkin risotto with rosemary and goat’s cheese

Roasting the pumpkin brings out its natural sweetness in this warming vegetarian risotto.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Jessica Brook

• One-pot

Pot-roasted lamb shoulder with cherry tomatoes, white wine, garlic and lemon

Simple to prepare and mostly hands-off, the magic ingredient in this deeply delicious dish is time.

• 2 hrs +
• Sarah Pound

• Substantial salads

Is it possible to improve the greatest salad of all time? Good Food gives it a crack

The cult Cypriot grain salad has had more than 5 million downloads and is a mainstay of many a family table. But can we make it even better? Only one way to find out.

• April 17, 2025
• Good Food team

• Baking

Try this fish pie recipe and you’ll see why it’s a menu fixture at this famous Melbourne pub

Comforting but not too heavy, this creamy fish pie is a year-round favourite. So don’t be shy – bust through the golden pastry cap and dive right in.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Andrew McConnell