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25 recipes guaranteed to impress your guests

Whether you need to clinch a deal, or just want a fancy meal, these impressive dishes need just enough technique to impress without pretension.

25 recipes
Crowd-pleasing crumbed lamb cutlets with minted yoghurt.

Crumbed lamb cutlets with minted yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Radicchio and broccoli can still be treated like a salad if you're not yet ready to fully give up on the lightness of summer.

Warm broccoli and radicchio salad with anchovy and chilli dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Andrew McConnell's spring salad for brunch or lunch.
EASY

Asparagus with tarragon mustard dressing, hazelnuts and soft-boiled egg

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
This anchovy sauce is great on a variety of vegetables.
EASY

Grilled steak, asparagus and anchovy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Large field mushrooms remain extra juicy when baked in a parcel.
EASY

Foil-baked field mushrooms with garlic, butter and thyme

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Andrew McConnell's adaptable vegetable salad.

Vegetable salad with shaved seaweed and Japanese dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
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To make this salad extra luxurious, double the amount of peas, you won't regret it.

Farro and spring vegetable salad with dill, feta and lemon

  • Danielle Alvarez
This black fideua is so surprising in its fresh sweetness that it will leave your palate a bit confused but wanting to go back for seconds.

Squid ink fideua

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chermoulas and lime-cured peppers give a kick to this grilled oily fish.

Grilled blue mackerel (or sardines) with red and green chermoula and lime-cured sweet peppers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
This jewel-toned beetroot tarte tatin is as impressive to look at as it is to eat.

Beetroot tarte tatin with rye crust

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
The Italian-style tomato and pinenut salsa pairs beautifully with lean fish.
EASY

Grilled tuna with tomato, caper, olive and pinenut salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Kylie Kwong's caramelised pork belly with fresh finger limes and Sichuan pepper.

Red-braised, caramelised pork belly with fresh finger limes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Kylie Kwong
Silky, mouth-watering, delectable, clean-tasting wontons.

Prawn wontons with spring onion, ginger and vinegar dressing recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Miso glazed glacier toothfish with sesame dressing, and spiced pumpkin.

Neil Perry's miso glazed glacier toothfish with sesame dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's snapper with spiced sweet potato and yoghurt

Neil Perry's snapper with spiced sweet potato and yoghurt

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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Hot and numbing dried beef.

Hot and numbing dried beef recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's tart lemon tart!

Lemon tart recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Ricotta souffle pudding with raspberries.

Ricotta soufflé pudding with raspberries recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's grilled King George whiting with tomato, basil and olive sauce and aioli

Neil Perry's grilled King George whiting with tomato and olive sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Supreme salmon meuniere.
EASY

Supreme salmon meunière

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's zaatar crusted lamb fillet with skordalia.

Zaatar crusted lamb fillet with skordalia

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Blood-orange struffoli.
EASY

Blood-orange struffoli

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Roast pumpkin, fried tofu and coconut laksa.

Pumpkin, fried tofu and coconut laksa

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's Korean-style fried king prawns.

Neil Perry's Korean-style fried king prawns

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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Adam Liaw's orange and ginger rum cakes.

Adam Liaw's orange and ginger rum cakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

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