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Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli.

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50 bright and summery dinners ready in 30 minutes or less

Can't think what to cook tonight? These simple, bright and summery dishes will do the trick any night of the week.

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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
Seafood all'acqua pazza (cooked in "crazy water").
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's seafood all'acqua pazza

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Tomato, watermelon and feta salad with wild fennel flowers.
EASY

Karen Martini's tomato, watermelon and feta salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Tomato spaghetti marinara.
EASY

Adam Liaw's tomato spaghetti marinara

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Heirloom tomato and bread salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's heirloom tomato and bread salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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
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Relaxed summer eating at its finest.

Katrina Meynink's crispy chicken with ranch dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
When it comes to pizza, there's nothing better than homemade.

Neil Perry's rocket and prosciutto summer pizza recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Serving suggestion: Add some asparagus spears to this grilled fish dish.
EASY

Neil Perry's grilled salmon with tomato and oregano dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Quick Vietnamese caramel pork stir-fry.
EASY

Quick Vietnamese caramel pork stir-fry

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

Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad.
EASY

Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Haloumi, zucchini, Israeli cous cous salad.
EASY

Haloumi, zucchini and cous cous salad with tomato chutney dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Barbecue fish burgers with potato chips.
EASY

Barbecue fish burger

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Punchy prawns: This dish is salty, hot and sweet, yet vibrantly fresh and cleansing.

Prawn and vermicelli salad with coconut cream, makrut lime and betel leaves

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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Sour tamarind and fragrant kaffir lime are perfect marinade ingredients for prawns and other seafood.

Sweet and sour grilled prawns

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

Crunchy chilli oil soba noodles with avocado

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Italian-style steak.
EASY

Italian-style steak

  • < 30 mins
Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata.
EASY

Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Deli pasta salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's deli pasta salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Sticky Thai pork cutlets with tomato fried rice.
EASY

Sticky Thai pork cutlets with tomato fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Prawn and tomato spaghetti.
EASY

Prawn and tomato spaghetti

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

Mexican salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Crumbed sausage meets parmigiana.
EASY

Snag parmy (crumbed sausage meets parmigiana)

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

Beef rice bowls with Thai peanut and lime sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
***EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, OCTOBER 19/19 ISSUE*** Neil Perry Recipe : BBQ John Dory with Pistachios, Preserved Lemon, and Caper salsa Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions) 
EASY

Neil Perry's barbecued John Dory with pistachios, preserved lemon and caper salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Tandoori butter corn with cheat's raita.
EASY

Charred tandoori buttered corn on lazy person's raita

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this steak with salsa and roasted potatoes.
EASY

Neil Perry's grilled aged rib-eye with tomato salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Cauliflower cheese pasta.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's cauliflower cheese pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Raid the deli cabinet for this adaptable pasta salad.
EASY

Deli cabinet pasta salad with chilli, parmesan and sunflower seed dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Prawn pasta, heavy on the herbs, with 'pretend fancy sauce' and optional zucchini flowers.

Prawn pasta with pretend fancy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Jamie Oliver's peas, beans, chilli and mint.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's peas, beans, chilli and mint

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver's asparagus, eggs and French dressing.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's asparagus, eggs and French dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Korean-style beef stir-fry.
EASY

Karen Martini's Korean-style seared beef with vermicelli, beans and fungi

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Neil Perry's garden greens frittata.
EASY

Garden greens frittata

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
A new spin on spaghetti and meatballs.

Lamb kofta with zucchini noodles recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix

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