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Creamy, cheesy and carby: 50 of the best comfort food recipes

Because sometimes you just need to sink your spoon into something creamy, cheesy and comforting. Here are 50 of our favourites.

48 recipes
Ultimate comfort food: Adam Liaw's winter herb polenta.
EASY

Winter herb polenta recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Mushroom-stuffed mushrooms with blue cheese.
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Mushroom-stuffed mushrooms with blue cheese recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Dan Lepard's spinach and rosemary macaroni cheese.
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Dan Lepard's spinach rosemary macaroni cheese recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Family-friendly carbonara sandwiches.
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Carbonara sandwiches

  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's classic carbonara.
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Adam Liaw's classic carbonara

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Creamy potato gratin

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
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When garlic bread meets cheese toastie.
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Garlic bread and cheese toastie recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Pasta is optional in this rustic lasagne.

Free-form frypan zucchini, caponata, ricotta and pesto lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
It's all about the cheese pull: Loaded caprese toasted sandwiches.

Loaded caprese toasties with pesto, onion jam and serrano ham

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Gnocchi with pesto cream

Potato gnocchi with pesto cream recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Greek roasted vegetables with feta.
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Greek roasted vegetables with feta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Gnocchi alla sorrentina (with tomato and parmesan).

Gnocchi alla sorrentina (with tomato and mozzarella)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emiko Davies
Ma po tofu jaffles with mayonnaise and chilli.

Ma po tofu jaffles

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's pan-fried gnocchi with roast tomato sauce.

Pan-fried gnocchi with roast tomato and basil sauce and crispy pancetta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Sausages in sugo with creamy polenta.

Sausages in tomato sugo with creamy polenta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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The melted smoked mozzarella will be stringy and delicious.

Eggplant parmigiana recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Welcome spring with Karen Martini's ricotta cannelloni with peas and broad beans.

Ricotta cannelloni with primavera sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Parmigiana pasta.

Parmigiana pasta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's cheesy-pleaser meatball lasagne.

Lasagne recipe: Meatball lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's buffalo mozzarella lasagne.

Buffalo mozzarella lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Sausage ragu lasagne detail. Lasagne recipes for Good Food August 2019. Good Food use only. Must credit Katrina Meynink.

Sausage ragu and mozzarella lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's chicken doria.

Chicken doria

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Jamie Oliver's butternut pumpkin and spinach pasta rotolo.

Jamie Oliver's butternut pumpkin and spinach pasta rotolo

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jamie Oliver
Comfort in a bowl: use the crispy pita to scoop the creamy chickpea stew.
EASY

Eggplant and chickpea fetteh

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Share-friendly dumpling okonomiyaki.

Dumpling okonomiyaki

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Moussaka meets gratin (hold the meat).

Vegetarian eggplant moussaka gratin

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Creamy pumpkin soup meets pasta.

Creamy pumpkin and blue cheese pasta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie. Karen Martini MUSHROOMS recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed May 28, 2013. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Chicken, leek and mushroom pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Cherry tomato lasagne with easy bechamel.

Cherry tomato lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Carbo-loading: Fried rice-filled jaffles.
EASY

Nasi goreng jaffles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
mac-cheese

Macaroni, bolognese and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Giant potato rosti.
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Potato rosti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's garlic butter roast chicken

Garlic butter roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's chicken pot pie recipe.

Family-size chicken pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
This spanakopita is a little time-consuming, but it is ultra satisfying.

Spanakopita

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Sneak plenty of vegies into this 50/50 bolognese sauce.

Fifty-fifty bolognese

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/recipes/creamy-cheesy-and-carby-50-of-the-best-comfort-food-recipes-20200710-h1pagn.html