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Grilled chermoula chicken with charred lemon, dates and tzatziki.

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Let's do lunch: 30 tear and share recipes for casual weekend catch-ups

Just add a green salad (and perhaps a cheeky glass of vino) for super relaxed, and tasty, entertaining. (Hint: the perfect salad accompaniment for all of these dishes is hiding on page two).

30 recipes
Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad.
EASY

Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Potato and asparagus pizza with sauce gribiche.
EASY

Potato and asparagus pizza with sauce gribiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato.
EASY

Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Turkish beef or lamb flatbreads.
EASY

Turkish-style flatbreads

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Flatbread piled with flaked hot smoked salmon, coriander dressing, cucumber, herbs and cashews.
EASY

Flatbreads with hot-smoked salmon, coriander dressing, greens and cashews

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato and spiced feta tart.

Keep-things-spicy tomato and feta slab tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Flatbread piled with coffee spice-rubbed lamb, honey and feta and optional fresh honeycomb.
EASY

Flatbread with coffee spice-rubbed lamb with honey and feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Flatbreads topped with chermoula marinated chicken, charred lemon, dates and tzatziki.

Grilled chermoula chicken flatbreads with charred lemon, dates and tzatziki

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Blitz the eggplant skin through the yoghurt for extra smokiness.

Flatbread with eggplant, harissa capsicum and tahini yoghurt

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Cheesy, creamy winter comfort food.

Tarte flambee: Cheese, onion and bacon flatbread

  • 2 hrs +
  • Dan Lepard
Dan Lepard's Spanish-Turkish tomato pizza.
EASY

Madrid-style pizza with spiced tomato sauce recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard
This savoury tart is inspired by the pantry staple pasta sauce.

Helen Goh's puttanesca tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Cheese and greens galette.

Vegetarian cheese and greens galette

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Lahmacun with hummus and olives.
EASY

Lahmacun (lamb pizza) with hummus

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Focaccia has been a welcome upside to lockdown. Here's how to make it at home.

Danielle Alvarez's focaccia with whipped garlic ricotta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
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This Middle Eastern-style lamb "pizza" is a twist on a lahmacun.

Lamb and sumac 'pizza' with tahini sauce and charred onions

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's Grandma pizza with salami and capsicum.
EASY

Grandma pizza with salami and capsicum

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Share-friendly reuben sandwich drizzled with Russian mayo.
EASY

Reuben pull-apart loaf

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato tart.

Tomato tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Bill Granger
Pantry pizza: Pissaladiere.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Pissaladiere (French pizza)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Piyaz salad.
EASY

Piyaz salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tabbouleh-inspired bread with whipped feta spread.

Savoury tabbouleh quick bread with whipped feta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Adam Liaw's baked onion and blue cheese flatbread.

Baked onion, blue cheese and sage pizza recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
These balsamic marinated roasted mushrooms are bursting with flavour.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Balsamic marinated mushroom rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
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Grilled vegetable halloumi sandwich.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Grilled vegetable halloumi sandwich

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
This zucchini tart is easy and cheesy.
EASY

Five-ingredient zucchini and cheese tart with honey and pistachio

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Serve this vegetarian tart with a simple tomato salad.
EASY

Thin zucchini tart with basil and mint

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
This spanakopita is a little time-consuming, but it is ultra satisfying.

Spanakopita

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Tomato and olive tapenade tart.

Danielle Alvarez's tomato and olive tapenade tart

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Silverbeet and haloumi pies with sausage (or ricotta).

Silverbeet, sausage and halloumi pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini

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