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Adam Liaw's chicken, capsicum and basil tray bake recipe.

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The 21 top recipes of summer

From big bold salads to quick barbecued chicken, sweet tea cakes to vegie spaghetti - our most popular summer recipes offer something for everyone, and will prove popular crowd-pleasers no matter what the season.

20 recipes
Mixed berries and sumac sugar slablova.

Meet the slablova: the perfect crowd-friendly pav

  • Katrina Meynink
Layered caramel latte icy poles.

Coffee and tea, ice cold: Vietnamese iced coffee ice-cream, chai granita and frozen caramel latte recipes

  • Katrina Meynink
Black pepper and kaffir lime beef bowl with coconut rice and salad.

Super bowls: Beef-up your grain bowls with these mix-ins

  • Katrina Meynink
Helen Goh's desert island cake.
EASY

Helen Goh's lemon and raspberry loaf cake recipe

  • Helen Goh
Roast chicken with haloumi stuffing.

Roast chicken reinvented four ways

  • Katrina Meynink
EASY

Chicken, capsicum and basil tray bake recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Poached chicken and soba noodle salad with spicy nut dressing.

Smoky honey horseradish, chilli-rose, miso-sesame, Sriracha crunchy nut: Best dressed salads for summer

  • Katrina Meynink
The Blue Ducks' tomahawk steak with chimichurri.
EASY

The Blue Ducks on how to cook the perfect steak

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
The melted smoked mozzarella will be stringy and delicious.

Eggplant parmigiana recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Barbecued chicken with Spanish romesco sauce.

Barbecued chicken breast with romesco recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Custard, cake, fruit, booze – what's not to like?

Danielle Alvarez's chocolate, coconut butterscotch and raspberry trifle recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Zucchini, pancetta and buffalo mozzarella pizza.

Healthy pizza toppings to have on high rotation

  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's spicy barbecued chicken.
EASY

Spicy barbecued chicken recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Poached chicken

Kylie Kwong's master stock poached chicken

  • 2 hrs +
  • Kylie Kwong
Adam Liaw takes spaghetti for a Greek spin.
EASY

Spanakopita spaghetti recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Enjoy this light and healthy steamed chicken with a snappy spring onion sauce.
EASY

Steamed chicken with asparagus and fennel

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Stir-fried beef with zucchini.
EASY

Stir-fried beef and zucchini recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Toss the salad together for good luck.

Chinese New Year good luck salad (yee sang) recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Freeze some watermelon and whiz it into creamy ice-cream.
EASY

Creamy watermelon ice-cream slice recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Put an egg on it: Adam Liaw's easy asparagus pasta.
EASY

Asparagus and parmesan fettuccine recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw

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