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Sausage and fontina baked rigatoni

Recruit sausages as meatballs for this rich, comforting and easy dinner.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Sicilian citrus salad.
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Sicilian citrus and fennel salad

Sweet, savoury, salty and sour, this salad is so good you won’t want winter to end (maybe!).

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon.

Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon

This classic Italian dish of pork cooked in milk might sound a bit odd, but it’s a revelation.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw’s honey and walnut semifreddo.
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Adam Liaw’s honey and walnut semifreddo

Semifreddo does the same job as ice-cream but not special equipment required.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Step 9. Cut each log into 1.5cm pieces.

Top Melbourne chef shares the crucial secret behind his cloud-like gnocchi

Tipo 00’s Andreas Papadakis is one of Australia’s greatest pasta makers. He shares his step-by-step guide.

  • Andreas Papadakis
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Chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta.
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Easy, speedy and a little bit fancy: Chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon and rosemary

This Italian-style thinly sliced chicken dish takes a few minutes to cook.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
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Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chicken and egg risotto.
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Is it risotto, is it fried rice? Adam Liaw’s simple midweek saviour is the best of both

This recipe is a bit like fried rice, but is really a risotto.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavalo nero and parmesan soup.
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This hearty white beans and greens soup gives you a whack of midweek nutrition

Keep a stash of cheese rinds in the freezer ready to add flavour to this simple Italian soup.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
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Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink

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