• Substantial salads

Adam Liaw’s hot smoked salmon with dill, eggs and new potatoes

This warm salad is equally great for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Cauliflower

Cheat’s cauli and halloumi korma curry

This six-ingredient curry is such a surprise and delight. Serve with rice and more naan than you think you need.

• < 30 mins
• Katrina Meynink

• Recipe collection
• Budget

14 recipes to make when you can’t be bothered to cook

Over it? Here are some quick, easy recipes with minimal prep and cooking time to the rescue.

• Midweek dinner

Adam Liaw’s stir-fried chicken and pak choy

A stir-fry doesn’t need to be much more than a favoured vegetable flavoured with a bit of meat and a few savoury seasonings.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Midweek dinner

Adam Liaw’s sweet and sour pork

This Cantonese version of the Chinese classic is ever popular.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Midweek dinner

Japanese prawn and rice soup

This richly flavoured, satisfying soup comes together in less than 30 minutes from go to whoa.

• < 30 mins
• Jessica Brook

• Midweek dinner

The joy of six ingredients: Four new one-pot wonders with minimal effort and maximum oomph

Simplify your shopping list without sacrificing flavour with Katrina Meynink’s budget-friendly midweek dinner saviours.

• September 5, 2024
• Katrina Meynink

• Recipe collection
• Curry

Curry in a hurry: Eight delicious dishes made quicker and cheaper with red curry paste

Some call it cheating. We call it essential when you’re pressed for time and money and would rather not order takeaway, again.

• Chicken

Adam Liaw’s spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed chicken breasts

Packet French onion soup mix is probably used more for making dips than soup. Here it’s combined with ricotta and spinach for a tasty stuffing for chicken breasts.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Footy food

Greek-inspired pull-apart with lemon, honey and garlic

These warm, cheesy rolls are magic – they will evaporate before your very eyes.

• < 30 mins
• Katrina Meynink