• Cucumber

Adam Liaw’s chilli oil-dressed cucumbers

These simple dressed cucumbers are a great side dish or starter for many a Chinese meal.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Midweek dinner

Adam Liaw’s salt and pepper chicken noodles

If you don’t feel comfortable making noodles in a wok, a deep casserole dish works just as well.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Substantial salads

Adam Liaw’s smoked salmon and avocado salad

A really good smoked salmon salad is a great recipe to have in your back pocket.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Shellfish

Adam Liaw’s Swedish prawn rolls

Prawn salad (skagenröra) is everywhere in Sweden. It also makes a fabulous filling for a decadent prawn roll that’s more affordable than a lobster one.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• One-pot

Adam Liaw’s chicken and chorizo paella

This Valencian-inspired dish includes chorizo, because we Aussies love it in a paella.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Beef

Warm Korean-style beef noodle salad

This textural Korean-inspired warm salad combines tender beef with crisp vegetables, crunchy pine nuts and chewy noodles.

• < 30 mins
• Neil Perry

• Pasta

This lemony pasta is a zingy dish you’ll crave (and make) all year round

Be transported to the Amalfi Coast with this creamy lemon and pea pasta.

• < 30 mins
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Fish

Adam Liaw’s ling and potatoes with parsley sauce

Fish poached in stock, with the poaching liquid then turned into a sauce, is a combination that is speedy, easy and elegant.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Recipe collection
• Best of

Comforting, sweet and trending: The 20 most popular recipes of May

During May, the recipes that captured your kitchens included hearty mince and sausage dishes, the comfort of classic cakes, and riffs on TikTok trends.