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14 easy, peak-summer dishes (plus a fab salad) to cook this week

You know we’ve hit the height of summer when the scent of basil is in the air, and shops and vegie gardens are filled with tomatoes, zucchini, corn and cucumbers.

15 recipes
This salad brims with the mellow fruitfulness of February.
EASY

Grilled zucchini and cous cous salad with cherry tomato confit.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Hetty McKinnon
Raw and charred zucchini star in this textual salad.
EASY

Charred zucchini with harissa yoghurt and pistachio dukkah

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Greek chicken and salad.
EASY

Marinated chicken breast with Greek salad

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Satay chicken salad.
EASY

Satay chicken salad (using a supermarket chook)

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tomato tart.

Double tomato tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Bill Granger
This savoury tart is inspired by the pantry staple pasta sauce.

Puttanesca tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
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Mexican ceviche rice bowl.
EASY

Mexican ceviche rice bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Donburi with kingfish and tuna sashimi.
EASY

Sashimi rice bowls (donburi)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Salmon fillets with buttered garlic corn.
EASY

Salmon with buttered garlic sweetcorn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Baked Murray cod fillet with sweetcorn and basil butter. Styling by Hannah Meppem and food preparation by Breesa Swann.
EASY

Baked Murray cod with basil butter and sweetcorn

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
There's no need to turn your nose up at salad for dinner.
EASY

Steak and avocado salad with fried garlic vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
EASY

Grilled steak and vermicelli salad with smashed cucumbers

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Potato and zucchini pizza.

Potato and zucchini pizza

  • < 30 mins
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
20-minute pizza alla norma.
EASY

20-minute pizza alla Norma

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Tomato, watermelon and feta salad with wild fennel flowers.
EASY

Tomato, watermelon and feta salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/goodfood/recipes/14-easy-peak-summer-dishes-plus-a-fab-salad-to-cook-this-week-20250206-p5la86.html