• Comfort food

Kale rolls with spicy merguez sausage and rice

Usually made with cabbage, these comforting parcels are instead wrapped with cavolo nero leaves.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Rosheen Kaul

• Dinner party

Puttanesca rice-stuffed tomatoes

The pasta sauce’s pantry ingredients flavour the filling of these “gorgeous red orbs”.

• 1-2 hrs
• Danielle Alvarez

• Midweek dinner

Green tofu bibimbap

The Korean rice dish bibimbap is often served with beef. But here’s a summery version even vegans can get behind.

• < 30 mins
• Jessica Brook

• One-tray wonder

Spring roll crunchy rice salad

This tray bake has everything we need: freshness; crisp, crunch and contrast; a wisp of spice; and a touch of take-out vibes.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Katrina Meynink

• Family meals

This fun 1980s fusion dish is your new budget-friendly family dinner

Julia Busuttil Nishimura adds extra Japanese flavours to this taco-rice mash-up.

• < 30 mins
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Midweek dinner

Pork mince katsu with pickled cucumbers and cabbage

Katsu made with pork mince for a quick meal everyone will love.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Danielle Alvarez

• Budget

Adam Liaw’s ham and pea risotto

Adding peas towards the end of the cooking process will bring out pops of fresh sweetness.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Recipe collection
• Best of

Retro fried rice to a surprise cauli curry: The 20 most popular recipes of September

Quick and easy midweek meals, new recipes from big names, and a creamy chicken one-pot or two ruled the roost through the start of spring.

• 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

• Family meals

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