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Danielle Alvarez’s yoghurt-marinated chicken tray bake and potatoes, feta and pomegranate.

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21 mix-and-match relaxed, share-friendly dinners to make this week

Special enough to serve to unexpected guests, yet not too finicky for everyday family meals, these crowd-pleasers are fun, fresh, flavourful and festive.

21 recipes
Helen Goh’s thin zucchini tart with basil and mint.
EASY

Monday : Thin zucchini tart with basil and mint

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Serve up with some dressed leaves.
EASY

Zucchini and ricotta tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Katrina Meynink’s tomato slab tart with spicy feta.

... or a spicy tomato and feta slab tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli.

Tuesday: Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pork noodle salad with grapefruit and chilli dressing.
EASY

... or pork noodle salad with grapefruit and chilli dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Adam liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad.
EASY

... or prawn and glass noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Tandoori butter corn with cheat's raita.
EASY

Wednesday: Charred tandoori buttered corn on ‘lazy person’s’ raita

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Chickpea and tuna ‘chaat’.
EASY

... or Rosheen Kaul’s chickpea and canned tuna ‘chaat’ plate

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
An Indian-inspired snack of spice roasted potatoes, chickpeas and mint yoghurt.
EASY

... or this riff on roasted potato chaat with mint yoghurt and crispy chickpeas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Finish with a sprinkle of feta and pomegranate.
EASY

Thursday: Yoghurt-marinated chicken tray bake with potatoes, feta and pomegranate

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Spring chicken traybake with baby zucchini nestled in risoni.
EASY

... or zaatar garlic-butter chicken with risoni, halloumi and zucchini

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chicken cutlets with lemon and oregano.
EASY

... or garlic, lemon and oregano chicken cutlets with green Greek salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Supersized sandwich: Two-metre banh mi.
EASY

Friday: Two-metre banh mi

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
The beauty of this sandwich is that it actually wants to be made ahead of time to feed a crowd.
EASY

... or make-ahead muffuletta sandwich

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Old Bay hot chicken sandwich with crispy manchego chips.
EASY

... or an Old Bay hot chicken roll with manchego chips

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Pork and pineapple filling for tacos.

Saturday: Tacos al pastor (pork and pineapple tacos)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Margarita beef tacos.
EASY

... or margarita-inspired beef tacos with jalapeno salsa (serve with a spicy marg!)

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas.
EASY

... or Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas with jalapeno guacamole

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pissaladiere-style steak sandwiches.
EASY

Sunday: Pissaladiere-style steak sandwiches

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Steak sandwich and pickled onion salad.
EASY

... or steak sandwiches with pickled onion salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Turkish-style beef flatbreads with toum.
EASY

... or Turkish-style flatbreads with garlicky toum dip

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook