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Golden, crunchy chicken cotoletta needs little more than lemon juice and salad greens for company.

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30 easy family meals: Tested and approved by fussy eaters

Ditch the dinner stress with these crowd-pleasers. Think sticky honey-soy wings, golden zucchini slice, and the ultimate spag bol – clean plates guaranteed.

30 recipes
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Okinawan beef taco rice recipe.
EASY

Beef taco rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Zucchini slice.
EASY

Zucchini slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese.
EASY

Australian bolognese

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Golden, crunchy chicken cotoletta needs little more than lemon juice and fresh salad greens for company.
EASY

Chicken cotoletta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's taco and hot dog mash-up.
EASY

Taco dogs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Vietnamese chicken rice-paper rolls.
EASY

Chicken rice-paper rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
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Quick buttered tomato spaghetti.
EASY

Quick buttered tomato spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's chicken tenders with nugget sauce.
EASY

Chicken tenders with nugget sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s froga tat tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata).
EASY

Froga tat-tarja (spaghetti frittata)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Sausages with barbecue cherry tomato chutney.
EASY

Sausages with barbecued tomato chutney

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken and egg risotto.
EASY

Fried rice risotto

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Mince stroganoff.
EASY

Mince stroganoff

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
EASY

Savoury mince

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Beef and bacon burgers.
EASY

Easy home-made burgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Cheat’s satay chicken.
EASY

Cheat’s satay chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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RecipeTin Eats’ life-changing 30-minute pizza.
EASY

30-minute no-yeast pizza

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Sarah Pound’s sticky chicken with capsicum and greens is the perfect sweet-savoury blend.
EASY

Sticky chicken with capsicum and greens

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Serve these oven-baked meatballs with cheesy garlic bread.
EASY

Oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Full of familiar flavours, this soup is a feel-good favourite.
EASY

Chicken, corn and noodle soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Adam Liaw recipe: Fish cakes.
EASY

Fishcakes

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ baked chicken and broccoli macaroni cheese.
EASY

Chicken and broccoli mac and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Orange and honey chicken skewers.
EASY

Orange and honey chicken skewers

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s Shepherds’ pie.
EASY

Shepherd’s pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Butter chicken ‘bolognese’.
EASY

Butter chicken ‘bolognese’

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Pasta shells with zucchini and corn.
EASY

Pasta shells with zucchini and corn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Stir-fried chicken and pak choy.
EASY

Stir-fried chicken and pak choy

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Japanese-style chicken schnitzel curry.
EASY

Japanese-style chicken schnitzel curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s mortadella fried pizzas.
EASY

Fried mini pizzas

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ Vietnamese chicken wings.
EASY

Honey-soy chicken wings and Asian slaw

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
No soggy bottom: Spanakopita with puff pastry and haloumi.

Halloumi spanakopita

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink