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If you don’t want to make your own, substitute with good-quality, store-bought, all-butter puff pastry.

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Kick-off cravings: 40 crowd-pleasing snacks to eat in front of the match

Gear up for the footy season with these easy, salty and sticky bites made for sharing.

40 recipes
Peri peri chicken wings with crispy roasted fries with feta and oregano.
EASY

Peri-peri chicken wings and oven-baked feta fries

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Adam Liaw’s mortadella fried pizzas.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s fried mini pizzas

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
If you don’t want to make your own, substitute with good-quality, store-bought, all-butter puff pastry.
EASY

Caramelised onion, apple and pork sausage rolls

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Chinese beef and black bean burger with chilli crisp chips.
EASY

Beef and Chinese black bean burger with chilli crisp chips

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Loaded hummus.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s loaded hummus

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Sausage rolls at the Builders Arms Hotel, Fitzroy.
EASY

The Builders Arms’ famous sausage rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • Brian Macalister
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Adam Liaw recipe: Chicken parmigiana.

Adam Liaw’s perfect chicken parmigiana

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Everything you love about souvlaki, minus the pita.

Gyros-loaded fries with lamb and whipped feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
The perfect Aussie meat pie served with sauce, of course.

RecipeTin Eats’ ultimate meat pie

  • RecipeTin Eats
Adam Liaw's easy cheeseburgers.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s easiest-ever cheeseburgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s chicken katsu tenderlions.
EASY

Adam Liaw's chicken katsu tenderloins

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Buttermilk fried chicken burgers with pickle slaw and chipotle mayo.
EASY

Buttermilk fried chicken burgers with pickle slaw and chipotle mayo

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Can’t decide between a sausage and a burger at a barbecue? Why not have both?
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ sausage burgers (and secret house special sauce)

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Using store-bought dough gives you a fast track to American-style pepperoni deep-dish pizza.
EASY

Deep-dish pepperoni pizza

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Curtis Stone’s Irish beef and Guinness stew pies.

Curtis Stone’s golden party pies

  • 2 hrs +
  • Curtis Stone
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Hot jam doughnuts.

Mini hot jam doughnuts

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Inspired by an Argentinian street food favourite, these choripan are a fun weeknight meal.
EASY

Chorizo choripan rolls with green tomato chimichurri

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Pickled celery adds the right amount of crunch.
EASY

Spicy Cajun chicken burgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Meatball subs with chimichurri.
EASY

Chimichurri meatball subs

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
You won't miss the meat in these mushroom hand pies.

Mushroom and leek hand pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
French onion burgers.
EASY

French onion burgers with melted gruyere

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
RecipeTin Eats’ Vietnamese chicken wings.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ Vietnamese chicken wings and Asian slaw

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Reuben-style cheese melt.
EASY

Reuben-style cheese melt

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Serve with a greek salad on the side.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s tiropita (Greek cheese pie)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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***EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER 3/22 ISSUE*** Danielle Alvarez recipe : Cuban style pulled pork sandwiches Photograph by Ben Dearnley (photographer on contract, no restrictions)

Danielle Alvarez’s Cuban-style pulled-pork sandwiches

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Helen Goh’s spiced lentil and vegetable pasties.

Spiced lentil and vegetable pasties

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Team-colour choc tops.

Team-colour choc tops

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Pastizzi with a cheesy pea filling.
EASY

Easy-peasy pea pastizzi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Chilli crisp chicken tacos with coriander rice and salsa.
EASY

Chilli crisp chicken tacos with coriander rice and salsa

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Kale and ricotta rolls.
EASY

Kale and ricotta rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Step aside garlic bread, hello cacio e pepe pull-apart.
EASY

Easy cheesy cacio e pepe pull-apart bread

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Double the quantities if feeding a crowd.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s sticky soy and ginger chicken wings

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Sweet potato wedges.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s sweet potato wedges with sweet chilli and sour cream

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Crowd-pleasing cheesy Greek-inspired pull-apart.
EASY

Greek-inspired pull-apart with lemon, honey and garlic

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Fish burger.

Adam Liaw’s foolproof fish burgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw