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Freeze-friendly feasts: These recipes are your secret weapon for easy weeknight meals

Grab a quiet moment to make, then freeze, a ragu, pasta bake, soup or pie that you can whip out when life gets busy. Add the final flourishes – a swirl of cream, a flurry of chopped herbs – just before serving.

31 recipes
Adam Liaw’s beef bourguignon.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s classic beef Bourguignon (and the secrets to cooking the perfect stew)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Pumpkin soup.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s pumpkin soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
RecipeTin Eats (Nagi Maehashi) SOS recipe: bolognese pasta bake.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ easy, cheesy bolognese pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Jill Dupleix's chicken pot pie recipe.

Family-size chicken pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Serve these oven-baked meatballs with cheesy garlic bread.
EASY

Oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Adam Liaw’s version of the viral internet dish, Marry me chicken.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s marry me chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Meatball lasagne

Adam Liaw’s meatball lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Garlicky sweet potato and chickpea soup served with spiced red onion and feta scones.
EASY

Garlic, sweet potato and chickpea soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard
RecipeTin Eats’ spaghetti meatball soup.
EASY

Spaghetti meatball soup, served with...

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
DIY garlic bread with parsley and parmesan.
EASY

... Adam Liaw’s best garlic bread

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Green curry and lemongrass soup.

Thai green curry and lemongrass soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Potato and leek soup with parmesan.

Potato and leek soup with parmesan

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Adam Liaw’s vegetarian lasagne.

Adam Liaw’s vegetarian lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Red lentil and coconut curry.
EASY

Vegan red lentil, ginger and coconut curry

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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EASY

Adam Liaw’s savoury mince

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s Shepherds’ pie.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s shepherd’s pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Parmigiana meatloaf.

Adam Liaw’s parmigiana meatloaf

Cauliflower, thyme and potato soup topped with mini cheese toastie bites.
EASY

Cauliflower, thyme and potato soup (add the cheesy mustard croutons later)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Kale and ricotta rolls.
EASY

Kale and ricotta rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Quick butter chicken pies with naan bread lids.

Butter chicken pot pies with naan lids

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
French chicken with paprika.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s French chicken with paprika

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Spring greens and cheese pie.

Helen Goh’s spring greens and cheese pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Mushroom and leek pot pie.

Mushroom and leek pot pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Use the ripest tomato you can find, a little over ripe is even better
EASY

Karen Martini’s one-tray roasted tomato, red capsicum and chilli pasta sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Three Blue Ducks' beef rendang.
EASY

Beef rendang

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
The ultimate chilli con carne recipe.

The ultimate chilli con carne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
A light and bright cous cous dish is an ideal partner for Syrian chicken.
EASY

Fragrant Syrian chicken with lemon and pistachio cous cous

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Sarah Pound
Buy stackable containers so you can efficiently store pre-prepared (and labelled) ingredients.

The ultimate guide to what you can (and can’t) put in your freezer

  • Alice Zaslavsky