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One-pot Greek chicken and rice: quick and delicious.

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From ‘embarrassingly simple’ pasta to one-pot wonders: The 20 most popular recipes of July

An especially bleak midwinter meant more warming comfort foods (and the occasional big wodge of cake).

20 recipes
One-pot Greek chicken and rice: quick and delicious.

1. Greek chicken and rice one-pot

  • Nicole Maguire
Tuna cakes.
EASY

2. RecipeTin Eats’ tuna patties

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Adam Liaw Masterclass recipe: French onion soup.
EASY

3. Adam Liaw’s perfect French onion soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken and egg risotto.
EASY

4. Adam Liaw’s chicken and egg risotto

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Gnocchi

5. Stephanie Alexander’s kid-friendly potato gnocchi (plus three more)

  • Stephanie Alexander
Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar.
EASY

6. Double-lemon loaf cake with sugar crust

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

7. Tomato soup garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl (plus four more tomato soup recipes)

  • Katrina Meynink
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s froga tat tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata).
EASY

8. Froga-tat-tarja (Maltese pasta frittata)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

9. Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Helen Goh’s coffee cake with buttercream and pecan brittle.

10. Helen Goh’s coffee layer cake with buttercream and brittle

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavalo nero and parmesan soup.
EASY

11. Hearty white beans and greens soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Filled flatbreads with kale and potato masala.

12. Flatbreads filled with kale and potato masala

  • Rosheen Kaul
Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup.

13. This simple slow-cooker tomato soup with shop-bought tortellini

  • Nathan Anthony
Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas.
EASY

14. Adam Liaw’s beef fajita Friday

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chocolate and cinnamon pavlova.

15. Adam Liaw’s chocolate and cinnamon pavlova

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Crowd-pleasing cheesy Greek-inspired pull-apart.

16. Three-cheese lasagne plus three more cheesy recipes

  • Katrina Meynink
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
EASY

17. Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta.
EASY

18. Speedy chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Duck breast with orange and red wine sauce.
EASY

19. Adam Liaw’s duck breast with orange and red wine sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Serve with mashed potatoes and fennel to make an elegant but simple meal.
EASY

20. Grilled lamb cutlets with black olive butter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez