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Serve as a romantic dinner for two or as an easy weeknight meal.
EASY

Ready in minutes, this ‘super-simple’ fish dish is as vibrant as an Amalfi sunset

Serve this fish dish as a romantic dinner for two or as an easy weeknight meal.

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
20-minute summer puttanesca pizza.
EASY

This 20-minute puttanesca pizza is bold, briny and barely any work

Say hello to your new favourite fakeaway. Bold, southern Italian flavours on a crispy flatbread, ready before a delivery driver could even leave the kitchen.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Dirty martini dip and mortadella olives.
EASY

Dirty martini dip and mortadella olives

These salty, meaty, creamy bombs of pure deliciousness will disappear instantly.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s Italian chopped salad.
EASY

This Italian chopped salad is one of Adam Liaw’s summer go-tos

This salad keeps well in the fridge and the chopped leaves don’t go as noticeably limp in the sun.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Greek-style bolognese.
EASY

Send this simple bolognese on a Greek Island getaway

Fast and light yet surprisingly comforting, this Greek-inspired bolognese is a sun-kissed twist on a classic.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Caramelised halloumi brings its golden magic to this pasta salad.
EASY

Mediterranean pasta salad with golden halloumi

Who doesn’t love pasta salad? Especially when it contains golden halloumi nuggets, olives and loads of fresh herbs.

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Nicoise pasta salad with seared tuna.
EASY

Nicoise pasta with seared tuna steak

An elegant but easy pasta dish riffing on the classic French salad.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Bacon puttanesca.
EASY

Don’t like anchovies? Put this in your puttanesca pasta instead, says Adam Liaw

This version of the raid-the-pantry pasta sauce is for the anchovy avoiders.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Serve puttanesca chickpeas over pasta to stretch this dish further.
EASY

Puttanesca chickpeas

All the salty, savoury, briny flavours you love from the pasta dish, only with chickpeas.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
One-tray lemon and herb chicken with vegies.
EASY

One-tray lemon and herb chicken with vegetables

Baked in one tray, this fuss-free (and gluten-free) dinner is a time-poor cook’s best friend.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Sarah Pound