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Sunday roast

A perfect accompaniment to seafood or meats.

Roasted potato salad with pickled fennel, rocket and creamy salsa verde

Can’t decide between potato salad or roast potatoes? This delicious side dish is the best of both.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s roast pork belly with a peach, mint and coriander salsa.
EASY

Slow-roasted pork belly with peach salad

Dressed sharply with vinegar, this salad cuts through the richness of the pork. Plus: the key to achieving tender meat and very crisp crackle.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Porchetta.

Adam Liaw’s step-by-step guide to cooking porchetta with perfect crackling all over

From which cut to buy, why it’s important to keep your nerve and what to serve it with – here’s how to make the rolled pork roast the star of the table.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
One-tray pork and creamy potato roast.
EASY

One-tray pork and creamy potato roast

Enjoy a hassle-free, elegant dinner with this one-tray recipe that combines juicy pork roast with a side of perfectly creamy potatoes.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
EASY

Brussels sprouts salad with pancetta, cheddar and sherry vinaigrette

Didn’t think salad and winter could go together? Think again.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Serve the pork on a bed of the roasted apple, onion and carrot.

Eight classic roasts (plus new sides to go with them) to cook this weekend

A great Sunday roast is a true winter highlight. Take your pick from pork, beef, chicken or lamb – potatoes not optional.

Roasted scalloped potatoes.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s roasted scalloped potatoes

These potatoes aren’t “scalloped” into rounds, but roasting them first intensifies the potato flavour.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Easy lamb chops.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s easy lamb chops with herb crumbs

Think of this as a herb-crusted rack of lamb, but much cheaper and much easier.

  • < 30 mins
Harissa whole roast chicken and caramelised sweet potato
EASY

Slash and roast: The trick to cooking this spicy, sticky chicken in 30 minutes

Harissa whole roast chicken and caramelised sweet potato is the midweek recipe you’ll make on repeat.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Spicy stir-fried mashed potato and fennel is loosely based on colcannon.
EASY

Spicy stir-fried mashed potato and fennel

Loosely inspired by colcannon, the Irish dish combining spuds and greens, this is like no mash you’ve experienced before.

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul