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No one can stop at one of these frittelle di zucchine (zucchini fritters).

Celebrate zucchini season with this golden, moreish Italian classic

Make the most of seasonal produce with this authentic (and inexpensive) family favourite from the couple behind the hit YouTube channel Vincenzo’s Plate.

  • Vincenzo and Suzanne Prosperi

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For the best results, use skin-on, bone-in thighs.

This Spanish-inspired chicken tray bake with chorizo is ‘low-effort cooking with big flavour’

Plus three recipes from Saturday Night Pasta’s Elizabeth Hewson’s new cookbook, including a sweet potato soup, a gentle midweek stew and a self-saucing pudding.

  • Elizabeth Hewson
Chicken for lemon lovers with tarator.

This lemony chicken tray bake is flavourful, tangy and super-satisfying

Serve this easy oven dish with a side of roast potatoes, rice or cous cous to slurp up all the flavour.

  • Rachel Simons
Honey chicken.

‘Wind back the clock with every bite’: Dim Sim Lim’s retro Australian-Chinese recipes

Vincent Yeow Lim aka Dim Sim Lim shares his secrets to making Chinese takeaway classics, including special fried rice, beef with oyster sauce and honey chicken.

  • Vincent Lim
Dutch baby pancake with mortadella and rocket.

Upgrade your Shrove Tuesday pancakes with Helen Goh’s savoury Dutch baby

These oven-puffed pancakes boast crisp edges and a custardy heart. They’re easy to master and even easier to customise.

  • Helen Goh
Burrata pizza with vodka sauce.
EASY

Upgrade pizza night at home with overnight dough and creamy burrata

Indulgent burrata meets a bold, silky vodka sauce in this crowd-pleasing pizza. Start the dough a day ahead for a crisp, pro-style crust.

  • < 30 mins
  • Giorgio Linguanti and Salim Gafayri
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White chocolate and raspberry muffins.

Chrissie Swan’s cafe-style white chocolate and raspberry muffins are perfect for lunchboxes

Bake these treats in brown paper liners for muffins that look, and taste, every bit as good as the expensive cafe varieties.

  • Chrissie Swan
Choc brown butter cookies.

How to make the perfect chewy choc cookies (with a brown butter twist)

This recipe from Mike Russell of Baker Bleu takes the best parts of a chocolate chip cookie and adds a few grown-up spins on it too.

  • Two Good Co
Layers of soft sponge and crisp meringue, topped with kiwi and passionfruit.

Helen Goh’s Matildas tribute cake

Helen Goh created this green and gold cake in honour of the Aussie soccer stars.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chicharron de queso with pico de gallo.

Bet you’ve never tried crackling like this one-ingredient Mexican snack

The founder of Adelaide’s deservedly popular La Popular Taqueria shares three summery party snacks, plus a saucy beer-based cocktail to chase them with.

  • Daniella Guevara Muñoz