Sauces & dressings
Dirty martini tomato ‘n’ olive soup
When you’d like nothing more than an ice-cold martini, but midweek life has other plans, this soup gives hits of salty, briny goodness.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Katrina Meynink
The RecipeTin magic touch that lifts these tuna patties from meh to marvellous
A drizzle of garlic butter is all it takes to turn pantry staples into a surprisingly tasty meal.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Nagi Maehashi
Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu
This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.
- 1-2 hrs
- Danielle Alvarez
Crepes with bananas and home-made hazelnut chocolate spread
Julia Busuttil Nishimura tops the weekend brunch favourite with velvety choc-nut spread and fresh fruit.
- < 30 mins
- Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Japanese-style fish and chips with wasabi tartare
Wasabi, nori (seaweed) and shichimi togarashi (Japanese seven-spice) give this one-tray a Japanese accent.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Jessica Brook
Adam Liaw shares the secrets to fail-safe fishcakes (and yes, tinned is totally fine)
A British classic, fishcakes are simple, tasty and easy on the wallet, whether you use fresh fillets, leftovers, or a tin of fish from the cupboard.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce
Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.
- < 30 mins
- Katrina Meynink
Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce
Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to, such as this simple tomato sauce.
- 1-2 hrs
- Katrina Meynink
Peruvian-style green spaghetti with spinach, feta and smoked almonds
The influx of Italians in Peru in the early 1800s resulted in this twist on the Ligurian pesto pasta, known as tallarines verdes.
- < 30 mins
- Katrina Meynink
Mouthwatering oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce
Serve these simply but lovingly made meatballs alongside cheesy garlic bread.
- 1-2 hrs
- Danielle Alvarez