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Adam Liaw’s garlic and brie baguette (left) and Katrina Meynink’s garlic bread cobb loaf bowl (centre) and Greek-inspired pull-apart rolls with lemon, honey and garlic (right).

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Cheesy does it: The 30 most popular new recipes of winter 2024

’Twas the season for warming one-pots, spiced chickpeas and vegie soups. Plus three (count ’em!) cheesy, garlicky breads upped the comfort factor.

30 recipes
Filled flatbreads with kale and potato masala.

30. Rosheen Kaul’s flatbreads filled with kale and potato masala

  • Rosheen Kaul
Helen Goh’s coffee cake with buttercream and pecan brittle.

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

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Broccoli and sausage tray bake.
EASY

28. Adam Liaw’s broccoli and sausage tray bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar.
EASY

27. Danielle Alvarez’s double-lemon loaf cake with sugar crust

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas.
EASY

26. Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas with jalapeno guacamole

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Serve this citrusy pudding with cream and fresh berries.

25. Helen Goh’s yuzu and lemon self-saucing pudding

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
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Garlic and brie baguette.
EASY

24. Adam Liaw’s garlic and brie baguette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

23. Katrina Meynink’s garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl (for tomato soup)

  • Katrina Meynink
Emelia Jackson’s perfect black forest cake.

22. Emelia Jackson’s black forest cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta.
EASY

21. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon and rosemary

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Adam Liaw recipe: Chicken parmigiana.

20. Adam Liaw’s chicken parmigiana

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavalo nero and parmesan soup.
EASY

19. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavolo nero and parmesan soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Mince stroganoff.
EASY

18. Adam Liaw’s mince stroganoff

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

17. Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
RecipeTin Eats’ SOS recipe: Spiced chickpea mushroom stew.
EASY

16. RecipeTin Eats’ spiced chickpeas and mushrooms

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s froga tat tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata).
EASY

15. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s froga tat-tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
RecipeTin Eats’ SOS recipe: Southern fried cabbage.
EASY

14. RecipeTin Eats’ southern fried cabbage and sausages

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
RecipeTin Eats’ creamy mushroom wild rice soup. From RecipeTin Eats’ second cookbook, Tonight.

13. RecipeTin Eats’ creamy mushroom wild rice soup

  • Nagi Maehashi
Chicken and egg risotto.
EASY

12. Adam Liaw’s fried rice-inspired ‘special’ risotto

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw Masterclass recipe: French onion soup.
EASY

11. Adam Liaw’s French onion soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw recipe: Fish cakes.
EASY

10. Adam Liaw’s fishcakes

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tuna cakes.
EASY

9. RecipeTin Eats’ tuna and potato patties

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Miso salmon, soba noodle and avocado salad.

8. Sarah Pound’s miso salmon, soba noodle and avocado salad

  • Sarah Pound
Chickpea lentil curry.
EASY

7. RecipeTin Eats’ lentil chickpea coconut curry

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

6. Danielle Alvarez’s lamb cutlets with tapenade butter and potato and fennel mash

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Korean fried chicken.

5. RecipeTin Eats’ Korean fried chicken (via Joy in Sydney)

  • Nagi Maehashi
Mongolian beef noodles is a satisfying meal in a pan.
EASY

4. RecipeTin Eats’ Mongolian beef noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
Spiced chickpea, coconut and ginger curry.

3. Sarah Pound’s spiced chickpea, coconut and ginger curry

  • Sarah Pound
Crowd-pleasing cheesy Greek-inspired pull-apart.
EASY

2. Katrina Meynink’s Greek-inspired pull-apart rolls with lemon, honey and garlic

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Sarah Pound Mediterranean recipes

1. Mediterranean one-pan fish with cherry tomatoes, olives and cannellini beans

  • Sarah Pound