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Family meals

EASY

Sausage and fontina baked rigatoni

Recruit sausages as meatballs for this rich, comforting and easy dinner.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Icelandic rice pudding.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Icelandic rice pudding

Icelandic rice pudding is a dessert, but salty rather than sweet. The contrast between the slightly salty pudding and the sweet cinnamon sugar is lovely.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Curried fish gratin.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s curried fish gratin

In its most basic form, this fish and potato stew is the national dish of Iceland, but all well-loved dishes go through thousands of variations.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s spaghetti with spring vegetables and mascarpone.

14 of Adam Liaw’s best ever spring recipes to cook this week

From fresh, seasonal salads to delicate pasta dishes, these colourful spring suppers will brighten up your week.

Baking in an ovenproof serving dish makes for a beautiful dessert to serve at the table on Father’s Day.

Sticky date pudding with tahini butterscotch sauce

The sesame paste imparts a deliciously nutty flavour to this classic dessert.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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The ‘broken potatoes’ cook in roughly the same time as the lamb, with a rest break in the middle.

Adam Liaw’s roast spring lamb shoulder with garlic and lemon, and ‘broken’ potatoes

The meat and potatoes cook in about the same time at the same temperature.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed chicken breasts.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed chicken breasts

Packet French onion soup mix is probably used more for making dips than soup. Here it’s combined with ricotta and spinach for a tasty stuffing for chicken breasts.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ SOS recipe: Spiced chickpea mushroom stew.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ one-pot spiced chickpeas and mushrooms is a vegetarian slam-dunk

Mellow spices and fresh herbs add spark to this quick and inexpensive dish, which is served with warm flatbreads for dunking and scooping.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon.

Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon

This classic Italian dish of pork cooked in milk might sound a bit odd, but it’s a revelation.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw recipe: Chicken parmigiana.

Adam Liaw’s step-by-step guide to making the perfect chicken parmigiana at home

You won’t find it in Italy. But in Australia, the popular pub meal is vying for national dish status, whether you call it parma or parmi.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw