It is meaty enough to have on its own as a main, accompanied with a light salad, like my Middle Eastern Chickpea Salad (suggest excluding the chickpeas though) or Pasta alla Norma. Middle Eastern Roasted Eggplant The roasted eggplant is shown here with a dollop of yoghurt, but I’ve also provided a Tahini Drizzle (vegan) which I also love to use. This is a must try recipe!! This is a recipe adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem cookbook (the Chermoula Aubergine with Bulgar & Yoghurt recipe)....

While the rest of the word is obsessed with “50 Shades of Grey”, I am obsessed with the Jon Favreau movie “Chef”. Have you seen it? If you are a foodie, it is a must-see! There are classic moments in the movie that only “foodies” will appreciate. Like when one of the actors is swaying away to the beat of Latin music while he rubs marinade into the pork (seriously, cooking has never been so sexy!...

Plus my little trick to make extra buttery mushrooms using LESS butter! Mushroom Pasta Anyone who has sautéed mushrooms will know that the minute mushrooms hit the skillet, the bottom layer of mushrooms soaks up the oil, leaving the top layer dry. So I used to think that the best way to sauté mushrooms was with loads and loads of butter or olive oil. As you sauté the mushrooms, they start to leech water, creating moisture....

Mushroom Soup It’s easy enough to sauté up some mushrooms in butter, then add some flour, broth followed by a good glug of cream, and call it a day. And while it will taste just fine, it won’t really taste that much like mushrooms, except for the bites you get with mushroom bits in it. So in presenting you with a mushroom soup recipe I wanted to make sure it actually tasted like – gasp, shock, horror – mushrooms!...

Pasta Primavera Today’s recipe is a big, wholesome vegetable fix disguised in the form of a creamy pasta. So you can pitch it to your clan as a decadent creamy pasta for dinner but know that there’s also a good hit of nutritious vegetables in it too. Life is all about balance, after all! Primavera means “spring” in Italian, and this meatless dish is all about celebrating the best green bounty the season offers up....

Try this with homemade pesto. It’s amazing! How to make a JUICY pesto pasta with pesto sauce If you’ve ever made pesto pasta and found that it a bit on the dry side, then tried to salvage it by adding more and more olive oil only to end up with an excessively greasy pasta, you’ll love the technique I’m sharing today: Add pasta cooking water It will thin out the pesto so it coats everything nicely and creates a glossy pesto sauce that coats every bit of pasta....

*** This recipe is part of a Christmas Special where I show you how to make 3 mains and 4 side dishes that take 1.5 hrs to prepare and can be largely made ahead. So this Christmas, you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family! 🙂 *** When it comes to salads for a Christmas spread, two things spring to mind: Can I make ahead?...

Noodles. Satay Chicken. Veggies. And a creamy peanut dressing. What an awesome combination! It’s like Satay Chicken and a noodle stir fry had a baby. Or a noodle stir fry and a salad had a baby. No, wait – more like Satay Chicken and a salad had a baby. It’s a hybrid! And it’s INCREDIBLE with a capital I. A BIG capital I. I can assure you, with the Japanese blood running through my veins, I am very fussy about feaux-Asian food....

Shaoxing Wine is used in practically every single Chinese recipe I’ve shared – because it’s key ingredient! What is Shaoxing Wine? Shaoxing wine is a type of Chinese cooking wine, and is alternatively spelt Shao-hsing or Shaohsing wine. It is made from rice and is one of the most popular types of of Chinese rice wines for cooking thanks to its complex and sweet flavour. It’s the default rice wine I use for Chinese cooking and so I refer to it simply as Chinese Cooking Wine in almost all my recipes....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks I have a real soft spot for slow cooked lamb shanks. I just love the look of a hunk of meltingly tender meat wrapped around the bone. Hits my carnivore sweet-spot, every time. Honestly, if you put this and a towering frosted cake in front of me, this would win every day of the week and twice on Sunday:...

While it takes time to roast, it’s a very straightforward recipe – and will feed a crowd. Sensational for finishing on the BBQ! After more lamb centrepiece ideas? Browse all my roast lamb recipes! Lamb Shawarma This one’s for everyone who doesn’t have a charcoal spit in the middle of their kitchen….. and for Australia Day!!!🇦🇺 🇦🇺🇦🇺 Quick to prepare but tastes like you’ve been slaving away in the kitchen all day, this Lamb Shawarma is absolutely terrific for gatherings because it’s easy to make loads, can be cooked ahead then reheated....

Terrific festive party food! Paella recipe If you’ve always wanted to but been too afraid to try Paella, I can assure you – there is no reason to be scared! If you approach it the right way – and I like to keep my recipes as risk free as possible – you will end up with rice that’s cooked exactly to your taste in a saffron infused, flavour loaded sauce with all your seafood cooked to perfection....

Welcome to Day 8 of the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon, where I’m sharing 30 salads in a row through to Christmas Eve – just for something different to the usual sugar-loaded baking countdowns!! I’ve got a rather unique salad for you today! A SICHUAN one (but no, it’s not spicy, it’s to cool your mouth between fiery mains!): Creamy Sesame Sauce Lettuce Salad We (the RecipeTin Family) believe this salad and sauce originates from around the Sichuan and Chongqing areas of China (if any readers can confirm that’d be great!...

Magic super low calorie creamy Vegetable Soup! Though my recipe feed doesn’t exactly scream “healthy eating” by any stretch of the imagination, the more discerning may have noticed that most of my dinner recipes actually have a sensible level of calories. I don’t often cook with cream. I control my use of butter (sometimes reluctantly). And I am pretty sure I can count the deep fried recipes on this blog on one hand....

My blogs are usually upbeat and cheerful, but I couldn’t possibly share a Syrian dish without acknowledging the unrest currently going on in Syria. Syria is a country that has been at civil war for almost 4 years. And the most devastating of this war, as with any war, is the effect on the innocent. More than a quarter of Syrians – 4 million people – have fled their homes to seek safety in neighbouring countries....

Pasta baked in a homemade tomato sauce topped with melted cheese, this Tuna casserole is juicy and full of flavour and bears no resemblance to the usual acts of desperation associated with canned tuna meals! After a CREAMY tuna pasta bake? Try Tuna Mornay! Tuna Pasta Bake Confession: I say “Everybody has a can of tuna” but I don’t. Well, I do have lots. But it’s not for me. It’s for Dozer....

Veggie Burger A vegetarian burger will never taste like a beef burger. So forget trying to fake meat. Just make a tasty, meat free burger! My idea of a perfect Veggie Burger is one that has less beans* and more veggies, a golden crust on the outside, moist on the inside but not soggy ( <– notorious problem with veggie burgers), with a nice meaty texture. It only contains “normal” ingredients and most importantly, it has to be ultra tasty....

Too. Hot. It’s just TOO HOT to cook! Apparently Sydney is “suffering” through a record breaking heat wave. Climate change. Tut, tut. So tonight (Sunday), as I’m writing up this post and America is gearing up for the single biggest football game of the year (Super Bowl Sunday!), there are two things going through my head: Yup! I’m off to Japan this week! It’s been too long since I’ve been to visit my relatives, get my Japanese food fix /ski fix, shopping galore / visit my relatives (oops, better fix my priorities 😉)....

Quick baked chicken recipes are mid week life savers and this balsamic chicken is a back-pocket gem along with simple Honey Mustard Chicken, Juicy Baked Breasts and country-style Baked Thighs. Sticky Balsamic Chicken This is a baked chicken recipe for busy weeknights, lazy Sundays, and every other day in between. When it’s this effortless to make something so lip smackingly good with ingredients that are basic pantry essentials, frozen meals and home delivery aren’t even a passing thought....

Serve it over vermicelli noodles with Vietnamese Nuoc Cham Sauce and your fresh vegetables of choice. Bun Cha – traditional Vietnamese street food! Any self respecting foodie visiting a new country will be armed with a list of “Must Try Foods!!“. And for visitors of Vietnam, Bun Cha should be right up there, alongside Pho, fresh rice paper rolls, and Banh Mi, to name a few favourites. It was certainly one of the first foods I hunted down when I visited Vietnam....