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Chorizo hot dog with red peppers and onions.

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Nice buns: 20 of the best burger, bao and hot dog recipes

Get your friends together and tuck into some DIY bun-based fun this weekend (and beyond).

19 recipes
Cuba's second most famous sandwich.

Cuban fish sandwiches

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chorizo hot dog with red peppers and onions.
EASY

Chorizo hot dog with red peppers and onions

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Pulled pork and coleslaw burgers with chipotle mayonnaise.

Pulled pork and coleslaw burgers with chipotle mayo

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Pimp up your hotdog.
EASY

Hotdog with avocado and jalapeno

  • < 30 mins
Prawn rolls with hot celery salt.
EASY

Prawn rolls with homemade hot celery salt

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's Korean burger, bacon optional.

Neil Perry's burger with Korean sauces

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Bean, bacon and egg breakfast bun.
EASY

Bean and bacon breakfast roll recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's easy cheeseburgers.
EASY

Burger recipes: Easiest-ever cheeseburgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Mushroom burgers with haloumi.
EASY

Mushroom burgers with haloumi

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
The RPG Sandwich.
EASY

RPG sandwich: Roast pork and garlic bread roll recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Crisp bao with pork belly and kimchi.

Crisp bao with pork belly and kimchi

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Simple steamed bao.

Simple steamed bao

  • 1-2 hrs
Spiced pork with miso and apple (for bao).

Spiced pork with miso and apple (for steamed bao)

  • 1-2 hrs
Matt Wilkinson's bacon sandwich
EASY

Matt Wilkinson's bacon, egg and English brown sauce butty

  • < 30 mins
  • Matt Wilkinson
Brioche rolls with crayfish, kimchi and sesame mayonnaise.
EASY

Brioche rolls with crayfish, kimchi and sesame mayonnaise

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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A Lisbon-style bifana is the best; just ask someone from Lisbon!

Lisbon-style pork bifana recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Roast chicken burger.
EASY

Roast chicken burger

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
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EASY

Big Kids' Burger

  • < 30 mins
Beef sliders with bacon, cheese and pickles.

Beef sliders with bacon, gruyere and pickles with tomato jam

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry