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Farro salad with corn, chickpeas and avocado.

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The 20 most popular recipes for January 2021

Salads, barbecues and even a stew (yes, really) were the hottest recipes this month.

20 recipes
This coriander rice and coriander sauce combo checks all the boxes.

1. Salmon with coriander sauce and coconut rice

  • Ann Maloney
Yeasted buns filled with rhubarb compote and vanilla cream.

2. Rhubarb and vanilla cream splits

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
This peanut and lime sauce works well with other proteins.
EASY

3. Beef rice bowls with Thai peanut and lime sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Perfect summer pasta: Linguine with spanner crab and coriander seeds.
EASY

4. Spanner crab linguine with crushed coriander seeds

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
There's no shortage of avocado in this grain salad.
EASY

5. Farro, corn, chickpea and avocado salad with chipotle lime dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Pumpkin and pesto pearl cous cous salad.
EASY

6. Pesto cous cous salad with maple roasted pumpkin

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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This chicken noodle salad is a riot of colour and flavour.

7. Thai coriander chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Serving suggestion: Add some asparagus spears to this grilled fish dish.
EASY

8. Grilled salmon with tomato and oregano dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Summer lamb stew.

9. Adam Liaw's summer lamb stew

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Crumbed sausage meets parmigiana.
EASY

10. Snag parmy (crumbed sausage meets parmigiana)

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Swipe these sticky lamb ribs through smoky eggplant sauce.

11. Beer and miso lamb ribs with smoky eggplant yoghurt sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
This salad will get you back on the roasted cauliflower bandwagon.
EASY

12. Roasted cauliflower and chickpea salad with harissa and honey dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Katrina Meynink is on a mission to bring back the iceberg lettuce with this chicken salad.

13. Buttermilk crisp chicken salad with sriracha mayo dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Spicy lamb skewers with cucumber yoghurt and cherry tomatoes.
EASY

14. Spicy lamb skewers with cucumber yoghurt

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Add a Korean kick to roast chicken (and salad).

15. Gochujang roast chicken and rice salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
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Hawaiian chicken traybake with corn, pineapple and jalapeno.

16. Hawaiian chicken bake with corn, pineapple and jalapeno

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Everything you love about Vietnamese spring rolls in one bowl.

17. Charred lemongrass chicken spring roll bowls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Tandoori butter corn with cheat's raita.
EASY

18. Charred tandoori buttered corn on lazy man's raita

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this fish-fragrant eggplant with sliced chicken breast, pictured, or other protein.

19. Chicken with fish-fragrant eggplant sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Karen Martini chops the tomatoes into different sizes for textural variety.
EASY

20. Tomato salad with buffalo mozzarella, pickled onions and guindilla peppers

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini

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